Furniture floor glide

A glide for supporting furniture on a substantially horizontal floor surface comprising:

• a relatively rigid concavo-convex disk of substantially uniform thickness along the bottom thereof, said disk having an convex lower surface with a peripheral edge and a concave upper surface defining a central cavity with a surrounding outer edge, said lower surface being continuously arcuate over its entire extent, said lower surface being defined by a large radius segment along the bottom portion thereof having a radius less than 5 inches and a smaller radius segment adjacent said peripheral edge, said disk having an external diameter between 1 and 3 inches, a height between 1/4 and 1/2 inch and a wall thickness between 0.05 and 0.1 inch, said lower surface being slanted slightly from a line perpendicular to horizontal to provide a small draft angle,
• a resilient pad having a bottom surface fixed by adhesive to said disk upper surface and a top surface facing upwardly, said resilient pad having a diameter and a height less than said central cavity so as to lie completely within said central cavity vertically below the outer edge of said central cavity and horizontally spaced from the peripheral edge of said central cavity,
• a low-friction coating carried on at least a portion of said lower surface of said disk,
• adhesive means carried by said top surface for securing said resilient pad to the bottom of furniture, and
• backing material carried by said pad top surface manually removable prior to application to furniture to expose said adhesive means to the furniture bottom,
• whereby the glide is positioned between the supported furniture and the floor with the lower surface of the glide sliding along the surface of the floor to facilitate movement of the furniture along the floor.

A glide for supporting furniture on a substantially horizontal floor surface comprising:

• a relatively rigid concavo-convex disk formed from one of high molecular weight polyethylene and PETG co-polyester and having an arcuate convex lower surface with a peripheral edge and a concave upper surface defining a central cavity with a surrounding outer edge, said disk lower surface being defined by a large radius segment along the bottom portion thereof having a radius less than 5 inches and by a relatively small radius segment adjacent said peripheral edge having a radius between 1/8 and 1/2 inch, said disk having an external diameter between 1 and 3 inches, a height between 1/4 and 1/2 inch and a wall thickness between 0.05 and 0.1 inch, said lower surface of said disk at said peripheral edge being slanted slightly from a line perpendicular to horizontal to provide a small draft angle of approximately 7 degrees, said peripheral edge of said lower surface and said outer edge of said upper surface defining a rim therebetween,
• a resilient pad formed of one of foam and felt and having a bottom surface fixed by adhesive to the disk upper surface within said central cavity and having a top surface facing upwardly, said resilient pad having a diameter and a height less than said central cavity so as to lie completely within said central cavity vertically below the outer edge of said central cavity and horizontally spaced from the peripheral edge of said central cavity,
• adhesive means carried by said pad top surface for securing said resilient pad to the bottom of furniture, and
• backing material carried by said pad top surface manually removable prior to application to furniture to expose said adhesive means to the furniture bottom,
• whereby the glide is positioned between the supported furniture and the floor with said lower surface riding on the floor surface so that the glide moves easily along the floor.