Glazing units

• US 4,536,424 A
• Filed: 01/31/1984
• Issued: 08/20/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Glaverbel
• Original Assignee: Glaverbel
• Inventors: Laurent, Michel
• Primary Examiner(s): Schofer, Joseph L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Teskin, Fred M.
• Application Number:
  US06/575,534
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 428/34, 428/46, 428/45, 428/192, 156/109, 156/99, 156/107, 52/222, 52/789, 52/171
• US Class Current: 428/34
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/6715 specially adapted for increased thermal insulation or for controlled passage of light E06B3/66323 takes precedence; coating of glass pains C03C17/00; devices or arrangements for controlling the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light G02F1/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/161 with frame, casing, or perimeter structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24777 Edge feature

Abstract

A hollow glazing unit comprising vitreous sheets and a plastic foil wherein said vitreous sheets are held in spaced relationship by marginal spacing means which comprise one or more metal strips forming a spacing web located outward of the plastic foil, the metal strips being connected to the vitreous sheets by solder joints, wherein a plastic foil is held taut between and in spaced relationship to the vitreous sheets by means comprising components distinct from the spacing strip.

Claims

1. A hollow glazing unit comprising vitreous sheets having metallized margins held in spaced relationship by marginal spacing means, wherein a plastic foil is held taut between and in spaced relationship to said vitreous sheets by foil holding means located between said vitreous sheets, said spacing means comprises one or more metal strips forming a spacing web which is located outwardly of the periphery of said foil, said metal strips are connected to the vitreous sheets at their margins by soldered joints and said foil holding means comprises one or more components distinct from the spacing web, whereby the spacing web is capable of being angularly deflected without moving said foil holding means.

2. A glazing unit according to claim 1, wherein the plastic foil is resiliently supported within the unit by the foil holding means comprising one or more metal supporting components secured to one said vitreous sheet.

3. A glazing unit according to claim 2, wherein at least one vitreous sheet has a metallized coating on its margin and said metal supporting components and said metal spacing web are both soldered to the metallized coating.

4. A glazing unit according to claim 2, wherein the foil holding means comprises a metal supporting component of an L-profile which provides a base flange which is soldered to said one vitreous sheet and a limb upstanding from that vitreous sheet, and the foil is connected to that limb.

5. A glazing unit according to claim 2, wherein said foil holding means comprises one or more metal supporting components which provides a continuous attachment limb to which the margin of said foil is connected.

6. A glazing unit according to claim 2, wherein said foil is connected to said supporting components by clip means.

7. A glazing unit according to claim 6, wherein said clip means holds dessicant which is exposed to the interior space of the unit.

8. A glazing unit according to claim 2, wherein the foil is held in stretched condition in a frame, and this frame is connected to and resiliently supported in the unit by one or more of said metal supporting components.

9. A glazing unit according to claim 8, wherein said frame is connected to said supporting component by solder.

10. A glazing unit according to claim 8, wherein said frame comprises a pair of component frames which are bonded together with a margin of the foil between them.

11. A glazing unit according to claim 8, wherein said frame holds dessicant which is exposed to the interior space of the unit.

12. A glazing unit according to claim 1, wherein the spacing means consists solely of a spacing web disposed normmally to the vitreous sheets.

13. A glazing unit according to claim 1, wherein the spacing means comprises at least one metal strip which is channel form, the opposed side of the channel being soldered to said vitreous sheets, and the bottom wall of the channel forming said spacing web.