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US 7,452,580 B1Granted
Imbedded vinyl flooring product
OwnerRobert S. Weiner, John W. Waller +1inventors
InventorsRobert S. Weiner, John W. Waller, Willard Clifton Owens
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Abstract
An imbedded flooring product has a skeletal frame in the form of a mesh at least partially imbedded into a vinyl sheet substrate. The mesh creates a pattern visible from above the sheet.
Claims10
A flooring product comprising:
- a vinyl layer having a bottom layer portion and a top portion;
- and a skeletal frame having a pattern of runners disposed about openings, said runners having a height between a top surface and a bottom surface, said skeletal frame imbedded into the top layer portion of the vinyl sheet layer wherein bubbles are formed in the top portion of the vinyl sheet layer and have a top surface which extend a distance above the bottom surface of the skeletal frame and into the openings, and the bottom layer portion forms a non-porous sheet below the skeletal frame and top portion of the vinyl layer, wherein said top portion of the vinyl layer is impacted by the imbedding wherein at least one of (a) at least a portion of the top surface of the runners remains exposed and (b) valleys extend downwardly from upper portions of the top portion of the vinyl layer toward the top surface of the runners resembling the pattern of the runners.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.