Quality guidelines
The Quality Assurance Association Locks and Hardware (Gütegemeinschaft Schlösser und Beschläge e. V.) publishes guidelines that provide assistance in the use of locks and hardware for windows, French doors, as well as doors. These guidelines are drawn up together with the Association of German Lock and Fittings Manufacturers (Fachverband Schloss- und Beschlagindustrie), as well as the Testing Institute Locks and Hardware Velbert, and, if necessary, coordinated with the technical committee of the Association of Windows + Facades (Verband Fenster + Fassade) and other testing institutes. In this way, the experience and test results of several decades are incorporated into the development process.
Testing
The Testing Institute Locks and Hardware Velbert, which belongs to the Quality Assurance Association Locks and Hardware (Gütegemeinschaft Schlösser und Beschläge e. V.), tests according to all guidelines. The test orders are available on request from PIV at info@piv-velbert.de.
The use of these guidelines is free of charge, but changes of any kind to the content are not permitted!
Disclaimer
The Quality Assurance Association Locks and Hardware (Gütegemeinschaft Schlösser und Beschläge e. V.) establishes guidelines and publishes technical information. The guidelines and technical notes are carefully prepared in the committees of the Quality Assurance Association Locks and Hardware and agreed with the associations or institutions involved before publication and published in the professional world for comment. Existing comments will be discussed and taken into account if necessary.
Nevertheless, the following legal restriction applies:
The Quality Assurance Association Locks and Hardware (Gütegemeinschaft Schlösser und Beschläge e. V.) is not liable for any damage arising from the use of the recommendations contained in this guideline. It is possible that individual types of technical implementation of the recommendations are protected by industrial property rights (patents, utility models). The Quality Assurance Association Locks and Hardware does not consider it its task to examine every possible type of technical implementation of the recommendations with regard to the existence of any industrial property rights and their validity. Likewise, the Quality Assurance Association Locks and Hardware does not see any reason to limit its recommendations to such designs which are in any case free of third-party rights. For this reason, the Quality Assurance Association Locks and Hardware does not guarantee that every type of technical implementation of the recommendations is free from third-party rights. The users of the recommendations are rather obliged to check the legal situation in each individual case and to ensure that the chosen type of technical implementation does not infringe the rights of third parties, in particular industrial property rights such as patents or utility models.
