Patent ID: 7686370
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: B29C,B29D,B29K,B29L,B33Y,B60N,B60R,G06F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A system including a vehicle and a removable tray for a foot well of the vehicle, comprising: a vehicle foot well having a substantially carpeted upper surface including a floor, an upstanding generally longitudinal first wall extending upward from the floor, an upstanding generally transverse second wall extending from the floor and substantially formed at an angle to the first wall, an upstanding generally longitudinal third wall extending from the floor and substantially formed at an angle to the second wall; and a consumer-installable and removable tray for fitting to the upper surface of the vehicle foot well, a floor of the tray approximately conforming to the floor of the foot well, an upstanding generally longitudinally oriented first wall of the tray integrally formed with and extending from the floor of the tray and substantially conforming to said first wall of the vehicle foot well, an upstanding generally transversely oriented second wall of the tray extending from the floor of the tray and substantially conforming to said second wall of the vehicle foot well, and an upstanding generally longitudinal third wall of the tray substantially conforming to said third wall of the vehicle foot well; the first, second, and third upstanding walls of the tray each connected to the adjacent walls in a substantially upstanding transition zone of each wall and having a top margin and an outer surface facing a respective wall of the vehicle foot well, for each said upstanding wall of the tray, at least ninety percent of at least that one-third of an area of the outer surface of the tray wall which is adjacent the top margin of the tray wall being no more than one-eighth of an inch from the surface of a respective wall of the vehicle foot well.