CN1039977C - Manufacture method for concrete brick having decorative material - Google Patents
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Disclosed is a concrete non-cure material for preventing the surface of cement mortar, which maintains contact with said material, from setting or hardening. This invention also discloses a concrete product or concrete structure with surface decorations produced by affixing the concrete non-cure material to the surface of the decorative material or to the inner surface of a form for a concrete molding and production methods therefor.
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The present invention relates to the concrete brick that on concrete foundation block, engages the what is called band ornament materials that ornament materials is arranged.
The concrete brick of existing band ornament materials is that the pin (anchor shape spare) that plugs together of being located at the ornament materials back side is imbedded the brick ornament materials structure that forms in the concrete foundation block.
The concrete brick of above-mentioned this existing band ornament materials, be applicable to that ornament materials is a flat form, with the whole structures that cover in brick surface, but for the surface that many concavo-convex ornament materials will be located at brick and when wanting to increase the floating prominent amount of ornament materials, just the problem that can not adopt has appearred, and problem such as in the joint operation that plugs together pin, waste time and energy in addition.In addition, when adopting concrete or cement mortar to be attached to furring brick etc. on the end brick, cement mortar can adhere to the surface of furring brick etc., for its Ex-all, not only will spend very big time and labour, even might damage the surface of furring brick etc.
But the cement that the present invention removes by available water makes it to do temporary consolidation form, concrete perfusion thereon when guaranteeing desired depth; Or come temporarily in conjunction with last furring brick etc. by the non-hardened material that is consolidated into, addressing the above problem, and successfully large-scale production has many ornament materials to be the concrete brick of three-dimensional projecting form.
The feature of the manufacture method of the concrete brick of band ornament materials of the present invention is, on the box-shaped baffle plate, arrange better ornament materials, gap portion at this base plate and ornament materials is imbedded agent by the desired depth injection, immediately in ornament materials top assembling reinforcing bar, follow concrete perfusion, treat to carry out the demoulding after the concrete hardening, imbed agent between water flush away ornament materials again.Here, ornament materials can be building stones or furring brick, agglomerated material, glass, metal material and timber.
The manufacture method feature of the concrete brick of another band ornament materials of the present invention is, the non-hardened material that is consolidated into is coated on box-shaped mould inwall, lay furring brick by joint filler (synthetic resin system) immediately, be fitted into reinforcing bar by predetermined altitude after, be convenient to concrete perfusion in the box-shaped mould.After the concrete hardening, joint filler is removed in the demoulding and with washing furring brick surface simultaneously.
The manufacture method feature of the concrete brick of another band ornament materials of the present invention is, the ornament materials arrangement is arranged on the porous bearing plates, make support plate be in the top and ornament materials is positioned within the box-shaped mould, the non-hardened material or the sodium metasilicate that are consolidated into the gap portion filling of ornament materials on the box-shaped baffle plate are resin, again to the box-shaped mould internal support plate upper set reinforcing bar of packing into, concrete perfusion then, in case with regard to demoulding, the non-hardened material of the aforementioned fixed formula of water flush away or sodium metasilicate are resin again after this concrete hardening.The support plate here can be metallic plate, net formula steel plate, wire web plate, resin web plate, glass fibre web plate or the carbonaceous web plate of web plate, punching.
The manufacture method feature of the concrete brick of another band ornament materials again of the present invention is, with the separator is intermediary, the ornament materials arrangement is arranged on the porous bearing plates, make this support plate be in the top and ornament materials is positioned within the shape mould, suitable position configuration number at this support plate is heightened separator arbitrarily, in the non-hardened material or the sodium metasilicate of the fixed formula of filling on the box-shaped baffle plate and between the surface of ornament materials is resin, reinforcing bar is assembled on this support plate, concrete perfusion then, carry out the demoulding after the concrete hardening, more above-mentioned non-hardened material that is consolidated into of water flush away or sodium metasilicate resin.The separator of heightening here can be a bolt and the similar device that the tube height is propped up in a tube and adjusting.
