US3421417A - Pavement - Google Patents
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- US3421417A US3421417A US564167A US3421417DA US3421417A US 3421417 A US3421417 A US 3421417A US 564167 A US564167 A US 564167A US 3421417D A US3421417D A US 3421417DA US 3421417 A US3421417 A US 3421417A
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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
- E01C9/00—Special pavings; Pavings for special parts of roads or airfields
- E01C9/004—Pavings specially adapted for allowing vegetation
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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
- E01C2201/00—Paving elements
- E01C2201/02—Paving elements having fixed spacing features
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02A—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02A30/00—Adapting or protecting infrastructure or their operation
- Y02A30/30—Adapting or protecting infrastructure or their operation in transportation, e.g. on roads, waterways or railways
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- the invention relates to a pavement, which may be made of brick or block.
- a brick or block which may be applied for a pavement is characterized in that it has upon its upper surface one or more grooves and at the edges one or more half-grooves and at its side surfaces such recesses that after the paving one or more horizontal grooves and vertically, one or more continuous apertures or channels will occur in the bond.
- FIG. 1 shows a perspective view on a first embodiment according to the invention
- FIG. 2 shows a top view of the brick of FIG. 1 and shows in phantom cooperating bolcks in a pavement.
- FIG. 3 shows a perspective view on a second embodiment of a brick according to the invention
- FIG. 4 shows a top view of the brick of FIG. 3 and shows in phantom cooperating blocks in a pavement.
- the brick or block shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 has a horizontal cross section in the shape of a square but it is also possible to give this brick or block a rectangular, hexagonal or another shape.
- the sides of this lbrick are provided with recesses or channels 9 which are in a horizontal cross section semicircular and the corners with recesses or channels 10 which are quartercircular in 3,421,417 Patented Jan. 14, 1969 cross section. It will be clear that square, rectangular and otherwise shaped recesses may be applied. Between the recesses there remain fiat pants 8.
- the brick At its bottom the brick is flat, whilst the flat upper surface 7 has, in vertical cross section, recesses or grooves 4, 5, 6 and 6.
- the under side of one recess 5 and the under sides of the semi-recesses 6 are preferably lying at the same height and lower than the under sides of the recess 4 and the half-recesses 6 at the edges.
- the upper edges of the grooves are rounded.
- the brick bond gets two sets of continuous recesses, which sets are perpendicular to each other and one set is preferably deeper than the other.
- hexagonal bricks three sets of recesses may be obtained, with octagonal bricks various sets in which between the flat sides alternately also holes are formed in the bond.
- the grooves 6 and 6' are along edges of the block and grooves 4 and 5 are spaced from edges of the block.
- the grooves intersect so that the intersections of grooves 6 and 6 are at corners of the block and the intersections of grooves 4 and 6' are at edges of the block and intersections of groove 5 and grooves 6 are at edges of the block.
- the intersection of channels 4 and 5 is spaced from the edges of the block.
- the channels 9 and 10 extend from the bottom of a groove intersection through the bottom surface of the block so that, for example, at a corner of the lblOCk there is a groove intersection (intersection of grooves 6 and 6') and a corresponding channel 10.
- In the sides of the block are channels 9 which correspond to the groove intersections at the edges of the block.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 there is no channel corresponding to the intersection of grooves 4 and 5, so that in these figures all the channels are on the periphery of the block and correspond to groove intersections on said periphery.
- the bricks are placed on the ground in a side-by-side arrangement to form one layer of blocks. Subsequently the recesses 1 and 2 between the bricks are filled with earth, as the case may be, sprayed with water and grass or the like is sown. After some time the grass will grow between the bricks in the enclosed channels 1 and 2. The roots are adequately protected as they lie beneath the bricks and in the lower part of the enclosed channels 1 and 2. The grass emerges above the bricks and forms between these bricks and in the recesses or channels 4, 5, 6 and 6 a carpet of turf which conceals the bricks for the greater part or even entirely from view. This gives the impression that nature has not been damaged by paving.
- the bricks may also profitably be used for paving dikes and slopes, strips along the runways of aircraft so that the latter do not run the often fatal risk of braking on the grass alongside such a runway (startingor take-off run) etc.
- the ramps to villas and the like can, without damaging the rural beauty, be widened with such a pavement.
- the bond formed by these bricks is well ridable and motorable, the grass mat covers the brick in such a fashion that it is not or hardly visible, mowing can take place without any difficulty also by motor mower. Long parking does not cause subsidence of the brick which is perhaps a result of the grass vegetation. But, as already mentioned, the pavement may be enabled to carry even heavier loads without obection by e.g. a groove or groove bond.
- the brick shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 is of the same construction as that of FIGS. 1 and 2 but has, additionally, a central hole or enclosed channel 3, by which the number of channels for each brick in the bond is brought from eight to nine. It appeared that this embodiment in which the central enclosed channel hole 3 may be smaller (in the abovementioned example this enclosed channel 3 could have a radius of 2.5 cm.), is the most favourable.
