Patents Assigned to Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
  • Patent number: 5143271
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for assembling the parts intervening on a face-plate corresponding to an espagnolette or bolt lock for a swinging and tilting leaf. As a matter of fact, this face-plate receives, on its rear face intended for applying against the front edge of said leaf, at least one casing capable of accomodating a control mechanism for locking organs such as operating rods or the like and, on its front face oriented towards the sash-frame, at least one safety shoulder with a view to impeding the leaf from moving upwards when it is in tilting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Jean-Jacques Kautt
  • Patent number: 5140743
    Abstract: An automatic machine for fitting striking plates to prefabricated fixed frames of windows or French windows is associated with a fixed frame feed device. It comprises at least one fitting unit adapted to be displaced automatically relative to the fixed frame. It further comprises at least one second fitting unit adapted to fit bottom striking plates to the fixed frame, in particular for tilt-turn windows. The displacements of the beam, the carriage and the fitting unit are program-controlled to enable the fitting of top striking plates to the top crossmember of the fixed frame and the fitting of striking plates to the uprights of the fixed frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Jean-Jacques Kautt
  • Patent number: 5141267
    Abstract: Locking fitting for a door, window or the like including a sliding leaf provided with a front stile having the shape of a "U"-shaped profile capable of fitting into a "U"-shaped profile forming the corresponding stile of the sash-frame when in a closed position. The bottom of each of these "U"-shaped profiles is capable of maintaining a distance between them so as to define a free space in which is positioned, at least one hook bolt integral with a movable actuating rod in a groove made in the "U"-shaped profile of the sliding leaf, and at least one keeper fixed in the bottom of the "U"-shaped profile of the sash-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Daniel Vigreux
  • Patent number: 5121559
    Abstract: A device for recognizing different type parts, each type having a predetermined dimension, comprises an abutment against which one side of the part is positioned, a mobile feeler including a mobile abutment adapted to be brought into contact with the other side of the part and a sensor comprising at least one masking member fastened to the feeler and at least one fixed sensor. The device is adapted to be fitted to a machine for processing window or French-window frames to determine the type of frame to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Jean-Jacques Kautt
  • Patent number: 5118143
    Abstract: A positioning rod gearing for use in a window leaf or door leaf, the frame profile (1) of the window or door leaf comprising a receiving groove (3) open in the direction of the folding surface with guide flanges (5) for a positioning rod. The positioning rod gearing comprises a gearing housing (7) which forms an insertable housing part (7i) and a guide conduit section (7c) and comprises a connecting slide (19) supported in a longitudinally shiftable manner which permanently engages with the drive pinion (13) and carries a cam extension (21) on at least one end, which extension projects out of the guide conduit section (7c) and can be coupled to a positioning rod (23). The insertable housing part (7b) comprises a support surface (9) for support on the groove bottom (31) of the receiving groove (3) and comprises a receiving bore (27) in support surface (9) for a fastening screw (37) which can be screwed in from the rabbet side into a threaded bore (39) of the groove bottom (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Prevot Gerard
  • Patent number: 5107570
    Abstract: Intermediate bearing, for a door, window, or the like, having at least a leaf pivoting about a vertical spindle, is provided with a fixed base integral with the sash-frame, and a movable element inserted at the level of the leaf. The fixed base is provided with an opening into which engages a cataching pin of the movable member. This intermediate bearing additionally includes an adjustable articulation mechanism to change, perpendicularly to the stile of the sash-frame, the catching area between the movable member and the fixed base, in order to adjust the compression force exerted onto the seal arranged in the fillister of the sash-frame of the door, window or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Roland Feith
  • Patent number: 5105534
    Abstract: An installation for the continuous assembly of complementary component parts of a structural assembly constituting a door or window espagnolette bolt operating mechanism includes a main assembly circuit comprising at least one conveyor adapted to be advanced in steps and components part support plates fixed to this conveyor. Feed lines convey the component parts from storage units to the assembly circuit. Take-up devices transfer component parts from the feed lines to the conveyor. Component part assembly devices are located downstream of these take-up devices in the direction of movement of the conveyor. The installation further comprises devices for controlling the positioning and assembly of the component parts on the respective support plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: M. Jean-Jacques Kautt
