EP0818174A2 - Türmatte - Google Patents

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EP0818174A2
EP0818174A2 EP97305065A EP97305065A EP0818174A2 EP 0818174 A2 EP0818174 A2 EP 0818174A2 EP 97305065 A EP97305065 A EP 97305065A EP 97305065 A EP97305065 A EP 97305065A EP 0818174 A2 EP0818174 A2 EP 0818174A2
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frame
doormat
separators
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Hilarian Chrishan Salinda Mendis
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Rileys Ltd
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L23/00—Cleaning footwear
    • A47L23/22—Devices or implements resting on the floor for removing mud, dirt, or dust from footwear
    • A47L23/24—Rigid cleaning-gratings; Tread plates or scrapers for cleaning the soles of footwear

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  • This invention relates to rotary fibre rod doormats with rubber and/or plastic components.
  • the object of the alleged invention is aimed at overcoming most of the disadvantages of the prior art door and floor mats and also using as far as possible ecologically friendly re-cyclable materials such as natural fibres and rubber and plastics.
  • the invention also permits introduction of various cosmetic effects. designs and patterns to the doormat by using different colours types available in the said materials.
  • the invention provides for rotary movement of circular brush rods made by twisting galvanised wire with inserted brush fibres. The rotation of the said brush rods enhances the life of the mat.
  • the invention provides a door or floor mat which is made of a metal wire frame using a rubber/plastic grid and brush fibre rods that are twisted in wire with coir fibre, polypropylene fibre, PVC fibre/dyed coir fibre, palmyrah fibre etc, to be used as a cleaning device near any entrance or exit of any household of industrial establishment to remove dust, mud, snow or other dirt.
  • the ridges and studs on the thin rubber/plastic separators on both top and bottom side of the thin walls are designed symmetrically about a longitudinal axis along the centres of the holes of the said injection moulded separators to remove. loosen and disintegrate the hardened dirt or snow etc and to make it fall through spaces provided in between the rotatably inserted twisted in fibre rods.
  • the said ridges and studs enhance the strength of the separators thereby increasing the strength of the finished floor mat/doormat.
  • the said twisted in fibre rods are placed at 90 degrees to the frame and hence the brushing action is more effective compared to the other wire coiled door/floormats.
  • This means that the brushing action on the shoe or boot is generally perpendicular to the cleaning brush fibre rods and in line with the ridges and/or studs of the said rubber/plastic strips to break or loosen off any hardened dirt, mud or snow.
  • the said mat could be produced in a variety of colours and patterns to give a matching effect to the place of its use and to suit any individual user's taste.
  • the alleged door/floor mat may be made with identical features and properties on both top and bottom sides, both these sides can be used in turns and this feature enhances the durability and the lifetime of the said floor/doormat.
  • GI galvanised iron
  • the GI wire used to make the said frame is around 4 mm in diameter conforming to ASTM A 641 Class 3 heavily Galvanised.
  • the zinc coating on this wire is 290 grams per square metre (gms/m 2 ) and the tensile strength is in the range of 41-55 kilograms per square millimetre (kgs/ mm 2 ).
  • the frame size is limited to 550 mm - 345 mm with the possibility of manufacture of larger or smaller versions as per the requirement.
  • a rubber/plastics separator strip 12 is shown in FIG. 7. It is relatively thin (i.e. only approximately 4.5 mm thick) and is made by injection moulding process and has different size diameter holes as follows:-
  • the distal ends 10C of arms 10A of the U-shape wire frame 10, at the open end 10D of the U-shaped frame as shown, are inserted through the holes 12A of the separators 12, so that the separators 12 are transverse to the arms 10A and extend between them as shown in FIG. 5.
  • the distal ends 10C are folded over, so as to overlap, and are welded together by means of a spot-welding or gas-welding machine (not shown).
  • the end 10D of the frame 10 of the mat thus being manufactured is placed facing a fibre rod-inserting machine 20 (FIGS. 12-15) which is specially designed for the assembly of the circular rotary brush fibre rods 18 (FIG. 13) in the GI Wire grid frame 10, the latter being pre-assembled as described above with the rubber or plastic separators 12 and plastic tubes 16.
  • the machine 20 comprises a metal frame 20A with sturdy legs 20B.
  • the frame 20A forms a rectangular machine bed 20A having a flat surface with a clean smooth finish and having a length of more than double the length of the floor mat to be manufactured.
  • a solid block 20C is fitted at the centre.
  • the block 20C has an internally threaded hole through which a screw shaft 20D can be screwed inwards or outwards parallel to the surface, by rotating the screw shaft 20D either manually by means of a handle 20E, or by powered means (not shown).
  • One end of the screw shaft 20D, near the end of this machine bed table 20A, is fitted with the driving means, e.g. handle 20E, and the opposite end of the shaft 20D is connected, by means of a bracket 20F, to a flat bar 20G.
  • the bar 20G extends perpendicular to the shaft 20D and is movable in the direction of the axis of the shaft 20D.
  • the outer ends of the bar 20G are slidably guided by means of two fixed guides 20H extending parallel to the shaft 20D.
  • the bar 20G is fitted with a series of hooks (not shown) for attachment to proximal ends of 6mm draw wires 20J, there being one hook and one associated draw wire 20J for each individual twisted in fibre rod 18.
  • the partly assembled floor mat frame 10, without the twisted in fibre rods 18, that is to say, in the partly finished condition as shown in FIG. 9, is placed flat on the machine bed surface adjacent to the flat bar 20G, away from the screw shaft area. with the shorter side 10D of the frame 10 parallel to the flat bar 20G of the machine 20.
  • the hooks on the flat bar 20G are connected to the proximal ends of the 6 mm metal draw wires 20J, which have been fed through the holes 12B in the separators 12.
  • the distal ends of the 6 mm draw wires 20J are each connected to a respective proximal end of a twisted in fibre rod 18. the latter extending parallel to the shaft 20D.
  • the proximal ends of the rods 18 are adjacent to the shorter end of the frame 10.
  • the driving means either manual (e.g. handle 20E) or powered, is activated to rotate the screw shaft 20D, so that the said shaft 20D moves outwards, through the block 20C. from the frame 10, thereby inserting the twisted in fibre rods 18 through the holes 12B (FIG. 7) of the separators 12 as shown in FIG. 15.

