Tarpaulin
The tarpaulin is a term from the sailor's language for an impregnated fabric as well as for waterproof covers and protective covers made of such fabric.
Linguistic
The word used to be Presenning . It comes from the Dutch presenning and goes back to the French préceinte “wrapping” in the old French proceindre “to include”, whereby the Latin praecingere “surrounded with something” had an effect.
There are several plural forms: the tarpaulin and the tarpaulin , less often the tarpaulin .
Properties of the fabric
The impregnation was achieved in previous centuries by tars and the use of multiple layers of fabric (hence the name "Teerjacke" for sailor). In the 1950s tarpaulin was still being coated at regular intervals with impregnating agents such as Feldtol with tassels, which made the material waterproof and tropicalized. Later this was achieved by coating with rubber . Today plastics are used, such as PVC , acrylic or polyester . Acrylic fabrics usually have an acrylate or polyurethane coating on the inside of the fabric so that the fabric is waterproof. Modern fabrics can withstand a water column of 800–1700 mm.
use
Tarpaulin on boats and ships
A cover can be a full boat cover (Full or Full cover) or just parts of it. So z. B. a tree cover only the tree and the folded sail on it .
On seagoing ships, for example, the lids of cargo hatches were covered with tarpaulin. As long as the ship was sailing under the coast (or on the territory , see photo), one was usually content with two layers of tarpaulin; when traveling over sea, three layers were laid on top of each other. The covers were then "taken" side under the Battens and with large wooden wedges between Cleats and Lukenkumming verschalkt out. Across the width of the hatch, the tarpaulin was secured with locking battens (crossbars) to prevent them from flying away in a storm. On larger ships, the boarding was mainly the job of the ship's carpenter, on smaller ships it was the work of the deck crew. With the increasing installation of steel hatch covers (MacGregor and other patents), fewer and fewer tarpaulins were used for hatch covers from the 1950s .
Tarpaulin for convertibles
A tarpaulin is (in contrast to the convertible top or roof ) a cover that is mounted lower than the roof line (on the "belt or parapet line") and therefore does not remain in place when a vehicle is used, but must be removed for vehicle use.
The cover of the open convertible top on vehicles without a specially provided top tray is also referred to as a tarpaulin.
It is required to avoid soiling, fluttering or vibrations of the convertible top. It often has to be pulled up onto the folded-back convertible top and fixed with press studs (as in the VW Beetle convertible and the Opel Astra F convertible).
Convertibles with tarpaulin were common in the past, while today's convertibles usually no longer need tarpaulin, apart from a few models, as they have a convertible top tray in the trunk, in which the convertible roof is sunk and protected by a separate hood , stored manually or with electro-hydraulic support.
Synonyms
Tarpaulin, pronunciation [ ta vonpɔːl dortn ] or [ ˈtaːpəlɪn ], also shortened to tarp , is a synonym for tarpaulin from English , which has been used there for over two centuries in the sense of “waterproof fabric” . The word tarpaulin was initially for the oilskins of sailors and was created as a composition of English words tar ( tar ) and palling or pall (cloth, from lat. Pallium, coat). Another synonym from Norwegian is Fjellduken . In the German-speaking world, both terms are mainly used in the jargon of outdoor sports for tent sheets (tarpaulin or half-tent tarpaulin). Luggage bags for use on bicycles as well as truck tarpaulins and other tarpaulins are made from the same waterproof material.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tarpaulin at Duden online
- ↑ Tar jacket online at Duden
