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US 10,851,550 B2Granted
Flooring system
OwnerKirkland W. Vogt, Dale S. Kitcheninventors
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Abstract
This invention relates to a method for adhering floor tiles together and the flooring system thereby created. The method utilizes individual adhesive units as fasteners for attachment of each floor tile to the next contiguous floor tile. The adhesive units are a multi-layered composite comprised of at least one adhesive layer and at least one layer of polymer film or textile substrate. When a series of floor tiles are attached to one another in this manner, a floating floorcovering article is achieved.
Claims23
A flooring system comprising:
- (a) a plurality of floor tiles, wherein the plurality of floor tiles contains individual floor tiles, and wherein the individual floor tiles are comprised of:
- (i) a first wear layer (125) and (ii) a second layer (119) that contains areas of a shear resistant surface and areas of a non-shear resistant surface;
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- (b) at least one adhesive fastener (140) containing an adhesive material;
- wherein at least a portion of the adhesive fastener (140) is attached to at least a portion of the shear resistant surface (121) of the individual floor tiles to form a plurality of floor tiles interconnected to one another via the at least one adhesive fastener.
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