Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F15/00—Flooring
  • E04F15/02—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements
  • E04F15/02005—Construction of joints, e.g. dividing strips
  • E04F15/02033—Joints with beveled or recessed upper edges
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F15/00—Flooring
  • E04F15/02—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements
  • E04F15/04—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements only of wood or with a top layer of wood, e.g. with wooden or metal connecting members
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F15/00—Flooring
  • E04F15/16—Flooring, e.g. parquet on flexible web, laid as flexible webs; Webs specially adapted for use as flooring; Parquet on flexible web
  • E04F15/166—Flooring consisting of a number of elements carried by a common flexible web, e.g. rollable parquet
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F15/00—Flooring
  • E04F15/18—Separately-laid insulating layers; Other additional insulating measures; Floating floors
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F15/00—Flooring
  • E04F15/18—Separately-laid insulating layers; Other additional insulating measures; Floating floors
  • E04F15/182—Underlayers coated with adhesive or mortar to receive the flooring
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F2201/00—Joining sheets or plates or panels
  • E04F2201/01—Joining sheets, plates or panels with edges in abutting relationship
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F2201/00—Joining sheets or plates or panels
  • E04F2201/07—Joining sheets or plates or panels with connections using a special adhesive material

Definitions

• the invention relates to a lining material for covering floors, walls, ceilings and columns consisting of a top layer of small boards and a bottom layer.
• a parqueting element in which parquet strips are adhered to a very thin and open fabric.
• the fabric serves to keep the parqu strips together in order to facilitate glueing the same to a subfloor; the fabric however is too thin to serve as a bottom layer.
• a floor coveri is known in which boards of wood are fixed to a bottom layer of fabric and veneer which floor covering therefore is too stiff and expensive in manufacture and has to be adhered inte ⁇ grally to the subfloor for preventing bulging by moisture.
• Othe known floor coverings and wall linings of wood have the drawbac of too thick a structure in general. In flooring problems are caused thereby with respect to the height of threshold and ad ⁇ joining floors of a different type. In case of walls fastening requires laths causing so high a total thickness that additiona provisions have to be made at doors and window frames.
• the invention aims to provide a new type of floor cover ⁇ ing and wall and ceiling lining of wood not presenting the above drawbacks.
• V ° consists of a bottom layer of flexible non-woven one side of which is provided with a contact adhesive, the adhesive on one side being free of tackiness, and adhered thereto small boards which are provided also with a similar adhe ⁇ sive.
• the bottom layer may be stored in wound up condition for years as well as the small boards which may be stored in stacks.
• An advantage of the bottom layer acting as an independent support is that this bottom layer may be wound off onto the floor or may be fastened to a wall and the small boards may be pressed onto the same without the use of an adhesive, heat, hammer or other means at any desired time.
• the non-woven bottom layer does not have to be adhered to the sub-floor but may be kept unfastened.
• the bottom layer may accommodate deformations or dimen ⁇ sional changes of the small boards without detachment of the boards.
• the small boards to be affixed to the bottom layer have relatively high moisture content.
• the small boards are provided round about with a bevelled edge.
• the small boards may be polished and coated with a finishing layer in advance. In prefabricating panels by affixing the boards to the bottom layer polishing and finishing may also be performed after joining both layers together.
• the non-wo ⁇ ven bottom layer is provided with a modified natural latex without a curing agent forming a strong adhesive bond to the bottom layer and the small boards are provided with an adhesive of the same type forming a weaker adhesive bond, however, to the wood.
• damaged boards may be removed and substituted easily by new ones
• the small boards and the bottom layer are already joined together in the factory.
• the small boards may be arranged in patterns or an "endless" belt of the small boards in the same direction may be produced which, on the conveyor belt and in fact along the contour of the top layer, are cut to panels having a width of two, three small boards or more, thus present panels that may be laid onto the subfloor in a loose manner like carpet tiles or may be glued to the wall or ceiling without requiring laths underneath.
• the bottom layer On the side not provided with contact adhesive the bottom layer may be provided with a backing, like bitumen, an anti-skid layer, e.g. honeycomb rubber, or a sound proof ⁇ ing or resilient layer, respectively, e.g. polyurethane foam.
• the contact adhesive is then applied to the bottom layer such that it has an embossed surface. The adhesion is thus improved upon pressing the small boards onto the bottom layer.
• An interesting embodiment consists of a square panel having a width of for example six strips in case the length of the strips is six times the width thereof which panel may be cut into two or three identical portions by the user himself with the aid of a Stanley knife for example. When using this panel only one may already form at least twelve different patterns.
• Fig.l is a plan view of an element of the lining material according to the invention.
• Fig.2 is a front elevation of this element;
• Figs. 3 to 5 inclusive, show three patterns which may be formed by means of these elements;
• OMPI Fig.6 is a plan view of the bottom layer onto which a small board is applied;
• Fig.7 is front elevation of this small board; and Fig.8 is a cross section of the bottom layer.
• the lining material consists of a top layer of small boards 1 adhered to a non-woven bottom layer 2.
• the small boards are provided round about with a bevelled edge at the top thereof and may be of a different shape and of different dimensions.
• the embodiments shown by way of example use small boards the length of which if four times the width thereof. By arranging four of these small boards side by side the producer then manufactures square panels (Fig.l) which may be laid as tiles by the user (Fig.3) or by means of which different patterns may be formed after separation (Figs. 4 and 5) .
• the bottom layer consists of a sheeting of non-woven polyester the top side of which is provided with a layer of latex 4 having an embossed surface.
• the small boards which may have a thickness of 3-6 mm for in ⁇ stance are likewise provided with a layer of latex 5 at the bottom thereof.
• the bottom layer may be glued thereto whereupon the same method may be practised as described above for laying a parquet floor.

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• 1984
  • 1984-02-20 DE DE8490040U patent/DE8490040U1/de not_active Expired
  • 1984-02-20 WO PCT/NL1984/000006 patent/WO1984003322A1/en active IP Right Grant
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