Roll-up floor mat with rigid rails

Details Roll-up floor mat with rigid rails Roll-up floor mat with rigid rails

1981-09-25

1986-02-04

Thibodeau, Paul J.

Stock material or miscellaneous articles

Two dimensionally sectional layer

Sections connected flexibly with external fastener

52 71, 52177, 52586, 428 58, 428 85, 428192, E04C 130, E04F 1516

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045685878

ABSTRACT:
A floor mat including a plurality of rigid, elongated rails each having a side edge positioned in substantially parallel, spaced relationship to a respective side edge of an adjacent rail. A passageway opens inwardly from each rail side edge and includes an outer portion adjacent the side edge and an inner portion. The passageway inner portions have greater cross-sectional dimensions than the passageway outer portions. Each pair of adjacent rails is interconnected by an elongated, flexible hinge member which comprises a pair of opposite, spaced flanges extending longitudinally with respect to the hinge member. The flanges are interconnected by a web having a cross-sectional thickness less than a cross-sectional thickness of each of the flanges. The hinge member flanges are each slidably received in a respective passageway inner portion. The hinge member is adapted to maintain the rails in a substantially parallel, predetermined spacing and to bend transversely with respect to the rails thereby allowing transverse angular displacement of the rails relative to each other.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3383822 (1968-05-01), Viehmann et al.
patent: 3592289 (1971-07-01), Aysta et al.
patent: 3783471 (1974-01-01), McGeary
patent: 3808628 (1974-05-01), Betts
patent: 4029834 (1977-06-01), Bartlett
patent: 4276728 (1981-07-01), Balzar

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