DOOR WITH MAGNETIC SEAL
20240093547 ยท 2024-03-21
Inventors
Cpc classification
E06B7/20
FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
International classification
Abstract
A door includes a door frame with abutment element, a door leaf movable from open to closed positions, a seat, and a guillotine accommodated in the seat and passing from a retracted to an extended position along a sliding direction. A first magnet, integral with the guillotine, exerts a magnetic attraction of the guillotine into the seat. A second magnet, separated from the first magnet, is integral with the guillotine. A second magnet interaction element, separated from the first and second magnets, and interacting with the second magnet, is integral with the abutment element to attract the second magnet and exert an extraction on the guillotine, the second magnet extracting the guillotine from the seat only when the second magnet faces the second magnet interaction element or when the sliding direction intercepts the second magnet interaction element, the first magnet exerting a lower magnetic action than the second magnet.
Claims
1. A door comprising: a door frame or door fixture comprising at least one abutment element; a door leaf, movable from an open position in which the door leaf opens an opening delimited by said door frame or door fixture, and a closed position in which the door leaf rests against said at least one abutment element of said door frame or door fixture to close said opening; at least one seat provided in said door leaf or in said door frame or door fixture; at least one guillotine made of a material having poor magnetic interaction, said guillotine being slidably accommodated in said seat to pass from a retracted position to an extended position and vice versa along a guillotine sliding direction (X-X); at least one first magnet with poles aligned or parallel to said guillotine sliding direction (X-X); said at least one first magnet being arranged integral with said guillotine; said at least one first magnet exerting a magnetic action of attraction of said guillotine into said seat; at least one second magnet, separated from said at least one first magnet, with poles aligned or parallel to said guillotine sliding direction; said at least one second magnet being arranged integral with said guillotine; at least one second magnet interaction element, separated from said at least one first magnet and said at least one second magnet configured to interact with said at least one second magnet and arranged integral with said at least one abutment element to attract said at least one second magnet and exert an action of extraction on the guillotine; said at least one second magnet being configured to push and extract said guillotine from said seat only when said at least one second magnet is arranged facing said at least one second magnet interaction element or when said guillotine sliding direction (X-X) intercepts said at least one second magnet interaction element; wherein said at least one first magnet exerts a magnetic action lower than the magnetic action exerted by said at least one second magnet.
2. The door of claim 1, further comprising a seat wall delimiting said seat; at least one third magnet arranged integral with said seat wall; said at least one first magnet always facing said at least one third magnet to perpetually attract said guillotine into said seat; or further comprising a seat wall delimiting said seat; at least one third electromagnet or magnetic field closing element arranged integral with said seat wall; said at least one first magnet always facing said at least one third electromagnet or magnetic field closing element so as to attract said guillotine into said seat; and/or wherein said at least one second magnet interaction element is an electromagnet, separated from said at least one first magnet and said at least one second magnet, configured to interact with said at least one second magnet and arranged integral with said at least one abutment element to attract said at least one second magnet to exert an action of extraction on the guillotine; said at least one second magnet being configured to push and extract said guillotine from said seat only when said at least one second magnet is arranged facing said at least one second magnet interaction element or when said guillotine sliding direction (X-X) intercepts said at least one second magnet interaction element.
3. The door of claim 1, wherein said door leaf comprises at least one floor leaf edge configured to face said at least one abutment element, wherein said at least one abutment element is a floor; said seat is provided in said at least one floor leaf edge; said guillotine comprises a guillotine abutment surface arranged facing said at least one second magnet interaction element; said guillotine abutment surface comprises an acoustic seal configured to be interposed between said guillotine and said at least one abutment element.
4. The door of claim 1, wherein said seat defines the guillotine sliding direction (X-X), and wherein said guillotine sliding direction (X-X) is arranged transversely to a plane defined by the door leaf; or wherein said seat defines the guillotine sliding direction (X-X), and wherein said guillotine sliding direction (X-X) is arranged parallel to the plane defined by the door leaf.
