IP Library Granted Patent US 8,240,608
Granted Patent B2
US 8,240,608 · App. 12/707,202 · Granted Aug 14, 2012

Device for installing windshield panes

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,240,608
App. No.
12/707,202
Granted
Aug 14, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fastening device for at least one pair of window panes, especially aircraft windshield window panes, each having a window pane retainer equipped with a frame that is applied to the borders of receptacle openings for the window panes, wherein the frames have a pair of posts facing one another provided with matching profiles that can mate the aforementioned posts, one inside the other, in a fastening line of the window pane retainer on the common border to the openings that receive the pair of panes.

Claims (10)

1. At least one pair of window pane retainers comprising:

frames applied to borders of receptacle openings for window panes, the frames comprising a pair of posts facing one another provided with matching edge profiles that mate one inside the other by alternately extending over a fastening line of the window pane retainers on a common border of the receptacle openings.

2. The at least one pair of window pane retainers according to claim 1 wherein said posts facing one another have profiles that alternate around the fastening line.

3. The at least one pair of window pane retainers according to claim 1 for which the matching edge profile of each of said posts has complementary hollows and solids equipped with means for receiving fasteners of the window pane retainers on the common border to the openings that receive the pair of window panes.

4. The at least one pair of window pane retainers according to claim 3 , wherein the fasteners are means that pass through, and that the means for receiving are receiving holes for said means that pass through.

5. The at least one pair of window pane retainers according to claim 4 , wherein the receivinq holes are stepped holes, each comprising a widened upper part for receiving a head of the fastener, and for receiving a plug that closes the hole.

6. The at least one pair of window pane retainers according to claim 3 wherein the solids on the posts of the pair of posts are alternated, and the fasteners located on the fastening line are received alternately on said posts facing one another.

7. Aircraft windshield comprising at least one pair of window pane retainer according to claim 1 .

8. Aircraft windshield according to claim 7 , wherein interstices between the matching edge profiles are filled with a sealant material.

9. Aircraft comprising a windshield according to claim 7 .

Assignments (3)
MERGER Recorded May 18, 2011
From: AIRBUS FRANCE
To: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
Reel/Frame 026298/0269 →
MERGER Recorded May 7, 2010
From: AIRBUS FRANCE
To: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)
Reel/Frame 024353/0732 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 17, 2010
From: LIEVEN, PATRICK
To: AIRBUS FRANCE
Reel/Frame 023948/0414 →