WO2005054599A1 - Floorboard, system and method for forming a flooring, and a flooring formed thereof - Google Patents
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- the invention generally relates to the technical field of locking systems for floorboards .
- the invention relates to a locking system for floorboards which can be joined mechanically in different patterns, especially herringbone pattern; floorboards and flooring provided with such a locking system; and laying methods. More specifically, the invention relates above all to locking systems which enable laying of above all floating floors in advanced patterns and in different directions.
- Field of Application of the Invention The present invention is particularly suitable for use in floating wooden floors and laminate floors, such as massive wooden floors, parquet floors, laminate floors with a surface layer of high pressure laminate or direct laminate.
- a laminate floor has a surface consisting of melamine impregnated paper which has been compressed under pressure and heat.
- horizontal plane is meant a plane which extends parallel to the outer part of the surface layer. The upper and outer part of the joint edge defines a “vertical plane” perpendicular to the horizontal plane.
- joint or “locking system” are meant cooperating connecting means which connect the floorboards vertically and/or horizontally.
- mechanical locking system is meant that the joining can take place without glue. Mechanical locking systems can in many cases also be joined by gluing.
- vertical locking is meant locking parallel to the vertical plane and by “horizontal locking” is meant locking parallel to the horizontal plane.
- Floating floors of this type are usually joined by means of glued tongue and groove joints.
- the same method is used on both long side and short side, and the boards are usually laid in parallel rows long side against long side and short side against short side.
- floorboards have recently been developed which do not require the use of glue and instead are joined mechanically by means of so-called mechanical locking systems.
- These systems comprise locking means which lock the boards horizontally and vertically.
- the mechanical locking systems can be formed in one piece by machining of the core of the board.
- parts of the locking system can be formed of a separate material which is integrated with the floorboard, i.e. joined to the floorboard even in connection with the manufacture thereof at the factory.
- the separate material may consist of an already machined part which is included in the joint system, but it may also be a part which after fastening is formed to a suitable shape. Fastening can take place with glue or mecha- nically.
- the floorboards are joined, i.e. interconnected or locked together, by different combinations of angling, snapping-in and insertion along the joint edge in the locked position.
- the main advantages of floating floors with mecha- nical locking systems are that they can easily and quickly be laid by preferably various combinations of inward angling and snapping-in. They can also easily be taken up again and used once more at a different location.
- floorboards can be made in sizes that correspond to traditional parquet blocks and in A and B design with mirror-inverted joint systems, and that such floorboards can be joined mechanically in a herringbone pattern (WO 03/025307 owner Valinge Aluminium AB) by various combinations of angling and snapping-in. Such floorboards can also, if the locking systems are designed in a suitable manner, be joined in parallel rows.
- Floorboards can also be designed so that laying in, for instance, a herringbone pattern, with long sides joined to short sides, can be made quickly and easily by merely an angular motion along the long sides.
- a short side can be joined to a long side by the short side, for instance, being folded down upon a long side strip which supports a locking element.
- This locking element locks the floorboards horizontally.
- the vertical locking on such a short side is achieved by the boards being joined in a herringbone pattern at 90 degrees to each other.
- a new board which is laid by angling locks the short side of the preceding board and prevents upward angling.
- This extremely simple laying method can, however, when laying a herringbone pattern only be provided in one direction. This is a great drawback at the beginning of laying when the space toward the wall cannot be filled with cut-off floorboards which are installed backwards, i.e. in the direction opposite to the laying direction.
- the present invention relates to locking systems, floorboards, floors and laying methods which make it possible to install floating floors more quickly and more easily than is known today in advanced patterns, preferably herringbone pattern long side against short side, by merely an angular motion toward the subfloor. Also disassembling can take place more quickly and more easily by a reverse method.
- a first object of the present invention is to provide rectangular floorboards and locking systems which satisfy the above requirements and make it possible, in connection with installation and take up, to change the direction in which joining and take up of the floorboards can take place.
- a second object is to provide a laying method which facilitates laying in different directions.
- a third object is to provide a flooring which consists of three types of floorboards and which can be laid in advanced patterns in different directions preferably by merely an angular motion or vertical motion toward the subfloor.
- the terms long side and short side are used to facilitate understanding.
