Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Structural member making
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-28
2008-11-04
Bryant, David P. (Department: 3726)
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Structural member making
C029S527100, C029S407050, C033S503000, C296S097230, C073S001790
Reexamination Certificate
active
07444748
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle floor tray is molded from a multiple extrusion thermoplastic polymer sheet such that it has high shear and tensile strength, an acceptable degree of stiffness and a high coefficient of friction on its upper surface. The floor tray design is digitally fitted to a foot well of a particular model of vehicle such that a lower surface of the tray is no more than one-half of an inch from a digitally acquired model of the foot well surface.
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Bryant David P.
Momkus McCluskey, LLC
Perkins Jefferson
Taousakis Alexander P
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