Environmental parquet and strip/plank system for flooring, walls and ceilings
Inactive Publication Date: 2008-12-11
EFROS ANATOLI
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[0032] 7/16″ thick parquet of strip/plank solid straight edge, not tongue and groove construction provides 5/16″ thick usable/sandable portion of the product allowing about 10 sandings and 100 years of lifetime usage. Additionally, we can produce 2 pieces of parquet from 4/4″ thick lumber. Therefore, only ½″ of lumber will be out during 100 years of usage. The same product thinner than 7/16″ can be used, but it would not be as environmental as 7/16″ because its sandable th
Problems solved by technology
Parquet flooring, which is a part of this industry, distributed the same way with limited amount of designs and materials available in limited sizes of panels.
No parquet manufacturer knows how and by whom his product is installed.
Therefore, large parquet manufacturers don't make a product specially designed, properly sealed and made from materials, which should be used in its application.
While addressing the basic desirability of using parquet floor, the prior art has failed to address the environmental issues arising out of uneconomical use of the forest, lack of water resistant long-lasting parquet materials, insufficiency of indoor air quality and ability to provide significant energy consumption saving.
One of the major disadvantages of the prior art is waste of the forest to be used for its production.a. Presence of tongue which is about ¼″ wide requires about 10% extra forest to be cut without any usable reason.b. Solid ¾″ thick tongue and groove strip / plank and parquet construction which is being produced from 4 / 4″ thick lumber has a usable or sandable thickness of ⅛″ allowing four sandings.
But those spaces become disastrous in case of pluming leak, water flow from broken pipes, and standing water created by either sprinkler system failure or other flooding problems.
Another disadvantage of prior art is insufficiency of indoor air quality.
In the case of prefinished flooring, which is the biggest and the most growing part of worldwide market today, it does not allow applying any finishing protection on the top of the floor after its installation because otherwise manufacturer's warranties would not be valid.
Unfinished tongue and groove wood floors which are jobsite finished do not provide solid rug because of the movements in the floor.
Tongue and groove factory prefinished or jobsite finished flooring provides conditions for standing water, germs, microbes, bacteria, and other micro organisms creating all kind of unhealthy indoor quality.
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[0034]The objectives of this invention are to create non-destructible and permanently healthy wooden system with lifetime of one hundred years or more to be used for indoor purposes including floors, walls, and ceiling surfaces in the areas with different temperature and moisture conditions—from dry to highly humid conditions where temperature is very high. Additionally, this product might be used outside as well. Areas of applications: buildings, ships, boats, airplanes, etc. For ships, boats and airplanes thinner materials can be used taking weight factor into consideration. When thinner materials are used and additional sanding becomes impossible lifetime of one hundred years or more can be achieved through special maintenance procedure.
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[0035]This system consists of parquet material and properly controllable by manufacturer installation procedure. Parquet material is unfinished solid straight edge, not tongue and groove, 7 / 16″ thick wooden const...
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Parquet and strip / plank is unfinished 7 / 16″ thick solid straight edge construction assembled with a pressure-sensitive adhesive covered transparent non-shrinkable or non-expandable plastic tape on the top. It takes at least 6.6 times less amount of timber to produces this product versus traditional ¾″ thick tongue-and-grooved solid flooring. Strait edged (no tongue-and-grooved) construction is installed with rigid adhesive. The spaces between the floor and walls are filled with adhesive as well. Jobsite finish provides a product with a barrier against water, germs, bacteria and other micro organisms' penetration, creating a healthy indoor air quality conditions. Installed parquet or strip / plank flooring system is non-destructible and eliminates landfill waste. Installation over radiant heated floor provides a significant saving in energy consumption. Proposed distribution system: developer / customer-parquet or strip / plank flooring manufacturer—and manufacturer's approved installer allows a creation of product custom designed for a project.
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[0001]This Utility Application claiming priority of Provisional Application 60 / 933,280 filed on Jun. 5, 2007TECHNICAL FIELD OF INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates generally to wood parquet. In particular, it relates to a system of manufacturing, producing, assembling and installation of parquet on the floor, wall and ceiling. This system allows installed flooring to be waterproof. Further, this system having no germs or other micro organisms will create healthy indoor air quality conditions for environmental purpose.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION[0003]Wood flooring worldwide generally produced for nail down installation in form of strips being 1½″-3″ wide or planks being 3¼″ and wider in tongue and groove “nail-down” construction. Construction of this product is either solid wood having thickness of 5 / 16″-⅞″ or so-called engineered, where a top layer is solid wood having thickness of 1 / 32″- 5 / 32″ and a bottom layer is typically plywood.[0004]Rarely wood flooring is made in form of...
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CPCE04F13/10E04F15/04E04F19/045E04F2201/023E04F2201/07E04F2290/023E04F13/0885Y02B30/00
InventorEFROS, ANATOLI
OwnerEFROS ANATOLI