CA2070655A1 - Improvement in a system for protecting foundation walls and the like - Google Patents
Improvement in a system for protecting foundation walls and the likeInfo
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- E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
- E02D—FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; EMBANKMENTS; UNDERGROUND OR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES
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Abstract
System for protecting foundation walls and the like, said system comprising at least one main protecting sheet made of an imperforate, relatively thin, stiff material and including protrusions formed therein, for thereby providing air channels, and channels extending vertically between the protrusions for receiving water from back fill when the sheet is erected against a foundation wall and the like. In order to provide a complete coverage of such foundation walls even by varying height thereof, and in a far more efficient manner, the improvement comprises pre-cut top sheet elements and bottom sheet elements adapted to be mounted along a foundation wall prior to the mounting of said main protecting sheet thereupon, so as to achieve full protecting coverage of said foundation wall in a more rapid and time-saving manner on site. The system also allows for pre-cut corner sheet elements adapted to cover the merging portions of an inner corner or an outer corner of a foundation wall and also adapted to be mounted prior to the mounting of the main protecting sheet thereupon. Special elements are suggested for covering the area of outer or inner corners merging with foundation wall footings.
Description
IMPROVEMENT IN A SYSTEM
FOR PR~TECTING FOUNDATION WALLS AND THE LIRE.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The pr~sent invention relates to an improvement in a system for protecting foundation walls and the like, said system comprising at least one main imperforate protecting sheet made of-relatively thin, stiff material and including pro-trusions formed therein, as well as means for ~orming air channels and channels for receiving water from back fill.
PRIOR A~T
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Imperforate protective sheets or membranes or plates, having dimples or studs or other protrusions stamped or otherwise formed therein, have previously been applied to the outside of a foundation wall to create air channels between the web of the sheets and the foundation wall.
Examples of such protective sheets can be found in for example US patent specification 3 888 087 (Bergsland) and CA
20 1 186 470 (Bergsland).
The protective sheet according to US 3 888 087 comprises laterally spaced courses of vertically spaced dimpled protrusions and similarly formed ribs between said courses.
25 According to CA 1 186 470 the spaced protrusions are constituted by knobs having a reversally directed centrally disposed crater-like portion of truncated conical form, and channels extending between each adjacent knob and opening into the recesses thereof.
However, neither of these publications give any hints for proposing a more effective an~ rational manner of mounting such protective membranes or sheets for foundation walls, in which the foundation walls have a varying height, and in which the foundation wall comprises inner and outér corners of varying angles, and in which the foundation wall may ' , ' :' , ;
WO91/107X2 PCTtNO91/00~04 include a footing at the bottom thereof.
Although uS 3 888 087 suggests horizontal bending ribs, these benaing ribs are only contemplated in connection with main protection sheets of standard height, and only inst~ucts the bending thereof over various footings, under an angle ~eing inefficient for intimate contact between the protective sheet and the footing itself.
Further, although US 3 888 087 discloses vertical ribs serving as bending areas and also serving as "levelling"
means, no hint is given therein of bending said sheet around or into corners of a foundation wall.
Still further, no embossed bending area is illustrated in vS
FOR PR~TECTING FOUNDATION WALLS AND THE LIRE.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The pr~sent invention relates to an improvement in a system for protecting foundation walls and the like, said system comprising at least one main imperforate protecting sheet made of-relatively thin, stiff material and including pro-trusions formed therein, as well as means for ~orming air channels and channels for receiving water from back fill.
PRIOR A~T
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Imperforate protective sheets or membranes or plates, having dimples or studs or other protrusions stamped or otherwise formed therein, have previously been applied to the outside of a foundation wall to create air channels between the web of the sheets and the foundation wall.
Examples of such protective sheets can be found in for example US patent specification 3 888 087 (Bergsland) and CA
20 1 186 470 (Bergsland).
The protective sheet according to US 3 888 087 comprises laterally spaced courses of vertically spaced dimpled protrusions and similarly formed ribs between said courses.
25 According to CA 1 186 470 the spaced protrusions are constituted by knobs having a reversally directed centrally disposed crater-like portion of truncated conical form, and channels extending between each adjacent knob and opening into the recesses thereof.
However, neither of these publications give any hints for proposing a more effective an~ rational manner of mounting such protective membranes or sheets for foundation walls, in which the foundation walls have a varying height, and in which the foundation wall comprises inner and outér corners of varying angles, and in which the foundation wall may ' , ' :' , ;
WO91/107X2 PCTtNO91/00~04 include a footing at the bottom thereof.