5. The door of claim 1, wherein said seat comprises a seat wall defining a seat wall bottom portion; and said guillotine is a U shaped profile having a profile section opening, and wherein said U-shaped profile is accommodated in said seat with the profile section opening facing said seat wall bottom portion.
6. The door of claim 1, wherein said at least one first magnet is a series of first magnets distributed along a longitudinal extension of the guillotine.
7. The door of claim 1, wherein said at least one first magnet has a predetermined polarity; said at least one second magnet has a predetermined polarity; and wherein an arrangement of the predetermined polarity of the at least one first magnet is inverse with respect to the arrangement of the predetermined polarity of the at least one second magnet when the at least one first and second magnets are positioned in said guillotine; or wherein said at least one first magnet is a first electromagnet; said at least one second magnet is a magnetic field closing element; and wherein, when activated, said first electromagnet generates a magnetic attraction with said magnetic field closing element.
8. The door of claim 1, wherein said door leaf is a door leaf sliding on at least one guide provided on said door frame or door fixture to allow the door leaf to slide laterally to said door frame or door fixture; and wherein at least one sliding foot fixed to the at least one abutment element is provided; and said door frame or door fixture comprises a feet seat configured to receive said at least one sliding foot to guide sliding movement of said door leaf.
9. The door of claim 1, wherein said at least one second magnet interaction element comprises at least one of the group consisting of a magnetic slot, a magnetic field closing element and an electromagnet.
10. The door of claim 1, wherein said door frame or door fixture comprises a vertical frame side; and said guillotine comprises at least one second magnet fixed to said guillotine and interfaced, only when the door leaf is in a closed position, to a second magnet interaction element comprising a strip made of material having a high magnetic interaction.
11. The door of claim 1, wherein said guillotine comprises at least one second magnet fixed to said guillotine; said door frame or door fixture is placed straddling a length of a floor; said at least one second magnet interaction element comprises at least one magnetic slot, or an element made of a material having a high magnetic interaction, embedded in said floor with a polarity arranged inverse with respect to the polarity of the at least one second magnet; said at least one second magnet is fixed to said guillotine and interfaced to said at least one magnetic slot, or element made of a material having a high magnetic interaction, only when the door leaf is in a closed position.
12. The door of claim 1, wherein said door frame or door fixture comprises a side of horizontal frame or crosspiece; said at least one second magnet interaction element comprises at least one magnetic slot, or an element made of a material having a high magnetic interaction, embedded in said horizontal frame or crosspiece with a polarity arranged inverse with respect to the polarity of the at least one second magnet; said at least one second magnet is fixed to said guillotine and interfaced to said at least one magnetic slot only when the door leaf is in a closed position.
13. The door of claim 1, wherein said door frame or door fixture and said guillotine are made of a material having a low magnetic interaction.
14. The door of claim 1, wherein said at least one second magnet exerts a magnetic action at least four times greater than the magnetic action exerted by said at least one first magnet.
15. The door of claim 2, wherein said magnetic field closing element is an element made of a material having a high magnetic interaction.
16. The door of claim 1, wherein said at least one second magnet is a series of second magnets placed at least close to longitudinal guillotine ends of said guillotine.
17. The door of claim 1, wherein said at least one second magnet interaction element comprises a magnetic slot embedded in said at least one abutment element.
18. The door of claim 1, wherein said at least one second magnet interaction element comprises a magnetic slot comprising an electromagnet.
