Panel
AssigneeBart Oerlemans BV
InventorBart Oerlemans
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Abstract
A rectangular panel comprises at each of its four edges a profile selected from a first profile, a second profile, and a third profile. The tongues and grooves of the three profiles are configured such that the panel edge or edges provided with the first profile can be coupled onto the panel edge or panel edges provided with the second profile of another such panel as well as onto the panel edge or panel edges provided with the third profile of another such panel; and such that the panel edge or edges provided with the second profile can be coupled onto the panel edge or panel edges provided with the third profile of another such panel. In each of these coupled configurations, a locking is provided of the coupled edges in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the coupled panels.
Claims20
A panel, wherein the panel is rectangular, oblong or square,
- wherein the panel comprises a first pair of opposing edges,
- wherein the first pair of opposing edges comprises a first edge and a third edge,
- wherein the panel comprises a second pair of opposing edges, wherein the second pair of opposing edges comprises a second edge and a fourth edge,
- wherein each of the first edge, the second edge, the third edge and the fourth edge comprises a profile selected from a first profile, a second profile and a third profile,
- wherein the first profile comprises a first tongue, a first groove and a second groove,
- wherein the first tongue is provided in a direction perpendicular to a panel surface between the first groove and the second groove,
- wherein the first groove is provided closer to the panel surface than the second groove,
- wherein the second groove comprises a bottom lip,
- wherein the first tongue extends perpendicularly to one of the first second, third or fourth edges comprising the first profile,
- wherein the second profile comprises two tongues and a groove,
- wherein the groove is provided in a direction perpendicular to the panel surface between the two tongues,
- wherein each of the two tongues and the groove extend perpendicularly to one of the first, second, third, or fourth edges comprising second profile,
- wherein the third profile comprises a groove, wherein the groove extends perpendicularly to one of the first, second, third, or fourth edges comprising the third profile,
- wherein each of the first profile, the second profile and the third profile extend continuously and along a full length of the edge where said respective profile is provided;
- wherein two opposite edges of the first pair of opposite edges or the second pair of opposite edges are each provided with a first profile, or with a second profile or with a third profile;
- wherein the tongues and grooves of the first profile, the second profile and the third profile are configured in coupled configurations such that
- (i) the panel edge or edges provided with the first profile can be coupled onto the panel edge or panel edges provided with the second profile of another such panel;
- (ii) the panel edge or edges provided with the first profile can be coupled onto the panel edge or panel edges provided with the third profile of another such panel;
- and
- (iii) the panel edge or edges provided with the second profile can be coupled onto the panel edge or panel edges provided with the third profile of another such panel;
- wherein in each of the coupled configurations (i)-(iii), a locking is provided of the coupled edges in a direction perpendicular to the panel surface of the coupled panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.