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The α2-adrenergic receptors are G protein-coupled receptors that play a key role in the control of numerous physiological functions such as renal Na+ re-absorption, insulin secretion, platelet aggregation, and neurotransmitter release at sympathetic nerve endings (1). They consist of three highly homologous subtypes encoded by distinct genes: α2a, α2b, and α2c. Both α2a and α2c subtypes are required for normal presynaptic control of neurotransmitter release from sympathetic nerves from the heart and from central noradrenergic neurons. α2a adrenergic receptors inhibit transmitter release at high stimulation frequencies whilst the α2c subtype modulates neurotransmission at lower levels of nerve activity (2). The α2c receptor is distinguishable from α2a and α2b receptors by its sensitivity to prazosin (3).
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Infernal is the less-talked about project of Blackmoon and Themgoroth after their departure from Dark Funeral. The band never managed to release a full-length album and so the obvious place to start is with this debut EP, an eponymous four songs of blasphemous and blazing blackened wrath tantamount in intensity to any other Swedish band I can think of from the era. Plenty of bands blast and blast, but few feel as utterly relentless as the fiendish energy lent these compositions by what is going on percussively on this record.
The riffs on this fucker just absolutely cascade. That's the word that comes to mind with Blackmoon, Larsson and Themgoroth's punishing guitar work. It's thoroughly evil sounding material, arguably more ardent and wrathful than Dark Funeral's debut long player. The EP's ferocious black metal riffing lends itself nicely to the ripping death metal solos. The opener 'Requiem' just escalates and escalates, working in driving blackened thrash drumming among the blasting, while the amazing 'Wrath of the Infernal One' has this great use of almost chanted rasps and, along with 'Under the Hellsign', has a violent song structure something akin to Angelcorpse or Impiety were they far, far frostier and just as hostile to life. 'Storms of Armageddon' delivers exactly that, a third maelstrom of absurdly vicious extremity, with that same almost Canadian propensity for barbarism in the songwriting and a few short areas that seem to derive directly from death metal but still sound black as fuck.
The progression of each song is highly ominous, sometimes sounding like it should be played on a brass section in some horror movie soundtrack. I'm no musician but the vibe I get from the progression of most highly violent, fast extreme metal is one of increasing wrath and energy. Infernal manage to go beyond this and seemingly conjure a threatening and morbid atmosphere, where each bar seems to draw you a few feet lower into the waiting swirl of devouring fire and the winged bestiary that will take you down into Sathan's dominion.
Both more instantly appealing and more durable than any Dark Funeral release (and I say that as a big fan of not just the debut but most of Dark Funeral's work), never even requiring me to be in the right mood to listen to it for enjoyment to be had once I actually put it on. I think a couple of albums in this style and with this line-up would have made this band truly legendary, rather than just this EP being a classic.
After leaving Dark Funeral, sometime in 1996, Blackmoon directed his efforts toward recording the second Necrophobic album, Darkside. Following this, he was involved with the War project. He also put together yet another band, recruiting former Dark Funeral vocalist, Themgoroth, and Impious (of In Aternum). In late 1998, these three were joined by Matte Modin as they entered Dugout Studio to record their self-titled E.P. The recording would then be completed at Abyss Studio, which was also the spawning ground of The Secrets of the Black Arts. The cover art was taken from "Inferno" (The Divine Comedy) by Gustave Dore and the band makes specific mention, in the liner notes, that no keyboards were used on this recording. That says a lot for the musical climate, at that time, as far too many bands were emerging from all sides, hiding awful musicianship beneath a wall of synth. None of that is found here. What the listener is exposed to, here, is what the Infernal call 'Satanic Holocaust Metal'. This is a very appropriate description.
"Requiem (The Coming of the Age of Satan)" erupts like a violent storm of dark and malevolent forces, seeking to utterly destroy the frail human spirit as Blackmoon's nocturnal melodies are accompanied by Themgoroth's absolutely demonic screams. The drumming is incredibly intense, yet very skilled. The guitar solo proves to be another welcome addition to the music. This song is merciless in its approach, completely crushing everything in its path. The sound is very similar to The Secrets of the Black Arts, yet even more violent and destructive. Despite its chaotic fury, the riffs are actually very memorable. It is very obvious that this song was composed by no amateur.
"Wrath of the Infernal One" begins with more of Blackmoon's trademark riffs, creating a cold and nocturnal aura. The lyrics are as blasphemous and evil as anything found on the early Dark Funeral material. About halfway through, there is yet another lead solo, just to add to the dark atmosphere. This song has a barbaric pace, much like the opener, yet the exceptional songwriting abilities possessed by Blackmoon are revealed here, as this is similar and yet quite different from that song.
The next song is "Storms of Armageddon", bursting forth from the deepest abyss to take your feeble human spirit into the darkness, only to be ripped to shreds and condemned to hellish torment. Mid-way through, there is another brief solo that sounds reminiscent of something from an early Necrophobic album. The tremolo riffs that slither through the chaos seem to take hold in the darkest recesses of your mind, haunting you long after the song has concluded.
