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US 2020/0173175 A1Published application
Mechanical locking of floor panels
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorDarko PERVAN
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Abstract
Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system on long and short edges allowing installation with angling of long edges and where the short edge locking system has a displaceable tongue that is displaceable essentially in one direction from an inner unlocked position to an final locked position.
Claims10
(canceled)
A set of floor panels provided with a locking system, the locking system comprising a separate flexible tongue integrated with an edge of a floor panel for connecting the edge vertically to an adjacent edge of a similar panel,
- wherein the flexible tongue has a length direction along the edge,
- wherein a least a part of the flexible tongue is configured to be displaced essentially horizontally and essentially in one direction only from an initial position to a final outer locked position, and
- wherein the flexible tongue is configured to be twisted around the length direction during locking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.