Mechanical locking system for building panels
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorsNiclas Håkansson, Darko Pervan
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Abstract
Panels are shown which are provided with a mechanical locking system allowing perpendicular connection with a snap action. A set of panels including a first and a second panel, an edge of the second panel is insertable into a groove of the first panel, when the panels are arranged essential perpendicular to each other, to obtain a mechanical connection between the first and the second panel, when the second panel is displaced essentially perpendicularly to the first panel.
Claims20
A set of furniture components provided with a mechanical locking system for locking a first panel and a second panel essentially perpendicularly to each other, the mechanical locking system comprising:
- a groove provided in the first panel,
- an edge of the second panel,
- an insertion groove provided in the groove of the first panel, a separate and flexible tongue being provided in the insertion groove, and
- a tongue groove provided in the edge of the second panel,
- wherein the edge of the second panel is configured to be inserted into the groove of the first panel for locking said first and second panels to each other in a direction perpendicular to the main plane of the second panel,
- wherein the separate and flexible tongue is configured to cooperate with the tongue groove for locking said first and second panels to each other in a direction perpendicular to the main plane of the first panel,
- wherein the insertion groove is inclined upwards, a distance from an opening of the insertion groove to the main plane of the first panel being smaller than a distance from an inner part of the insertion groove to the main plane of the first panel, and
- wherein the groove comprises a tapering inner portion and/or wherein the edge comprises a tapering outer portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.