EP0495332B1 - Revêtement de sol pour courts de tennis - Google Patents

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EP0495332B1
EP0495332B1 EP91810020A EP91810020A EP0495332B1 EP 0495332 B1 EP0495332 B1 EP 0495332B1 EP 91810020 A EP91810020 A EP 91810020A EP 91810020 A EP91810020 A EP 91810020A EP 0495332 B1 EP0495332 B1 EP 0495332B1
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Ulrich Schefer
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C13/00—Pavings or foundations specially adapted for playgrounds or sports grounds; Drainage, irrigation or heating of sports grounds
    • E01C13/02—Foundations, e.g. with drainage or heating arrangements
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C13/00—Pavings or foundations specially adapted for playgrounds or sports grounds; Drainage, irrigation or heating of sports grounds
    • E01C13/04—Pavings made of prefabricated single units
    • E01C13/045—Pavings made of prefabricated single units the prefabricated single units consisting of or including bitumen, rubber or plastics

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  • the present invention relates to a floor covering for tennis courts, in particular for roofless outdoor courts, which is applied over a preferably frost-proof foundation layer and over a plan layer of broken material such as gravel or the like arranged thereon. Even if the floor covering according to the invention is particularly well suited for careless outdoor spaces, it can also easily be used in a hall or in roofed outdoor spaces.
  • Tennis courts can be constructed differently with regard to the flooring that falls under the preamble of claim 1; are known Clay courts, hard courts and courts with textile flooring.
  • Clay courts undoubtedly offer very good playing comfort and can be used indoors and outdoors, but are expensive to maintain and maintain. Hard courts can also be realized in halls and outdoors, but leave something to be desired in terms of playing comfort, since the ankles of the tennis player are put under a lot of stress; care and maintenance are only required with minimal effort. Textile tennis court surfaces combine the advantages of sand and hard courts to a large extent, ie they are pleasant for the player and require little care and maintenance; on the other hand, so far only tennis court floor coverings with a textile surface become known, which are particularly suitable for use in a covered hall.
  • the textile surface covering must be applied to an elastic base layer, which is generally made of rubber, in order to be able to offer the players the expected playing comfort.
  • this rubber support layer is impermeable to water, with the result that puddles form on the covering after a rain shower, which only disappear again through evaporation. This means that it takes a long time before such a floor covering can be used again after a rain shower.
  • a coating has proven to be a tried and tested rubber support layer, which is preferably applied to a planie layer made of broken material such as gravel or the like and which consists of rubber granulate particles which are held together by a binder.
  • the disadvantage here is that the granulate particles are enclosed in the binder, so that the rubber base layer becomes water-impermeable.
  • the textile surface covering has previously usually been glued over the entire surface to the rubber granulate base layer.
  • a synthetic floor covering for riding halls has a base made of limestone, a mat arranged thereon, consisting of an asphalt fabric, and an overlying base layer, which consists of a water-permeable rubber-like body consists.
  • This base layer is covered with a mixture of loose, rubber-like granules.
  • a floor covering constructed in this way is very well suited for riding halls, but it is not suitable as a floor covering for tennis courts, since the base layer has no actual surface structure. As a result, the granulate would quickly accumulate on the base layer at exposed locations, so that the tennis ball would jump off completely uncontrollably and, on the other hand, different loads, particularly on the joints, would act on the tennis player. In addition, such a floor covering would be too soft as a tennis court covering.
  • an elastic, water-permeable floor covering plate which has a first layer made of rubber and a second layer made of fiber felt.
  • the surface of this flooring slab is flat.
  • a floor covering plate designed in this way is not suitable as a tennis court covering, since a flat surface is not suitable for receiving granules.
  • a floor covering designed in this way would not dry out quickly enough after a rain shower.
  • a surface made of rubber also does not have the sliding properties required for a tennis court surface.
  • Bitumen can preferably be used as the readily available and inexpensive binder for the rubber granulate particles; a material that harmonises very well with the rubber of the granules in terms of its elastic properties.
  • the rubber granulate particles are not connected to one another over the entire surface, but rather only at individual points, in order to ensure the unimpeded outflow of the water reaching thereon. Care should be taken to ensure that only part of the surface of the rubber granulate particles contains the binder, e.g. Bitumen, is applied.
  • the binder e.g. Bitumen
  • the flooring for tennis courts is e.g. constructed as follows:
  • a foundation layer 2 is provided above a filter mat 1 and is preferably frost-proof. Below this foundation layer 2, a drainage 3 designed in a known manner is provided.
  • the surface of the foundation layer 2 is provided with a plane layer 4 made of broken material, e.g. an approximately 3-5 cm thick layer of gravel.
  • the plan layer 4 carries a base layer 5, which can have a thickness of about 5 cm and which consists of bound rubber granulate particles. Bitumen can preferably be used as the binder which holds the individual rubber granulate particles together.
  • the individual rubber granulate particles 6 are not connected to one another over the full area and are also not cast in the bituminous binder, but are only connected to one another point by point. In any case, it is advantageous if less than half of the surface of the rubber granulate particles 6 are covered with binder. It is thereby achieved that the base layer 5 maintains the desired elastic properties, but is nevertheless completely water-permeable.
  • the grain size of the rubber granulate particles 6 is between 0.5 and 15 mm, preferably between 1 and 7.0 mm.
  • a textile floor covering 7 is applied to the surface of the base layer 5 and connected to the base layer 5 by gluing.
  • the adhesive is not applied over the entire surface, but point by point, caterpillar-like, grid-like or meandering. Individual adhesive beads are designated by 8 in FIG. 1. This also ensures that the adhesive layer is permeable to water.
  • the textile floor covering 7 can have a knob-like surface structure, with rubber granules 10 with a grain size of approximately 0.5-1.5 mm without fine particles being sprinkled into the spaces between the knobs 9. This measure further improves the playing comfort.
  • the base layer 5 is simple and inexpensive to produce, since, for example, ground waste tires can be used as rubber granulate particles.

