US20050072111A1 - Process for modelling tiles and slabs - Google Patents

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US20050072111A1
US20050072111A1 US10/820,010 US82001004A US2005072111A1 US 20050072111 A1 US20050072111 A1 US 20050072111A1 US 82001004 A US82001004 A US 82001004A US 2005072111 A1 US2005072111 A1 US 2005072111A1
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Faustino Mucci
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F15/00—Flooring
    • E04F15/02—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28D—WORKING STONE OR STONE-LIKE MATERIALS
    • B28D1/00—Working stone or stone-like materials, e.g. brick, concrete or glass, not provided for elsewhere; Machines, devices, tools therefor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28D—WORKING STONE OR STONE-LIKE MATERIALS
    • B28D1/00—Working stone or stone-like materials, e.g. brick, concrete or glass, not provided for elsewhere; Machines, devices, tools therefor
    • B28D1/30—Working stone or stone-like materials, e.g. brick, concrete or glass, not provided for elsewhere; Machines, devices, tools therefor to form contours, i.e. curved surfaces, irrespective of the method of working used
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28D—WORKING STONE OR STONE-LIKE MATERIALS
    • B28D7/00—Accessories specially adapted for use with machines or devices of the preceding groups
    • B28D7/04—Accessories specially adapted for use with machines or devices of the preceding groups for supporting or holding work or conveying or discharging work
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F13/00—Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings
    • E04F13/07—Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor
    • E04F13/08—Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor composed of a plurality of similar covering or lining elements
    • E04F13/14—Coverings or linings, e.g. for walls or ceilings composed of covering or lining elements; Sub-structures therefor; Fastening means therefor composed of a plurality of similar covering or lining elements stone or stone-like materials, e.g. ceramics concrete; of glass or with an outer layer of stone or stone-like materials or glass
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F2203/00—Specially structured or shaped covering, lining or flooring elements not otherwise provided for
    • E04F2203/08—Specially structured or shaped covering, lining or flooring elements not otherwise provided for with a plurality of grooves or slits in the back side, to increase the flexibility or bendability of the elements

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  • the invention relates to a process for modelling tiles and/or slabs which have a “visible”, or upper surface, and a laying surface, or lower surface, where the tiles or slabs are not flat.
  • the prior art includes corner finishes using ceramic tiles, one of which applications consists in making special products formed by pressing or extrusion and fired in a kiln.
  • the main aim of the present invention is to obviate the drawbacks in the prior art by providing a process for modelling tiles and/or slabs so that they take on a non-flat configuration without any need for complex and expensive known constructional technologies.
  • the invention proposes in particular to solve the problem of tile or slab modelling when corner pieces are to be made, with convex in-view surfaces.
  • the process comprises the following stages: cutting at least one groove into the upper surface to a depth therein which is only a part thereof; fixing a thin and flexible temporary support element to the upper surface; making at least one recess which, starting from the lower surface covers the entire width of the body of the tile in a position corresponding to the groove, but not the support element; the recess separating the body of the tile into at least two parts, totally separated; nearing the two parts of the tile by bending the thin and flexible temporary support element which keeps the at least two parts of tile (separated by the recess) united, so that the tile is fashioned into the non-flat predetermined conformation.
  • FIG. 1 shows, in a plan view, the result of a first operative stage of the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a section made according to line I-I of FIG. 1 ;
  • FIG. 3 shows, in the section of FIG. 2 , the result of a second operative stage of the invention
  • FIG. 4 schematically shows, in the same section as in FIG. 3 , performance of a subsequent stage of the invention
  • FIG. 5 schematically shows the result of the operative stage shown in FIG. 4 ;
  • FIG. 6 schematically shows a laying operation of the product of the invention.
  • 1 denotes in its entirety a tile or slab exhibiting a visible surface, or what is usually called an upper surface 1 a (the decorated surface) and a laying surface, usually called a lower surface 1 b.
  • the invention provides a process having the following work stages on the tile: cutting at least one groove 2 into the upper surface 1 a to a depth therein which is only a part thereof;
  • the support element 3 can be removed and is advantageously self-adhesive, i.e. is constituted by a sheet of self-adhesive material which can be easily applied to the upper surface 1 a once the grooves 2 have been made.
  • the tile 1 with the support element 3 applied thereon is then subjected to a cutting operation, schematically illustrated in FIG. 4 , in which a plurality of recesses 4 are cut, starting from the lower surface 1 b and covering the whole width of the tile 1 body at a same position as the grooves 2 but not cutting the support element 3 .
  • the recesses 4 separate the body of the tile 1 into a plurality of parts, totally separated one from another.
  • the recesses 4 are made using V-shaped grinders, each of which generates—in the still-flat tile—a groove which is delimited by two converging sides towards a corresponding groove 2 on the opposite upper surface 1 a.
  • the tile 1 Once the tile 1 has been cut it is in two parts, totally separate one from another, but held together in the original positions thereof, before the cut, by the support element 3 , which is flexible and thus enables a different reciprocal positioning of the parts.
  • this reciprocal positioning possibility can be used to make, as is schematically illustrated in FIG. 6 , a non-flat conformation which is in particular constituted by an angular convex finishing, i.e. with the upper surface 1 a in a convex conformation.
  • This conformation can easily be realized through a bending of the portion of the support element 3 which keeps the parts of the tile 1 united; in this way the tile 1 can be bent to reach the desired non-flat conformation.
  • the support element 3 After setting, for example using cement or grout 6 , the support element 3 can easily be removed.

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IT000255A ITMO20030255A1 (it) 2003-09-19 2003-09-19 Procedimento per modellare piastrelle e/o lastre.
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US3557840A (en) * 1968-05-09 1971-01-26 Atlas Chem Ind Cellular plastic foam insulation board structures
US3619457A (en) * 1968-09-20 1971-11-09 Thermoform Plastics Inc Method of forming structural units
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US3654053A (en) * 1969-11-19 1972-04-04 Re Flect O Lite Corp Decorative panel plate board or the like and method of fabricating same
US3841958A (en) * 1971-09-02 1974-10-15 R Delorme Reinforced structural element and method of making the same
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