Methods for Manufacturing and Packaging Floor Panels, Devices Used Thereby, as well as Floor Panel and Packed Set of Floor Panels

摘要

A method for manufacturing floor panels, wherein boards of laminate material are formed by means of a press treatment and wherein these boards are divided into several panels, from which the actual floor panels are formed. In a press treatment of the method, at least one impression is provided in the board, which at least is employed as a guiding groove for guiding the aforementioned board or the subsequently obtained panels in further treatments.

主权项

1. A Floor panel having a core, a decorative upper surface and at least two opposite edges, wherein said two opposite edges are provided with a first profiled edge area and a second profiled edge area respectively, said first and second profiled edge areas comprising:
a male coupling part and a female coupling part; said male coupling part comprising a first lateral protrusion on said first profiled edge area; said female coupling part comprising a groove shaped as an undercut and limited in downward direction by a lower lip, the male and female coupling parts, in a coupled condition of two of such floor panels, having contact surfaces to lock in a vertical direction; locking parts, which, in a coupled condition of two of such floor panels, having contact surfaces to lock in a horizontal direction; said locking parts including a horizontally locking surface on said male coupling part and a cooperating therewith horizontally locking surface on said lower lip of said female coupling part; wherein, in a coupled condition of two of such floor panels, said decorative upper surface of said second profiled edge area having a distal end along a vertically extending first plane; wherein said first profiled edge area is essentially located inwardly from said first plane and underneath said decorative upper surface of said floor panel; said first profiled edge area further comprising an upwardly extending surface above said first lateral protrusion; said upwardly extending surface defining a point furthest away from the tip of said first lateral protrusion in the proximal direction; said point defined along a vertically extending second plane generally parallel to the vertically extending first plane; wherein said second profiled edge area is located substantially outside of the first plane; wherein said first lateral protrusion protrudes distally from said second plane and extends a first length in a first direction from said second plane towards said tip; wherein said lower lip is located substantially distally from said first plane and extends for a second length beyond said first plane in a second direction opposite said first direction; said first length being substantially less than said second length; wherein the male coupling part comprises a second lateral protrusion; wherein said coupling parts and said locking parts are arranged to couple two floor panels by bringing the floor panels towards each other with a substantially vertical movement wherein said first profiled edge area is arranged to be brought down to said second profiled edge area and coupled therewith, wherein in a coupled condition said first lateral protrusion engages said undercut and said second lateral protrusion is positioned in a recessed portion of said second profiled edge area at the distal end of said lower lip.