19. The door of claim 10, wherein said material having a high magnetic interaction is steel.
20. The door of claim 13, wherein said material having a low magnetic interaction is aluminum.
Description
FIGURES
[0036] Further features and advantages of the door of the invention will become apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments thereof, given by way of non-limiting example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
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DESCRIPTION OF SOME PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0061] According to a general embodiment, a door 1 comprises: [0062] a door frame or door fixture 2 comprising at least one abutment element 3; [0063] a door leaf 4, which is movable from an open position, in which it opens an opening 5 delimited by said door frame or door fixture 2, and a closed position, in which it is resting against said abutment element 3 of said door frame or door fixture 2 to close said opening 5; [0064] at least one guillotine seat or seat 6 provided in said door leaf 4 or in said door frame or door fixture 2; [0065] at least one sliding element or guillotine 7 made of material having poor aluminum magnetic interaction; in which said guillotine 7 is slidably accommodated in said seat 6 so as to pass from a retracted position to an extended position and vice versa along a guillotine sliding direction X-X; [0066] at least one first magnet A with poles N, S aligned or parallel to said guillotine sliding direction X-X; [0067] said first magnet A being arranged integral with said guillotine 7; [0068] said first magnet A exerting a magnetic action of attraction of said guillotine 7 into said seat 6; [0069] at least one second magnet B, separated from said first magnet A, with poles N, S aligned or parallel to said guillotine sliding direction X-X; [0070] said second magnet B being arranged integral with said guillotine 7; [0071] at least one second magnet interaction element 8, separated by said first magnet A and by said second magnet B, and arranged so as to interact with said second magnet B and arranged integral with said abutment element 3 to attract said second magnet B to exert an action of extraction on guillotine 7; [0072] said second magnet B being arranged so as to push said guillotine 7 to extract it from said seat 6 only when said second magnet B is arranged substantially facing said second magnet interaction element 8 or when said guillotine sliding direction X-X intercepts said second magnet interaction element 8; [0073] said at least one first magnet A exerts a magnetic action which is globally lower than the magnetic action globally exerted by said at least one second magnet B.
[0074] According to one embodiment, said door frame or door fixture 4 comprises a seat wall 9 which delimits said seat 6. At least one third magnet C arranged integral with said seat wall 9.
[0075] Said at least one first magnet A always faces said at least one third magnet C so as to perpetually attract said guillotine into said seat 6.
[0076] According to one embodiment, said door leaf 4 comprises at least one leaf edge 10, here a floor leaf edge, adapted to face an abutment element 3, in which said abutment element is a floor 11. Said seat 6 is provided in said floor leaf edge 10. Said guillotine 7 comprises a guillotine abutment surface 12 arranged facing said second magnet interaction element 8. Said guillotine abutment surface 12 comprises an acoustic seal 13 adapted to be interposed between said guillotine 7 and said abutment element 3.
[0077] According to one embodiment, said seat 6 defines a guillotine extraction and retraction direction or guillotine sliding direction X-X, in which said guillotine sliding direction X-X is arranged transversely to the plane defined by leaf 4 of door 1.
[0078] According to one embodiment, said seat defines a guillotine extraction and retraction direction or guillotine sliding direction X-X, in which said guillotine sliding direction X-X is arranged parallel to the plane defined by leaf 4 of door 1.
[0079] According to one embodiment, said seat 6 comprises a seat wall 9 which defines a seat wall bottom portion 16. Said guillotine 7 is a U-shaped profile 14 having a profile section opening 15, in which said profile 14 is accommodated in said seat 6 with the profile section opening 15 facing said seat wall bottom portion 16.
[0080] According to one embodiment, said at least one first magnet A is a series of first magnets A distributed along the longitudinal extension of guillotine 7.
[0081] According to one embodiment, said at least one second magnet B is a series of second magnets B placed at least close to longitudinal guillotine ends 17 of said guillotine 7.
[0082] According to one embodiment, said first magnet A has a predetermined polarity N/S. Said second magnet B has a predetermined polarity N/S. The arrangement of polarity N/S of the first magnet A is inverse with respect to the arrangement of polarity S/N of the second magnet B when they are positioned in said guillotine 7.
[0083] According to one embodiment, said door leaf 4 is a door leaf sliding on at least one guide 20 provided on said door frame or door fixture 2 so as to allow the door leaf 4 to slide laterally to said door frame or door fixture 2. Furthermore, at least one sliding foot 18 fixed to the abutment element 3, for example a floor 11, is provided. Said door frame or door fixture 2 comprises a feet seat 19 adapted to accommodate said sliding foot 18 to guide the sliding of said door leaf 4.