  • Patent number: 5104161
    Abstract: Fitting for a door, window or the like comprising locking elements provided with at least one operating rod allowing the actuation of a mechanism for locking the leaf in rotation, in various angular positions, with respect to the sash-frame. This mechanism is composed of at least a clamping element and an additional member, one of which is made integral with an extension of the operating rod and the other one with the sash-frame. The clamping element and the additional member of the actuation mechanism are located on the rotation axis of the leaf, each comprising slits intended for co-operating with each other when actuating the locking elements. The clamping element further comprising connecting members intended for making same integral with either the sash-frame or the operating rod and with respect to which it can move with a stroke of a length at least equal to the height of its slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Jean-Jacques Kautt
  • Patent number: 5102174
    Abstract: A gearing for use in a fitting for a door leaf or window leaf having a frame profile including a guide groove on the movable frame open in the direction of the rabbet space between the movable and stationary frames of the door or window. The positioning rod gearing comprises a partially insertable gearing housing (7) and a guide section (7c). A connecting slide (19) is supported in a longitudinally shiftable manner in the housing guide part (7c) which slide comprises a coupling extension (21) on at least one end for coupling a positioning rod (22). A drive pinion (13) which is rotatably supported in the housing (7) can be rotated by means of an operating handle of the positioning rod gearing and meshes with a cogging (17) of the connecting slide (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Gerard Prevot
  • Patent number: 5095614
    Abstract: An installation for automatically assembling basic parts of a tilt/turn window lock fitting comprises a line for the automatic assembly of the various basic parts constituting the corner turner and, associated therewith, a line for the automatic assembly of the strap, the link, at least one locking roller and at least one pressure spring to the corner turner assembly. The two lines are preferably made up of modular stations in two parallel planes linked by a transverse conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Jean-Jacques Kautt
  • Patent number: 5095583
    Abstract: Folding-arm bearing for an oscillating-swinging leaf of doors, windows or the like, comprises a support inserted on the sash-frame and a square-shaped blade having a wing onto which is pivotally mounted a plate bearing a folding-arm leg by a connector. In order to facilitate the reversibility of this folding-arm bearing without disassembling of components, the wing of the blade is provided, on its upper and lower edges, with a pin engaging into an opening made in the connector, and the plate is mounted onto this wing by means of an eccentric having a rotation which generates a vertical movement of the plate causing the disengagement of a pin from the opening present in the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Gerard Prevot
  • Patent number: 5081741
    Abstract: Hinge fittings for pivoting a titlable door or window in which the opening frame partially overlaps the fixed frame provided with a corner bearing and a casement stay fixed in rabbets, and each of the corner bearing and the casement stay having an auxiliary stay arm, a connecting rod and a second stay arm connecting the opening frame to the fixed frame. In order to guarantee better sealing and reliable operation of the door or window, the hinge fittings also include elements for the lateral and vertical positioning of the opening frame in relation to the fixed frame and elements to press the opening frame against the fixed frame on closing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Laurent Aumercier
  • Patent number: 5072489
    Abstract: Hinge for a door, window or the like, the sash of which is partially overlapping the sash-frame and outwardly tiltable about a horizontal spindle located at the height of its upper rail including a) hinged lower compass arms imparting to the sash, at the very beginning of its opening, a path with vertical components, b) and upper hinge elements capable of simultaneously outwardly projecting the upper rail of the sash during the substantially vertical movement thereof. The hinge includes an assistance mechanism to push back, vertically and upwards, the sash at the end of closing, and to simultaneously position and center the sash with respect to the sash-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Laurent Aumercier
  • Patent number: 5072495
