Granted Patent B2

US 6,905,751 · App. 10/348,347 · Granted Jun 14, 2005

Abstract

Claims (22)

1. A covering for a floor, wall or ceiling surface, comprising:

a tile having first and second discrete tile sections and having an exposed surface;

said first section having a primary backing in part exposed on one side of the tile for forming a first discrete exposed surface portion of the first section;

a plurality of yarns tufted into said primary backing along a remaining part of said first section forming cut or loop yarns on a back side of said primary backing leaving a plurality of backstitches of the tufted yarns along and forming a second discrete exposed surface portion of said first section;

a resin fixing said cut or loop pile tufted yarns along the back side of said primary backing;

said primary backing and said backstitches exposed along said first and second surface portions, respectively, of said first section having aesthetic characteristics distinguished from one another; and

said second section of said tile being formed of one of a woven fabric, a non-woven fabric and a tufted pile, having loops or cut loops, and forming a remaining portion of the exposed surface of said tile.

2. A covering according to claim 1 wherein said first and second tile sections have respective discrete edges abutting one another.

3. A covering according to claim 1 wherein said first and second tile sections each have endless edges in abutting relation to one another.

4. A covering according to claim 1 wherein the elevation of the first and second sections is different from one another.

5. A covering for covering a floor, wall or ceiling surface, comprising:

a plurality of tiles each having first and second discrete tile sections forming an exposed surface;

each said first section having a primary backing in part exposed on one side of the tile for forming a first discrete exposed surface portion of the first section;

the first section of each said tile including a plurality of yarns tufted into said primary backing along a remaining part thereof forming cut or loop yarns on a back side of said primary backing, leaving a plurality of backstitches of the tufted yarns along and forming a second discrete exposed surface portion of the first section;

said first section of each said tile including a resin fixing said cut or loop pile tufted yarn along the back side of said primary backing;

said primary backing and said backstitching exposed along said first and second surface portions, respectively, of said first section of each tile having aesthetic characteristics distinguished from one another; and

said second section of each said tile being formed of one of a woven fabric, a non-woven fabric and a tufted pile, having loops or cut loops, and forming a remaining portion of the exposed surface of said tile;

said tiles being arranged in an array thereof with margins of each tile abutting one another to form the covering.

6. A covering according to claim 5 wherein said first and second tile sections each have endless edges in abutting relation to one another.

7. A covering according to claim 5 wherein the height of the first and second sections is different from one another.

8. A covering according to claim 5 wherein said first and second tile sections each have endless edges in abutting relation to one another, one of said tiles having a border constituted by said first section and surrounding an insert constituted by said second section.

9. A covering according to claim 5 wherein said first and second tile sections each have endless edges in abutting relation to one another, one of said tiles having a border constituted by said second section and surrounding an insert constituted in said first section.

Assignments (8)