- the boards can also be square or alternately square and rectangular, and possibly also have different patterns or other decorative features in different directions. For instance, they may have short sides which are not parallel. It should be particularly emphasised that the locking systems appearing in this description are only examples of suitable designs.
- the geometries of the locking systems and the active horizontal and vertical locking means can be designed in many different ways according to prior-art technique, and they can be formed by machining the edges of the floorboard or by separate materials being formed or alternatively machined before or after joining to the joint edge portions of the floorboard.
- a rectangular floorboard which is designed to provide mechanical joining of said floorboard with similar or identical, adjacent floorboards, wherein said mechanical joining is achieved by first locking means having a locking groove, and second locking means having a portion projecting beyond a vertical plane defined by an upper joint edge and perpendicular to the principal plane of the floorboard, and supporting a locking element designed to interact with said locking groove when said floorboard is joined with a similar or identical one of said adjacent floorboards.
- the first locking means is provided on a first short side of the floorboard
- the second locking means is provided on a second, opposite short side of the floorboard and on both long sides of the floorboard, such that said first short side of the floorboard is connectable only horizontally, i.e. in a direction perpendicular to the respective joint edges and parallel to the principal plane of the floorboards, to both long sides and to the second, opposite short side of the identical floorboard.
- a floorboard which below is referred to as a "two-way board”
- the two-way board can be included in a floor together with other types of floorboards and enables a change of the laying direction, which significantly facilitates laying especially when the floor consists of floorboards joined in a herringbone pattern.
- a "similar floorboard” is understood to be a floorboard whose locking system is compatible, i.e. connect- able, with that of the floorboard being defined, but which may have a different configuration with respect to which locking means are arranged on which long side or short side of the floorboard. Also, such a similar floorboard may have additional locking means, e.g. for providing vertical locking as well.
- the mechanical joining can take place by a vertical motion toward a previously laid floorboard.
- the projecting portion consists of a strip with a locking element.
- the projecting portion consists of an extension of a tongue groove in the joint edge of the floorboard.
- first locking means provided at a first one of said neighbouring joint edges and comprising a locking groove
- second locking means provided at a second one of said neighbouring joint edges and comprising a portion protruding outside a vertical plane that is defined by an upper joint edge and that is perpendicular to said main plane of the floorboard, and supporting a locking element designed to interact with said locking groove.
- the system comprises first and second types of floorboards, on which said first and second locking means are arranged in pairs on opposing short edges and long edges, respectively, wherein the locking means of the first type of floorboard along one pair of opposing joint edges is mirror inverted relative to the corresponding locking means along the same pair of opposing joint edges of the second type of floorboard.
- the system comprises a third type of floorboard, which is so designed that a first one of its two short edges presents said first locking means and both its long edges and its other short edge presents said second locking means.
- the present invention comprises a locking system and a flooring which is made of a first, second and third type of rectangular, mechanically locked floorboards .
- the first and the second type have along their long sides pairs of opposing connecting means for locking together similar, adjoining floorboards in the horizontal direction parallel to the principal plane of the floorboards and in the vertical direction perpendicular to the principal plane, and along their short sides pairs of opposing connecting means which allow locking together of similar, adjoining floorboards in the horizontal direction.
- the connecting means of the floorboards on the long side are designed so as to allow locking together by an angular motion along the upper joint edge, and the connecting means of the floorboards on the short side are designed so as to allow locking together by an essentially vertical motion.
- the connecting means of the first type of floorboard along one pair of opposing connecting means are arranged in a mirror-inverted manner relative to the corresponding connecting means along the same pair of opposite edge portions of the second type of floorboard.
- a floorboard of the third type has a short side which at least can be locked in the horizontal direction to a neighbouring short side and two long sides of another floorboard of the same third type and further to a short side and a long side of the first and the second type of floorboards.
- this third type has a short side and two long sides which can be locked to a neighbouring short side of a floorboard of the same third type and to a long side and a short side of the first and the second type.
- the floorboards of the third type which thus is a two-way board, allow laying in different directions and the floor can also be taken up again from two different directions.
- the two-way board has on one short side and on the two long sides a mechanical locking system which consists of a projection portion.
- the two-way board has one short side and two long sides which can be joined by an angular motion to at least one long side of the first and the second type.
- the floorboards are joined in a herringbone pattern long side against short side.
