SEALING SHEET AND ADHESIVE TAPE FOR WET ROOMS

Abstract

A sealing for arrangement between a wall and a wall covering includes a sealing sheet and an adhesive tape. The sealing sheet and the adhesive tape each have a carrier layer of a preferably closed-cell foam plastic. Furthermore, the sealing sheet can bear a nonwoven fabric preferably on the wall-facing side, wherein border strips remain free of the nonwoven fabric for underlapping with an adhesive tape.

Claims

1.-12. (canceled)

13. A sealing sheet for arrangement between a wall and a wall covering, said sealing sheet comprising: a water impermeable carrier layer made of a closed-cell foamed plastic and having an elongation at break of over 300%; and an adhesion mediating structure arranged on the carrier layer on a room-facing side of the sealing sheet.

14. The sealing sheet of claim 13, wherein the adhesion mediating structure is a non-woven.

15. A sealing sheet for arrangement between a wall and a wall covering, said sealing sheet comprising: a water impermeable carrier layer made of a foamed plastic and; and an adhesion mediating structure arranged directly on the carrier layer on a room-facing side of the sealing sheet, said adhesion mediating structure being constructed as a non-woven.

16. The sealing sheet of claim 13, wherein the sealing sheet has a further adhesion mediating structure provided on a wall-facing side of the sealing sheet, wherein preferably at least one border strip of the sealing sheet is free of the further adhesion mediating structure.

17. The sealing sheet of claim 13, wherein the sealing sheet has an adhesive layer provided on a wall-facing side of the sealing sheet.

18. The sealing sheet of claim 17, wherein the adhesive layer is applied over an entire surface of the wall-facing side or is limited to at least one border strip of the wall-facing side of the sealing sheet.

19. The sealing sheet of claim 13, wherein the foamed plastic is a closed-cell plastic and/or is physically crosslinked; and/or contains at least one of polyolefin, polyethylene, polyurethane, silicone, cellular rubber, acrylic foam, and/butyl; and/or has a elongation at break of over 300%; and /or a thickness of less than about 5 mm, preferably less than about 1 mm, particularly preferably less than about 0.6 mm

20. The sealing sheet of claim 17, wherein the adhesive layer contains at least one of butyl, synthetic rubber, a crosslinked acrylate, an un-crosslinked acrylate and an adhesive dispersion.

21. The sealing sheet of claim 13, wherein the sealing sheet is configured as a sleeve for a shower drain line, wherein preferably at least one border strip of the sealing sheet is free of the adhesion mediating structure.

22. A sealing kit for arrangement between a wall and a wall covering, said sealing kit comprising: a sealing sheet being of one of two constructions, a first construction in which the sealing sheet comprises a water impermeable carrier layer made of a closed cell foamed plastic and has an elongation at break of over 300%, and an adhesion mediating structure arranged on the carrier layer on a room-facing side of the sealing sheet, a second construction in which the sealing sheet comprises a water impermeable carrier layer made of a foamed plastic, and an adhesion mediating structure constructed as a non-woven arranged directly on the carrier layer on a room-facing side of the sealing sheet; and an adhesive strip comprising another carrier layer made of a foamed plastic and an adhesive layer arranged under the support layer on a wall- facing side of the adhesive strip.

23. The sealing kit of claim 22. wherein the sealing sheet is of the first construction, and wherein the adhesion mediating structure is a non-woven.

24. The sealing kit of claim 22, wherein the sealing sheet has a further adhesion mediating structure on a wall-facing side of the sealing sheet, wherein preferably at least one border strip of the sealing sheet is free of the further adhesion mediating structure.

25. The sealing kit of claim 22, wherein the sealing sheet has an adhesive layer provided on a wall-facing side of the sealing sheet.

26. The sealing kit of claim 25, wherein the adhesive layer is applied over an entire surface of the wall-facing side of the sealing sheet or is limited to at least one border strip of the wall-facing side of the sealing sheet.

27. The sealing kit of claim 22, wherein an adhesive layer is arranged on a room-facing side of the adhesive strip.

28. The sealing kit of claim 22, wherein the foamed plastic is a closed-cell plastic and/or is physically crosslinked, and/or contains at least one of polyolefin, polyethylene, polyurethane, silicone, cellular rubber, acrylic foam, and butyl, and/or has a elongation at break of over 300%, and/or a thickness of less than about 5 mm, preferably less than about 1 mm, particularly preferably less than about 0.6 mm.

29. The sealing kit of claim 27, wherein the adhesive layer contains at least one of butyl, synthetic rubber, a crosslinked acrylate, an un-crosslinked acrylate and an adhesive dispersion.

30. The sealing kit of claim 22, wherein the adhesive strip is three-dimensionally shaped as an inner corner or as an outer corner.

