Movement-Resistant Floor Mat

摘要

A floor mat made of a rubber sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface with spaced-apart lugs extending therefrom, each lug having a pair of opposing nibs spaced-apart to define a passage therebetween with a longitudinal axis in a selected direction and the selected direction different from the direction of the longitudinal axis of the passage in an adjacent lug, which lugs cooperatively resist movement of the mat in response to loading by foot and wheeled cart traffic across the floor mat disposed on a floor surface.

主权项

1. A floor mat, comprising a sheet having a first side and an opposing second side for disposing on a surface, the second side defining a plurality of spaced-apart lugs extending from the second side, each lug comprising a pair of opposing C-shaped nibs, each nib having a planar free distal end in a plane parallel to the second side for load-bearing contact on the surface, the pair of nibs disposed in spaced-apart opposing relation with a respective concave face open towards the opposing respective concave face and a passage therebetween with a longitudinal axis in a selected direction of a plurality of directions to define a respective directional characteristic of the lug, the lugs spaced apart such that the passage defined by a respective lug is free of a portion of the passage of an adjacent lug, said selected direction different from the direction of the longitudinal axis of the passage in an adjacent lug and having a directional characteristic different from the adjacent lug, the opposing different directional characteristics cooperatively resisting movement of the mat under loading imposed on the mat being used for mat purposes.