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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7968165 | Patterning technique A textile motif comprises an arrangement of substantially square, substantially identical modules variously oriented with respect to one another in fixed positions within the motif. Each module includes at least two visually distinct hues. The motif may be repeated ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7955680 | Tessellating elements The tessellating elements are in sets and comprise (a) at least one curve element comprising a semi-circle of diameter x; (b) at least one wave element having a perimeter which is three-sided, including a first side which is straight and of length x, a second side w... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7393155 | Irregular tessellated building units An irregular, tessellated building unit comprises x primary elements, wherein x is an integer equal to or greater than 1. The primary element is a rotational tessellation having a plural pairs of sides extending in a generally radial direction from plural vertices, ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7363846 | Projectile resistant armor A body armor assembly includes a plurality of rigid tiles that are supported in a manner to provide movement and flexibility while still providing the protection of rigid armor. In a disclosed example, a tile holder maintains a plurality of tiles in a selected align... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7350443 | Asymmetrical carpet tile design, manufacture and installation Design and manufacture of floor covering webs for, design, manufacture and installation of, asymmetrical carpet tiles having a prominent design element not intersected by a tile edge. Bands or regions define “frames” around what will become central carpet tile a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341772 | Carpet using unused yarn A carpet is described which has a particular yarn pattern which permits the use of different types of yarn such as unused yarn to form a carpet having a visually consistent appearance from manufacturing run to manufacturing run even though different types of yarns m... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7297385 | Rotationally determinate, positionally ambiguous striped carpet tiles A carpet web and a method of forming a carpet web having a striped pattern and color scheme that permits carpet tiles cut from the web to be installed without regard to relative tile positions and without visibly disrupting the pattern, but rather maintaining the ap... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7238406 | Wall surfacing template A template assembly for use in the production of a variable depth building wall surface, which may be simulative of multiple units separated by mortar joints, such as a simulated brick, stone, tile, or mosaic surface. The template assembly is formed of a backing she... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7208224 | Highly designable resin laminate mat Resin laminate mat is produced by laminating an outer layer comprising a transparent base resin and highly luminant particles dispersed in the transparent resin, and a back layer made of a colored resin. Back layer is composed of upper layer containing a coloring ag... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7205040 | Peelable polyester film having improved oxygen barrier, process for its production and its use Coextruded, biaxially oriented polyester films which have a base layer (B) and have a heatsealable outer layer (A) that can be peeled from APET/CPET and from CPET, where the outer layer (A) comprises from 80 to 99% by weight of polyester and | 04/17/2007 |
| 7182989 | Flooring system and method A flooring system for use in a residential environment. The flooring system includes a subfloor adapted to support the mass of a user and modular surface covering elements for disposition in edge to edge covering arrangement across at least a portion of the subfloor... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178299 | Tiles with embedded locating rods for erosion resistant linings A tile for lining an internal surface in a heavy wear area. The tile includes at least one locating rod embedded within said tile and an internal mechanism for laterally extending said at least one locating rod out of said tile and into a gap in an adjoining structu... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7135094 | Papermaking press felt An endless papermaking press felt comprises a base and a batt layer intertwiningly integrated with the base. The batt layer comprises a wet paper web side layer and a machine side layer formed on an outer surface and inner surface of a base respectively, The base is... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7083841 | Orthogonally ambiguous carpet tiles having curved elements Carpet tiles having patterns and color schemes that obviate the need to orient the tiles in a particular positional or rotational relationship relative to each other. The tiles exhibit orthogonal ambiguity, meaning that they may be laid in any side-by-side orientati... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7033658 | Simulated stone block and aged artist's canvas articles and method Articles comprising simulated stone block walls and artist's canvases may be formed by providing a burlap or canvas substrate, coating the substrate with a layer of gypsum wallboard finishing compound or similar plaster-like composition, and folding or otherwise man... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7033963 | Acoustical panel coating and process of applying same A coating composition and process of applying the coating to a substrate are provided herein. The coating composition includes filler particles, binder and a liquid carrier, such as water. The filler particles have an average particle size in the range from about 10... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6998510 | Method and apparatus for improved hemostasis and damage control operations Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving hemostasis in traumatized patients. The devices utilize fluid impermeable outer surfaces and distributed pressure to achieve tamponade and hemostasis, primarily by exertion of pressure. The devices are capable of servi... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6998023 | Papermachine clothing Papermachine clothing comprising a woven or non-woven support layer, a non-woven layer comprising ultra-coarse non-continuous fibers orientated close to the intended running directions of the clothing and two further layers of batt each comprising conventional somew... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6974617 | Motor fluid absorbent pad An absorbent pad for use in absorbing motor fluids, especially for use in absorbing and collecting motor fluids leaking from a motor/engine. The absorbent pad comprises a bottom liquid impermeable support layer, a layer of absorbent material and a top liquid permeab... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6921502 | Cushioned rubber floor mat article and method At least one embodiment of this invention relates to a cushioned dust control mat article wherein the mat comprises at least two distinct layers of rubber, one comprising foam rubber, the other comprising solid rubber. The solid rubber layer is present over the foam... