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TACKLESS CARPET STRIPPING

  • US 3,858,269 A
  • Filed: 03/22/1973
  • Issued: 01/07/1975
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/13/1972
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A tackless carpet stripping for attaching carpeting to a floor in a room wherein the stripping is fastened to the floor along the peripheral edges thereof and adjacent the walls of said room, said stripping comprising:

  • a one piece molded plastic elongated member of a predetermined length, a lower surface thereof being positioned on said floor along said peripheral edge, said member having longitudinal side walls connected by a plurality of cross members, said cross members being inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of said stripping and adjacent pairs of cross members define an aperture thereinbetween;

    a selected number of said cross members having enlarged sections formed at the midsection of said cross members at evenly spaced intervals along with the entire length of said elongated member, said sections each having a bore through which a fastening means extends for fastening said elongated member to said floor; and

    a plurality of longitudinally spaced, sharp-ended, inclined holding members carried on the upper surface of said elongated member and projecting therefrom at an angle inclined with respect to said upper surface, said holding members projecting toward said adjacent wall when said stripping is fastened to said floor, said holding members being formed as one-piece projections of said elongated member and adapted to engage said carpeting, said holding members being regularly spaced along the upper surface of said elongated member and successively positioned on opposite sides of said upper surface along the length thereof, said elongated member being constructed such that said elongated members may be easily broken to provide shorter lengths thereof.

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