Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080209837 | Floorboards, flooring systems and methods for manufacturing and installation thereof - Floorboards with a format corresponding to a traditional parquet block for laying of mechanically joined floating flooring. Rectangular floorboards include a surface layer and a core with two long sides and two short sides, for making a floating flooring, which floorboards are mechanically lockable and which along their four sides have pairs of opposing connectors for locking similar, adjoining floorboards to each other both vertically and horizontally wherein the long sides have a length not exceeding 80 cm and the short sides have a width not exceeding 10 cm. | 09-04-2008 |
20080209838 | Floorboards, flooring systems and method for manufacturing and installation thereof - Floorboards with a format corresponding to a traditional parquet block for laying of mechanically joined floating flooring. Rectangular floorboards include a surface layer and a core with two long sides and two short sides, for making a floating flooring, which floorboards are mechanically lockable and which along their four sides have pairs of opposing connectors for locking similar, adjoining floorboards to each other both vertically and horizontally wherein the long sides have a length not exceeding 80 cm and the short sides have a width not exceeding 10 cm. | 09-04-2008 |
20080216434 | Mechanical locking system for floorboards - A method of separating a floorboard material wherein the material has wood fibers oriented essentially in one direction. | 09-11-2008 |
20080216920 | Method of separating a floorboard material - A joint system having a flexible spring located in a horizontal groove of a panel, the spring having an inner flexible part and being displaceable horizontally in the groove. | 09-11-2008 |
20080256890 | Floor panel with sealing means - Floor panels and floor elements therefore are made of sheet-shaped cores which before application of the surface of the floor panels are formed with sealing means for counteracting changes in the properties of the floor panels caused by moisture. | 10-23-2008 |
20080295432 | Mechanical locking of floor panels with a flexible tongue - Floor panels are shown which are provided with a mechanical locking system consisting of an extruded flexible tongue in a sidewardly open groove which during a vertical folding motion is bent horizontally. | 12-04-2008 |
20090133353 | Mechanical Locking of Floor Panels with Vertical Snap Folding - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system on long and short edges allowing installation with vertical snap folding that could be accomplished automatically without tools and where the short edge locking system has a tongue made in one piece with the panel. | 05-28-2009 |
20090145066 | RECYCLING OF LAMINATE FLOORINGS - Recycling of laminate flooring based on a separation of the panels into particles which are connected with a binder and formed to a new sheet shaped material. A building panel includes a surface layer and a wood fiber based core, and the wood fiber based core includes aluminium oxide particles. | 06-11-2009 |
20090155612 | FIBRE BASED PANELS WITH A WEAR RESISTANCE SURFACE - Building panels with a homogenous decorative surface having a wear layer comprising fibres, binders and wear resistant particles. | 06-18-2009 |
20090193748 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system having tongue and grooves provided with protrusions and cavities which are displaceable in relation to each other and configured such that the protrusions can obtain a vertically unlocked position where they match the cavities and a vertically locked position where the protrusions overlap each other. | 08-06-2009 |
20100092731 | WOOD FIBRE BASED PANELS WITH A THIN SURFACE LAYER - Building panels with a thin and embossed surface layer and a sub layer between a surface layer and a core. | 04-15-2010 |
20100229491 | LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOORBOARDS - A locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards including horizontal joining of a first and a second joint edge portion of a first and a second floorboard respectively at a vertical joint plane and vertical joining of the first and second joint edge portions, the tongue, the tongue groove, the locking element and the locking groove have a configuration that allows insertion of the locking element into the locking groove by inward angling of the second floorboard towards the first floorboard while maintaining contact between the joint edge portions, and the tongue, the tongue grove, the locking element and the locking groove have a configuration that allows insertion of the locking element into the locking groove by a substantially vertical snap action. | 09-16-2010 |
20100275546 | LOCKING SYSTEM FOR MECHANICAL JOINING OF FLOORBOARDS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - A locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards ( | 11-04-2010 |