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6908656 | Orthogonally ambiguous carpet tile Carpet tiles having patterns and color schemes that obviate the need to orient the tiles relative to each other. The tiles exhibit orthogonal ambiguity, meaning that they may be laid in any side-by-side orientation with respect to adjacent tiles without looking out ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6905751 | Tile coverings with borders and inserts and methods of installation A covering for a floor, wall or ceiling surface includes tiles each having first and second discrete tile sections. The first section includes a primary backing exposed on one side of the tile forming a first discrete exposed surface portion and a plurality of yarns... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6902787 | Industrial fabric with asymmetrically apertured tiles A permeable industrial fabric is assembled from a plurality of separate tiles into at least two plies, and in which the two plies are held together by jointing structures made integrally with the tiles. In these fabrics, within each tile the jointing structures are ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6903033 | Vinyl flooring product and method of manufacture An imbedded flooring product has a skeletal frame in the form of a mesh intermediate a first and second vinyl layer. The mesh creates a pattern visible from above the flooring product. ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6887551 | Anchoring system and snap-fit methodology for erosion resistant linings A tile anchoring system for use in reactors and other furnace like equipment which involves the use of a tile that contains various internal parts. According to the various embodiments of the present invention, the tile is formed as more than one part. In the presen... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6881463 | Irregular, rotational tessellation surface covering units and surface covering A surface covering unit comprises x primary elements, wherein x is an integer equal to or greater than 1. Each primary element is a rotational tessellation having a plural pairs of sides extending in a generally radial direction from plural vertices, respectively. I... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6849317 | Carpet tile with cutout section, method and apparatus for production and method of installation A carpet tile (11) and tile cutting apparatus (20) that produces a carpet tile with a removable cutout section (13) defined by discontinuous slits (19) and held in place by bridges (14). The apparatus includes a perimeter cutting a... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6841216 | Rotationally determinate, positionally ambiguous striped carpet tiles A carpet web and a method of forming a carpet web having a striped pattern and color scheme that permits carpet tiles cut from the web to be installed without regard to relative tile positions and without visibly disrupting the pattern, but rather maintaining the ap... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6808777 | Flooring An arrangement which comprises: first and second panel-shaped pieces of flooring for joining together, said pieces resting on a sub-floor and having profiles along mutually meeting edge portions which, on the first piece, consist of a groove and a projection located... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6764733 | Hot bitumen compatible EPDM roofing sheet A roof membrane and a roof system employing a EPDM membrance which is compatible with a bituminous adhesive. The membrance includes an outer layer of polymeric layer such as EPDM bonded to a polyester protective layer which is in turn bonded to a fleecy material. Th... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6748714 | Trilaminate shingles A trilaminate a trilaminate shingle, having a horizontal longitudinal orientation, includes an overlay sheet having series of tabs and cutouts extending horizontally across the shingle. The shingle also includes a middle sheet having a series of tabs and cutouts ext... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6746734 | Surface covering system The present invention provides a surface covering system including a first covering portion detachably connected to a backing and a second covering portion detachably connected to the backing, wherein the first covering portion and the second covering portion are sp... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6740607 | Substrate with stretch and heat sealing properties to make a multidirectional restraint module design The invention is directed to coating a plurality of polyurethane films onto a stretchable knit fabric substrate and heat sealing such substrates together to yield an air curtain or air bag having improved air-holding properties. ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6709728 | Cleated anti-creep floor mats The present invention relates to specific methods of producing cleated rubber-backed floor mats (such as dust control or rubber mats) through the utilization of the combination of a perforated coated woven fabric article and a cushioned platen liner between the arti... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6709717 | Method for making polymer surfaced composites To produce a composite building unit having a polymer-cladded surface, a polymerizable resin binder and a blend of filler particles are combined to provide a resin binder/filler mixture which is deposited in a mold. A concrete substrate is then positioned in the mol... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6699554 | Preseamed sheet flooring product A preseamed, resilient sheet flooring including first and second composite sheet products positioned closely adjacent each other edge-to-edge to form a seam therebetween. An adhesive is positioned in the seam. The adhesive extends completely through the t... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6699553 | Thermoset tile with freeze-thaw resistant feature A tile molded of thermoset plastic is provided with structure to retain the tiles in their desired position when subjected to repeated freeze-thaw cycles. The tiles are provided with an array of anchors that extend outwardly from the substrate facing surf... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6696136 | Mosaic decoration having a planar surface The present invention provides methods for producing a detailed mosaic decoration with a planar top surface. Specifically, this invention provides a multi-level supporting surface or substrate such that a less detailed portion of the mosaic, made up of re... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6689443 | Mat construction incorporating recycled constituents and methods of manufacture A dust control mat having a pile surface and a backing layer disposed beneath the pile surface. The pile surface includes segmented portions of pile-forming material salvaged from previously used mat structures and adhered to the backing layer in a predef... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6670019 | Arrangement for jointing together adjacent pieces of floor covering material In an arrangement for jointing together adjacent pieces of floor covering material, mutually facing edge portions of the pieces in a joint are profiled such that the one piece has a groove-shaped accommodation space in which a corresponding bead-shaped pr... | 12/30/2003 |
