Patent ID: 9598871
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: B32B,E04F

Claim:
1. A floor member for installation on a floor base without bonding or adhering the floor member to the floor base, the floor member comprising, a) a flexible floor member unit having a multi-sided polygonal periphery and peripheral edges, a top surface for walking upon and a bottom surface for placement on a floor base, b) said floor member unit having a flexible main substrate layer with upper and lower surfaces, c) a flexible plastic wear layer laminated to the upper surface of said main substrate layer, and d) a bottom portion of hot-melt adhesive material provided below the lower surface of the main substrate layer, said bottom portion having an exposed bottom surface of the hot-melt adhesive material that is the bottom surface of the floor member unit that is placed on a floor base, the exposed bottom surface of the hot-melt adhesive material being non-adhesive, and non-tacky at normal room temperatures to provide said floor member with a slide resistant bottom surface that minimizes inadvertent movement of the floating floor member in a floating floor installation.