Furniture leg guard

Abstract

A floor protector for protecting a floor surface from marring by a future leg is described. The protector has a base portion and a top portion. The base portion has an inner surface and an outer surface. The outer surface includes a floor contact surface that will not mar a floor surface. The outer surface may be con form to the floor surface or to the leg bottom surface. One or more sidewalls extend from the base and there is an opening for receiving a furniture leg. Either the opening or the sidewalls are slightly smaller in cross section than the furniture leg so that the furniture leg is retained in the protector when the leg is lifted.

1 . A floor protector for protecting a floor surface from marring by a furniture leg comprising a base portion, said base portion having an inner surface and an outer surface, said outer surface including a floor contact surface that will not mar a floor surface, one or more sidewalls extending from said base and an opening for receiving a furniture leg, either said opening or said sidewalls being slightly smaller in cross section than the furniture leg so that said furniture leg is retained in said protector when said leg is lifted.  
   
   
       2 . The floor protector according to  claim 1  wherein said opening has a lip, said lip providing a friction fit with said leg.  
   
   
       3 . The floor protector according to  claim 1  wherein said opening has a sheet material thereon, said sheet material having one or more slits therein.  
   
   
       4 . The floor protector according to  claim 3  wherein there are two slits that from a cross and a leg that is received by said protector is held in said protector by a friction fit with triangular members by said slits.  
   
   
       5 . The protector according to  claim 1  wherein said base portion is a hemisphere and said sidewall is a conical member with an opening at the apex of said conical member.  
   
   
       6 . The protector according to  claim 1  wherein said base portion is a hemisphere and said sidewall is a conical member, said conical member having a tubular portion extending from an end of said conical member opposite said base portion, said tubular member having an opening for receiving a furniture leg.  
   
   
       7 . The protector according to  claim 6 , wherein said opening has a lip extending inwardly from a sidewall of said tubular member, said lip providing a friction fit with said leg.  
   
   
       8 . The protector according to  claim 6  where said tubular member has a sheet over said opening in said tubular member, said sheet having one or more slits therein.  
   
   
       9 . The protector according to  claim 1  wherein said base portion is generally U-shaped and circular in cross section, said base portion having a bottom surface and a top edge, said top edge having a conical member thereon, said conical member having an opening for receiving a leg.  
   
   
       10 . The protector according to  claim 9 , wherein said opening has an interior sidewall extending toward said base portion, said interior sidewall providing a friction fit with a leg.  
   
   
       11 . The protector according to  claim 1  wherein said base is generally rectangular in shape and has four sidewalls extending therefrom, one end of said sidewalls opposite said base having a top member, said member having an opening for receiving a leg.  
   
   
       12 . The protector according to  claim 11  wherein at least one of said sidewalls has an interior surface and an exterior surface and the exterior surface thereof is generally concave so that a portion of the interior surface of said sidewall contacts a portion of a leg when said leg is inserted in said protector.