Although uS 3 888 087 suggests horizontal bending ribs, these benaing ribs are only contemplated in connection with main protection sheets of standard height, and only inst~ucts the bending thereof over various footings, under an angle ~eing inefficient for intimate contact between the protective sheet and the footing itself.
Further, although US 3 888 087 discloses vertical ribs serving as bending areas and also serving as "levelling"
means, no hint is given therein of bending said sheet around or into corners of a foundation wall.
Still further, no embossed bending area is illustrated in vS
3 888 087, which constitutes a substitute for a regular course of protrusions.
Finally, US 3 888 087 does not provide means for facilitat-ing the mounting of standard main sheets which can be interlocked with a pre-installed top sheet element, thereby reducing lahour time and costs involved at the building site in question.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide an improved system for protecting foundation walls and the like, so as to bring forth complete coverage of foundation walls having varying height in a speedy and rational manner.
Another object of the present invention is to provide such a system for protecting foundation walls in which also the footing of the bottom thereof is given full coverage by the protecting sheet elements involved in said system.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a system which gives ample coverage of any foundation wall . . .
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WO91/10782 PCrlNO91/000 also comprising inner and outer corners of varyi~g angles.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide an improved system for protecting foundation walls, including sheet elements being adaptable for bending along the lower part of the foundation wall and any footing thereof, and in intimate contact between the protective sheet and said areas to be covered.
A still further object of the present invention is to provide a system for protecting foundation walls in which the protecting elements involved therein comprise embossed bending areas which substitute one or more regular course of protrusions.
An object of the present invention is also to provide for specific types of top sheet elements and bottom sheet ele-ments as well as corner elements which may be preinst~lled for the main protecting sheet to be mounted thereon, thereby reducing labour time and costs involved in the total build-ing project.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a protective sheet having a specific shape of the protrusions as well as of the channels running therebetween, and to provide a specific method for the manufacturing thereof.
The above objects are achieved in a system, as stated in the preamble, which according to the present invention, is characterized in that the improvement comprises imperforate pre-cut top sheet elements and bottom sheet elements adapted to be mounted along a foundation wall prior to the mounting of said main protecting sheet thereupon, so as to provide for full coverage of said foundation wall.
Prefexably, the top sheet element may take the form of a terminating strip having an upper flat surface portion to be attached to the foundation wall, and a further lower - . .;
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~7~5 resilient strip portion under which a top portion of a main protective sheet may be inserted.
In a preferred embodiment said bottom sheet element is adapted to cover the transition portion between a foundation wall and a merging footing in close association therewith.
Said bottom sheet may then comprise an upper portion adapted to cover the bottom portion of said foundation wall and an angled portion adapted to cover the top surface of said foundation footing, said bottom sheet having a bending area between said upper portion and said angled portion, so as to allow for an angled relationship therebetween adapted to the angle between said foundation bottom portion and said foundation footing top surface.
The improvement also comprises pre-cut corner units adapted to cover the merging portions of an inner corner of a foundation wall, as well as pre-cut corner units adapted to cover the merging portions of an outer corner of a founda-tion wall. Of course, said corner units may also be a combined unit adapted for covering an inner corner or an outer corner of any foundation wall.
The system is especially favourable when using imperforate protective sheets and sheet elements comprising protrusions shaped like truncated hollow pyramids and comprising channels running therebetween having a trapeze-shaped section.
Further advantages and features of the present improved system will appear from the following detailed description of specific non-limiting embodiments taken in conjunction with the appending drawings.
BRIEF DISCLOSURE OF 'l'H~ DRAWIMGS
Fig. 1 is a prespective view of a protective sheet which may .
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Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the sheet o~ Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a transverse section ~hrough the sheet of Fig. 1 and 2.
Fig. 4 is a transverse section through a foundation wall with a footing covered by sheet elements according to the present foundation wall protecting system.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a foundation wall with a footing, in which only a bottom sheet element has been installed.
Fig. 6 i~ a perspective view of a foundation wall with a footing, in which a corner sheet element has been installed in an inner corner of said wall.
Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a foundation wall, in which not only a corner sheet element has been installed in an inner corner of said wall, but in which also an outer corner sheet has been installed on an outer corner thereof.
Fig. 8A and Fig. 8B illustrate combined bottom corner sheet elements for an inner corner and an outer corner, respec-tively, of a foundation wall with footing.
3 0 DETA.ILED DISCLOSURE OF EMBODIMENTS
In Figures 1, 2 and 3 there is shown a protective sheet, which is generally designated by reference numeral 1, and which is manufactured from a relatively stiff imperforate 3~ plastic material, and which before use may be presented in rolled-up form or in sheet form as such. The sheet 1 inclu-des knobs or protrusions 2 protruding from the one surface 1A of said sheet 1, said knobs 2 in this embodiment having WO9l/10782 PCT/~091tO0~04 S
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the shape of a flat pyramid having a ~lat top surface 2A and four sloping walls 2B which at the bottom merges with said one Siae 1A of said sheet 1.
