Tackable tile
AssigneeHerman Miller, Inc.
InventorsVictor V. Caro, David Boruta, William Ellis, John VanderWal, Randy Barnard
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Abstract
A tackable tile for mounting to a frame to provide a tackable surface to a wall having one or more of such tiles is disclosed. The tile includes a frame defining an open central portion, and a composite tackable member conforming to the perimetric shape of the frame and mounted in the open central portion thereof. The composite tackable memeber includes a resilient pierceable layer of material, and a layer of noise reducing acoustic material. The layer of pierceable material has a front and a rear side, and the acoustic material is adhered to the rear side of said resilient pierceable layer.
Claims25
A tackable tile for mounting to a wall frame to provide a tackable surface on the exposed face of a wall comprising one or more tiles on said frame, said tackable tile comprising:
- a tile frame defining an open central portion;
- a composite tackable member conforming to the perimetric shape of said tile frame and mounted in the open central portion thereof, said composite tackable member comprising:
- a pierceable, tack-retaining layer formed of a resilient pierceable polymeric material, said pierceable layer having a front face oriented toward the exposed face of the wall, and a rear face;
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- an acoustic layer of an acoustic material adjacent to the rear face of the pierceable layer;
- wherein the tack-retaining layer is adapted to allow a tack to pierce into the polymeric material and be retained by the polymeric material.
A composite tackable material comprising:
- a pierceable layer of polymeric material which is resilient, flexible and pierceable, which pierceable layer has a front face and a rear face, and which pierceable layer is thinner than the length of a tack;
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- a layer of acoustic material having a front face adjacent to and substantially completely and continuously covered by the rear face of the pierceable layer;
- wherein the composite tackable material is adapted to have a tack inserted from the front face of the pierceable layer, wherein the tack passes into the polymeric material and through the pierceable layer and into the acoustic layer, and wherein the tack is retained by the pierceable layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.