The manufacture method feature of the concrete brick of another band ornament materials that the present invention also has is, with immobilising device a collection of wooden unit is fixed on the supporting member, the non-hardened material that is consolidated on the surface applied of above-mentioned wooden unit, filling sodium metasilicate resin in its seam portion, in above-mentioned box-shaped mould, be assembled into reinforcing bar again, concrete perfusion simultaneously promptly removes the non-hardened material that is consolidated on the wooden unit surface with washing after the concrete hardening.
Aforesaid imbedding when agent is preferably injected is liquid, can more early solidify and be easy to the material that water is removed.For example available sodium metasilicate is a main material, and the ratio of curing agent in 1: 1 is mixed in wherein as imbedding agent.As for this curing agent, inorganic acid salt NaHSO is for example arranged
4, HaHCO
3, HaH
2PO
4, KHSO
4With Na
2HPO
4Deng.Remove this, in curing agent also the hardness regulator of sodium metasilicate (for example glyoxal, uncle's butyrolactone, propylene carbonate and citric acid etc.) as the reinforcing agent of using always, add by the amount about 5-40% and to regulate hardness.
Secondly, it is the feature of sidewall that the inwall of box-shaped mould has again with its diapire.In addition, the above-mentioned non-hardened material that is consolidated into be characterized as a kind of like this hard resin-layer of use, promptly from alkaline swelling agent, be mixed into a spot of water absorbent polymer and/or monomer, add curing agent again, make it sclerosis, the hard resin-layer that has water absorbent polymer that obtains therefrom.
Alkaline swelling agent as above-mentioned for example has mylar, polyvinyl alcohol and polyvinyl acetal etc.
The aforementioned non-hardened material that is consolidated into then has following various:
(1) organic solvent is added in the alkaline extruded resin, mixed,, mix making it sclerosis then with curing agent in wherein adding water absorbent polymer, and the hard resin-layer that has water absorbent polymer that obtains;
(2) in alkaline swelling agent, mix absorptive polymer of stirring and/or monomer, add curing agent again, the hard resin-layer of the resulting band water absorbent polymer in sclerosis back;
(3) in alkaline swelling agent, add monomer and make the adaptable state that reaches, again in wherein adding curing agent, the hard resin-layer of the resulting band water absorbent polymer in sclerosis back;
(4) have the powdered goods of the hard resin-layer of above-mentioned water absorbent polymer.
In above-mentioned each material, hard resin-layer has weak water imbibition, the suction Once you begin that is alkalescence, and the hardness of hard resin-layer is promptly out of balance, and this labile state will continue for a long time.
The present invention adopts and can do temporary combination by affixed dose that washing is gone, or the non-hardened material attaching by being consolidated into, thus after deviating from the box-shaped mould to wash ornament materials, just can make the concrete brick that has many ornament materials with three-dimensional form emergence.And the mutual gap depth of ornament materials is able to freely select in the thickness range of ornament materials.In addition, the non-hardened material that relates to etc. is easy to about 70kg/cm
2The pressure (hydraulic) water flush away of pressure.
According to the present invention, on the inwall of box-shaped mould, with non-hardened material layer is after intermediary temporarily is hinged with furring brick or building stones, concrete perfusion at once, remove unsclerotized material layer to wash this block after the demoulding, can easily make and make ornament materials be the three-dimensional concrete brick that appears.
Again, the cement of filling easily to wash with water in the building stones interval of at the bottom of the box-shaped mould, arranging, capable again concrete perfusion, the demoulding can same as described above making easily make ornament materials be the three-dimensional concrete brick that appears after cement is removed in washing.
