Footmat
AssigneeVredestein N.V.
InventorAnton G. A. Niermeijer
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Abstract
A shoe cleaning mat employs a plurality of spaced projections on a base layer, all projecting to substantially the same height to provide a stable support. Some of the projections are each provided with an array of radially extending ribs which are progressively deeper in the radially outward direction to provide corresponding increasing elasticity. Two different sizes of such projections are employed and a third type of projection, smaller than the other two, is provided with vertically extending side ribs which are progressively deeper in upward direction.
Claims7
A foot mat of flexible, resilient material and comprising a base layer having a predetermined size and contour, and a plurality of discrete and mutually spaced projections integrally formed with and upstanding from said base layer, the projections being distributed over the area encompassed by said base layer and each rising to substantially the same height above the base layer whereby to present an interrupted but stable shoe-supporting arrangement elevated above the base layer with the spaces between the projections presenting debriscollecting regions, at least some of said projections having an array of radially extending ribs integrally formed therewith, the ribs of each such array being of progressively greater depth in the radial outward direction thereof, whereby to possess increasing elasticity in such radial outward direction and the ribs of each such array merging centrally of the associated projection in a solid, central part thereof.
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