- the present invention comprises a method for providing a herringbone patterned flooring by means of a system of rectangular, mechanically joined floorboards, wherein neighbouring floorboards are designed for being mechanically joined in a horizontal direction perpendicular to respective joint edges of the floorboards and parallel with a main plane of the floorboards, wherein the floorboards are so designed that said joining is possible between two neighbouring short sides, between one of the short sides and a thereto neighbouring long side, and between two neighbouring long sides, wherein said mechanical joining in said horizontal direction is provided by first locking means provided at a first one of said neighbouring joint edges and comprising a locking groove, and second locking means provided at a second one of said neighbouring joint edges and compris- ing portion protruding outside a vertical plane that is defined by an upper joint edge and that is perpendicular to said main plane of the floorboard, and supporting a locking element designed to interact with said locking groove.
- the system comprises first and second types of floorboards, on which said first and second locking means are arranged in pairs on opposing short edges and long edges, respectively, wherein the locking means of the first type of floorboard along one pair of opposing joint edges is mirror inverted relative to the corresponding locking means along the same pair of opposing joint edges of the second type of floorboard.
- the method comprises joining the floorboards in different directions in the main plane of the floorboards by means of inwards angling, wherein a first row is formed by joining, long side against short side, floorboards of a third type, which is so designed that a first one of its two short edges pre- sents said first locking means and both its long edges and its other short edge presents said second locking means, wherein at least one second row is formed by joining, long side against short side, floorboards of said first type of floorboards and said second type of floor- boards, said second row being joined to said first row, in a first installation direction relative to the first row, and wherein at least one third row is formed by joining, long side against short side, floorboards of said first type of floorboards and said second type of floorboards, said third row being joined to said first row in a second installation direction, opposite said first installation direction, such that each one of said floorboards forming part of said third row is rotated 180° relative to a respective corresponding floorboard forming part of said second row.
- Figs la-c show floorboards according to the invention.
- Figs 2a-2h show locking systems on long side and short side.
- Figs 3a-3c show joining in a herringbone pattern.
- Figs 4a-4b show laying of a floor.
- Figs 5a-5b show laying in different directions.
- Figs 6a-6d show an embodiment with a flexible tongue.
- Figs 7a-7c show a cost efficient production with separated surface layer strips. Description of Embodiments Fig.
- Fig. la shows 3 rectangular floorboards seen from above, which are of a first type A, a second type B and a third type C according to the invention.
- Fig. la also shows the floorboards seen from the side toward the long side and toward the short sides.
- the floorboards of the types A and B have in this embodiment long sides 4a, 4b which have vertical and horizontal connecting means and short sides 5a, 5b which have horizontal connecting means.
- the connecting means are formed integrally with the floorboard.
- the two types are in this embodiment identical except that the location of the locking means is mirror-inverted.
- the locking means allow joining of long side 4a to long side 4b by at least inward angling and long side 4a to short side 5a by inward angling and also short side 5b to long side 4b by a vertical motion.
- joining of both long sides 4a, 4b and short sides 5a, 5b in a herringbone pattern, i.e. with the boards A and B interconnected perpendicular to each other long side against short side can take place by merely an angular motion along the long sides 4a, 4b.
- the long sides 4a and 4b of the floorboards have connecting means which in this embodiment consist of a projecting portion P in one long side 4b.
- the projecting portion P is positioned outside the upper joint edge and consists of a strip 6 and a groove 9.
- the other long side 4a has a tongue 10.
- One short side 5a also has a projecting portion P with a strip 6 and a tongue groove 9 while the other short side 5b has a locking groove 15 but no tongue 10.
- the short side 5b can only be locked horizontally and not vertically.
- the third type C has short sides 5a and 5b which with respect to the locking function are essentially identical to the first type A and the second type B. Opposite long sides 4a and 4b, however, are differently formed. They are characterised in that the short sides 5a, 5b of two such floorboards 1, l 1 can be joined to each other and locked in the horizontal direction by a vertical motion, and one short side 5b of one board 1 can be joined in the same manner to the two long sides 4a, 4b of the other board 1'.
- the mechanical joining consists of a first locking means in one short side 5b having a locking groove 12 and a second locking means in the other short side 5a having a portion P which projects beyond a vertical plane VP which is perpendicular to the principal plane of the floorboard and defined by the upper joint edge.
