Insert strip for a floor covering structure
AssigneeReese Enterprises, Inc.
InventorChester W. Ellingson, Jr.
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Abstract
This invention relates to insert strips for a floor covering structure for public walking areas such as in foyers of commercial buildings. The floor structure is made up of connected longitudinal sections, each section having a central longitudinal channel, a raised removable strip being disposed into each channel, to provide a walking surface and the strip having a relatively friction free underlying surface for an easy insertion into a channel and the same being arranged to be retained in the channel.
Claims8
In combination with a floor covering structure of coupled sections, each section having a central longitudinal channel having transversely opposed facing grooves, an insert strip in combination with said channel, said strip comprising
- an upper layer portion formed as an extrusion of a fairly hard durometer plastic material,
- an underlying layer portion of a durometer harder than that of said upper layer portion and co-extruded therewith,
- said upper layer portion having a width to extend across the width of a channel of the floor covering section,
- said underlying layer having a width extending beyond each side of said upper layer portion to project into grooves formed at each side of said channel,
- said underlying layer portion having a substantially slick friction free surface, and
- said upper layer portion having formed into its upper surface portion a figured surface treatment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.