Abstract: An improved carpet tile for commercial, industrial or home use. The carpet tile has two straight first and second edges. Its third and fourth edges each have a portion removed to form key sections at the ends and a channel indentation in the middle. The tile when installed registers diagonally with like tiles because key sections from two tiles having adjacent straight edges are received by a channel indentation of each side edge of the tile. Movement of the tile in relation to other tiles is reduced and unsightly continuous edge lines across the carpet surface are eliminated. This invention is particularly useful when applied to free-lay carpet tiles, which use no adhesive to hold them to the underlying surface, because it prevents such tiles from delaminating, curling or warping. The simple shape of the tile allows it to be manufactured and installed quickly and inexpensively.

Abstract: A garden structure includes a plurality of adjacent plastic base members with each of the base members including a frame portion, a filler portion, a sealing portion and a fastening portion. The frame portion includes spaced substantially flat major sections, sections having substantially the same configuration and being disposed substantially parallel to each other. Sidewall sections extend between adjacent peripheral edges of the major sections and at least two opposed sidewall sections are substantially parallel to each other throughout their lengths. The spaced major sections and sidewall sections together form a cavity within the base member. The filler portion includes particulate material compressed within the cavity of the base member and filling same. The sealing portion includes an opening in one sidewall of the base member and a cover section engageable with and completely enclosing the opening.

Abstract: An array of gravity-held-in-place-load-bearing-horizontal-modular-accessible-tiles, composite-modular-accessible-tiles, and resilient-composite-modular-accessible-tiles with flexible joints between adjacent modular-accessible-tiles in which the flexible joints are cuttable, accessible and resealable to provide accessibility to conductors disposed above or below one or more horizontal-disassociation-cushioning-layers, requiring fluidtight-flexible-assembly-joints between adjacent modular-accessible-tiles to assemble the modular-accessible-tiles by gravity, friction, and accumulated-interactive-assemblage into a floating finished floor array without adhering the modular-accessible-tiles to the horizontal-base-surface. A horizontal-disassociation-cushioning-layer provides accommodation for the thickness variations caused by termination and crossing over of layers of conductors and also provides improved impact sound isolation.

Abstract: A light-weight contourable core of high strength for inclusion in boat hulls in which the core is sandwiched between facing sheets of resin-reinforced fiberglass. The core is formed by a planar array of block-like modules made of end-grain balsa wood or other material having acceptable properties whose adjacent edges are held together by flexible adhesive joints that have a short elastic limit, such that when the planar core is pressed against a contoured surface for lamination thereto, the resultant stresses cause the joints to stretch beyond their elastic limit to an extent necessary to permit the modules to conform to this surface. There is no spring back when the pressure is released, and the modules, therefore, maintain their conformed positions.

Abstract: A large water and air impervious textile panel suitable for use as a pond liner, tarpaulin, or the like, is constructed from a plurality of smaller panels. Each small panel comprises a weft inserted warp knit fabric having reinforcing substrate strips disposed at the selvedge edges thereof, and the strips spaced from each other along the width of the fabric. The small panels are chemically finished by first applying an adhesive system such as an isocyanate, and then a thermoset or thermoplastic polymer coating. The selvedge edges are prepared for attachment to each other by buffing and then applying an adhesive cement. The buffing does not extend along the width of each small panel any further than the width of the selvedge reinforcing substrate strip. Adjacent selvedge edges of the small panels are overlapped, and then attached to each other with the cement adhesive. Alternatively the overlapped small panel edges may be ultrasonically or thermally bonded to each other.

Abstract: A tile for use in constructing an entrance mat. The tile has a flat base and low walls surrounding the base for retaining water on the base. Scraper means are provided on the base for scraping snow, water and/or slush off the feet of people using the mat. Means are provided on each wall for use in connecting the tile to an adjacent tile. A plurality of the tiles are connected together to form a mat. Means are provided in each wall of a tile for directing water out of the tile when it reaches a certain level. The invention is also directed toward a mat made up of a plurality of the tiles.