- the various parts are otherwise similarly numbered but with a prime added.
- the central channel 3 extends from the bottom of the intersection of grooves 4 and 5, said intersection and the corresponding channel 3 being spaced from the edges of the block.
- the holes can also be arranged in another way, e.g. exclusively at the corners or exclusively on the centres of the side surfaces 8, with or without a central channel 3.
- the channels 1 and/ or 2 and/ or 3 occurring in the bond or present in the brick as well as one or more grooves 4 and/or 5 are essential.
- the height, the widths and the shape of the brick or block may also be chosen as the occasion requires.
- the grooves and apertures may be directly formed in monolithic concrete, asphalt or other material, such as plastic material, so that in final appearance the pavement will identically resemble the bonded or separate bricks.
- a block for paving having a substantially flat bottom surface and an upper surface and at least two intersecting grooves extending in the plane of said upper surface, at least one of said grooves being spaced from edges of said block, and at least one channel extending from the bottom of the intersection of said grooves through said bottom surface, said intersection and said channel being on the periphery of said block, the order of the width of said channel not substantially exceeding the order of the width of each groove at said intersection so that when said block is placed in a pavement in a side-by-side arrangement with similar blocks, vegetation may grow in said channels and bend in said grooves.
- a block for paving according to claim 1 wherein said intersection is at an edge of said block and said channel lies in a side of said block.
- a block for paving according to claim 1 including at least one intersection at a block corner with a corresponding channel at said corner.
- a block for paving according to claim 1 wherein there is .a groove along each edge of the block, said grooves intersecting at the corners of the block, "a plurality of grooves spaced from the block edges and intersecting the edge grooves on the periphery of the block, and channels on the periphery of the block extending from the bottom of groove intersections through said bottom surface.
- a block for paving according to claim 4 wherein there is a channel on the periphery of the block corresponding to each intersection on the periphery.
- a block for paving according to claim 5 wherein at least two of said grooves spaced from the block edges intersect in a location spaced from the block edges and there is a corresponding channel extending from the bottom of said intersection through said bottom surface.
- a pavement comprising a plurality of paving blocks positioned in a side-by-side arrangement on the ground, each block having a bottom surface and an upper surface and at least two intersecting grooves extending in the plane of said upper surface, at least one of said grooves being spaced from the edges of said block, and at least one channel extending from the bottom of the intersection of said grooves through said bottom surface, the order of the width of said channel not substantially exceeding the order of the width of each groove at said intersection, said intersection and said channel being on the periphery of said block, said blocks being so arranged that channels or the peripheries of adjacent blocks cooperate with each other to form enclosed channels in which vegetation may grow and said vegetation may bend in said grooves, said pavement being constituted by only one layer of blocks.
- a pavement according to claim 14 wherein there is a channel on the periphery of the block corresponding to each intersection on the periphery.
- a pavement according to claim 15 wherein the 1,772,821 8/1930 Weber 94-13 XR upper edges of the grooves are rounded to avoid cutting 2,662,343 12/ 1953 Rice 94-11XR edges for the vegetation. 3,343,648 9/ 1967 Schraudenbach 94-11 18.
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US3557669A (en) * | 1968-06-19 | 1971-01-26 | Matthew Robert Fenton | Paving block and paving formed therewith |
US3597928A (en) * | 1967-12-22 | 1971-08-10 | Jan Carel Pilaar | Erosion control |
US3664241A (en) * | 1970-03-25 | 1972-05-23 | Blackburn J | Methods for producing pavement-like sites |
US3802790A (en) * | 1970-03-25 | 1974-04-09 | J Blackburn | Methods for producing pavement-like sites |
US4896996A (en) * | 1989-01-23 | 1990-01-30 | Mouton William J | Wave actuated coastal erosion reversal system for shorelines |
US4998844A (en) * | 1989-01-23 | 1991-03-12 | Charles C. Garvey, Jr. | Wave actuated coastal erosion reversal system for shorelines |
US5224792A (en) * | 1989-01-05 | 1993-07-06 | Sf-Vollverbundstein Kooperation Gmbh | Shaped (concrete) slab kit |
