Floor panel
AssigneeFlooring Industries Limited, Sarl
InventorMark CAPPELLE
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Abstract
Floor panel, with a horizontally and vertically active locking system allowing that two of such floor panels can be connected to each other at said sides by providing one of these floor panels, by means of a downward movement, in the other floor panel; wherein the vertically active locking system comprises a locking element in the form of an insert; wherein this locking element comprises at least a pivotable lock-up body; characterized in that the pivotable lock-up body comprises a support portion which is rotatable against a support surface pertaining to the floor panel concerned, and more particularly in a seat.
Claims20
A floor panel, comprising a core and a top layer of wood functioning as a visible decorative layer, the core comprising a first material and a different second material,
- wherein the floor panel is rectangular and oblong and thus comprises a pair of opposite long sides and a pair of opposite short sides;
- wherein the floor panel comprises, at the pair of opposite long sides, coupling parts, which, in a coupled condition, offer a horizontal as well as a vertical locking and which allow a mutual coupling by means of a pivoting movement between two floor panels to be coupled;
- wherein the floor panel comprises, at the pair of opposite short sides, coupling parts;
- wherein the coupling parts at the opposite short sides form a horizontally active locking system and a vertically active locking system;
- wherein the horizontally active locking system comprises a male part and a female part, which allow that two of such floor panels can be connected to each other at the aforementioned short sides by providing one of these floor panels with the pertaining male part, by means of a downward movement obtained as a result of the aforementioned pivoting movement, in the female part of the other floor panel;
- wherein the male part is formed by a downward-directed extremity of a hook-shaped part, whereas the female part comprises a first seat formed by an upward-directed hook-shaped part;
- wherein the core comprises, at least at one of the short sides, a strip made of the first material;
- wherein at least the male or female part is machined from the first material of the strip;
- wherein the vertically active locking system comprises a locking element provided in the form of an insert;
- wherein the locking element comprises an attachment portion, a support portion and a pivotable lock-up body,
- wherein the pivotable lock-up body comprises a locking portion,
- wherein the attachment portion is inserted in the male part,
- wherein the support portion extends downwardly into or onto a second seat defined by a surface of the hook-shaped part;
- wherein the pivotable lock-up body extends generally vertically from the support portion,
- wherein the locking portion in the coupled condition contacts a surface of the female part.
A floor panel, comprising a core and a top layer of wood functioning as a visible decorative layer, the core comprising a first material and a different second material,
- wherein the floor panel is rectangular and oblong and thus comprises a pair of opposite long sides and a pair of opposite short sides;
- wherein the floor panel comprises, at the pair of opposite long sides, coupling parts, which, in a coupled condition, offer a horizontal as well as a vertical locking and which allow a mutual coupling by means of a pivoting movement between two floor panels to be coupled;
- wherein the floor panel comprises, at the pair of opposite short sides, coupling parts;
- wherein the coupling parts at the opposite short sides form a horizontally active locking system and a vertically active locking system;
- wherein the horizontally active locking system comprises a male part and a female part, which allow that two of such floor panels can be connected to each other at the aforementioned short sides by providing one of these floor panels with the pertaining male part, by means of a downward movement obtained as a result of the aforementioned pivoting movement, in the female part of the other floor panel;
- wherein the male part is formed by a downward-directed extremity of a hook-shaped part, whereas the female part comprises a first seat formed by an upward-directed hook-shaped part;
- wherein the vertically active locking system comprises a locking element provided in the form of an insert in one of the short sides;
- wherein the core comprises, at least at one of the short sides, a strip made of the first material;
- wherein at least the male or female part is machined from the first material of the strip;
- wherein the first material is MDF or HDF;
- wherein the core comprises at each short side a strip made of the first material;
- and wherein both the male and female part are machined from the first material of the respective strips;
- wherein the core is substantially composed of strips, comprising said strip made of the first material and strips made of the second material, which is wood.
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