Patent ID: 8590266
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: E04F

Abstract:
1. A method for installing curved hardwood flooring, comprising the steps of: (a) establishing a curved boundary for a section of flooring to be covered; (b) determining an anchoring strategy; (c) anchoring a plurality of pressure units at appropriate intervals so that the pressure units are positioned to accurately represent the curved boundary; (d) positioning a row of one or more hardwood flooring slat(s) behind a pressure plate corresponding to each of the pressure units; (e) activating the pressure units to bend the hardwood flooring slat(s) against the curved boundary; (f) securing the hardwood flooring slat(s) to the sub-floor; wherein the hardwood flooring slat(s) now permanently secured become the curved boundary against which the next said row of the hardwood flooring slat(s) will be laid; (g) repeating the establishing, determining, anchoring, positioning, activating, and securing steps until all of the rows of the section of flooring are installed; and (h) repositioning the pressure units to the section of flooring to be covered next and performing the aforementioned steps in this claim until the entire hardwood floor is installed.