Again, on porous bearing plates, intermediary arranges with separator ornament materials is set, even the thickness of ornament materials does not wait, but after they are risen to uniform height, will manifest concavo-convex effect from a surperficial side.So far, in order to realize above-mentioned state, owing to must be intermediary's material with separator, sand, expanded material etc. to the face side of ornament materials, it be consuming time not only to require great effort, and needs the skill of height, but according to the present invention, just can reach this purpose very simply.Also have,,, just can be applicable to the situation that constitutes pattern by many ornament materials owing to can come to determine accurately the arrangement of ornament materials in the mode of temporary joint when come in the temporary joint ornament materials when being secured on the support plate with the rete material.In addition, using the occasion of wooden unit, needn't worry that also the cement paste pollutes wood grain, thereby can increase work efficiency and the quality of product.
Again, be provided with the arrangement for adjusting height of support plate after, just concrete loading can be added on the ornament materials, and can also regulate the height of ornament materials.
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Fig. 1 is the profile before the concrete perfusion in the embodiment of the invention technical process, Fig. 2 is the profile behind the concrete of filling continent among the same embodiment, Fig. 3 is the plane of goods among the embodiment, Fig. 4 is for being provisionally attached to furring brick in the embodiment of the invention profile of concrete brick in work progress on the side, Fig. 5 is the profile of operation in the middle of the embodiment on temporarily being attached to furring brick at the bottom of the box-shaped mould, Fig. 6 is the profile of operation between among among the embodiment that uses building stones, Fig. 7 is the plane of goods among the same embodiment, Fig. 8 is for being attached to building stones the fragmentary cross-sectional view on the support plate, Fig. 9 is for being fixed to ornament materials among another embodiment the fragmentary cross-sectional view on the support plate, Figure 10 is for inserting the ornament materials of having support plate among the 9th figure fragmentary cross-sectional view in the box-shaped mould, Figure 11 is the cut-away section enlarged drawing that has adopted the embodiment that heightens separator, Figure 12 is for putting into the device among Figure 11 the fragmentary cross-sectional view of box-shaped mould, Figure 13 is for being secured to wooden unit the profile on the support plate, Figure 14 is the plane corresponding to last figure, and Figure 15 is for being loaded on device shown in Figure 13 fragmentary cross-sectional view in the box-shaped mould.
The elucidated hereinafter most preferred embodiment.
With Fig. 1 to 3 embodiments of the invention are described below.Erect side plate 2 around base plate 1,2 form a box-shaped mould 3, decorative stone material 4 that will be thicker on base plate 1,4 are ranked by appropriate intervals, to each building stones 4,4 clearance portion is injected and is imbedded agent, and this main component of imbedding agent is a sodium metasilicate, and adds the inorganic acid salt as curing agent that is mixed with reinforcing agent.
Though can determine the overhang of building stones 4,4 according to this injection rate, can be by the visual amount injection (to the position that is lower than the building stones end face) that will imbed agent by appropriateness.Immediately above the building stones 4 with reinforcing bar 5 in the suitable interval assembling.Concrete perfusion 6 in box-shaped mould 3 then.By normal temperature maintenance or steam curing, with the impurity on pressure (hydraulic) water flush away building stones 4 surfaces and imbed agent, promptly obtaining having what give prominence to ornament materials is the concrete brick 8 of building stones 4,4 after the demoulding by this state.
In the embodiment of Fig. 4, on the inwall of the side plate 2,2 of box-shaped mould 3, be coated with and apply non-hardened material layer 9, after furring brick 10 was temporarily enclosed in the inboard of this non-hardened material layer 9, reinforcing bar 11, concrete perfusion were immediately gone up in the appropriate location assembling in box-shaped mould 3.Through normal temperature maintenance or steam curing, behind the non-hardened material layer of the demoulding and water flush away, promptly obtain having the concrete brick of ornament materials.
In Fig. 5, non-hardened material layer 9 is set on the base plate 1 of box-shaped mould 3 again, temporarily encloses furring brick 10, add in joint filler 14 and the suitable assembling behind the reinforcing bar 11, i.e. concrete perfusion in the inboard of this non-hardened material layer 9.Through normal temperature maintenance or steam curing, behind the non-hardened material layer of the demoulding and water flush away, promptly obtain having the concrete brick of ornament materials.
