Abstract: The present invention concerns an adhesive bonded thermoplastic coating for the underside of a floor that will add significant moisture resistance, wear resistance, transverse crack resistance, and make a better looking, more marketable product. The plastic coated vehicular trailer floor has a plurality of wood planks having a top surface, a bottom surface and a first and second side surfaces, the plank having a width that is less than the lateral width of the floor, each plank being formed by a plurality of boards arranged side-by-side, each board being formed of a plurality of segments joined end-to-end to one another by shaped coupling portions. The planks are arranged side by side such that at least one of the first and second side surfaces faces one of the second or first side surfaces of adjacent planks. Each of the planks has a planar polymer layer formed of an un-reinforced polymer, being bonded to the bottom surface of the planks with an adhesive layer.

Abstract: A tile having a support layer and a wearing layer. The wearing layer and the support layer are polygonal. The edge regions of the support layer have projections and cutouts, the projections being intended to engage in a positively locking manner in the cutouts in the support layer of adjacent tiles. The tiles may also have an intermediate layer which is electrically conductive. After the tiles have been laid, neither cutouts nor projections are visible from above, since the tiles are mechanically secured by the support layer.

Abstract: A tile edging strip comprising: a substrate engaging member, wherein the substrate engaging member is configured for engaging a primary substrate; a tile engaging member, wherein the tile engaging member is configured for engaging one or more tiles; a spacing support member, wherein the spacing support member is positioned between the substrate engaging member and the tile engaging member; and a transition member.

Abstract: An artificial stratified stone construction (10) for producing building components (21) and the method employed in the manufacture of the building components (21). The artificial stratified stone construction (10) includes a slab (20) having a plurality of different colored layers (22) of cured concrete such that the exposed sides of each of the building components (21) will expose the variable stratified color and thickness layers (22) which constitute the finished product.

Abstract: In an arrangement for jointing together adjacent pieces (1, 2) of floor covering material, mutually facing edge portions of the pieces (1, 2) in a joint are profiled such that the one piece (1) has a groove-shaped accommodation space (5) in which a corresponding bead-shaped projection (6) on the other piece (2) may be accommodated. The one piece has a flocking (9) which is disposed for holding together adjacent pieces. The profiling has, besides the accommodation space (5) and the projection (6), mutually facing surfaces (7, 8) on both pieces (1, 2, respectively), at least one of these surfaces being flocked (9). The flocking (9) or flockings (9) are located outside the defining surfaces of the accommodation space (5) and the projection (6).

Abstract: A floor assembly includes a plurality of floor units and each of the floor units has four sides. Four recesses are defined in four corners of each of the floor units and the floor units are connected with each other side by side. A plurality of fixed members are fixed on the ground and engaged with the recesses of the floor units.

Abstract: The disclosed invention is a portable floor comprised of interlocking floor panels which may be used for dancing, theatrical productions, musical performances, trade shows, and other settings where it is desirable to have a firm wooden floor surface. The disclosed invention enables a single person to install or disassemble the portable floor. It eliminates the need for storing any additional hardware to connect the panels to one another. No special tools are required to assemble or disassemble a floor. The floor is easy to assemble. Once the portable floor is assembled each panel is locked at two different places, thus firmly connecting the floor together. Panels may be added as desired to increase the size of the floor.

Abstract: Floor panel of the type comprising a hard top layer (3) forming a decorative surface, from which, together with other identical or similar floor panels (1), a floor covering can be formed, wherein this floor panel (1) includes at least one sound-absorbing layer (4) which is integrated into the floor panel (1) and is located between other layers of this floor panel (1).

Abstract: A polymeric floor tile of elongated shape having a top surface molded to simulate a section of wood flooring with a plurality of staggered boards. The tile is adhesive-free, made possible by novel mating interlocks formed so as to lie below the linear edges defining the top tile surface. A decorative layer of wood grain may be applied to the top surface during or after molding to enhance simulation.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an anti-fatigue flooring article having inherent properties of electrostatic dissipation. Further, this disclosure relates to flooring article having at least two layers, wherein a first layer (comprised of dense rubber) is calendered to a second layer (comprised of foam rubber). Each layer has a different electrical conductivity, thereby creating a mat having an appropriate range of conductivity when combined. The present flooring article may also include a layer of static dissipating scrim, a grounding means, and/or a colored marking.