31. A watertight wall closure, comprising: a wall; optionally an adhesive strip with a support layer made of a foamed plastic and an adhesive layer arranged on a wall-facing side of the adhesive strip under the support layer; a sealing sheet being of one of two constructions, a first construction in which the sealing sheet comprises a water impermeable carrier layer made of a closed cell foamed plastic and has an elongation at break of over 300%, and an adhesion mediating structure arranged on the carrier layer on a room-facing side of the sealing sheet, a second construction in which the sealing sheet comprises a water impermeable carrier layer made of a foamed plastic, and an adhesion mediating structure constructed as a non-woven arranged directly on the carrier layer on a room-facing side of the sealing sheet; and a wall covering arranged by means of a tile glue or the like on the adhesion mediating structure.

32. The watertight wall closure of claim 31, wherein the sealing sheet is of the first construction and wherein the adhesion mediating structure is a non-woven.

Description

[0040] In the following the invention is explained exemplarily in more detail by way of the Figures. Hereby it is shown in:

[0041] FIG. 1 a schematic cross section through a wall covering with a sealing set according to a first embodiment of the invention, in which both sides of the adhesive strip are configured self-adhesive and the sealing sheet caries a non-woven material on its wall-facing side;

[0042] FIG. 2 separately the sealing sheet of the sealing kit of FIG. 1;

[0043] FIG. 3 separately the sealing strip of the sealing kit of FIG. 1 with removable films;

[0044] FIG. 4 a schematic cross section through a wall covering with a sealing kit according to a second embodiment of the invention, in which the border strips of the sealing sheet are provided with an adhesive layer;

[0045] FIG. 5 a schematic cross section through a wall covering with a sealing kit according to a third embodiment of the invention in which the sealing sheets are provided on the entire surface of their wall-facing side with an adhesive layer;

[0046] FIG. 6 the arrangement of a sealing sheet above a shower drain line;

[0047] FIG. 7 the arrangement of rectangular inner corners and outer corners in a room;

[0048] FIG. 8 the arrangement of a rectangular inner corner;

[0049] FIG. 9 the arrangement of pyramid-shaped inner corners and outer corners in a room;

[0050] FIG. 10 the arrangement of a pyramid shaped inner corner.

[0051] FIG. 1 shows a schematic cross section of a wall construction, which is produced with a sealing kit 100 according to a first embodiment of the invention. The sealing kit is hereby arranged between the wall W and a wall covering B (for example tiles). It includes two basic components, i.e., (see FIGS. 2 and 3):

[0052] sealing sheets 110, which include a support layer 111 made of a closed-cell foamed plastic and are provided on their room-facing side (in FIG. 1 top) with a non-woven 113 as adhesion mediating structure. In the shown embodiment furthermore an adhesion mediating structure in the form of a non-woven 112 is present on the wall-facing side of the support layer 111, which non-woven 112 however only extends in a middle region. The neighboring border strips remain free of non-woven typically on a width of 20 to 100 mm so that no glue can adhere at this location.

[0053] adhesive strips 120, which also include a support layer 121 made of a closed-cell foamed plastic (for example identical to the foamed plastic 111 of the sealing sheet 110), and are provided on their wall-facing side with an adhesive layer 122. The adhesive layer 122 is hereby covered prior to processing (see FIG. 3) by a removable protective film, which is preferably divided into two strips 123a and 123b in longitudinal direction. In the shown exemplary embodiment the adhesive strips 120 are also provided on their room-facing side with an adhesive layer 124, wherein this adhesive layer is also optionally protected by two removable films 124a and 124b.

[0054] The wall is constructed so that first (after removing the protective films 123a, 123b) the adhesive strips 120 are glued at an appropriate distance (determined by the width of the non-woven 112 on the sealing sheets) onto the wall (or the floor). Then the interspace between the adhesive strips is filled with tile glue FK or other construction chemistry. In the next step a sealing sheet 110 is glued dry on the right hand and left hand side on adhesive strips (underlap) and is centrally embedded in the tile glue FK or the construction chemistry. Finally the wall covering B (for example tiles) is applied onto the non-woven 113 of the sealing sheets by means of a tile glue FK.

[0055] FIG. 4 shows an alternative embodiment of a sealing kit 200, wherein same or similar components are provided with reference numerals that are incremented by 100. The difference with respect of the sealing kit 100 of FIGS. 1 to 3 is that the adhesive layer 214 which connects the adhesive strips 220 and sealing sheets 210 with each other, is now arranged by the manufacturer on the border strips on the wall-facing side of the sealing sheets 210, while the room-facing side of the adhesive strips 220 remains free of adhesive (prior to processing).

[0056] FIG. 5 shows a further alternative embodiment of a sealing kit 300, wherein the components that are the same or similar to those in FIG. 1 are provided with reference numerals that are incremented by 200. The difference with respect to the sealing kit 100 of FIGS. 1 to 3 is that the sealing sheet 310 is provided with an adhesive layer 314 on the entire surface of the wall-facing side, which adhesive layer 314 is protected prior to processing by a removable film 315. Such a sealing sheet 310 can thus be installed dry. The adhesive strip 320 is essentially identical to the adhesive strip 220 of FIG. 4.

