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Granted Patent B2
US 12,024,898 · App. 17/348,142 · Granted Jul 2, 2024

Mechanical locking of floor panels

Inventors: Darko Pervan (Viken, SE); Niclas Hakansson (Viken, SE); Mattias Sjostrand (Angelholm, SE); Christian Boo (Kagerod, SE); Agne Palsson (Hasslarp, SE)
Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
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Patent No.
US 12,024,898
App. No.
17/348,142
Granted
Jul 2, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

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.

Claims (15)

1. A tool configured to produce protrusions and cavities located after each other along an edge of a floor panel, wherein the tool is a screw shaped cutter with an axis of rotation parallel with the edge of the floor panel, wherein the tool comprises double screw rows of teeth, and wherein the double screw rows of teeth include teeth which are offset in a rotational direction of the tool and which are formed as a single monolithic piece of material.

2. The tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a cutting diameter of the tool is smaller on an entrance side than on an opposite exit side.

3. The tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a pitch of the tool defines the intermediate distance of the cavities and the protrusions.

4. The tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the teeth include teeth made of industrial diamonds.

5. The tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tool comprises more than one entrance.

6. A tool configured to produce protrusions and cavities located after each other along an edge of a floor panel, wherein the tool is a screw shaped cutter with an axis of rotation parallel with the edge of the floor panel, the axis of rotation extending in an axial direction, wherein the tool comprises rows of teeth including first and second rows of teeth which are directly adjacent to one another, wherein all teeth of the tool that are directly adjacent in the axial direction are offset relative to each other in a rotational direction of the tool, and where a cutting diameter of the tool is smaller on an entrance side than on an opposite exit side.

7. A tool configured to produce protrusions and cavities located after each other along an edge of a floor panel, wherein the tool is a screw shaped cutter with an axis of rotation parallel with the edge of the floor panel, wherein the tool comprises rows of teeth including first and second rows of teeth which are directly adjacent to one another, wherein teeth of the first row of teeth contact teeth of the second row of teeth, and where a cutting diameter of the tool is smaller on an entrance side than on an opposite exit side.

8. The tool as claimed in claim 6 , wherein a pitch of the tool defines the intermediate distance of the cavities and the protrusions.

9. The tool as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the teeth of the rows of teeth include teeth made of industrial diamonds.

10. The tool as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the tool comprises more than one entrance.

11. The tool as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the rows of teeth include double screw rows of teeth.

12. The tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tool has a longitudinal side and an end side, wherein the axis of rotation extends through the end side, wherein the tool is configured to produce protrusions and cavities in the floor panel with the longitudinal side and not the end side.

13. The tool as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the tool has a longitudinal side and an end side, wherein the axis of rotation extends through the end side, wherein the tool is configured to produce protrusions and cavities in the floor panel with the longitudinal side and not the end side.

14. The tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the axis of rotation extends in an axial direction, and wherein all teeth of the tool that are directly adjacent in the axial direction are offset relative to each other in the rotational direction of the tool.

15. The tool as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the first and second rows of teeth include teeth which are offset in the rotational direction of the tool and which are formed as a single monolithic piece of material.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 9, 2022
From: PERVAN, DARKO; HÅKANSSON, NICLAS; SJÖSTRAND, MATTIAS; BOO, CHRISTIAN; PÅLSSON, AGNE
To: VÄLINGE INNOVATION BELGIUM BVBA
Reel/Frame 060146/0030 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 9, 2022
From: CERALOC INNOVATION BELGIUM BVBA
To: VÄLINGE INNOVATION BELGIUM BVBA
Reel/Frame 060146/0377 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jun 9, 2022
From: VÄLINGE INNOVATION BELGIUM BVBA
To: VÄLINGE INNOVATION AB
Reel/Frame 060146/0421 →
Priority Claims (2)
SE 0800242-0 · Jan 31, 2008 · national
SE 0800995-3 · May 5, 2008 · national
Continuity (8)
Continuation 16713357 · Dec 13, 2019
Continuation 15989372 · May 25, 2018
Continuation 15133735 · Apr 20, 2016
Continuation 14095052 · Dec 3, 2013
Continuation 12865136
Provisional Application 61050443 · May 5, 2008
Provisional Application 61006780 · Jan 31, 2008
Related Publication 20220143718A1 · May 12, 2022
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