Patent ID: 7401837

Claim:
A vehicle floor tray molded from a sheet of thermoplastic polymeric material of uniform thickness, comprising: a floor substantially conforming to a floor of a vehicle foot well, the floor having at least one longitudinally disposed lateral side and at least one transversely disposed lateral side; a first wall integrally formed with the floor and upwardly extending from the first lateral side of the floor; a second wall integrally formed with the floor and the first wall and upwardly extending from the second lateral side of the floor, at least one of the first and second walls having a top margin, the top margin being at least five inches higher than the floor at its greatest separation therefrom; the floor of the tray having an upper surface including a general portion and a reservoir portion, a general surface of the reservoir portion being lower than and surrounded by the general portion of the upper surface of the floor of the tray; a plurality of channels molded into the general portion of the upper surface of the tray, bottoms of the channels being lower than the general portion of the upper surface of the tray but higher than the general surface of the reservoir portion, each channel having first and second sidewalls spaced apart by a bottom of the channel, the first and second sidewalls and bottom of the channel having a substantially uniform thickness; and a plurality of longitudinally oriented baffles disposed in the reservoir portion and a plurality of transversely oriented baffles disposed baffles disposed in the reservoir portion which are joined to ones of the longitudinally disposed baffles, the channels acting to channel drip water to the reservoir portion, the baffles acting to impede lateral movement of the drip water occurring because of vehicle motion, the baffles being formed by third and fourth sidewalls standing up from the general surface of the reservoir portion and a web spaced from said general surface to join together the third and fourth sidewalls, the web and the third and fourth sidewalls being of substantially uniform thickness.