Patent ID: 8250832

Claim:
A process for forming a decorative laminate surface from an assembly of user format laminate boards comprising: (a) providing a large format board having an upper side decorative surface and a base layer; (b) said upper side decorative surface being provided with at least two surface grades; (c) said two surface grades comprising a continuous pattern over a matching tolerance distance D; (d) cutting said large format board across said matching tolerance distance D to form at least two user format decorative laminate boards, whereby the edge formed by said cutting provides at least two surface grades extending to the cut edge of said user format decorative laminate board; (e) assembling a first user format decorative laminate board with a second user format decorative laminate board thereby forming a joint between said assembled boards; (f) aligning at least two of the surface grades of the first user format decorative laminate board with similar surface grades on the second user format laminate board such that the surface grades appear to bridge the joint without interruption to form said decorative laminate surface.