Patent ID: 9409344
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: B29C,B32B,C09J,E04F,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A dry adhesive backed flooring for being installed in a flat orientation on a subfloor, the flooring, comprising: a sheet flooring material having a first length, a first width, a decorative upper surface, and an opposite under surface; and a double-sided dry sheet adhesive married to the sheet flooring material, the sheet adhesive being substantially free of volatile organic compounds and having a second length substantially corresponding to the first length, a second width slightly less than but substantially corresponding to the first width, and first and second dry adhesive surfaces, the first dry adhesive surface being adhesively secured as a dry surface to the under surface of the sheet flooring material to marry the double-sided dry sheet adhesive to the sheet flooring material to yield a dry adhesive backed flooring; wherein the dry adhesive backed flooring is installable on a subfloor by contacting the second dry adhesive surface to the subfloor to yield an installed dry adhesive backed flooring that is substantially free of bubbles and wrinkles and the second dry adhesive surface of the sheet adhesive will substantially permanently maintain the installed dry adhesive backed flooring adhered to the subfloor such that the installed dry adhesive backed flooring will remain substantially flat as initially installed and not significantly rise from the subfloor, bubble or otherwise detach from the subfloor under normal use conditions for the dry adhesive backed flooring.