Patent ID: 8261508

Claim:
Floor panel of the type having, at least at two opposite sides, coupling means allowing that two of such floor panels can cooperate with each other, whereby these coupling means, in a coupled condition of two of such floor panels, provide for a locking in a vertical direction perpendicular to the plane defined by the coupled floor panels, as well as in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the respective sides and in the plane of the coupled floor panels, whereby said coupling means allow that two of such floor panels can be locked in a mutual position in which the upper edges of the respective floor panels are situated substantially in the same horizontal plane, whereas a space is present at the height of these upper edges, between the respective sides, wherein the respective coupled floor panels in said mutual position are mutually locked at least in said horizontal direction free from play and wherein said space defines a mutual distance of one to three millimeters between said upper edges.