20100291397 | RECYCLING OF LAMINATE FLOORINGS - Recycling of laminate flooring based on a separation of the panels into particles which are connected with a binder and formed to a new sheet shaped material. A building panel includes a surface layer and a wood fiber based core, and the wood fiber based core includes aluminium oxide particles. | 11-18-2010 |
20100293879 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH VERTICAL SNAP FOLDING AND AN INSTALLATION METHOD TO CONNECT SUCH PANELS - Floor panels ( | 11-25-2010 |
20100300030 | FIBRE BASED PANELS WITH A WEAR RESISTANCE SURFACE - Building panels with a homogenous decorative surface having a wear layer including fibres, binders and wear resistant particles. | 12-02-2010 |
20100300031 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH A FLEXIBLE BRISTLE TONGUE - Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue in a displacement groove. The tongue is molded and provided with bendable protrusions. | 12-02-2010 |
20100319290 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels with a flexible tongue in an insertion groove, the flexible tongue is designed to cooperate, in a connected state with a tongue groove of another panel, the panels are adapted to be locked together by vertical folding, the flexible tongue has a projection portion which, in a connected state projects outside the insertion groove and cooperates with the tongue groove, said projecting portion has a bevelled and/or rounded sliding surface and the panels have a sliding surface adapted to cooperate therewith during vertical folding, the flexible tongue during the vertical folding is displaced twice in the horizontal direction, a first displacement is effected by the vertical folding of the fold panel whereby at least a part of the flexible tongue is bent, a second displacement of the flexible tongue towards its initial position is accomplished substantially by a spring effect caused by said bending of said flexible tongue. | 12-23-2010 |
20100319291 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels ( | 12-23-2010 |
20110030303 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS, METHODS TO INSTALL AND UNINSTALL PANELS, A METHOD AND AN EQUIPEMENT TO PRODUCE THE LOCKING SYSTEM, A METHOD TO CONNECT A DISPLACEABLE TONGUE TO A PANEL AND A TONGUE BLANK - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system including tongue and grooves provided with protrusions and cavities which are displaceable in relation to each other and configured such that the protrusions can obtain a vertically unlocked position where they match the cavities and a vertically locked position where the protrusions overlap each other. | 02-10-2011 |
20110041996 | FLOORBOARD, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING A FLOORING, AND A FLOORING FORMED THEREOF - A method of producing floor panels is disclosed. The method includes the steps of separating a roll formed surface material ( | 02-24-2011 |
20110072754 | LOCKING SYSTEM, FLOORBOARD COMPRISING SUCH A LOCKING SYSTEM, AS WELL AS METHOD FOR MAKING FLOORBOARDS - A locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards constructed from a body, a rear balancing layer and an upper surface layer. A strip, which is integrally formed with the body of the floorboard and which projects from a joint plane and under an adjoining board has a locking element which engages a locking groove in the rear side of the adjoining board. The joint edge provided with the strip is modified with respect to the balancing layer, for example by means of machining of the balancing layer under the strip, in order to prevent deflection of the strip caused by changes in relative humidity. Also, a floorboard provided with such a locking system, as well as a method for making floorboards with such a locking system. | 03-31-2011 |
20110088344 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH A FLEXIBLE BRISTLE TONGUE - A tongue for a building panel, said tongue is of an elongated shape, wherein the tongue has at least two protrusions that extend in the same direction at a first long edge of the tongue, and the protrusions are bendable in a plane parallel to the upper surface of the tongue and extending essentially in the parallel plane and, the tongue has a second long edge, which is essentially straight over substantially the whole length of the tongue, and, a vertical protrusion is arranged at the upper side and/or at the lower side of the horizontal protrusions. | 04-21-2011 |
20110088345 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR PANELS AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SAME - Floor panels are provided with a mechanical locking system including a flexible locking element in a locking groove which during a horizontal motion is displaced vertically. | 04-21-2011 |
20110131901 | FLOOR PANEL WITH SEALING MEANS - Floor panels and floor elements therefore are made of sheet-shaped cores which are formed with sealing means for preventing or counteracting changes in the properties of the floor panels caused by moisture. | 06-09-2011 |