Between each knob 2, there is on the same side 1A of said sheet 1 provided a hollow rib 3, which on the other side 1B
provides an open channel 4. Said channels 4 will, as especially illustrated in Fig. 1, extend between each of the knobs 2 so as to form preferably vertica1ly extending continuous channels when said sheet 1 is erected vertically against a foundation wall to be protected thereby.
However, it is to be understood that the shape of the knobs 2 could be different from what is illustrated in Fig. 1-3, for example as disclosed in CA 1 186 470, namely with knobs having a reversally directed centrally disposed crater-like portion of truncated conical form, but still being interconnected with similar ribs 3 or channels 4, so as to form continuous, preferably vertically extending channels when said sheet 1 is erected against a foundation wall.
However, the shape of the knobs or protrusions 2 of Fig. 1-3, i.e. a truncated or flat hollow pyramid, and the shape of the associated interconnecting channels or ribs, are especially favourable as they render a very good engagement between the various protective sheets and sheet elements in their overlapping zo~es.
Further, the protective sh0et according to Fig. 1-3 could be manufactured by a method involving that an elongated web of preferably thermoplastic material in a heated and soft con-dition is passed along a matrix equipped with studs corre-sponding to the knobs ~nd their relative position. In the area of these knobs the material is stretched between said studs for thereby leaving a larger material thickness at the top of the shaped flat pyramids. Preferably, this stretching may take place by a vacuun. process.
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~ 7 The larger material thickness at the top of the knobs is favourable as regards sturdiness~of the finished sheet, a~d the flat shape of the top of the pyramids constitute a good support when the sheet is used as a protective sheet for foundation walls.
Further, the flat top and comparatively large portion of the pyramids can also be used as attachment points for a filter-ing canvas in case such a filtering canvas is used on that side of the sheet, i.e. the side resting against the wall or surface to be protected or covered. Especially in connection with the cladding damp surfaces, for example in tunnels, in which the walls thereof are expelling water together with small or fine particles which may clog the drainage channels between the knobs. If an i~pro~ed drainage function is to be established also in this case, it would be favourable to attach a canvas filter to said top surfaces of the pyramide-shaped knobs or protrusions.
In Figure 4 there is illustrated a transverse section through a foundation wall 7, comprising a wall portion 7A
and a footing 7B which is protected by means of the protecting system according to the present invention.
Consequently, at the top of the foundation wall 7 there is illustrated a pre-cut top sheet element 8, whereas at the bottom portion of said foundation wall 7, there i5 illu-strated a bottom sheet element 9, said top sheet element 8 and said bottom sheet element 9 being mounted along the foundation wall 7 prior to the mounting of a main protecting sheet 10 for full coverage of the outer surface of said foundation wall 7.
The top sheet element 8 may also be designated a terminating strip having an upper flat surface portion 8A which is attached to the upper portion of the foundation wall 7, as well as a further lower resiiient strip portion 8B under which the top portion 1OA of the main protectiYe sheet 10 ' . ' :, ` ~ ~ .,, . ................. ,:.
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Preferably, said top sheet 8 has been attached to the upper portion of said foundation wall 7 by means of gluing, adhesion, bolting or any other appropriate attachment means.
The bottom sheet element 9 is adapted to cover the transi-tion portion between the foundation wall 7A and the merging footing 7B in close association therewith, which means that said bottom sheet 9 comprises an upper portion 9A adapted to cover the bottom portion of the outside of said foundation wall 7A, as well as an angled portion gB adapted to cover the outer top surface of said foundation footing 7B. In order to facilitate this adaption of the bottom sheet 9 to the various angles constituted by the lower portion of the foundation wall 7A and the top portion of the foundation 7B, said bottom sheet 9 is provided with a bending area 9C
between said upper portion 9A and said angled portion 9B, so as to allow for any angled relationship therebetween.
Most appropriately, said bending area 9C is provided in the bottom sheet 9 by substituting at least one row of protrusi-ons or knobs 2, by at least one embossed line constituting said bending area.
It is to be understood that the bottom sheet 9 as well as the main sheet 10 are made up of relatively thin, stiff material and including the type of protrusions disclosed in Fig. 1, 2 and 3, as well as said means for forming air channels and channels for receiving water from back fill disclosed in that connection.
