Floating asphalt pavement system
AssigneeKoppers Company, Inc.
InventorTerry Lee Drane
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Abstract
Tennis courts, basketball courts, volleyball courts, all weather running tracks and other similar recreational areas having defects in their surfaces are resurfaced by laying multiple layers of a free floating flexible material over the defective surface and then applying a standard asphalt resurface over the top layer of free floating flexible material. Surfaces prepared in this manner have improved freeze thaw stability, longer life and do not develop reflective cracking.
Claims11
An asphalt resurfaced recreational area comprising an existing surface, multiple layers of a free floating flexible material on top of the existing surface, said free floating layers being affixed to the existing surface and each other by a perimeter tacking, and a new asphalt surface on top of the free floating layers.
An asphalt resurfaced recreational area comprising an existing surface, multiple layers of roofing felt on top of the existing surface said layers of roofing felt being affixed to the existing surface and each other by a perimeter tacking, each layer of said roofing felt being at right angles with the adjacent layers and being parallel to the sides of the recreational area, a new asphalt surface on top of the layers of roofing felt and a berm around the perimeter of the recreational area extending from the top of the new asphalt surface to the bottom of the existing recreational area.
In a method for resurfacing a recreational area with asphalt comprising cleaning and preparing the existing surface and laying a new asphalt surface over the existing surface;
- the improvement comprising laying multiple layers of a free floating flexible material over the existing surface before the new asphalt surface is applied said free floating layers being attached to the existing surface and each other by a perimeter tack coating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.