Patent attributes
The invention concerns a rail system for mounting facing elements on a facade, wherein the rail system includes an elongated rail with a longitudinal direction, the rail including means for direct or indirect mounting on a façade, the rail further including means for fixing facing elements to the rail, and wherein the rail system further includes at least one fixing unit for each facing element, the means for direct or indirect mounting on a facade being constituted by at least one flange member, and wherein the means for fixing facing elements to the rail includes a body part with a contact face for a back side of a facing element. The new feature of a rail system according to the invention is that the body part includes at least a first set of fixing means and at least a second set of fixing means, each set of fixing means being adapted to an individual type of fixing units. In a rail according to the invention there is thus provided at last two different types of fixing means.