    Abstract: The invention discloses an installation for the automatic assembly of the lower socket-bracket of opening leaves, i.e. the part of the fitting intended to be fixed to the lower corner of an opening leaf preferably of oscillating leaf type, in line with its vertical axis of rotation and transferring the weight of the leaf to a bearing embedded in the frame.The automatic installation is essentially formed of an installation 100 for equipping the socket, formed of workstations disposed about a rotary bed-plate and an installation 200 for the automatic assembly of the bracket on the socket formed of work stations disposed in a reference plane P--P. These two installations 100 and 200 are associated together via an automatic transfer mechanism 30.The invention makes possible the equipping and assembling of socket-brackets, completely automatically, all the operations following each other in a continuous flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: M. J. Kautt
  • Patent number: 5069739
    Abstract: An automatic machine for fitting seals, especially window or glazing unit seals, comprises a window frame feed, referencing and measuring mechanism, a support gantry, a system for paying out the seal and a seal fitting and cutting device. The seal fitting and cutting device comprises a frame, a gantry movable in translation on the frame and a carriage movable in translation on the gantry. A vertical shaft on the carriage is rotatable relative to the carriage. A manipulator head carried by this shaft carries a seal guide system, a seal cutting system and a seal fitting systems. A support plate is rotatable about a horizontal axis relative to the shaft and carries two units in turn carrying the seal guide, cutting and fitting systems. These two units are movable up and down in translation relative to the support plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Jean-Jacques Kautt
  • Patent number: 5022143
    Abstract: The invention concerns an installation for finishing window frame assemblies starting from a bare opening frame and a bare fixed frame, each frame comprising grooves and shoulders to receive hardware, external seals, glazing unit spacers, glazing units, beading seals and beading. The installation is formed of two continuous lines of modular stations arranged in two parallel reference planes, the first comprising fixed frame finishing stations and the second comprising opening frame finishing stations. The opening frame finishing line is connected at its downstream end to the fixed frame finishing line by means of a storage and transfer station facing a station for assembling opening frames to fixed frames, itself located in the reference plane, together with the glazing unit fitting and fixing station and the beading fitting station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Jean-Jacques Kautt
  • Patent number: 4996794
    Abstract: Articulation fittings for window casings which partially covers the dormant casing and openings according to Italian art include lower compass arms and upper articulation members which cause the top rail of the window casing to project from the dormant casing during window opening movement. To detach immediately the top rail of the window casing from the dormant casing and thus avoid a premature wear and tear of the sealing joints adhering to the window casing, the articulation fittings are provided with means, which at the very beginning of the opening movement, cause the window casing to follow a path having a vertical component while causing the top rail of the window casing to follow a path having a horizontal component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment S.A.R.L.
    Inventor: Vigreux Daniel
  • Patent number: 4989428
    Abstract: A locking device such as a lock, espagnolette, espagnolette-lock and the like comprises a headpiece having an inner face onto which is inserted at least one casing comprising two parallel walls. The assembling between the headpiece and the casing or casings is obtained by means of riders in the form of profile lengths with a "U"-shaped cross-section comprised of two parallel wings and a transversal wall made integral with the inner face of said headpiece, both parallel wings of the riders forming means for seizing each of the parallel walls of the casing or casings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventor: Gerard Prevot
  • Patent number: 4980946
    Abstract: Jointed fitting for a swing door, window or the like, designed in metal or plastic material and the movable frame whereof is partially overlapping the fixed frame, consisting of an angular support and of a compass bearing. The latter are embodied in a symmetric manner in relation to a median horizontal plane, allowing for their reversibility in view of being used either right or left of the movable frame, with this angular support and this compass bearing comprising, furthermore, means designed for fillister and applied fastening to the fixed frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventors: Andre Verasani, Daniel Vigreux
  • Patent number: 4964660
    Abstract: A device for improving the safety and air tightness of doors, casement windows, or the like and is applicable to casement locks, casement bolts, multi-bolt locks, or the like. The device comprises in combination a dead bolt and a mechanism for positioning and urging the leaf of the door, window or the like against its dormant frame. The positioning mechanism and the dead bolt are actuated sequentially by a control member such as a control rod cooperating with the control mechanism of the casement bolt, casement lock, multi-bolt lock or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Ferco International Usine de Ferrures de Batiment
    Inventors: M. Gerard Prevot, M. Laurent Aumercier, M. Philippe Simoncelli