Patents Assigned to Dorma GmbH +Co. KG
  • Patent number: 6460293
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for moving elements of a multi-leaf sliding wall into a parking magazine whereby a storage rail branches in the region of the parking magazine from a guide rail which carries the elements, and whereby each element has a drive assembly. The invention is directed thereto that the first element next to the parking magazine in the region of the free end of the guide rail is journalled to be swingable about an axis of rotation and is exclusively guided with its associated drive assembly by the storage rail, whereby between the first element and the drive assembly there is disposed a coupling link configured to support a tension to pull and to support a compression to push.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Markus Bischof
  • Patent number: 6446394
    Abstract: A housing for an automatic door operator comprising a header section, a closing section and a terminal section. The header section includes two legs and a connecting leg which connects the two legs to one another. One of the two legs includes an end portion having a ball projection and an undercut. The closing section includes a ball projection and an indentation at one end and the terminal section at the other end. The closing section is removably attached to the header section through the engagement of the ball projection of the closing section with the undercut and the engagement of the ball projection of the one of the two legs and the indentation. The housing serves to house mechanical and electrotechnical components for the automatic door operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Finke, Andreas Althoff
  • Patent number: 6442911
    Abstract: Building glass facade of a building, clamping arrangement in a facade, and a clamping arrangement for clamping a building glass pane in a facade, wherein a glass pane is secured at a building-side holding device, with the glass pane being secured between two clamp elements. At the inner clamp element is supported with adjustable prestressing a bell-shaped housing and between the bell-shaped housing and the inner clamp element there is disposed a permanently elastic spring member which permits a relative movement of the bell-shaped housing relative to the inner clamp element. Joint arrangements are provided in tandem between the glass pane and the holding device at the side of the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: DORMA GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Hubert Elmer, Peter Leitgeb
  • Patent number: 6439009
    Abstract: A plurality of doors in a structure, wherein each door comprises a locking apparatus and an access arrangement. The access arrangement comprises a housing unit and a plurality of alternatively interchangeable inserts configured to be inserted into said housing unit. The inserts are also configured to permit access through a corresponding door. The inserts are designed to have different access configurations, such as a cylinder lock or an electronic code lock. Differently configured inserts can be interchangeably inserted into the housing to change the access configuration at a corresponding door without having to change the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: DORMA GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Armin Heese, Manfred Kampmann
  • Patent number: 6421968
    Abstract: Firewall that is used in an area of a fire compartment to prevent fire from skipping to other areas, whereby the fire wall is comprised of modularly constructed sub-elements which are essentially composed of profiles assembled to form a surrounding frame that simultaneously separate two glass panes, whereby the glass panes extend to the outer edge of the profiles, and the frame is covered by a partial enameling of the glass panes, and the sub-elements can be connected to each other by connecting elements with the interposition of fireproof laminates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: DORMA GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Walter Degelsegger
  • Patent number: 6421876
    Abstract: A door closer with an oblong, one-piece body such to achieve a compact and aesthetic unit which can be produced with a minimum material consumption. The door closer has lateral faces which each have a curvature and/or bevel that shapes towards each other, which curvature or bevel starts at the lower surface and ends at the upper surface of the door closer. The door closer also has bearing blocks that are built between their fronts and the lateral faces ascending from the body's lower surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Olaf Ginzel, Rainer Fengler, Lars Parzanka, Roger Migchielsen
  • Patent number: 6420970
    Abstract: An improved emergency door with an emergency door opening system having a control box comprising a housing with a cylinder lock, an emergency door opening button, and an audio alarm sensor to provide an optimized user-friendly and customer-friendly arrangement of optical display elements that can be easily assembled with the emergency door. This is achieved by surrounding the emergency door opening button with a display module which can be closed by a covering frame that is provided with integrated safety glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Kampmann, Axel Schmidt, Armin Heese
  • Patent number: 6412242
    Abstract: A fastening device for a glass panel (2) on a wall (3), a building-side substructure, or similar object, such as a building facade, using a clamp fitting (4) that grips the glass panel (2) and a holder (5) that is supported on the clamp fitting (4) so that it can move to a limited extent in three dimensions. The invention teaches that the holder (5) has a retaining pivot (6) that can be fixed in position on the clamp fitting (4), whereby on the outer free end (7) of the retaining pivot there is a connecting articulation (8) that can be fixed in position for the connection of a compensating shaft (9), which on its end (10) farther from the retaining pivot (6) is connected by means of an articulation (11) that can be fixed in position with an adapter (12) for fastening to a wall (3), a substructure or similar object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Hubert Elmer
  • Patent number: 6375562
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sliding door with two outer side-pieces extending from a building wall and surrounding a building entrance/exit, with at least one moving panel associated with the two side-pieces which closes or opens an entrance/exit as a result of its movement into a closed or open position, and with a ventilation system which, by means of at least one blower nozzle that is located so that it can pivot between the interior and exterior of the building, blows air into the building entrance/exit area, whereby the blower nozzle is coupled with a air speed indicator so that the pivoting angle of the blower nozzle can be adjusted as a function of the outside pressure on the outside of the building as measured by the air speed indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Christian Hein
  • Patent number: 6367198
    Abstract: This invention relates to a revolving door with a plurality of door panels which can be rotated around a central axis inside a cylindrical barrel wall that surrounds them. The invention teaches that one of the door panels or parts thereof can be detached from the position it or they occupy during operation, and can be pivoted and/or moved into a position that forms a night surround, in which it/they close the entrance and/or the exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Manfred Rockenbach
