US 11,834,845 B2Granted

Building panel

AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB

InventorsRoger Ylikangas, Anders Nilsson, Karl Quist

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Abstract

Building panels, such as a floor panels or wall panels, which include a first mechanical locking system at respective parallel and opposite third and fourth edges, such as long edges, configured to cooperate for horizontal and vertical locking between two adjacent building panels, preferably by a folding motion. The panels further include a second locking system at respective parallel and opposite first and second edges, such as short edges, configured to cooperate for horizontal and vertical locking of two adjacent building panels. An upper edge portion of one of the third edge or fourth edge, preferably the third edge, includes a first lower lip portion configured to cooperate with a first upper lip portion of an upper edge portion of the other of the third and fourth edge of an adjacent panel when the third and fourth edges are arranged in locking engagement.

Claims28

Dependent claims

A set of similar or essentially identical building panels comprising

a first mechanical locking system at respective parallel and opposite third and fourth edges, the first mechanical locking system comprising at the third edge a locking groove configured to receive a first locking tongue of a fourth edge of an adjacent panel by means of a folding displacement of the adjacent panel for, horizontal and vertical locking between two adjacent building panels, and
a second mechanical locking system at respective parallel and opposite first and second edges, configured to cooperate for horizontal and vertical locking of two adjacent building panels,
wherein an upper edge portion of one of the first edge or the second edge comprises a second lower lip portion configured to cooperate with a second upper lip portion of an upper edge portion of an other of the first and second edges of an adjacent panel when said first and second edges are assembled in locking position, and
wherein the second upper lip portion of the second edge is configured to form a tight fit around the second lower lip portion when the first lower lip portion is received under the second upper lip portion in response to the vertical displacement.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/524,952Filed 12 Nov 2021 · continuation
Priority: EP 1919923424 Sep 2019
Published: US 2022/0178150 A19 Jun 2022
Granted: 5 Dec 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

E04F 15/02038
Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements: characterised by tongue and groove connections between neighbouring flooring…
B27G 13/14
For profile cutting: for cutting grooves or tenons
B27M 3/0066
Of composite or compound articles: characterised by tongue and groove or tap hole connections
B27M 3/06
Of flooring elements, e.g. parqueting blocks: of composite floor plates per se by assembling or jointing the parqueting blocks

Family

Application16/738,725Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Jan 2020
US 2022/0178150 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Jun 2022
US 11,203,877 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2021/0087828 A1Published application
US 11,834,845 B2This patent

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