Present embodiment is provided with non-hardened material layer 9 on the base plate 1 of box-shaped mould 3 shown in Fig. 6 and 7, temporarily be hinged with building stones 4,4 more thereon, and being assembled into behind the reinforcing bar is concrete perfusion.Carry out normal temperature maintenance or steam curing subsequently, the demoulding, and unsclerotized material layer of water flush away and unhardened concrete promptly obtain having the concrete brick 13 of building stones 4,4 forms.
If above-mentioned non-hardened material layer 9 cement, or constitute in water-soluble or cement that buck is molten, sneaking into non-hardened material 2 powder that are consolidated into, then they might temporarily adhere on the building stones 4,4.
In the said in the above situation, though the size of building stones 4 has difference, but make its overhang consistent substantially always, at this moment can be as shown in Figure 8, with non-hardened material 25 is intermediary, building stones 4 are attached on the sheet material 24 (also can be web plate), and mode is assemblied in the box-shaped mould 3 according to this, and then as preceding method processing.
The following describes the embodiment shown in Fig. 9 and 10.
Building stones have been arranged with separator 15 by intermediary on web plate 15, and fix or fix with the joint locate mode with blind rivet 26, as a kind of web plate that has building stones, it are accommodated in box-shaped mould 3.Subsequently in the space between the surface of the base plate 1 of box-shaped mould 3 and building stones 2, the filler 7 of can be added with the non-hardened material that is consolidated into.Why adopting web plate above, is because than thin building stones 4a and thicker building stones 4b, 4b compares, and can become a kind of suspension status.Just concrete perfusion after being assembled into reinforcing bar.Through normal temperature maintenance or steam curing; The demoulding is also removed filler in building stones 4 surfaces and the seam portion with washing, promptly obtains having the concrete brick of building stones 4 concavo-convex states.
Why adopt web plate above,, also can between it and box-shaped baffle plate, adopt separator even be because sneak into thin building stones.And less or at concrete brick in the bigger situation of web plate intensity, can economize except that reinforcing bar.
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The following describes the embodiment shown in Figure 11 and 12.
For supplying the comprehensive sheet material (paper, synthetic resin film or cloth etc.) that attaches usefulness, to be equiped with ornament materials 18 (furring brick, building stones etc.) the non-hardened material that is consolidated into 9 is pasted thereon, the joint filler 14 of foamed synthetic resin is gone up in assembling simultaneously, the back side in this ornament materials 18, fix web plate 15 by separator 16 (or pin of furring brick) by blind rivet 26, perhaps take juncture to fix.In the seam portion of above-mentioned ornament materials 18, go up by heightening that a tube 19 and bolt 20 are formed with separator 23 in suitable position assembling.This ornament materials 18 is installed in box-shaped mould 3, after the height adjusting of bolt 20 with 15 of the base plate 1 of box-shaped mould 3 and web plates, promptly be assembled into reinforcing bar 11, concrete perfusion 12 thereupon.Then make concrete hardening according to usual method, joint filler removal bolt is simultaneously removed in the demoulding, and the non-hardened material layer that is consolidated into of water flush away, and abutment joint portion repairs, and promptly obtains the concrete brick with ornament materials.
In this embodiment, owing to can regulate the height of web plate, and have the advantage that makes ornament materials not become direct supporting mass.
The following describes the embodiment shown in Figure 13 to 15.
Net formula steel plate 21 is affixed with the wooden unit 22 usefulness staples that the surface is provided with the non-hardened material layer 9 that is consolidated into, the single piece of this affixed one-tenth is set in box-shaped mould 3, after enriching with joint filler or seam filler 14, be assembled into reinforcing bar 11, concrete perfusion 12 thereupon.After this concrete done normal temperature maintenance, steam curing etc. and suitably handle, in case the demoulding is just carried out in concrete hardening, remove the non-hardened material and joint filler that is consolidated into after, promptly obtain having the concrete brick of graining.
