Patent ID: 9745756
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: E04F

Claim:
1. A floor panel comprising: a carrier layer comprising a plastic material that is pliable and elastic at an application temperature of the floor panel; a decorative layer being disposed above the carrier layer; a first complementary mechanical locking means being provided on a first two panel edges of the floor panel such that the floor panel is capable of being coupled together with a second floor panel of the same configuration as the floor panel to form a first locked state and in the first locked state to counteract a moving apart of the floor panel and the second floor panel in a horizontal plane and a vertical plane; a second complementary mechanical locking means being provided on a second two panel edges such that the floor panel is capable of being coupled together with a third floor panel of the same configuration as the floor panel to form a second locked state and in the second locked state to counteract a moving apart of the floor panel and the third floor panel in the horizontal plane and the vertical plane; the first complementary locking means being a complementary tongue and groove, the groove on one of the first two panel edges of the floor panel and the tongue on an opposite panel edge of the first two panel edges of the floor panel; the tongue and the groove each include an undercut, the undercut of the tongue of the complementary tongue and groove of the floor panel and the undercut of the groove of the complementary tongue and groove of the second floor panel cooperate in the first locked state to counteract the moving apart of the floor panel and the second floor panel in the horizontal plane; the second complementary locking means being complementary hook elements, the complementary hook elements forming the second locked state through a vertical movement between one of the complementary hook elements on one of the second two panel edges of the floor panel and another of the complementary hook elements on an opposite panel edge of the second two panel edges of the third floor panel; each of the hook elements includes an inward facing vertical undercut surface, the inward facing vertical undercut surface of the one of the complementary hook elements of the floor panel and the inward facing vertical undercut surface of the other complementary hook elements of the third floor panel cooperate in the second locked state to counteract a moving apart of the floor panel and the third floor panel in the horizontal plane; each of the complementary hook elements has an outward facing vertical surface with a corrugated profile, wherein the corrugated profile of the one of the complementary hook elements has at least one locking projection on the outward facing vertical surface and the corrugated profile of the other of the complimentary hook elements has at least one locking recess on the outward facing vertical surface, the corrugated surfaces being complimentary over an entire height of the corrugated profiles, the at least one locking projection on the outward facing vertical surface of the one of the complementary hook elements of the floor panel fits in the at least one locking recess on the outward facing vertical surface of the other of a complementary hook elements of the third floor panel in the second locked state to counteract a moving apart of the floor panel and the third floor panel in the vertical plane; wherein the one of the second two panel edges of the floor panel abuts the one of the second two panel edges of the third floor panel; and at least one edge of the second two panel edges has an edge break-away point at the decorative layer, wherein the corrugated profile of the at least one edge of the second two panel edges extends up to the edge break-away point, wherein a reinforcement layer is provided, wherein the reinforcement layer is arranged as at least one intermediate layer in a split carrier layer.