Joint bridging construction for structures

• US 4,773,791 A
• Filed: 06/23/1987
• Issued: 09/27/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alfred Hartkorn
• Original Assignee: Alfred Hartkorn
• Inventors: Hartkorn, Alfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Novosad, Stephen J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Letchford, John F.
• Application Number:
  US07/065,511
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: 404/47, 404/54, 404/56, 404/62, 404/64, 404/65-69, 14/16.5, 52/396, 52/403, 52/573
• US Class Current: 404/68
• CPC Class Codes: E01D 19/06 Arrangement, construction or bridging of expansion joints E01D19/005 takes precedence; in movable bridges E01D15/005 - E01D15/10; sealing joints not restricted to expansion joints for bridges E04B1/68
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/6804 specially adapted for floor parts
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/6815 Expansion elements specially adapted for wall or ceiling parts

Abstract

In a joint bridging construction for structures in which the sealing body of elastic material, which is flush with the top surface of the structure, by means of beads is inserted from above into upwardly open recesses of edge girders and against sliding-out is guarded by substantially circular retaining members one part of which are embedded in the retaining girders and the other part of which are embedded in the beads, there are provided, for structures constructed as buildings, edge girders each of which consists of at least one sheet metal strip extending in longitudinal direction of the joint, at least those two flanks of said strip facing the top surface of the building being formed by doubling the strip.

Claims

1. A joint bridging construction for structures, comprising a sealing body which is flush with the top surface of the structures and is made of elastic material, said sealing body is inserted by means of beads from above into upwardly open recesses of edge girders and is guarded against sliding out by substantially circular retaining members, one part of which is embedded in the edge girders and the other part of which is embedded in the beads, characterized in that each of said edge girders, which consists of at least one sheet metal strip extending in the longitudinal direction of the joint, has at least a top flank facing top surface, said top flank being formed by doubling the strip, said strip further having two respective free ends formed by doubling the strip;

and at least one further sheet metal strip whose cross-section is approximately L-shaped, said further strip engaged into the respective free ends formed by doubling.

2. A joint bridging construction according to claim 1, characterized in that each said top flank of the edge girders has an indentation extending in the longitudinal direction of the joint whose rear side rests against a rectilinear section of the edge girders, said indentation further embeds one of said retaining members in said top flank of said edge girders.

3. A joint bridging construction according to claim 1, characterized in that the beads of the sealing body have a depth of between 2 and 3 cm and are formed like a block having an approximately rectangular cross-section.

4. A joint bridging construction according to claim 1, characterized in that a rounded edge of one of said free ends produced by doubling of the sheet metal strip also faces the top surface and is constructed as a hinge for the sealing body.

5. A joint bridging construction according to claim 1, characterized in that a rounded edge of the top flank of the sheet metal strip formed by doubling of the strip extends approximately flush with the top surface.