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US 2012/0258333 A1Published application
Metal building panel and method of making same
AssigneeA. Zahner Company
InventorsL. William Zahner, III, Reilly Hoffman
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Abstract
A contoured metal building panel comprising an inner layer formed from a piece of flexible material that has been manipulated to create contours along its surface and an outer coating that substantially encases and hardens the flexible material so that the contours are substantially rigid and fixed.
Claims4
A contoured metal building panel comprising:
- an inner layer formed from a piece of flexible material that has been manipulated to create contours along its surface;
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- an outer coating that substantially encases and hardens the flexible material so that the contours are substantially fixed.
A contoured metal building panel comprising:
- an inner layer formed from a piece of flexible material that has been manipulated to create contours along its surface, wherein the flexible material is fiberglass screen material, aluminum screen wire material, copper screen wire material, bronze screen wire material, stainless steel screen wire material, or galvanized steel screen wire material;
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- an outer coating that substantially encases and hardens the flexible material so that the contours are substantially fixed, wherein the outer coating is zinc or a zinc alloy applied to the flexible material by dipping the flexible material in a vat or other container of molten zinc.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.