Patents Assigned to Forbo-Giubiasco SA
  • Publication number: 20070299233
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flat covering material containing a thermoplastic material and filler materials. Said thermoplastic material is a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer, the quantity thereof amounting to at least 5 wt. % of the entire covering material. The flat covering material is preferably used as a useful covering, especially as a floor covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: FORBO-GIUBIASCO SA
    Inventors: Elvio Manso, Bruno Guidotti
  • Patent number: 6820386
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Forbo-Giubiasco SA
    Inventors: Simon Käppeli, Aris Ghilardi
  • Publication number: 20030131549
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Forbo-Giubiasco SA
    Inventors: Simon Kappeli, Aris Ghilardi
  • Patent number: 5298209
    Abstract: A highly compressed covering material is fabricated by pressing a lumpy plastics material or plastics pre-product. The plastics material or plastics pre-product is thereby fed into a double-belt press by continuously and dosedly feeding the plastics material or plastics pre-product into a region formed by lateral delimiting elements at the lower belt of the double-belt press. The continuous pressing to form the highly compressed covering material is accomplished there during heating and with increasing pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Forbo-Giubiasco SA
    Inventors: Pierluigi Pagani, Roberto Bianchi