CA2097036C - Concrete or ceramics elements - Google Patents

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CA2097036C
CA2097036C CA002097036A CA2097036A CA2097036C CA 2097036 C CA2097036 C CA 2097036C CA 002097036 A CA002097036 A CA 002097036A CA 2097036 A CA2097036 A CA 2097036A CA 2097036 C CA2097036 C CA 2097036C
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04BUILDING
    • E04FFINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
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    • E04F13/07Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor
    • E04F13/08Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor composed of a plurality of similar covering or lining elements
    • E04F13/14Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor composed of a plurality of similar covering or lining elements stone or stone-like materials, e.g. ceramics concrete; of glass or with an outer layer of stone or stone-like materials or glass
    • E04F13/142Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor composed of a plurality of similar covering or lining elements stone or stone-like materials, e.g. ceramics concrete; of glass or with an outer layer of stone or stone-like materials or glass with an outer layer of ceramics or clays
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44CPRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
    • B44C3/00Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing ornamental structures
    • B44C3/12Uniting ornamental elements to structures, e.g. mosaic plates
    • B44C3/123Mosaic constructs
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01CCONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
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    • E01C5/04Pavings made of prefabricated single units made of bricks
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01CCONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C5/00Pavings made of prefabricated single units
    • E01C5/06Pavings made of prefabricated single units made of units with cement or like binders
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04BUILDING
    • E04FFINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F13/00Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings
    • E04F13/07Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor
    • E04F13/08Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor composed of a plurality of similar covering or lining elements
    • E04F13/14Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor composed of a plurality of similar covering or lining elements stone or stone-like materials, e.g. ceramics concrete; of glass or with an outer layer of stone or stone-like materials or glass
    • E04F13/141Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor composed of a plurality of similar covering or lining elements stone or stone-like materials, e.g. ceramics concrete; of glass or with an outer layer of stone or stone-like materials or glass with an outer layer of concrete
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04BUILDING
    • E04FFINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F15/00Flooring
    • E04F15/02Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04BUILDING
    • E04FFINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F15/00Flooring
    • E04F15/02Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements
    • E04F15/08Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements only of stone or stone-like material, e.g. ceramics, concrete; of glass or with a top layer of stone or stone-like material, e.g. ceramics, concrete or glass
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01CCONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C2201/00Paving elements
    • E01C2201/02Paving elements having fixed spacing features
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01CCONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C2201/00Paving elements
    • E01C2201/06Sets of paving elements
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01CCONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C2201/00Paving elements
    • E01C2201/18Elements representing text
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
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Abstract

All elements are designed in a modular manner on the base of a unitary length. They include elements comprising more than one square having side lengths a and a camfered edge b at an angle of 45°. Said elements, which can be produced in the form of paving stones, or thin ceramics tiles, or trough stones and can be laid out to create floor or wall coverings, allow to lay out all letters, numbers or common symbols, as well as a great variety of other figures, and to provide them with straight-lined borderings without the need of brewing, grinding or otherwise altering a single element. It is understood that said elements can be differently colored in order to emphasize them.

