Flooring system having joinable tile elements, particularly plastic tiles
OwnerFrank Bentzoninventor
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Abstract
A floor covering system comprising plastic tiles provided with coupling parts made of lower receiving openings for separate connector members by which the tiles are easily joinable and separable and are resistant to high separation forces. The system may include smaller modular tiles so that it is possible to lay out a flooring with integrated markings of lines, letters, figures or symbols.
Claims11
A floor covering system including a plurality of tiles coupled together to form a floor covering, wherein each of the tiles includes edge areas extending completely around the respective tiles and including a plurality of downwardly open channels disposed behind vertically extending edge walls of the tiles, a plurality of coupling members with each coupling member having a pair of head portions respectively inserted into one of the plurality of channels of adjacent tiles, a middle portion projecting outwardly through an upwardly closed and downwardly open vertical slot in each of the edge walls of the adjacent tiles, a width in a horizontal direction of the middle portion less than a height of the middle portion and less than a width of each of the pair of head portions in a horizontal direction, the open slot having a height greater than a width thereof, and the height of the middle portion extending vertically in the open slot.
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