US 10,830,268 B2Granted

Furniture panel

AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB

InventorChristian Boo

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Abstract

A furniture panel is provided, in which a first element and a second element are mechanically locked together. A first tongue is provided at a first edge of the first element, the first tongue cooperating with a first tongue groove provided at a second edge of the second element for locking the first and second elements in a vertical direction, and a second tongue at the second edge of the second element, the second tongue cooperating with a second tongue groove at the first edge of the first element for locking the first and second elements in the vertical direction. A first pair of locking surfaces is provided above the second tongue and the second tongue groove for locking in a horizontal direction, and a second pair of locking surfaces is provided below the first tongue and the first tongue groove for locking in the horizontal direction.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A furniture panel comprising a first element and a second element which are configured to be locked together, wherein a first main plane of the first element is essentially parallel to a second main plane of the second element when the first element and the second element are locked together, wherein the furniture panel comprises a first face and an opposite second face which are parallel to a main plane of the furniture panel when the first element and the second element are locked together, and the first element and the second element are provided with a mechanical locking system, the mechanical locking system comprising:

a first tongue provided at a first edge of the first element, wherein the first tongue is configured to cooperate with a first tongue groove provided at a second edge of the second element for locking together the first element and the second element in a first direction perpendicular to the main plane of the furniture panel, at least a portion of the first tongue groove being spaced from the second face by a first lip extending from the second element along a second direction parallel to the main plane of the furniture panel;
a second tongue at the second edge of the second element, wherein the second tongue is configured to cooperate with a second tongue groove at the first edge of the first element for locking together the first element and the second element in the first direction, at least a portion of the second tongue groove being spaced from the first face by a second lip extending from the first element along the second direction;
a first pair of locking surfaces provided between (a) the second tongue and the second tongue groove and (b) the first face for locking together the first element and the second element in the second direction;
and
a second pair of locking surfaces provided between (a) the first tongue and the first tongue groove and (b) the second face for locking together the first element and the second element in the second direction, wherein the second pair of locking surfaces is offset in the second direction from the first pair of locking surfaces.

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a first tongue provided at a first edge of the first element, wherein the first tongue is configured to cooperate with a first tongue groove provided at a second edge of the second element for locking together the first element and the second element in a first direction perpendicular to the main plane of the furniture panel;
a second tongue at the second edge of the second element, wherein the second tongue is configured to cooperate with a second tongue groove at the first edge of the first element for locking together the first element and the second element in the first direction;
a first pair of locking surfaces provided between (a) the second tongue and the second tongue groove and (b) the first face for locking together the first element and the second element in a second direction parallel to the main plane of the furniture panel;
and
a second pair of locking surfaces provided between (a) the first tongue and the first tongue groove and (b) the second face for locking together the first element and the second element in the second direction, wherein the second pair of locking surfaces is offset in the second direction from the first pair of locking surfaces,
wherein, in the second direction, the first pair of locking surfaces and the second pair of locking surfaces are located between an outermost extent of the first tongue and an outermost extent of the second tongue.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/573,572Filed 17 Dec 2014
Priority: SE 145001810 Jan 2014
Published: US 2015/0198191 A116 Jul 2015
Granted: 10 Nov 2020
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