SEALING PROFILE FOR EMBEDDING INTO A MOULDING OF CURABLE MATERIAL

Abstract

A sealing profile for embedding into a moulding of curable material, in particular a concrete or plastic moulding, and to a sealing arrangement comprising such a sealing profile. The object of the present invention is to provide a sealing profile for embedding into a moulding of curable material that can be anchored into the moulding in particular such that displacements of the seal in its seat occur to a significantly lesser extent, if at all, when installing or assembling the mouldings. The object is achieved by a sealing profile (1) with a profile region (2) having a profile region surface (4) which is directed towards the moulding (3) after embedding the sealing profile (1), wherein the profile region (2) has, at least in one subregion (6), a non-woven, felted or random fibre layer (5) which is fixedly connected to the sealing profile (1) and which extend beyond the profile region surface (4).

Claims

1. A sealing profile for embedding into a moulding of a curable material, wherein the sealing profile (1) has a profile region (2) with a profile region surface (4) which is adapted for, after embedding of the sealing profile (1), facing towards the moulding (3), and wherein the sealing profile (1) has, at least in a subregion (6) of the profile region (2), a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer (5), which is fixedly connected to the sealing profile (1), and extends beyond the profile region surface (4).

2. The sealing profile according to claim 1, wherein the non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer (5) is fixedly connected to the sealing profile (1), indirectly by means of an adhesive layer (7) on the profile region surface (4) of the profile region (2), or directly by embedding in the profile region (2).

3. The sealing profile according to claim 1, wherein the sealing profile (1) has at least one anchoring foot (16) in the profile region (2) for purposes of anchoring the sealing profile (1) in the moulding (3).

4. The sealing profile according to claim 1, wherein the sealing profile (1) has two or more anchoring feet (16) in the profile region (2), spaced apart from one another, and one or more subregions (6) with a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer (5), in each case between two adjacent anchoring feet (16).

5. The sealing profile according to claim 1, wherein the sealing profile (1) consists of an elastomeric material, and wherein the elastomeric material has a Shore hardness of 60-80.

6. The sealing profile according to claim 1, wherein the fibres of the non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer (5) are metal, glass, cotton or plastic fibres, preferably polyamide, polyester or aramid fibres.

7. The sealing profile according to claim 1, wherein the profile region (2) comprises a profile base (8) with, after embedding of the sealing profile (1), a profile base surface (41) adapted for facing towards the moulding (3), and at least one profile flank (10) with a base-side flank part (11) with, after embedding of the sealing profile (1), a flank part surface (42) adapted for facing towards the moulding (3), and wherein the profile base (8) has, at least in one subregion (6), a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer (5), which is fixedly connected to the latter, and which extends beyond the profile base surface (41), and/or the base-side flank part (11) has, at least in a partial region (6), a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer (5), which is fixedly connected to the base-side flank part (11), and which extends beyond the flank part surface (42).

8. A sealing arrangement, comprising a moulding (3) of a curable material, and a therein embedded sealing profile (1) according to claim 1, wherein the non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer (5) on the one side is fixedly connected to the sealing profile (1), and on the other side is fixedly connected to the moulding (3).

9. The sealing arrangement according to claim 8, wherein the moulding (3) is a concrete or plastic moulding, preferably a concrete tubbing for tunnel construction, a concrete ring for shaft construction, a concrete pipe for sewer or pipeline construction, or a plastic pipe, preferably a GRP pipe.

10. The sealing profile according to claim 1, wherein the curable material is a concrete or plastic moulding.

11. The sealing profile according to claim 7, wherein the seal is adapted to sealing of tunnel tubbings.

12. The sealing profile according to claim 5, wherein the sealing profile (1) consists of an elastomeric material selected from the group consisting of EPDM, SBR, CR, and NBR.

13. The sealing profile according to claim 5, wherein wherein the sealing profile (1) consists of an elastomeric material comprising NBR.

14. The sealing arrangement according to claim 8, wherein the moulding (3) is a concrete tubbing for tunnel construction, a concrete ring for shaft construction, a concrete pipe for sewer or pipeline construction, or a plastic pipe.

15. The sealing arrangement according to claim 8, wherein the moulding (3) is a GRP pipe.

Description

[0027] In what follows the invention is explained in more detail, with the aid of the appended figures, purely for illustrative purposes.

[0028] FIG. 1 shows a schematic illustration of a form of embodiment of an inventive sealing profile, embedded in a moulding.

[0029] FIG. 2 shows a schematic illustration of embodiments of an inventive sealing profile in cross-section. A: an embodiment without an anchoring foot with a vulcanised non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer. B: an embodiment without an anchoring foot, with a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer, which is bonded to the profile base by way of an adhesive layer. C: an embodiment with an anchoring foot with a vulcanised non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer. D: an embodiment with an anchoring foot, with a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer, which is bonded to the profile base by way of an adhesive layer.

[0030] FIG. 3 shows schematically an embodiment of an inventive sealing profile for concrete pipes or shafts. A: an embodiment with anchoring feet, with a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer, which is bonded to the profile by way of an adhesive layer. B: an embodiment with anchoring feet, with a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer, which is embedded directly in the profile.

[0031] FIG. 4 shows schematically a further embodiment of an inventive sealing profile for concrete pipes or shafts. A: embodiment with a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer, which is bonded to the profile by means of an adhesive layer. B: embodiment with a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer, which is embedded directly in the profile.