"Under the Hellsign" is the final song, beginning with demonic screams from beyond. This continues the frantic pace that has been established by this point. This E.P. would make a good soundtrack for a battle. The cold tremolo riffs stand out amidst the hellish storm of blasting drums and Themgoroth's possessed vocals, sounding a bit like old Mayhem. There is not much variation, from song to song, as the same fast pace dominates this recording, yet it is impressive to see a band managing to accomplish the most within these limits, making sure that each song has an identity of its own.
If you were disappointed with the direction taken by Dark Funeral, following the departure of Blackmoon and Themgoroth, then you are encouraged to seek this out. What you will find here is violent and uncompromising Swedish Black Metal.
Merciless and like a hellish thunderstorm, loaded with the infernal hate of the Dark One Infernal's debut crushes upon the listener, the worthless, wretched mortal human being, this entity of flesh, whose existence is merely a live-through of pain and suffering. With each riff, each hit on the drum kit and each vomited diabolical phrase, the feeble soul gets more and more excruciated, to finally loose itself in the eternal pandemonium of satanic Black Metal. Again and again those waves smite against the wimpy human soul to finally cleanse its inner spirit from all that is good, so that like on scorched earth a new sprout can set the stage for a new era, an era no longer burdened by the cross of the self-proclaimed holder of the holy truth.
Love, peace and harmony are far away from this band, so are progressive sound-writing, keyboards and clean vocals. The contrast is the case. With roots in bands like Setherial and Dark Funeral, Infernal takes the core elements of their style from them and distills it into a blastbeats loaded piece of aggressive played Black Metal. Like Dark Funeral in their early days or Setherial on Hell Eternal this music offers something for those who are interested in straight and uncompromising piece of Swedish Black Art. In every minute one clearly recognizes that these musicians are capable of what they are doing; listenable through their way of playing the music – speed and technique – but also in the way they have written their songs. Even though not much of variation has been used and the strictly self-limitation to a small facet in the vast Black Metal genre might often be a burden to a band leading to an overwhelmingly self-copying in each songs, Infernal is actually able to bypass this shortcoming and keeping the level in song writing high over the entire album; young bands often fail on this point, because they lack of experience to write songs that catch the listener over a longer period.
Seldom the band leaves the realm the fast played riffs and gives room for a solo or the like. It is indeed surprising that they are used, but they are restricted to a minor role or a neat extra to make the music more interesting and raising it to a core element of it. Matte Modin on the drums really does a great job and uses a lot of breaks and styles so that unlike bands as Setherial the drums are not reduced to some double-bass thing in the background that could also be played by a drum computer, but to a important and dominating part of the entire structure of the songs. The guitars fit well into this category, too, and form the basis of the music with the expected fast played riffs. Surprisingly good are the solos, which appear now and then, especially because they take the enormous speed of the music to an even higher level and contrasting fine the Black Metal thunder which is normally the predominant part of the music. Even though the vocals offer nothing new or any unheard style, they add the music undoubtedly with the right amount of power to give the tracks the last kick. Recorded at the Dugout studio and completed at the famous Abyss studio, the sound of the music is nothing less than excellent and the main reason this album has such power.
Overall the music is really good to listen at, especially if one is fond of aggressive played Black Metal and wants nothing else than a neck breaker piece of music. Even after listening over and over to this album it is not getting boring or the sort, even after all those years that have passed since the record found its way into my collection. Yes, it is somehow very limited and nothing special in particular, but who cares? There are hardly bands out there capable to play such an intense piece of Black Metal. 16:03 minutes are not much … but enough to get some serious neck injuries.

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Mr Ullas said the Thiruvananthapuram-based Habitat Technology Group with the renowned architect G.Sankar at its helm has almost completed the design of the proposed queue complex as proposed in the Sabarimala Masterplan.
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The biography of José Gorostiza. This page has biographical information on José Gorostiza, one of the best poets of all time. This PoetrySoup page also provides access to the poet's poems, best poetry, quotes, and video biographies...if available.
José Gorostiza Alcalá (10 November 1901 — 16 March 1973) was a Mexican poet, educator, and diplomat. For his achievements in the poetic arts, he was made a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua .
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He wasn't KOd tonight and nearly pulled it off, so I don't understand the logic of pointing out his KO loss to Rampage. The main issue in his other 2 UFC loses is his cardio (I thought he split 1-1 with both Rich and Chuck going into the 3rd). All 3 of his loses were against former UFC champions
Iole bringing up retirement and saying he's made a lot of money (sounds familiar) and then said Dana is not doing what he did with Chuck (which pissed a lot of people off), hmmmm.