US5988942A (en) * | 1996-11-12 | 1999-11-23 | Stewart Trustees Limited | Erosion control system |
US20030070384A1 (en) * | 2001-09-15 | 2003-04-17 | Andreas Drost | Ground covering element for making a groove |
WO2016015142A1 (en) * | 2014-07-29 | 2016-02-04 | Oldcastle Building Products Canada Inc. | Grass pavers for increasing visible green space |
US10494770B2 (en) | 2015-11-17 | 2019-12-03 | F. Von Langsdorff Licensing Limited | Paving element having drainage channels and pavement system incorporating same |
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DE10112C (en) * | PH. LAMBERTY in Ehrang bei Trier | Strait pilasters made of burnt clay with a vertical wedge connection | ||
US242689A (en) * | 1881-06-07 | Teeeitoey | ||
US306251A (en) * | 1884-10-07 | Paving-block | ||
US314022A (en) * | 1885-03-17 | Brick | ||
US572762A (en) * | 1896-12-08 | Drainer-floor and tile therefor | ||
US1636114A (en) * | 1926-05-24 | 1927-07-19 | Henry D Streator | Pavement |
US1772821A (en) * | 1929-03-11 | 1930-08-12 | Weber Carl | Concrete revetment |
FR728181A (en) * | 1931-12-12 | 1932-06-30 | Birkenfelder Ton Und Ziegelwer | Brick for lining the upper surface of tunnels |
FR734342A (en) * | 1931-07-02 | 1932-10-19 | Process of reconstitution of rocks starting from all waste of igneous rocks, old paving stones, curbs of sidewalks, etc ... and industrial products resulting therefrom | |
US2662343A (en) * | 1950-06-30 | 1953-12-15 | Robert S Rice | Pavement providing for plant growth |
US3176468A (en) * | 1962-02-27 | 1965-04-06 | Takashi Takada | Block for absorbing water flow energy |
US3343648A (en) * | 1965-10-22 | 1967-09-26 | Nat Marking Machine Co | Conveying means and method |
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DE10112C (en) * | PH. LAMBERTY in Ehrang bei Trier | Strait pilasters made of burnt clay with a vertical wedge connection | ||
US242689A (en) * | 1881-06-07 | Teeeitoey | ||
US306251A (en) * | 1884-10-07 | Paving-block | ||
US314022A (en) * | 1885-03-17 | Brick | ||
US572762A (en) * | 1896-12-08 | Drainer-floor and tile therefor | ||
US1636114A (en) * | 1926-05-24 | 1927-07-19 | Henry D Streator | Pavement |
US1772821A (en) * | 1929-03-11 | 1930-08-12 | Weber Carl | Concrete revetment |
FR734342A (en) * | 1931-07-02 | 1932-10-19 | Process of reconstitution of rocks starting from all waste of igneous rocks, old paving stones, curbs of sidewalks, etc ... and industrial products resulting therefrom | |
FR728181A (en) * | 1931-12-12 | 1932-06-30 | Birkenfelder Ton Und Ziegelwer | Brick for lining the upper surface of tunnels |
US2662343A (en) * | 1950-06-30 | 1953-12-15 | Robert S Rice | Pavement providing for plant growth |
US3176468A (en) * | 1962-02-27 | 1965-04-06 | Takashi Takada | Block for absorbing water flow energy |
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US3597928A (en) * | 1967-12-22 | 1971-08-10 | Jan Carel Pilaar | Erosion control |
US3557669A (en) * | 1968-06-19 | 1971-01-26 | Matthew Robert Fenton | Paving block and paving formed therewith |
US3664241A (en) * | 1970-03-25 | 1972-05-23 | Blackburn J | Methods for producing pavement-like sites |
US3802790A (en) * | 1970-03-25 | 1974-04-09 | J Blackburn | Methods for producing pavement-like sites |
US5224792A (en) * | 1989-01-05 | 1993-07-06 | Sf-Vollverbundstein Kooperation Gmbh | Shaped (concrete) slab kit |
US4896996A (en) * | 1989-01-23 | 1990-01-30 | Mouton William J | Wave actuated coastal erosion reversal system for shorelines |
US4998844A (en) * | 1989-01-23 | 1991-03-12 | Charles C. Garvey, Jr. | Wave actuated coastal erosion reversal system for shorelines |
US5988942A (en) * | 1996-11-12 | 1999-11-23 | Stewart Trustees Limited | Erosion control system |
US20030070384A1 (en) * | 2001-09-15 | 2003-04-17 | Andreas Drost | Ground covering element for making a groove |
WO2016015142A1 (en) * | 2014-07-29 | 2016-02-04 | Oldcastle Building Products Canada Inc. | Grass pavers for increasing visible green space |
US10494770B2 (en) | 2015-11-17 | 2019-12-03 | F. Von Langsdorff Licensing Limited | Paving element having drainage channels and pavement system incorporating same |
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Owner name: REEVES, HERMAN H. NICK, STATELESS Free format text: LICENSE;ASSIGNOR:ERCO SYSTEMS INC A CORP OF LA;REEL/FRAME:003954/0238 Effective date: 19820218 Owner name: ATKINSON FRANCIS S, STATELESS Free format text: LICENSE;ASSIGNOR:ERCO SYSTEMS INC A CORP OF LA;REEL/FRAME:003954/0238 Effective date: 19820218 Owner name: REEVES, HERMAN H. NICK Free format text: LICENSE;ASSIGNOR:ERCO SYSTEMS INC A CORP OF LA;REEL/FRAME:003954/0238 Effective date: 19820218 Owner name: ATKINSON FRANCIS S Free format text: LICENSE;ASSIGNOR:ERCO SYSTEMS INC A CORP OF LA;REEL/FRAME:003954/0238 Effective date: 19820218 |