Methods for packaging floor panels, as well as packed set of floor panels

Abstract

Method for packaging floor panels, more particularly floor panels of the type that consists of rectangular oblong floor panels that are intended to form a floor covering, wherein these floor panels are industrially manufactured in at least two widths and are provided with coupling parts at least at two opposite sides, wherein floor panels of different width are provided in the same package, more particularly the same box, wherein these floor panels are provided in a box in layers, wherein in at least one of these layers at least two floor panels are placed next to each other, with their longitudinal directions substantially parallel to each other.

1 . Method for packaging floor panels of the type that consists of rectangular oblong floor panels that are intended to form a floor covering, wherein these floor panels are industrially manufactured in at least two widths and are provided with coupling parts at least at two opposite sides, wherein floor panels of different width are provided in the same package including a box, wherein these floor panels are provided in the box in layers, wherein in at least one of these layers at least two floor panels are placed next to each other, with their longitudinal directions substantially parallel to each other. 
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the filling degree of the package, seen in width direction, for each of the aforesaid layers is at least 90%, whereby the filling degree is defined as
   (A/B)×100,
   
       wherein:
 A=the sum of the entire widths of the floor panel situated next to each other in one layer; 
 B=the internal width of the box. 
 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein herein floor panels of three different widths are provided in the same package, wherein the sum of the first width and a second width is a whole, or almost a whole, multiple of the third width. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein herein floor panels of three different widths are provided in the same package, wherein the sum of the width of the narrowest and the width of the broadest floor panels substantially corresponds to two times the width of the floor panels of intermediate width. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein herein floor panels of three different widths are provided in the same package when packaging the floor panels, and wherein, on the one hand, at least layers are formed, which, seen in a cross-section, comprise exactly two floor panels that are of the intermediate width, and, on the other hand, layers are formed, which, seen in cross-section, also comprise only two floor panels, of which a first, however, is of the smallest width and a second is of the largest width. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein at least two floor panels of a first width are commonly wrapped or packaged to provide a first subpackage; and wherein at least two floor panels of a second width are commonly wrapped or packaged to provide for a second subpackage; and in that said first and second subpackage are provided in the same box or another common package, such that at least two floor panels of different width are placed next to each other, with their longitudinal directions substantially parallel to each other.