A cut-to-fit
door mats for a driver's-side vehicle foot well, comprising:a
car mats manufacturer body having an inboard margin, a forward margin, an outboard margin and an aft margin;a plurality of peripheral cells located at or near at least one of said margins, each cell defined by at least one trim line, a plurality of said trim lines formed in the mat body as elongate indentations therein, a central area of the body disposed laterally inwardly from the peripheral cells, the central area not being crossed by any trim line;the peripheral cells includinga first array of cells disposed near the outboard and aft margins and adaptable to be selectively trimmed away by a consumer to leave exposed a fuel filler lever and/or a trunk release lever of the driver's side foot well;a second, two-dimensional array of cells disposed in the upper outboard quadrant of the mat and adaptable to be selectively trimmed away by a consumer to fit to a deadpedal of one of a preselected plurality of lengths and one of a preselected plurality of widths;a third array of cells, spaced from the second array of cells, and disposed in the upper inboard quadrant of the mat and adaptable to be selectively removed by the consumer to accommodate a floor-mounted gas pedal; anda fourth array of cells disposed inboard of the third array of cells and adaptable to be selectively trimmed away by the consumer to fit a transmission tunnel indentation of the driver's side foot well.
A driver's side
car mats manufacturer of the pair is preferably furnished with a plurality of cells in a gas pedal area in a forward inboard quadrant of the mat, a set of cells for fitting to a transmission tunnel indentation found at the corner of the front and inboard sides of the driver's side foot wells in many vehicles, a preferably two-dimensional deadpedal array of cells spaced from the gas pedal cells and disposed in a forward outboard quadrant of the mat, and a plurality of cells on or near a predicted position of a trunk release lever and/or a fuel filler door lever. A passenger's side mat of the pair is preferably furnished with a plurality of cells to conform to a transmission tunnel bulge, and a plurality of cells choosable by the consumer to conform to an arcuate right front wheel well that bulges into the passenger's side foot well in many vehicles. Preferably, trim lines defining these last groups of cells are arcuate rather than rectilinear.
The driver's side
car mats manufacturer and the passenger's side mat thus both exhibit novel and nonobvious characteristics relative to conventional cut-to-fit floor mats when considered alone. A further technical advantage is conferred when these are provided as a pair to a consumer, who then will be able to optimally fit these mats to both foot wells of his or her vehicle.
