Patent ID: 7856789

Claim:
A method for laying and interlocking floor panels provided with a first pair and a second pair of opposite panel sides, each of the pair of sides having complementary retaining profiles extending over a length of the sides, the method comprising: (a) placing a new panel of the panels adjacent a first panel side of said first pair of sides of a previously laid panel of the panels in an adjacent row and adjacent a first panel side of said second pair of sides of a previously laid panel of the panels in the same row; (b) interlocking a second panel side of said second pair of sides of said new panel to said first panel side of said second pair of sides of the previously laid panel in the same row; (c) angling up the first panel side of said second pair of sides of the previously laid panel in the same row while maintaining at least a portion of a remainder of laid panels of the same row securely locked with laid panels in said adjacent row; (d) joining a second panel side of said first pair of sides of said new panel with said first panel side of said first pair of sides of said previously laid panel in the adjacent row while maintaining the new panel and the first panel side of said second pair of sides of the previously laid panel in the same row in an inclined position with respect to the previously laid panel in the adjacent row; and (e) angling down the new panel and the first panel side of said second pair of sides of the previously laid panel in the same row to form a common plane with said new panel and said previously laid panel of the adjacent row.