Description

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CONCRETE OR CERAMICS ELEMENTS
The present invention refers to concrete or ceramics elements, in particular far the creation of floor or wall coverings, said elernents being in the form of paving stones, ceramics tiles or trough stones. A multitude of paving stones, on one hand, and of ceramics tiles, on the other hand, are known which comprise decorative elements or are shaped in such a manner, respectively, that certain motifs are formed when they are laid out. Generally, however, unless the smallest of mosaic stones are used, these elements are too limited in their applications to allow the formation of any figures at random, includ-ing e.g. all letters, numbers or known symbols. EP-A-415,093 discloses a pentagonal stone which allows to lay out some motifs while a great number of figures, numbers or symbols cannot be produced, much less without cutting part of the stones.
By contrast, it is the object of the present in-vention to provide a relatively small number of ele-ments allowing a far greater variety of layout pat-terns without the need of cutting or adapting the stones or tiles, and also allowing the simultaneous use of other stones of simpler shapes, such as square, rectangular or hexagonal elements. This is particu-larly advantageous also in the case where said ele-ments are in the form of through stones. This object . is attained by concrete or ceramics elements wherein all of said elements are designed in a modular manner on the basis of a unitary length, and wherein a first element is provided which merely comprises three squa-res having said modular side length and forming an (DM/as 19.05.93) 200'~0~0 angle, all of said squares adjoining along the entire length of one of their sides, and the corner square being cut off along its diagonal.
The invention is explained in more detaLl herein after with reference to a drawing of embodiments, wherein Figs. 1 - 23 show twenty-three different ele-ments;
Fig. 24 shows an example of a layout using .most 1D of the elements;
Figs. 25 - 32 show further layout examples of the elements;
Fig. 33 shows element 1 in the form of a paving stone;
Fig. 34 shows a cross-section of the stone of Fig. 33; and Figs. 35 and 36 show elements 1 and 5 in the form of trough stones.
In Figs. 1-5, three elements are illustrated which already allow to lay out a multitude of shapes and which, together with the elements according to Figs. 20 or 21 and 23, allow to assemble all letters, capitals or lower-case, numbers, and current symbols and to produce a straight-lined bordering without the need of altering a single element. Fig.~1 shows a first element 1 which is composed of three squares having side lengths ~. arranged to form an angle, the edge along the diagonal of the center square being cut off and this side b_ having a length of ~a~. Figs. 2 and 3 show a second element 2 which is based on that of Fig. 1, an additional edge along a diagonal of an-(DM/as 19.05.93?

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other square being camfered to give a side 3 whose length b is _a~" as well. The element of Fig. 3 is the same as in Fig. 2, only in a mirror-image representa-tion. Figs. 4 and 5 show a third element 4 which, also based on element 1 in Fig. 1, comprises a half-square with side lengths a which is added on one side, so that the overall length amounts to 3a and the over-all height to Za. Element 4 thus consists of an equi-lateral trapezoid with a base length 3a, the length of the smaller parallel side being a, and an adjoining square with side lengths a on one side.
Elements 1, 2, and 4 may be assembled in dif-ferent combinations, e.g. also with themselves, and it appears in Figs. 24 - 32 that they are also combinable with other elements and in every case can be laid out with straight-Tined borderings by means of simple,ge-ometrical elements such as rectangles, squares or half-squares with side lengths, _a, 2a or 3a_, of course.
Fig. 6 shows a fourth element 5 which consists of the first element 1 with three adjoining squares which are added to those sides which are not adjacent cam-fered side b. The sixth element 7 according to Fig. 7 corresponds to element 1 with an additional fifth ele-ment 6 according to Fig. 20 or 21, while the seventh element 8 according to Fig. 8 corresponds to element 7 of Fig. 7 with two added squares. Figs. 9, 10, and 11 show further elements 25, 26, and 27 which include element 1, element 25 being derived from element 1 with three added squares with side lengths a, element 26 being derived from element 4 with three added squa-(DM/as 19.05.93) 2~~~r~~~
res having side lengths a, and element 27 being com-posed of two elements 4.
Element 28 of Fig. 12 is an additional element farmed of two rhombic elements with sides a_ and b_, and element 29 of Fig. 13 is a filler element composed of two mirror-symmetric house-shaped parts with sides a and b.
Fig. 14 shows a square with side lengths 2a., and Fig. 15 shows a rectangle 10 with side lengths a ~ 2a, the eighth element 11 of Fig. 16 corresponding to square 9 of Fig. 14 less half a square with side lengths a, while the isosceles triangle 12 of Fig. 17 corresponds to the half of square 9 of Fig. 14 and the isosceles triangle 13 corresponds to a quarter of the square of Fig. 14. Square 14 of Fig. 19 has a side length b = ate, while square 15 of Fig..22 has a side length a and the isosceles triangle 16 in Fig. 23 cor-responds to half of the square of Fig. 22. The fifth element 6 corresponds to square 15 with side lengths a plus half of square 16 according to Fig. 23.
Fig. 24 shows how it is theoretically possible to combine all the shown elements.
Figs. 25 to 32 further illustrate that the first eight elements, as well as the simple geometrical forms, all based on module a, already allow to assem-ble a great variety of forms and figures and that a straight-lined bordering, even with inclined sides as in F'ig. 25, can be obtained in every case.
(DM/as 19.05.93) In Figs. 29 - 31, a selection of a letter, a num-ber and a symbol is illustrated in order to indicate that all capital and lower case letters, all numbers and all common symbols can be assembled and highlight-s ed with the described elements, and that a straight-lined bordering can be obtained without the need of altering, i.e. cutting, reducing or otherwise adapting any of the elements. Fig. 32 illustrates how an en-tire line of writing can be inlaid with these elements and how a random pattern can be produced and assembled with a straight-lined bordering. It is understood that the elements can be differently colored for a better emphasis of figures.
The elements of Figs. 1 - 32 are represented in a planar manner, i.e. without the third dimension, and it is evident to those skilled in the art that said elements may be in the form of slabs, paving stones, or thin ceramics tiles, which are suitable for paved or ceramics floors or as wall coverings. Of course, it is also possible to produce said elements or certain elements among them in such a thickness as to be suitable as elements for stairs or palisades.
Furthermore, by way of examples, Figs. 35 and 36 show that elements 5 and 1 can be designed as trough stones 21 and 22, respectively. It is understood that all other elements can be formed as trough stones as well. These trough stones can be arranged in groups and may also be completed by other elements as pre-viously described. Bottoms 23 resp. 34 may be manu-factured in one piece with the trough bodies or as separate parts.
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Figs. 33 and 34 show the use of first element 1, for example, as a paving stone 18 whose side surfaces 19 are provided with spacing joggles 20 which do not extend over their entire height. Said spacing joggles are arranged on each side in such a manner that the adjoining stones will interlock and that a small joint width is obtained whereby the walking comfort is im-proved.
(DM/as 19.05.93)