- the floorboards are characterised in that the second locking means with the projecting portion P is positioned on one short side 5a and on the two long sides 4a, 4b.
- the long sides 4a and 4b can in this embodiment not be locked to each other and one short side 5a cannot be locked to any long side.
- the floorboard 1 of the third type C has a short side 5b which preferably can be locked in the horizontal direction to a neighbouring short side 5a and two long sides 4a, 4b of a floorboard l 1 of the same type C and also to a short side 5a and one long side 4b of the first A and the second type B of floorboards.
- the floorboard C has one short side 5a and two long sides 4a, 4b which can be locked to a neighbouring short side 5b of a floorboard 1' of the same type C and also to a long side 4a and to a short side 5b of the first A and the second type B.
- Joining of the above mentioned three essentially identical sides 4a, 4b and 5a of the third type C to the long sides 4a of the two mirror-inverted boards of the first A and the second type B can take place by an angular motion, and this joining can take place both in the vertical and in the horizontal direction.
- Joining of A and B panels to each other could be made in the following way: The long sides 4a could be locked to adjacent long sides 4b vertically and horizontally with angling.
- Joining of the short sides 5b to the long and short sides 4b and 5a which have a projecting portion P can take place by a vertical motion and the locking is preferably horizontal only.
- Fig. lb shows how a long side 4a of the two floorboards of type A and B is joined by an angular motion to the projecting portions P of the floorboard of the third type C. After joining, the projecting portions P of the A and B boards are oriented in the opposite direction. This allows subsequently laying in two directions by an angular motion when a new board is joined to a previously laid by being placed upon and angled down toward the projecting portion.
- laying is easier to carry out than in the case where the projecting portion P must be inserted under a previously laid floorboard before inward angling.
- a change of the laying direction by means of a special two-way board according to the invention can thus be advantageous also when the boards are laid in parallel rows .
- Fig. lc shows how a short side 5b is placed on a short side 5a which has a projecting portion P.
- Such a vertical motion which causes a horizontal locking can only be made by 5b being placed on 5a. It is thus not possible to lock the floorboards according to this e bo- diment by 5a with the projecting portion P being placed on 5b.
- the two types of floorboards need not be of the same size and the lock- ing means can also be differently shaped.
- the connecting means on different sides can be made of the same material or of different materials, or be made of the same material but have different material properties.
- the connecting means can be made of plastic, metal, based-based material and the like. They can also be made of the same material as the floorboard, but may have been subjected to a property-modifying treatment, such as impregnation or the like.
- Figs 2a-2h show two embodiments of locking system which can be used to join floorboards according to the invention. It should be particularly pointed out that several other locking systems with corresponding or similar functions can also be used. Nor is it necessary to have the locking function in a projecting portion.
- Locking can take place on, or inside, the vertical plane VP.
- Figs 2a-2d show in detail the locking system according to Fig. 1.
- Fig. 2a shows the connecting means in two boards 1, 1' which are joined to each other with the long side 4a connected to the long side 4b.
- the vertical locking consists of a groove 9 which cooperates with a tongue 10.
- the horizontal locking consists of a projecting portion P with a strip 6, with a locking ele- ment 8 cooperating with a locking groove 12. This joint system can be joined by inward angling along upper joint edges.
- Fig. 2b shows the connecting means on the short side. They consist of a strip 6 with a locking element 8 which cooperates with a locking groove 12 and provides horizontal locking only of the floorboards 1, 1'.
- the short side 5a has a groove 9 which is adapted to cooperate with the tongue 10 of the long side 4a when long sides and short sides are locked to each other.
- the short side 5b has no tongue 10.
- Fig. 2c shows how the short side 5b is locked to the long side 4b.
- Fig. 2c can only be joined vertically by a vertical motion such that the short side 5b, with its locking groove 12, being placed on a long side or short side having a projecting portion P.
- Fig. 2d shows how the short side 5a can be locked to the long side 4a vertically and horizontally with a locking system that allows inward angling.
- Figs 2e-2h show examples of a locking system in which the projecting portion P instead consists of a tongue 10 which has a locking element 8 in its outer and upper part next to the floor surface in one joint edge of the floorboard 1.
- the locking system further has a groove 9 with an upper lip 21 and a lower lip 22 and also an undercut groove 12 in the other joint edge of the floor- board 1'.
