Patent ID: 8245473
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: E04F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Finishing profile for a floor covering, comprising a body comprising at least two portions made separable from each other, which portions, in their unseparated condition, are continuously and integrally connected to each other by a break-off or cut-off zone, one of said two separable portions comprises a flange-shaped portion with an attachment portion located on a bottom side having generally lateral walls, the other of said two separable portions defining a nose portion forming an internal surface extending obliquely and outwardly relative to the lateral walls of the attachment portion, a clearance is defined between the lateral wall of the attachment portion and the internal surface of the nose portion such that the nose portion gradually tapers in width along the internal surface from a bottom portion toward a top portion of the nose portion, the break-off or cut-off zone defined at the top portion of the nose portion with the break-off or cut-off zone spaced between an outer periphery of the body and the internal surface of the nose portion; wherein, by separating at least one portion from at least one other portion of the body, various applications of the other portion of the body are enabled; wherein, at least on the two portions of the body, a layer-shaped covering is provided thereover and forms the outermost surface of the finishing profile; and wherein said layer-shaped covering has an interruption extending through the depth of the layer-shaped covering at least over part of the length of the finishing profile at a level where the transition between said two portions exists in the unseparated condition; wherein the interruption is defined by opposed edges of the layer-shaped covering spaced apart by a distance from one another, the interruption terminating along the outer periphery of the body; wherein the nose portion is arranged for splitting at the break-off or cut-off zone by rotating the bottom portion of the nose portion relative to the flange-shaped portion such that the break-off or cut-off zone is configured so that it cannot resist splitting forces formed due to rotation of the nose portion.