Abstract: A two-ply flooring plank is disclosed having two layers or “plies” with a bottom layer having a grain that runs generally transverse to a top layer (i.e., “cross-ply”) to provide dimensional stability to the plank. The bottom layer includes a number of strips secured to the bottom of the top layer. The bottom layer strips are also placed with gaps between the individual strips of the second layer to allow flexibility of the flooring plank, which allows the flooring to more easily conform to irregularities in a subfloor upon which the flooring plank is mounted.

Abstract: A tile assembly and method of installing tile is shown where each tile has an underside, and a support board is adhered to the underside of one ore more tiles. One such tile assembly is connected to another tile assembly by a tongue and groove arrangement, where each tile assembly is not cemented, screwed or otherwise adhered to the floor. The space between the tiles is filled with a flexible group made of rubber silicone, white sand and dye. The tiles may be made of any suitable material such as of ceramic, stone, marble, granite, vinyl composition tile (vct), brick, or other composite materials that use mortar to set the material to a floor or sub-floor.

Abstract: A parquet panel assembled of rectangular shaped wood strips as inlays and the panel is formed to have irregular end edges such that alternate rows of inlay strips are staggered in such a way that a staggered edge of one panel will interleave with the staggered edge of an adjacent panel with sufficient precision that the seams between panels are not detectable and a former which enables the positioning and joining of the inlay strips with the requisite precision needed to assemble the panel.

Abstract: Disclosed is a modular floor including a plurality of floor tiles having two sides with different functional characteristics so that one side has a regular checkered surface with protrusions of equal maximum height and on the same plane, comprising areas with open grids and blind areas, while on the other side are some areas with through openings and some with regularly spaced blind openings with protrusions of equal maximum height, all of which coincide with the counterpart of the first side, which are combined with flat sunken areas with respect to the maximum height of this side, which constitute grooves for the insertion of interlocking members and present a surface formed by the closed backs of the blind areas of the first face.

Abstract: A decorated floor panel having a core with a top surface and an opposite bottom surface; a decorative layer coupled to the top surface of the core, the decorative layer having a desired aesthetic appearance; and a wear layer coupled to and substantially covering the decorative layer for protecting the decorative layer. The wear layer has an exposed wear surface with depressions therein of a variable depth below the wear surface, the depressions being arranged to display a desired texture pattern. It is noted that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to ascertain quickly the subject matter of the technical disclosure. The abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 1.72(b).

Abstract: A pre-fabricated wood underlayment and tile system comprising, in layers, wood underlayment, layer of adhesive, and a layer of vinyl or ceramic tile with a plastic film protectant that is peeled away after installation which provides a pre-fabricated panel to be attached to any flat surface such as a floor or a wall.

Abstract: A flexible composite veneer laminate is disclosed comprising a thick core of flexible wood, a thin veneer sheet bonded to one outside surface of the thick core, and a thin paper sheet bonded the other outside surface of said thick core, the thick core of flexible wood having a flexibility necessary to allow the flexible composite veneer to be folded on itself so as to make a circle having a radius of 30 centimeters.

Abstract: A prefabricated underlay material (1) for location between upper surface of a load-bearing floor (8) and a continuous surface material (9), which underlay material comprises a substantially flexible sheet material (2) and dampening projections (3) formed of porous resilient material on one surface of the sheet material and distributed along the surface. Dampening projections (3) comprise strips (13) of foamed polymer or polymer mixture bonded to a first surface (11) of the sheet material without deformation of the surface thereof, which strips are located continuous, or intermittently continuous, with intervals (S) and are either principally straight or substantially undulating.

Abstract: A tongue and groove profile for a construction panel wherein the tongue protrudes and extends outwardly from a first edge of the panel to a head portion. A shoulder portion of the tongue has two radiused convex or concave sides which intersect and merge with the first edge of the panel. A groove is formed in a second edge of the panel and extends inwardly into the second edge forming a cavity. The groove has a head portion which extends into a neck which expands into a shoulder which has two radiused concave or convex sides so that the tongue will fit into the groove. The radiused sides expand to form an opening in the second edge of the panel. The tongue of one panel can fit in interlocking relationship into the a groove of a second panel to form a joint between the two panels.

