Set of floorboards having a resilient groove
AssigneeVälinge Innovation AB
InventorsMarcus Bergelin, Mats Nilsson
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Abstract
A set of essentially identical floorboards each including a front face and a rear face extending in the horizontal plane, a core, and a surface layer, a mechanical locking system is arranged at least at two opposite edges for connecting a floorboard with an adjacent floorboard in a horizontal and a vertical direction, said mechanical locking system being configured for connecting the floorboard with the adjacent floorboard by vertical folding, wherein one of said opposite edges is provided with a horizontally extending protrusion at an upper edge, and wherein said protrusion is configured to overlap a surface groove at an upper edge of the other of said opposite edges, such that two connected and adjacent floorboards have upper overlapping edges.
Claims24
A set of essentially identical moisture proof floorboards, each floorboard comprising a front face and a rear face extending in a horizontal plane, a core, a connector arranged at least at two opposite edges for connecting one of the floorboards with another floorboard in a vertical or horizontal direction, and a resilient surface layer,
- wherein at least one edge of each of the floorboards comprises a decorative groove in the resilient surface layer, wherein the decorative groove has a roughness and a brightness that differs from the remaining front face,
- wherein the resilient surface layer comprises a transparent wear layer of a moisture proof material, and
- wherein a bottom of the decorative groove is in the transparent wear layer.
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