In other words, after the top sheet 8 and the bottom sheet 9 as well as the main sheet 10 have been mounted in a new and efective manner against the outer surface of the foundation wall 7, i.e. with the knobs 2 facing the outer surface of the foundation wall 7, fill mass, e.g. broken stone or other mass having good drainage property, will be put in place . ~
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This drainage mass may cause a substantial pressure against the sheet elements in question, but the knobs 2 will ensure that the necessary distance between the protective sheet elements and the foundation wall is maintained.
In addition, the channels 4 will provide further drainage along the other side 1B of said sheet elements, which means that the water pressure thereagainst will be reduced.
In case the mass has poor drainage capability, e.g. clay or fill mass containing earth, it may be desirable to arrange a filtration canvas externally against the outer side 1B of said sheet elements, whereby water is filtrated through said canvas and escapes via the channels 4. In that case, the filtrating canvas will prevent the channels 4 from being blocked by said poor drainage capability mass. It should also be understood that if filtrating canvas is used, knobs having crater-like portions will effectivily ~onstitute a further support of the canvas, and thus prevent said canvas from being pressed into the recesses formed by the knobs.
However, it is to be understood that by using the sheets according to Fig. 1-3 in connection with a filtrating canvas there will be achieved a larger area of water drainage between the filtrating canvas and the sheet, this area of water drainage being defined by the light opening of the hollow flat pyramids and the intermediate channels.
In the arrangement illustrated in Figure 4, the pre-mounting of the top element 8 and the bottom element 9, will cater for the variations in height along the foundation wall, and provide full overlapping by the main protective sheet 10 if this is supplied in plates of standard height, for example 9' = 2.70 meters.
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It is further to be understood that in the embodiment disclosed in connection with Fig. 4, it should be noted that the sides of the main sheet 10 may be overlapped by the adjacent main sheet, so as to provide continuous sheet protection of the foundation wall, this overlapping of the main sheets 10 providing an interlocking action between the side edge protrusions or knobs 2 of adjacent main sheets.
As regards the interlocking action between the main protective sheets 10 and the bottom sheet elements 9 to be overlapped thereby, this interlocking function may be dispensed with, depending on the level of the footing 7B in relation to the top element 8A, it nevertheless being noted that the overlapping portions of the lower area 10B and the upper area 9A of the bottom sheet element 9 is quite satisfactorily even if the interlocking action between corresponding knobs do not register with each other exactly.
However, the interlocking function between adjacent main sheets 10 facilitates the mounting thereof, since the workers do not have to level each sheet separately, but can use the previously mounted sheet as a reference.
In Fig. 5 there is illustrated a perspective view of a foundation wall 7 as disclosed in connection with Fig. 4, and from Fig. S it is obvious that the bottom sheet element 9 can be delivered in running length, and be cut in appropriate sizes on the site, so as to be included as a first step in the implementation of the present improved system for protecting foundation walls and the like.
In Fig. 5 there is also illustrated a drainage pipe 11 which has the function of bringing the drainage from the filling material away from the foundation wall 7.
In Fig. 6 there is in a perspective view illustrated a foundation wall 107 having wall portion 107A and 107AA
merging in an inner corner 115, and having footings 107B and -WO91~10782 PCT/NO91tOOOn4 7'~
107BB for each wall portion, respectively.
Further, Fig . 6 illustrates a pre-cut corner unit 116, adapted to cover the merging portions 107A and 107AA of the 5 foundation wall 107, so as to cover the corner portion 115 thereof.
This corner unit 116 may be provided in running lengths and comprises along a central aera thereof a bending area betwe~n sheet portions 116A and 116B covering a respective corner portion of the foundation wall 107 in question, namely at any appropriate angle.
It is to be understood that this bending area 116C may, as discussed in connection with the bottom sheet element 9 in connection with Fig. 4, comprise an embossed line which has been provided during the manufacturing thereof, namely as a substitute for at least one row of dimples or knobs.
The mounting of this corner sheet element 116 constitutes one of the first installation steps in the improved system according to the present invention, in the same manner as discussed previously as regards the bottom sheet element 9 and the top sheet element 8.
In Fig. 7 there is illustrated a combination of two sheet corner units in which a first corner unit 116 is adapted to cover the merging portions of an inner corner 115 of a foundation wall 107, whereas a second sheet corner unit 117 is adapted to cover the merging portions of an outer corner 115A of the same foundation wall 107.
It is to be understood that said sheet corner units 116 and 117, respectively, may constitute a combined unit adapted for covering either an inner corner of a foundation wall, or an outer corner of any foundation wall, all in accordance with the re~uirements on site.
