Synthetic flooring apparatus and method
AssigneeAltro Limited
InventorsArunas Janusis, Darren Gray
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Abstract
A welded synthetic floor-covering material and a method of forming, the floor-covering material formed from one or more adjacent pairs of flooring elements welded together by a symmetrical lower weld which engages each flooring element substantially equally; and wherein the symmetrical lower weld is substantially free from a metallic element; and a method of preparing the welded synthetic floor-covering material having a layout suitable for covering a pre-determined area wherein the welded synthetic floor-covering material includes one or more adjacent pairs of flooring elements welded together with a symmetrical lower weld engaging each flooring element substantially equally.
Claims21
A welded synthetic floor-covering material, said welded synthetic floor-covering material comprising two or more flooring elements wherein each adjacent pair of flooring elements is welded together by a symmetrical lower weld wherein the symmetrical lower weld engages each flooring element of an adjacent pair of flooring elements substantially equally;
- and wherein the symmetrical lower weld is substantially free from a metallic element;
- wherein the flooring elements comprise one or more upper layers above the symmetrical lower weld wherein the one or more upper layers comprise a decorative layer;
- wherein the flooring elements have a floor engaging lower surface and wherein each flooring element of an adjacent pair of flooring elements forms a partial groove on the floor-engaging lower surface such that the symmetrical weld is formed in an adjacent pair of partial grooves wherein the adjacent pair of partial grooves is symmetrical.
A method of preparing a welded synthetic floor-covering material having a layout suitable for covering a pre-determined area wherein the welded synthetic floor-covering material comprises two or more flooring elements wherein the flooring elements have a floor-engaging lower surface and wherein the method comprises the following steps:
- (a) providing a floor plan for the pre-determined area wherein the floor plan defines a layout of flooring elements including positions of one or more welds;
- (b) providing a length of flooring and forming a groove on the floor-engaging surface of the flooring at the position of each of the one or more welds;
- (c) cutting the length of flooring to form the one or more adjacent pairs of flooring elements;
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- (d) arranging the flooring elements according to the layout and welding together each of the one or more adjacent pairs of flooring elements to form a symmetrical lower weld wherein the symmetrical lower weld engages each flooring element substantially equally.
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