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US 8,261,504 B2Granted
V-groove
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorNiclas Hakansson
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a floorboard and flooring with a decorative joint portion formed as U or V-shaped groove.
Claims21
A set of essentially identical floorboards, each floorboard comprising:
- a front face and a rear face,
- a decorative joint portion at an edge and at the front face of the floorboard, and
- connectors arranged on at least two opposite edges for connecting the floorboard with a similar floorboard in a vertical direction, a horizontal direction, or both vertical and horizontal directions,
- wherein the decorative joint portion of an edge of a floorboard comprises an U or V-shaped groove and is configured to be joined with an adjacent edge of another floorboard,
- wherein the edge with the decorative joint portion is provided with a flat horizontal surface between the U or V-shaped groove and the outer edge of the floorboard and
- wherein the adjacent edge comprises a horizontally protruding part configured to overlap the edge of the floorboard with the decorative joint portion comprising the U or V-shaped groove and to cooperate with the flat horizontal surface and wherein the horizontally protruding part does not extend over the U or V-shaped groove.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.