Abstract: A repeating series of tiles has at least three tiles in a series. Each tile within the series has at least two sides capable of interfacing with adjacent tiles within the series. Each of the two sides of each tile within the series has a different shape in the pile direction than the other tiles within the series such that the last tile within the series is capable of interfacing with the first tile of the next series. Further, each tile within the series has at least one side capable of interfacing with at least one tile within another series in order to have adjoining rows of series of tiles. The present invention further includes both a method for producing and assembling a repeating series of tiles.

Abstract: A mosaic tessera, particularly for outdoor and/or indoor paving, constituted by a small metallic plate which is peripherally provided with perimetric raised portions forming a recess together with the corresponding face of the plate and by a filler element which is shaped complementarily to the recess and is associated with the recess so as to form a single tessera adapted to be applied to the foundation of the paving.

Abstract: The invention refers to a method of floor laying and underlay and surface material for this. According to the invention a coating of fiber flock on the underlay as well as on the underside of the floor surface material is utilized. Hereby is achieved partly that the need of glueing of floor material is eliminated and partly to provide a floor underlay that gives smoothing out, noise suppression and insulation as well as a fixing underlay for various floor materials so that these can be laid in larger or smaller portions and remain on site but simply can be adjusted when required.

Abstract: An improved structure of an assembly type floor or wall tile includes a face layer of stone or wooden material, and a bottom layer of plastic, which are injection molded and bonded integrally so that they will not disengage, and the stone face layer is not vulnerable to breaking. Besides, the present invention has the features of dampness and fire resistance, material savings, reduced costs, lightness, and easy transport. Besides, the periphery of the bottom layer is provided with projecting and indented retaining posts, the bottom side thereof being formed with a plurality of grooves that have a circular, square or any suitable shape, and that are narrow at the opening and wide at the bottom. The retaining posts are for assembly purposes to facilitate construction and permit repair and replacement. The grooves in the bottom side has the effects of shock-absorbing, ventilation, reinforced structure, plastic material savings, and lightness.

Abstract: A floor tile, in particular a laminate panel, parquet element, veneer floor element, ready-to-lay parquet element or such like comprises an edge profile on at least two opposite edges in the form of a modified groove and tongue joint for the purpose of connecting adjacent tiles, with a coincident arrangement consisting of one groove (22,122,26,126) and one tongue (20,120,30,130) on each of at least two edges, of which the tongue on one edge of a first tile and the groove in an associated edge of a second tile rise obliquely upwards from the bottom of the tile. The edge profiles are contrived directly in the support material of the floor tile, the groove (26,126) in the first tile is disposed directly above its tongue (20,120) and the lower wall of this groove falls off towards the back end (28,128) of the groove by the same degree as the tongue (20,120) on the first tile rises upwards.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method that is timesaving, more economical and facilitates the handling and processing of short solid wood planks. Tongue-and-groove joints are machined on the short sides of the short green planks enabling their releasable tight assembly in rows for the seasoning process in the kiln dryer. This temporary attachment between adjacent planks prevents exposition of the short sides to the drying air thus avoiding the usual end grain checking on the latter during kiln drying, and eliminates the need of performing any subsequent machining and trimming steps after the expensive kiln drying step. This process then also improves the saving opportunities by increasing the volume of wood drying capacity and by increasing the production of reusable green wood shavings as opposed to unusable wood shavings following the kiln drying operation.

Abstract: Moisture and condensation barriers for protecting wood from damage in building structures (particularly but not necessarily in flooring systems) include a liquid rubberized coating material coated onto some of the wood or a barrier sheet having a petroleum-based tar layer.

