Flooring

Abstract

Abstract ABSTRACT FLOORING The invention relates to flooring e.g. for pig units using a number of plastics flooring panels supported above an effluent collecting space. Known panels have necessary surface formations for anti-slip purposes which effectively hinder cleaning, and are interconnected by edge formations making removal of an individual panel difficult, and supporting a panel cut to a size for an area requiring less than a full panel equally difficult. The invention avoids these difficulties by first providing a panel that is provided with surface formations on an otherwise plain surface,` to impart anti-slip characteristics, and with drainage holes, said formations being ribs formed horizontally and transversely of the panel and interconnected to form a number of rectangular enclosures for a number of drainage holes, and secondly providing a support structure having two parallel bar-like members, there being a number of such support structures provided in spaced relationship over an area where the flooring is required, and a number of panels, each panel having at at least two opposite edges, a recess emerging at its under-surface and spaced from the respective edge, said recess being adapted to accept one of the bar-like members of the support structure and whereby two adjacent panels can be located in side-by-side relationship on one support structure.

Inventors

• 👤 Jack Parsons

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