Fully insulated glass panel rolling door
First Claim
1. A large opening door having multiple horizontally and vertically distributed insulative glass panes supported by a plurality of vertical disposed and horizontally disposed heat transmitting metal frame members arranged in vertical and horizontal regions respectively between adjacent glass panes, said horizontal frame members having opposed edge volumes in the closed condition of the door, and insulator bands within said opposed edge volumes cooperating in the closed condition of the door in insulation defining relation in said horizontal regions, whereby said door in its said panes and said horizontal frame members is insulated against heat transmission therethrough.
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Abstract
A large opening rolling door of the articulating type has multiple horizontally and vertically distributed insulative glass panes supported by a plurality of vertically disposed and horizontally disposed heat transmitting metal frame members arranged in vertical and horizontal regions respectively between adjacent glass panes. The horizontal frame members have opposed and closed or open and recessed edge volumes in the closed condition of the door; preformed, self-supporting, self-camming and self-compressing and cooperating male and female insulator bands that interfit with the open and recessed edge volumes, or insulation filled beams, in the closed condition of the door define insulation in the horizontal regions. Vertical frame members define a substantially enclosed volume in which a preformed, self-supporting insulator band is inserted into the volume to insulate the vertical regions and thus substantially the entire door against heat transmission therethrough.
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20 Claims
- 1. A large opening door having multiple horizontally and vertically distributed insulative glass panes supported by a plurality of vertical disposed and horizontally disposed heat transmitting metal frame members arranged in vertical and horizontal regions respectively between adjacent glass panes, said horizontal frame members having opposed edge volumes in the closed condition of the door, and insulator bands within said opposed edge volumes cooperating in the closed condition of the door in insulation defining relation in said horizontal regions, whereby said door in its said panes and said horizontal frame members is insulated against heat transmission therethrough.
- 6. A large opening door having multiple horizontally and vertically distributed insulative glass panes supported by a plurality of vertical disposed and horizontally disposed heat transmitting metal frame members arranged in vertical and horizontal regions respectively between adjacent glass panes, said horizontal frame members having opposed and recessed edge faces in the closed condition of the door, and preformed, self-supporting and cooperating male and female insulator bands that interfit with said recessed edge faces in the closed condition of the door in insulation defining relation in said horizontal regions whereby said door in its said panes and said horizontal frame members is insulated against heat transmission therethrough.
- 13. A large opening rectangular rolling door of the articulating type having a plurality of vertically disposed and horizontally disposed heat transmitting aluminum metal frame members defining a grid having row and column apertures, multiple horizontally and vertically distributed insulative glass panes fitted into said apertures, said glass panes comprising first and second glass pane panels supported in a frame in insulative space defining relation between said pane panels, said vertically disposed and horizontally disposed frame members defining vertical and horizontal regions respectively between adjacent glass panes, said horizontal frame members having opposed and recessed edge faces in the closed condition of the door, preformed, self-supporting and cooperating male and female plastic foam insulator structures, said male structures each having an elongated body that fills and engages one of said opposed recessed edge faces, shoulders extending in a plane, and a protuberant center portion extending beyond said shoulder plane and said opposed recessed edge faces, said female structures each having an elongated body that fills and engages the other of said opposed recessed edge faces, shoulders extending in a plane, and a recessive center portion below said shoulder plane, said male and female structure shoulder planes abutting in the closed condition of said door, said recessive center portion being shaped to receive said male structure protuberant center in the abutting condition of said male and female structure shoulder planes in insulative relation in insulation defining relation in said horizontal regions, said vertical frame members defining a substantially enclosed volume, and a preformed, self-supporting plastic foam insulator band within said volume in insulation defining relation, whereby said door in its said panes, said horizontal frame members and said vertical frame members is insulated against heat transmission therethrough.
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19. A door having a rearwardly projecting flange on a horizontal frame member of a thickness and horizontal extent only minorly reinforcing said door against buckling under wind and wind-blown debris, and an auxiliary stiffening flange of a greater thickness and horizontal extent, attached to said rewardly projecting flange.
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20. A method of insulatively closing a large opening including disposing within said opening a rolling door of the articulating type, and insulating said door with multiple horizontally and vertically distributed insulative glass panes supported by a plurality of vertically disposed and horizontally disposed heat transmitting metal frame members arranged in vertical and horizontal regions respectively between adjacent glass panes, said horizontal frame members having opposed and recessed edge faces in the closed condition of the door, insulating said vertical regions with preformed, self-supporting and cooperating male and female insulator bands that interfit with said recessed edge faces in the closed condition of the door in insulation defining relation in said horizontal regions, said vertical frame members defining a substantially enclosed volume, and insulating said vertical regions with an insulator band within said volume in insulation defining relation, whereby to insulate said door in its said panes, said horizontal frame members and said vertical frame members against heat transmission therethrough.
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