20110154665 | FLOORBOARDS WITH DECORATIVE GROOVES - Floorboards are shown, which consist of a core and a surface layer and are provided with decorative joint edges which are formed by removing the surface layer. | 06-30-2011 |
20110167750 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels ( | 07-14-2011 |
20110189448 | FIBRE BASED PANELS WITH A DECORATIVE WEAR RESISTANCE SURFACE - Building panels and a method to produce such panels including a solid decorative surface having a decorative wear layer including fibres, binders, colour substance and wear resistant particles. | 08-04-2011 |
20110203214 | LOCKING SYSTEM AND FLOORING BOARD - A locking system for mechanical joining of rectangular floorboards having a body and long and short edges. Said locking system including a tongue and a groove for vertical locking of two joint short edges and for horizontal joining a locking groove formed in the underside of a first one of the short joint edges, and a portion projecting from the second short joint edge having a locking element cooperating with the locking groove. The tongue is arranged on the second short edge. The groove is arranged on the first short edge. The projecting portion is integrally formed with the board, by working of the body of the board. | 08-25-2011 |
20110209430 | LOCKING SYSTEM FOR MECHANICAL JOINING OF FLOORBOARDS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - A locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards ( | 09-01-2011 |
20110225922 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels ( | 09-22-2011 |
20110247748 | POWDER OVERLAY - A method is disclosed of manufacturing a transparent wear resistant surface layer ( | 10-13-2011 |
20110250404 | DIGITALLY INJECTED DESIGNS IN POWDER SURFACES - Building panels and a method to produce such panels including a solid decorative surface having a decorative wear layer including fibres, binders, colour substance, wear resistant particles and a digital ink print. | 10-13-2011 |
20110252733 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels with a flexible tongue in an insertion groove, the flexible tongue is designed to cooperate, in a connected state with a tongue groove of another panel, the panels are adapted to be locked together by vertical folding, the flexible tongue has a projection portion which, in a connected state projects outside the insertion groove and cooperates with the tongue groove, said projecting portion has a beveled and/or rounded sliding surface and the panels have a sliding surface adapted to cooperate therewith during vertical folding, the flexible tongue during the vertical folding is displaced twice in the horizontal direction, a first displacement is effected by the vertical folding of the fold panel whereby at least a part of the flexible tongue is bent, a second displacement of the flexible tongue towards its initial position is accomplished substantially by a spring effect caused by said bending of said flexible tongue. | 10-20-2011 |
20110283650 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH A FLEXIBLE BRISTLE TONGUE - Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue in a displacement groove. The tongue is molded and provided with bendable protrusions. | 11-24-2011 |
20120017533 | MECHANICAL LOCKINGS OF FLOOR PANELS AND A TONGUE BLANK - Floor panels ( | 01-26-2012 |
20120031029 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR PANELS AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SAME - Floor panels are provided with a mechanical locking system including a flexible locking element in a locking groove, which during a horizontal motion is displaced vertically. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036804 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels ( | 02-16-2012 |
20120137617 | Floorboard and Method for Manufacturing Thereof - Floorboards with a surface of flexible fibers for laying a mechanically joined floating floor, and methods for manufacturing and providing floorings containing such floorboards. | 06-07-2012 |
20120151865 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF BUILDING PANELS - Building panels ( | 06-21-2012 |
20120174515 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels with a flexible tongue in an insertion groove, the flexible tongue is designed to cooperate, in a connected state with a tongue groove of another panel, the panels are adapted to be locked together by vertical folding, the flexible tongue has a projection portion which, in a connected state projects outside the insertion groove and cooperates with the tongue groove, said projecting portion has a beveled and/or rounded sliding surface and the panels have a sliding surface adapted to cooperate therewith during vertical folding, the flexible tongue during the vertical folding is displaced twice in the horizontal direction, a first displacement is effected by the vertical folding of the fold panel whereby at least a part of the flexible tongue is bent, a second displacement of the flexible tongue towards its initial position is accomplished substantially by a spring effect caused by said bending of said flexible tongue. | 07-12-2012 |
