Patent ID: 8099921

Claim:
Profile strip system for closing off an edge and for concealing a joint, comprising: a lower base profile, an upper cover profile, and a latching connection between the base profile and the cover profile for connecting the lower base profile to the upper cover profile, the latching connection having a latching receptacle, on the base profile, with two leg profiles with opposite latching regions and latching region-free sections, and a latching profile which is latchable into the latching receptacle and which has a plurality of latching sites, each latching region having at least two latching sites, the latching regions being located on only a portion of the leg profiles and the latching region-free sections being spaced apart by a greater distance than the latching regions, wherein the latching profile is located on an intermediate profile which is connectable to the cover profile, the intermediate profile having an articulated head and the cover profile having a groove on a bottom side thereof into which the articulated head is insertable, the groove and head being configured relative to each other in a manner enabling the articulated head to swing within the groove; and wherein the groove is in the shape of a dovetail and has an arched groove surface and wherein the articulated head is in the shape of a dovetail and has an outwardly arched head surface opposite the groove surface so that there is only spot or partial surface contact between the groove surface and the head surface.