Interlocking door frame and wall panels for modular building units

摘要

Disclosed is a system of interlocking door frame and wall panels for modular building units. Both the door frame panel and the wall panels are provided for easy installation into the skeletal frame of the modular building unit, and are provided with mating male and female connecting edges on opposite sides of each panel. This allows the door frame panel to mate with an adjacent wall panel in the same manner in which adjacent wall panels mate with one another, ensuring a clean, finished appearance for the connecting edges, a strong, reinforced frame having long durability, and a connection having the same physical, structural integrity as the connections between adjacent wall panel units. The door frame panel itself is particularly configured to receive a traditional, commercially available steel door frame and door assembly, but allows fitment of such commercially available steel door frame and door assembly without cutting a wall panel to receive that frame.

主权项

1. An interlocking door frame panel and wall panel system for modular building units, comprising:
a plurality of wall panels of identical construction, each said wall panel further comprising:
an external sheet and an internal sheet;a vertical tongue extending along a first vertical edge of said wall panel and formed by a first edge of each of said external sheet and said internal sheet, said vertical tongue further comprising a first inwardly bent leg bending toward an interior of said wall panel at a first side edge of the external sheet and an external side tongue wall extending outward from an end of said leg, and a second inwardly bent leg bending toward an interior of said wall panel at a first side edge of the internal sheet and an internal side tongue wall extending outward from an end of said second leg;a vertical groove extending along a second vertical edge of said wall panel and formed by a second edge of each of said external sheet and said internal sheet, wherein said vertical groove of a first one of the wall panels is configured to mate with said vertical tongue of an adjacent one of the wall panels to form a connected edge in which said external sheets of adjacent wall panels are in contact and coplanar with one another, and said internal sheets of adjacent wall panels are in contact and coplanar with one another; and at least one door panel comprising:
a first vertical door panel frame member forming a vertical tongue extending along a first vertical edge of said door panel, said first vertical door panel frame member being configured to mate with a vertical groove of a second adjacent one of the wall panels to form a connected edge in which said external sheet of said second adjacent one of the wall panels is in contact and coplanar with an external side of said first vertical door panel frame member, and said internal sheet of said second adjacent one of the wall panels is in contact and coplanar with an internal side of said first vertical door panel frame member, wherein said first vertical door panel frame member further comprises an external face, an internal face, and a vertical interior wall extending between and perpendicular to said external face and said internal face of said first vertical door panel frame member; anda second vertical door panel frame member forming a vertical groove extending along a second vertical edge of said door panel, said second vertical door panel frame member being configured to mate with a vertical tongue of a third adjacent one of the wall panels to form a connected edge in which said external sheet of said third adjacent one of the wall panels is in contact and coplanar with an external side of said second vertical door panel frame member, and said internal sheet of said third adjacent one of the wall panels is in contact and coplanar with an internal side of said second vertical door panel frame member, wherein said second vertical door frame member further comprises an external face, an internal face, and a vertical interior wall extending between and perpendicular to said external face and said internal face of said second vertical door panel frame member.