Replace above-mentioned net formula steel plate 21, also available iron silk screen plate, resin web plate, carbonaceous web plate, glass fibre web plate etc.
When using wooden unit in the past, exist and be attached with the cement paste on poor stability and the surface and problem such as be difficult for removing,, then can make the wooden unit installing firm according to the present invention, needn't worry that simultaneously the cement paste can invade inner faces such as wood grain, and can manifest wood grain attractive in appearance.
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1. manufacture method with the concrete brick of ornament materials, its step comprises: arrange better ornament materials on the base plate of box-shaped mould, gap portion at this base plate and ornament materials is imbedded agent by the desired depth injection, immediately in ornament materials top assembling reinforcing bar, follow concrete perfusion, after treating concrete hardening, carry out the demoulding, imbed agent between water flush away ornament materials again.
2. the manufacture method of the concrete brick of band ornament materials as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that described ornament materials is furring brick, sinter, glass, metal and timber.
3. the manufacture method of the concrete brick of band ornament materials as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that described to imbed agent be sodium metasilicate and the mixture that is added with the curing agent of reinforcing agent.
4. the manufacture method of the concrete brick of the band ornament materials described in claim 1, it is characterized in that the ornament materials arrangement is arranged at by web plate, the metallic plate of punching, net formula steel plate, the wire web plate, the resin web plate, on the porous bearing plates of any formation in glass mat or the carbonaceous web plate, make this support plate be in the top and ornament materials is positioned within the box-shaped mould, filling the non-hardened material or the sodium metasilicate that are consolidated into the gap portion of ornament materials on the bottom of this box-shaped mould is resin, assemble reinforcing bar on the support plate in above-mentioned box-shaped mould, concrete perfusion then, the demoulding after the concrete hardening, said non-hardened material that is consolidated into of water flush away or sodium metasilicate are resin.
5. the manufacture method of the concrete brick of band ornament materials as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that; With the separator is intermediary, the ornament materials arrangement is arranged on the porous bearing plates, make this support plate be in the top and ornament materials is positioned within the box-shaped mould, in the suitable position of this support plate configuration number arbitrarily by a tube with regulate a bolt of tube height and similar device constitutes heightens separator, in filling is consolidated on the base plate of box-shaped mould and between the surface of ornament materials non-hardened material or sodium metasilicate is resin, reinforcing bar is assembled on this support plate, concrete perfusion then, after the concrete hardening, carry out the demoulding, more above-mentioned non-hardened material that is consolidated into of water flush away or sodium metasilicate resin.
6. manufacture method with the concrete brick of ornament materials, its step comprises: the non-hardened material that will be consolidated into is coated on the box-shaped mould inwall, lay furring brick by joint filler immediately, after being fitted into reinforcing bar by predetermined altitude, be convenient to concrete perfusion in the box-shaped mould, after the concrete hardening, carry out the demoulding and, remove joint filler simultaneously with washing furring brick surface.
7. the manufacture method of the concrete brick of band ornament materials as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, in described box-shaped mould inwall, is sidewall with its diapire.
8. the manufacture method of the concrete brick of band ornament materials as claimed in claim 6, it is characterized in that, the described non-hardened material that is consolidated into is, in alkaline swelling agent, be mixed into a spot of water absorbent polymer and/or monomer, add curing agent and make it sclerosis, the hardening of resin layer that has water absorbent polymer that obtains therefrom.
9. manufacture method with the concrete brick of ornament materials, its step comprises: with fixture a collection of wooden unit is fixed on the supporting member, above-mentioned wooden unit surface applied has the non-hardened material that is consolidated into, filling sodium metasilicate resin in its seam portion, in above-mentioned box-shaped mould, be assembled into reinforcing bar again, concrete perfusion simultaneously, after the concrete hardening, the non-hardened material that carries out the demoulding and go with washing to be consolidated on the wooden unit surface.
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