DE20013138U1 - Wooden floor board - Google Patents

Description

TITLE: WOODEN FLOORING

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to a wooden floor plank, particularly one which is capable of being arranged and laid on the floor by anyone using a do-it-yourself method in a specific different pattern as desired, rather than using so many of the wooden floor plank units in this invention directly on the floor of a room of a dwelling. Each wooden floor plank unit has a different pattern arrangement consisting of a number of narrow wooden strips.

Most conventional DIY wood flooring consists of a relatively small unit of wood planks glued together with an underlayer of a moisture-resistant buffer foam material so that it rests on the floor when a majority of the conventional wood flooring planks are installed on a room floor.

However, conventional wooden floorboards generally have the following disadvantages.

1. Each wood floor plank unit has the same small size, color and pattern, so a large number of them are required to make one floor plank of a room, which takes a lot of labor and time and has the same pattern.

2. Each unit of wood flooring planks must be laid in the same direction, only in a simple lengthwise or crosswise direction, and it is not easy to change their arrangement to produce a different pattern.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The aim of the invention is to offer a wooden floor plank unit of fairly large dimensions and having a lower elastic anti-slip part and an upper wooden part and an adhesive or glue layer applied to an upper side of the lower elastic part for bonding the upper wooden part. The upper wooden part consists of a plurality of smaller wooden strips combined with each other and each smaller wooden strip has a different color and grain so that each wooden floor plank (unit) can have different patterns from each other. Consequently, an entire floor of a room laid with the wooden floor plank units in the invention can have different patterns according to a user's taste.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

This invention will be better understood with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is an exploded perspective view of a wood floor plank unit in the present invention; Figure 2 is a perspective view of a wood floor plank unit of a pattern in the present invention;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a wood floor plank unit of another pattern in the present invention;

Figure 4 is an exploded perspective view of smaller wood strips of a wood floor plank unit in the present invention;

Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view of the wood floor plank unit laid on the floor in the present invention;

Figure 6 is a cross-sectional view of the wood floor plank units connected together with a plastic fastening strip and laid on the floor, in

of the present invention; and

Figure 7 is a plan view of the wood floor plank units arranged and installed on the floor in the present invention.
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

A preferred embodiment of a wooden floor plank unit 4 in the present invention, as shown in Fig. 1, comprises a lower part 1 made of elastic anti-slip material and cut into a desired size, an adhesive part 2 evenly applied on an upper surface of the lower part, and an upper wooden part 3 of the same size as the lower part and consisting of a number of smaller wooden strips of different colors and grains assembled and glued onto the adhesive part 2 applied on the lower part 1. The upper wooden part 3 has a straight groove 31 formed in each side for assembling with the adjacent upper wooden part 3 of another adjacent wooden floor plank unit 4 so that a plurality of wooden floor plank units 4 can be assembled to form an entire floor of a room.

Each finished wood floor plank unit 4, as shown in Figures 2 and 3, may be of a different style or pattern from one another so that a consumer can select those he/she likes to use to lay on the floor in a pattern he/she desires, as shown in Figure 7.

Furthermore, as shown in Figures 4 and 5, a plastic fastening strip 5 is inserted into the straight groove 31 of each two adjacent wooden floor plank units 4 to connect them, and for the outermost wooden floor plank unit 4, another type of

Fastening strips 5 with a larger side may be used to cover an outer side of the wooden floor plank unit 4, as shown in Fig. 6.

It should be noted that the size of the wood floor plank unit in the invention is larger than the conventional ones, thereby speeding up and facilitating the DIY assembly of the wood floor plank units in the invention and allowing the whole finished floor plank to have a vivid and novel pattern that a consumer desires.

Although the preferred embodiment of the invention has been described above, it will be apparent and understood that various modifications may be made therein and that the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications as may fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims (1)

1. A wooden floor plank unit comprising a lower part having an elastic anti-slip effect, an adhesive part applied to an upper surface of the lower part, and a wooden part glued to the adhesive part, characterized in that the lower part is cut to a desired size, the wooden part having the same size as the lower part and consisting of a number of smaller wooden strips of different colors and grains, each said wooden floor plank unit having: a pattern different from each other, a straight groove formed in four outer sides of each said wooden floor plank unit for fitting a plastic fastening strip therein to assemble the two wooden floor plank units, so that a plurality of the wooden floor plank units can be selected by a consumer and assembled evenly to form a special pattern of flooring on the floor by a DIY method according to the consumer's taste.