Abstract: A modular surface having an important use as a sports deck, and particularly for ball sports like tennis. The surface is built up of a number of generally square tiles in which the play surface is supported by a large number of support pegs intended to rest on an undersurface. The tiles are flexible so that the support pegs can remain in contact with the undersurface even if it is not perfectly plane, assuring consistent ball bounce. A special arrangement of expansion joints gears the ability of the tile to absorb expansion and contraction resulting from temperature changes to the geometry of the tile to: (a) keep the pegs on the ground even in the presence of temperature changes to assure consistent ball bounce, and (b) keep the play field itself from expanding or contracting without the need for anchoring it to the undersurface.

Abstract: In a plate-shaped insulation member consisting of parallel mineral wool strips positioned side by side with the fiber planes normal to the main surfaces of said members the strips are joined together by connecting means laid down in parallel tracks extending transverse to said strips and having a small depth relative to the thickness of the strips. The connecting means may consist of strings laid down in tracks either in one main surface only for production of flexible insulation mats or in both main surfaces for production of rigid formstable insulation plates. The latter may also be produced by connecting means in the form of relatively thin strips of corrugated wall board, for example, laid down in said tracks in an upstanding position.

Abstract: Wood blocks cut from lumber mill endpieces are adhesively secured to a backing sheet with strips of contrasting material interposed between the blocks.

Abstract: A modular antifouling tile is formed with a plurality of reservoirs that contain antifoulant which diffuses therefrom through the matrix of the coating. The coating matrix is preferably formed of an elastomeric material selected from the group of butyl and natural rubbers, neoprene, polybutylene, polyisoprene, polybutadiene, polysulfides, polyurethanes, vinyls, polyacrylonitriles, and copolymer blends thereof. Selected antifoulants that diffuse through a coating matrix of the abovementioned materials include tributyltin oxide and 2, 4, 5, 6-tetrachloroisophthalonitrile.

Abstract: A decorative simulated ceramic tile comprises a substrate having a surface coated with an under-coat effective to provide a colored, printable base; an inked layer comprising a layer of colored ink lines of a silicone-containing drying ink forming a printed pattern on said printable base, said printed pattern being clearly visible; and a coloring pigment-containing top coat of a hard resinous, film-forming material; said top coat having a variable height thickness defining a contour of valleys, hills and plains, wherein the intensity of color in the top coat varies with the variation in the contour, the said valleys occurring over said ink lines such that the color of the ink is not obscured, and the hills lying adjacent said ink lines, said color in the top coat providing a contrast with the color in the under-coat and with the color in the printed pattern.

Abstract: A high pressure laminate (HPL) is disclosed for use on an access floor panel. The HPL is comprised of a rigid, moisture, impervious melamine plastic layer laminated under high pressure and heat to a substrate layer comprised of a resin paper element of multiple sheets of phenolic resin impregnated kraft paper. This resin paper element has at least one groove in it, wherein material has been removed to a depth sufficient to sever enough paper sheet grain lines of the resin paper element so that, after the HPL has been adhesively bonded to the HPL receiving surface of an access floor panel, vertical expansion or contraction of the resin paper element will note elongate the bond line in the area from the edge of the HPL to the groove that creates the pivot or hinge line. An access floor panel is also disclosed.

Abstract: Flooring felt containing glass fibers, cellulosic fibers, synthetic fibers, particulate inorganic filler, latex binder and calcium hydroxide.

Abstract: A multiplanar device has at least one component that consists of two rigid plastic wall members that have major areas of substantially uniform thickness, strips of considerably greater thickness along the side portions of said wall members, and a miter joint between the two wall members. A continuous thin film of flexible plastic is bonded to the two wall members and around the outside of the miter joint.The method of making the component is to mold it as a flat intermediate piece with a V-notch between the strips of greater thickness and to simultaneously bond the film to the surface at the apex of the V; and to thereafter apply adhesive to the sides of the V and bend the piece to bring the sides of the notch together and bond them together.Several such components may be connected with other similar or dissimilar components at miter joints to form a complete multiplanar device.

Abstract: A textile pile carpet tile having a pile body predominantly of loop pile extending from one end to the opposing end of the tile and a pair of opposing side marginal areas of predominantly cut pile extending along opposite sides of the pile body from said one end to the opposing end of the tile, and of an appearance contrasting with that of the pile body.

