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US 11,078,673 B2Granted
Mechanical locking of floor panels
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorsDarko Pervan, Niclas Hakansson, Mattias Sjostrand, Christian Boo, Agne Palsson
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Abstract
Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system comprising tongue and grooves provided with protrusions and cavities which are displaceable in relation to each other and configured such that the protrusions can obtain a vertically unlocked position where they match the cavities and a vertically locked position where the protrusions overlap each other.
Claims5
A set of floor panels provided with a locking system comprising a separate part in a first edge of a first floor panel and a groove in a second edge of a similar second floor panel,
- wherein the separate part is configured to cooperate with the groove to lock the first edge of the first floor panel and the second edge of the second floor panel into a locked state in which the first and second edges are locked horizontally adjacent to one another, the first and second edges extending in a longitudinal direction,
- wherein the separate part is positioned in a displacement groove and is configured to turn during locking,
- wherein the separate part comprises a turning extension which, in the locked state, is positioned outside the displacement groove and extends beyond a longitudinal end of the first edge when viewed in a direction orthogonal to a horizontal plane, and
- wherein the turning extension is configured to turn the separate part during locking when the first floor panel and the second floor panel are positioned in a same plane to obtain the locked state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.