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US 8,448,402 B2Granted
Mechanical locking of building panels
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorsDarko Pervan, Jan Peterson
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Abstract
Building panels (1, 1′) are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system having tongue (30) of magnetic material that could be locked vertically by a magnetic field.
Claims12
A set of building panels provided with a mechanical locking system comprising a tongue at an edge of a first floor panel cooperating with a tongue groove in an adjacent edge of a similar second floor panel for connecting the edges vertically in a second vertical direction,
- wherein the locking system comprises at one of the adjacent edges a protruding strip cooperating with the other adjacent edge for locking of the first and the second panels in a first vertical direction, wherein the tongue is slidable and comprises a magnetic material, and wherein the locking system is configured to be activated by a magnetic field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.