Artificial turf system including a geogrid and an existing turf
AssigneesAPT Advanced Polymer Technology Corp., Polytex Sportbelage Produktions-GmbH
InventorKris Brown
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Abstract
An artificial turf system provides an existing artificial turf including a plurality of existing artificial turf fibres and an existing artificial turf backing configured to carry the plurality of existing artificial turf fibres, a new artificial turf comprising a plurality of artificial turf fibres and an artificial turf backing layer, where the artificial turf backing layer comprises a carrier structure configured to carry the plurality of artificial turf fibres, and a geogrid positioned between the existing artificial turf and the backing layer of the new artificial turf.
Claims6
A method for manufacturing an artificial turf system, comprising:
- placing a geogrid on a used artificial turf, the used artificial turf comprising a plurality of used artificial turf fibers and a used artificial turf backing layer configured to carry the plurality of used artificial turf fibers;
- and
- placing an unused artificial turf on the geogrid, wherein
- the unused artificial turf comprises a plurality of artificial turf fibers and an artificial turf backing layer, said artificial turf backing layer comprising a carrier structure configured to carry the plurality of artificial turf fibers, wherein
- the unused artificial turf is placed on the geogrid such that the backing layer of the unused artificial turf is adjacent to the geogrid,
- wherein the geogrid comprises two or more polymeric grid layers,
- wherein each polymeric grid layer of the two or more polymeric grid layers are formed of a plurality of polymeric strands arranged parallel,
- wherein the used artificial turf has a top surface that is tilted, and
- wherein the method further comprises:
- determining a tilt of the top surface;
- and
- designing a polymeric strand cross section that varies along a length of each polymeric strand of the plurality of polymeric strands of at least one polymeric grid layer to offset the tilt of the top surface such that when the geogrid is placed on the used artificial turf, a top surface of the geogrid is horizontal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.