Iole writes this only hours after he loses a decision under the title "UFC fighter loses big". Ridiculous - that should describe a KO, not a decision loss to someone who was favored


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Feb 1, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 19 • By KATHERINE EASTLAND
Most of the churches have been cast in new, secular roles as garages, luxury hotels, granaries, storage rooms for furniture or potatoes or hay, classrooms, bars, cafés, and art studios. One is a morgue. A few, such as the St. Barnabas Monastery in the Karpass peninsula, have been set up as icon galleries with whitewashed walls, but the works on view are not native to the buildings and are young and relatively worthless, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Of the Christian buildings in the occupied north, three are kept, at least in appearance, as churches. But restrictions on their use and maintenance prevent Christians living in the north from worshiping in them regularly without interruption by Turkish officials.
The history of converting churches into mosques and mosques into churches, and of reappropriating buildings of any faith for secular purpose, is long and well documented. But the argument that Cyprus's occupied religious buildings, and the art within them, are legitimate spoils of war does not hold. In today's Europe, cultural property is seen as subsisting in a special niche that should be protected. Under the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), destruction of cultural heritage is considered a war crime. Furthermore, the European Union itself has several directives on cultural property—which Turkey would have to follow should it enter the EU. (Notably, one of the preconditions the EU has set for Turkey's admission is a settlement to the Cyprus problem; i.e., the island's reunification.)
This past summer in Washington the U.S. Helsinki Commission (CSCE), which monitors compliance between and among member states on the Helsinki accords, issued a 50-page report for Congress on the state of Cyprus's cultural and religious heritage, saying that it was "in peril" and that "under conventional and customary law, Turkey, as an occupying power, bears responsibility for acts against cultural property." It also numbers the various ways Turkey has violated international humanitarian law, as set forth in post-World War II treaties that Ankara has signed.
While there is a promising, but perhaps fatally slow-going, effort to reunify Cyprus by diplomatic means, the Church of Cyprus—which has remained independent through every vicissitude of political rule—believes it has a special, natural obligation to its religious heritage. But this heritage, especially if it's already in shambles, fades in importance when urgent matters such as governance and property distribution are being addressed by the diplomats drafting a political settlement for Cyprus. The churches themselves simply don't get much attention. But the Church, headed by Archbishop Chrysostomos II, is taking significant measures to try to save its property, usurped by the TRNC. And the Church reminds the EU that Turkey still has a long way to go before it conforms with EU policies.
Around Easter last year Chrysostomos opened an office in Brussels next to EU headquarters. When I met with him here in Nicosia—in his long office, featuring an icon of Christ in judgment on the wall behind his desk—he cheerfully said that at the new office there will always be a bishop to welcome EU parliamentarians and "present and promote our efforts." By doing this, Chrysostomos hopes to "exert some pressure with the hope that we will manage to restore all the monuments if possible before it's too late." Thirty-eight are near collapse.
"Of course, it goes without saying that I can see the huge difficulties associated with such a task, not to say its impossible nature. Unfortunately," he continues, "it seems to me that Europe does not know the real dimensions of the problem."
I know that the government might be reacting to such an idea [direct involvement of the Church] especially at this time, but we will continue our efforts. We invited [Cypriot] President Christofias to come and inaugurate our offices with us in Brussels, but he didn't.
To further publicize the churches—and prepare as much as possible for their pending restoration—the Church has underwritten, through the Kykkos Monastery, the work of a young Byzantinist at the Hellenic Open University in Patras, Greece, to catalog all accessible religious monuments in the north. Professor Charalampos G. Chotzakoglou started work on the project with a team of archaeologists and other Byzantinists in 2003, when the Green Line was partially opened by the TRNC government, allowing people to cross the line freely for the first time since 1974. The Helsinki Commission consulted Chotzakoglou's detailed account when it drafted its report for Congress last summer.
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This week, the head of the Reform movement's political arm, Rabbi David Saperstein, helped launch an effort by progressive religious leaders to get President Barack Obama's health care plan passed in Congress; the president's agreed to join the group in a call-in webcast on August 19. Saperstein and liberal Rev. Jennifer Butler appeared this morning on the public radio show The Takeaway.
"There's nothing in the Torah about palliative care, or dialysis…. When you start getting down to the details of the bills, how do you turn that into a moral argument as opposed to a political argument?" a host of the show asked Saperstein.
The rabbi gave the standard reply that we can apply the moral norms given in the Torah to contemporary situations; then, more intriguingly, he argued that "by the time of the Talmud 2,000 years ago, [these norms] had developed into health care systems and rules and requirements to provide adequate health care for all people. Any community that wanted to be considered a moral community had to provide health care, had to provide health care providers. These are not new ideas."
So does that imply that people opposed to Obama's health care plan are immoral?
"Good moral people can differ on the best way to go about achieving universal health care," Saperstein said. "That isn't what this debate has been about, unfortunately. This has been a very disturbing debate in terms of the civility of discourse in America. When people make these extraordinary accusations and allusions about fascism and Nazism and the Holocaust, what they're doing is trying to take these ideas outside the free marketplace of ideas."
