Building panel with a mechanical locking system
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorThomas Meijer
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Abstract
A set of panels configured to be locked together by a flexible tongue which includes a flexible element and an opposite flexible element, wherein an end of the flexible element and an end of the opposite flexible element are connected to a connecting part, wherein an outer end of the flexible element and an outer end of the opposite flexible element each includes a protruding part, wherein the protruding part of the flexible element and the protruding part of the opposite flexible element are configured to cooperate during assembling of the first panel and the second panel with a guiding surface of the first panel such that the protruding part of the flexible element and the protruding part of the opposite flexible element are pushed towards a bottom surface of the insertion groove.
Claims16
A set of panels comprising a first panel with a first edge and a second panel with a second edge and a flexible tongue, wherein the second edge comprises an insertion groove comprising the flexible tongue and a bottom surface and the first edge comprises a tongue groove, wherein the flexible tongue is configured to cooperate in an assembled state of the first panel and the second panel with the tongue groove,
- wherein the flexible tongue comprises a flexible element and an opposite flexible element, wherein an end of the flexible element and an end of the opposite flexible element are connected to a connecting part, wherein an outer end of the flexible element and an outer end of the opposite flexible element each comprise a protruding part,
- wherein the protruding part of the flexible element protrudes from the flexible element in a direction away from the bottom surface of the insertion groove,
- wherein the protruding part of the opposite flexible element protrudes from the opposite flexible element in a direction away from the bottom surface of the insertion groove,
- wherein the flexible tongue comprises a longitudinal space between the protruding part of the flexible element and the protruding part of the opposite flexible element,
- wherein the protruding part of the flexible element and the protruding part of the opposite flexible element are configured to cooperate during assembling of the first panel and the second panel with a guiding surface of the first panel such that each of the flexible element and the opposite flexible element bends and such that the protruding part of the flexible element and the protruding part of the opposite flexible element are pushed towards the bottom surface of the insertion groove, wherein each of the flexible element and the opposite flexible element springs back in a direction towards the tongue groove when the first panel and the second panel reach the assembled state,
- wherein the protruding part of the flexible element and the protruding part of the opposite flexible element are configured to cooperate in the assembled state with the tongue groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.