EP0620330B1 - Stegelement für begehbaren Abdeckrost - Google Patents

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EP0620330B1
EP0620330B1 EP94103435A EP94103435A EP0620330B1 EP 0620330 B1 EP0620330 B1 EP 0620330B1 EP 94103435 A EP94103435 A EP 94103435A EP 94103435 A EP94103435 A EP 94103435A EP 0620330 B1 EP0620330 B1 EP 0620330B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
    • E04H4/00—Swimming or splash baths or pools
    • E04H4/12—Devices or arrangements for circulating water, i.e. devices for removal of polluted water, cleaning baths or for water treatment
    • E04H4/1209—Treatment of water for swimming pools
    • E04H4/1218—Devices for removal of polluted water; Circumferential gutters
    • E04H4/1227—Circumferential gutters
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04C—STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS
    • E04C2/00—Building elements of relatively thin form for the construction of parts of buildings, e.g. sheet materials, slabs, or panels
    • E04C2/30—Building elements of relatively thin form for the construction of parts of buildings, e.g. sheet materials, slabs, or panels characterised by the shape or structure
    • E04C2/42—Gratings; Grid-like panels

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  • the invention relates to a web element for a walk-on cover grating composed of web elements in the form of a rod having a step surface.
  • Walk-on cover grates can be found in various areas, for example as cover grids for underfloor heating shafts, ventilation and air-conditioning shafts, etc.
  • walk-on cover grids can be found as covers for flood channels running in the edge area of swimming pools.
  • Modern swimming pools have swimming pools whose water surface is on the same level as the pool floor surrounding the swimming pool. Since the surface of the water is never completely calm, for example because of the swimmers moving in the swimming pool, because guests of the swimming pool jumping into the water, etc., water waves regularly get onto the accessible floor of the swimming pool.
  • flood channels are arranged in the edge area of modern swimming pools, which absorb and discharge the overflowing amounts of water. Because of the aesthetic Overall impression of the swimming pool, in order to avoid stumbling points for the bathers and to create a flat, walkable area starting from the swimming pool floor to the edge of the swimming pool, the flood channels described are covered. Since the water running over the edge of the swimming pool must not be hindered by a cover, these covers are designed in the form of walk-on cover grids.
  • Known walk-in cover grates such as GB-A-1,038,922, in particular for covering the flood channels described, are composed of web elements, each of which has the shape of a support or rod, the ends of which rest on a support surface and are subjected to bending stress.
  • the cross section of such a beam is generally rectangular or T-shaped, the upper side surface of the rod or support being designed as a step surface.
  • Such web elements for walk-on cover gratings are manufactured and sold, for example, by the company Abu-Plast-Kunststoff dese GmbH, D-8633 Rödental, and are described in the house brochure "abuperfect swimming pool gratings".
  • Web elements are known which are arranged individually transversely to the edge of the pool, that is to say transversely to the longitudinal axis of the flood channel, and rest with their respective ends on recessed support surfaces formed in the wall of the trough with the height of the rod or web element.
  • the individual web elements are connected to one another transversely to their main dimension, that is to say in the direction of the flood channel, by means of tie rods, spacer sleeves integrally formed with the web elements keeping the web elements at a distance, so that gaps (free cross-section) remain free between them through the overflowing water can expire.
  • the web elements are parallel to the edge of the pool, i. H. arranged in the longitudinal direction of the trough and connected to one another by transverse webs extending at right angles to their main dimension.
  • Web elements and cross bars are in one piece and together form a grating element that is used as a cover grate component.
  • Several of the components can be arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the trough with molded guide pins.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of improving a web element of the generic type for a walk-on grating composed of web elements so that the risk of slipping for the person entering the grating is reduced.
  • the solution to this problem is characterized in a generic web element characterized in that the tread has a non-slip profile.
  • the profiling is raised from the tread protruding ribs formed.
  • a profiling according to the invention formed from ribs, on the one hand the positive and frictional engagement between the tread surface and the sole of the foot of the swimmer who is covering the grating or the like.
  • dry areas are offered through the rib apex areas which protrude from the water and which can be touched by the sole of the swimmer's foot.
  • a drainage effect is created by the ribs.
  • the longitudinal axes of the ribs are arranged at an acute angle to the long side of the rectangular tread, in particular at an angle of 45 °.
  • a rib can be arranged as a diagonal in the square area of a group, the square groups preferably being separated from one another by rib-free areas.
  • the longitudinal axes of the ribs of adjacent, square groups intersect at an angle of 90 °.
  • the described preferred features of the profiling improve the slip resistance because a part of the ribs runs transversely to the other ribs, so that when the foot slides on the tread in the direction of part of the ribs, the other ribs, which are arranged transversely thereto, one represent particularly high slip resistance. Furthermore, the drainage of water through the Rib-free areas are favored and in particular the thorough cleaning of the tread area, which is particularly necessary in the swimming pool area, is not made more difficult.