  • Patent number: 6338227
    Abstract: A light alloy frame profile system for windows and doors, in particular sliding-swinging door systems with a side piece and at least one movable door leaf, includes a plurality of profiles that are fixed to one another by means of fastening areas. To improve such a frame profile system so that it is substantially aesthetically and functionally uniform, and so that it may be used with simple and material-conserving fabrication methods as well as uniform installation techniques, the fastening area may be realized in the form of a rail that is formed by two hooks and a projection located between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Finke
  • Patent number: 6338693
    Abstract: A pivot-hung door drive system with an electro-mechanical or electro-hydraulic drive device that supplies the opening and closing moment required to open and close a connected pivot-hung door panel, whereby an electronic regulation/control system with at least one memory and at least one microprocessor, on the basis of sensor signals, controls the opening or closing moment by means of a gear wheel that is located on an output shaft, which gear wheel is connected by means of a linkage and an actuator arm with the pivot-hung door panel, whereby between the output shaft of the pivot-hung door drive system and the linkage or the actuator arm, there is a device that effects a change in the opening and closing moment over the angle of rotation of the pivot-hung door panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Jan Scholten, Peter Kisters
  • Patent number: 6313594
    Abstract: A drive system for a partition wall system composed of several individual components which are horizontally movable via rollers or appropriate media at or in a guide rail mounted to a ceiling in a way or technique in which the individual components present separate drive media which convey the corresponding component(s) independently from and/or simultaneously with the other components along the guide rail. A central control unit combined with a microprocessor and several memories is provided and the control unit's output signal transmits data and addresses to all drive media via at least a two-wire connection (databus) simultaneously to activate the individual component's drive media, which allows the individual control and regulation of the individual components and the additional miscellaneous functions for the individual components respectively inside the individual components. Changing of data and addresses is operated by a control terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: DORMA GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Reinhard Janutta
  • Patent number: 6286258
    Abstract: A movable wall has a plurality of movable wall elements mounted in horizontally oriented guide rails. The guide rail which defines the path of the movable wall elements from the parked position into the closed position is laid out in a 90 degree curve in the vicinity of a room opening to be closed so that it brings the closed movable wall elements into alignment. The final movable wall element in the direction of the closing motion is mounted on support and guidance elements. At least the rear support and guidance element of the final wall element in the direction of the closing motion, is mounted on the final movable wall element so that the rear support and guidance element can be moved along the final movable wall element. This rear support and guidance element also has its own drive unit, by which drive unit, during the closing process, the final movable wall element is automatically moved into the closed position in which it is flush with the other movable wall elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: DORMA GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Bischof, Stefan Rechsteiner
  • Patent number: 6286277
    Abstract: A sliding panel system whose sliding panel elements are aligned in a row next to each other when the sliding panel is closed and are positioned orthogonally in relation to the sliding panel when it is in its parked position. The individual sliding panel elements are guided on a first rail arrangement, a curved or bent rail section being adjacent to said slide rail in the transitional area leading to the parked position. The invention is characterized in that the slide rail has a curved or bent rail section in the transitional area leading to the parked position itself. When a point is switched immediately, said rail section opens up onto a parking rail running orthogonally or at an angle to the slide rail. The free end of the parking rail is configured so that it extends into the area of the sliding panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Ernst-Udo Blöbaum, Reinhard Janutta
  • Patent number: 6283189
    Abstract: An emergency opening device for a swinging folding door or a swinging folding gate, using an electric motor drive with a switchable electromagnetic coupling for closing and opening the door panels. The door has an emergency opening device, whereby the emergency opening device consists of an elastic tension or compression device to which a pre-load can be applied during the closing of the door. The tension or compression device can be engaged in the drive shaft of the outer panel or in the vicinity of the main closing edge of the inner panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: DORMA GmbH +Co. KG
    Inventor: Arne Liebscher
  • Patent number: 6266922
    Abstract: A revolving door with a ceiling drive beam that is integrated into the ceiling construction, whereby the ceiling construction consists of two circular segments. The ceiling drive beam is located between the segments and is continuous over the inside diameter of the face band and is connected on the face side to the face band. The result is a component that braces and stiffens the ceiling construction, so that other elements of the ceiling construction, such as the struts that support the face band, can be realized lighter in weight and can be manufactured more economically. When the ceiling drive beam is adapted to accommodate face bands of different diameters, all that is necessary is an elongation of the ceiling drive beam on the end, while retaining its cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: DORMA GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Manfred Rockenbach
  • Patent number: 6262548
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pivot-hung door drive system with an electro-mechanical device that supplies the closing moment required for the opening and closing of the door, comprising a transmission which varies its translation ratio over the angle of rotation of the door, a guide that is connected with an output shaft and a driver roller that can execute a translation movement relative to the guide and in the guide, which driver roller is connected with a pinion that is engaged with a toothed rack that is connected with the spring system, whereby the axis of rotation of the output shaft is at a defined distance from the axis of rotation of the pinion, and the axis of rotation of the driver roller is at a defined distance from the axis of rotation of the pinion, such that when the output shaft and pinion are rotated, the translation ratio changes as a result of the changing axial distance between the output shaft and the driver roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Jan Scholten, Peter Kisters, Guido Schneider
  • Patent number: D449244
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Lothar Ginzel
  • Patent number: D464281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: DORMA GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Lothar Ginzel