Patent ID: 8112891

Claim:
A method for manufacturing floorboards with a surface layer and a core, for making a floating flooring, which floorboards are mechanically lockable and which along their four edge portions have pairs of opposing connectors for locking adjoining floorboards to each other both vertically and horizontally, for providing a floating floor with mechanically lockable floorboards, the method comprises: joining a surface layer formed of flexible and resilient fibers to a wood-fiber-based core to form a floor element having a surface layer of flexible and resilient fibers, such that the flexible and resilient fibers are exposed on an outermost surface of the floorboards, cutting the surface layer of the floor element with at least one knife to form a cut line, machining the cut surface with a set of tools, wherein the set of tools comprises a set of rotary milling tools, and wherein at least a portion of the machining occurs at the cut line.