[0057] The support layers 111, 121, 211, 221, 311 and 321 in the described sealing sheets and adhesive strips can in particular be made of a physically crosslinked plastic, for example a polyolefin foam. The thickness of the support layers can preferably be between about 0.3 mm and about 0.6 mm. The elongation at break of the support layers is preferably over 300%, for example about 450%. Due to the foam structure of the support layer 311 the support layer can come into particularly close contact with a wall surface, which results in good grip. At the same time the support layer made of foamed plastic has a certain stiffness which makes processing easier (avoidance of folds, kinks, air bubbles etc.).

[0058] When adhesive layers are protected with removable film the removable film can be removed longitudinally or transversely in steps, wherein a special grid of separating lines through the removable film ensures a clean self-defined separation.

[0059] FIG. 6 shows as an example for a line drainage the integration of a shower drain line DR in a sealing sheet 310 installed on the floor. The shower drain line DR (or in the case of point drainages the drain or the pipe) is hereby first glued over with a sealing sheet 310, with care being taken that no abutment of sheets is present above the drain line. Then the drain opening is cut out flush inside with a knife. Due to the adhesive layer 314 on the wall-facing side the sealing sheet 310 adheres sealingly on the horizontal flange of the (typically metallic) shower drain line DR.

[0060] FIG. 7 shows two rectangular inner corners IE and an outer corner AE, which are made of the material of an adhesive strip and are pre-shaped in a corresponding three-dimensional shape. This three-dimensional shape can for example be realized by deep drawing. The inner corners IE are delimited by rectangular corners.

[0061] FIG. 8 exemplarily illustrates in nine steps the arrangement of a rectangular inner corner. Hereby the pre-shaped inner corner is first folded, then glued to a corner on the floor, raised and glued to the walls. As an alternative the inner corners or outer corners can also solely be made of a foamed plastic layer, i.e., they carry no adhesive and no non-woven.

[0062] FIG. 9 shows in contrast to FIG. 7 two inner corners IE in the shape of a pyramid with triangular base area.

[0063] FIG. 10 illustrates in this context exemplarily the arrangement of a pyramid-shaped inner corner. Hereby the pre-shaped inner corner is first bent and optionally shortened at the sides. After removal of the protective film the inner corner is glued in the floor corner, raised and glued to the walls.

[0064] In sum, according to an embodiment of the invention cellular foamed plastic is used as support material (made of polyolefin, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyurethane, silicone, cellular rubber, acrylic foam, butyl, etc.). The adhesive can for example be butyl, synthetic rubber, crosslinked or un-crosslinked acrylate, dispersion or the like. Adhesive bands or adhesive strips are formed as a combination of these support materials and the adhesive.

[0065] In addition an embodiment of the invention provides a combination of dry and wet gluing:

[0066] 1. The cellular foam sheet is for this purpose provided with a non-woven structure over its entire surface area on its front side for anchoring the construction chemistry.

[0067] 2. The back side (wall/floor) of the foam sheet is optionally provided centrally with a non-woven structure and has on its left and right side zones of between 20-100 mm width that are free of non-woven for a dry connection.

[0068] 3. An adhesive strip free of non-woven is provided at edges (wall/wall, floor/floor) and for overlap at abutments of foam sheets. The adhesive strip is typically 50-200 mm wide and self-adhesive on both sides or adhesive on one side (in this case the non-woven-free side on the back side of the foam sheet has to be provided with a cover film on the right and left side).

[0069] 4. The adhesive strips are glued to the wall/floor. The distance of the adhesive strips results from the width of the non-woven structure (backside of the foam sheet).

[0070] 5. The interspace between the adhesive strips is filled with tile glue or other construction chemistry.

[0071] 6. The sealing sheets are glued dry on the fight and left on the adhesive strips (overlap) and are centrally embedded in the construction chemistry.

[0072] 7. The transition to the point or line drainage can be accomplished with a laminated foamed plastic membrane made of glue (floor/drain line) /foam/ non-woven combination.

In addition also a pure wet gluing with a cellular foamed plastic system is possible, which includes the following components: [0073] sealing sheets [0074] adhesive strips (for edges) [0075] inner and outer corners.

[0076] Further a pure dry gluing with a cellular foamed plastic system is possible when the sealing sheets are provided over the entire surface on their wall-facing side with an adhesive layer.

[0077] The described system has the following advantages:

[0078] Foamed plastic: the foam cells compensate sharp edged, pointed support surfaces, the sealing effect is retained.

[0079] Closed-celled shape: negligible water uptake, very high resistance against water vapor diffusion

[0080] Physical crosslinking: increased resistance against alkaline media common in construction, high temperature resistance.

[0081] Polyolefin foam: resistant against chemicals, does not promote mold formation, environmentally friendly.

[0082] High malleability: adjusts well to unevenesses.

[0083] High elasticity: compensates thermal dilation tensions, decouples the tile from the underground.

[0084] Relatively small dynamic stiffness: acoustic decoupling tile-underground.

[0085] Lightweight material : simple transport , simple positioning of large surface areas on construction site by a single person.

[0086] Butyl glue (thickness about 0.5-2.0 mm): self-adhesive on both sides and can be glued sealingly in the corner; due to the fact that butyl can be molded or welded the cutting edges can be closed in the case of an inner corner overlap.