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US 5,394,667 AGranted
Flooring construction and method
OwnerRon Nystrominventor
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A flooring system in which flooring boards are held to an underlying support structure by use of clips that eliminate the need for fasteners extended through the flooring boards. In a preferred form of the invention, the clips have a barbed projection that is adapted to extend into a groove formed in the bottom of the flooring board to grip the board and hold it to the support structure. With this form of the invention flooring boards may be secured to a support structure simply by fastening the clips to the support structure and then pressing the boards into place on the clips. In another form of the invention, the clip is slidably attached to the support structure so that it can slide along the support structure, thereby enabling the boards to be moved toward one another after assembly to the support structure for reducing any gaps or spaces between adjacent boards.
A flooring construction system, comprising:
An assembly clip for securing a first construction member to a second construction member, wherein the first construction member has at least one elongate groove formed in one surface thereof, said clip comprising:
A decking board for use in constructing a deck floor, said decking board having a top surface, a bottom surface and opposite side edges, said top surface being convex and manufactured with a radius of curvature that is approximately five times as great as the width of the board so that it will shed water and at the same time will present a comfortable surface upon which to walk and stand, and said bottom surface having at least one longitudinally extending recess formed therein to relieve stress and assist in preventing cupping or warping of the board while also defining a space through which air Can circulate when a plurality of the boards are stacked on top of one another to facilitate drying of the boards.
The method of constructing a flooring surface that has a plurality of flooring boards with an exposed top surface and a bottom surface secured to an underlying support structure, with the exposed top surface of the flooring boards being free of fasteners extended therethrough, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.