Glass panel element with a fastening element and a glass showcase comprising a glass panel element

Abstract

The invention relates to a glass panel element (1) with a fastening element (2) for using in a container (6), in particular for using in a showcase. The fastening element (2) has a profiled edge strip (3) for fixing to the container (6) in a form-fitting manner. Said fastening element (2) is adhesively connected with a lateral surface (4) of the glass panel element (1). A thickness (D1) of the fastening element (2) corresponds to a thickness (D2) of the glass panel element (1). A fastening element (2) is arranged on each facing side of the glass panel element (1) and adhesively connected with said glass panel element (1). The profiled edge strip (3) and the glass panel element (1) close in a flush manner. The fastening element (2) is made of aluminium. The invention also relates to a glass showcase comprising at least one glass panel element (1) according to the invention.

Claims

1. Glass panel element attached to one or more profiled edge strips of one or more fastening elements adapted for use in a container wherein the glass panel element has two parallel panel surfaces having a width providing a transparent viewing surface and, perpendicular thereto, at least one lateral surface having a width, wherein the width of the at least one lateral surface is less that the width of the parallel panel surfaces, the one or more profiled edge strips each comprising: a first surface flush abutting the at least one lateral surface of the glass panel element, and, a first and second side surface, wherein at least one of side surfaces comprises a recess configured to form-fittingly engage a connection element and wherein a distance between the first and second side surface defines a first thickness and wherein the first surface flush abutting the lateral surface of the glass panel element is adhesively connected via an adhesive connection with the lateral surface of the glass panel element, wherein the distance between the two parallel panel surfaces of the glass panel element defines a second thickness, and wherein the first thickness of the one or more profiled edge strips is less than the second thickness of the glass panel element.

2. The glass panel element attached to the one or more fastening elements according to claim 1, wherein the container is a glass showcase.

3. Glass showcase comprising: the at least one glass panel element and the one or more fastening elements according to claim 2, wherein at least a first of the one or more profiled edge strip of the one or more fastening element is attached to a first lateral surface of the glass panel element, and the connection element assigned and fitted to the profile of the first profiled edge strip and to a profile of a second profiled edge strip, wherein the at least one glass panel element is in detachable form-fit engagement with the connection element via the profile of the first profiled edge strip and the profile of the second profiled edge strip to form a connection.

4. The glass showcase according to claim 3 comprising a first and a second glass panel element attached to each other via the first profiled edge strip attached to the lateral surface of the first glass panel element and the second profiled edge strip attached to the lateral surface of the second glass panel element, and wherein the connection element assigned and fitted to the profile of the profiled edge strips of the first and second profiled edge strip provides an engagement with the first and second profiled edge strip, wherein the first and second glass panel element are in the detachable form-fit engagement with the connection element via the profile of the first profiled edge strip and the profile of the second profiled edge strip to form the connection attaching the first glass panel element to the second glass panel element.

5. The glass showcase according to claim 4, wherein the connection defines a third thickness, defined by a thickness of the surface of the connection element facing away from the engagement with the profile of the profiled edge strip of the first fastening element and the profile of the profiled edge strip of the second fastening element, and a distance to the glass panel element occupied by the second or first fastening element when the connection element and the fastening element are engaged with each other is less than the second thickness of the first or second glass panel element.

6. The glass showcase according to claim 5, wherein the thickness of the connection element and of the fastening element ranges between 7 mm and 9 mm or is 8 mm.

7. The glass showcase according to claim 4, wherein the first and second glass panel elements each comprise a first and second abutment region extending between the parallel panel surface and at least one lateral surface of the first and second glass panel element, wherein the first and second abutment region face each other.

8. The glass showcase according to claim 3 comprising two glass panel elements, the thickness of which differ and which are each positively engaged with the connection element via one of the one or more fastening elements.

9. The glass panel element attached to the one or more profiled edge strips according to claim 1 comprising at least two profiled edge strips, wherein each of the at least two profiled edge strips is arranged on opposing lateral surfaces of the glass panel element.

10. The glass panel element attached to the one or more fastening elements according to claim 1, wherein the fastening element is made of aluminum.

11. The glass panel element attached to the one or more profiled edge strips according to claim 1, wherein an adhesive for establishing the adhesive connection between the one or more profiled edge strips and the glass panel element is a transparent adhesive.

12. The glass panel element of claim 1, further comprising an abutment region that extents between one of the parallel panel surfaces and the at least one lateral surface.

13. The glass panel element of claim 12, wherein the abutment region is located at a first panel surface of the two panel surfaces of the glass panel element and the recess of the profiled edge strip are at a second panel surface of the two panel surfaces of the glass panel element.

14. The glass panel element of claim 1, wherein the glass panel element is free of recesses.

Description

(1) Advantageous configurations of the glass panel element according to the invention with assigned fastening elements and connection elements are explained in more detail by way of example on the basis of exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings.