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WO91/107~2 PCT/NO91/00004 2~ 55 - 12 Fig. 8A illustrates how the lower portion of an inner corner 215 of a foundation wall 207 in the area of the footing 207s may be covered by a special embodiment of a corner base element 118, whereas Fig. 8s illustrates a special embodi-ment of a corner base element 119 which is to be used forcovering the outer corner portion 215A in the area o the footing 207BB of a foundation wall.
~y having top sheet elements~ bottom sheet elements as well as corner sheet elements mounted as the first steps of the overall system, then afterwards the larger main sheet ele-ments can be mounted in a far more rapid and efficient manner.
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Finally, US 3 888 087 does not provide means for facilitat-ing the mounting of standard main sheets which can be interlocked with a pre-installed top sheet element, thereby reducing lahour time and costs involved at the building site in question.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide an improved system for protecting foundation walls and the like, so as to bring forth complete coverage of foundation walls having varying height in a speedy and rational manner.
Another object of the present invention is to provide such a system for protecting foundation walls in which also the footing of the bottom thereof is given full coverage by the protecting sheet elements involved in said system.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a system which gives ample coverage of any foundation wall . . .
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WO91/10782 PCrlNO91/000 also comprising inner and outer corners of varyi~g angles.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide an improved system for protecting foundation walls, including sheet elements being adaptable for bending along the lower part of the foundation wall and any footing thereof, and in intimate contact between the protective sheet and said areas to be covered.
A still further object of the present invention is to provide a system for protecting foundation walls in which the protecting elements involved therein comprise embossed bending areas which substitute one or more regular course of protrusions.
An object of the present invention is also to provide for specific types of top sheet elements and bottom sheet ele-ments as well as corner elements which may be preinst~lled for the main protecting sheet to be mounted thereon, thereby reducing labour time and costs involved in the total build-ing project.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a protective sheet having a specific shape of the protrusions as well as of the channels running therebetween, and to provide a specific method for the manufacturing thereof.
The above objects are achieved in a system, as stated in the preamble, which according to the present invention, is characterized in that the improvement comprises imperforate pre-cut top sheet elements and bottom sheet elements adapted to be mounted along a foundation wall prior to the mounting of said main protecting sheet thereupon, so as to provide for full coverage of said foundation wall.
Prefexably, the top sheet element may take the form of a terminating strip having an upper flat surface portion to be attached to the foundation wall, and a further lower - . .;
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In a preferred embodiment said bottom sheet element is adapted to cover the transition portion between a foundation wall and a merging footing in close association therewith.
Said bottom sheet may then comprise an upper portion adapted to cover the bottom portion of said foundation wall and an angled portion adapted to cover the top surface of said foundation footing, said bottom sheet having a bending area between said upper portion and said angled portion, so as to allow for an angled relationship therebetween adapted to the angle between said foundation bottom portion and said foundation footing top surface.
The improvement also comprises pre-cut corner units adapted to cover the merging portions of an inner corner of a foundation wall, as well as pre-cut corner units adapted to cover the merging portions of an outer corner of a founda-tion wall. Of course, said corner units may also be a combined unit adapted for covering an inner corner or an outer corner of any foundation wall.
The system is especially favourable when using imperforate protective sheets and sheet elements comprising protrusions shaped like truncated hollow pyramids and comprising channels running therebetween having a trapeze-shaped section.
Further advantages and features of the present improved system will appear from the following detailed description of specific non-limiting embodiments taken in conjunction with the appending drawings.
BRIEF DISCLOSURE OF 'l'H~ DRAWIMGS
Fig. 1 is a prespective view of a protective sheet which may .
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be implemented in the present foundation wall p~otecting system .
Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the sheet o~ Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a transverse section ~hrough the sheet of Fig. 1 and 2.
Fig. 4 is a transverse section through a foundation wall with a footing covered by sheet elements according to the present foundation wall protecting system.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a foundation wall with a footing, in which only a bottom sheet element has been installed.
Fig. 6 i~ a perspective view of a foundation wall with a footing, in which a corner sheet element has been installed in an inner corner of said wall.
Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a foundation wall, in which not only a corner sheet element has been installed in an inner corner of said wall, but in which also an outer corner sheet has been installed on an outer corner thereof.
Fig. 8A and Fig. 8B illustrate combined bottom corner sheet elements for an inner corner and an outer corner, respec-tively, of a foundation wall with footing.