Abstract: A plastics floor covering (1) comprises a plurality of discrete plastics components (2, 3, 4) each having an upper surface and a lower surface (lower surface shown). The discrete components (2, 3, 4) are assembled together to form a predetermined design and are held in the assembled position to form a unitary floor covering (1) by at least one portion of a joining film (14) secured to the lower surface of each discrete component (2, 3, 4). The joining film (14) spans at least the edges of neighboring discrete components (2, 3, 4) and is coated with a thermally labile polymeric coupling agent. The joining film (14) is perforated in a preferred embodiment of the invention.

Abstract: A method of attaching a covering material, such as carpeting, to a concrete surface, includes applying a first adhesive over a concrete surface, providing a steel barrier including a plurality of projections extending from the bottom surface thereof, pressing the steel barrier over the adhesive such that the projections are embedded therein, and bonding the covering material over the barrier. The moisture-proof barrier construction of the present invention includes a concrete layer, a steel barrier, which is adhesively mounted to the concrete layer and includes a plurality of projections extending from the bottom surface thereof that are embedded into an adhesive between the concrete layer and the steel barrier. The barrier includes a covering material which is adhesively mounted on the steel barrier.

Abstract: A floor tile or wall tile in the form of a panel has a frame and a filling. The frame and the filling are nondetachably connected in a utility state to form an integral part. The connection between frame and filling interlocks tongue and groovc-like. The frame extends beyond the filling in the plane of the tile at least the thickness of the frame. The filling is of the same thickness as the frame.

Abstract: A method of forming a tiled floor without adhesive beneath the tiles comprises laying the tiles, applying filler between adjacent tiles after laying, and holding the tiles in relative position. A flexible sheet with apertures can be laid on a substrate and the apertures filled with grouting material and the tiles laid on the sheet, the spaces between the tiles receiving filler material. The tiles may have a groove in peripheral sides to provide a keying effect for the filler material. The filler material may be settable after application and hold the tiles in position.

Abstract: An interlocking prefabricated hardwood floor panel system in which multiple hardwood strips are secured together and attached to a substrate. The hardwood strips end at different locations such that a straight seam is not formed between adjacent floor panels. The substrate covers at least a portion of the floor panel and may extend past the edge of the hardwood strips such that hardwood strips from an adjacent floor panel can be secured to the substrate. Alternative embodiments provide hardwood strips that vary in color to allow designs to be inserted into a floor by using different woods or different stains. The substrate is secured to a target surface which may be the surface of the floor, a ceiling, or wall. The substrate can be attached to the target surface via any appropriate method, such as adhesive, nails, screws, etc.. A variety of flooring patterns can be used including hardwood strips, parquet squares, herringbone, etc.

Abstract: A flexible laminated sheet flooring product for covering a subfloor. The flooring product includes a resilient top layer defining a wearing surface of the flooring product. A fiber backing is laminated to the top layer for dimensionally supporting the layer. A pressure sensitive adhesive coating is permanently applied to the fiber backing and releasable from a protective covering without separation of the fiber backing from the top layer. The coating has sufficient tack for releasably adhering the flooring product to the subfloor.

Abstract: A tongue and groove profile for a construction panel wherein the tongue protrudes and extends outwardly from a first edge of the panel and has a chamfered head. The head expands from the chamfered edge to a neck and merges into a shoulder portion. The shoulder portion of the tongue has two radiused convex sides which intersect and merge with the first edge of the panel. A groove is formed in a second edge of the panel and extends inwardly into the second edge forming a cavity. The groove has a chamfered head which expands into a neck which then expands into a wider shoulder portion which has two radiused concave sides which expand outwardly to form an opening in the second edge of a panel. The tongue of one construction panel can fit in interlocking relationship into a groove of a second panel to form a joint between the two panels.

Abstract: In a method for installing tiles on a substrate, tiles, having a first surface and a second, machinable surface, are arranged in installed locations on the substrate with the second, machinable surface facing away from the substrate. The machinable surfaces are then machined to reduce tile-to-tile irregularities and adjust for the variations in the subfloor, and the tiles are turned over so that the first surfaces face away from the substrate. A decorative flooring unit is also provided having a tile with a shim layer on its underside, an edge member surrounding the tile and a substrate extending beneath the edge member and the tile. The tile is installed within the edge member with the shim layer facing away from the substrate. The tile may be reversed after sanding the edge member and shim layer.

