Patent ID: 8079187

Claim:
Method for lining a surface with a flexible covering material, in which the surface is lined with a material piece of the flexible covering material and in which the material piece is stretched, where for stretching the material piece, use is made of a plurality of stretching rails, each stretching rail including a holding side and an assembly side, wherein each stretching rail has a substantially flat and rectangular shape, where each stretching rail is brought into pivotable engagement on the holding side with one of a plurality of holding rails provided on the surface, where a first side of the material piece is brought into stretchable engagement with the assembly side of each stretching rail, where a second side of the material piece is directly or indirectly stretchably connected to the surface, and where each stretching rail for stretching the flexible covering material is pivoted into a stretching position in which a plane defined by each stretching rail is transverse to the surface to be lined and fixed in the stretching position by forcing each stretching rail into a holding rail, wherein the covering material is firstly stretched in a longitudinal direction and then in a transverse direction and wherein the material piece of the covering material during stretching in said longitudinal direction is displaced in at least one of the plurality of stretching rails fitted in said longitudinal direction, wherein for the outward, pressing in of the stretching rails into the holding rails, a pressing-drawing device is used, the pressing-drawing device being supported on an abutment provided in the holding rails and the stretching rails to be forced in, and /or for the outward, drawing out of the stretching rails from the holding rails use is made of the pressing-drawing device, the pressing-drawing device being brought into a back engagement with the stretching rails for drawing out purposes.