Patent ID: 8245474

Claim:
Finishing profile for a floor covering, comprising: a body comprising at least two portions made separable from each other, which portions, in their unseparated condition, are continuously and integrally connected to each other by a break-off or cut-off zone, one of said two separable portions comprises a flange-shaped portion with an attachment portion located on a bottom side having a first and a second generally lateral wall, the other of said two separable portions defining a nose portion having an internal surface facing said first generally lateral wall of said attachment portion, a clearance is defined between said first lateral wall of said attachment portion and said internal surface of said nose portion, the break-off or cut-off zone defined at least partially at said first lateral wall of said attachment portion and spaced from an outer periphery of said body; wherein, by separating at least one portion from at least one other portion of the body, various applications of the other portion of the body are enabled; wherein, at least on the two portions of the body, a layer-shaped covering is provided thereover and forms the outermost surface of the finishing profile; and wherein said layer-shaped covering has an interruption extending through the depth of the layer-shaped covering at least over part of the length of the finishing profile at a level where the transition between said two portions exists in the unseparated condition; wherein the interruption is defined by opposed edges of the layer-shaped covering spaced apart by a distance from one another, the interruption terminating along the outer periphery of the body; wherein the nose portion is arranged for splitting at the break-off or cut-off zone by rotating the bottom portion of the nose portion relative to the flange-shaped portion such the break-off or cut-off zone is configured so that it cannot resist splitting forces due to rotation of the nose portion.