Patent ID: 9657483
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: E04F,F16B,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method to fix a plurality of strip parts to an edge of a panel, wherein each of the strip parts comprises a strip body that, in a fixed position of the strip part on the edge of the panel, extends inwardly from the edge of the panel and at a rear side of the panel, and is configured to lock the panel with an adjacent panel horizontally and to be fixed to the edge of the panel by essentially horizontal snapping, the method comprising: separating the strip parts from a strip blank that comprises at least two strip parts located side by side in at least two parallel rows of the strip blank; displacing the strip parts essentially vertically in front of a plurality of hammers; pressing and snapping the strip parts via the hammers to the edge of the panel by an essentially horizontal displacement; and moving the hammers, to perform the pressing and the snapping, one after another when the panel is displaced horizontally in relation to the hammers.