[0084] According to one embodiment, said second magnet interaction element 8 comprises a magnetic slot 21.
[0085] According to one embodiment, said second magnet interaction element 8 comprises a magnetic slot 21 embedded in said abutment element 2, for example a floor 11.
[0086] According to one embodiment, said door frame or door fixture 2 comprises a vertical frame side 22. Said guillotine comprises at least one second magnet B fixed to said guillotine and interfaced, only when the door leaf 4 is in closing position of said door 1, to a second magnet interaction element 8 comprising a strip made of material having a high magnetic interaction 23, e.g. steel.
[0087] According to one embodiment, said guillotine comprises at least one second magnet B fixed to said guillotine. Said door frame or door fixture 2 is placed straddling a length of floor 11. Said second magnet interaction element 8 comprises at least one magnetic slot 21 embedded in said floor 11 with polarity arranged inverse with respect to the polarity of the at least one second magnet B. Said second magnet B is fixed to said guillotine and interfaced to said at least one magnetic slot 21 only when the door leaf 4 is in closing position of door 1.
[0088] According to one embodiment, said door frame or door fixture 2 comprises a side of horizontal frame or crosspiece 24. Said second magnet interaction element 8 comprises at least one magnetic slot 21 embedded in said horizontal frame or crosspiece 24 with polarity arranged inverse with respect to the polarity of the at least second magnet B. Said second magnet B is fixed to said guillotine and interfaced to said at least one magnetic slot 21 only when the door leaf 4 is in closing position of door 1.
[0089] According to one embodiment, said door frame or door fixture 2 and said guillotine 7 are made of material having a low magnetic interaction, e.g. aluminum.
[0090] According to one embodiment, said second magnet B exerts an action of magnetic attraction which is at least four times greater than the magnetic action exerted by said first magnet A.
[0091] According to one embodiment, said first magnets A are neodymium magnets and/or said second magnets B are neodymium magnets and/or said third magnets C are neodymium magnets and/or said fourth magnets D are neodymium magnets.
[0092] The following is the description of the operation, by way of example, of a door with sliding leaf made according to the invention.
[0093] This embodiment provides a glass partition wall made so as to be soundproof, for example by providing double glass and a frame made of aluminum extrudates.
[0094] Also, door 1 comprises a door frame 2 made of aluminum extrudates. Likewise, the door leaf is made with double glass fixed to a frame which obtains the leaf edge 10 made of aluminum extrudates.
[0095] These leaf edges 10 have the different seats 6 on the lower side facing floor 11, on the vertical side facing the partition wall and the door frame 2, as well as on the upper side again facing the partition wall frame and the door frame 2.
[0096] Each seat accommodates a guillotine 78 made as described above and in particular, housing neodymium magnets.
[0097] The double-glass lower horizontal aluminum profile of the leaf edge 10 is shaped, in the lower partthe one oriented towards floor 11so as to obtain said seat 6 and contain a second shaped aluminum profile therein which creates the support body of said guillotine. Said second aluminum profile is U-shaped and contains two series of magnets A, B therein, with the polarity thereof mutually oriented in inverse manner and different force of magnetic attraction or repulsing from each other. Third magnets C are arranged on the bottom of the seat and at the first magnets A, the third magnets being oriented so as to attract thereto the first magnets A position in the second U-shaped aluminum profile, preferably in the middle part of this profile.
[0098] Alignment pins or guide pins 25 for the guillotine are comprised in the horizontal aluminum profile of leaf edge 10, and in particular in said seats 6, the pins serving as guides to allow the vertical sliding of the second U-shaped aluminum profile in said seat 6 made in the lower crosspiece of leaf edge 10.