Claims (6)

1. A set of concrete or ceramic elements having surfaces for the creation of at least one of letters, numbers, symbols, and straight borders in floor or wall coverings, wherein each element of said set is designed in a modular manner on the basis of a unitary length a, and wherein said set of elements includes a first element having a surface consisting of two squares and a corner triangle located between said two squares, each of said squares having sides of said unitary length a, said squares adjoining along the entire length of at least one of their sides, and said triangle having a hypotenuse of length b = a~.
2. The set of elements of claim 1, wherein said elements comprise paving stones having sides extending perpendicular to said surfaces of said set of elements and further comprising spacing joggles provided on said perpendicular sides of said paving stones under said surfaces such that adjoining paving stones will interlock.
3. The set of elements of claim 1, in wherein said elements comprise trough stones having sides extending perpendicular to said surfaces of said set of elements, wherein said surfaces of said elements define the bottoms of said trough stones, and wherein the bottoms of said elements are manufactured in one piece with the sides of the trough stones.
4. The set of elements of claim 1, wherein said set of elements further includes at least one of the following elements: a square element having sides of said unitary length a; a square element having sides of length 2a, equal to twice said unitary length a; a square element having sides of said length b, equal to a~; a rectangle element having a length 2a and a width a; a right triangle element having sides of length 2a and a hypotenuse of length 2b; a right triangle element having sides of length b and a hypotenuse of length 2a; and a right triangle element having sides of length a and a hypotenuse of length b.
5. The set of elements of claim 1, wherein said set of elements further includes a polygonal element consisting of two adjoining squares having sides of said unitary length a, wherein one of said squares is bisected along a diagonal to form a right triangle having a hypotenuse of length b=a~.
6. The set of elements of claim 1, in wherein said elements comprise trough stones having sides extending perpendicular to said surfaces of said set of elements, wherein said surfaces of said elements define the bottoms of said trough stones, and wherein the bottoms of said elements are manufactured as separate parts.
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DE90810936T DE59004830D1 (en) 1990-11-30 1990-11-30 Elements made of concrete or ceramic.
DK90810936.6T DK0487807T3 (en) 1990-11-30 1990-11-30 Elements of concrete or ceramic
AT90810936T ATE102282T1 (en) 1990-11-30 1990-11-30 ELEMENTS MADE OF CONCRETE OR CERAMIC.
EP90810936A EP0487807B1 (en) 1990-11-30 1990-11-30 Concrete or ceramic elements
HU913732A HU215351B (en) 1990-11-30 1991-11-29 Units from concrete or ceramic material
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