CA1207121A - Composite surface flooring panel - Google Patents

Composite surface flooring panel

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CA1207121A
CA1207121A CA000455765A CA455765A CA1207121A CA 1207121 A CA1207121 A CA 1207121A CA 000455765 A CA000455765 A CA 000455765A CA 455765 A CA455765 A CA 455765A CA 1207121 A CA1207121 A CA 1207121A
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Kunio Isamatsu
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Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

A composite surface flooring panel comprises a surface board material and an elastic ribbing bonded to the lower surface of the surface board material.
The ribbing is in the form of a corrugated plate with a cross-sectional profile constituted by alternating upright and inverted trapezoidal wave forms compris-ing horizontal upper flat ridges and lower flat ridges disposed in alternate disposition respectively on upper and lower sides of the ribbing and integrally joined by webs alternately inclined in opposite directions.
The upper flat ridges are bonded to the lower surface of the surface board material, and the lower flat ridges are bondable to a base floor.

Description

COMPOSITE SURFACE FLOORING PANEL

This invention relates generally to flooring materials for architectural structures and more par-ticularly to a surface flooring material of compositepanel form to be laid especially on concrete base floors, which material can be laid directly on the rough surface of concrete slabs to form an excellent floor surface, and which material absorbs sound, has a high soundproofing effect, has an excellent tread feel for people walking thereon, is readily installed, and provides safe floors on concrete base in places such as gymnasiums where ~igorous physical. acti~i-ties, sometimes accompanied by falling and tumbling of participants, are conducted.
Concrete is the building material of choice in many structures requiring strength and is indispens-able in the construction of medium to large buildings because of its strength, particularly when used in con-junction with steel materials, durability, availabilityand low price, fireproofness and heat resistance, facility in use, and many other desirable character-istics. On the other hand, concrete buildings re~uire surface finishing particularly on their interior sur-faces and more particularly on the upper surfaces oftheir floors, which cannot be economically finished with concrete forms as in the case of wall and ceiling . ..
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In many instances concrete floors are surface finished directly with various cement mortars and mixtures such as terrazzo. Such floors are hard and unyielding. Some floors are covered with synthe-tic resin tiles and ceramic tiles, but these ordinarily require leveling of the rough concrete with mortar.
Another important class of building materials in the architectural and building construction field is that of composite boards and panels of various types, which have and are being widely used~ The most common among the known panel products are those comprising, in composite form, upper and lower sheathing sheets or boards in mutually spaced-apart relation and a sound-absorbing material such as glass wool or-roc~
wool packed therebetween with the object of obt~; ni ng sound-absorbing and soundproofing effect.
When a conventional panel material of this type ~0 is used as a flooring mat~rial, the panel material it-self has insufficient sound-absorbin~ and soundproofing effect and, moreover, does not have a cushioning property. For these reasons, the tread feel of the resulting fIoor is poor, and the panel material exhibits practically no effectiveness in reducing the trans-mission to the floor below reverberation of noise and vibration caused by dropped or overturned objects, 7~2~

jumping and running of people, yelling and scream-ing of small children, and other causes.
Particularly when such a panel material is used as a flooring material for a concrete floor, joists or sleepers are ordinarily first laid over the concrete floor~ and then the panel material are laid thereon and secured thereto by nailing. This prac-tice is not only entails high installation cost but also reduces the room space since the final floor level is raised considerably above the concrete floor level. Direct laying of conventional panel material on a concrete floor surface is accompanied by the difficulty of direct bonding with an adhesive due to some unevenness of the rough concrete surface.
In view of the problems as described above in the prior art, it is an object of this invention to provide a composite flooring panel material which can be laid directly on a concrete base floor to form a floor surface structure having the desirable character-istics of excellent tread feel, high sound-absorbing and soundproofing effectiveness, ease of installation, and safety with respect to falls, these character-istics being afforded without considerable raising of the finished 100r level.
According to this invention, briefly summarized, there is provided a composite surface flooring panel comprising a surface board material and an elastic lZ07~

