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• • 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
  • E04F13/147—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 with an outer layer imitating natural stone, brick work or the like

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• the present invention relates to an artificial stone facing consisting of elementary facade and corner slabs as well as the slabs for producing the facing.
• a facing of the aforementioned type in which each slab is shaped to present the appearance of an assembly of several stones separated by joint lines is known in particular from patent FR-A-1,366,104 which describes modular molded elements whose facing face has a plurality of rectangular raised portions having the appearance of real building stones separated by grooves having the appearance of facing joints, the vertical edges of these elements respectively having a projecting shape and a complementary re-entrant shape allowing nesting of said elements in a horizontal direction.
• each modular element comprising a main body corresponding to a quadrangular mesh and having laterally on the one hand a projecting part or protrusion on two of its perpendicular sides and on the other hand a notch in its two other perpendicular sides.
• a solution allows an assembly of elements by means of a single type of modular element.
• this solution has the disadvantage of having a modular element having a large number of protrusions which make the modular element fragile, in particular during its storage or during its installation. Furthermore, the multiplicity of these protuberances, necessary for assembly by interlocking, makes the modular element bulky so that storage and packaging are particularly expensive. Finally, the fact of having a single type of modular element which can be assembled with the same type of modular element generates a regularity of the assembly which generates the formation of regular configurations which are capable of revealing the factitious nature of the facing.
• An object of the present invention is to provide a facing of a new type, this facing having the same installation advantages as those described in one state of the art while having a space requirement during storage and limited packaging and a possibility of '' assembling the said elements of the facing without revealing the factitious nature of the latter.
• the invention relates to a facing of artificial stones consisting of elementary slabs of facade and corner, each slab being shaped to present the appearance of an assembly of several stones separated by joint lines, the facade slabs being of generally substantially rectangular shape, and having on their opposite transverse sides respectively a profile male and a female profile, aligned to ensure the assembly of the slabs, characterized in that: four dif ferentiated elementary slabs form a laying module which can be assembled by j uxtaposition or superposition on a similar laying module, said module being formed of a first row of two tiles and a second row of two tiles offset from those of the first row, - the first row consisting of a first tile whose longitudinal edge is at a first distance from the male or female profile, and a second slab whose longitudinal edge is at a second distance from the male or female profile different from the first distance e so that the longitudinal edge of the slabs forms a broken line with a pitch corresponding to a slab length, the second row consisting of a third slab
• the corner notches of the third slab and of the fourth slab of the second row form, in the assembled state, slabs, along one of the longitudinal edges of said slabs, a notch for absorb the height offset between the two first row tiles and, along the opposite longitudinal edge, a height offset compensation projection of a stacked module.
• the invention also relates to an elementary facade slab characterized in that it is intended for producing a facing of artificial stones of the aforementioned type.
• Another subject of the invention is an elementary corner slab, characterized in that it is intended for producing a facing of artificial stones of the aforementioned type.
• FIG. 1 represents a schematic view of a module formed by an assembly of four tiles in accordance with the invention
• FIG. 2 represents a schematic view of a facing obtained by assembling linear modules and angles and having a salient angle
• FIG. 3 represents a schematic view of a facing conforming to that of FIG. 2 in which the detail of the patterns of each slab has been shown;
• FIG. 4 represents a schematic view of a facing for producing a re-entrant angle with the use only of the linear modules and
• FIG. 5 represents a schematic view of different models of the same slab.
• the invention relates to a facing of artificial stones imitating the appearance of traditional masonry of dry stones or stones with joints.
• This facing 1 consists of elementary facade tiles, shown in 2 in the figures, and elementary corner tiles, shown in 3 in the figures.
• Each facade slab 2 or corner slab 3 is generally obtained by molding a composition based on a synthetic resin, preferably a polyester resin, and mineral fillers such as fillers of quartz, silica, marble or others to give the slab produced the appearance of an assembly of several stones 11 separated by joint lines 12 as illustrated in FIG. 4 in which several models of a facade slab 2 have been represented, each model corresponding to a different mold footprint.
• Each monobloc slab thus produced has a thickness generally between 12 and 15 mm. This thickness can be increased in particular for load-bearing walls.
• Each slab can thus be affixed to a generally vertical support, inside or outside. It can, similarly, be applied on a horizontal support.
• masonry can be cited in hollow or solid concrete blocks, in terracotta blocks covered with a traditional coating. or monolayer, concrete, aerated concrete, plaster, plaster tiles, cardboard plasterboard, etc.
• the composition of the slabs makes it possible to obtain products permeable to water vapor by non-gelling joints, of very low porosity, so as to facilitate their maintenance. These tiles are characterized in particular by their ease of cleaning when they are coated with graffiti.
• This facing 1 of artificial stones is obtained by assembling modules M, an exemplary embodiment of which is shown in FIG. 1.
• This module M consists of four elementary slabs 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, differentiated.
• Such a module M can be assembled by juxtaposition or superposition on a similar laying module.
• similar is meant a module whose exterior profile is identical but whose surface may have a different appearance.
• Each module M is formed of a first row of two tiles 2A, 2B, each tile of this row having at least one male profile 4 and one female profile 5 on two of its lateral edges, called opposite transverse edges.
• the male profile 4 and the female profile 5 of a slab 2A of this row of two slabs are positioned at a distance from a longitudinal edge 6 of the slab 2A different from the other slab 2B of the row to create a line Ll broken horizontal with a pitch corresponding to a length of slab canceling a visual and repetitive effect between two assembled modules.
• the female 5 and male 4 profiles of the slab 2A are arranged at a distance Dl from the upper longitudinal edge of the slab 2A while the male profile 4 and the female profile 5 of the slab 2B are arranged at a distance D2 from the longitudinal edge of the slab 2B, D2 being greater than Dl to generate an offset between said slabs when these slabs 2A, 2B are assembled by interlocking and positioned side by side.
• This module M is also made up of a second row of tiles 2C, 2D assembled by their longitudinal edges to the first row of tiles 2A, 2B. These tiles 2C, 2D are offset in the examples shown by half a length with respect to the tiles 2A, 2B of the first row.
• These tiles 2C, 2D have diagonally opposite notches 7, 8 on their longitudinal edges.
• the notches 7, which affect the general shape of an elongated L, form, in the assembled state, slabs 2C, 2D at the upper longitudinal edge of said slabs, a projection 10 for compensating for the height offset of a stacked module.
• each slab 2C, 2D of the second row, as well as each slab 2A, 2B of the first row, has on its opposite transverse edges a male profile 4 and a female profile 5 aligned to ensure the assembly of the slabs.
• the aligned male 4 and female 5 profiles of a faceplate 2 respectively have one the shape of a tongue, the other the shape of a recess of geometrical shape complementary to the tongue. It should be noted that these same profiles are used for corner tiles 3.
• slabs corner 3 consist of facade tiles whose transverse edge is cut along a line L2 passing through the vertical edges of the notches 7, 8 for the tiles 2C, 2D of the second row of the module and combined with the baseline of the male profiles 4 for the tiles 2A, 2B of the first row.
• This cutting line L2 is more particularly shown in FIG. 3 in which the slab parts shown in black correspond to the slab parts which had to be cut before the laying of said slabs.
• these corner tiles have a beveled edge.

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