Device for covering the joints between floor coverings or the like

The invention relates to a covering device for floor covering joints or the like with a mounting profile and a cover strip, wherein the mounting profile which can be attached to the substrate via a web part along the joints or the like has at least one leg part which protrudes from the web part and can be clamped together with the cover strip.

With the help of these cover devices, expansion and edge joints or stepped shoulders of floor coverings, but also wall and ceiling coverings can be bridged and covered, the mounting profiles with their protruding leg parts forming clamping elements and the cover strips with longitudinal grooves or longitudinal ribs adapted to these clamping elements in arrangement and cross-section can be clamped onto the preassembled mounting profiles, which results in an invisible fastening option and the cover strips can be assembled and dismantled again if necessary without separate screw connections or nails. In order to achieve a sufficiently firm press fit, the mounting profiles must consist of a correspondingly rigid material, to which mounting profiles have previously been assigned rigid cover strips, so that only straight joints and shoulders can be covered with the known cover devices, while curved profiles are covered by polygonal ones that are complex to lay Covers are to be replaced.

The invention is therefore based on the object of creating a covering device of the type described at the outset, which also provides an efficient covering in an arc-shaped manner

AT 004 086 Ul running joints or the like. Allows and nevertheless ensures a secure and resilient fastening of the cover strips by means of the mounting profiles.

The invention solves this problem in that a cover strip made of flexible material and flexible about axes parallel to the insertion direction is provided which, as a mounting profile made of rigid material, includes a plurality of individual profile pieces or a profile rail which can be subdivided through transverse incisions in mutually pivotable sections about axes parallel to the insertion direction. The individual profile pieces or the profile rails, if necessary subdivided into pivotable sections, can be attached to the subsurface without difficulty following the predetermined course, including the arched course of the covering joints or shoulders, the individual profile pieces being spaced apart in the direction of the course or tangentially to an arcuate course, and the Profile rails with a straight course of the extended length or in the case of an arched course with the arch correspondingly wasted sections are laid. Due to the transverse incisions, which are radial incisions along the outer curvature and / or suitable gusset-shaped incisions along the inner curvature, the profile rail can be preassembled along the curve with sufficient accuracy despite being made of rigid material. The flexible cover strip can then be pressed onto the profile pieces or the profile rail in a few simple steps while simultaneously bending according to the mounting profile profile and locked in place so that a clean joint cover or the like is guaranteed even along an arcuate profile. The incisions in the profile rail are expediently only made by hand in the course of laying, for which simple cutting tools, for example secateurs, are sufficient, but they could also be prepared by the manufacturer to be distributed over the entire length of the rail.

If the cover strip consists of a plasticizer-containing polyvinyl chloride (PVC), the cover strip has the desired flexible properties, whereby the material can be colored in practically any color and it is also possible to coat the strip with desired decorative foils or the like.

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In the drawing, the subject matter of the invention is illustrated purely schematically, namely show

1 and 2 a floor covering joint covered with a covering device according to the invention in a vertical section along line II of FIG. 2 and in a horizontal section along line II-II in FIG. 1

In order to be able to neatly cover an arcuate transition joint F between two floor coverings B, a cover device 1 with a mounting profile 2 and a cover strip 3 is provided. The mounting profile 2 consists of a profile rail 4 which can be fastened to the substrate U via a web part 5 along the joint F and has two leg parts 6 protruding from the web part 5 with clamping elements 7 at the ends. This profile rail 4 made of rigid material is subdivided in the course of laying by transverse incisions 8 into mutually parallel to the ground surface about vertical axes A pivotable sections 9 so that it can be adapted to an arcuate course of the joint F similar to polygon lines.

The cover strip 3 serving as a transition profile can be clamped together with the profile rail 4, for which purpose it forms projecting longitudinal ribs 10 on the underside, which engage in a latching manner in the clamping elements 7 of the leg parts 6 of the profile rail 4. As indicated in FIG. 2, the cover strip 3 can also be latched onto the profile rail 4 at an inclined angle to compensate for height differences between the floor coverings B delimiting the joints. The cover strip 3 is made of pliable material and is flexible about axes parallel to the plug-in direction R, so that it can be bent following the course of the rails when it is attached to the profile rail 4 and a proper covering of joints F which also run in an arc is guaranteed.