Facade anchor

• US 4,938,631 A
• Filed: 07/13/1989
• Issued: 07/03/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Maechtle GmbH
• Original Assignee: Maechtle GmbH
• Inventors: Mayer, Joachim, Maechtle, Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): Taylor, Dennis L.
• Application Number:
  US07/379,430
• Time in Patent Office: 355 Days
• Field of Search: 405/260, 405/259, 405/261, 52/235, 52/698, 52/704, 52/705, 52/701, 52/690
• US Class Current: 522/35
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 23/0222 Replacing or adding wall ties

Abstract

A facade anchor for incorporation into mutually aligned bore holes of a main wall and a bracket-mounted facade, consisting of an anchoring element (22) which extends from the bore hole base to the front of the facade, a pipe which extends from the bore hole inlet to the footing wall for injecting mortar, with the pipe having outlet openings (28) for mortar which are arranged inside the facade bore hole, and also of lamellar seals surrounding the pipe (22) on the inlets and outlets of the bore holes of the footing wall and facade, and of a nonuniform surface of the anchoring element for improving the bond of the injected mortar.

Claims

1. A facade anchor for anchoring a facade to a main wall, the facade being arranged at a distance in front of the main wall and the facade and main wall having aligned bores;

the facade anchor comprising;

an elongate connecting element in the form of a thin-walled and corrosion-resistant metallic anchoring tube for insertion into aligned bores of the main wall and the facade,

the tube forming a mortar injection pipe, the front end of which is open to act as an outlet opening, said tube having a number of diametrically disposed outlet openings along its rear portion and leading into the facade bore through which mortar may be discharged to form transverse webs extending from the wall of the facade bore through said diametral openings, the anchoring tube being reinforced at several places along its length by diametrically arranged pairs of transverse identations which run parallel to the circumference to improve the tensile and flexural strength so that the anchoring tube has a limited resiliency allowing relative movements of the facade with respect to the main wall; and

plastic material bushings for centrally positioning the anchoring tube within said bores, each of the bushings having radially outwardly extending resilient annular lamellae for sealing the tube within the bores.

2. The facade anchor according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that the transverse indentations of the tube are offset by 90°

to each other in pairs in the same radial plane and in an axial sequence.

3. The facade anchor according to claim 2, characterized by the fact that the external circumference of the tube is provided with grooves similarly to a screw thread.

4. The facade anchor according to claim 2, characterized by the fact that the external circumference of the tube is roughened.

5. The facade anchor according to claim 1 wherein each of the bushings includes a jacket directly enveloping the tube, there being at least one radially directed knob molded on the internal side of the jacket, the knob being received in an opening of the tube for axially fixing the bushing.

6. The facade anchor according to claim 5, characterized by the fact that each of the bushings is longitudinally slit for simplified assembly, and that the longitudinal slit extends through the molded on knob.

7. The facade anchor according to claim 6, characterized by the fact that the lamellae of each bushing contains a V-shaped recess at least on the side opposite the longitudinal slit, which facilitates the swivelling of the bushing and ventilation during the injection of mortar.