Patent ID: 8288689

Claim:
A temperature control flooring system, including: a moisture impermeable layer comprising a base and a plurality of projections extended upwardly from the base, each of the projections comprising a substantially planar top wall and a peripheral wall between the top wall and the base wherein the top wall and peripheral wall cooperate to define an internal chamber open at a bottom thereof; wherein adjacent ones of the projections are spaced apart from one another to define channels therebetween to receive a flexible elongate thermal control component, the projections being disposed in an array selected to enable and facilitate placement of the flexible elongate thermal control component in a path along the base and disposed between different pairs of the projections; and an anchoring layer comprising a plurality of anchoring members individually associated with the projections, each anchoring member occupying its associated chamber, attached to the associated top wall and extending downwardly to a location below the base, the anchoring layer further comprising a lower surface adapted for attachment to a substrate to integrally mount the moisture impermeable layer with respect to the substrate and structurally support the moisture impermeable layer when so mounted; wherein each of the anchoring members is capable of exerting lateral forces to frictionally secure axially driven fasteners against axial withdrawal, thereby to facilitate use of said fasteners to mount a flooring layer in overlying relation to the moisture impermeable layer by advancing the fasteners through the flooring layer and moisture impermeable layer into the anchoring members.