Simulated shingle arrangement
OwnerRobert Leggiere, Michael Frank Saggeseinventors
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Abstract
A simulated shingle arrangement having novel interlocking connections between adjacent shingles in the same course as well as between adjacent shingles in adjacent courses is provided. The arrangement can comprise individual shingles each having the novel interlocking connecting means as an integral part thereof, but preferably comprises elongated panels each simulating a plurality of individual shingles in side-by-side relation. As in the case of individual shingles, the novel interlocking connecting means forms an integral part of such elongated multi-shingle panels. The outer surface of the shingles can simulate the appearance of conventional shingles, such as cedar shakes, as desired.
Claims6
In a simulated shingle arrangement comprising
- a generally rectangular shell having a body section equipped along the opposite side edges thereof with inwardly extending first and second sidewalls and along the bottom edge thereof with an inwardly extending end wall section, said sidewalls being tapered from greater dimensions adjacent the bottom of said shingle to reduced dimensions adjacent the top thereof to provide the shingle with a wedge-shaped configuration, and equipped with mounting areas spaced along the upper edge thereof, each of said mounting areas consisting of a flat depression including a nail hole, said depression extending below the under surface of said body section to a depth approximately equal to the thickness of said body section
- said shell also having cooperable means attached to the lower edge of the first sidewall and extending from the top of said body section toward the bottom thereof for a distance less than the length of said first sidewall and interlockingly engagable with similar shingles adjacent thereto in side-by-side relation and permitting lateral adjustment therebetween
- and tab locking means comprising a first web attached to the lower edge of the second sidewall beginning at a distance from the top of said second sidewall approximately equal to the length of said cooperable means and extending a part of the way toward the bottom of said second sidewall, and a tab attached to the bottom edge of said first web and extending downwardly to a point between said end wall section, said tab being unattached to said second sidewall to enable the top edge of one shingle to overlap the tab of a second shingle adjacent thereto and to lie beneath the bottom portion of said second shingle in interlocking top-to-bottom relation therewith,
- the improvement which comprises locating said tab in a plane parallel to the plane of said first web, and below the plane of said first web at a distance equal to or slightly greater than the thickness of said body section, whereby a rainproof joint is provided.
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