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13.07.06 - Al Franco and Willie Schunke of II Feathers Boxing return to the Morongo Casino on July 21st in the city of Cabazon, California after a successful May 19th show. Sponsored by Frontier Homes, Battles in the WarZone IV will be headlined by Mexican Warriors Luis Orlando Latigo Lora (10-0, 7 KOs) of Culiacan, Sinaloa vs. Christian Solano (19-8, 14 KOs) of Los Mochis, Sinaloa.. The co-main event will feature an intriguing womans attraction as Bantamweight Heather Percival (8-2, 1 KO) squares off against New Mexicos Monica Lovato (7-1, 4 KOs).
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PGA Tour player Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky have taken to Twitter to say they're getting married.
Johnson tweeted Sunday that ''she said yes!!!'' and included a picture of a large diamond ring on the daughter of hockey great Wayne Gretzky. She retweeted it, along with several congratulatory messages from friends and family.
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Is it possible to produce two similar movies within a year about a thoroughly depressing event- brutal murders in Kansas and the subsequent unraveling of their famous chronicler-and make both films worth seeing?
Yes, in an answer so short Truman Capote might never have used it. Last year's deeply disturbing "Capote" was many critics' pick for the best movie of 2005, including my own. And comes now "Infamous," nearly identical in subject, ready and able to win audiences on its own merits.
"Infamous" is the Technicolor version of the sepia-toned "Capote." Writer and director Douglas McGrath remains respectful of the awful attack on the Clutter family in 1959.
Actor Toby Jones' Capote is more physically flamboyant than Philip Seymour Hoffman's Oscar-winning turn last year, scampering across even the most somber corn field on little cat's paws.
The differences amount to this: "Capote" was one of the saddest movies you'll ever see, while "Infamous" is one of the funniest sad movies in recent memory.
Like "Capote," "Infamous" begins with an already-celebrated Capote stuck between stories for The New Yorker, stumbling across a news item on the Kansas murders. He leaves immediately for the Midwest, with researcher-friend Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock, this time) in tow.
Why profile Capote twice in a year? Pure chance, it turns out. Making the best out of an impossible marketing situation, McGrath loves to tell the story of finishing his script, based on a book by George Plimpton, and calling a studio friend in excitement.
Can't wait to send this to you, McGrath says. But I've already got it, the studio exec says, having just read Dan Futterman's script for "Capote."
Muddling ahead to shoot a few months after "Capote" wrapped, McGrath chose a few different angles. His most awkward and unsuccessful idea is having Capote's friends break the action with direct interviews into the camera, as if they were in a PBS documentary. The device makes no sense in the storytelling, as all the marvelous bon-mots offered in the interviews - "imagine what a Brussels sprout would sound like, that's what Capote sounded like" - could have been said elsewhere.
McGrath also goes for star power, occasionally to the detriment of the mood. Aside from Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow plays singer Peggy Lee, and Sigourney Weaver plays Capote confidante Babe Paley.
Having said that, the stars do terrific turns.
McGrath invited controversy by affirming an undocumented physical liaison between Capote and the lead killer, Perry Smith. As Smith, Daniel Craig is the one actor in "Infamous" who noticeably improves on the parallel role in "Capote," bringing a fervor and near-religious charisma that contributes to Capote's subsequent undoing.
(That Craig could be playing on-screen as both a bisexual mass murderer and James Bond, in the forthcoming "Casino Royale," is a testament to his ambition and talent.)
Just like Capote, Jones knows how to deliver a line, waiting until the room quiets enough to receive his Brussels-sprout voice. When Smith complains about Capote's writing style in earlier books, Capote tells a friend, "Imagine being told your work lacked kindness, by a four-time killer."
When Lee, about to publish her debut novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," encourages Capote to stick to the truth for "In Cold Blood," he waves her off.
"It's your book," she relents.
"Yes. My seventh," he says.
The power of both Capote movies comes from their relentless focus on his deal with the devil, telling Smith anything he needed to hear in exchange for the details that would make "In Cold Blood" a revolutionary writing form.
"No one's ever treated me like you have," Smith says. "Is it just to get me to tell you stuff?"
"No," Capote responds emphatically, but of course the answer is an undeniable yes. All journalists make the bargain on some level, no matter how small the story; people who don't want to speak are coaxed into it, and a lifetime of guilt is born.
"Life is painful," Capote tells another friend. "I suppose I'm able to endure it because I'm able to alchemize it into art."
But the alchemy produces the strong side effect of corrosion, and Capote's soul suffered. Now there are two movies that make their own art out of that pain.
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Floorboards for installation of floors in herringbone pattern are formed with two opposite sides inverted relative to each other. The invention further comprises methods for producing and making floorings comprising such floorboards, as well as fitting pieces and sets of parts for such floorings.
