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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2021
Surface Technologies Gmbh & Co. KG, Baruth, DE;
Hans-Jürgen Hannig, Bergisch Gladbach, DE;
Carsten Buhlmann, Rangsdorf, DE;
Andreas Sieder, Ludwigsfelde, DE;
Eberhard Herrmann, Wismar, DE;
SURFACE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG, Baruth, DE;
Abstract
A panel including a core, a top side, an underside, a first edge pair and a second edge pair. The first edge pair has a groove profile at a panel edge and a complementary tongue profile at the opposite panel edge, which are lockable by a pivotal movement and positively lock so that movement of locked panels away from each other in the plane of the panels is opposed. At its opposite panel edges the second edge pair has a complementary receiving hook and an arresting hook. The arresting hook is assembled to the receiving hook by a joining movement in a plane perpendicular to the panel plane by the pivotal movement for the first edge pair. The receiving hook or the arresting hook has a holding groove for a separate locking element that provides vertical locking. A butting surface is arranged at the receiving hook substantially orthogonal to the top side. The arresting hook has a counterpart butting surface substantially orthogonal to the top side. The second edge pair has at least one sealing nose at a lower end of the counterpart butting surface of the arresting hook or at a lower end of the butting surface of the receiving hook. The sealing nose extends parallel to the respective panel edge over the entire length of the counterpart butting surface or the butting surface.