Floor covering
AssigneeTarkett GDL
InventorHubert Dugast
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a synthetic floor covering comprising a decorative pattern representing an element of natural floor covering to be imitated, said floor covering being in the form of a strip, the width of which corresponds to the width of said element of natural floor covering to be imitated, and the length of which corresponds to the length of at least two of said elements of natural floor covering to be imitated, said pattern of at least two natural decoration elements being separated by a pattern imitating a joint connecting said natural decoration elements.
Claims13
A synthetic floor covering comprising a decorative pattern (5) representing an element of natural floor covering to be imitated, said floor covering being in the form of a strip (8), the width of which corresponds to the width of said element of natural floor covering to be imitated, and the length of which corresponds to the length of at least two of said natural floor covering to be imitated elements, said pattern (5) of at least two natural decoration elements being separated by a pattern imitating a joint connecting said natural decoration elements.
A method for printing a synthetic support (1), said method comprising the steps of:
- taking a synthetic support (1),
- printing on said support (1), a decorative pattern (5) representing the pattern of an element of natural floor covering to be imitated, and a pattern (6) imitating a joint connecting the elements of said natural floor covering to be imitated, the printing being performed using an impression cylinder (2) engraved with at least one pattern (6) imitating a joint connecting the elements of said natural floor covering to be imitated, said engraved pattern extending either over the entire periphery of said cylinder (2), or over the entire width of said cylinder (2), and said engraved pattern being regularly spaced from another pattern engraved on said cylinder (2) by a distance corresponding to the length of said element of natural floor covering to be imitated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.