Set of floor panels and method for installing this set of floor panels
AssigneeFlooring Industries Limited, Sarl
InventorsJan Eddy DE RICK, Bart VAN DER STOCKT
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Abstract
A set of floor panels, which is suitable for forming a floor covering in herringbone pattern, wherein these floor panels are oblong rectangular; wherein the long as well as the short edges are provided with mechanical coupling means; and wherein the male coupling part on the short edge can be inserted into the female coupling part on the long edge in one and the same turning movement which is used to insert the male coupling part on the long edge into the female coupling part on the long or short edge.
Claims21
A set of floor panels, which is suitable for forming a floor covering in herringbone pattern,
- wherein these floor panels are oblong rectangular and comprise a pair of long edges and a pair of short edges;
- wherein the long edges and the short edges are provided with mechanical coupling means, which allow coupling the floor panels to each other;
- wherein the one long edge is provided with a male coupling part and the other long edge is provided with a female coupling part;
- wherein the one short edge is provided with a male coupling part and the other short edge is provided with a female coupling part;
- wherein the male coupling part on the long edge can be inserted into the female coupling part on the long edge by means of a downward movement;
- wherein the male coupling part on the long edge can also be inserted into the female coupling part on the short edge by means of a downward movement;
- wherein the male coupling part on the short edge can be inserted into the female coupling part on the long edge in one and the same downward movement which is used to insert the male coupling part on the long edge into the female coupling part on the long or short edge;
- wherein the male coupling part on the short edge and the female coupling part on the long edge, in a coupled condition thereof, effect a locking in horizontal direction and a locking in vertical direction,
- wherein the male coupling part on the short edge comprises a first locking element, which, in a coupled condition of this male coupling part and the female coupling part on the long edge, cooperates with a first locking element of this female coupling part in order to effect said locking in vertical direction.
A set of floor panels, which is suitable for forming a floor covering, wherein the floor panels of the set are quadrangular and oblong and thus have a pair of long edges and a pair of short edges, wherein the pair of long edges as well as the pair of short edges is provided with mechanical coupling means, which allow coupling the floor panels to each other;
- wherein the floor panels of the set have the shape of an inclined parallelogram and the set consists of at least two types of floor panels, wherein the floor panels of the one type, regarding their shape, are mirrored in respect to the floor panels of the other type, and wherein the coupling parts show the following characteristics:
- the coupling parts on the long sides allow coupling a long side of a floor panel to a long side of another floor panel of the same type, by means of a downward movement;
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- the coupling parts on the short sides allow coupling a short side of a floor panel to a short side of a floor panel of another type in one and the same downward movement which is used for coupling a long side of the first-mentioned floor panel to a long side of another floor panel of the same type as the first-mentioned floor panel,
- wherein the coupling parts on the short sides and on the long sides of both types of floor panels are realized as a downward-directed upper hook-shaped part and an upward-directed lower hook-shaped part, wherein the upper hook-shaped part comprises a lip with a downward-directed locking element and the lower hook-shaped part comprises a lip with an upward-directed locking element, and wherein the locking elements in coupled condition counteract the moving apart of the hook-shaped parts in horizontal direction, wherein the hook-shaped parts in coupled condition also effect a vertical locking;
- wherein the male coupling part on the short edge comprises a first locking element, which, in a coupled condition of this male coupling part and the female coupling part on the short edge, cooperates with a first locking element of this female coupling part in order to effect said locking in vertical direction;
- wherein the first locking element is realized from the material of the floor panel and in one piece therewith, or wherein the first locking element is realized as a separate insert.
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