Tile suitable to drain sloping water

Abstract

 Through the overlap of two layers made in different materials, in particular, a resin layer and a ceramic layer, and the presence of channels to the sides of the tiles, the whole system of pending and overlapping drainage is solved by the underlying resin part while the ceramic part allows a completely smooth, durable and mostly coplanar surface.

Description

STATE OF TECHNIQUE

[0001] Substantially the technology of tile has remained the same for over 2000 years.

[0002] It is based on drain for gravity of the water. The tiles are then designed to be installed in sloping making them overcome always one on one so that the water can flow down but it never filters inside.

[0003] For this reason, the tiles are designed in order to be installed from bottom to top and they are in fact simply supported one on one.

[0004] Even the aesthetics of this technology remains practically the same from more than 2000 years ago and even today it is linked to a "traditional" architectural image of the roof and of the building.

PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED

[0005] The contemporary architecture contemplates flat and smooth surfaces even for the sloping flaps. For this reason "modern" architects never use the slopings flats that is the best solution for the purposes of waterproofing, precisely because the outflow of the water is mechanical and natural due to the slope.

[0006] However today the only way to make a sloping roof cover according to the preferences of contemporary architecture, so completely smooth and flush, is to use a "ventilated wall" set sloping on the roof. This solution, however, results forced because this technology is made precisely for the "walls" and not for the roofs or sloping flaps.

[0007] In fact, the big problem is that the ventilated walls need a supporting substructure which is usually formed by metal frame fixed to the wall which supports the coating. Consequently it is necessary to drill hundreds of holes on the surface of application and drilling hundreds of holes on the roof is never an ideal solution in order to avoid infiltrations of water.

PROPOSED SOLUTIONS

[0008] The solution proposed here is to obtain a sloping coverage that aesthetically is completely coplanar, ensuring the impermeability of the roof covering based on an exclusively mechanical overlap principle and on the natural drain of sloping water.

CONCRETE DESCRIPTION

[0009] The technology is based on the same principle of the "ordinary" tiles but, in order to obtain the coplanarity of the roof covering, introduces an innovation in the design of the object, which is divided into two parts glued each other: one, underlying, is printed in plastic material or thermosetting resin, and the other, overlying, consisting of a completely flat ceramic slab.

[0010] Substantially the sloping drainage system and the overlap are obtained with the underlying resin while the overlying ceramic allows to have a completely smooth surface, resistant but primarily coplanar.

[0011] The drain is made through the overlap of channels on two of four sides of the tile.

[0012] On the upper and right side the resin part presents overlapping channels for the casing of the drains coming from the adjacent tiles on the top and right side while on the bottom and left side the resin presents draining ducts which are inserted into the corresponding channels of the two adjacent down and left tiles.

[0013] The part underneath the plastic can also be equipped with recording systems (for the coplanarity of the surface of the roof in front of a laying surface is not perfectly smooth, and hooking systems and fastening upstream (ie higher than the channel overlap) as indeed expected for the traditional tiles.

[0014] The lower part made in plastic can also be equipped with registration systems (for the coplanarity of the surface of the roof covering against a not perfectly smooth laying surface, and hooking systems and fastening upstream, that is higher than the channel overlap, as indeed also required for traditional tiles).

[0015] The system must be completed with all the special pieces for the ridges and for the lay-sisters considering the verifiable geometric variability and the various types of support structure.

Claims

1. Overlap of two parts: the underlying one, printed in plastic or thermosetting resin, and the upper one consisting of a completely flat ceramic layer;

2. Overlap of channels on two of the four sides of the tile;

3. On the upper side and on the right side of the tile the resin part presents overlap channels for the housing of the drains from the adjacent tiles on top and right side.

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