Floor panel
AssigneeFlooring Industries Limited, Sarl
InventorsLaurent Meersseman, Martin Segaert, Mark Cappelle
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Abstract
A floor panel has a rectangular and oblong shape, and includes a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate and forming a decorative side of the floor panel. The top layer is composed of a print provided on a carrier sheet and a transparent thermoplastic layer situated above the print. The substrate has a thickness from 2 to 10 millimeter and forms at least half of the thickness of the floor panel. The substrate is a polyurethane-based substrate and the transparent thermoplastic layer is polyurethane-based. The floor panel has a length of more than 1.1 meters and has a plurality of reinforcing layers situated outside the center line of the substrate. A reinforcing layer may be provided in combination with the substrate and the top layer.
Claims19
A floor panel being rectangular and oblong and comprising a substrate and a top layer provided on said substrate;
- wherein said top layer is at least composed of a print and a transparent thermoplastic layer situated above said print,
- wherein said thermoplastic layer has a thickness of less than 1 millimeter,
- wherein said print comprises parts extending at a plurality of different levels, and
- wherein the transparent thermoplastic layer is free from solid additives including ceramic particles;
- wherein said print is provided on top of a carrier layer, said carrier layer having a lower side extending globally at a first level, wherein at least one of said parts extends below said first level.
A floor panel being rectangular and oblong and comprising a substrate and a top layer provided on said substrate;
- wherein said top layer is at least composed of a print and a transparent thermoplastic layer situated above said print,
- wherein said thermoplastic layer has a thickness between 0.15 and 0.4 millimeters,
- wherein said print comprises parts extending at a plurality of different levels, and
- wherein the transparent thermoplastic layer is free from ceramic particles;
- wherein said print is provided on top of a carrier layer, said carrier layer having a lower side extending globally at a first level, wherein at least one of said parts extends below said first level;
- wherein a first part of the print extends in a horizontal level over the rectangular and oblong substrate;
- wherein a second part of the print extends below said horizontal level over a surface of a first edge of the substrate forming a chamfer;
- wherein a third part of the print extends in a recess formed into the substrate between the first edge and an opposite second edge of the substrate, the recess extending below the horizontal level along a decorative side of the floor panel bearing said print.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.