- Such a locking system can be made compact and this reduces the waste of material when the tongue 10 is manufactured by machining the joint edge of the floorboard. The waste of material is very important when the floorboards are narrow and short.
- Figs 2f-2h show how such a locking system can be adapted so that it can joined by merely angling in a herringbone pattern and parallel rows.
- the short side 5b has no lower lip that prevents vertical locking.
- the long sides can be joined by angling and the long sides can also be locked to the short sides by angling and vertical folding. Locking using a vertical motion requires also in this case that one side be placed on the projecting portion P.
- Figs 3a-3c show laying of a floor in a herring- bone pattern using merely an angular motion along the long sides and in different directions of laying by using a special floorboard of the third type C.
- Fig. 3a shows how laying of a floor in a herringbone pattern can be begun by a first row Rl being laid with floorboards of the type C. The dashed line indicates the projecting portion P.
- An identical new board C2 is added to the first laid board CI in the first row and rotated through 90 degrees and joined with its long side 4a to the short side 5b of the first laid board. Then the remaining boards C3, C4 are laid in the same way. All boards are interconnected long side against short side by a vertical motion. The boards are only locked horizontally.
- a new row R2 can now be joined to the first row.
- the new row R2 consists of the first A and the second B type of floorboards. These can now be joined by an angular motion to the projecting portions B in the first row.
- A5 and A6 are laid by angling.
- B7 and B8 can then also be joined by angling, the short side 5b of the board B7 being folded down upon the projecting part of the board A6.
- an optional number of rows can be joined in the direction of laying ID1.
- the floorboards in the second row R2 lock the two-way boards C in the vertical direction when these boards are joined.
- Fig. 3c shows that the laying direction can now be changed to the opposite direction ID2.
- the boards B9 and B10 which have been rotated through 180 degrees relative to the boards B7 and B8 in the second row R2, can now be installed in a third row R3 against the C boards in the first row Rl by an angular motion.
- the boards All and A12 can be installed correspondingly and laying can continue in the laying direction ID2.
- This laying method for providing a floor with a herringbone pattern joined by inward angling in different directions and consisting of three types of floorboards A, B and C is characterised by joining a first row Rl long side against short side to floorboards of the third type C, after which at least a second row R2 of floorboards of the first A and the second type B are joined in a direction ID1 to the first row Rl and after that a new row R3 is joined in the opposite direction ID2 to the second row R2, with floorboards of the first A and the second type B which are rotated through 180 degrees relative to the floorboards A, B in the second row R2.
- Fig. 4a shows how a change of the laying direction can be used to provide simple and quick laying.
- Laying begins by the first row R2 being laid with two-way boards of the third type C1-C . Then the two-way boards C are joined to A5, A6 and B7, B8 in the second row R2. The space to the wall W can now be filled with cut-off floor- boards All, A14, A16 and B9, B13 and B15 which can be laid in the direction ID2 and adjusted to the shape of the wall W. Laying can then continue in the original direction IDl.
- Fig. 4b shows how the two-way boards C can be used to simplify laying of a continuous floor covering several rooms FL1 and FL2. Laying begins suitably by the first row Rl being laid using the two-way boards C. Then this row is locked by laying of the second row R2 with A and B boards.
- Laying can now be made of row R3 and the space to the wall is covered with floorboards. Then lay- ing can continue in the direction IDl until row R5 is laid. New two-way boards C are now installed in row R6 in room FL2. Then row R7 is laid which locks the two-way boards C. Row R9 can now be installed and the remaining part of the floor in the two rooms FL1 and FL2 can be laid in the direction IDl. The laying of the floor can be terminated by the remaining part of FL2 being laid by laying of row R8 and the remaining rows in the direction ID2. Two-way boards can also be used to facilitate take-up.
- Fig. 5a shows how the two-way board C according to the embodiment in Fig. 1 can be joined in a cross. Such joining can be made by a vertical motion.
- the short sides 5a, 5b can be formed according to Fig. 2a or 2e. Then they have a tongue that allows joining by an angular motion along upper joint edges and/or an essentially horizontal snapping-in. Also other types of angular and/or snap joints can be used.
- Fig. 5b shows how such joining in a cross can be used to provide a floor of two types of floorboards A, B which have mirror-inverted locking systems and which are joined mechanically long side against long side and long side against short side by merely an angular motion.
