IP Library Granted Patent US 8,033,068
Granted Patent B2
US 8,033,068 · App. 12/083,166 · Granted Oct 11, 2011

Mobile partitioning wall

Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
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Patent No.
US 8,033,068
App. No.
12/083,166
Granted
Oct 11, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

Mobile partitioning wall with several wall elements displaceably suspended in running rails. The mobile partitioning wall have structural units that are technically simple to manufacture and to mount and are structured to be universally usable and can be easily and variably disposed at the edge sides of individual wall elements. The wall elements have mounting elements that are horizontally and/or vertically disposed at the edge sides. Modular structural units are laterally insertable into the mounting elements.

Claims (36)

1. A mobile partitioning wall comprising:

a plurality of wall elements adapted to be displaceably suspended from one or more running rails, each of the wall elements having a pair of opposite edges;

a mounting element disposed along at least one of the edges and having a pair of interior walls provided with respective mutually facing grooves; and

at least one modular structural unit laterally insertable into the mounting element and comprising a base plate for cooperating with the grooves in the mounting element, whereby the modular structural unit is supported by the mounting element, wherein the at least one modular structural unit comprises a drive and electrical contacts configured to slide on friction contacts on a running rail;

wherein adjoining wall elements have complementarily cooperating sealing profiles.

2. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein the at least one modular structural unit comprises at least one of sealing mechanisms, sealing strips, coupling elements, lifting members, resetting members, running roller holders, drive elements and energy supply units,

3. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein at least one of said modular structural unit comprises a displaceable sealing strip.

4. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein the sealing strip is displaceable between an extended position beyond the mounting element and a retracted position within the mounting element.

5. The mobile partitioning wall claim 1 , wherein said modular structural unit comprises a drive coupled to a sealing strip by a spindle unit.

6. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 5 , wherein the drive and the spindle unit are disposed on top of each other.

7. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 5 , wherein the drive and the spindle unit are disposed one behind the other.

8. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein the modular structural unit comprises a drive coupled to a sealing strip by articulated scissors.

9. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein the modular structural unit comprises a drive coupled to a sealing strip by a cable pull unit.

10. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein the modular structural unit comprises a drive and an energy storage unit for supplying energy to the drive.

11. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein the mounting element is disposed in a recess in the wall elements.

12. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein the mounting element is surface-mounted on the wall elements.

13. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein the mounting element is fastened on the at least one of the edges by bonding.

14. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 11 , wherein the mounting element is fastened or positively disposed in the recess.

15. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein the mounting element has one of an H-shape and a U-shape.

16. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of mounting elements are provided, each of which is formed on one of the wall elements.

17. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 16 , wherein the modular structural unit further comprises a molded sealing part formed on horizontally adjoining mounting elements.

18. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 1 , wherein the mounting element is directly disposed on the at least one of the edges.

19. A mobile partitioning wall module, comprising:

a plurality of wall elements adapted to be displaceably suspended from one or more running rails, each of the wall elements having peripheral edges;

a plurality of mounting elements each adapted to be disposed along at least one of the peripheral edges and having a pair of interior walls provided with respective mutually facing grooves; and

a plurality of modular structural units each insertable into at least one of the mounting elements and comprising a base plate cooperating with the grooves in the mounting element, wherein each of the plural modular structural unit comprises a drive and electrical contacts configured to slide on friction contacts on a running rail;

whereby the mounting elements are capable of mounting the modular structural units onto the wall elements.

20. The mobile partitioning wall modules of claim 19 , wherein the modular structural units comprise at least one of sealing mechanisms, sealing strips, coupling elements, lifting members, resetting members, running roller holders, drive elements and energy supply units.

21. A mobile partitioning wall comprising:

a plurality of wall elements displaceably suspended from one or more running rails having upper and lower sides, each of the wall elements comprising at least one sealing strip disposed on at least one of the upper and lower sides and being capable of moving in and out by one of a manually-driven drive unit and a motor-driven drive unit;

mounting elements disposed one of horizontally and vertically at edge sides of the respective wall elements; and

modular structural units laterally insertable into the mounting elements and disposed on at least one base plate, wherein the modular structural units comprises a drive and electrical contacts configured to slide on friction contacts on a running rail;

wherein the mounting elements are one of disposed in recesses of the wall elements and surface-mounted at the wall elements; and

wherein the base plate positively cooperates with grooves formed in lateral walls of the mounting elements.

22. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 21 , wherein said modular structural units comprise an operating modular structural unit to operate said at least one sealing strip in and out of sealing position.

23. The mobile partitioning wall of claim 21 , wherein said mounting elements are disposed in the recesses of the wall elements.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 2, 2017
From: DORMA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
To: DORMAKABA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
Reel/Frame 044090/0447 →
ENTITY CONVERSION Recorded Mar 17, 2015
From: DORMA GMBH + CO. KG
To: DORMA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
Reel/Frame 035220/0595 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 7, 2008
From: LUTTMANN, OLAF; HOOPMANN, HARALD
To: DORMA GMBH + CO. KG
Reel/Frame 020821/0382 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2005 048 157 · Oct 6, 2005 · national
Continuity (1)
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