(2) The figures show in:

(3) FIG. 1a a schematically-illustrated diagram of a glass panel element with a fastening element, wherein the fastening element is adhesively connected with a lateral surface of the glass panel element,

(4) FIG. 1b a schematic illustration of the glass panel element shown in FIG. 1a, wherein the glass panel element is connected with a further glass panel element in a form-fitting manner via a profiled rail,

(5) FIG. 2a a schematic illustration of a glass panel element, wherein the fastening element has a panel element,

(6) FIG. 2b the glass panel element schematically illustrated in FIG. 2a, wherein the glass panel element is connected to a further glass panel element in a form-fitting manner via a profiled strip and

(7) FIG. 3 schematically illustrated glass panel elements of a glass showcase wherein a thickness of the fastening elements and of the connection elements is in each case smaller than the thickness of the glass panel elements.

(8) FIG. 1a shows a schematic illustration of a glass panel element 1 with a fastening element 2, wherein the fastening element 2 has a profiled edge strip 3 and is adhesively connected to a lateral surface 4 of the glass panel element 1.

(9) A thickness D1 of the fastening element 2 corresponds to a thickness D2 of the glass panel element 1. The fastening element 2 is made of aluminium.

(10) FIG. 1b shows details of two of the glass panel elements 1 illustrated in FIG. 1a with the fastening elements 2 adhesively arranged on the respective lateral surfaces 4, wherein the profiled edge strip 3 of the fastening elements 2 are each positively engaged with a profiled rail 5. The glass panel elements 1 are connected with further glass panel elements 1 (not shown) and form a glass showcase 6. The profiled rail 5 forms a connection element 7 for connecting two adjacently arranged glass panel elements 1 with each other, wherein each of the fastening elements 2 assigned to one another are engaged with the profiled rail 5 in a form-fit manner and can only be detached from each other again by pulling them apart in the longitudinal direction of the profiled rail 5.

(11) FIG. 2a shows a schematic illustration of a glass panel element 1, wherein the glass panel element 1 has two glass panels 8. Said glass panels 8 are adhesively connected to a panel element 9 made of a transparent plastic. The profiled edge strip 3 of the fastening element 2, comprising the profiled edge strip 3 and the panel element 8, is arranged on a lateral surface 10 of the panel element 9 and also made of transparent plastic. The profiled edge strip 3 and the panel element 9 are produced in one piece.

(12) The glass panel bottom surfaces or the visible surfaces of the glass panels 8 correspond to a panel bottom surface or to the surface of the panel element 9 adhesively connected with the glass panels 8.

(13) FIG. 2b shows sectional details of two of the glass panel elements 1 shown in FIG. 1a with panel elements 9 adhesively connected with the glass panels 8 of the glass panel elements 1 and profiled edge strips 3 configured on the lateral surfaces 10 of the panel elements 9. The profiled edge strips 3 of the fastening elements 2 are positively engaged with the profiled rail 5 and form a transparent container 11. Said transparent container 11 can be a container 6 (shown in part).

(14) FIG. 3 shows details of FIG. 4, namely a schematic diagram of two glass panel elements 1 with the fastening elements 2 adhesively arranged on each of the lateral surfaces 4. The profiled edge strips 3 of the fastening elements 2 are each positively engaged with a profiled rail 5.

(15) FIG. 4 shown a glass showcase 16 in which the glass panels are attached to each other as shown in detail in FIG. 3.

(16) A thickness D3 of the connection element 5 and of the fastening elements 2 is less than the thicknesses D2 of the glass panel element 1 assigned to each fastening element 2. Said fastening elements 2 are each arranged on the glass panel elements 1 in such a way that the connection element 7 formed by the profiled rail 5 and the glass panel elements 1 each terminate in a flush manner with respect to each other on an external side 11 of a glass showcase 16 formed by the glass panel elements 1 with further glass panel elements (not shown). The glass panel elements 1 each have miters 13 in an abutment region 12. The glass panel elements 1 in the abutment region 12 of the diagram are arranged at intervals to each other. However, according to the invention it is also possible and provided that the glass panel elements 1 abut each other in the abutment region 12.

(17) The thicknesses D2 of the glass panel elements 1 assigned to the respective fastening element 2 can vary in size, and therefore the connection element 5 and the fastening elements 2 allow two glass panel elements 1 to be connected with each other diagonally, which can have diverging thicknesses D2(1) and D2(2). The two glass panel elements 1 connected with each other diagonally each expediently have a suitable miter 13 in the abutment region 12.

(18) In the event of a glass showcase 16 formed out of a plurality of glass panel elements connected with each other, it is also possible to use different glass panel elements 1, each with diverging thicknesses D2, on a plurality of sides or all sides. As the fastening elements 2 are suitable and can be used for glass panel elements 1 with differing, or almost any thickness D2, glass panel elements 1 of varying thicknesses can be combined with each other with the same connection elements 5 and fastening elements 2 and assembled into complex showcase systems.