- the entire laying starts conveniently in the centre of the cross and can then occur optionally in four directions IDl, ID2, ID3 and ID4.
- the four parts of the cross are joined to A and B boards.
- the joining is characterised in that each two-way board C is joined to another two-way board as well as to an A and B board respectively. Take- up can occur in the reverse direction and each floor can thus be taken up in separate portions from four directions.
- a corresponding laying pattern can, of course, be provided by the long sides being angled and the short sides being snapped to each other. Joining of the long sides can also take place by insertion along the joint edge and/or horizontal or alternatively vertical snapping-in .
- Figures 6a-6c show an embodiment with a flexible tongue 30 in a sliding groove 40 which is preferably formed in the edge of a first panel 1.
- the flexible tongue is designed to cooperate with a tongue groove 41 of a second similar floor panel 1' in such a way that the second panel could be locked to the first floor panel in vertical and horizontal direction with a simple vertical folding.
- the flexible tongue 30 and the sliding grove 40 could be formed in the edge of the first panel 1, or as shown by figure 6d, in the edge of the second panel 1' .
- the tongue groove 41 is formed in the adjacent edge.
- the flexible tongue is during the vertical folding displaced two times in the sliding groove.
- the first displacement is effected by the vertical folding of the second floor panel.
- a second displacement of the flexible tongue towards its initial position is accomplished substantially by a spring effect caused by the flexible tongue and/or some other flexible device preferably located in the sliding groove.
- a locking system according to this embodiment could be used for example on the short sides of the A, B and C panels described above in fig la.
- the flexible tongue and the sliding grove should be formed on the short sides 5b.
- a floor consisting of A, B, and C panels could be installed with angling only and with all edges connected vertically and horizontally.
- Floor panels according to the invention are especially well suited to be used in floors which consist of rather small and narrow panels. When such floor panels have a surface of for example linoleum, textile, plastic, high-pressure laminate and similar surfaces, which according to known technology are produced in rolls or sheets and glued to a board material such as HDF, particle board and similar wood based panels, the production cost is rather high.
- the main reason is that a lot of waste is caused in connection with sawing of the semifinished sheet material 1 and the forming of the locking system, especially on the long sides.
- the semi-finished sheet material 1 consist of a surface layer 51, a core 50 and preferably a balancing layer 52. Sawing and forming of the projection portion P and the tongue 10 creates a lot of waste W.
- the objective of this invention is to reduce this waste. This objective is achieved by a production method and a semi-finished sheet or panel.
- a sheet- or roll formed surface material 51 is separated into surface strips 53 which are glued to the core 50 with a space 54 between the surface strips 53.
- the surface strips have preferably a width, which is substantially the same as the visible surface of the floor panels.
- the length of the surface strips could be similar to the length of one or several floor panels.
- the space 54 consists mainly of board material 50 without a surface layer 51. In most cases the space 54 will consist of a core covered with a glue layer. The same method could be used to save material on the backside. Even the balancing layer 52 could be glued to the core 50 with a space between the strips 53. Preferably the surface layer 51 and the balancing layer 52 are offset horizontally with a distance D in order to save cost. Figure 7c shows that the balancing layer 52 does not have to cover the projecting portion P.
- the balancing layer could be displaced inwardly on both sides of the surface layer by a distance D, D' .
- This could give further cost savings especially if the balancing layer is an expensive materi- al such as cork, wood veneer or fibre based material, foam or similar which also could be used for example to reduce sound.
- This method to separate the surface layer into strips before gluing offers especially the advantage that the surface layer could be punched or cut into sur- face strips with for example a knife, water jet or similar. Such methods do not create the same waste as for example a 2-3 mm saw blade which is presently used to cut the semi finished sheet 1 into individual panels.
- FIG. 7a shows that the pattern 56 will be different after machining of the edges. Cutting with a knife will not give any substantial loss of surface material and the pattern 56 in figure 7b could be maintained.
- the edge 55 of the surface strip 53 could be used as a reference surface when machining the edges of a floor panel. With this technology panels could be produced in a cost efficient way and even with patterns, which are substantially continuous over a joint between two panels.
- glue strips of the surface layer and/or the balancing layer to individual panels and not to a sheet, which is intended to be cut into several individual floor panels.
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