Modular floor cover
OwnerMarcel Longinventor
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Abstract
A modular floor cover for a garage floor, made of a plurality of strips of impermeable ribbed matting. The strips are laterally joined to one-another by elongated moldings. A first series of elongated joiners encloses common bordering edges of adjacent strips of ribbed matting, raising the longitudinal edges by a thickness of a sole member of these moldings. A second series of joiners is placed under all transversal edges of the strips, thereby raising the transversal edges. A basin is formed in a central region of the floor cover to retain water, slush and other fluids falling off a vehicle parked over this floor cover.
Claims20
A modular floor cover comprising:
- at least two rectangular strips of impermeable ribbed matting laid side-by-side on a floor, with adjacent longitudinal edges thereof being spaced apart from one-another a distance of a nominal gap, said plurality of rectangular strips defining an overall floor covering area having a perimeter comprised of two outermost longitudinal edges and two transversal edges being substantially at right angle with said outermost longitudinal edges;
- a first elongated joining means enclosing said gap and said adjacent longitudinal edges;
- a second elongated joining means having an overall thickness, located under said transversal edges;
- whereby a plurality of valleys between the ribs of said ribbed matting and between said second elongated joining means, form a basin of a first level for retaining water, slush, automotive fluids and debris falling off a vehicle when said vehicle is parked over said floor cover.
An elongated joiner for joining two adjacent strips of ribbed floor matting comprising:
- a sole member having a nominal thickness and a first width,
- a cap member having a second width,
- said cap member being held at a distance from said sole member by a tie member such that a pair of longitudinal slots between said sole member and said cap member extend approximately equally and in opposite direction from one-another from said tie member,
- each of said longitudinal slots having groove means engageable with ribs on said strips of ribbed floor matting, and
- said sole member is curved away from said cap member such that each of said longitudinal slots has a cross-section tapering outwardly from said tie member.
A floor covering kit comprising:
- a nominal length of ribbed matting material having a nominal width, said nominal length of said ribbed matting material being rolled up in a cylindrical form;
- a plurality of pieces of elongated joining means bundled up as a core of said cylindrical form;
- said elongated joining means having slot means for joining two adjacent strips of said fibbed matting material by enclosing simultaneously common bordering longitudinal edges of both said two adjacent strips.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.