Mechanical locking system for building panels
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorsNiclas Håkansson, Darko Pervan
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Abstract
Panels are shown which are provided with a mechanical locking system allowing perpendicular connection with a snap action. A set of panels including a first and a second panel, an edge of the second panel is insertable into a groove of the first panel, when the panels are arranged essential perpendicular to each other, to obtain a mechanical connection between the first and the second panel, when the second panel is displaced essentially perpendicularly to the first panel.
Claims20
A set of furniture components provided with a mechanical locking system for locking a first panel and a second panel essentially perpendicularly to each other,
- the mechanical locking system comprising:
- a groove provided in the first panel,
- an edge of the second panel,
- an insertion groove provided in the groove of the first panel or in the edge of the second panel,
- a tongue groove provided in the edge of the second panel or in the groove of the first panel, and
- a separate and flexible tongue provided in the insertion groove,
- wherein the edge of the second panel is configured to be inserted into the groove of the first panel for locking said panels to each other in a direction perpendicular to a main plane of the second panel,
- wherein the separate and flexible tongue is configured to cooperate with the tongue groove for locking said panels to each other in a direction perpendicular to a main plane of the first panel, and
- wherein the mechanical locking system comprises a plug and a hole configured to cooperate with each other, wherein the plug and the hole are entirely spaced from the groove.
A set of furniture components provided with a mechanical locking system for locking a first panel and a second panel essentially perpendicularly to each other,
- the mechanical locking system comprising:
- a groove provided in the first panel,
- an edge of the second panel,
- an insertion groove provided in the groove of the first panel or in the edge of the second panel,
- a tongue groove provided in the edge of the second panel or in the groove of the first panel, and
- a separate and flexible tongue provided in the insertion groove,
- wherein the edge of the second panel is configured to be inserted into the groove of the first panel for locking said panels to each other in a direction perpendicular to a main plane of the second panel,
- wherein the separate and flexible tongue is configured to cooperate with the tongue groove for locking said panels to each other in a direction perpendicular to a main plane of the first panel, and
- wherein the mechanical locking system comprises a plug and a hole configured to cooperate with each other, wherein the plug is a stabilizing tongue, wherein the stabilizing tongue and the hole are configured to cooperate in the groove of the first panel,
- wherein the insertion groove is inclined upwards with an opening closer to the main plane of the first panel than an inner part of the insertion groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.