Spring devices – Rubber
Patent
1995-02-28
1996-10-22
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Spring devices
Rubber
2671411, 524031, F16F 712, F16F 136
Patent
active
055669301
ABSTRACT:
A hardwood floor system has upper and lower subfloors of wooden panels, a plurality of elongated floorboards disposed above the upper subfloor and a plurality of uniformly spaced compressible, deflectable pads supporting the lower subfloor above a base. In free-floating embodiment of the invention, each of the pads includes a glide tip that is slidable with respect to the base. The pads are a compressible material having a flattened truncated first end and a larger second end. Each pad has at least one tab connected to and extending laterally from one of its ends to secure the pad to the floor system. The pad includes an internal hollow volume with a cross sectional area that decreases from an opening at the second end of the pad to a closed end of the hollow volume proximate the first end of the pad. The opening has a cross-sectional area greater than the area of the flattened truncated first end of the pad.
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Oberleitner Robert J.
Robbins, Inc.
Schwartz Chris
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