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US 8,782,990 B2Granted
Narrow lined modular flooring assemblies
AssigneeCoMc, LLC
InventorYu Lin Tang
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Abstract
This specification describes a tray substrate for tile flooring that can be used in narrow grout line modular floating tile assemblies. The tray is preferably made of plastic and has vertical tray edges around the top of the tray substrate with upward and downward tabs protruding from the sides of the tray substrate wherein some of the tabs are at least partially recessed under the surface of the tray.
Claims4
A component of a flooring system comprising:
- (A) a flooring component,
- (B) an adhesive,
- (C) a tray substrate comprising:
- (i) a tray substrate surface which is an upward facing horizontal surface having a tray substrate surface perimeter,
- (ii) a tray substrate bottom with a padding attached to the tray substrate bottom,
- (iii) a plurality of tray substrate vertical tray edges which protrude upward and extend along the entire tray substrate surface perimeter,
- (iv) a plurality of tray substrate edges defining an outside perimeter of the tray substrate, each tray substrate edge of the plurality of tray substrate edges having a plurality of upward tabs comprising a convex surface and a valley and a plurality of downward tabs comprising a concave surface and a lip wherein a portion of the surface of the plurality of downward tabs is recessed under the upward facing horizontal tray surface and wherein a portion of the lip lies directly under one of the plurality of tray substrate vertical tray edges, and
- (v) said flooring component is adhered to the tray substrate surface with the adhesive.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.