EP1978179B1 - System zur Verbindung und Verriegelung zweier Bauplatten, insbesondere Fußbodenpaneele - Google Patents

System zur Verbindung und Verriegelung zweier Bauplatten, insbesondere Fußbodenpaneele Download PDF

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Publication number: EP1978179B1
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: locking; plastics material; profile; material insert; leg
Prior art date: 2007-04-02
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EP08006262A

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Flooring Technologies Ltd

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Flooring Technologies Ltd

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2007-04-02

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2008-03-31

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2011-04-27

2008-03-31 Application filed by Flooring Technologies Ltd filed Critical Flooring Technologies Ltd

2008-03-31 Priority to PL08006262T priority Critical patent/PL1978179T3/pl

2008-10-08 Publication of EP1978179A1 publication Critical patent/EP1978179A1/de

2011-04-27 Application granted granted Critical

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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
- E04F15/00—Flooring
- E04F15/02—Flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements
- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
- E04F2201/00—Joining sheets or plates or panels
- E04F2201/01—Joining sheets, plates or panels with edges in abutting relationship
- E04F2201/0138—Joining sheets, plates or panels with edges in abutting relationship by moving the sheets, plates or panels perpendicular to the main plane
- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
- E04F2201/00—Joining sheets or plates or panels
- E04F2201/04—Other details of tongues or grooves
- E04F2201/041—Tongues or grooves with slits or cuts for expansion or flexibility
- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
- E04F2201/00—Joining sheets or plates or panels
- E04F2201/05—Separate connectors or inserts, e.g. pegs, pins, keys or strips
- E04F2201/0523—Separate tongues; Interlocking keys, e.g. joining mouldings of circular, square or rectangular shape

