Modular locking floor covering
AssigneeFoam Design Consumer Products, Inc.
InventorJohn D'Luzansky
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Abstract
An improved modular and cushion forming interlocking floor covering which is light weight, easy to assemble, disassemble and to store is composed of a plurality of panels. Each panel includes interlocking means composed of spaced locking fingers and locking apertures and secondary locking means. The secondary locking means are in the form of tabs in the face of the finger and the base of the aperture, each tab having a face inclined in a direction opposite the inclined face of an adjacent tab. The geometry of the modules, in the case of a square module is such that a module may be removed, turned over, oriented and reinserted where removed. Various forms of cushion structure using a foam are described.
Claims14
A relatively light weight modular interlocking cushioned product subject to localized compression loads for use as a floor covering and the like, comprising:
- at least two planar panel members of a compressible and resilient material,
- each panel including at least one edge portion having interlocking means for removable interfitting and interlocking butting engagement of the respective edge portions thereof whereby said panels may be assembled together to provide a laterally interlocked flat and planar cushioning mat,
- said interlocking means including spaced locking fingers with locking apertures therebetween,
- said interlocking means of each panel further including secondary interlocking means to maintain the respective edge portions in a flat and planar orientation to prevent relative vertical displacement of the respective interlocked edge portions in response to compressive loads thereon, and
- said secondary interlocking means including locking tabs each having an inclined face, the face of one tab being inclined oppositely from the inclined face of an adjacent tab.
A relatively light weight modular interlocking cushioned product subject to localized compression loads for use as a floor covering and the like, comprising:
- at least two planar panel members of a compressible and resilient material,
- each panel including side edge portions having interlocking means for removable interfitting and interlocking butting engagement of the respective edge portions thereof whereby said panels may be assembled together to provide a laterally interlocked flat and planar cushioning mat,
- said interlocking means of each panel further including secondary interlocking means to maintain the respective edge portions in a flat and planar orientation to prevent relative vertical displacement of the respective interlocked edge portions in response to compressive loads thereon,
- said interlocking means including spaced locking fingers with locking apertures therebetween and wherein said secondary interlocking means includes locking tabs each having an inclined face, the face of one tab being inclined oppositely from the inclined face of an adjacent tab,
- said locking fingers including a face and said locking apertures including a base,
- said tabs being located in the face of said locking fingers and in the base of said locking apertures,
- each said panel member including a closed cell flexible, resilient and compressible foam material, and
- said foam material including a first foam layer and a second foam layer with a scrim material between said layers to prevent lateral stretching of said foam layers in response to compression load.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.