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US 9,809,984 B2Granted
Floor panel
AssigneeFlooring Industries Limited, Sarl
InventorsLaurent Meersseman, Luc Vanhastel
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Abstract
A floor panel includes a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate. The top layer is composed of a print and a transparent thermoplastic layer having a thickness of 0.5 mm or less and being situated above said print. The floor panel, at least on two opposite edges, is provided with a straight or curved chamfer extending to below the global level of the print.
Claims12
A floor panel having a rectangular shape with two pairs of opposite edges, the floor panel comprising:
- a waterproof substrate comprised of a single layer and defining a thickness of 2 to 10 millimeters;
- said thickness being more than half of the entire thickness of the floor panel;
- the substrate material being chosen from the list consisting of a polyvinyl chloride-based substrate, polyethylene-based substrate, a polypropylene-based substrate and a polyurethane-based substrate,
- a top layer provided on the substrate, the top layer including a print provided on a carrier sheet with said carrier sheet being provided underneath said print,
- a transparent thermoplastic layer of less than 1 millimeter thickness situated above said print;
- the floor panel either being free from intermediate layers between said substrate and said carrier sheet, or including a glue layer between said substrate and said carrier sheet;
- the floor panel, at least on one pair of two opposite edges, including mechanical coupling parts for coupling two of such floor panels to each other, such that a locking is created in a vertical direction perpendicular to the plane of coupled panels, as well as in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the coupled edges and in the plane of the panels;
- said coupling parts being substantially realized in said substrate material.
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