Border, edge or pattern carpet tile design, manufacture and installation

USRE48544E1 · kind E1 · reissue

Assignee

• Interface, Inc. · US

Inventors

• David D. Oakey · Atlanta, US
• Carson Machell-Archer · West Point, US
• Sydney D. Daniel · LaGrange, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 22, 2017
• Grant date: May 4, 2021
• Expiry date: May 22, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

Design and manufacture of tufted articles, carpet tile webs and carpet tiles, and installation of carpet tiles, having different color, pile height, pile texture or other characteristics that, together with similar other such tiles, may be installed to create borders, edges or other multiple-tile designs, usually without any of the tiles looking out of place or improperly oriented relative to nap or the direction the tile is “facing.”