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  1. Revêtement de sol pour courts de tennis, en particulier pour courts extérieurs non couverts, qui s'étend au-dessus d'une couche de fondation (2) de préférence résistante au gel et au-dessus d'une couche égalisatrice (4) en un matériau divisé tel que du gravier ou analogue disposée sur la précédente, une couche portante (5) perméable à l'eau s'étendant sur la couche égalisatrice, caractérisé par la combinaison des caractéristiques suivantes :
    - la couche portante (5) perméable présente des particules de granulés de caoutchouc (6) liées, lesquelles ne sont pas reliées les unes avec les autres sur toute leur surface mais de manière ponctuelle ;
    - sur la couche portante (5) s'étend un revêtement textile (7) perméable à l'eau en fibre synthétique avec une structure de surface inhomogène ;
    - le revêtement textile (7) est collé à la couche portante (5) sur l'ensemble de sa superficie à des endroits choisis, mais pas sur toute sa surface ;
    les particules de granulés de caoutchouc (6) de la couche portante (5) étant reliées entre elles par du bitume.
  2. Revêtement de sol selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le liant pour les particules de granulés de caoutchouc (6) n'adhère qu'à une partie de la surface de chaque particule de granulé de caoutchouc (6).
  3. Revêtement de sol selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la couche portante (5) présente une épaisseur de 2 à 8 cm, avantageusement de 4 à 6 cm.
  4. Revêtement de sol selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la granulométrie des particules de granulés de caoutchouc (6) est de 0,5 à 15 mm, avantageusement de 1,0 à 7,0 mm.
  5. Revêtement de sol selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le revêtement textile (7) est collé à la couche portante (5) de manière ponctuelle.
  6. Revêtement de sol selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que le revêtement textile (7) est collé à la couche portante selon des motifs en torsades, méandres ou treillis.
  7. Revêtement de sol selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que sur le revêtement textile (7) est répandue une couche de granulés de caoutchouc (10) sans fines avec une granulométrie de 0,8 à 1,5 mm.
EP91810020A 1991-01-14 1991-01-14 Revêtement de sol pour courts de tennis Expired - Lifetime EP0495332B1 (fr)

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ES91810020T ES2056616T3 (es) 1991-01-14 1991-01-14 Pavimento para pistas de tenis.
DK91810020.7T DK0495332T3 (da) 1991-01-14 1991-01-14 Overfladebelægning til tennisbaner
DE59101869T DE59101869D1 (de) 1991-01-14 1991-01-14 Bodenbelag für Tennisplätze.
AT91810020T ATE106966T1 (de) 1991-01-14 1991-01-14 Bodenbelag für tennisplätze.
EP91810020A EP0495332B1 (fr) 1991-01-14 1991-01-14 Revêtement de sol pour courts de tennis

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EP0495332B1 true EP0495332B1 (fr) 1994-06-08

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DE9405554U1 (de) * 1994-04-01 1994-06-01 Schöpp, Ralph, 58285 Gevelsberg Bodenbelag, insbesondere für Tennisplätze
FR2807078B1 (fr) 2000-03-29 2002-10-18 Envirosport Revetement de sol sportif, notamment pour courts de tennis et autres jeux de balles
GB2396117B (en) * 2002-12-14 2006-06-28 Nottinghamshire Sports And Saf Improvements relating to the construction of playing surfaces
GB0307672D0 (en) 2003-04-03 2003-05-07 Nottinghamshire Sports And Saf Playing surface structure and method of construction of a playing surface
GB0307671D0 (en) 2003-04-03 2003-05-07 Nottinghamshire Sports And Saf Improvements relating to the construction of playing surfaces
KR20030060088A (ko) * 2003-05-02 2003-07-12 권순일 퍼즐식 배수 깔판과 이를 이용한 잔디구장의 속성 건설공법.

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DE3129837C2 (de) * 1981-07-15 1984-09-20 Otto 4408 Dülmen Bager jun. Tennisbodenbelag
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