[0099] The magnetic slots 21, which are oriented so as to attract thereto the second U-shaped aluminum profile only when the leaf is in perfect closing position, are positioned on floor 11. In that moment, the second magnets B bring the second U-shaped profile towards the magnetic slots 21 (each containing a fourth permanent magnet D with the poles oriented inversely to the second magnet B in order to attract it thereto). The action of attraction between the second magnets B and the fourth magnets D overcomes the force of attraction of the first magnets A towards the third magnets C placed in the bottom of seat 6 and which oppose the extraction of guillotine 7, thus allowing the extension of guillotine 7 and the complete resting thereof on floor 11, thus ensuring the perfect closing of the horizontal gap below the door leaf 4.
[0100] When the user, opening the door leaf 4, moves the second magnets B with respect to the fourth magnets D, the first magnets A prevail again as action towards the third magnets C, retracting guillotine 7 into seat 6 and raising it off floor 11. Here, the extraction and retraction direction X-X of guillotine 7 is vertical or substantially orthogonal to the floor which embeds the two magnetic slots 21.
[0101] Guillotine 7 placed in the upper horizontal crosspiece placed in the leaf edge 10 operates in similar manner, except that the extraction and retraction direction X-X of guillotine 7 is substantially orthogonal to the plane on which the door leaf 4 lies, or in other words, is substantially parallel to the plane of floor 11.
[0102] With regards to the vertical abutment upright of the door frame 2 on the side where the quick release lock usually is provided, this has a continuous magnet which is the height of the H-shaped leaf and slides in a seat of the door frame 2 to horizontally slide with a stroke limited by a stop made in the door frame, but sufficient to abut against the leaf when in closed position. This magnet creates a magnetic seal and is made of substantially soft magnetic materials. The leaf edge 10 alternatively has, in the portion abutting against said vertical abutment upright of the door frame, a steel insert which is the width of the thickness of the leaf, or has, in the section of aluminum extrudate thereof, the space for housing a rod or steel strip 23. In closing step of leaf 4, the aforesaid magnetic seal perfectly adheres over the entire length of the edge of the leaf, where the steel strip 23 is provided.
[0103] With regards to the vertical sliding side, i.e. the side of the rear leaf with respect to the handle when the leaf is in closing step. A housing is formed in the vertical aluminum extrudate of the leaf edge 10, or back edge of leaf 4, for the entire height of the profile which creates seat 5 for the guillotine 7, seat 6 which receives a second U-shaped aluminum profile which makes the support body of said guillotine 7, which outer shape is adapted to receive a continuous seal for the entire length thereof. Two series of magnets A, B are fixed in the U-shaped profile, the first with magnets A having less force and oriented opposite to the second (second magnets B). The first magnets A are attracted by third magnets C fixed to the bottom of seat 6 so that guillotine 7 is attracted into seat 6 so long as the second magnets B exert an action thereof, thus allowing the leaf a free movement during the closing and opening stroke and for the whole time in which the leaf remains open. The second series of magnets B has a greater magnetic force than the first series of magnets A so that the position of closed door, when the guillotine faces the vertical upright of the door frame 2 or sliding side of the door frame on which a hinge or steel strip 23 is provided to be inserted in a seat thereof, the U-shaped profile is stressed by the second magnet B, bringing guillotine 7 to abut against the steel strip 23, abutting seal 13 against the whole vertical height of leaf 4. When the user acts on the opening leaf, the second magnets B are no longer aligned with the steel strip 23 and therefore, the first magnets A, which are perpetually attracted by the third magnets C fixed to the bottom of seat 6, attract the guillotine into seat 6, thus retracting and leaving leaf 4 immediately free to slide.
[0104] The present invention relates to a door with sliding leaf comprising one or more of the above-described features.
[0105] The present invention also relates to a door with hinged leaf comprising one or more of the above-described features.
[0106] The present invention also relates to leaves of wardrobes and furnishing containers. Here, the main function of the guillotine is the seal against dust, a significant problem for wardrobes and walk-in closets with sliding and/or hinged leaves.
