Floor mat with scraping and wiping characteristics
AssigneeR&L Marketing & Sales, Inc.
InventorsRonald Kessler, Daniel Kessler
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Abstract
A floor mat having a base that includes a plurality of alternating fibrous strips and impervious strips and surrounded by a frame. The base is substantially continuous across its entire width and length, having no openings from its upper surface through to its lower surface. The impervious strips include a plurality of spaced apart rows of spaced apart bosses. The gaps formed between the spaced apart bosses become closed-bottom wells in which water, snow and particles of dirt scraped from the underside of shoes can accumulate.
Claims20
A floor mat for wiping and scraping matter from the underside of peoples' shoes, said floor mat comprising:
- a base having an upper surface and a lower surface;
- a plurality of spaced apart fibrous regions extending outwardly away from the upper surface of the base;
- a plurality of impervious regions extending outwardly away from the upper surface of the base and interspersed between the fibrous regions;
- at least one well area formed in at least one of the impervious regions;
- said well being adapted to receive the scraped and wiped matter therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.