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the invention relates to a device for connecting and locking two building panels, in particular floor panels, at their longitudinal and / or transverse sides in the horizontal and vertical directions by a substantially vertical joining movement, wherein the device consists of the two building panels to be joined together and a plastic insert the building panels are provided at their sides to be joined with mutually corresponding profiles and the plastic insert is secured in the profiling of the first building board, wherein the plastic insert is provided with a locking projection which cooperates with a provided in the profiling of the second building panel locking recess and the connection and locking two structural panels both in the vertical and in the horizontal direction exclusively by the plastic insert.
a device for connecting and locking two building panels is also called system in the following.
Such a system is for example from the DE 102 37 397 known.
a similar system is in the EP 1 415 056 B1 disclosed. These systems allow the joining of two floor panels on the transverse sides. On the long sides of the panels are connected by a milled out of the side edges spring-groove profiling. The spring of the new panel to be created is in the groove
the WO 00/47841 discloses panels in the side edge tongue and groove profiles are milled.
an elastic spring element can be inserted, which is stretched when joining two panels and so ensures the locking of the two panels ,
WO 00/20706 From the WO 00/20706 is a system of floor panels known that can be connected to each other via a separate connection profile. This profile is symmetrical and engages in recesses provided for this purpose on the side edges and the underside of the panels.
Plastic insert spring formed in the vertical direction with a final slight impressions, in which case the locking projection engages in the locking groove.
the locking on the transverse side in the horizontal direction is carried out by a hook-shaped profiling of the side edges, which is milled out of the full material.
the two panels are locked by the plastic insert by the locking projection engages in a locking recess.
the locking element is provided with an elastic locking lip.
the connection of the plastic element with the profiling of a panel is effected by a web extending in the horizontal direction, which is inserted into a groove introduced horizontally into the side edge.
Commercially available floor panels have a thickness of 6 to 12 mm.
the groove to be introduced laterally into the profiling of the side edge, in which the plastic insert is fastened, must consequently be milled in a width of 2 to 3 mm and a depth of approximately 5 mm.
the 1.5 to 3 mm thick plastic insert must then be inserted into the groove. Both steps must be carried out at high machine speeds, which is not without problems. Due to the strength of the plastic insert, the vertical locking is limited to laminate floors with thicknesses greater than 10 mm, which limits the usability of the locking system.
the erfindunssiee system is characterized in that the plastic insert in cross section is substantially U-shaped and is used with its two free legs connecting legs in a downwardly open, introduced into the profiling first groove, wherein the two free legs Partially supported over its length on the vertical side walls of the groove and then at least one free Leg is provided the outwardly facing locking projection.
the plastic insert in cross section is substantially U-shaped and is used with its two free legs connecting legs in a downwardly open, introduced into the profiling first groove, wherein the two free legs Partially supported over its length on the vertical side walls of the groove and then at least one free Leg is provided the outwardly facing locking projection.
the first groove opposite arranged second, upwardly open groove can be formed, which has the locking recess in at least one side wall.
the plastic insert is firmly inserted by positive and / or non-positive fit in the downwardly open groove. It can be clamped, glued or thermo-welded here. It is particularly advantageous that the profiling, which is a shiplap, protects the plastic insert from damage during transport and handling.
a reinforcing web may be formed at least between a free leg and the legs connecting the two free legs.
One or both free legs may converge toward each other in the direction of their free ends, so that the cross section at the end of the free legs is narrower than at the beginning. Due to its simple geometry, the plastic insert can be produced on an extrusion machine in a continuous process. In order to facilitate the insertion of the plastic insert in the downwardly open groove, this is preferably provided in the transition region from the free legs to the legs connecting them with a chamfer.
the outer side edge of the first profiling and the inner side edge of the second profiling form a contact edge in the case of two interconnected panels.
the side edges are machined so that form on both profiles outwardly projecting edges that form the contact surface of the length h 2 .
Below the abutment edge the side edge jumps back in at least one profiling in order to form a dust bag of length h 1 can. If the length h 1 of the dust pocket formed in two interconnected panels is smaller than the length h 2 of the abutment surface, a large joining surface is achievable, so that stresses due to mechanical stress or dimensional changes unavoidable due to the hygroscopic properties of the core material , can be caught well.
the length h 2 of such a joining edge preferably has a length of 2.0 to 2.5 mm in the case of panels with a thickness of approximately 8 to 10 mm.
the invention will be explained for floor panels, which can be connected to one another via the system according to the invention both on their longitudinal sides and on their transverse sides or even on one side.
the panels can also be provided with a conventional tongue-and-groove profiling, which are connected to each other by Einwinkeln and pivoting on the underbody.
the joining movement on the transverse side is then carried out substantially in the vertical direction, so that the system is provided with the plastic insert only on the vertical side.
the panels 1, 2 are provided at their side edges with mutually corresponding profiles. Although it is spoken here of a first and a second panel, each panel 1, 2, of course, identically profiled and the profiles of opposite side edges correspond to each other.
the panel 1 is profiled starting from its underside 11 and the Panel 2 is profiled starting from its top 12.
the profiling is step-shaped, so that in the profiling of the first panel 1, a downwardly open groove 9 and in the profiling of the second panel 12, an upwardly open groove 10 is formed.
undercuts are provided as locking recesses 14, 15.
a cross-sectionally substantially U-shaped plastic insert 20 with its free legs 4, 5 and the free legs 4, 5 connecting horizontally extending legs 3 are used.
a reinforcing web 6 may be provided in the region of their end.
the free legs 4, 5 are provided with outwardly facing locking projections 7, 8, which cooperate with the undercut in the side walls of the upwardly open groove locking recesses 14, 15.
FIG. 1 shows, only one locking projection 7 on a free leg 4 is mandatory to lock the two panels 1, 2 in the vertical direction.
the horizontal locking of the two panels 1, 2 is carried out by the two legs 4, 5.
To produce a bias in the plastic insert 20 is in the in FIG. 1 illustrated embodiment of a free leg 5 in the direction of its free end tapered inwards and is supported on the corresponding obliquely extending side wall of the upwardly open groove 10 from.
the plastic insert 20 is glued into the downwardly open groove 9 of the panel 1, clamped or welded.
the two free legs 4, 5 are supported on the side walls of the groove 9.
the leg connecting the two free legs 4, 5 3 is located in the groove bottom of the groove 9.
the insertion of the plastic insert 20 is facilitated in the groove 9, this is provided in the transition region of the free legs 4, 5 to the leg 3 with chamfers 16, 17.
the step-shaped profiling of the panels 1, 2 is chosen to correspond to each other so that the panels 1, 2 can be supported on the butt joint S via their horizontally extending surfaces 18, 19 each other.
the largest inner width b of the groove 10 substantially corresponds to the maximum outer width B of the two free legs 4, 5.
the joining edge Due to the very simple profiling, a large-sized joint edge can be achieved.
the length h 2 of the contact surface of the vertical side edges 25, 26 may be greater than the length h 1 of the dust pocket formed underneath 27. Due to the larger joining surfaces of two connected panels 1, 2 can Loads from mechanical stress or by dimensional changes due to hygroscopic properties of the core material are better met.
the joining edge preferably has a length h 2 of 2.0 to 2.5 mm.
the plastic profile 20 in shape and material is suitable to build up a tension in compression in the region of the free legs 4, 5.
the legs 4, 5 formed differently be like FIG. 2 shows.
the stiffener 6 the bias between the legs 4, 5 can be varied or adjusted.

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EP08006262A 2007-04-02 2008-03-31 System zur Verbindung und Verriegelung zweier Bauplatten, insbesondere Fußbodenpaneele Not-in-force EP1978179B1 (de)

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PL08006262T PL1978179T3 (pl)	2007-04-02	2008-03-31	System łączenia i ryglowania dwóch płyt budowlanych, zwłaszcza paneli podłogowych

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DE102007015907A DE102007015907B4 (de)	2007-04-02	2007-04-02	System zur Verbindung und Verriegelung zweier Bauplatten, insbesondere Fußbodenpaneele, und Bauplatte, insbesondere Fußbodenpaneel

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ES2364512T3 (es)	2011-09-05
DE102007015907A1 (de)	2008-10-16
ATE507358T1 (de)	2011-05-15
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EP1978179A1 (de)	2008-10-08
PL1978179T3 (pl)	2011-09-30

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