Lead-through for the fireproof disposition of electric cables through a wall

• US 4,291,195 A
• Filed: 11/15/1979
• Issued: 09/22/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ab Lyckeaborgs Bruk
• Original Assignee: Ab Lyckeaborgs Bruk
• Inventors: Blomqvist, Erik M., Blomqvist, John-Erik V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rubinson, Gene Z.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tone, D. A.
• Application Number:
  US06/094,477
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 174/48, 174/49, 174/151, 248/56, 169/48, 285/192
• US Class Current: 174/505
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/22 Installations of cables or lines through walls, floors or ceilings, e.g. into buildings

Abstract

A fireproof lead-through with a frame, comprising at least one frame half for fitting on one side of a wall with a rectangularly shaped pack of packing blocks through which cables pass filling the opening in each frame half, and engaging with it peripheral portions in channel-like profiled portions in each frame half. Stay strips with a special configuration engage with their ends in the profiled portions for stiffening the pack of blocks. The transit is made pressure-tight by the use of conventional wedging means or pouring composition.

Claims

1. A lead-through or transit for the fireproof disposition of electric cables through an opening in a wall or the like, comprising a metal frame the opening of which accommodates the cables and modularly dimensioned blocks surrounding each cable, as well as stay strips inserted between rows of blocks for stiffening the pack formed by the blocks, characterized in that the frame is formed by at least one frame half which is fitted on one side of the wall directly opposite the opening in said wall, the frame half on at least three sides comprising comparatively thin metal plate or sheet, extending substantially perpendicular to the wall and including a profiled portion in the form of a channel or trough, which has its longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the edge of the sheet remote from the wall, said portion extending towards the wall from the vicinity of this edge, with its bottom in a plane outside the non-profiled portion of the frame half side, while the fourth side of the frame half is formed by at least one pressure plate bearing against the blocks in the transit, said plate having the same profile as the channel-like portions of the other three sides along its edge portion remote from the wall, and that the opening in the frame half is filled with blocks and throughgoing cables such that the appropriate sides of peripheral blocks engage against the bottoms of said channels formed by said profiled portions.

2. A lead-through or transit as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the frame half is provided with an attachment flange along its edge portion facing towards the wall and extending in the same plane as the wall.

3. A lead-through or transit as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the frame half, in addition to the pressure plate, has on its fourth side a metal sheet disposed in the same way as the sheet forming the remaining three sides of the frame half, and in depth extending substantially from the wall to the region of the pressure plate.

4. A lead-through or transit as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that the pressure plate is fastened to the metal sheet and that this combination substantially covers the fourth side of the frame half.

10. A lead-through or transit as claimed in claim 1 or 5, characterized in that each stay strip is bendable along a line at right angles to its longitudinal direction and of a comparatively thin material, which engages with its ends in the channel and along both edges between said ends is provided with flaps or tongues extending alternately in opposite directions perpendicular to the plane of the strip, and thus along the respective free outside and inside portions of the blocks.

5. A lead-through or transit for the fireproof disposition of electric cables through an opening in a wall or the like, comprising a metal frame the opening of which accommodates the cables and modularly dimensioned blocks surrounding each cable, as well as stay strips inserted between rows of blocks for stiffening the pack formed by the blocks, characterized in that the frame is formed by at least one frame half which is fitted on one side of the wall directly opposite the opening in said wall, the frame half on at least three sides comprising comparatively thin metal plate or sheet, extending substantially perpendicular to the wall and including a profiled portion in the form of a channel or trough, which has its longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the edge of the sheet remote from the wall, said portion extending towards the wall from the vicinity of this edge, with its bottom in a plane outside the non-profiled portion of the frame half side, while the fourth side of the frame half consists of metal sheet with substantially the same form as that of the other three sides, and that the opening in the frame half is filled with blocks and throughgoing cables, such that the respective sides of peripheral blocks engage against the bottoms of said channels formed by said profiled portions.

6. A lead-through or transit as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that the blocks with associated cables are compressed by means of a wedge combination.

7. A lead-through or transit as claimed in claim 5, with a frame half on each side of the wall, characterized in that the space remaining inside the transit when completely assembled with the two frame halves, the end walls formed by the blocks and the cables passing through it is filled with pouring composition.

8. A lead-through or transit as claimed in claim 7, characterized by tubes extending between blocks in both end walls and corresponding in position to each other, so that laying cables through these tubes will be enabled, even after the transit has been filled with pouring composition.

9. A lead-through or transit as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that the pouring composition is of the two-component type and is curable.

11. A lead-through or transit for the fireproof disposition of electric cables through an opening in a wall or the like, comprising a metal frame having an opening for accommodating the cables, the frame being formed by at least one frame half having at least three sides comprising comparatively thin metal plate or sheet and including a profiled portion in the form of a channel or trough, which has its longitudinal axis substantially parallel to one edge of the sheet, said portion extending toward the opposite edge from the vicinity of said one edge, with its bottom in a plane outside the non-profiled portion of the frame half side, while the fourth side of the frame half is formed by at least one pressure plate having an edge portion which has the same profile as the channel-like portions of the other three sides, the opening in the frame half being filled with packing blocks such that the appropriate sides of peripheral blocks engage against the bottoms of said channels formed by said profiled portions.

12. A lead-through or transit as in claim 11 wherein each frame half is provided with an attachment flange along its opposite edge.

13. A lead-through or transit as in claim 12 including cables passing through the blocks, and wedge means compressing the blocks.

14. A lead-through or transit as in claim 11 wherein the frame half, in addition to the pressure plate, has on its fourth side a metal sheet disposed in the same way as the sheet forming the remaining three sides of the frame half, and in depth extending substantially from the the opposite edge to the region of the pressure plate.

15. A lead-through or transit as in claim 14 wherein the pressure plate is fastened to the metal sheet, the combination of pressure plate and metal sheet substantially covering the fourth side of the frame half.

16. A lead-through or transit as in claim 11 or 12 wherein said blocks are arranged in rows with stiffening plates between the rows, each stiffening plate being a stay strip bendable along a line at right angles to its longitudinal direction and of a comparatively thin material, which engages with its ends in the channel and along both edges between said ends is provided with flaps or tongues extending alternately in opposite directions perpendicular to the plane of the strip, and thus along the respective free outside and inside portions of the blocks.