US 4,549,378 AGranted

Mobile home skirting system

AssigneeVariform Plastics, Inc.

InventorsRalph L. Ayers, Garfield W. Stovin, Robert J. Szabo

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Abstract

An improved skirting assembly for mobile homes or other elevated buildings is provided which has specialized connectors between the skirt and building permitting up and down travel of the skirt, and an upper covering channel completely free of connection to the building so as to accommodate any degree of skirt movement. In preferred forms, the skirt includes a plurality of endwise interlocked panels operably connected to the building by means of connection structure such as a bracket matingly and slidingly receiving one of the interlocking flanges of a panel; the corresponding flange on the adjacent panel overlies and slidingly receives the bracket so as to conceal the latter while achieving the desirable sliding connection. In other forms, a slotted clip (or a slot provided in the skirt panels themselves) is employed to obtain the sliding connection without the need to affix the upper covering channel to the building.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A skirting assembly for closing the space beneath an elevated building and comprising:

a plurality of upright panels disposed in a generally end-to-end relationship;
means for interconnecting said panels to present a substantially continuous closing skirt having an elongated upper margin and a pair of opposed faces;
connector means for securing said skirt beneath said building, and for permitting up and down reciprocal travel of the skirt, including structure for fixed securement to said building and means operably coupled with said structure for engaging said skirt in a manner to permit said travel thereof, at least certain of said panels having an elongated, upright slot therein, said connector means comprising screw means extending through respective slots for fixed securement to said building;
and
cover means for covering said upper margin and including an elongated channel member of inverted, generally U-shaped configuration having depending legs, said channel member being positioned over a portion of said upper margin with said legs respectively disposed proximal to one of the opposed faces of said skirt,
said channel member being free of fixed securement to said building for up and down movement of the channel member with said movement of said skirt.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.