US2062272A - Floor mat - Google Patents

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FLOOR MAT Filed Jan. 6, 1.936

inventor Ca rZ/LOZgozc.

Patented Nov. 24, 1936 UNITED STATES FLOOR MAT CarlA. Olson, Kansas City, Mo., assignor, by

mesne assignments, to The Helping Hand Institute, Kansas City, 'souri Mo; a corporation of Mis- Application January 6, 1936, Serial N6. 57,699

8 Claims.

,-This invention relates to floor mats suitable for use in small size, as foot scrapers, or in larger size, as floor protectors in halls or building entrances, in golf club locker rooms as protection forfioors'and. carpets from. spiked shoes, and in placessubject to heavy travel and for sounddeadening purposes, and my object is to produce ,a floor mat which will function eificiently and is characterized by simplicity, cheapness and durbility of construction.

With the general object named in view the invention consists in certain novel and useful features of construction and organization of parts as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary plan view of one form of a mat embodying the invention, parts being shown in section.

Figure 2 is an end View thereof.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary plan view of a mat differing in'design from but of the same principle of construction as the mat shown in Figure 1. In the said drawing, l indicates parallel crossmembers, preferably in the form of relatively stiff metal rods, adjacent pairs of said members being securely connected together at their ends by end portions 2, to form long rectangular frames of substantial strength and rigidity. The corresponding end portions 2 of the frames are longitudinally alined, and mounted on all of the said members I, are border strips 3, preferably of flexible material, such as that used in pneumatic tire casings. The outer sides of the border strips fit flatlyagainst the respective end portions of the cross members, and between said border strips and mounted on all of the cross members, lie flexible strips 4, constituting the body of the mat, all of the strips 4, extending crosswise of members I and in generally parallel relation to the border strips.

Adjacent flexible strips 4 abut sidewise together and the outermost ones also abut the inner sides of the border strips. In wide mats there may be one or more intermediate or division strips 5 of the type used for border strips, the so-called division strips being mounted on all of the members I and interposed between adjacent strips 4. The use of the division strips, if of thick character, adds stiffness, strength and durability to the mat, but are desirable only in mats eighteen or more inches in width.

In all forms of the mat each longitudinal flexible strips,-which is also of stout and durable ferred construction, adjacent pairs of double' loops are spaced to coincide with alternate cross members I, though it will be obvious that if the latter are spaced apart sufiiciently, adjacent pairs of double loops may be spaced to coincide with the spacing of adjacent cross members. In all cases, however, the double loops extend crosswise of members I and have alined openings through which the latter extend. In the construction where the double loops are mounted on or pierced by alternate cross members, the other cross members intermediate the pairs of'loops, pierce or extend through the strips 4, intermediate the pairs of double loops. 7

In the preferred construction, where the double loops coincide with alternate cross members, the double loops of adjacent or sidewise abutting strips '4, are mounted on different but adjacent cross members, so that the double loops of alternate strips 4, shall engage opposite sides of the intermediate strip 4, midway between adjacent pairs of loops of the latter. As a result of this arrangement, the strips 4 afford resilient pressure or resistance to'independent lateral creepage or play of any strip, and the cross members, piercing all of the strips 4, guard against longitudinal play or creepage of the strips 4.

.In one form of mat, Figure 3, where the double loops of the strips 4 are spaced to coincide with alternate crossmembers, the strips 4 are arranged in sets of pairs with the outer loops of the sets facing in one direction and the inner loops in the opposite direction. Between the second and fifth strips 4, in which the respective double loops coincide with the same cross members, are interposed the third and fourth strips 4, with the double loops thereof mounted on the cross members intermediate those on which the double loops of the second and fifth strips 4 are mounted. The remaining strips 4, however numerous, are arranged in the same relation as those designated as the second, third, fourth and fifth strips, except the outermost strip 4 laterally abutting the border strip, and the corresponding strips which laterally abut the intermediate strip 5 used in wide mats. It will also be noted as inherent in both types disclosed, that endwise thrust or shafting of the strips is resisted by the loops which are alined longitudinally, this resist-' ance cooperating with that of the cross rods. In Figure 3 this occurs through direct endwise abutment of alined loops on adjacent cross rods. In Figure 1, the same result is secured, slightly diagonally, by adjacent loops, through the medium of interposed intermediate part of one of the strips. This would appear more clearly in the construction of Figure 1 if the loops appeared of more flattened character, as they actually are in the mat as manufactured.

