Abstract: A low-friction boot for a floor-covering trimmer having a base provided at the rear thereof with an upwardly extending handle and carrying at the front thereof at least one forwardly and downwardly extending blade. The boot is of a size and shape to completely cover the bottom of the base and is equipped with attachment means engageable with the base. The boot is also provided at the front thereof with an opening for the blade. At the front, rear and ends of the boot are upstanding walls which cover the front, rear and ends of the base of the trimmer. With such a boot, friction is minimized when trimming linoleum-like floor coverings in particular, and scratching or otherwise marring such coverings is prevented.

Abstract: A hot-melt carpet seaming tape having means for cooperating with a specially designed electric iron to maintain registery of the tape and iron while the heated iron is moved along and over the tape beneath the abutting edges of carpet segments to adhere the segments to the tape and together in a novel process for accomplishing the same.

Abstract: A carpet gripper with headless carpet anchoring pins or prongs and a method of making same. A carpet gripper including: a strip having upper and lower surfaces and inner and outer edges; headless carpet anchoring pins or prongs extending upwardly through the strip from the lower surface of the strip through and to a level above the upper surface of the strip; each prong being inclined upwardly and outwardly toward the outer edge of the strip from the lower end of the prong to its upper end; the lower end of each prong being bevelled and having a surface which is obliquely oriented relative to the prong, which is at least generally perpendicular to the upper and lower surfaces of the strip, which faces generally inwardly toward the inner edge of the strip, and which is in a plane extending generally longitudinally of the strip; and the apex of the bevelled lower end of each prong being crimped toward the outer edge of the strip and being embedded in the lower surface thereof.