Pawling Corporation

Pawling Rubber Corporation

Roderick E Collette

Ronald R Peck, Jr

A handrail-wall bumper combination which includes improved structural features for the mounting of the handrail above the bumper section, providing a common appearing design for both vinyl and wood handrail portions and accommodating, in the case of either type of handrail, a smoothly contoured gripping surface, including a well-defined and highly visible accent strip. Smooth, tangentially transitioning concave and convex surfaces are provided in front and also in back of the handrail where, although not visible to the eye, such surfaces provide improved comfort and feel and reduce skin abrasions. Improved components are also provided for assembling corners and returns, including providing slightly enlarged support surfaces for longitudinal extensions of plastic cover elements to assure optimum surface alignment at joints. Improved arrangements are also provided for improving section-to-section alignment of wood handrail elements, by providing a continuous longitudinal recess in the metal handrail support, for receiving an alignment dowel.

Handrail and bumper combination

Combined handrail and bumper rail with accent strip

A ventilated interlocking floor tile is disclosed comprising a lower layer including a heavy, substantially solid edge region provided with a plurality of interlocks for attachment with contiguous tiles and an upper layer securely fastened to the lower layer to form an upper floor surface including a unidirectional slip-resistant tread pattern. The solid edge region defines a cavity on the backside of the tile and includes a plurality of ventilating grooves extending from the cavity to the outer edge of the tile to accommodate the flow of air to and from the cavity. The upper layer is secured to the lower layer such that the upper layer overlies the interlocks of two predetermined sides of the solid edge region of the lower layer whereby the exposed interlocks of the remaining sides of the edge region of the lower layer may only interlock with the covered interlocks of a contiguous tile thereby maintaining uniformity in the pattern defined by the unidirectional tread pattern of the upper layers throughout the floor surface covering constructed by the floor tiles.

Interlocking rubber mat

A ventilated interlocking floor tile is disclosed comprising a heavy, substantially solid edge region provided with a plurality of interlocks for attachment with contiguous tiles. The solid edge margins define a cavity on the back side of the tile, and the cavity is provided with a plurality of knob-like projections to support the tile surface while providing open space within the cavity. The solid edge regions are provided with ventilating grooves to accommodate the flow of air to and from the cavity.

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Pawling, NY, United States of America

Roderick E Collette