20120174520 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are provided with a mechanical locking system having small local protrusions which reduce displacement along the joint when the panels are laying flat on the sub floor and locked vertically and horizontally. | 07-12-2012 |
20120233953 | LOCKING SYSTEM, FLOORBOARD COMPRISING SUCH A LOCKING SYSTEM, AS WELL AS METHOD FOR MAKING FLOORBOARDS - A locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards constructed from a body, a rear balancing layer and an upper surface layer. A strip, which is integrally formed with the body of the floorboard and which projects from a joint plane and under an adjoining board has a locking element which engages a locking groove in the rear side of the adjoining board. The joint edge provided with the strip is modified with respect to the balancing layer, for example by means of machining of the balancing layer under the strip, in order to prevent deflection of the strip caused by changes in relative humidity. Also, a floorboard provided with such a locking system, as well as a method for making floorboards with such a locking system. | 09-20-2012 |
20120279161 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR BUILDING PANELS - Panels are shown which are provided with a mechanical locking system allowing perpendicular connection with a snap action. | 11-08-2012 |
20130008117 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH A GLUED TONGUE | 01-10-2013 |
20130014463 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical folding locking system on short edges that only locks vertically and a mechanical locking system on long edges that prevents displacement along the long edges. | 01-17-2013 |
20130014890 | FLOORBOARD, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING A FLOORING, AND A FLOORING FORMED THEREOF - A method of producing floor panels is disclosed. The method includes the steps of separating a sheet formed surface material ( | 01-17-2013 |
20130019555 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on short edges having a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels. | 01-24-2013 |
20130042562 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking systems on short edges including a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels. | 02-21-2013 |
20130042563 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Building panels, especially floor panels are shown, which are provided with a locking system including several separate strip parts connected to the panel edge. | 02-21-2013 |
20130042564 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a tongue with rocker arms that allows locking by a vertical turning motion. | 02-21-2013 |
20130042565 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Building panels, especially floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on adjacent edges including a displaceable tongue that has a main tongue body and separate spring parts attached to the body. | 02-21-2013 |
20130055950 | APPLIANCE AND METHOD FOR SURFACE TREATMENT OF A BOARD SHAPED MATERIAL AND FLOORBOARD - A device for coating surface portions of a board material with a liquid material. The device includes a wheel which transfers the coating material and compressed air which positions the coating material. A method for surface coating and a floorboard with a finished surface portion. | 03-07-2013 |
20130065072 | PANEL FORMING - A method for forming of a building panel with a surface including a thermosetting resin such that tension created during curing of the surface is reduced or eliminated. | 03-14-2013 |
20130081349 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH A FLEXIBLE TONGUE - Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including an extruded flexible tongue in a sidewardly open groove which during a vertical folding motion is bent horizontally. A tongue adapted for being received in a sidewardly open groove of a floor panel, wherein the tongue, which is an elongated extruded section, when received in the groove is bendable in a plane substantially parallel with a front face of the floor panel, such that the tongue is at least partially resiliently displaceable inside said sidewardly open groove in said plane during locking of the floor panel with another floor panel and wherein a vertical protrusion, serving as a friction connection between the tongue and the groove, is arranged at an upper or lower part of the tongue, wherein the tongue has a length in the longitudinal direction of the tongue and a total width perpendicular to the length, and the total width varies in the longitudinal direction of the tongue. | 04-04-2013 |
20130095315 | RECYCLING OF LAMINATE FLOORINGS - Recycling of laminate flooring based on a separation of the panels ( | 04-18-2013 |
