Floor board with universal connection system
AssigneeBerryAlloc NV
InventorDieter Simoens
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Abstract
A construction and methods of assembly and construction of boards, e.g. floor boards, are described. The boards have a peripheral connection arrangement for interconnecting of one board to another, a core layer e.g. made from a wood or fiber based material and a top layer applied to the core layer which may be decorative and may include or provide a wear layer. A further bottom layer may be applied to the underside of the core layer and is designed to be in contact with the floor or an underlay can be applied when in use. The connection arrangement includes interconnecting hooking tongues and corresponding catches which co-operate to produce both vertical and horizontal locking.
Claims24
A polygonal board being three-, four-, five-, or six-sided and having a core layer with an underside, a topside, edges and edge faces, the core layer having a plurality of latching tongues formed integrally with the core layer and extending outwardly from the edges of the core layer, the core layer having recesses, each recess being for engaging with a latching tongue of the plurality of latching tongues of another board, at least one of the latching tongues and at least one of the recesses being arranged to allow sliding mating of the at least one latching tongue of a first board with the at least one recess of a second adjacent board thereby forming an abutment surface in a joint between the first board and the second board, the at least one latching tongue and the at least one recess of adjacent boards co-operating to provide both vertical and horizontal locking engagement of the two boards, wherein the at least one recess is arranged between two of the latching tongues or adjacent a latching tongue of the plurality of the latching tongues, further comprising beveled surfaces formed on outer edges of the core layer in areas between the latching tongues or adjacent the latching tongues, and the latching tongues having beveled nose surfaces, such that joining of the board to another said board can be done by sliding the boards together while they are substantially co-planar, whereby a beveled surface on the edges of the core layer of the board is adapted to contact the beveled nose surface of a latching tongue of another similar board and facilitates the latching tongue passing along and under the beveled surface of the edge into one of the recesses on the underside of the core layer.
A method of manufacture of a three-, four-, five, or six-sided board having a core layer with an underside, edges and edge faces, the method comprising:
- forming a plurality of recesses in the core layer, forming an upper shape of a plurality of latching tongues extending outwardly from the edges of the core layer;
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- whereby the recesses are adapted for engaging with the latching tongues, at least one latching tongue of the plurality of latching tongues and the plurality of recesses of each board being arranged to allow engagement of the at least one latching tongue of a first board with the recesses of a second adjacent board to form a tessellation, further machining so that the at least one recess is arranged between two of the latching tongues or adjacent a latching tongue, or the plurality of the latching tongues, further comprising beveled surfaces formed on outer edges of the core layer in areas between the latching tongues or adjacent the latching tongues, and the latching tongues having beveled nose surfaces, such that joining of the board to another said board can be done by sliding the boards together while they are substantially co-planar, whereby a beveled surface on the edges of the core layer of the board is adapted to contact the beveled nose surface of a latching tongue of another similar board and facilitates the lathing tongue passing along and under the beveled surface of the edge into one of the recesses on the underside of the core layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.