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Cabinet panel interlocks for appliance

An appliance that includes a cabinet having a base panel interlocked with a side panel is provided. The base panel includes interlocking features, including an interlock housing defining a tab receiving slot and an interlock projection projecting upward from the base panel. The side panel includes a panel body and a mounting flange extending from the panel body. The side panel also includes interlocking features, including a locking tab extending from the mounting flange. Further, the mounting flange defines a locking slot. To interlock the side panel with the base panel, the locking tab of the side panel is received within the tab receiving slot of the interlock housing of the base panel and the interlock projection is received within the locking slot of the mounting flange of the side panel.

Panels and decorative panel

Disclosed is a panel comprising a substrate (1), wherein the outer surface of the substrate (1) is covered with a coating layer (8), wherein one edge of the substrate (1) is provided with a recess (3), and a groove (4) is arranged inside the substrate (1) adjacent and interconnected to the recess (4), and wherein the opposite edge of the substrate (1) is provided with a protrusion (7) that can be fitted into the recess (3), and a tongue (6) is extended from the protrusion (7) that can fitted into the groove (4). The substrate is made of 100 parts by mass of PVC resin or PVC powder, 25-45 parts of styrene elastomer, 180-280 parts of stone powder, sawdust or rock, 1-10 parts of an additive, and 1-4 parts of an elastomer coupling agent. Also disclosed is a decorative panel formed by arranging and interlocking the panels in sequence by fitting the protrusion of a panel into the recess of a neighboring panel, as well as a panel installation process.

Panel with complimentary locking elements

A panel having at least one pair of complementary locking elements at mutually opposite panel edges, wherein the locking elements are in the form of positively locking holding profiles with a locking groove and with a complementary locking tongue respectively, wherein at least at the edge of one of the holding profiles the panel surface has an edge break portion, with the proviso that that holding profile which is provided with the edge break portion is provided with an upper contact surface beneath the edge break portion and the complementary holding profile is provided with a complementary upper contact surface which is arranged substantially parallel thereto, and wherein a butt joint can be produced by the two contact surfaces in contact with each other, wherein the butt joint is inclined relative to the panel surface and for that purpose one of the contact surfaces is associated with a tongue and is inclined downwardly in the direction of the free end of the tongue in question and the complementary upper contact surface is associated with a groove and is inclined downwardly in the direction of the bottom of the groove in question.

CABINET PANEL INTERLOCKS FOR APPLIANCE
20200378416 · 2020-12-03 ·

An appliance that includes a cabinet having a base panel interlocked with a side panel is provided. The base panel includes interlocking features, including an interlock housing defining a tab receiving slot and an interlock projection projecting upward from the base panel. The side panel includes a panel body and a mounting flange extending from the panel body. The side panel also includes interlocking features, including a locking tab extending from the mounting flange. Further, the mounting flange defines a locking slot. To interlock the side panel with the base panel, the locking tab of the side panel is received within the tab receiving slot of the interlock housing of the base panel and the interlock projection is received within the locking slot of the mounting flange of the side panel.

HIDDEN FASTENER UNIT AND RELATED METHOD OF USE
20200362570 · 2020-11-19 ·

A fastener unit and related method for securing a board to a support is provided. The fastener unit includes a spacer block, a grip element extending from the spacer block and configured to fit in and engage a groove of the board, and one or more board engagement elements extending from a portion of the spacer block. The board engagement elements can clamp the board, between an upper and/or lower surface of the board and a groove of the board, thereby securing the spacer block in a position adjacent the groove to establish a gap between the board and another board. Related methods of use also are provided.

DEVICE REPLACEMENT IN WEARABLE ARTICLE MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT
20200347861 · 2020-11-05 ·

A panel attachment structure for a wearable article manufacturing equipment includes: lower and upper panels vertically arranged while separated up-and-down; a first processing section and a first driving section respectively attached to a front face and a back face of the lower panel; a second processing section and a second driving section respectively attached to a front face and a back face of the upper panel; a base horizontally arranged under the lower panel; and a pair of pillars raised from the base, wherein, in the structure, the lower and upper panels are removably fixed to the pillars while being supported by the respective lower and upper parts of the pillars, and each pillar has a support section, provided between the upper and lower panels and supporting the load of the upper panel.

FLOORBOARDS WITH DECORATIVE GROOVES
20200290307 · 2020-09-17 · ·

Floorboards which have a core and a surface layer and are provided with decorative joint edges which are formed by removing the surface layer. A method for making a floorboard, or a floor element that is to be divided into at least two floorboards, the method including making a core from a sheet shaped material, from which a part of a locking system for vertical locking of the floorboards is to be formed, impregnating and/or staining the core surface with a substance at least in portions which in the completed floorboard will constitute a joint edge of the completed floorboard, and arranging an surface layer on the core surface.

Floor element for forming a floor covering, a floor covering and a method for manufacturing a floor element

A floor element for forming a floor covering, wherein the floor element comprises a board having edges provided with coupling elements adapted to cooperate with coupling elements of an adjacent similar floor element in the floor covering, wherein the coupling elements comprise at least one male part and at least one female part, the male part being positioned along a first edge and protruding outwardly beyond an upper edge at the first edge, the female part being positioned along a second edge and extending inwardly beyond an upper edge at said second edge to form a recess for at least partially receiving the male part, wherein the recess comprises an inlet opening having a vertical breadth, wherein the ratio between the vertical breadth and the thickness of the board is more than 0.4, and wherein the board has a thickness comprised from 3.2 mm to 6 mm.

CANTILEVERED AND EXTENDABLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR SUPPORTING STORAGE COMPARTMENTS
20200187647 · 2020-06-18 ·

A support system for a storage container includes an extendable slide assembly having a first end and a second end, and a support bracket removably receiving the first end of the extendable slide assembly to support the extendable slide assembly in a cantilevered manner. The second end of the extendable slide assembly is configured to support the storage container.

Floor element for forming a floor covering, a floor covering and a method for manufacturing a floor element

A floor element for forming a floor covering, wherein the floor element comprises a board having edges provided with coupling elements adapted to cooperate with coupling elements of an adjacent similar floor element in the floor covering, wherein the coupling elements comprise at least one male part and at least one female part, the male part being positioned along a first edge and protruding outwardly beyond an upper edge at the first edge, the female part being positioned along a second edge and extending inwardly beyond an upper edge at the second edge to thereby form a recess for at least partially receiving the male part, wherein the recess comprises an inlet opening having a vertical breadth, with the characteristic that the ratio between the vertical breadth and the thickness of the board is more than 0.4.