20130145707 | FLOORBOARDS FOR FLOORING - Floorboards for making a floating floor have a core ( | 06-13-2013 |
20130145708 | Mechanical Locking System for Panels and Method of Installing Same - Floor panels are provided with a mechanical locking system including a flexible locking element in a locking groove which during a horizontal motion is displaced vertically. | 06-13-2013 |
20130160391 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH VERTICAL SNAP FOLDING - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system on long and short edges allowing installation with vertical snap folding that could be accomplished automatically without tools and where the short edge locking system has a tongue made in one piece with the panel. | 06-27-2013 |
20130189534 | WOOD FIBRE BASED PANELS WITH A THIN SURFACE LAYER - A method of manufacturing a building panel, including mixing wood fibre particles and a binder to form a first mix, applying the first mix, while the first mix is in powder form, on a core for forming a sub layer on the core, applying a surface layer on the sub layer, wherein the surface layer comprises a second mix of wood fibre particles and a binder, pressing the core, the surface layer, and the sub layer, under increased pressure and temperature, and forming them into a building panel. A building panel formed by the method. | 07-25-2013 |
20130199120 | LAMELLA CORE AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING IT - The disclosure relates to a semi product for building panels or structural elements comprising several wood lamellas ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130219820 | LOCKING SYSTEM AND FLOORING BOARD - A locking system for mechanical joining of rectangular floorboards having a body and long and short edges. Said locking system including a tongue and a groove for vertical locking of two joint short edges and for horizontal joining a locking groove formed in the underside of a first one of the short joint edges, and a portion projecting from the second short joint edge having a locking element cooperating with the locking groove. The tongue is arranged on the second short edge. The groove is arranged on the first short edge. The projecting portion is integrally formed with the board, by working of the body of the board. | 08-29-2013 |
20130232905 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical folding locking system on short edges that only locks vertically and a mechanical locking system on long edges that prevents displacement along the long edges. | 09-12-2013 |
20130263546 | BUILDING PANEL WITH COMPRESSED EDGES AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - Floorboards comprising a core and a surface layer with curved edge portions, which are formed by a compression of the core. | 10-10-2013 |
20130269863 | POWDER OVERLAY - A method is disclosed of manufacturing a transparent wear resistant surface layer ( | 10-17-2013 |
20130283720 | BUILDING PANELS OF SOLID WOOD - Building panels each comprise an upper first element of solid wood fixed to a lower second element of solid wood. The first and the lower second element are of different wood species. The building panels are provided with a mechanical locking system which comprises a locking strip at a first edge of a first building panel. The locking strip is provided with a locking element configured to cooperate with a locking groove at a second edge of a second building panel for horizontal locking of the first and the second building panels when a tension force is applied. The fibre direction of the first and the lower second elements is essentially along the first and the second edges. The lower second element has about the same or higher moisture shrinkage value than the first element. The locking strip comprises material of the lower second element. | 10-31-2013 |
20130318906 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels with a flexible tongue in an insertion groove, the flexible tongue is designed to cooperate, in a connected state with a tongue groove of another panel, the panels are adapted to be locked together by vertical folding, the flexible tongue has a projection portion which, in a connected state projects outside the insertion groove and cooperates with the tongue groove, said projecting portion has a beveled and/or rounded sliding surface and the panels have a sliding surface adapted to cooperate therewith during vertical folding, the flexible tongue during the vertical folding is displaced twice in the horizontal direction, a first displacement is effected by the vertical folding of the fold panel whereby at least a part of the flexible tongue is bent, a second displacement of the flexible tongue towards its initial position is accomplished substantially by a spring effect caused by said bending of said flexible tongue. | 12-05-2013 |
