Roller Shutter Guide Rail Integrating Balustrade Anchoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
The integration of a French balcony into modern, energy-efficient buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows poses complex and expensive construction challenges, particularly when navigating through insulation layers and roller shutter systems, which are not always easy to manufacture or install securely.
Innovation Solution
The roller shutter system incorporates a balustrade element into its guide rails, allowing the balustrade to be firmly anchored within the system, ensuring the roller shutter can be operated and lowered completely, while also providing a secure and aesthetically versatile solution by using various materials and designs for the balustrade element.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a French balcony is attached to the building in front of floor-to-ceiling windows, then security against objects or people falling out is improved, but construction complexity and cost increase due to complex anchoring through insulation layers and roller shutter systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the French balcony (balustrade element) with the roller shutter system by integrating the balustrade into the guide rail structure. The guide rail serves dual functions: guiding the roller shutter and anchoring the balustrade element, eliminating the need for separate complex anchoring constructions through insulation layers.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide rail is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it guides the roller shutter during operation and provides structural anchoring for the balustrade element. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components and simplifies the overall construction.
2Reliability
If a French balcony is firmly anchored to the building through insulation layers, then security is improved, but manufacturing and installation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The balustrade element is integrated into the roller shutter system's guide rail, combining security function with an existing structural component. This eliminates the need to manufacture separate anchoring constructions that would need to penetrate insulation layers, significantly simplifying both manufacturing and installation processes.
3Shape
If the guide terminates flush with the building wall or insulating layer, then aesthetic appearance is improved, but installation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The guide rail system is designed to serve multiple purposes: it provides structural support for the balustrade, guides the roller shutter, and when terminated flush with the building wall or insulating layer, creates an aesthetically pleasing appearance. The integrated design manages these multiple requirements without significantly increasing installation complexity.
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AI summary
A roller shutter system comprising at least one roller shutter (16), a guide (26) for laterally guiding the roller shutter (16), and a roller shutter box (28) in which the roller shutter can be wound up. The guide (26) has two pairs of opposing guide rails (52, 54), wherein the roller shutter is guided in a first pair of guide rails (52) for raising and lowering, and a balustrade element (24) is arranged in a second pair of guide rails (54).