Metal shake or shingle panel and accessories

A shingle or shake-like panel for fastening to a supporting surface, such as a wall or roof of a building, the panel comprising a plurality of adjacent, alternate, shorter and longer segments of alternately high and low elevations and varying widths made from sheet material in a bending and folding process, the low elevation segments being the longer segments and the high elevation segments being the shorter segments so that an equal amount of material is employed in making both the low elevation, long segments and the high elevation, shorter segments, the longer and shorter segments providing the panel with a staggered, forward or lower edge configuration, and having a plurality of longitudinally extending, triangular ridges of varying heights and slopes, said longer and shorter segments being separated by integral troughs, with each trough having a constant depth extending lengthwise of the segments, the forward or lower end of each segment terminating in a front wall having a return bend portion extending beneath the segments, the rear or upper edge of the panel terminating in a continuous, forwardly facing hook portion folded over the panel, the hook portion having an integral fastening flange extending rearwardly and downwardly toward the supporting surface for the panel.