ROTATIONALLY DETERMINATE, POSITIONALLY AMBIGUOUS STRIPED CARPET TILES

摘要

A carpet web and a method of forming a carpet web having a striped pattern a nd 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 appearance of a broadloom web. The web pattern includes parallel stripes having varying widths and longitudinal discontinuities. The stripes are formed with at least two colors or two shad es of a color. The tiles are positionally ambiguous in that they need not be located on the floor in the same position they occupied in the web for the flooring installation to exhibit the desired uniform appearance. Instead, th e tiles may be shuffled and laid in any side-by-side or top-to-bottom orientation (provided that uniform rotational orientation is maintained amon g the tiles) with respect to adjacent tiles without looking out of place to th e ordinary viewer and without emphasizing the modularity of the flooring.