20130333182 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOORBOARDS - Building panels, especially floor panels are shown, which are provided with a locking system that is configured to lock the adjacent edges by angling and that have a tongue and a strip on the same edge, and a method to divide a board and produce such building panels. | 12-19-2013 |
20140000197 | PANEL FORMING | 01-02-2014 |
20140017452 | DIGITAL COATING AND PRINTING - Building panels, especially floor panels and a method to produce such building panels that include a decorative surface and a transparent protective layer, which is applied by a digital coating. Also, a vision control system that may be used to adapt a digital print or a digital embossing to a specific panel surface. | 01-16-2014 |
20140020324 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels ( | 01-23-2014 |
20140020325 | FLOOR COVERING AND LOCKING SYSTEMS - Floorboards with a mechanical locking system that allows movement between the floorboards when they are joined to form a floating floor. | 01-23-2014 |
20140023832 | DIGITAL EMBOSSED IN REGISTER SURFACE - Building panels, especially floor panels, and a method of forming embossed in register surfaces with a digital ink head that applies a curable ink on the panel surface or on an upper side of a foil as a coating and forms an ink matrix that is used to create a cavity in the surface by applying a pressure on the ink matrix. | 01-23-2014 |
20140028772 | DIGITAL BINDER PRINTING - A method and equipment to form a digital image on a surface by applying a powder layer including colour pigments on the surfaces, bonding a part of the powder and removing the non-bonded powder from the surface. | 01-30-2014 |
20140033634 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH A GLUED TONGUE - A tongue with edge sections that are used to glue the tongue into a groove of panel. A tongue for connection of a building panel, said tongue is of an elongated shape and made of moulded plastic, the tongue including at least two protrusions at a first long edge of the tongue, wherein the protrusions are bendable in a plane parallel to the upper surface of the tongue and extending essentially in the parallel plane and, wherein the tongue has a second long edge, which is essentially straight over substantially the whole length of the tongue and the tongue includes a gluing part configured to be glued into a groove at an edge of the building panel. | 02-06-2014 |
20140033635 | FLOOR PANEL WITH SEALING MEANS - Floor panels and floor elements therefore are made of sheet-shaped cores which are formed with sealing means for preventing or counteracting changes in the properties of the floor panels caused by moisture. | 02-06-2014 |
20140044872 | SINGLE LAYER SCATTERING OF POWDER SURFACES - Methods and equipment to apply a decorative surface on a building panel wherein the surface includes a mix of fibres, binders, wear resistant particles and pigments. Layers may be applied as separate layers with equipment that applies essentially only one of the materials in the surface mix. | 02-13-2014 |
20140053497 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH A FLEXIBLE TONGUE - Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including an extruded flexible tongue in a sidewardly open groove which during a vertical folding motion is bent horizontally. A tongue adapted for being received in a sidewardly open groove of a floor panel, wherein the tongue, which is an elongated extruded section, when received in the groove is bendable in a plane substantially parallel with a front face of the floor panel, such that the tongue is at least partially resiliently displaceable inside said sidewardly open groove in said plane during locking of the floor panel with another floor panel and wherein a vertical protrusion, serving as a friction connection between the tongue and the groove, is arranged at an upper or lower part of the tongue, wherein the tongue has a total width that varies in the longitudinal direction of the tongue. | 02-27-2014 |
20140069043 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH VERTICAL FOLDING - Floor panels ( | 03-13-2014 |
20140075874 | RECYCLING OF LAMINATE FLOORINGS - Recycling of laminate flooring based on a separation of the panels into particles which are connected with a binder and formed to a new sheet shaped material. A building panel includes a surface layer and a wood fiber based core, and the wood fiber based core includes aluminium oxide particles. | 03-20-2014 |
20140090331 | LOCKING SYSTEM, FLOORBOARD COMPRISING SUCH A LOCKING SYSTEM, AS WELL AS METHOD FOR MAKING FLOORBOARDS - A locking system for mechanical joining of floorboards constructed from a body, a rear balancing layer and an upper surface layer. A strip, which is integrally formed with the body of the floorboard and which projects from a joint plane and under an adjoining board has a locking element which engages a locking groove in the rear side of the adjoining board. The joint edge provided with the strip is modified with respect to the balancing layer, for example by means of machining of the balancing layer under the strip, in order to prevent deflection of the strip caused by changes in relative humidity. Also, a floorboard provided with such a locking system, as well as a method for making floorboards with such a locking system. | 04-03-2014 |
