Patent ID: 8381477
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: E04B,E04F,F16B

Abstract:
1. A set of floor panels adapted to be locked to other panels mechanically, each panel having an edge portion with a sidewardly open groove, in which groove a tongue formed as a separate part is received, wherein the tongue is an extruded section and is bendable in a plane substantially parallel with a front face of the floor panel such that a part of the tongue is bent and resiliently displaced inside said groove in said plane during locking of one panel with another panel, and wherein the tongue includes an upper surface and a lower surface and an inclined sliding surface extending between the upper and lower surfaces, and the another panel has an inclined sliding surface which cooperates with the inclined sliding surface of the tongue, and the inclined sliding surface of the another panel is configured to be initially above the sliding surface of the tongue during locking and then to be below the tongue when locking is completed.