It will be noted that the mat, in both forms, presents portions disposed crosswise to scraping movement of ones shoe, regardless of the direction or angle in which the latter is drawn in the attempt to clean the sole or heel of mud or other adhering foreign matter. It is to be understood that the invention is susceptible of modification and that I claim the right to all changes within the spirit of the invention and without the ambit of the prior art.

I claim:

1. A floor mat, comprising a series of cross members and a series of flexible strips disposed in sidewise abutting relation and cross-wise of and mounted on all of said members, the strips having series of suitably-spaced double loops, adjacent loops facing in opposite directions crosswise with respect to the same members.

2. A floor mat, comprising a series of cross members and a series of flexible strips disposed in sidewise abutting relation and cross-wise of and mounted on all of said members, the strips having series of suitably-spaced pairs of double loops disposed side by side and facing in opposite directions cross-wise with respect to the said members.

3. A floor mat, comprising a series of cross members and a series of flexible strips disposed in sidewise abutting relation and cross-wise of and mounted on all of said members, the strips having series of suitably-spaced double loops disposed side by side and facing in opposite directions cross-wise with respect to the said members, each pair of side by side loops having laterally-alined openings through which one of the cross members extends.

4. A floor mat, comprising a series of cross members and a series of flexible strips disposed in sidewise abutting relation and cross-wise of and mounted on all of said members, the strips having series of suitably-spaced double loops disposed side by side and facing in opposite directions cross-wise with respect to the said members, each pair of side by side loops having laterally-alined openings through which one of the cross members extends, longitudinally adjacent loops of sidewise adjacent strips, opposing each other as regards longitudinal shafting of the strips and strips at opposite sides of the flexible strips and secured on the said cross members and engaging the outermost flexible strips to prevent lateral shifting thereof.

5. A floor mat comprising a series of laterallyspaced rods, and a plurality of flexible strips extending cross-wise of and each pierced by all oi. said rods, each strip being formed coincident with alternate rods with reversely-facing loops; the loops coincident with alternate rods, being disposed at opposite sides of the portions of the strips extending between the alternate rods coincident with the reverse'ly-faced loops.

6. A floor mat comprising a series of laterallyspaced rods, and a plurality of flexible strips extending cross-wise of and each pierced by all of said rods, each strip being formed coincident with alternate rods with reversely-facing loops; the loops coincident with alternate rods, being disposed at opposite sides of the portions of the strips extending between the alternate rods coincident with the reversely-faced loops, the ends of pairs of adjacent rods being connected together to constitute stifi frames of oblong rectangular form.

7. A floor mat comprising a series of laterallyspaced rods, and a plurality of flexible strips extending cross-wise of and each pierced by all of said rods, each strip being formed coincident with alternate rods with reversely-facing loops; the loops coincident with alternate rods, being disposed at opposite sides of the portions of the strips extending between the alternate rods 00- incident with the reversely-faced loops, and laterally-spaced strips extending cross-wise of and mounted upon all of the rods and holding interposed flexible strips in sidewise abutting relation.

8. A floor mat comprising a series of laterallyspaced rods, and a plurality of flexible strips extending cross-wise of and each pierced by all of said rods, each strip being formed coincident with alternate rods with reversely-facing loops; the loops coincident with alternate rods, being disposed at opposite sides of the portions of the strips extending between the alternate rods coincident with the reversely-faced loops, the upper portions of the portions which extend between alternate rods, lying in parallel angular relation and abutting sidewise together; adjacent strips having the upper portions of their portions which extend between alternate rods, lying in parallel and sidewise-abutting relation, and the lower portions of said portions extending between alternate rods, lying in downwardly diverging relation.

CARL A. OLSON.

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