Flooring product
AssigneeFlourlock (UK) Limited
InventorGuy C. Hill
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Abstract
A flooring product (10) comprises a wood panel having an L-shaped surround (18) the base of which is located below the wood panel. A plurality of parallel aluminium battens (20) are connected to the base of the panel. These battens comprise a groove (30). In use two flooring products (10,50) having similar joint arrangements are secured together by locating the base of the surround (18) of each product in the groove (30) in the elongate members of the other product. The connection can not be disengaged unless one of the flooring products (10,50) is tilted relative to the other.
Claims9
A flooring product, comprising a panel with a base, a surround peripherally surrounding and secured to said base, a set of battens secured to said base and extending outwardly of said surround, struts extending from one of said battens and extending outwardly of said surround, said battens having end portions defining grooves for securely receiving said surround and an adjacent surround of another substantially similar flooring product, and said battens, struts, and grooves cooperating with each other to matingly engage and interlockingly connect substantially similar flooring products for securely assembling a portable floor in the absence of screws and nails, said flooring products being disengageable from said floor when said flooring products are inclined relative to the other.
A flooring product, comprising a panel with a base, a surround peripherally surrounding and secured to said base, a series of battens secured to said base and extending outwardly of said surround, struts extending from one of said battens to a position outwardly of said surround, said battens having end portions defining grooves for securely receiving said surround and an adjacent surround of another flooring product, and said battens, struts, and grooves cooperating with each other to matingly engage and securely connect said other flooring product in a substantially horizontal position to form part of a floor and said flooring product being moveable to an inclined position relative to the other flooring product to disengage and remove the flooring products.
A portable floor comprising an array of interengaging flooring products, said flooring products being securely arranged in a substantially stationary horizontal position in the absence of screws and nails for sue as a portable floor and being moveable to a detachable inclined position in which some of said flooring products are tilted an an angle of inclination relative to other of said flooring products for detachment and removal of said flooring products, said portable floor including means for abutting against and securely engaging said flooring products in opposite directions to substantially restrict movement of said flooring products.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.