Abstract: A method of insulating a structure comprising the steps of applying at least one strip of pliable sealing material in an airtight relationship to an area of the structure to be thermally insulated, and applying, as needed, successive strips of said material in overlapping relationship with each other and said first strip until a desired area of said structure is entirely covered with a continuous, airtight, overlapping, thermal barrier layer, said sealing material comprising a plastic layer, with a pressure-sensitive adhesive on at least one side thereof.

Abstract: A laminated article comprising a plurality of abrasive resistant ceramic tiles secured to an elastomeric polyurethane cushioning support by means of a multitude of short thin fibers having major portions thereof embedded within an epoxy resin bonded to the tiles is fabricated by applying a thin layer of the resin in an uncured liquid phase to the tiles, applying a coating of the fibers to the liquid resin such that minor portions of the fibers in contact with the resin are wet thereby and the remaining major portions of the fibers extend from the resin layer, curing the resin to secure the fibers therein and to bond the resin to the tiles, applying a layer of a thermosetting polyurethane in an unpolymerized liquid phase to the fiber impregnated resin layer, and thereafter curing the polyurethane layer.

Abstract: Pressure-sensitive adhesives having improved cohesive strength are formed by reacting an acrylic interpolymer with a metal alkoxide or chelated metal alkoxide such as a chelated ester of orthotitanic acid. The novel feature of this invention comprises the use of an interpolymer containing a vinyl monomer which contains both a carboxylic acid and a carbamate functional group.

Abstract: A ventilated interlocking floor tile is disclosed comprising a lower layer including a heavy, substantially solid edge region provided with a plurality of interlocks for attachment with contiguous tiles and an upper layer securely fastened to the lower layer to form an upper floor surface including a unidirectional slip-resistant tread pattern. The solid edge region defines a cavity on the backside of the tile and includes a plurality of ventilating grooves extending from the cavity to the outer edge of the tile to accommodate the flow of air to and from the cavity.

Abstract: A ceramic substrate having a convex portion formed singly or plurally on the end faces of the circumference of the substrate so as to bring the convex portions into collision with each other prior to direct collision of the substrates with each other for the purpose of effectively preventing damage due to eventual collision of the end faces of the substrates with each other or corner portions during transfer to an assembling station by an automatic feeding means such as a sloping tray.

Abstract: An architectural panel produced by forming a raised or depressed pattern in the surface of a base plate and sprinkling and sticking particulate material to both or either of the depressions and protrusions to provide the architectural panel with an excellent three-dimensional effect by virtue of the combined effect of the pattern and the particulate material. According to one form of the invention, an architectural panel having an excellent three-dimensional effect and massiveness is produced by using a metallic base plate and overcoming the feeling of smoothness and lightness peculiar to metallic material with the combined effect of such pattern and particulate material. According to another form of the invention, an architectural panel is produced by applying a base coat layer and/or an overcoat layer to a base plate to provide an excellent design quality and protection against fall-off of the particulate material.

Abstract: A mosaic structure, flat or multi-dimensional, wherein any number of discrete members are soldered together, irrespective of whether such members are of conventionally solderable or conventionally unsolderable materials. The mosaic structures include glass and stained glass structures, such as windows and lampshades, wood mosaics, such as tabletops and other furniture, and hybrid structures, having glass and wood members, as well as members of most other materials. The mosaic structures may be produced by methods taught in copending applications.

Abstract: A flexible carpet web having a plurality of spaced apart pressure sensitive adhesive segments disposed in a patterned relationship on the backing thereof, and in which the same are preferably patterned according to certain given parameters involving the relation of the total area of the adhesive segments to the weight and/or the area of the carpet web, the spacing between adhesive segment centers as related to the area of the adhesive segments, and/or the spacing apart of the adhesive segments in relation to the configuration thereof; and a method of manufacture of a carpet web having adhesive segments applied to the backing thereof for facile installation thereof.

Abstract: A set of tiles for covering a regular polygon having an even number of sides is composed of tiles each of which is distinct from the other tiles in the set. The tiles in the set may be combined so as to form the regular polygon in a number of ways which increases very rapidly with increasing numbers of sides. The tiles of the invention may be used as a recreational puzzle, as a game, as an educational tool, for aesthetic purposes, and for a variety of other uses.

