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US 5,511,471 AGranted
Car mat presser device
OwnerJonathan P. Footeinventor
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Abstract
The car mat presser device of the invention includes a unitary housing having a plurality of pairs of cooperating rolls, with each of the rolls defining a nip therebetween, wherein an entrance slot directed into the housing is oriented in alignment with the nip of each pair of rolls, with an exit opening directed through a bottom wall of the housing to receive a car mat therethrough subsequent to its projection through the roller pairs.
Claims4
A car mat presser device, comprising,
- a housing, the housing having a front wall spaced from a rear wall, a first side wall spaced from a second side wall, a top wall spaced from a bottom wall, and
- the top wall having an entrance slot and the bottom wall having an exit slot, with the entrance slot and the exit slot arranged in an aligned coextensive relationship relative to one another, and
- a plurality of roller pairs to include at least a first roller pair and a second roller pair contained within the housing and extending between the first side wall and the second side wall, the first roller pair having a first nip and the second roller pair having a second nip, the first nip, the second nip, and the entrance slot, and the exit slot are arranged in an aligned relationship relative to one another, the bottom wall intersecting the rear wall, and the bottom wall being canted from the rear wall upwardly to the front wall, the bottom wall having at least one drainage opening adjacent the intersection of the bottom wall and the rear wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.