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Mechanical locking of floor panels, methods to install and uninstall panels, a method and an equipment to produce the locking system, a method to connect a displaceable tongue to a panel and a tongue blank

US8627862B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

VALINGE INNOVATION AB · SE

Inventors

Darko Pervan · Viken, SE
Niclas Hakansson · Viken, SE
Mattias Sjostrand · Helsingborg, SE
Christian Boo · Kågeröd, SE
Agne Pålsson · Hasslarp, SE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 30, 2009
Grant date	Jan 14, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 30, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T83/04
WIPO fieldCivil engineering
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

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.

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