Abstract: Method and unit for recycling a bituminous membrane provided with at least one reinforcement, which membrane is reduced to pieces which are introduced into a recycling unit, provided with a first rotor, housed in a first stator, and where they are heated and ground, said pieces being conveyed into a chamber, delimited by an external wall of the first rotor and a recess arranged in a counter-element mounted on the stator, where they are subjected to a trituration, the pieces thus triturated then being discharged from the chamber by flowing along said external wall of the rotor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 23, 2004
Date of Patent:
January 9, 2007
Assignee:
Performance Roof Systems S.A. En Abrege P.R.S.
Abstract: A waterproofing membrane comprising a bituminous mass which comprises at least one olefinic polymer with an intrinsic crystallinity. The method of manufacturing a waterproofing membrane includes the application by coating from below on a top face of a layer of fibers. The layer of fibers is preferably provided on its other face with an antisweating coating.