Patent ID: 8720149

Claim:
A rectangular floor panel with mutually parallel, substantially planar upper and lower sides and with two pairs of respective mutually opposite side edges connecting the upper and lower sides, wherein the opposite side edges of a pair are provided with complementary profiles for interconnecting adjacent floor panels, wherein of at least one pair of opposite side edges the profile of a first side edge is defined by a frontal face extending substantially vertically from the upper side and over part of the thickness of the floor panel, a first support face extending inwardly substantially in a horizontal direction from the lower end of said frontal face, a locking face extending upwardly from the inner end of said first support face to a position at some distance from the upper side of the floor panel, a second support face extending inwardly again from the upper end of said locking face and finally a counter face extending downwardly from the inner end of said second support face all the way to the lower side of the floor panel, and wherein the profile of the corresponding second side edge of the respective pair of opposite side edges is defined by a frontal face extending substantially vertically from the lower side and over part of the thickness of the floor panel, a first support face extending inwardly substantially in a horizontal direction from the upper end of said frontal face, a locking face extending downwardly from the inner end of said first support face to a position at some distance from the lower side of the floor panel, a second support face extending inwardly again from the lower end of said locking face and finally a counter face extending upwardly from the inner end of said second support face all the way to the upper side of the floor panel, wherein for maintaining two adjacent floor panels in an interconnected position a frontal face of a profile cooperates with a counter face of the other profile, the first support face of a profile cooperates with the second support face of the other profile and the locking faces of both profiles cooperate with each other, and wherein the frontal faces and the counter faces are provided with locking tabs cooperating in the interconnected position of adjacent floor panels, wherein the floor panel further is provided with two reinforcement layers extending substantially in parallel to the upper and lower sides of the floor panel, wherein one of the locking tabs substantially is positioned at the level of an upper one of said reinforcement layers, and another one of the locking tabs substantially is positioned at the level of a lower one of said reinforcement layers.