Patent ID: 7703249

Claim:
A cove molding of the type adapted to create a transition between a floor and a wall joined at a seam comprising: an elongate and uniform body of substantially rigid sheet material having a flat base portion adapted to overlie the floor, a wall portion disposed above and at a substantially right angle to the base portion and adapted to lie against the wall intercepting said floor at the seam, and a sloped portion integrally joining a front extremity of the base portion to a lower extremity of the wall portion, said base portion underlying said sloped portion so as to define an acute angle with the sloped portion, said sloped portion forming an obtuse angle with the wall portion and a volume triangular in section between the molding and said floor and wall; an inverted J-shaped anchor cap of rigid material extending in hooked fashion over a top edge of the wall portion in contact with a continuous surface of the wall portion including part of a front side and the top edge of the wall portion and extending down a rear wall-facing side of the wall portion to lay flushly against the wall; and an anchor engaged with the anchor cap below the top edge of the wall portion for securing the anchor cap to the wall.