[0107] According to one embodiment, said first magnet (A) is an electromagnet connected to an electrical activation and deactivation circuit 27, for example, but not necessarily, having a switch 29 controllable by a user to activate said first electromagnet (A). Therefore, a first electromagnet (A) may replace a first magnet (A) described in the preceding description.
[0108] According to one embodiment, said first electromagnet (A) interacts with a third electromagnet (C) or alternatively with a third magnet (C) or with an element made of material having a high magnetic interaction, e.g. steel, positioned where said third magnet (C) is described in the above description, without departing from the scope of the present invention.
[0109] According to one embodiment, said second magnet (B) is an electromagnet connected to an electrical activation and deactivation circuit 27, for example, but not necessarily, having a switch 29 which can be controlled by a user to activate said second electromagnet (B). Therefore, a second electromagnet (B) may replace a second magnet (B) described in the preceding description.
[0110] According to one embodiment, said second electromagnet (A) interacts with a fourth electromagnet (D) or alternatively with a fourth magnet (D) or with an element made of material having a high magnetic interaction, e.g. steel, placed where said fourth magnet (D) is described in the above description, without departing from the scope of the present invention.
[0111] According to one embodiment, at least one second magnet interaction element (8) is an electromagnet (26), separated by said first magnet or electromagnet (A) and by said second magnet or electromagnet (B), and arranged so as to interact with said second magnet or electromagnet (B) and arranged integral with said abutment element (3) to attract said second magnet or electromagnet (B) to exert an action of extraction on guillotine (7).
[0112] According to one embodiment, said at least one second magnet interaction element is an electromagnet 26 connected to an electrical activation and deactivation circuit 27, for example, but not necessarily, connected to a control unit 28 and having a switch 29 which can be controlled by a user to activate said at least one second magnet interaction element (8).
[0113] According to one embodiment, said second magnet interaction element is an electromagnet (8) and comprises a magnetic slot (21), or an electromagnet slot.
[0114] According to one embodiment, said second magnet interaction element is an electromagnet (8) and comprises a magnetic slot 21 embedded in said abutment element (2), for example a floor (11).
[0115] By virtue of the provision of electromagnets, a prompter control and mechanical activation may be obtained, but possibly also the activation of the guillotine by means of sensors or remote controls.
[0116] By virtue of the electromagnets, the door may be used, excluding the operation of the guillotines in everyday use and contrarily, activating them remotely also from the workstation or meeting table at the start of a meeting or a private call.
[0117] According to one embodiment, the electromagnets are connected to a domotics system to be activated and close the guillotines upon the switching from one setting scenario to another.
LIST OF REFERENCES
[0118] 1 door [0119] 2 door frame or door fixture [0120] 3 abutment element [0121] 4 door leaf or leaf [0122] 5 door opening [0123] 6 guillotine seat or seat [0124] 7 sliding element or guillotine [0125] 8 second magnet interaction element or electromagnet [0126] 9 seat wall [0127] 10 leaf edge [0128] 11 floor [0129] 12 guillotine abutment surface [0130] 13 acoustic seal [0131] 14 profile [0132] 15 profile section opening [0133] 16 seat wall bottom portion [0134] 17 longitudinal guillotine ends [0135] 18 sliding feet [0136] 19 feet seat [0137] 20 sliding leaf guide [0138] 21 magnetic slot or element made of material having a high magnetic interaction or electromagnet [0139] 22 vertical frame side [0140] 23 strip made of material having a high magnetic interaction [0141] 24 horizontal frame or crosspiece [0142] 25 guillotine guide pin [0143] 26 electromagnet [0144] 27 electrical circuit [0145] 28 control unit [0146] 29 switch [0147] X-X guillotine sliding direction [0148] A first magnet or electromagnet [0149] N north magnetic pole [0150] S south magnetic pole [0151] B second magnet or electromagnet [0152] C third magnet or electromagnet or element made of material having a high magnetic interaction [0153] D fourth magnet or magnetic slot or electromagnet or element made of material having a high magnetic interaction