Floorboards with decorative grooves
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorDarko Pervan
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Abstract
Floorboards consisting of a core and a surface layer with decorative joint edge portions which are formed by removing the surface layer.
Claims24
A floorboard system comprising a plurality of floorboards, each of the floorboards having a core made of wood-fiber based material and a surface layer which is arranged on an upper side of the core, the surface layer having a substantially planar outer surface facing away from the core and extending in a horizontal plane, said surface layer comprising at least one decorative layer and a reinforcing layer arranged between the decorative layer and the core, each of the floorboards having a connector at opposing edges thereof for connecting the floorboard to an adjacent one of the floorboards in a vertical direction and along a vertical joint plane, wherein at a portion of each of the floorboards adjacent the edges the reinforcing layer is exposed and the exposed portion extends horizontally in a plane that is essentially parallel to the horizontal plane, wherein the reinforcing layer extends substantially the entire area of the decorative layer.
A floorboard comprising:
- a core made of wood-fiber based material;
- at least one surface layer, the surface layer arranged on an upper side of the core and having a substantially planar outer surface facing away from the core and extending in a horizontal plane, said surface layer including at least one decorative layer and a reinforcing layer arranged between substantially all of the one decorative layer and the core;
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- a connector at opposing edges of the floorboard for joining, in a vertical and a horizontal direction, the floorboard with a similar adjacent floorboard,
- wherein at a portion of the floorboard adjacent at least one of the opposing edges, the reinforcing layer is exposed and the exposed portion extends horizontally in a plane that is essentially parallel to the horizontal plane.
A system for making a decorative joint portion at two adjoining joint edges of laminate floorboards which each have a core made of wood-fiber based material and a laminate surface layer arranged on an upper side of the core and connectors arranged at said adjoining joint edges for connecting the floorboards with each other in a vertical or horizontal direction, parts of the laminate surface layer closest to said adjoining joint edges forming a horizontal plane and the laminate surface layer comprising an upper layer and an underlying layer, at least two of said adjoining joint edges have exposed surfaces which extend horizontally and comprise the underlying layer and which are essentially parallel to the horizontal plane, wherein the underlying layer extends substantially the entire area of the upper layer.
A laminate floorboard comprising a core made of wood-fiber based material and a laminate surface layer arranged on an upper side of the core and connectors arranged at opposite joint edges of the floorboard for joining the floorboard with an essentially identical floorboard in the vertical or horizontal direction, parts of the laminate surface layer closest to said joint edges forming a horizontal plane, and the laminate surface layer comprising an upper layer and an underlying layer, at least two of the joint edges of the floorboards have exposed surfaces which extend horizontally and comprise the underlying layer and which are essentially parallel to the horizontal plane, wherein the underlying layer extends substantially the entire area of the upper layer.
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