1. A method for making a floor of mechanically locked floorboards, each of said two different types of floorboards along their four edge portions having pairs of opposing connectors for locking adjoining first type and second type floorboards in both a vertical and a horizontal direction,
the connectors of the first type and second type floorboards designed to allow locking-together in a first direction in a plane of the floorboards by at least snapping-in and locking-together in a second direction in the plane of the floorboards by inward angling and/or snapping-in, and
the first type floorboard differing from the second type floorboard because the connector of the first type floorboard along one pair of opposite edge portions is arranged in a mirror-inverted manner relative to a corresponding connector along the same pair of opposite edge portions of the second type floorboard,
the method comprising:
(a) locking together a short side of a first floorboard with a long side of a second floorboard, the first floorboard being of the first type floorboard and the second floorboard of the second type floorboard;
(b) locking together a first edge portion of a third floorboard with a long side of one of the previously connected first floorboard and second floorboard and displacing said first edge portion of the third floorboard along the same to locking-together by snapping in a second edge portion of the third floorboard with a long side of the other of the previously connected floorboards; and
(c) repeating step (b) to add further floorboards.
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The present application is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/235,940, filed on Sep. 6, 2002 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,127,860, which application claims the benefit of Swedish Application SE 0103130-1, filed on Sep. 20, 2001. The disclosures in both these applications are incorporated herein by reference.
The invention relates generally to the technical field of locking systems for floorboards. The invention concerns on the one hand a locking system for floorboards which can be joined mechanically in different patterns and, on the other hand, floorboards provided with such a locking system and various methods of installation. The invention is particularly suited for use in mechanical locking systems integrated with the floorboard, for instance, of the types described and shown in WO94/26999, WO96/47834, WO96/27721, WO99/66151, WO99/66152, WO00/28171, SE0100100-7 and SE0100101-5 which are herewith incorporated by reference, but is also usable in other joint systems for joining of flooring. More specifically, the invention relates to locking systems which enable laying of mainly floating floors in advanced patterns.
The present invention is particularly suited for use in floating wooden floors, such as massive wooden floors or parquet floors. These types of floor often consist of a surface layer, a core and a balancing layer and are formed as rectangular floorboards intended to be joined along both long sides and short sides.
The following description of prior-art technique, problems of known systems as well as the object and features of the invention will therefore as non-limiting examples be aimed mainly at this field of application. However, it should be emphasized that the invention can be used in optional floorboards which are intended to be joined in different patterns by means of a mechanical joint system. The invention may thus also be applicable to homogeneous wooden floors, laminate floors with a surface of laminate and a core of e.g. fiberboard and floors with a surface of plastic and/or cork and the like.
Traditional parquet floors are usually laid in a floating manner, i.e. without glue, on an existing subfloor which does not have to be quite smooth or plane. Any irregularities are eliminated by means of underlay material in the form of e.g. cardboard, cork or foam plastic which is laid between the floorboards and the subfloor. Floating floors of this kind are usually joined by means of glued tongue-and-groove joints, (i.e. joints with a tongue on one floorboard and a tongue groove on an adjoining floorboard) on long side and short side. In laying, the boards are joined horizontally, a projecting tongue along the joint edge of one board being inserted into a tongue groove along the joint edge of an adjoining board. The same method is used on long side as well as short side, and the boards are usually laid in parallel both long side against long side and short side against short side.
In addition to such traditional floors which are joined by means of glued tongue/tongue groove joints, floorboards have been developed in recent years, which do not require the use of glue but which are instead joined mechanically by means of so-called mechanical joint systems. These systems comprise locking means which lock the boards horizontally and vertically. The mechanical joint systems can be formed by machining the core of the board. Alternatively, parts of the locking system can be made of a separate material which is integrated with the floorboard, i.e. already joined with a floorboard in connection with the manufacture thereof at the factory. The floorboards are joined, i.e. interconnected or locked together, by various combinations of angling, snapping-in and insertion along the joint edge in the locked position. By interconnection is here meant that floorboards with connecting means are mechanically interconnected in one direction, for instance horizontally or vertically. By locking-together, however, is meant that the floorboards are locked both in the horizontal and in the vertical direction.
The principal advantages of floating floors with mechanical joint systems are that they can be laid quickly and easily by different combinations of inward angling and snapping-in. They can also easily be taken up again and be reused in some other place.
All currently existing mechanical joint systems and also floors intended to be joined by gluing have vertical locking means which lock the floorboards across the surface plane of the boards. The vertical locking means consist of a tongue which enters a groove in an adjoining floorboard. The boards thus cannot be joined groove against groove or tongue against tongue. Also the horizontal locking system as a rule consists of a locking element on one side which cooperates with a locking groove on the other side. Thus the boards cannot be joined locking element against locking element or locking groove against locking groove. This means that the laying is in practice restricted to parallel rows. Using this technique, it is thus not possible to lay traditional parquet patterns where the boards are joined long side against short side in (herringbone pattern) or in different forms of diamond patterns.
