Patent ID: 8733063
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: E04F

Abstract:
1. A method of covering a floor surface comprising, a) forming a flexible floor member blank for a floor member unit such that the blank has a horizontal top surface for walking upon, a bottom surface for receiving a bonding material, a multi-sided polygonal periphery with at least two side edges, and a predetermined thickness between the horizontal top surface and the bottom surface, b) providing a beveled edge at the polygonal periphery to extend the full length of each side of the polygonal periphery of the floor member blank such that the beveled edge diverges from the bottom surface to the top surface, and the top surface and the beveled edge intersect at an acute angle, c) forming a surface declination at the peripheral edge of the blank where the top surface and the beveled edge intersect, such that the surface declination after being formed extends downwardly from the horizontal top surface a predetermined distance below the horizontal portion of the top surface such that the beveled edge intersects the surface declination at the predetermined distance below the horizontal portion of the top surface.