Covering, covering elements and installing and disassembling method
AssigneeFlooring Industries, Ltd.
InventorMark Gaston Maurits Cappelle
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Abstract
A floor, ceiling or wall covering constituted of a number of successive panels and fixing means for the panels, the fixing means including holders which, by means of fixing parts, retain the panels in a disconnectable manner over a part of the thickness of the panels.
Claims58
Covering for a surface, comprising a number of successive panels, and fixing means therefor, said fixing means comprising holders including fixing parts, said fixing parts arranged to engage and retain the panels in a disconnectable manner over a part of the thickness of the panels;
- said panels being mounted in rows, and after they have been mounted on the holders, can be separated from their respective holders and removed without disengaging the panels which are located in the adjacent rows on either side from their respective holders, and
- wherein the panels mesh on their edges by means of a tongue and groove joint, either directly or by means of an inserted element, said meshing including locating of a tongue within a groove.
Covering for a surface, comprising a number of successive panels, and fixing means therefor, said fixing means comprising holders including fixing parts, said fixing parts including at least one fixing part on one side of the holder arranged to engage and retain the panels at least on one side of the panels in a disconnectable manner over a part of the thickness of the panels and at least one other fixing part located on at least one other side of the holder arranged to facilitate a smooth, lateral, flexible bending, and so that in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the covering a firm interlocking is enabled;
- said other fixing part including an elastically bendable lip which is bent backward out of the plane of the covering and then forward again, said lip comprising two lip parts, wherein a second lip part is made such that, in a state of rest when no panel has been provided in it yet, is pressed against a first lip part with a force (F), such that the position of a preferably hook-shaped lower end of the second lip part is always fixed.
Covering for a surface, comprising a number of successive panels, and fixing means therefore, said fixing means comprising holders including opposed fixing parts, said fixing parts arranged to engage and retain opposed edges or portions of a single one and the same panel in a disconnectable manner over a part of the thickness of the respective panel;
- said panels mounted on said holders in rows wherein the panels, after they have been mounted, can be separated from their respective holders and removed without disengaging the panels which are located in adjacent rows on either side from their respective holders;
- wherein all fixing parts located on at least on one side of the holder are arranged to facilitate a smooth, lateral, flexible bending, and so that in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the covering a firm interlocking is enabled;
- flexible bending of a bendable fixing part enabling a panel secured by said fixing part to be released from its respective holder upon movement of said panel in a direction causing flexible bending of said bendable fixing part in a direction enabling separation of a side of said panel opposite a side located at said bendable fixed part from a fixing part retaining said panel in direction perpendicular to a surface of the covering, to thereby release the panel from the firm interlocking with said fixing part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.