Abstract: A method for producing liquid crystal cells is disclosed, in which a pair of large-area glass substrates are put together, opposite to each other and spaced a small distance apart from each other to form integrally a plurality of liquid crystal cells between the substrates, and by splitting the glass substrate assembly, the individual cells are separated from one another. Each of the glass substrates, which have the same structure, has first regions to serve as upper substrate sections and second regions to serve as lower substrate sections disposed alternately thereon and predetermined electrodes are formed on the first and the second regions. The two glass substrates are disposed face to face with each other in such a manner that the first and the second regions of one substrate are opposite to the second and the first regions of the other substrate.

Abstract: Floor matting includes rectangular panels each having a plurality of rows of upstanding hollow bosses. Some of the bosses are located along two sides of the panel and laterally project beyond the sides, and the other two sides of the panel carry a complementary number of upstanding projections insertable into the bosses along the side of an adjacent panel to retain the two panels in side by side relationship. The matting also includes retainers each having a flat base with apertures positioned to correspond with the disposition of the bosses on the panels to enable the base to be mounted on one or more panels with bosses extending into the apertures. Each retainer also has a retainer member projecting upwardly from the base for engagement with an article placed on the matting.

Abstract: A continuous paper strip is provided with a first plurality of transverse tear lines spaced apart from each other to divide the strip into a plurality of strip elements having a desired height. Each strip element is subdivided into a first and second part of different heights by a transverse folding line. The first part has a height "h+d", where "h" is the height of the invoice, bill or the like, and "d" is the width of the bands on which an adhesive is applied. The second part has a height "h+2d". Longitudinal slots are purchased at each side of the first part of each strip element each having a width equal to "d". On the main face of the strip and near the transverse folding line separating each strip element, an adhesive is applied on a band of a width substantially equal to "d", while at the opposite face of the strip and on the second part of each strip element an adhesive band is applied near the tear line.

Abstract: An artificial skiing surface comprising a plurality of single elements formed from plastic adapted to be detachably joined together in side-by-side relationship including a base layer provided with a plurality of flexible upwardly extending plastic fingers and a plurality of sockets in each of which rotatable balls are disposed formed from plastic having a hardness greater than that of the fingers and having the same height as that of the fingers together with a guidance comb inserted in a groove in the base layer and having flexible teeth with globular tips which extend upwardly preferably to a height above that of the fingers to provide control of a ski sliding thereon.

Abstract: A mat, such as a bath mat, is made up of a plurality of units which are releasably joined to each other to form a continuous mat structure. Each of these units has a continuous peripheral flange provided with upper and lower edges and an open network of intersecting ribs surrounded by and integral with this flange while being situated at least in part between the upper and lower edges thereof, and in particular spaced upwardly from the lower edge of the peripheral flange. Each unit has a plurality of short feet integral with and distributed along while extending downwardly from the lower edge of the peripheral flange and a plurality of long feet integral with the open network of intersecting ribs and extending downwardly therefrom, all of these feet terminating in lower ends which are situated in a common plane parallel to the lower edge of the peripheral flange.

Abstract: Ornamental element consisting of a number of tile-shaped parts which are joined, with interspaces, on the non-exposed side to form a bond. The adjacent tile-shaped parts are given a fixed relative bond by one or more joining strips, which form one whole with the tile-shaped parts, and consist preferably of one and the same material, and are moulded in one action.The joining strips are made as bridgings, the height of the opening of which plus the tile thickness is equal to or larger than the width of the joint between the tile shaped parts; the thickness if equal to or smaller than the width of the joint. The bridge-shaped parts have a form which allows release from a mould.The ornamental element consists of a thermosetting agent, for example of an unsaturated polyester with fillers or a ceramic material.

Abstract: A plurality of green veneer strips are positioned side by side in close contact and provided with inclined grooves or slits on the surface. Strings are embedded in the slits together with an adhesive for connecting the green veneer strips into a veneer core block for plywood.