ribbing bonded to the lower surface of the surface board material and being in the form of a corrugated plate with a cross-sectional profile consti-tuted by alternating upright and inverted trapezoidal wave forms comprising horizontal upper flat ridges and lower flat ridges disposed in alternate disposition respectively on upper and lower sides of the ribbing and integrally joined by we~s alternately inclined in opposite directions, the upper flat ridges being bond-ed to the lower surface of the surface board material, the lower flat ridges being bondable to a base floor.
Further features of this invention wilI become rnore apparent from the following description made in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in whicn:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one example of a composite surrace flooring panel according to this invention;
FIG. 2 is a vertical section taken along the plane indicated by line II-II in FIG. l;
FIG. 3 is a relatively enlarged, fragmentary per-spective view of the elastic ribbing used in the panel shown in FIGS. 1 and 2;
FIG. 4 is a vertical secti~n similar to FIG. 2 show-ing the panel in installed state wherein it has been bond-ed to a concrete base floor;
FIG.5 is a fragmentary perspective view showing another embodiment of the invention in which another ~:~0~L21 elastic ribbing is bonded to the lower surface of the first elastic ribbing; and FIG. 6 iS a view similar to FIG. 4 but showing a further embodiment in which another ribbing is bonded to the lower surface of the first elastic ribbing.
The surface flooring panel 1 for concrete base floors (hereinafter referred to simply as "panel") according to this invention in one example thereof as illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 comprises a surface board material 2, which in this example is a three-ply composite board, and an elastic ribbing 3 bonded to the lower surface of the composite board 2.
A natural wood plywood can be used for the sur-face board 2 and can be produced, for example, in the form of standardized square pieces each measuring 300 mm on one side. The surface board 2 may aLso be made of synthetic resin or metal with or without surface printed patterns. In the example illustrated, the edges of two adjacent sides of each square piece are provided with outward projections or tongues 4 extend-ing along almost the entire lengths of the edges. The edges of the other two adjacent sides of the square piece are provided with inwardly recessed grooves 5, each of which is designated to accommodate a tongue 4 of an adjacent square panel 1 fitted snugly thereinto in tongue-and-groove joint relation.
The upper surface of the surface board material 2 directly constituting the floor surface is formed by a decorative facing 6, which in the illustrated example has a wood-grain pattern. In -the case where wall-to-wall carpeting is to be laid over the floor, the upper surface of each panel is left as it is without a decorative pattern.
The above mentioned elastic ribbing 3 is made of a resilient material, with or without reinforcement such as fabric, which can be bonded with adhesives such as a natural rubber, a synthetic rubber, or some other elastomer. As shown in FIG. 3, which is a pers-pective view of a fragment of the ribbing 3, the ribb-ing is of corrugated plate form with a cross-sectional profile constituted by alternating upright and invert-ed trapezoidal wave ~orms resembling Acme screw threads.Accordingly the ribbing 3 has, in alternate disposition on opposite sides thereof, upper flat ridges 8, 8, ...
to be bonded to the lower surface of the surface board material 2 and lower flat ridges 9, 9, ... to be bonded to a base concrete floor sur~ace, the upper and lower flat ridges being joined by webs 10, 10, .... alternate-ly inclined in opposite directions.
The webs 10, 10, ... are made somewhat thicker than the parts of the ribbing 3 of the upper and lower flat ridges 8, 8, .OO and 9, 9, .... Both faces of all webs 10, 10, ... and the faces o~ the ribbing 3 on the inside of the upper and lower flat ridges, that is, the
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upper and lower surfaces of the ribbing except the outer fLat faces of the flat ridges, are preferably covered with a nap or pile of fibers 11 implanted electrostatically in the surfaces as densely as possible. The length of the exposed parts o~
these fibers 11 is of the order of 1 to 3 millimeters. By implan~ing these fibers 11 in this mAnn~r~ -the sound absor~ing and insulating effect is increased and the propagation of vibration and noise to the floor below is effectively prevented.
As the Eibers 11, natural fibers such as wool, silk or cotton, synthetic fibers such as fibers of nylQn, vinylon or Tetoron (Trademark of Torai Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan) or acrylic synthetic fibers, or semi-synthetic fibers such as viscose rayon or acetate rayon can be used.
As shown in FIG. 4, the panels l of the above described construction according to this invention are laid in place on a concrete base floor of a building by bonding with an adhesive the lower flat ridges 9, 9, ... of each panel 1 to the surface of the concrete base floor 7 as the tongues 4 of its surface board material 2 are successively fitted into ~he ~0 grooves 5 of the adjacent panels 1 to assemble the board materials 2, 2, ... in abutting edge-to-edge relation.
As mentioned hereinbefore, unfinished concrete floor surfaces in almost all cases are rough an~ have une~en partsl but, when the panels of this invention are laid directly thereon and bonded thereon, the resulting floor sur~ace is substantially flat and even because of the intrinsically rigid nature of the assembled panel floor due to the tongue-and groove joints and because o_ the deflecti~e yielding of the lower flat ridges 3, 9, ... of the elastic ribbing 3 in .~, cr/~

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direct contact with and bonded to the concrete surface -Lo accommodate the irregularities thereof. Accordingly, -the use oF
an underlying support structure comprising floor joists, sleepers, beams or the like is unnecessary.
By interposing strips of rubber or like material for damping noise and vibration between the outer edges of the panel floor and the respective walls, with or without base-boards, propagation of noise and vibration to the floor below and adjacent rooms can be more effectively prevented.
As a result of the construction Qf the panels 1 and the manner in which they are installed on the base floor, the integral structure constituted by the assembly of the pie~es of the surface board materials 2, 2, ... rests on a layer of air formed by the upper and lower flat ridges 8~ 8, . and 9, 9, ... and the webs 10, 10, ... of the elastic ribbings
3, 3, ..., whereby an excellent cushioning effect is affor~ed, and a shock-absorbing effect is exhibited when persons walk on this floor. Thus the floor has a good tread feel, and impact forces arising from objects dropped on the floor or persons undergoing vigorous actions such as leaping are absorbed and damped by the elastic ribbings 3, 3, ... and the air layer they form, thereby suppressing the propagation of noise and vibration to the floor below. In order to adjust or change the cushioning property of the floor, the width of the upper flat ridges 8 and/or that of the lower flat xidges 9` may be made smaller or greater so that the number of the ridges 8 and/or 9 may be increased or decreased~