Such advanced patterns have originally been laid by a large number of wood blocks of a suitable size and shape being glued to a subfloor, according to a desired pattern, possibly followed by grinding to obtain an even floor surface and finishing in the form of e.g. varnish or oil. The wood blocks according to this technique have no locking means whatever, since they are fixed by gluing to the subfloor.
Another known method of laying advanced patterns implies that the wood blocks are formed with a groove along all edges of the block. When the wood blocks are then laid, tongues are inserted into the grooves in the positions required. This results in a floor where the wood blocks are locked in the vertical direction relative to each other by the tongue engaging in tongue grooves of two adjoining wood blocks. Optionally this method is supplemented with gluing to lock the floor in the horizontal directions and to lock the floor in the vertical direction relative to the subfloor.
U.S. Pat. No. 1,787,027 (Wasleff) discloses another system for laying a herringbone parquet floor. The system comprises a plurality of wood blocks which are laid on a subfloor to form a herringbone parquet floor. Each wood block is provided with a set of tongues and tongue grooves which extend over parts of each edge of the wood block. When the wood blocks are laid in a herringbone pattern, tongues and tongue grooves will cooperate with each other so that the wood blocks are locked together mechanically in both the vertical and the horizontal direction. The tongues and tongue grooves that are shown in Wasleff, however, are of a classical type, i.e. they cannot be snapped or angled together, and the locking effect is achieved only when a plurality of wood blocks are laid together to form a floor. The system according to Wasleff consists of two types of wood blocks, which are mirror inverted relative to each other as regards the location of tongues and tongue grooves. The design of the locking system is such that a shank-end mill is necessary to form the tongue grooves shown. This is a drawback since machining using a shank-end mill is a relatively slow manufacturing operation.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,426,820 (Terbrack) discloses that floorboards can be joined long side against short side if the floor consists of two different floorboards which a joint system which can be laid merely by inward angling, which is not displaceable in the locked position and in which floorboards cannot be joined by snapping-in. Moreover
U.S. Pat. No. 5,295,341 (Kajiwara) discloses snappable floorboards which have two different long sides. One part of the long side is formed with a groove part and another part with a tongue part. Nor are such floorboards displaceable in the locked position. The manufacture is complicated, and nor can they be used to provide the desired pattern.
Boden Wand Decke (Domotex, January 1997) shows a laminate floor where floorboards with different surfaces have been joined to form a floor having a simple pattern. It is also shown that floorboards have been joined long side against short side, but only in such a manner that all the short sides which are joined with a long side extend along a straight line. Consequently, this is an application of a prior-art system.
An object of the present invention is to provide floorboards, joint systems, methods of installation, methods of production and a method of disassembly, which make it possible to provide a floor which consists of rectangular floorboards which are joined mechanically in advanced patterns long side against short side and which can be disassembled and reused. The terms long side and short side are used to facilitate understanding. According to the invention, the boards can also be square or alternatingly square and rectangular, and optionally also exhibit different patterns or other decorative features in different directions.
This object is achieved wholly or partly by systems according to claims 1 and 16, respectively, a flooring according to claim 23, a set of floorboards according to claim 25 or 26, fitting pieces according to claim 28, a locking strip according to claim 30, production methods according to claim 31 or 32, installation methods according to claims 3, 40, 50 and 54, respectively, a gripping tool according to claim 67, and a method of disassembly according to claim 70. The dependent claims define particularly preferred embodiments of the invention.
According to a first aspect, the present invention comprises a system for making a flooring which comprises quadrangular floorboards which are mechanically lockable, in which system the individual floorboards along their four edge portions have pairs of opposing connecting means for locking together similar, adjoining floorboards both vertically and horizontally (D1 and D2 respectively), and wherein the connecting means of the floorboards are designed so as to allow locking-together in a first direction in the plane of the floorboard by at least snapping-in and locking-together in a second direction in the plane of the floorboard by inward angling and/or snapping-in. Moreover the system comprises two different types of floorboard A and B respectively, the connecting means of one type of floorboard A along one pair of opposite edge portions being arranged in a mirror-inverted manner relative to the corresponding connecting means along the same pair of opposite edge portions of the other type of floorboard B.
An advantage of the present invention is that floorboards can be laid long side against short side in advanced patterns and that joining can be made quickly and easily in all the laying alternatives that may be used when laying in all four directions from a center.
The mirror-inverted joint systems need not be identical to allow joining. Surfaces that are not active in the vertical and horizontal locking means may, for instance, have a deviating shape. For example, the outer part of the tongue and the inner part of the groove may be varied.
