Patent Application
20250092685
The present invention is a ventilated facade cladding system that includes sliding installation, horizontal bracket, and corner fitting profile systems.
Traditional ventilated facade system is commonly used in facade cladding. In traditional system, the siding material (granite, ceramic, terracotta, composite, etc.) is covered on the brackets screwed to the outer surface of the building and L or T profiles screwed to the brackets. Each bracket must be aligned horizontally and vertically. This is an engineering practice and a time consuming process. In addition, T and L profiles screwed to the brackets must be adjusted individually for each bracket for alignment.
While the brackets are screwed to the facade in wooden construction structures, there must be wooden carriers at the back and the screws must be screwed to the carriers. This situation prolongs the construction process.
The application numbered EP1172500A1 describes a ventilated facade cladding system for building has a support frame formed by a plurality of spaced-apart upright mullions fixed to an exterior of a building by anchor brackets, with a number of horizontal cladding panel support rails mounted in vertically spaced-apart rows on the mullions. Each cladding panel is mounted between an adjacent pair of vertically spaced-apart rails with a bottom of the cladding panel seated on the lowermost rail and a top of the cladding panel secured to the uppermost rail by a pair of retaining dips. A bottom of each stone cladding panel is fully supported along its length by the lowermost rail. However, the application fails to mention any kind of sliding installation mechanism or corner fitting profile.
The subject of the invention is ST-HHS (Sthetics Horizontal Hanging System) that uses ventilated facade cladding system includes unique sliding installation mechanism, horizontal bracket, hanging clips and corner fitting profile systems. The most important feature of the invention is that it can be applied regardless of the type of facade. For this reason, it is suitable for all kinds of building typologies (wood, reinforced concrete, steel, etc.) and the application method does not differ according to the structure system.
In conventional systems, while the brackets are mounted one by one, in the proposed system, the bracket is a horizontal continuous element and mounted on the facade. This also means usage of less screws. It is a surface-to-surface system and, if necessary, a support bracket is placed between two surfaces according to the static calculation.
The system subject to the invention has eliminated the necessity of finding the carrier studs at the back during assembly in wooden structures.
Profiles, on the other hand, are mounted on the horizontally extending brackets with the hanging logic and vertical alignment is very practical as the profiles slide on the horizontal bracket. It provides significant savings in labour and time.
Advantages of the proposed system over the traditional ventilated facade system are as follows:
The present invention describes a ventilated facade cladding system comprising horizontal tracks (20) with a T- or L-shaped extension profile (21), mounted to a wall gradually as shown in
Horizontal tracks (20) at floor slab level will carry dead loads. Hanging clips (40) with hook shaped bottom end should be placed on the main horizontal carrier at the floor slab level, while common hanging clips (40) should be placed to the mid-span to allow the vertical thermal expansion. While the hanging clips (20) are placed on the horizontal tracks (20), two clips (40) per bracket (50) should be placed, one on the right side and one on the left side.
Before T-shaped mullion profiles (70) are completely fixed, the distance from the building should be adjusted vertically, then they should be fixed. After the vertical part fixed between the bracket (50) and the bracket clip (60) via a bolt (71) preferably, tiles (130) are bonded with horizontal part by using a bonding material (150) such as silicone and a tape (160). A gap should be left for thermal expansion of mullions (70) in vertical direction and an expansion profile (spigot) (80) should be used.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, spacer washers (10) fixed to the concrete or stud system of a structure, wherein the horizontal tracks (20) are mounted to the wall by fixed to the spacer washers (10). For this embodiment, the spacer washer (10) should have the same thickness as the insulation layer (140). The insulation layer (140) will be cut rounded for the spacer washer (109. The spacer washer (10) should be placed in the insulation layer (140). After placing the spacing washer (10), two horizontal tracks (20) will be mounted on the wall (concrete, timber, steel, etc.) with spacer washer on each floor. The holes at both ends of the horizontal tracks (20) are round, the rest of holes are horizontal slot for expansions. While mounting only the first round hole at the starting point (wall end or corner) to fix the horizontal track (20), the other round hole is left empty to allow expansion.
In a preferred embodiment, a gap (preferably 3.8″) should be left at the connection of the two horizontal tracks (20) to allow for expansion. Later, horizontal connection profiles (30) should be mounted on top and at the bottom. In order to allow expansion, horizontal track's one end will be sliding part, so only the fixed end of one horizontal track (20) will be mounted with the horizontal connection profiles (30).
In a preferred embodiment, a main horizontal track (20) is used at the level of the floor slab, which carries the dead load and wind loads, while a horizontal track (20) is used between two floor slabs against only the wind load.
In a preferred embodiment, a corner profile (90) with two vertically positioned surfaces wherein the tiles (130) corresponding to corner of cladding are positioned on as shown in
In a preferred embodiment, a corner support bracket (120) connects two vertically positioned horizontal tracks (20). Corner support brackets (120) can be mounted back side of both tracks (20) or one back and one front side of the tracks (20) so it can support the track (20) that is mounted from back side.
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/TR2022/050791 | 7/26/2022 | WO |