20140090335 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system comprising tongue and grooves provided with protrusions and cavities which are displaceable in relation to each other and configured such that the protrusions can obtain a vertically unlocked position where they match the cavities and a vertically locked position where the protrusions overlap each other. | 04-03-2014 |
20140109506 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels with a flexible tongue in an insertion groove, the flexible tongue is designed to cooperate, in a connected state with a tongue groove of another panel, the panels are adapted to be locked together by vertical folding, the flexible tongue has a projection portion which, in a connected state projects outside the insertion groove and cooperates with the tongue groove, said projecting portion has a beveled and/or rounded sliding surface and the panels have a sliding surface adapted to cooperate therewith during vertical folding, the flexible tongue during the vertical folding is displaced twice in the horizontal direction, a first displacement is effected by the vertical folding of the fold panel whereby at least a part of the flexible tongue is bent, a second displacement of the flexible tongue towards its initial position is accomplished substantially by a spring effect caused by said bending of said flexible tongue. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115994 | FLOORBOARD, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING A FLOORING, AND A FLOORING FORMED THEREOF - A method of producing floor panels is disclosed. The method includes the steps of separating a sheet formed surface material ( | 05-01-2014 |
20140123586 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on short edges comprising a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels. | 05-08-2014 |
20140166201 | FLOORBOARDS WITH DECORATIVE GROOVES - Floorboards are shown, which have a core and a surface layer and are provided with decorative joint edges which are formed by removing the surface layer. | 06-19-2014 |
20140178630 | FIBRE BASED PANELS WITH A WEAR RESISTANCE SURFACE - Building panels with a homogenous decorative surface having a wear layer comprising fibres, binders and wear resistant particles. | 06-26-2014 |
20140186610 | PANEL COATING - The disclosure relates to a method for coating of a floor panel and a floor panel produced by the method. The disclosure relates to a method for producing a laminated product, for example a building panel, preferably a floor panel. The method comprises applying a paper on one side of a wood fiber based core, e.g. an HDF panel, creating a décor on the paper by a digital printing process, applying a resin, preferably a melamine formaldehyde resin, on the paper, heating the décor and the paper with the resin, preferably by using an IR lamp; and applying heat and pressure in order to cure the resin and thereby obtain a laminated product. The disclosure also relates to alternative methods for producing a laminated product, and such a laminated product. | 07-03-2014 |
20140190112 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR PANELS AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SAME - Floor panels are provided with a mechanical locking system including a flexible locking element in a locking groove, which during a horizontal motion is displaced vertically. | 07-10-2014 |
20140196618 | DIGITAL EMBOSSING - A method of forming a digital embossing ( | 07-17-2014 |
20140198168 | DIGITAL BINDER AND POWDER PRINT - A method and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry colourants ( | 07-17-2014 |
20140198170 | DIGITAL THERMAL BINDER AND POWDER PRINTING - A method of forming a digital print on a surface ( | 07-17-2014 |
20140199495 | DIGITAL PRINTING AND EMBOSSING - A method and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry colourants on a surface, bonding a part of the colourants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colourants from the surface. Also, a method to form embossed structures. Hard press particles may be applied in patterns on a carrier that is pressed against a surface. | 07-17-2014 |
20140199513 | DIGITAL PRINTING WITH TRANSPARENT BLANK INK - A method, a panel and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry ink ( | 07-17-2014 |
20140199531 | DRY INK FOR DIGITAL PRINTING - Pigment based particles in powder form intended to be used as colourants ( | 07-17-2014 |
20140199558 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A BUILDING PANEL AND A BUILDING PANEL - A method of producing a building panel ( | 07-17-2014 |
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20140215952 | FLOORBOARDS FOR FLOORINGS - Floorboards for making a floating floor have a core ( | 08-07-2014 |