According to a second aspect, the present invention comprises a system for making a flooring, which comprises quadrangular floorboards which are mechanically lockable, in which system the individual floorboards along their four edge portions have pairs of opposing connecting means for joining together similar, adjoining floorboards at least vertically, and wherein the pairs of opposing connecting means of the floorboards at least in a first direction in the plane of the floorboard are designed so as to allow locking-together both horizontally and vertically by inward angling and/or snapping-in. Moreover also this system comprises two different types of floorboard, the connecting means of one type of floorboard along one pair of opposite edge portions being arranged in a mirror-inverted manner relative to the corresponding connecting means along the same pair of opposite edge portions of the other type of floorboard.
According to a third aspect, the present invention comprises a flooring, which is formed by means of one of the systems described above. According to a fourth aspect, the present invention comprises a set of floorboards for making such a flooring. Such a set may be advantageous in terms of distribution since a customer, by buying such a set, can obtain a set of floorboards which are adjusted to each other. This is particularly advantageous if variations may appear in the manufacturing process as regards, for instance, the color of the surface or the tolerances of the connecting means.
According to a fifth aspect, the present invention comprises fitting pieces, which have at least one oblique edge and which along their edge portions have connecting means for cooperation with adjoining floorboards. Such fitting pieces may constitute an important aid in installation of a floor with an advanced pattern, such as a herringbone pattern, by the possibility of quickly and efficiently laying floorboards at an angle other than 90(with each other. Since also the fitting pieces are provided with connecting means, a herringbone flooring can be obtained, where both the frame and the actual herringbone pattern are mechanically locked together so that the entire floor is held together mechanically.
According to a sixth aspect, the invention comprises a locking strip for interconnecting floorboards provided with identical locking means. This can be an aid, for instance, in the cases where a fitting piece is not available or if one chooses to form all fitting pieces with identical connecting means all the way round, for instance with a view to reducing the number of variants of fitting pieces.
According to a seventh aspect, the present invention comprises a method for rational production of floorboards which have a system as described above.
An advantage of identical and mirror-inverted joint systems according to the invention is that the floorboards can be produced rationally although they consist of two different types, for instance boards of type A and boards of type B which have identical but mirror-inverted-joint systems on long side and short side compared with the boards of type A. All long sides of A and B boards can be machined, for instance, in a first machine. Then the A boards proceed to another machine where the short sides are machined. The boards that are to be provided with mirror-inverted joint systems, for instance the B boards, are however rotated through 180( in the same plane before machining of the short sides. Thus the two types of board A and B can be manufactured using the same machines and the same set of tools.
According to an eighth aspect, the present invention comprises four alternative or supplementary methods for laying a flooring using the system above. Quick and efficient laying of a floor according to the present invention can be carried out by means of one of these methods.
According to a ninth and a tenth aspect, the present invention comprises a gripping tool as well as a method for disassembly of a flooring as described above.
If the length of the long side is a multiple of the length of the short side, for instance 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. times the length of the short side, symmetrical patterns can be produced. If the joint system can also be joined by angling, very quick installation can be carried out by, for instance, the long sides being laid by inward angling and the short sides by snapping-in.
The joint systems on long sides and short sides may consist of different materials or the same material having different properties, for instance wood or veneer of different wood materials or fiber directions or wood-based board materials such as HDF, MDF or different types of fiberboard. This may result in lower production costs and better function as regards inward angling, insertion along the joint edge, snapping-in and durability.
The invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying schematic drawings which by way of example illustrate currently preferred embodiments of the invention according to its different aspects.
The objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments thereof in connection with the accompanying drawings in which like numerals designate like elements and in which:
In the following description, the two types of floorboard according to the invention will be designated A and B, respectively. This aims merely at illustrating the cooperation between two types of floorboard. Which type of board is designated A and B respectively is immaterial to the invention.
The invention is applicable to floorboards of many different sizes. For example, the floorboards may be approximately the same size as the wood blocks in a traditionally patterned parquet floor. However, it is also possible to apply the invention to floorboards of the size that is today frequent on the market for parquet or laminate floors. Other sizes are also conceivable. It is also possible that boards of different types (for instance A and B) be given different sizes for creating different types of pattern.
The adding of further floorboards takes place by repeating the steps according to
The installation methods described above can be combined if required by the current installation situation. As a rule, when two joint edges are interconnected or locked together, that part of the joint edge which is active in the interconnection or locking-together of the joint edges may constitute a larger or smaller part of the joint edge. Interconnection or locking-together of two floorboards can thus take place even if only a small part of the joint edge of the respective floorboard is active.
A second alternative may be to use a frame comprising one or more rows of floorboards which are laid along the walls and which may have a shape according to the numbered floorboards 1-13. With such laying, all floorboards in the frame except the floorboard A13 can be joined mechanically. The other floorboards can be cut off in conjunction with installation and be connected in a suitable manner using glue, or by making a tongue groove or tongue by means of, for instance, a hand-milling machine. Alternatively, a tongue groove and a loose tongue can be used as shown in
A third alternative is that the frame 1-13 is filled with 10 different factory-made fitting pieces 1423, which are shown in
What is here said about designing of the connecting means on the floorboards is applicable in appropriate parts also to the fitting pieces.
