Mechanical locking of building panels
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorsPervan Darko, Peterson Jan
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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. And, a tongue including magnetic material and adapted for being received in a sidewardly open groove of a floor panel, wherein the tongue includes magnetic powder or particles.
Claims8
A tongue adapted for being received in a sidewardly open groove of a floor panel, wherein the tongue is formed of resinous material and comprises magnetic powder or particles dispersed within the resinous material, and wherein the resinous material has an upper sliding surface on an upper part of the tongue that is a configured to face a front face of the floor panel, and an opposed lower sliding surface on a lower part of the tongue that is configured to face a rear face of the floor panel, the upper and lower sliding surfaces of the resinous material configured to slide against inner surfaces of the sidewardly open groove of the floor panel during locking of the floor panel with an adjacent floor panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.