Abstract: A method of tiling a plane surface using a tiling table, after which the tiling is shifted over to the finishing stage. In the table by means of several perforated lines positioning guides for each tile are formed by fixing stoppers into the holes of said perforated lines, whereupon the tiling apparatus including tile packs is moved over the table. The tiles fall off each in its turn from the apparatus and take their position determined by the stoppers.

Abstract: A tile for superposition over a horizontal floor comprises a thin flat metal plate of uniform thickness with a plurality of apertures extending laterally therethrough in spaced relation to one another and to the edges of thereof and having a non-metallic insert in each of the apertures of a thickness less than the thickness of the metal portion of the tile and having an upper surface disposed below the upper surface of the metal portion of the tile.

Abstract: A method of laying floors or like surfaces with desired material, wherein the floors or like surfaces are supported by or comprised of rigid units in the form of boards or like elements. The boards are provided with tongues and grooves on respective edges thereof to enable boards to be joined to mutually adjacent boards. The method is mainly characterized by using boards that have been provided with a friction layer on their undersides. A corresponding friction layer is placed on the underlying sub-floor. A sheet of material is removably placed on the underside of the boards and transfers and places one board adjacent to another board. The boards are laid loosely on the friction layer of the sub-floor and mutually joined to adjacent boards solely by coacting between the tongues and grooves of respective boards in the absence of any binder.

Abstract: A tiling or plating system for removably laying wall or floor tiles or wall or floor plates on a surface such as a floor or wall including a magnetically conductive support layer made of metal or the like and a magnetic layer applied to the rear side of the tiles or plates, the magnetic layer being magnetically adhered to the support layer.

Abstract: A building tile for covering a building surface includes a flexible backing layer having a rearward face for securing to the building surface and a forward face; and a flexible cement layer secured to the forward face. The tile preferably additionally includes adhesive material, where at least part of the rearward face is covered with the adhesive material for mounting the tile to the building surface. The flexible cement layer is preferably textured to be aesthetically appealing. The flexible cement layer preferably includes a mixture of a cement aggregate; an acrylic resin; a water-based paint; and a waterproof rubber material. The backing layer may be formed of laminate sheet material, peg board or formica sheet material.

Abstract: A sheet is provided which can be applied to a planar base and onto which floor boards or tiles can laid, wherein the sheet comprises adhesive strips on its lower and upper sides. The adhesive strips are suitably applied in the longitudinal direction of the sheet. In an preferred aspect, two layers are fixedly connected to one another, a top layer comprising a foamed plastic having a high coefficient of sound insulation and a bottom layer comprising a vapor-tight material and an edge formed by a protruding bottom layer which may be provided on one longitudinal side.

Abstract: A wall panel system in which individual panels are arranged in vertically adjacent horizontally extending courses. Runners are mounted on the supporting subwall and provide means for establishing alignment between panels and horizontally extending courses. In the first embodiment, an interlocking joint is provided in which clips are used to provide interlocking and provide uniform spacing between adjacent panels. Another embodiment provides battens along the joint between the adjacent horizontally extending courses. Still another embodiment provides battens extending along all the joints between adjacent panels. Various types of trim strips are also disclosed for providing a finished edge in corner appearance.

Abstract: A removable tile display includes a decorative tile, a holder for the tile, and releasable adhesive for removably securing the back surface of the tile to the holder. The holder includes a cavity in which the decorative tile is positioned. Decorative tiles of various designs may be substituted within the holder as desired. The tile and holder combination may be permanently affixed to a wall or other planar surface, or they may be placed for vertical orientation within a tabletop support.

Abstract: A waterproof shower module comprising a pre-fabricated, integrally molded unit which forms a unitary base having side walls and a pitched floor defining an opening within which is incorporated a vertically adjustable drain. Each side wall includes an upper lip forming a horizontal surface upon which wall board may be supported and flushly aligned with the side walls of the module such that a substantially continuous and uniform surface is formed which provides a suitable mounting surface for receiving shower tiles. The module floor includes a top surface and a bottom surface and defines a plurality of molded feet depending from the bottom surface, which feet function to support the module floor on the underlying subfloor. The module floor is uniformly pitched from each side wall to the drain opening. One of the side walls further defines a curb and includes inner and outer curb surfaces and a horizontal and curb surface. Tile installed on the module's surfaces and on the surrounding wall board.