If the fitting pieces are only provided with a groove 9 and if a loose tongue 10 is used as shown in
The loose tongue 10 shown in
Further a strip can be provided, which can be mounted on a cut-off edge of a floorboard and which is intended for cooperation, such as interconnection or locking-together, with locking means of adjoining floorboards. The strip can be made of a suitable material, such as wood, aluminum, plastic etc, and can be adapted to be fastened to a floorboard edge which, as a result of e.g. cutting off, does not have an integrated mechanical locking system. The strip is conveniently adjusted to the type of connecting means with which the other floorboards are provided, and it can be mounted with or without preceding milling. The strip can be provided by the meter to be cut off as required. Suitably the strip is fastened to the floorboard in a mechanical manner, such as by engagement in some kind of strip, recess or hole in the floorboard, but also glue, screws, nails, clips, adhesive tape or other fastening means are conceivable.
It is also possible to combine the embodiments so that both fitting pieces with factory-made connecting means on all edge portions and fitting pieces with other arrangements of connecting means are used in the same floor. For instance, the factory-made pieces can in such a case contribute to simplifying the fitting between the floorboards which constitute the frame and the floorboards which constitute the actual herringbone pattern. By means of this system, the frame can thus be laid along one or two walls, after which the herringbone pattern is connected to the frame by means of the fitting pieces, and the floor is laid starting from a first corner in the room. Adjustment for connection to the other walls can then take place using other types of connecting means or even in a conventional way, completely without connecting means.
After a first machining step 109 which produces the locking means on one pair of opposite edges of the floorboard, a second machining step 105 is carried out, which produces the locking means on the other pair of opposite edges of the floorboard. This second machining step 105 takes place, just as the first, by displacement of the set of tools and the floorboard blank relative to each other but in a second direction which preferably is perpendicular to the first direction. The machining steps 101, 105 take place in a manner known to those skilled in the art and the order between them may be varied within the scope of the present invention.
As a rule, production of large amounts of floorboards is fully automated. The floorboard is thus moved automatically between the two production steps, which can be arranged so that the floorboard blank is first moved in a first direction F1 in the longitudinal direction of the floorboard through a first machining device which comprises the first set of tools 109 a, 110 a and then in a direction F2 which is essentially perpendicular to the first direction through a second machining device which comprises the second set of tools 109 b, 110 b. The floorboards that are produced according to this method will all be of the same type, i.e. A or B according to the invention.
According to the invention, however, an existing production plant for production of floorboards of one type according to the invention can be adjusted for production of both types of floorboards using the same sets of tools. This takes place by a first type of floorboard (for instance A) being produced as described above, i.e. in two machining steps, while floorboard blanks which are to constitute a second type of floorboard (for instance B), after the first machining step 101 in step 104 is rotated half a turn in its plane. Subsequently the floorboard blank continues to the second machining step 105. As a result, the position of one pair of connecting means on the floorboard B will be reversed, compared with the floorboard A. The floorboard B will thus be mirror-inverted in relation to the floorboard A.
Control of which boards are to be rotated can take place based on information from a control system 103 which controls a rotating device 102 which rotates the floorboard blank after the first machining step 101 before it is transferred to the second production step 105.
When the floorboards A and B according to this preferred method are produced in the same line and with the same setting of tools, the two floorboards will have exactly the same length and width. This significantly facilitates symmetrical laying of patterns.
It is an advantage if the floorboards after installation can be taken up again and be relaid without the joint system being damaged. The take-up of a floorboard is conveniently made by a method which is essentially reversed compared with the installation method. One side, in most cases the short side, is released by the floorboard being pulled out horizontally so that the locking element 8 leaves the locking groove 12 by snapping-out. The other side, most conveniently the long side, can then be released by being pulled out along the joint edge, by upward angling or by snapping-out.
The inventor has tested many different patterns which are all obvious, provided that floorboards of the same or different formats and with snappable and mirror-inverted joint systems are used in installation of flooring. Basically, the invention can be used to provide all the patterns that are known in connection with installation of parquet flooring with tongue and groove, but also parquet flooring which is laid by gluing or nailing to the base and which thus does not have a joint system which restricts the possibilities of joining optional sides. It is also possible to produce floorboards which have more than four sides and which can have a first pair of connecting means on 3, 4 or more sides and a second pair of connecting means on corresponding adjoining sides. Floorboards can also be made with more than two different pairs of cooperating locking means. It is possible to use all prior-art mechanical joint systems which can be snapped together.
Although the present invention has been described in connection with preferred embodiments thereof, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that additions, deletions, modifications, and substitutions not specifically described may be made without department from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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