US 12,163,338 B2 · Baseboard elements and related method

Abstract

A baseboard element including a nose portion, a riser portion coupled to the nose portion, and a wall groove portion coupled to the riser portion. The nose portion includes a nose bottom section and a nose face section. The riser portion includes a riser section approximately perpendicular to the nose bottom section. The nose portion is positioned only on a first side of the riser section, and the wall groove portion is positioned only on a second side of the riser section, the second side opposite the first side. The nose bottom section comprises a nose bottom edge that is located at a terminal end of the nose bottom section and that is located closer to a plane defined by the riser section than the nose face section is to the plane. Other embodiments are also provided.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A baseboard element comprising:

a nose portion comprising a nose bottom section and a nose face section;
a riser portion coupled to the nose portion and comprising a riser section approximately perpendicular to the nose bottom section;
and
a wall groove portion coupled to the riser portion and comprising a groove with an opening, wherein:
(1) the nose portion is positioned only on a first side of the riser section;
(2) the wall groove portion is positioned only on a second side of the riser section, the second side opposite the first side of the riser section;
and
(3) the nose bottom section comprises a nose bottom edge that is located at a terminal end of the nose bottom section and that is located closer to a plane defined by the riser section than the nose face section is to the plane;
(4) a direction from a bottom of the groove to the opening is approximately parallel to the riser section;
and
(5) the opening faces away from the nose portion.

8 more elements

A method of providing a baseboard element, comprising:

forming a nose portion, comprising:
folding a nose bottom bend between a nose bottom section and a nose face section;
forming a riser portion, comprising:
folding a riser bend between the nose portion and a riser section approximately perpendicular to the nose bottom section, wherein the nose portion is located only on a first side of the riser section;
and
forming a wall groove portion coupled to the riser portion and located only on a second side of the riser section, the second side opposite the first side of the riser section,
wherein:
(1) the nose bottom section comprises a nose bottom edge that is located at a terminal end of the nose bottom section and that is located closer to a plane defined by the riser section than the nose face section is to the plane;
(2) the wall groove portion comprises a groove with an opening;
(3) a direction from a bottom of the groove to the opening is approximately parallel to the riser section;
and
(4) the opening faces away from the nose portion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/508,803Filed 22 Oct 2021 · continuation

Priority

24 Jun 2014

Published

US 2022/0042324 A110 Feb 2022

Granted

10 Dec 2024

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

E04F 19/061
Specially designed for securing panels or masking the edges of wall- or floor-covering elements: used to finish off an edge or corner of a wall or…
E04F 19/02
Other details of constructional parts for finishing work on buildings: borders; Finishing strips, e.g. beadings; Light coves
E04F 19/022
Borders; Finishing strips, e.g. beadings; Light coves: for use at vertical intersections of walls
E04F 19/0436
For use between floor or ceiling and wall, e.g. skirtings: between ceiling and wall

Family

Application14/313,991Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 24 Jun 2014

Application15/263,132Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Sep 2016

US 9,441,381 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 13 Sep 2016

Application16/818,871Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Mar 2020

US 10,648,185 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 12 May 2020

US 2022/0042324 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Feb 2022

US 11,156,006 B2Parent of this continuation

Application15/263,132Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 2015/0368913 A1Published application

US 2017/0051517 A1Published application

US 2020/0217088 A1Published application

US 12,163,338 B2This patent

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Abstract

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