  • the special arrangement of the ribs in the form of square groups with intermediate rib-free areas ensures, for example, that the bristles of a cleaning brush can capture particles located in the intermediate rib area and, after a short distance, can convey them into a rib-free area from where the particles can be easily removed .
  • each group has five ribs and that the cross section of the ribs is essentially semicircular.
  • the latter feature contributes in particular to the pleasing design of the web elements and improves the haptic qualities of the step surface, i. H.
  • a compromise is created between a particularly good, anti-slip effect, as would be achieved by a sharp-edged profile, and the requirement that the swimming pool visitor with his bare sole of the foot on the tread surface should not find the profile uncomfortable.
  • a micro-profiling is superimposed on the ribs forming a macro-profiling.
  • Such a micro-profiling can have a grain, for example. Such a configuration further improves the slip resistance.
  • the web element according to the invention is made of plastic.
  • the proposed one Design of a web element is particularly suitable for mass production on injection molding machines.
  • Figures 1 to 3 show a web element 10, which - as Figure 2 shows - is designed in the form of a rod which has a substantially T-shaped cross section 12.
  • the upper side of the web element 10 forms a step surface 14.
  • the wall element 10 is supported with two end regions 161 and 16r on corresponding support surfaces (not shown) formed in the wall of a flood channel and by the weight of a person standing on the foot surface 14 Bending stressed.
  • the web element 10 has fastening bores 181 and 18r running at right angles to the main dimension, which lead through spacer sleeves 201 and 20r which extend away on one side.
  • receiving bores are aligned with them, of which one, 22r, is visible in a broken area in FIG. 3.
  • the spacer sleeves 20l, 20r of one web element 10 are inserted into the corresponding receiving bores 22 of an adjacent web element 10 and the total number of all web elements 10 is held together by correspondingly long tie rods (not shown) which are guided through the fastening bores 18l and 18r.
  • the tread surface 14 of the web element 10 has a profiling which is formed by ribs 30 protruding from the tread surface 14.
  • the ribs 30 are each grouped into groups 32, which cover a substantially rectangular area of the tread surface 14.
  • the longitudinal axes 34 of the ribs 30 run at an angle ⁇ of 45 ° to the longitudinal sides 36 of the tread surface 14.
  • the longitudinal axes 34 of the ribs 30 of two respectively adjacent groups 32 form an angle ⁇ of 90 ° with one another.
  • Two adjacent groups 32 of the ribs 30 are separated from one another by a rib-free region 38.
  • the advantage of this embodiment is that water located between the ribs 30 along short paths in the direction of the arrows shown in FIG. 3 from the areas of the tread surface 14 occupied by the rib groups 32 into the rib-free areas 38 can flow and from there via a long side 36 into the flood channel located under the web element 10.
  • the ribs of the profiling therefore do not hinder the outflow of water compared to a ribless or profileless design of a web element.
  • the bristles of a cleaning brush can also engage in the direction of the arrows shown in FIG. 3, so that thorough cleaning is also possible profiling is possible, which is of eminent importance in the swimming pool area.
  • the cross section of the ribs 30 is essentially semicircular in order to produce pleasant haptic qualities for a bare sole of the foot.
  • the macro-profiling of the step surface 14 formed by the ribs 30 can be overlaid with a micro-profile in the form of a grain, which further improves the slip resistance of the step surface.
  • FIGS. 4 to 5 alternatively show a cover grate component 108, which consists of web elements 110 which are connected to one another by transverse webs 111, webs 110 and Crosspieces 111 are integrally molded from plastic.
  • the webs 110 run parallel to the longitudinal axis of the flood channel to be covered, while the cross webs 111 rest on bearing surfaces formed in the wall of the flood channel.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 Identical parts of the exemplary embodiment shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 are designated by reference numerals which are 100 times higher than the corresponding reference numerals of the web element according to the invention shown in FIGS. 1 to 3.
  • the cover grate 108 shown by way of example has spacer sleeves 142 arranged in the longitudinal direction of the web elements 110, which can engage in receptacle holes 144 of an adjacent cover grate component arranged opposite each other, so that several cover grate components can be plugged together until the total length of the cover grate is equal to the total length of the flood channel to be covered.
  • the inventive design of a web element with a profiled, non-slip tread surface for use in a walk-on cover grate creates a possibility, especially for the swimming pool area, to cover manholes and channels accidentally without having to give up hygiene standards.

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EP94103435A 1993-03-12 1994-03-07 Stegelement für begehbaren Abdeckrost Expired - Lifetime EP0620330B1 (de)

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AT (1) ATE146544T1 (no)
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DK (1) DK0620330T3 (no)
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DE29511728U1 (de) * 1995-07-20 1995-09-28 Domnick, Arno, 49808 Lingen Stabrost
DE29706089U1 (de) 1997-04-09 1997-05-22 Westrick, Ludger, Dipl.-Ing., 46342 Velen Trägerprofil

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GB722224A (en) * 1952-08-08 1955-01-19 Ewart Blanch Herbert Improvements in or relating to gully gratings
GB1038921A (en) * 1964-09-16 1966-08-10 Edward Charles Hallock Gratings
CA1158568A (en) * 1982-07-21 1983-12-13 Archibald H.R. Mccoy Frame and cover members for constructing apertures in road surfaces
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