EP0157067A1 - Tile having holes to be filled with a cement or an alike paste - Google Patents

Abstract

A floor tile (1) made of rubber has rows of closely spaced circular holes (2) alternating with rows of square holes (3). The tiles are laid on a concrete floor and the holes are filled with cement with the surface of the cement lying below the upper surface of the tile. The tiles may also be made in materials other than rubber.

Description

The object of the present industrial invention is a rubber tile having a tight series of holes intended to be filled with a cementitious paste, while remaining the upper plane of the tile as a trampling surface.

This type of tile was designed expressly for the tiling of large industrial and civil establishments where, very often, it is necessary to tile very large areas.

For this kind of use, the rubber tiling, in particular that which consists of a uniform layer, in sheets or rolls, which one applies to the base of cement, with small raised discs making function of surface of trampling, is, without any doubt, the best that one can desire, for its functional characteristics and for its resistance; but unfortunately, until today, the cost of such a solution has always been at a rather high level.

In this connection, in fact, it is necessary to assess, on the one hand, the enormous quantity of rubber required, not only for the raised discs acting as a trampling surface, but also for the base layer applied to the underlying cement and , on the other, the use of rubber sheets and the special preparation of the concrete base, necessary to obtain what is called "massetto", a word by which we indicate a particularly leveled concrete surface and treated with a dressing board, which is the only one on which rubber tiles can be applied; it goes without saying that this work requires a highly specialized workforce.

The tile according to the invention was designed with the aim of eliminating at the outset the most important items of costs which characterize the use of conventional rubber tiles.

Indeed, the invention basically consists of a normal rubber tile having a tight series of holes intended to be filled with cement or another special adhesive paste and therefore, on the one hand, it allows substantial rubber savings. and, on the other, it no longer requires the use of specialized labor for its application, since the perforated tile according to the invention can be used on a normal pouring of raw cement.

The implementation can be done either by partially driving the rubber tile over a thin layer of cement previously poured, or by pouring cement directly on the tile already positioned, and successively leveling the cement casting.

From all that has been said above, it is easy to understand that the tile in question must be considered a capital advance in the technology of the sector, and that this type of tile must be designed as able to replace in all and for all conventional rubber tiles, since of these our invention perfectly imitates all the functional characteristics and resistance too, but it is based, on the contrary, on extremely more competitive costs.

Finally, one should not underestimate the aesthetic characteristic, since the cement-rubber fusion results as a combination with a completely pleasant appearance, taking into account moreover that the cementitious paste can take several different colors, as well as the rubber of the tile, in order to achieve the most diverse and most suitable assemblies for all kinds of environments, either modern or traditional.

In summary, the tile according to the invention will constitute practically a network incorporated, while maintaining it slightly in relief, in a traditional paving stone poured in cement, to which we manage, in this way, to leave constant all the functional and aesthetic characteristics of a normal rubber tiling, such as comfort, silence , resistance to wear, opposition to mechanical constraints and atmospheric agents in general and hygiene deriving from the ease of washing it.

For a clearer explanation of the invention, the description will continue with reference to the attached sheet, which has been given only by way of an indicative and nonlimiting example, where FIG. 1 is the plan view of the tile in question.

Referring to the above figure, the model according to the invention consists of a rubber tile (1), produced with a rubber sheet of the desired dimensions and thickness, characterized by a tight series of through holes, in the circular (2) and square (3) species, designed to be filled, at the time of implementation, with a cementitious paste, taking care only to keep, as the trampling plane, the rubber surface of the tile.

In other words, the tile according to the invention can therefore be considered a rubber network, which constitutes the trampling surface, incorporated in a supporting layer of cement.

Of course, fig. 1 represents, purely by way of illustration, a preferred embodiment of the tile according to the invention, but, referring to the requirements or preferences, it is possible to make variants as regards the number, the arrangement, the combination and the shape holes, without going beyond the scope of the present invention.

It is obvious, moreover, that the filling of the holes with the latter paste can also be done during a phase which precedes the implementation, and in this way a prefabricated tile will be produced, with the holes full of cement, without for that go beyond the protective framework of the present industrial monopoly.

It should be added, moreover, that instead of the rubber one will be able to use different, but equivalent materials, such as for example plastic material, and in any case suitable for tiling.

Claims (2)

1) Tile having several holes, characterized in that it consists of a rubber sheet of the desired dimensions and thickness, with a tight series of holes, with the same or different shape, designed to be filled with a cementitious paste , while remaining the upper plane of the perforated tile as the trampling surface. 2) Tile before several holes, in material different from rubber, characterized in that it presents a tight series of holes, with the same or different shape, designed to be filled with a cement paste, while remaining the upper plane of the tile perforated like the trampling surface.

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