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US4649685A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• JOSEF GARTNER GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Walter Wolf · Backnang, DE
• Harald Schulz · Kammeltal, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 4, 1984
• Grant date: Mar 17, 1987
• Expiry date: Jun 4, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E06B2003/6638
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A spacer for use in connecting the edges of panes of insulating glass, panel walls or the like is coextruded in form of a box-like body together with sealing lips and sealing strips. Its body is preferably composed of a polypropylene filled with glass fibre or mineral powder; its sealing lips of an elastomer and its sealing strips, which effect the adhesion and sealing of the panes or panel walls, preferably of a butyl rubber. The surface portion of its body which is exposed in the application thereof is provided with a vapor sealant such as, for example, a PVDC coating or an adhered metal foil to preclude the occurrence of condensation of water between the panes, wall panels or the like which it serves to space.