Inax Corporation

Chichibu Cement Co., Ltd.

Ilb Co., Ltd.

Ina Seito Co., Ltd.

Morizumi Fujii

Shigeo Suda

Osamu Kodama

Hideyuki Munakata

Takumi Tanikawa

Michihiko Nishimura

Tokihiro Tsuda

Kinoto Yoshida

Kazuro Kuroe

Hirofumi Kakimoto

Shinji Fujino

The fracture-free paving block comprises a cement block substrate and a top solid layer, and is characterized in that the top layer is selected from a cured cement mortar layer and tile-like layer firmly bonded to the substrate with cement mortar; the top layer is bonded to the block substrate with lateral margins of 1 to 8 mm wide in horizontal distance from the peripheral edges of the substrate; and the vertical distance from the surface of the top layer to the peripheral edge of the substrate is 5 to 50 mm.

Fracture-free layered paving blocks

Method for production of paving blocks

There is provided a novel adhesive-backed tile panel protected by a release sheet. The prefabricated tile panel comprises a substrate sheet composed of a core fabric and a heat-softening-adherent asphalt composition applied to the both surfaces of the fabric; an adhesive layer having convex and concave portions such as stripes of an adhesive not flowable but sticky at an ambient temperature; and tiles arranged regularly and secured to the asphalt composition layer of the substrate sheet. The convex portions and concave portions of the adhesive layer constitute the gaps through which air present between the tile panels and a substrate board can be purged upon installation of the tile panels. The tile panels can be installed readily on a substrate board having thereon horizontal indication means such as crosspieces by removing the release sheet, mounting the tile panels on the substrate board, and pressing the mounted tile panels to purge air present between the panels and the board through the gaps of the adhesive layer and to increase the effective adhesion areas of the adhesive layer. A unit substrate board having specified structures for assembling a preferred substrate board is also provided for installation of the tile panels.

Adhesive-backed tile panels and method for installation thereof

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Nagoya, Japan

Morizumi Fujii