Patent ID: 8006458

Claim:
A floor comprising: a plurality of floor boards, each of said floor boards comprising edges, at least one of said edges having a distal end lying in a vertical plane, a lower side, a decorative top surface, a notch formed in said edge below said decorative upper surface, wherein at least part of said notch is defined by a shoulder, said shoulder terminating in a distal end, whereby the floor boards are joinable by means of separate joining profiles, wherein at least one of said edges is provided with at least one groove, which groove is arranged parallel to its respective edge, and that the joining profiles comprise lips arranged in pairs, which lips are parallel and each extend in the same direction and said joining profile and lips, when inserted into said groove, do not extend beyond said lower side, and said lips are received by the at least one groove of a respective floor board so that adjacent floor boards with the grooves at the adjacent edges are guided and fixed horizontally by the lips of the joining profile, which lips are connected to each other by a middle section of the joining profile and that the joining profile is provided with a central cheek section which is comprised by a first resilient cheek and a second independently resilient cheek, each of said cheeks having a width and one tongue, and each tongue terminates at its respective resilient cheek, whereby each tongue is received by said notch so that adjacent floor boards are fixed in a vertical direction and wherein a distance between said plane including the distal end of the edge and said distal end of the shoulder is greater than the width of at least one of the first and second cheeks.