Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – Direct application of fluid pressure differential to... – Starting material is nonhollow planar finite length preform...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-14
2005-06-14
Lee, Edmund H. (Department: 1732)
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Direct application of fluid pressure differential to...
Starting material is nonhollow planar finite length preform...
C264S154000, C264S163000, C264S318000, C425S388000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06905650
ABSTRACT:
A molded floor covering for a vehicle floor includes a thermoplastic polymer layer with an integral, threaded drain tube extending therefrom. The drain tube is configured such that a distal end thereof can extend through a drain hole in a vehicle floor when the floor covering is installed within a vehicle. The drain tube includes a threaded bore that is configured to receive a correspondingly-threaded drain plug therein. A method of producing a molded floor covering having an integrally formed, threaded drain tube includes providing a mold having a contour of a vehicle floor with an outwardly projecting threaded member. A layer of thermoplastic polymer is vacuum formed over the mold and around the threaded member such that the layer follows the contours of the mold and threaded member to form an elongate tube extending therefrom.
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Haight Dayne Stuart
McIntosh William Duncan
Collins & Aikman Products & Co.
Lee Edmund H.
Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec P.A.
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