3 0 DETA.ILED DISCLOSURE OF EMBODIMENTS
In Figures 1, 2 and 3 there is shown a protective sheet, which is generally designated by reference numeral 1, and which is manufactured from a relatively stiff imperforate 3~ plastic material, and which before use may be presented in rolled-up form or in sheet form as such. The sheet 1 inclu-des knobs or protrusions 2 protruding from the one surface 1A of said sheet 1, said knobs 2 in this embodiment having WO9l/10782 PCT/~091tO0~04 S
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the shape of a flat pyramid having a ~lat top surface 2A and four sloping walls 2B which at the bottom merges with said one Siae 1A of said sheet 1.
Between each knob 2, there is on the same side 1A of said sheet 1 provided a hollow rib 3, which on the other side 1B
provides an open channel 4. Said channels 4 will, as especially illustrated in Fig. 1, extend between each of the knobs 2 so as to form preferably vertica1ly extending continuous channels when said sheet 1 is erected vertically against a foundation wall to be protected thereby.
However, it is to be understood that the shape of the knobs 2 could be different from what is illustrated in Fig. 1-3, for example as disclosed in CA 1 186 470, namely with knobs having a reversally directed centrally disposed crater-like portion of truncated conical form, but still being interconnected with similar ribs 3 or channels 4, so as to form continuous, preferably vertically extending channels when said sheet 1 is erected against a foundation wall.
However, the shape of the knobs or protrusions 2 of Fig. 1-3, i.e. a truncated or flat hollow pyramid, and the shape of the associated interconnecting channels or ribs, are especially favourable as they render a very good engagement between the various protective sheets and sheet elements in their overlapping zo~es.
Further, the protective sh0et according to Fig. 1-3 could be manufactured by a method involving that an elongated web of preferably thermoplastic material in a heated and soft con-dition is passed along a matrix equipped with studs corre-sponding to the knobs ~nd their relative position. In the area of these knobs the material is stretched between said studs for thereby leaving a larger material thickness at the top of the shaped flat pyramids. Preferably, this stretching may take place by a vacuun. process.
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~ 7 The larger material thickness at the top of the knobs is favourable as regards sturdiness~of the finished sheet, a~d the flat shape of the top of the pyramids constitute a good support when the sheet is used as a protective sheet for foundation walls.
Further, the flat top and comparatively large portion of the pyramids can also be used as attachment points for a filter-ing canvas in case such a filtering canvas is used on that side of the sheet, i.e. the side resting against the wall or surface to be protected or covered. Especially in connection with the cladding damp surfaces, for example in tunnels, in which the walls thereof are expelling water together with small or fine particles which may clog the drainage channels between the knobs. If an i~pro~ed drainage function is to be established also in this case, it would be favourable to attach a canvas filter to said top surfaces of the pyramide-shaped knobs or protrusions.
In Figure 4 there is illustrated a transverse section through a foundation wall 7, comprising a wall portion 7A
and a footing 7B which is protected by means of the protecting system according to the present invention.
Consequently, at the top of the foundation wall 7 there is illustrated a pre-cut top sheet element 8, whereas at the bottom portion of said foundation wall 7, there i5 illu-strated a bottom sheet element 9, said top sheet element 8 and said bottom sheet element 9 being mounted along the foundation wall 7 prior to the mounting of a main protecting sheet 10 for full coverage of the outer surface of said foundation wall 7.
The top sheet element 8 may also be designated a terminating strip having an upper flat surface portion 8A which is attached to the upper portion of the foundation wall 7, as well as a further lower resiiient strip portion 8B under which the top portion 1OA of the main protectiYe sheet 10 ' . ' :, ` ~ ~ .,, . ................. ,:.
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Preferably, said top sheet 8 has been attached to the upper portion of said foundation wall 7 by means of gluing, adhesion, bolting or any other appropriate attachment means.
The bottom sheet element 9 is adapted to cover the transi-tion portion between the foundation wall 7A and the merging footing 7B in close association therewith, which means that said bottom sheet 9 comprises an upper portion 9A adapted to cover the bottom portion of the outside of said foundation wall 7A, as well as an angled portion gB adapted to cover the outer top surface of said foundation footing 7B. In order to facilitate this adaption of the bottom sheet 9 to the various angles constituted by the lower portion of the foundation wall 7A and the top portion of the foundation 7B, said bottom sheet 9 is provided with a bending area 9C
between said upper portion 9A and said angled portion 9B, so as to allow for any angled relationship therebetween.
Most appropriately, said bending area 9C is provided in the bottom sheet 9 by substituting at least one row of protrusi-ons or knobs 2, by at least one embossed line constituting said bending area.
It is to be understood that the bottom sheet 9 as well as the main sheet 10 are made up of relatively thin, stiff material and including the type of protrusions disclosed in Fig. 1, 2 and 3, as well as said means for forming air channels and channels for receiving water from back fill disclosed in that connection.
