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 comprising: the glass panel element, a fastening element adapted for use in a container wherein the fastening element comprises a profiled edge strip adapted to fixate the fastening element in a form-fitting manner to the container, wherein the glass panel element and the fastening element are adhesively connected with each other.

2. The glass panel element according to claim 1, wherein the fastening element is adhesively connected with a lateral surface of the glass panel element.

3. The glass panel element according to claim 2, wherein a thickness of the fastening element corresponds to a thickness of the glass panel element.

4. The glass panel element according to claim 2, wherein a thickness of the fastening element is less than a thickness of the glass panel element.

5. The glass panel element according to claim 1, wherein a fastening element is arranged on each opposing side of the glass panel element and is adhesively connected with said glass panel element.

6. The glass panel element according to claim 1, wherein the fastening element is arranged on each of at least three sides of the glass panel element and adhesively connected with said glass panel element.

7. The glass panel element according to claim 1, wherein the fastening element further comprises a transparent panel element, wherein a panel bottom surface of the transparent panel element and a glass panel element bottom surface of the glass panel element are the same, wherein the profiled edge strip is arranged on a lateral surface of a panel element of the glass panel element and wherein the transparent panel element is adhesively connected with a surface of the glass panel element, resulting in the profiled edge strip laterally projecting beyond the surface of the glass panel element.

8. The glass panel element according to claim 7, wherein the fastening element has two of the profiled edge strips, wherein one edge strip is arranged on each opposing side of the transparent panel element.

9. The glass panel element according to claim 7, wherein the glass panel element has two panel elements with the same glass panel bottom surface, wherein the glass panels are arranged on opposing sides of the panel element of the transparent panel of the fastening element and are adhesively connected with the panel element of the transparent panel of the fastening element.

10. The glass panel element according to claim 7, wherein the panel element is made of a transparent plastic.

11. The glass panel element according to claim 7, wherein the fastening element is made of the transparent plastic.

12. The glass panel element according to claim 1, wherein the fastening element is made of aluminium.

13. The glass panel element according to claim 1, wherein the profiled edge strip and the glass panel element terminate in a flush manner.

14. The glass panel element according to claim 1, wherein an adhesive for establishing an adhesive connection between the fastening element and the glass panel element is a transparent adhesive.

15. Glass showcase, comprising at least one glass panel element with a fastening element according to claim 1 as well as a connection element assigned and fitted thereto, and wherein the glass panel element is in detachable form-fit engagement with the connection element via the fastening element.

16. The glass showcase according to claim 15, wherein a thickness of the connection element and of the fastening element is less than the thickness of the glass panel element assigned to the fastening element if the connection element and the fastening element are engaged with each other.

17. The glass showcase according to claim 16, wherein the thickness of the connection element and of the fastening element ranges between 7 mm and 9 mm or is 8 mm.

18. The glass showcase according to claim 15, wherein the glass showcase has a floor element or a cover element comprising a glass panel element with a suitable fixing element, wherein the fixing element has a stop surface for laying on a side wall element of the glass showcase.

19. The glass showcase according to claim 15, wherein the glass showcase has at least one connection element, wherein said connection element has a profiled rail with profile strips arranged on two opposite sides, and wherein the profiled rail is adapted for a form-fit engagement of assigned fastening elements of two glass panel elements arranged in alignment with each other.

20. The glass showcase according to claim 15, wherein the glass showcase comprises two glass panel elements with thickness in deviation to each other, which are each positively engaged with the connection element via an assigned fastening element.

Description

[0035] 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.

[0036] The figures show in:

[0037] 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,

[0038] 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,

[0039] FIG. 2a a schematic illustration of a glass panel element, wherein the fastening element has a panel element,

[0040] 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

[0041] 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.

[0042] 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.

[0043] 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.

[0044] 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.

[0045] 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.

[0046] 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.

[0047] 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 glass showcase 6.

[0048] FIG. 3 shows details of 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.

[0049] 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 6 formed by the glass panel elements 1 with further glass panel elements (not shown). The glass panel elements 1 each have mitres 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 of the invention it is also possible and provided that the glass panel elements 1 abut each other in the abutment region 12.

[0050] 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 mitre 13 in the abutment region 12.

[0051] In the event of a glass showcase 6 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.