Laying aid for parquet flooring
AssigneeBessey & Sohn GmbH & Co.
InventorsErnst Butschbacher, Hans Roesch
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Abstract
In order to provide a simple and inexpensive laying aid for floor covering elements, in particular ready-made parquet flooring, laminated or floor panels, the laying aid is in the form of a belt tensioning device with a belt and have a shaped part on both sides, each shaped part having a receiving means for the belt, and each shaped part having an arm with a projection which can be fixed at a groove or a tongue of the floor covering elements by engaging in it and around it, respectively. When the arm is fixed in such a manner the receiving means is positioned such that the belt is guided close to the floor covering elements.
Claims12
A laying aid for floor covering elements comprising:
- a belt;
- a belt tensioning device adapted to act on said belt;
- a pair of shaped parts connected to said belt for movement towards each other when said belt is tensioned by said tensioning device, each of said shaped parts comprising (i) a base plate positionable on an upper side of a corresponding one of said floor covering elements, (ii) an arm extending from the base plate, and (iii) a projection extending from the arm for engaging in a groove or around a tongue of the corresponding floor covering element, said arm and said projection being adapted to fix said base plate at said corresponding floor covering element;
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- connecting means associated with each of said shaped parts for connecting the shaped part to said belt, said connecting means maintaining said belt in close proximity to the upper side of said floor covering elements when said belt is tensioned to bring said shaped parts towards one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.