Abstract: Lightweight, compliant, structural members comprising an assemblage of metallic strips disposed in side-by-side relationship with the edges of the strips at opposite sides of the assemblage. The edges of the strips on one side of the assemblage may be folded over to provide a smoother, more continuous working surface. Point-to-point node bonding of adjacent strips and straight and nested foils at opposite sides of the assemblage can be utilized to facilitate handling and processing and to furnish lateral support.

Abstract: A multi-panel outsert suitable for attachment to the exterior of a product container has two or more longitudinal panels closed upon themselves by transverse folds and secured compactly by adhesive joining a spot on the inside of the outer longitudinal panel to an adjacent, outside portion of the outer panel which encloses and secures thereunder one or more other panels, affording increased printing area for the outsert with decreased likelihood of loss. An aperture through the panel or panels folded inwardly adjacent the outer panel allows such direct attachment of the outer panel to itself to effect the enclosure and securement.

Abstract: A peroxidic-initiated graft copolymerization process wherein a water-insoluble thiocarbonated or thiocarbamated substrate is exposed to high-frequency microwave energy in the presence of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a perioxidic free radical initiator.

Abstract: This invention concerns a process of manufacturing panels composed of units in, for example, ceramic assembled by a thermoplastic material.The interstitial spaces between the units are filled with granules of thermoplastic material. After heating to the highest possible temperature but just lower than the degradation temperature, the units are firmly joined to one another.Such panels can be used as decorative floor or wall-coverings.

Abstract: A face plate suitable for use with an acoustical-optical image tube is disclosed and its method of manufacture. A fused glass capillary array which constitutes a disk having a large number of smooth parallel passages or pores therethrough is metalized, preferably by an electroless plating process, whereby the inside surfaces of all the pores are coated. The resulting layer of gold, silver or platinum may then be increased, if desired, by further plating, after which the disk is cleaned, heated to approximately 470.degree. C. and the pores filled with a sealant such as silver chloride. One or both surfaces may then be lapped to provide a disk having a glass surface but with many conducting cylinders extending therethrough which then appear as rings on the surfaces.

Abstract: An artificial ski matting wherein a plurality of ski mats may be interlocked to form an artificial skiing surface. Each mat includes a base ski support surface and an plurality of spaced pegs having flexible "fluff" fingers on each peg. A second plurality of spaced pegs are interposed on the mat and having flexible "turn" fingers on each peg. The "fluff" fingers form a generally horizontal ski surface permitting skis to sink into the fluff fingers and track on the mat as a ski would do in natural snow. The "turn" fingers form a generally horizontal ski surface lower than the first-mentioned horizontal ski surface permitting skis to dig into the mat and "turn" thereon. Finally, the base ski support surface supports the skis when they dig down into the mat, such as when sufficient centrifugal force is created either in a dip or turn while skiing. In this manner, the effect of compaction of natural snow is created.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1.

Abstract: An elongated structural member formed of bonded directionally-oriented wood strands. The member is rectangular in cross section, having a width between longitudinal side edges and thickness between parallel longitudinal faces joining the side edges. Oriented wood strands are utilized to form the member, with flange sections extending inwardly from the side edges and a web section extending between the flanges. Strands within the flange sections are longitudinally oriented parallel to one another and to the face and edges of the member. Strands within the web section are skewed relative to the strands within the flanges. At the interfaces between the flange sections and web sections, strands are disposed with angular components complementary to strands found in both the flanges and web section. The rectangular configuration of the member facilitates its construction by conventional pressing equipment and techniques.

Abstract: An article capable of being hot stamped with desired lettering or designs comprising a plastic laminate and an overlying carrier film with colored matter attached to an appendage portion of the plastic laminate. The back of the laminate has a pressure-sensitive adhesive protected by a removable covering or backing. The method of imprinting and using the article comprises hot stamping the foil and underlying plastic laminate to form the desired lettering or design, removing the foil and appendage portion from the plastic laminate, removing the protective backing to expose the adhesive and to affix the imprinted laminate to a plaque or other item. The process of imprinting on the article includes hot stamping the laminate to deboss it and transfer the coloring matter to the debossed portions, and removing the carrier film.