In other words, after the top sheet 8 and the bottom sheet 9 as well as the main sheet 10 have been mounted in a new and efective manner against the outer surface of the foundation wall 7, i.e. with the knobs 2 facing the outer surface of the foundation wall 7, fill mass, e.g. broken stone or other mass having good drainage property, will be put in place . ~
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This drainage mass may cause a substantial pressure against the sheet elements in question, but the knobs 2 will ensure that the necessary distance between the protective sheet elements and the foundation wall is maintained.
In addition, the channels 4 will provide further drainage along the other side 1B of said sheet elements, which means that the water pressure thereagainst will be reduced.
In case the mass has poor drainage capability, e.g. clay or fill mass containing earth, it may be desirable to arrange a filtration canvas externally against the outer side 1B of said sheet elements, whereby water is filtrated through said canvas and escapes via the channels 4. In that case, the filtrating canvas will prevent the channels 4 from being blocked by said poor drainage capability mass. It should also be understood that if filtrating canvas is used, knobs having crater-like portions will effectivily ~onstitute a further support of the canvas, and thus prevent said canvas from being pressed into the recesses formed by the knobs.
However, it is to be understood that by using the sheets according to Fig. 1-3 in connection with a filtrating canvas there will be achieved a larger area of water drainage between the filtrating canvas and the sheet, this area of water drainage being defined by the light opening of the hollow flat pyramids and the intermediate channels.
In the arrangement illustrated in Figure 4, the pre-mounting of the top element 8 and the bottom element 9, will cater for the variations in height along the foundation wall, and provide full overlapping by the main protective sheet 10 if this is supplied in plates of standard height, for example 9' = 2.70 meters.
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It is further to be understood that in the embodiment disclosed in connection with Fig. 4, it should be noted that the sides of the main sheet 10 may be overlapped by the adjacent main sheet, so as to provide continuous sheet protection of the foundation wall, this overlapping of the main sheets 10 providing an interlocking action between the side edge protrusions or knobs 2 of adjacent main sheets.
As regards the interlocking action between the main protective sheets 10 and the bottom sheet elements 9 to be overlapped thereby, this interlocking function may be dispensed with, depending on the level of the footing 7B in relation to the top element 8A, it nevertheless being noted that the overlapping portions of the lower area 10B and the upper area 9A of the bottom sheet element 9 is quite satisfactorily even if the interlocking action between corresponding knobs do not register with each other exactly.
However, the interlocking function between adjacent main sheets 10 facilitates the mounting thereof, since the workers do not have to level each sheet separately, but can use the previously mounted sheet as a reference.
In Fig. 5 there is illustrated a perspective view of a foundation wall 7 as disclosed in connection with Fig. 4, and from Fig. S it is obvious that the bottom sheet element 9 can be delivered in running length, and be cut in appropriate sizes on the site, so as to be included as a first step in the implementation of the present improved system for protecting foundation walls and the like.
In Fig. 5 there is also illustrated a drainage pipe 11 which has the function of bringing the drainage from the filling material away from the foundation wall 7.
In Fig. 6 there is in a perspective view illustrated a foundation wall 107 having wall portion 107A and 107AA
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107BB for each wall portion, respectively.
Further, Fig . 6 illustrates a pre-cut corner unit 116, adapted to cover the merging portions 107A and 107AA of the 5 foundation wall 107, so as to cover the corner portion 115 thereof.
This corner unit 116 may be provided in running lengths and comprises along a central aera thereof a bending area betwe~n sheet portions 116A and 116B covering a respective corner portion of the foundation wall 107 in question, namely at any appropriate angle.
It is to be understood that this bending area 116C may, as discussed in connection with the bottom sheet element 9 in connection with Fig. 4, comprise an embossed line which has been provided during the manufacturing thereof, namely as a substitute for at least one row of dimples or knobs.
The mounting of this corner sheet element 116 constitutes one of the first installation steps in the improved system according to the present invention, in the same manner as discussed previously as regards the bottom sheet element 9 and the top sheet element 8.
In Fig. 7 there is illustrated a combination of two sheet corner units in which a first corner unit 116 is adapted to cover the merging portions of an inner corner 115 of a foundation wall 107, whereas a second sheet corner unit 117 is adapted to cover the merging portions of an outer corner 115A of the same foundation wall 107.
It is to be understood that said sheet corner units 116 and 117, respectively, may constitute a combined unit adapted for covering either an inner corner of a foundation wall, or an outer corner of any foundation wall, all in accordance with the re~uirements on site.