[0032] FIG. 1 shows schematically a sealing arrangement 100, comprising a sealing profile 1, as is also illustrated in FIG. 2C, and a moulding 3, here a concrete tubbing for tunnel construction, of which only a detail is shown.

[0033] The sealing profile 1 of elastomeric material, here generally hexagonal in cross-section, has a profile region 2 (here shown hatched) with a profile region surface 4 facing towards the moulding 3. The profile region 2 comprises a profile base 8 with a profile base surface 41 and base-side profile flank parts 11 of the lateral profile flanks 10 with a profile flank surface 42. The sealing profile 1 has a profile back 9 located opposite to the profile base 8 and back-side flank parts 12. A non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5, which here is designed as a strip-shaped mat, is here, with fibres or fibre regions which lie in the region of their surface facing towards the sealing profile 1, embedded directly in the sealing profile 1, i.e. in a subregion 6 of the profile region 2, here the profile base 8. In this embodiment, here fitted with two dovetail-shaped anchoring feet 16, spaced apart from one another, the subregion 6 with the non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5 lies in the region of the profile base 8 between the anchoring feet 16. The strip-shaped sealing profile 1 has longitudinal channels 15 running in the longitudinal direction of the sealing profile 1, as is also of known art for profiles of the prior art.

[0034] In the sealing profile 1 shown here flank-side sealing lips 14 are present; these are arranged in each case at the height of the plane 13 (see FIG. 2), above which in the illustration the back-side flank parts 12 are located, and below which the base-side flank parts 11 are located. The sealing profile 1 is surrounded on the base side and up to the sealing lips 14 by the curable material, for example concrete. In embodiment shown here, the sealing profile 1 is anchored, both by way of the anchoring feet 16, and also by way of the non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5. The non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5 prevents or renders difficult any displacement of the sealing profile 1 in its longitudinal direction, i.e. in the direction at right angles to the plane of the paper, by virtue of its connection to the moulding 3.

[0035] FIG. 2 shows schematically various embodiments of an inventive sealing profile 1 in cross-section. FIG. 2A shows an embodiment of an inventive sealing profile 1 without an anchoring foot 16, with a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer vulcanised directly into the profile base 8. FIG. 2B shows an embodiment of an inventive sealing profile 1 without an anchoring foot 16, with a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5 connected to the profile base 8 by way of an adhesive layer 7. FIG. 2C shows the embodiment of an inventive sealing profile 1 shown in FIG. 1, embedded in a moulding 3, with two anchoring feet 16, and with a layer of non-woven fabric, felted, or random fibres vulcanised into the moulding. FIG. 2D shows an embodiment of an inventive sealing profile 1 with anchoring feet 16, and with a layer of non-woven fabric, felted, or random fibres 5, which is connected to the profile base 8 by way of an adhesive layer 7. In each case cross-sections through a strand-shaped sealing profile 1 are represented, i.e. sections transverse to the longitudinal axis of the strand-shaped sealing profile 1, which must be thought of as continuing above and below the plane of the paper.

[0036] The embodiments shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B do not have any anchoring feet 16. The embodiments shown in FIGS. 2C and 2D have two anchoring feet 16, extending from the profile base 8, here dovetail-shaped and spaced apart from one another. A non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5 is embedded, with fibres or fibre regions, which lie in the region of the surface facing the sealing profile, either directly in the profile base 8 (FIGS. 2A, 2C) or in an adhesive layer 7 (FIGS. 2B, 2D) on the profile base surface 41. In embodiments with anchoring feet 16 (FIGS. 2C, 2D), the non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5 is arranged in the region of the profile base 8 between the anchoring feet 16. The sealing profiles 1 have longitudinal channels 15 running in the longitudinal direction of the sealing profile 1, as is also of known art for profiles of the prior art.

[0037] FIG. 3 shows a cross-section through an embodiment of an inventive sealing profile 1, which is particularly suitable for concrete pipes or shafts. Here the sealing profile 1 has anchoring feet 16 and a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5, with the aid of which the sealing profile 1 can be embedded in a concrete pipe sleeve (not shown). The non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5 is either bonded to the profile region 2 by means of an adhesive layer 7 on the profile region surface 4, which is oriented towards the later moulding 3, i.e. the concrete pipe sleeve (see FIG. 3A), or is embedded directly in the profile region 2 (see FIG. 3B). The non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5 is arranged in subregions 6 of profile region 2 between the anchoring feet 16. Here, too, there are longitudinal channels 15 in the sealing profile 1.

[0038] FIG. 4 shows a cross-section through another embodiment of an inventive sealing profile 1, which is particularly suitable for concrete pipes or shafts. Here it is essentially the non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5, which is provided beyond an extended subregion 6, that serves to anchor the sealing profile 1. The single anchoring foot 16 still present in the edge region of the sealing profile 1 essentially serves as a protection against liquid concrete when casting the moulding 3. In this form of embodiment also, the non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer 5 is either bonded to the profile region 2 by means of an adhesive layer 7 on the profile region surface 4, which is oriented towards the later moulding 3, i.e. the concrete pipe sleeve (see FIG. 4A), or is embedded directly in the profile region 2 (see FIG. 4B).