Floorboards with decorative grooves
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorsDarko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Abstract
Floorboards which have a core and a surface layer and are provided with decorative joint edges which are formed by removing the surface layer. A method for making a floorboard, or a floor element that is to be divided into at least two floorboards, the method including making a core from a sheet shaped material, from which a part of a locking system for vertical locking of the floorboards is to be formed, impregnating and/or staining the core surface with a substance at least in portions which in the completed floorboard will constitute a joint edge of the completed floorboard, and arranging an surface layer on the core surface.
Claims17
A floorboard comprising a core, wherein the core comprises a plastic material, and at least one surface layer arranged on an upper side of the core, an outer part of the surface layer constituting a horizontal plane, said surface layer comprises a decorative layer and a reinforcing layer, the reinforcing layer being arranged under the decorative surface layer,
- wherein at least at two opposite parallel joint edge portions of the floorboard have a connecting device for joining the floorboard with similar floorboards in a vertical and horizontal direction, wherein a joint edge portion of the floorboard comprises a decorative joint portion, the decorative joint portion comprises a surface of the reinforcing layer, and wherein the surface of the reinforcing layer is essentially parallel to the horizontal plane.
A floorboard, having a core of a plastic material and at least one surface layer arranged on an upper side of the core, outer parts of the surface layer constituting a horizontal plane, said surface layer comprises a decorative layer,
- wherein at least at two opposite parallel joint edge portions of the floorboard have a connecting device for joining the floorboard with similar floorboards in a vertical and horizontal direction, wherein a joint edge portion of the floorboard comprises a decorative joint portion, wherein the decorative joint portion comprises a surface of the core, and wherein the surface of the core is parallel to the horizontal plane.
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