Floor Panel

Floor panel in the form of a multilayer, rectangular elastic laminate, comprising:

• a main body including:
• a core of elastic plastic,
• a décor film on an upper side of the core,
• a transparent finishing layer on the décor film,
• a transparent lacquer layer, applied on the finishing layer,
• an elastic back-pull layer on a back of the core, and
• wherein:
• the core comprises at least one core layer and a reinforcement layer,
• the at least one core layer being made of a soft polyvinyl chloride (PVC) material,
• the reinforcement layer being a glass fibre mat that is impregnated with a soft polyvinyl chloride (PVC) material,
• the at least one core layer and the reinforcement layer being bonded to one another by pressing,
• the décor film on the upper side of the core is made of a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) material which is printed with a décor,
• the back-pull layer simultaneously acts as a sound damping layer, said back-pull layer including sound dampening fillers therein, said sound dampening fillers being a material different from said back-pull layer, and the floor panel has a thickness of 4 to 8 mm, and
• a first groove that is disposed at a first longitudinal edge of the panel, the first groove being formed on top of a protrusion with a hook-like cross section extending from a lower portion of the first longitudinal edge of the panel,
• a first tongue that is disposed at a second longitudinal edge of the panel opposite to the first longitudinal edge, the first tongue being formed at a bottom of a protrusion extending from an upper portion of the second longitudinal edge of the panel,
• the first tongue having a cross section that is complementary to the first groove to be received by the first groove,
• a second groove that is disposed at a first traverse edge of the panel extending perpendicular to the first and second longitudinal edges, the first groove being formed on top of a protrusion with a hook-like cross section extending from a lower portion of the first traverse edge of the panel, and
• a second tongue that is disposed at a second traverse edge of the panel opposite to the first traverse edge, the second tongue being formed at a bottom of a protrusion extending from an upper portion of the second traverse edge of the panel,
• the second tongue being provided to be pressed into the second groove in a downward direction perpendicular to a surface plane of the panel,
• the second tongue and the second groove being elastically deformable to be deformed during pressing the second tongue into the second groove.

Method for manufacturing a floor panel in the foam of a multilayer, rectangular elastic laminate, comprising the following steps:

• a) extruding at least one core layer of a soft polyvinyl chloride (PVC) material,
• b) extruding a décor film of a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) material,
• c) extruding a transparent finishing layer of a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) material,
• d) extruding a back-pull layer of a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) material including sound dampening fillers therein, said sound dampening fillers being a material different from said back-pull layer,
• e) printing the décor film with a décor,
• f) providing a glass fibre mat and impregnating this glass fibre mat with a soft polyvinyl chloride (PVC) material to form a reinforcement layer,
• g) applying the reinforcement layer to the at least one core layer to form a core, laminating the décor film and the transparent finishing layer onto a top side of the core and applying the back-pull layer at the a bottom side of the core to form a laminate,
• h) bonding the core, the décor film, the transparent finishing layer and the back-pull layer of the laminate resulting from step g) to one another by calendering,
• i) imprinting a haptic structure onto a surface of the transparent finishing layer by rolling, and
• j) applying a transparent lacquer layer on the transparent finishing layer.