CROWN MOULDING

• US 20130318899A1
• Filed: 08/07/2013
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Flip Face USA LLC (Flip Face, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Flip Face USA LLC (Flip Face, Inc.)
• Inventors: Vaes, Ed, Charette, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,919,059 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 52/287.1
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 19/04 for use between floor or ceiling and wall, e.g. skirtings
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 19/0436 between ceiling and wall
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 19/0495 Plinths fixed around wall openings or around corners of walls
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 2019/0454 with decorative effects
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/051 Relative to same tool

Abstract

An elongated crown moulding with a front surface having a top front chamfer portion, a bottom front chamfer portion, and a front non-planar decorative profile portion separating the top front chamfer portion and the bottom front chamfer portion, and a back surface having a top back chamfer portion, a bottom back chamfer portion, and a back non-planar decorative profile portion disposed between the top back chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion, the back non-planar decorative profile portion oriented as an inversely mirrored version of the front non-planar decorative profile portion.

Claims

1. An elongated crown moulding comprising:

a front surface with;

a top front chamfer portion;

a bottom front chamfer portion; and

a front non-planar decorative profile portion separating the top front chamfer portion and the bottom front chamfer portion; and

a back surface with;

a top back chamfer portion;

a bottom back chamfer portion; and

a back non-planar decorative profile portion separating the top back chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion, the back non-planar decorative profile portion oriented as an inversely mirrored version of the front non-planar decorative profile portion.

2. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 1, wherein:

the back surface is an inversely mirrored version of the front surface.

3. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 1, wherein:

the top front chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion define planes that are substantially parallel to one another.

4. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 1, wherein:

the top front chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion are proportionately of a same size.

5. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 1, wherein:

the back non-planar decorative profile portion has a substantially identical contour of the front non-planar decorative profile portion.

6. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 1, wherein:

the back non-planar decorative profile portion and the front non-planar profile portion are inversely mirrored versions of each other with respect to a longitudinal centre line.

7. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 6, wherein:

the longitudinal centre line is defined by an edge located on at least one of the top front chamfer portion and the top back chamfer portion of the elongated moulding and an edge located on at least one of the bottom front chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion of the elongated moulding, the longitudinal centre line passing through a cross-sectional centroid of the moulding.

8. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 1, wherein:

the elongated crown moulding is of a single piece of homogenous material.

9. A elongated crown moulding comprising:

a front surface with a top front chamfer portion, a bottom front chamfer portion, and a front non-planar decorative profile portion separating the top front chamfer portion and the bottom front chamfer portion; and

a back surface with a top back chamfer portion, a bottom back chamfer portion, and a back non-planar decorative profile portion separating the top back chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion, the back non-planar decorative profile portion being a substantially identical and inversely symmetrical version of the front non-planar decorative profile portion.

10. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 9, wherein:

the back surface is inversely symmetrical to the front surface.

11. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 9, wherein:

the top front chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion define planes that are substantially parallel to one another.

12. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 9, wherein:

the top front chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion are proportionately of a same size.

13. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 9, wherein:

the back non-planar decorative profile portion and the front non-planar profile portion are inversely symmetrical versions of each other with respect to a longitudinal centre line.

14. The elongated crown moulding according to claim 13, wherein:

the longitudinal centre line is defined by an edge located on at least one of the top front chamfer portion and the top back chamfer portion of the elongated moulding and an edge located on at least one of the bottom front chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion of the elongated moulding, the longitudinal centre line passing through a cross-sectional centroid of the moulding.

15. The elongated moulding according to claim 9, wherein:

the elongated crown moulding is lineal and of a single piece of material.

16. A decorative building structure comprising:

a building having a ceiling and a wall;

an elongated moulding having;

a front surface with a top front chamfer portion, a bottom front chamfer portion, and a front non-planar decorative profile portion disposed between the top front chamfer portion and the bottom front chamfer portion; and

a back surface with a top back chamfer portion, a bottom back chamfer portion, and a back non-planar decorative profile portion disposed between the top back chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion;

a first position with the top back chamfer portion adjacent to the ceiling and the bottom back chamfer portion adjacent to the wall, the first position only exposing the front non-planar decorative profile portion; and

a second position with the top front chamfer portion adjacent to the wall and the bottom front chamfer portion adjacent to the ceiling and only exposing the back non-planar decorative profile portion that has the same appearance and orientation as the profile of the front non-planar decorative profile portion when in the first position.

17. The decorative building structure according to claim 16, wherein:

the top front chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion define planes that are substantially parallel to one another.

18. The decorative building structure according to claim 16, wherein:

the top front chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion are proportionately of a same size.

19. The decorative building structure according to claim 16, wherein:

the back non-planar decorative profile portion, when in the first position, has a substantially identical contour of the front non-planar decorative profile portion, when in the second position, that is an inversely symmetrical.

20. The decorative building structure according to claim 19, wherein:

the back non-planar decorative profile portion is symmetrical with respect to a vertical centre line, the vertical centre line defined by an edge located on at least one of the top front chamfer portion and the top back chamfer portion of the elongated moulding, an edge located on at least one of the bottom front chamfer portion and the bottom back chamfer portion of the elongated moulding, and a centroid located within a cross section of the moulding.