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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Craig S Jones, Chesterfield, MI (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E04F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
52390 ; 524031 ; 523111 ; 52314 ;
Abstract
A tile for superposition over a horizontal floor comprises a thin flat metal plate of uniform thickness with a plurality of apertures extending laterally therethrough in spaced relation to one another and to the edges of thereof and having a non-metallic insert in each of the apertures of a thickness less than the thickness of the metal portion of the tile and having an upper surface disposed below the upper surface of the metal portion of the tile.