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~y having top sheet elements~ bottom sheet elements as well as corner sheet elements mounted as the first steps of the overall system, then afterwards the larger main sheet ele-ments can be mounted in a far more rapid and efficient manner.
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Claims (15)
1. System for protecting foundation walls and the like, said system comprising at least one main protecting sheet (1) made of imperforate, relatively thin, stiff material and including protrusions (2) formed integrally therein, as well as means for forming air channels and channels for receiving water from back fill, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the system comprises separate pre-cut sheet elements (8) and bottom sheet elements (9) of substantially the same type as the main protective sheet and adapted to be mounted separately along a foundation wall (7) at the top and bottom thereof, respectively, and in intimate contact therewith, prior to the mounting of said main protecting sheet (1;10) in interlocking manner with said elements (8, 9) for full outer coverage of said foundation wall against surrounding fill mass.
2. System as claimded in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said top sheet element (8) takes the form of a terminating strip having an upper flat surface portion (8A) to be attached to the foundation wall, and a lower resilient strip portion (8B) which is in close proximity with the outer surface of the foundation wall and under which a top portion (10A) of a main protec-tive sheet (10) may be inserted for resilient engagement therewith.
3. System as claimed in claim 2, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said top sheet element (8) with its flat surface portion (8A) is attached with its upper flat portion (8A) to said foundation wall (7) by means of gluing, adhesion. bolting or any other appropriate attachment means, whereas said flat top portion )8A) merges integrally with said resilient strip portion (8B).
4. System as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said bottom sheet element (9) is adapted to cover the transition portion between a foundation wall (7A) and a merging footing (7B) in close association therewith, said bottom sheet element (9) being of varying pre-cut hight depending on the varying height of the foundation wall and the standard hight(s) of the main protective sheets.
5. System as claimed in claim 4, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said bottom sheet element (9) comprises an upper portion (9A) adapted to cover the bottom portion of said foundation wall (7A) and an angled portion (9B) adapted to cover the top surface of said foundation footing (7B), said bottom sheet element (9) having a bending area (9C) between said upper portion (9A) and said angled portion (9B), so as to allow for an angled relationship therebetween adapted to any angle between said foundation bottom portion and said foundation footing top surface.
6. System as claimed in claim 5, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said bending area (9C) of said bottom sheet element (9) is provided in an area in which a row of protrusions (2) in said sheet material (1) has been deleted and substituted by at least one embossed line constituting said bending area (9C).
7. System as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the system further comprises at least one pre-cut corner sheet element (116) of substantially the same type as the main protecting sheet (1;10) and adapted to cover the merging portions (107A, 107AA) of an inner corner (115) of a foundation wall (107) prior to the mounting of said main protecting sheet (1;10) in interlocking manner with said element or elements for full outer coverage of said foundation wall against surrounding fill mass.
8. System as claimed in claim 7, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said corner sheet elements (116, 117) constitute combined units adapted for covering an inner corner (115) of a foundation wall (107) or an outer corner (115A) of the same or another foundation wall (107).
9. System as claimed in claim 8, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said combined corner sheet element (116, 117) is provided in running lengths and comprises along a central area thereof, a bending area between sheet portions covering a respective corner portion of a foundation wall at any angle.
10. System as claimed in claim 9, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said bending area is provided as an embossed line replacing a row of protrusions in said sheet material, for thereby allowing a bending function for both inner and outer corner portions at any angle in a foundation wall.
11. System as claimed in claim 1, in which the system comprises pre-cut top sheet elements, bottom sheet elements as well as corner sheet elements adapted to be mounted close against said foundation wall at the top, bottom and corners thereof, respectively, prior to the mounting of the main protecting sheet in interlocking manner therewith, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said means extending between said protrusions (2) extend vertically between said protrusions (2) when the protecting sheet is erected against the foundation wall ana the like.
12. System as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the protecting sheet (1) and the sheet elements are made from an elongated web of preferably thermoplastic material which in a heated and soft condition has been passed along a matrix equipped with studs corresponding to the protrusions to be formed in said web, and that the web in the area of said matrix is stretched in the zones between said studs, for thereby having formed protrusions therein which have a larger material thickness at the tops of said studs and thereby at the tops of said formed protrusions.
13. System as claimed in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the protrusions are processed in a vacuum process.
14. System as claimed in claim 12 or 13, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said protrusions are formed like hollow truncated pyramids, and that the channels therebetween have a trapez-shaped cross-section and a height smaller than that of said truncated pyramids.
15. System as claimed in claim 14, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said protrusions have attached thereto a canvas filter, especially at the flat top area of said hollow truncated pyramid-shaped protrusions.
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