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20140287194 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Building panels, especially floor panels, which are provided with a locking system including several separate strip parts connected to the panel edge. A strip part, configured to lock panels horizontally and to be fixed to a panel edge, including a strip body with an inner part configured to be fixed under the panel edge and an outer part configured to extend outside the panel edge, wherein the inner part comprises a fixing element configured to lock the strip part to the panel edge in a horizontal direction, wherein the outer part including a locking protrusion, located above the strip body and configured to lock the strip part to the panel edge vertically and a locking element configured to lock the panels in a horizontal direction, and wherein the inner part includes a cavity formed in the strip body and located between the fixing element and the locking protrusion. | 09-25-2014 |
20140305065 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH VERTICAL FOLDING - Floor panels ( | 10-16-2014 |
20140318061 | FLOORBOARD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF - Floorboards with a surface of flexible fibers for laying a mechanically joined floating floor, and methods for manufacturing and providing floorings containing such floorboards. For example, floorboards including a surface layer and a core, for making a floating flooring, which floorboards are mechanically lockable and which along their edge portions have pairs of opposing connectors for locking similar, adjoining floorboards to each other both vertically and horizontally, wherein the surface layer comprises flexible resilient fibers. | 10-30-2014 |
20140366476 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH A FLEXIBLE BRISTLE TONGUE - Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue in a displacement groove. The tongue is moulded and provided with bendable protrusions. A building panel having an edge portion provided with a groove, in which a tongue formed as a separate part is received, wherein the tongue includes at least two bow shaped protrusions at a first long edge of the tongue, and wherein the protrusions are arranged bendable in the groove. | 12-18-2014 |
20140373478 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on short edges comprising a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels. | 12-25-2014 |
20140373480 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on short edges including a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels. Building panels provided with a locking system for vertical locking of a first and a second building panel by a vertical displacement of the panels relative each other, a displaceable tongue is in a sidewardly open displacement groove provided at an edge of a first panel, said tongue cooperates with a tongue groove provided at an adjacent edge of a second panel for locking the edge and the adjacent edge vertically. | 12-25-2014 |
20150013260 | MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels ( | 01-15-2015 |
20150027080 | LOCKING SYSTEM AND FLOORING BOARD - A locking system for mechanical joining of rectangular floorboards having a body and long and short edges. Said locking system including a tongue and a groove for vertical locking of two joint short edges and for horizontal joining a locking groove formed in the underside of a first one of the short joint edges, and a portion projecting from the second short joint edge having a locking element cooperating with the locking groove. The tongue is arranged on the second short edge. The groove is arranged on the first short edge. The projecting portion is integrally formed with the board, by working of the body of the board. | 01-29-2015 |
20150035422 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR BUILDING PANELS - Panels are shown which are provided with a mechanical locking system allowing perpendicular connection with a snap action. | 02-05-2015 |
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20150068151 | MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS - Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system comprising a tongue with rocker arms that allows locking by a vertical turning motion. The tongue has an inner part mounted in a sideward open fixation groove in a first edge and an outer part extending beyond a vertical plane, the inner part is fixed in the sideward open groove, wherein the tongue has at least one rocker arm extending in the length direction of the tongue, the rocker arm having a displaceable pressing protrusion that during locking is in contact with a second edge and a displaceable locking protrusion that in locked position cooperates with a tongue groove, wherein the locking protrusions are displaced outwardly away from the main tongue body when the pressing protrusion is pressed and displaced inwardly towards the inner part of the tongue. | 03-12-2015 |