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Another advantageous feature of a flooring struct~re made up of the panels 1 according to this invention is that, because of thè interposition of the elastic ribbings 3 with the air layer as described above between the sur-face board material 2 and the concrete L loor, moisture from the concrete floor surface 7 is completely prevented from infiltra.ing upward to the board material 2. Further-more, since the elastic ribbing 3 is made of an elastic ma-terial such as rubber, it is subject to almost no permanent de~ormation with passage of time, whereby the planari~y of - the flat floor surface can be maintained over a long time.
Still ano~her fea~ure of the panel of this invention is that its cons.ruction lends itself readily to standardiza-tion of its dimensions, whereby ~artial replacement or parts at the time o repairs is facilitated.
When it is necessary to increase the cushioning pro-perty OI tne rloor, an assembly thereof wherein two layers of the elastic ribbing 3 are used in superposed arranyement as shown in FIG. 5 can be used. In this case, the direc-tions of the ribs 10, 10 respectively of the two layers of the elastic ribbings 3, 3 may be at right angles to each other or may be parallel to each other. When the direc-tions of the ribs 10 of the upper and lower ribbings 3 are parallel, these ribbings should be so disposed relative to each other as shown in FIG. 6 that the upwardly directed _g_ ~. ~

~37~2~ -furrows of the lower ribbing 3 confront the downwardly directed furrows of the upper ribbing 3, respectively, whereby parallel elongated spaces are formed. Prefera-bly heat insulating material 12 such as glass wool is filled in each elongated space.
Because of the character of the panel according to this invention as described above, a floor can be readily laid directly on a concrete slab floor without the use of underlying material such as joists or leveling mortar, whereby the floor installation work can be carried out rapidly and at low cost.
Furthermore, by filling -the empty spaces formed in the elastic ribbing 3 with a soundproofing and thermally insulating material such as a synthetic resin insulation material, glass wool, or rock wool, the soundproofing, im-pact absorbing, and heat insulating properties of the panel of this invention can be improved even further. This re-sult is also attained when two layers of the elastic rib-bing 3 are used. The filling of the empty spaces of the ribbing 3 with the above mentioned material can be facili-tat~d by cutting the material finely to suit the empty spaces.
Because of the mechanically cushioning characteristic of the panel of this invention, it can be advantageously used for constructing safe and strong floors particularly for places where vigorous activities take place. Examples of such places are gymnasiums and training halls for sports such as judo, aikido, karate, kung-fu, and boxing.

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WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:
1. A composite surface flooring panel comprising a surface board material and an elastic ribbing bond-ed to the lower surface of the surface board material and being in the form of a corrugated plate with a cross-sectional profile constituted by alternating up-right and inverted trapezoidal wave forms comprising horizontal upper flat ridges and lower flat ridges dis-posed in alternate disposition respectively on upper and lower sides of the ribbing and webs alternately inclined in opposite directions and integrally joining the upper and lower flat ridges, the upper flat ridges being bonded to the lower surface of the surface board material, the lower flat ridges being bondable to a base floor.
2. A composite surface flooring panel according to claim 1 in which the surface board material has a rectangular shape in plan view and is provided along two adjacent side edges thereof with projecting tongues and along the other two adjacent side edges thereof with recessed grooves, the tongues and grooves being used for joining the surface flooring panel to adjoin-ing similar panels thereby to form an integral surface floor.
3. A composite surface flooring panel according to claim 1 in which the surfaces of the elastic rib-bing other than the outer surfaces of the upper and lower flat ridges to be bonded to the surface board material and the base floor are covered with a nap or pile of fibers inplanted densely in the surfaces.
4. A composite surface flooring panel according to claim 2 in which the surface board material is a laminated structure constituted by at least three plies of plate materials bonded together to form an integral structure.
5. A composite surface flooring panel according to any of claims 1 through 3 in which a second elastic ribbing similar to the first described elastic rib-bing is bonded onto the lower surface of the first elastic ribbing.
6. A composite surface flooring panel according to any of claims 1 through 3 in which the elastic rib-bing is made of an elastomer such as a natural rubber or a synthetic rubber, with or without reinforcement.
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JPH07107325B2 (en) * 1987-06-20 1995-11-15 株式会社ノダ Soundproof flooring
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