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US 5,088,252 AGranted
Baseboard channel member for pre-cut carpet strips
OwnerMark D. Antekeierinventor
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An elongated, extruded, resilient plastic channel member has a flat rear wall for mounting to a vertical building wall and receives an elongated, precut carpet strip. The flat rear wall terminates at upper and lower longitudinal edges respectively in an integral, generally L-shaped lower wall and an integral, reversely directed, arcuate upper wall. Both project outwardly and away from the rear wall and define therebetween upper and lower slots receiving the upper and lower longitudinal edges of a decorative precut carpet strip whose width is sized to the slots and slidably inserted therein. The channel member rear wall is thickened adjacent the connection between the arcuate upper wall and the rear wall to resist flexing of the arcuate upper wall and to prevent release of the grip between the arcuate upper wall, at its free edge, and the pile of the carpet strip. Both the arcuate upper wall and the generally L-shaped lower wall terminate at free edges in right angle, inwardly directed lips which penetrate the carpet pile for maintaining the precut carpet strip in the inserted position and prevent vertical movement of the upper and lower edges of the carpet strip into and out of the respective upper and lower slots of the channel member. The channel member may be nailed, screwed or adhesively fixed at the rear surface of the rear wall to a vertical building wall, particularly functioning as a baseboard assembly with the precut carpet strip matching the floor carpet of the building structure.
An elongated unitary resilient baseboard channel member comprising a flat rear wall having a generally L-shaped bottom wall projecting outwardly thereof from one longitudinal edge, and an integral, reversely directed arcuate upper wall projecting to the same side as the lower wall and defining therebetween and with said rear wall, upper and lower, oppositely facing slots for receiving upper and lower edges of an elongated decorative precut carpet strip including a base and a woven pile on one surface thereof over the surface area of the base, having a width on the order of the distance between the extremities of said upper and lower slots and being of a thickness on the order of the maximum distance between the outwardly projecting upper and lower walls and said rear wall of said channel member at said upper and lower slots and having upper and lower edges slidably insertably mounted within said slots, and wherein said reversely directed arcuate upper wall terminates in a free edge having a generally right angle lip projecting laterally outwardly thereof in the direction of the channel member rear wall and engaging said pile surface to restrict movement of the decorative strip into and out of the slot formed by the upper wall and the rear wall of the channel member, and wherein a front wall portion of said L-shaped lower wall terminates in a generally right angle, laterally inwardly directed lip in the direction of the rear wall and engages the front surface of the carpet strip pile and limits movement of the decorative strip into and out of the slot defined by the lower wall and the rear wall of the channel member.
In combination, an elongated, extruded resilient baseboard channel member and a precut carpet strip, said channel member comprising a flat rear wall, terminating along upper and lower edges, respectively, in an integral, reversely directed, arcuate, outwardly projecting upper wall, and an integral generally L-shaped outwardly projecting lower wall defining, with said rear wall, upper and lower slots, said precut carpet strip including a base and woven pile on one surface thereof over the surface area of the base, having a width on the order of the distance between the extremities of said upper and lower slots and being of a thickness on the order of the maximum distance between the outwardly projecting upper and lower walls and said rear wall of said channel member at said upper and lower slots and having upper and lower edges slidably insertably mounted within said slots with the base of said carpet strip contacting said channel member rear wall and having free ends of said upper and lower walls engaging the surface of the carpet strip pile and resisting relative movement between said carpet strip and said channel member, and wherein said arcuate upper wall and said L-shaped lower wall each have free ends terminating in generally right angle lips projecting inwardly towards the rear wall of the channel member and engaging the pile of the carpet strip with the thickness of the carpet being in excess of the distance between the lips on said arcuate upper wall and said lower generally L-shaped wall, such that the lips penetrate into the pile of the carpet to hole the carpet in position within the channel member and resist movement of the carpet into and out of the upper and lower slots thereof.
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