US 11,498,357 B2Granted

Randomized surface panel kit and surface panel system

AssigneeCertainTeed Corporation

InventorsTimothy Briggs, Brice Dubost

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Abstract

The present disclosure relates generally to surface panels for covering a building surface. The disclosure relates more particularly to a surface panel kit and system including a set of panels for attaching to a support structure. Each of the panels includes opposing ends, and each end includes one of a group of end configurations. A first end configuration is mateable with a first portion of the group and is unmateable with a second portion of the group, and a second end configuration is mateable with a third portion of the group and is unmateable with a fourth portion of the group. The set of panels includes at least three panel types including a first panel type with the first and second end configurations, a second panel type with the first and without the second end configurations, and a third panel type with the second and without the first end configurations.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A surface panel kit comprising:

a set of panels configured for attachment to a support structure, each of the panels including an upper side, a lower side, opposing ends, and a panel body having a front face including a decorative design,
wherein the opposing ends of each panel are configured to mate with the opposing ends of other panels in the set of panels to form a linear row of panels that includes a continuous decorative surface formed by the front faces of the panel bodies in the linear row,
wherein each end includes one of a group of end configurations, the group of end configurations including:
a first left-side configuration,
a second left-side configuration,
a first right-side configuration that is mateable with the first left-side configuration and that is unmateable with the second left-side configuration, and
a second right-side configuration that is mateable with the second left-side configuration and that is unmateable with the first left-side configuration, and
wherein the set of panels comprises at least four panel types including:
a first panel type that includes the first left-side configuration and the first right-side configuration,
a second panel type that includes the first left-side configuration and the second right-side configuration,
a third panel type that includes the second left-side configuration and the first right-side configuration, and
a fourth panel type that includes the second left-side configuration and the second right-side configuration.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/906,112Filed 19 Jun 2020 · us provisional application
Priority: 20 Jun 2019
Published: US 2020/0398609 A124 Dec 2020
Granted: 15 Nov 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B44C 3/123
Uniting ornamental elements to structures, e.g. mosaic plates: mosaic constructs
E04F 13/0862
Composed of a plurality of similar covering or lining elements,: composed of a number of elements which are identical or not, e.g. carried by a…
E04F 13/0871
Composed of a plurality of similar covering or lining elements,: having an ornamental or specially shaped visible surface
E04F 13/185
Of organic plastics with or without reinforcements or filling materials or with an outer layer of organic plastics with or without…