Mechanical locking of floor panels with a flexible bristle tongue
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorsDarko PERVAN, Agne PALSSON
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Abstract
Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue in a displacement groove. The tongue is moulded and provided with bendable protrusions. A building panel having an edge portion provided with a groove, in which a tongue formed as a separate part is received, wherein the tongue includes at least two bow shaped protrusions at a first long edge of the tongue, and wherein the protrusions are arranged bendable in the groove.
Claims6
-45. (canceled)
A building panel having an edge portion provided with a groove, in which a tongue formed as a separate part is received,
- wherein the tongue comprises a tongue body and a protrusion at an edge of the tongue body,
- wherein the protrusion and the tongue body are spaced by a space between the protrusion and the tongue body,
- wherein the protrusion is bendable into the space, and in the groove, and
- wherein an outer part of the protrusion comprises a round shaped protruding part configured to facilitate installations with vertical folding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.