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US 2021/0324576 A1Published application
Installation of Multi-Component Floor Mat
AssigneeMilliken & Company
InventorsFranklin S. Love, Sudhanshu Srivastava, Venkatkrishna Raghavendran, Brandon T. Roberts, Padmakumar Puthillath, Dale S. Kitchen, Ty G. Dawson, Xin Li, Christopher A. DeSoiza
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Abstract
This invention relates to installation methods for a multi-component floor mat. The floor mat typically contains a textile component and a base component. Alignment and deployment of the textile component with the base component in an efficient manner is described herein.
Claims5
A multi-component floor mat comprising:
- (a) A textile component comprising (i) tufted pile carpet wherein face yarns are tufted through a primary backing layer and (ii) a magnetic coating wherein the magnetic coating is comprised of magnetic particles and a binder material;
- (b) A base component comprising an elastomer that contains magnetic particles;
- wherein the textile component and the base component are releasably attachable to one another via magnetic attraction;
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- (c) At least one alignment and deployment mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.