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Cited By (4)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0940115A1 (de) * 1997-11-25 1999-09-08 Rileys Limited Verfahren zur Herstellung einer gewebten Türmatte
EP1059060A2 (de) * 1999-06-08 2000-12-13 Rileys Limited Schuhabstreifer
US6312803B1 (en) * 1998-07-30 2001-11-06 Rileys Limited Process of manufacturing from natural fiber a door closer and stopper which also serves as a scrapper, wiper or mat
WO2009002119A1 (en) * 2007-06-28 2008-12-31 Dongil Kim Air mat and manufacturing method thereof

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CH145932A (de) * 1930-04-07 1931-03-31 Arx Josef Von Türvorlage.
US2279944A (en) * 1939-05-22 1942-04-14 Adolph R Hendry Mat
CH235543A (de) * 1943-08-13 1944-12-15 Goettschi Walter Matte mit Korkzapfen.
DE1003930B (de) * 1955-01-10 1957-03-07 Josef Becker Fussmatte
US2885748A (en) * 1957-03-12 1959-05-12 Superior Rubber Mfg Company Link mat structure
US3307317A (en) * 1965-06-24 1967-03-07 Life Man Inc Floor mat
GB1413714A (en) * 1972-04-19 1975-11-12 Cohen E Mats

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BE890907A (fr) * 1981-10-29 1982-02-15 Gomes De Noronha Penaguiao Jor Systeme anti-pollution pour eviter la contamination de l'interieur de batiments

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CH145932A (de) * 1930-04-07 1931-03-31 Arx Josef Von Türvorlage.
US2279944A (en) * 1939-05-22 1942-04-14 Adolph R Hendry Mat
CH235543A (de) * 1943-08-13 1944-12-15 Goettschi Walter Matte mit Korkzapfen.
DE1003930B (de) * 1955-01-10 1957-03-07 Josef Becker Fussmatte
US2885748A (en) * 1957-03-12 1959-05-12 Superior Rubber Mfg Company Link mat structure
US3307317A (en) * 1965-06-24 1967-03-07 Life Man Inc Floor mat
GB1413714A (en) * 1972-04-19 1975-11-12 Cohen E Mats

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0940115A1 (de) * 1997-11-25 1999-09-08 Rileys Limited Verfahren zur Herstellung einer gewebten Türmatte
US6312803B1 (en) * 1998-07-30 2001-11-06 Rileys Limited Process of manufacturing from natural fiber a door closer and stopper which also serves as a scrapper, wiper or mat
EP1059060A2 (de) * 1999-06-08 2000-12-13 Rileys Limited Schuhabstreifer
EP1059060A3 (de) * 1999-06-08 2002-09-11 Rileys Limited Schuhabstreifer
WO2009002119A1 (en) * 2007-06-28 2008-12-31 Dongil Kim Air mat and manufacturing method thereof

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