Patent ID: 6841216

Claim:
A carpet tile comprising a tile length and a pattern comprising a first group of substantially parallel, straight stripes that extend along a first portion of the tile length and that terminate on one side of a visual boundary transverse to the stripes and a second group of substantially parallel stripes beginning on the other side of the transverse boundary and extending along a second portion of the tile length wherein: (i) the stripes of the first and second group are formed by at least two colors; (ii) the stripes of the first group are substantially parallel to the stripes of the second group; (iii) the stripes of the first and the second groups each comprise stripe width, wherein at least some of the stripe widths vary within each of the first and the second groups; (iv) each stripe of the first group abuts at the boundary at least one stripe of the second group; and (v) each stripe of the first group contrasts with the at least one abutting stripe of the second group.