Covering Element, Method And Machine To Produce Said Covering Element

Abstract

Covering element (10) for surfaces, comprising at least a support (11) made of synthetic material, which is at least partly covered by a finishing layer (12) of hide, leather, their by-products, fake hide, or fabric, natural or synthetic, attached on said support (11) by means of a glue (13).

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention concerns a covering element, such as a tile, a strip, a spline, a tessera or suchlike, having a finishing consisting of a layer of hide, fake hide, leather, natural or synthetic fabric. [0002] The invention is able to be used particularly, but not exclusively, to cover floors and / or walls of buildings; for this reason, in the following description we shall refer to this specific application of the invention, although it can be used in various other fields, for example for covering furnishing elements, such as furniture and other objects. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Tiles are known, having a finishing consisting of a layer of tanned animal hide, or leather, of a fabric or other comparable material, used to cover floors and / or walls of buildings. [0004] Such tiles comprise a support made of multilayer wooden material on which the layer of hide is applied, by means of glue, clinching or nailing, and have a thickness of between ...

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Benefits of technology

[0016] The rigid and stable support allows to overcome the disadvantages deriving from the variations in size connected to the variations in temperature and humidity and thus allows to simplify the laying of the covering element.

[0021] The application of the finishing layer by means of glue allows to reduce the times and costs of producing the covering elements with respect to the state of the art.

[0022] These constructional characteristics also allow to achieve covering elements with substantially any shape and size, for example with a rectangular or square surface, having the sides of between 2 cm and 40 cm, with a considerable increase in versatility and possibility of use of the invention, as will be made clear hereafter.

Problems solved by technology

A first disadvantage of such tiles is their high cost, caused both by the need to use a support made of wooden material of suitable consistency, and also by the technique for attaching the hide to said support.

The use of a wooden support and the attachment technique also constitute a constructional limit, since they do not allow to achieve covering elements of limited size, for example of the size of the tesserae used to make mosaic coverings.

Another disadvantage concerns the variations in size to which wood is subject, according to the variations in temperature and humidity to which it is subjected.

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