Abstract: A flooring product for application to a subfloor which includes a wooden flooring component for installation with like flooring components to form a floor. The flooring component has a top surface for being exposed after installation and a base surface, a pressure-sensitive adhesive carried on a foam tape applied and permanently adhered directly to the base surface of the flooring component for providing an attachment interface surface for adhering the flooring component to the subfloor, and a protective release cover applied and releasably adhered to the attachment interface surface of the adhesive to protect the adhesive until removal of the release cover when the flooring component is applied to the subfloor.

Abstract: A decorative construction module in the form of an address tile for incorporation into the wall of a structure according to one embodiment includes a porcelain tile measuring approximately 3/8 inch thick which has an outer surface inscribed with name/number and/or address information thereon and a backing block fabricated out of expanded polystyrene material and being bonded to the porcelain tile in order to create the completed address tile. The rectangular solid form of the module is sized and shaped so as to fit appropriately within a residential brick wall based upon the typical brick sizes and spacing of the mortar joints. According to another embodiment, a porcelain address tile is bonded directly to the exterior surface of a brick wall with a structural adhesive. In order to hold the tile in place while the structural adhesive cures, a double-sided (peel and stick) adhesive material is applied to the rear surface of the porcelain tile.

Abstract: A flooring product for application to a subfloor which includes a wooden flooring component for installation with like flooring components to form a floor. The flooring component has a top surface for being exposed after installation and a bottom surface, a layer of an adhesive applied and permanently adhered directly to the bottom surface of the flooring component for providing an attachment interface surface for adhering the flooring component to the subfloor, and a protective release cover applied and releasably adhered to the attachment interface surface of the adhesive to protect the adhesive until removal of the release cover when the flooring component is applied to the subfloor.

Abstract: A relatively permanent and indestructible covering (10) utilizes a plurality of single ply tiles (12) which are bonded to a base floor surface (14) and provided with a protective coating in a single step by applying at least one protective bonding coating, such as an epoxy coating, over the top of plurality of tiles. To facilitate bonding to base floor surface, each of the plurality of tiles (12) are formed with a plurality of holes passing through the surface thereof. A color finish coating can also be provided over the top of the array of tiles by utilizing a protective bonding coating having a paint or paint-like quality. In a preferred embodiment, the tiles (12) are formed from a metal such as aluminum.

Abstract: A building material comprising, in layers, a thin waterproof membrane base of rigid plastic such as PVC, a mortar bed, a layer of cement, a metal lath, and a layer of ceramic tile, brick-veneer, granite tile or marble tile, which provides a pre-fabricated panel adapted to be attached to any flat surface, such as a wall or counter.

Abstract: A method for a temporary attachment of a covering on a base, for example, a floor covering or a wall covering, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: treating a base for supporting a covering with a material containing a particulate subject to a magnetic attraction or a magnetically-attracting particulate; producing the covering for attachment to the base so that the covering contains a magnetically-attracting particulate material or a magnetic attraction particulate, the particulate of the covering being different from the particulate of the base so that the covering and the base are magnetically-attractable to one another; and, placing a side of the covering against the base so that the covering is temporarily attached to the base by magnetization and without an adhesive. A surfacer material or a precoat, which magnetically-attractable material, may also be applied to the base.

Abstract: Vinyl heat welding rod for seam sealing vinyl resilient flooring, whether in sheet or tile form, are used to obtain a homogeneous, monolithic appearing surface. This rod is specifically made to duplicate the appearance of the flooring material. For a chip-image flooring structure, a sheet of multicolored chips having a similar, but different formulation from that of the flooring material is prepared and the sheet is cut into suitable strips, heat pressed in a rod mold, end adhered or further molded to form the desired length, and used as a vinyl heat welding rod for sealing seams in flooring. Thus, the chip pattern is evident in the seam area and does not appear different when compared to the adjacent surface.