Patent ID: 6032425
Filing Date: 2000-03-07
Classification: E04F,F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
A portable flooring system comprising:a) a plurality of flooring sections comprised of flooring material, each flooring section having four side surfaces, a top flooring surface and an undersurface, and at least two connectors, one of said at least two connectors being a tongue and one of said at least two connectors being a groove, said tongue being designed to be opposing in dimensions with said groove such that said tongue of one flooring section fits into said groove of another flooring section, each connector arranged along a side surface and having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis of orientation, said plurality of flooring sections being arranged in an opposing manner such that a side of a flooring section having a groove is adjacent to a side of another flooring section having a tongue;b) each flooring section further including at least one wedging clip mounted to the undersurface of said flooring section, each said at least one wedging clip having an identical configuration comprising a wedging plate, substantially an entirety of said wedging plate being acutely angled with respect to the longitudinal axis of one of the at least two connectors so that said at least one wedging clip engages with another wedging clip from an adjacent flooring section thereby guiding the opposing connectors of two adjacent flooring sections together in interlocking engagement when assembling the portable flooring system such that said portable flooring system formed from assembly of said plurality of flooring sections is uniformly flat on said top flooring surface.