Surface and Edge Attachment for Installation of Multi-Component Floor Mat
AssigneeMilliken & Company
InventorsFranklin S. Love, Padmakumar Puthillath, Dale S. Kitchen
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Abstract
This invention relates to a washable multi-component floor mat. The floor mat contains a textile component and a base component. The textile component and the base component are attached to one another by at least one surface attraction means and at least one edge attachment means. The textile component is designed to be soiled, washed, and re-used, thereby providing ideal end-use applications in areas such as building entryways. The present invention eliminates the need to wash the base component of the floor mat which results in environmental, cost and labor conservation.
Claims25
A multi-component floor mat comprising:
- (a) A textile component comprising (i) a first layer of tufted pile carpet formed by tufting face fibers through a primary backing layer and (ii) a second layer of vulcanized rubber material that contains magnetic particles;
- (b) A base component comprised of a magnetic coating wherein the magnetic coating is comprised of magnetic particles and a binder material, wherein the binder materials is selected from a thermoplastic elastomer material, a thermoplastic vulcanite material, and mixtures thereof;
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- wherein the textile component and the base component are releasably attachable to one another via magnetic attraction;
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- wherein the textile component and the base component further contain at least one edge attachment means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.