PAVER WITH CONNECTORS

Abstract

The invention relates to a paving composed of a plurality of individual paving stones with irregularly curved lateral faces. The individual paving stones have, on their irregularly curved lateral faces, chains or partial chains of adjoining, spaced apart strip-shaped connection sections that mesh together in the manner of a gear rack with connection sections of adjoining paving stones. This makes it possible to achieve paving connections even with randomly shaped paving stones.

Claims

1. Pavement formed from a plurality of pavers each having: an irregularly curved side face provided with rows or partial rows of adjacent strip-shaped connector ridges interlocking rack-like with connector ridges of neighboring pavers.

2. The pavement according to claim 1, wherein each of the individual pavers is provided on its irregularly curved side faces with a circumferential row of the connector ridges

3. The pavement according to claim 1, wherein each of the individual pavers is provided on its irregularly curved side faces with a plurality of spaced apart circumferential partial rows of connector ridges.

4. The pavement according to claim 1, wherein lengths of the partial rows correspond to a spacing between the partial rows.

5. The pavement according to claim 1, wherein the partial rows each have two or three of the connector ridges.

6. The pavement according to claim 1, wherein empty sections between the partial rows form infiltration areas.

7. The pavement according to claim 1, further comprising: pavers with flat side faces provided with the rows or partial rows of the adjacent and spaced apart strip-shaped connector ridges that mesh in a rack-like manner with connector ridges of neighboring pavers irregularly curved and/or planar side faces.

8. The pavement according to claim 7, wherein the pavers with planar side faces are rectangular.

9. The pavement according to claim 1, wherein the connector ridges of the pavers are stepped vertically.

10. The pavement according to claim 1, wherein the connector ridges of the pavers have outer edges that are flattened or grooved.

11. The pavement according to claim 1, wherein, in addition to the connector ridges in the lower area of the pavers, further rows of connector ridges are provided that together with the connector ridges form a double composite system.

Description

[0021] The invention is described with reference to embodiments shown in the drawing. Therein:

[0022] FIG. 1 is a top view of part of a first embodiment of a section of pavement; and

[0023] FIG. 2 is a plan view of part of a second embodiment of a section of pavement.

[0024] The section of pavement shown in FIG. 1 consists of three pavers 1, 2 and 3 each having an irregularly curved side face 20, a bottom face and a top face. The pavement shown here can therefore be made of pavers of any shape, that is put together from pavers with randomly curved side faces.

[0025] Each paver 1, 2, 3 has on each of its irregularly curved side face 20 rows of adjacent and mutually spaced connector ridges 4. These connector ridges 4 extend approximately from the bottom face of the respective paver upward to near the respective top face. The connector ridges 4 are of approximately semicircular shape in cross section spaced from one another such that connector ridges of adjacent pavers fit in the gaps between two connector ridges 4 like a rack, as shown in FIG. 1.

[0026] The rows of the connector ridges 4 extend around the entire circumference of the respective paver. In FIG. 1 this is only partially shown.

[0027] When laying the pavement, the individual pavers 1, 2, 3 are put together with at least one connection between adjacent pavers. Such a connection is formed in that a connector ridge 4 of a paver is inserted like a gear into the gap between two connector ridges of the neighboring paver. FIG. 1 shows such a fixation between pavers 2 and 3. If the paver 1 does not fit naturally in this position, the corresponding connector ridges will collide or not fit exactly into the gaps of the neighboring paver, the pavers will accordingly rotate or move until there is a position in which all the pavers engage with each other to mesh. Such a rotated or displaced position of the paver 3 is shown in FIG. 1 at 5 in broken lines.

[0028] Due to the plurality of connector ridges 4, this results during laying of positioning of the pavers in which a mutual engagement of the connector ridges is achieved. For this, the pavers do not have to be of identical or regular shapes.

[0029] In the embodiment of the section of payment shown in FIG. 2, two pavers 1, 2 each with an irregularly curved side face fit with a regularly shaped paver 7 of generally rectangular horizontal section. Here each of the pavers 1 and 7 has a circumferential row of on its side face of strip-shaped connector ridges 4, while the paver 2 on its side face 2 has partial rows 6 of such connector ridges. Here there are between the rows 6 empty areas of the side face serve for example, as seepage areas in the pavement.

[0030] In this embodiment, too, when the pavement is laid, connections or connections 8 are provided between the pavers in which connector ridges 4 of the one paver mesh like a rack into the gaps of connector ridges of the other paver. It is also true here that the arrangement and shape of the connector ridges permit the pavers can be shifted or rotated accordingly when they are put together, thereby meshing with connector ridges of the adjoining pavers with each other.