I am looking for the rubber floor runners that you use to cover
electric cords to keep you from tripping over them.  I need to know 1)
What are they called and 2) Who manufactures them.

The floor runners are about 1 inch tall with tapered edges.  They are
made of rubber and are used in traffic areas where you need to run an
electric cord or other wires accross a walkway.

Hi holstein13-ga, and thanks for the question.

I know exactly what you mean! They are in fact called “Cord
Protectors” or  “Cable protectors”
and you can get them at any of the following locations:

USA
http://doityourself.com/store/cordprotectors.htm

http://www.wellspent.org/Category?c=8013

http://www.connectronics.com/walkway.htm


UK.
http://www.networkcablingservices.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Rubber_Cable_Protectors_32.html

Canada. Cable-trac
http://www.dtrl.com/cable.html

Australia.  Seton
http://www.seton.net.au/templates/safcord_trip.cfm



Thank you for the question, and if you need any clarification just
ask.

THX1138

Search strategy:
“cord protectors”
://www.google.com/search?q=%22cord+protectors%22&hl=pt&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&start=30&sa=N

“cable protectors”
://www.google.com/search?hl=pt&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_qdr=all&q=%22cable+protectors%22&btnG=Pesquisa+Google&lr=

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Request for Answer Clarification by holstein13-ga on 18 Jul 2002 12:47 PDT

Great job, you are halfway there.  Please let me know when you can
find the manufacturer's contact info.

Thanks,

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Clarification of Answer by thx1138-ga on 18 Jul 2002 13:18 PDT

The largest manufacturer seems to be a company called wiremold  (They
seem to manufacture the ones in 2 of the websites I mentioned)

Contact details for Wiremold:

U.S. Sales Support
sales@wiremold.com 

International Sales Support
intlsales@wiremold.com 


United States
The Wiremold Company
60 Woodlawn Street
West Hartford, CT 06110
Phone: 860.233.6251
Fax: 860.232.2062


Canada
Wiremold Canada
850 Gartshore Street
Fergus, Ontario N1M 2W8
Phone: 519.843.4332


International Sales
60 Woodlawn Street
West Hartford, CT 06110
Phone: 860.233.6251
Fax: 860.236.3758

website: http://www.wiremold.com/index2.html


I hope that helps.

Thanks for the question.

THX1138

Outstanding answer.  Timely and accurate.  thanks.

The "Rimstar" division of this company manufactures the Linebacker
brand of cable protector:

http://www.checkersindustrial.com/

Checkers Industrial Safety Products, Inc.
587 S. Taylor Ave.
P.O. Box 310 
Louisville, Colorado 80027-0310 

Fax: (720) 890-1191 
Toll Free: (800) 438-9336 
Contact: Steve Henry, President