Cladding system for buildings
OwnerDavid Peter Dickinsoninventor
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Abstract
A cladding system, intended to exclude water from within a building having a cavity wall structure, includes passive means (a) for minimising any flow of water from the exterior that may reach the interior, and (b) open guides or enclosed channels for diverting such water so that it flows by gravity down the cavity to be drained outwardly. One implementation provides impervious battens modified to have water-diverting sides, and another provides solid slabs including channels connected by drainage cuts along their length to a surface to be drained.
Claims20
A cladding system for an exterior wall of a building, characterised in that the cladding system provides a combination of physical, passive means within a cavity underneath the cladding of the wall, the means capable of at least partially obstructing the movement of water across the cavity towards an internal, water-susceptible structure of the building, and means capable of at least partially causing the water to flow out of and be expelled from the cavity, thereby protecting the internal, water-susceptible structure from water.
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