Mechanical locking of floor panels with a flexible bristle tongue
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorsDarko Pervan, Agne Palsson
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Abstract
Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue in a displacement groove. The tongue is moulded and provided with bendable protrusions. A building panel having an edge portion provided with a groove, in which a tongue formed as a separate part is received, wherein the tongue includes at least two bow shaped protrusions at a first long edge of the tongue, and wherein the protrusions are arranged bendable in the groove.
Claims19
A building panel having an edge portion presenting a sidewardly open groove, wherein a tongue formed as a separate part is received in the sidewardly open groove, wherein the tongue is of an elongated shape and made of molded plastic,
- wherein the tongue comprises at least two protrusions at a first long edge of the tongue,
- wherein the at least two protrusions are configured to be bendable in the sidewardly open groove in a plane parallel to an upper surface of the tongue, the at least two protrusions extending essentially along the plane,
- wherein the tongue has a second long edge extending outside the sidewardly open groove,
- wherein the second long edge is straight over portions of the second long edge directly opposite to the at least two protrusions, and
- wherein a length of each of the at least two protrusions is larger than a total width of the tongue.
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