A flooring to be used for vehicles, vessels, etc. The flooring comprises a lowermost rubber layer which makes direct contact with a floor board of a vehicle, a surface layer which constitutes a surface layer portion of the flooring and an intermediate layer interposed between the lowermost layer and the surface layer. The lowermost rubber layer contains a hydrate which discharges water of crystallization at the temperature of 150.degree.-300.degree. C. and accordingly prevents rise of surface temperature by discharging water of crystallization in case of fire in a vehicle and the intermediate layer checks heat conduction from the lowermost layer and thus rise of surface temperature of flooring can be controlled for many hours.
A fire resistant wall construction incorporating a phase conversion material the phase conversion of which takes place at a temperature below the temperature at which wood, paper etc. is liable to ignite. The phase conversion material includes a mass (2) produced from a mixture of water-glass in liquid phase and water and a binder such as cement or the like, the phase conversion material having a water content of such magnitude that the endothermic reaction taking place during the phase conversion process is essentially constituted by the vaporization of the water present.
A vehicle floor tray is molded from a multiple extrusion polymer sheet such that it has high shear and tensile strength, an acceptable degree of stiffness and a high coefficient of friction on its upper surface. The floor tray design is digitally fitted to a foot well of a particular vehicle such that large areas of at least two upstanding walls of the tray depart from respective surfaces of the foot well by no more than an eighth of an inch.
A vehicle floor tray is molded from a sheet of thermoplastic polymeric material of uniform thickness. The tray has a deep three-dimensional shape formed by a floor and at least first and second upstanding sidewalls. A reservoir portion of the floor has a general surface depressed below a general portion of the floor. Channels formed in the general portion of the floor run into the reservoir, in which is formed a plurality of baffles provided for retarding lateral movement of collected runoff and also acting as treads for the occupant's feet.
