Floor system and floor with a plurality of floor panels

Abstract

A floor system and a floor of a plurality of floor panels of support boards with at least one coated surface, which have a decoration and locking devices on the support board edges, which devices make it possible to connect two or more floor panels to one another and prevent a displacement of the floor panels with respect to one another in the laying plane and / or perpendicular thereto. A first part of the floor panels has support boards of wood or a woodbased material and a second part of the floor panels has support boards of a plastic.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The present application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 to German Application Serial No 10 2005 017 443.4, which is expressly incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The invention relates to a floor system with a plurality of floor panels of support boards with at least one coated surface, which have a decoration and locking devices on the support board edges, which devices make it possible to connect several floor panels to one another and prevent a displacement of the floor panels with respect to one another in the laying plane and / or perpendicular thereto, and a floor of such floor panels connected to one another. BACKGROUND DESCRIPTION [0003] Floorings with support boards of different materials are known. There are, i.e., floorings with support boards of HDF or MDF, of solid wood or plywood with decorative layers applied thereto, whereby the decorative layers can also be provided with a we...

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Benefits of technology

[0009] The present invention provides a flooring system that is flexible and can be used in particular in areas with a high moisture ratio. The floor system according to the invention provides that a first part of the floor panels has a support board that is made of wood or a woodbased material, while a second part of the floor panels has support boards that are made of a plastic or a mixture of plastic and wood fibers. Through this mixture of floor panels compatible with one another and made of different support board materials, it is possible to produce a flooring of different materials which can be laid without adhesive with a corresponding development of the locking devices, e.g., as modified groove and tongue joints. The different types of support boards can be mixed with one another so that different areas in a room can be laid with a floor panel suitable therefor. Thus, for example, the area under a bathtub, a shower or a wash basin can be laid with a floor panel with a support board material that is suitable for the amounts of moisture occurring there.

Problems solved by technology

These methods, though, differ from manufacturer to manufacturer and from application to application and as a rule are not compatible with one another.

Thus, it is also known that boards of different materials are not compatible with one another in that they have different locking devices (e.g., locking mechanisms) and thus cannot be connected to one another.

These properties of a support board of wood or woodbased materials makes laying impossible in areas with waterlogging or high moisture ratios.

Floor panels with pure plastic support boards are relatively heavy, provide a poorer impact sound insulation and are more expensive than floor panels with woodbased material support boards.

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