Patent Application
20220160157
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The disclosure relates to fastening device and more particularly pertains to a new fastening device for attaching a rug to an installed carpet. The present invention discloses a helically shaped screw, which can be screwed through a rug into carpet and underlying padding to prevent the rug from slipping and bunching.
The prior art relates to fastening devices, which may comprise fastening devices for attaching carpeting and rugs to flooring. The prior art also may comprise devices for securing floor mats to carpets in a vehicle, wherein the devices must be installed prior to the carpet. What is lacking in the prior art is a fastening device that can be utilized to attach a substrate to a carpet that has previously been installed over flooring.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a fastener, which in turn comprises a plate and a screw. The screw is attached to a lower face of the plate and extends helically therefrom. The screw is pointed distal from the plate so that the screw is configured to penetrate a substrate, such as a rug, a runner, or a mat. The fastener is one of a plurality of fasteners, with each fastener being configured to be screwed through the substrate and into a carpet to affix the substrate thereto to prevent slipping and bunching of the substrate.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
With the plate 14 being disc shaped, it also may have a plurality of groves 20 extending into a perimeter 22 thereof. The groves 20 are configured to enhance a grasp of digits of a hand of a user upon the plate 14.
The plate 14 has an upper face 24, which may be domed, as shown in
The screw 16 is attached to a lower face 30 of the plate 14 and extends helically therefrom. The screw 16 is pointed distal from the plate 14 so that the screw 16 is configured to penetrate a substrate, such as a rug 18, a runner, or a mat. The screw 16 resembles that of a corkscrew.
The present invention also anticipates the fastener 12 comprising connector 32, which is engaged to or embedded in the lower face 30 of the plate 14. The screw 16 is engaged to the connector 32 and extends therefrom so that the connector 32 is positioned to reinforce the screw 16. The connector 32 may be cross shaped, with an upper loop 34 of the screw 16 being engaged to the connector 32, as shown in
The fastener 12 is one of a plurality of fasteners 12, with each fastener 12 being configured to be screwed through the substrate and into a carpet to affix the substrate thereto, to prevent slipping and bunching of the substrate. Each fastener 12 may be configured to be screwed through both the substrate and the carpet into a pad positioned beneath the carpet, as shown in
In use, the rug fastening device 10 allows for a method 36 of attaching a rug 18 to a carpet, as shown in
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the elements is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
