Shingled building panel

In a shingled building panel for use with other similarly formed panels to form a structure, said panel including a sheet-like base having upper and lower edges and opposite side edges, a first course of side-by-side shingles extending across said base between said side edges and secured to said base with lower ends of said shingles in said first course extending over said lower edge of said base, a second course of side-by-side shingles extending across said base between said side edges and secured to said base with lower ends of said shingles in said second course vertically overlapping the upper ends of said shingles in said first course, wherein the improvement in said shingled building panel comprises:

• a first end shingle at one end of said first course laterally recessed with respect to one of said side edges of said base and a second end shingle at an opposite end of said first course extending laterally beyond the opposite side edge of said base, said first end shingle further having a thickness dimension greater than said second end shingle;
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• a third end shingle at one end of said second course of shingles extending laterally beyond said one of said side edges, and a fourth end shingle at an opposite end of said second course laterally recessed from said opposite side edge of said base whereby an adjacent similarly formed panel can be mounted in abutting side edge-to-side edge relation with said panel and a second end shingle of said adjacent panel and a third end shingle of said panel overlap the abutting side edges of the panels with the second end shingle of said adjacent panel positioned under said third end shingle of said panel.

A shingled building panel comprising

• a base having upper, lower, right and left edges,
• an upper course and lower course of shingles mounted to said base with each shingle in each course having upper, lower, right and left edges,
• fastening means holding an upper portion of each lower course shingle to said base with the lower edges of each lower course shingle extending beyond the lower edge of said base,
• a membrane strip between said base and said lower course shingles, said membrane strip having an opening therethrough near the lower edge of said base, adhesive in said opening with said adhesive in contact with each lower course shingle and with said base, and with the lower edge of said membrane extending beyond the lower edge of said base a distance less than the lower course of shingles extends beyond the lower edge of said base,
• fastening means holding an upper portion of each shingle of the upper course of shingles to said base with the lower edge of each upper course shingle extending beyond the fastening means of the lower course of shingles and with the upper edge of the upper course of shingles located adjacent the upper edge of said base,
• a membrane strip positioned between said upper course of shingles and the lower course of shingles, the upper edge of said membrane strip being substantially beneath the upper edge of said upper course of shingles and the lower edge of said membrane strip extending beyond the fastening means of the next lower course of shingles and extending downwardly a distance less than the lower edge of said upper course of shingles,
• the end shingle of one course of shingles extending beyond the right edge of said base and the opposite end shingle of said one course of shingles being recessed from the left end of the base, and
• the end shingle of a different course of shingles extending beyond the left edge of said base and the opposite end shingle of said different course of shingles being recessed from the right edge of the base.

In a shingled building panel having a sheet-like base, and at least one course of shingles extending across and secured to said base, and a water resistant membrane means positioned between said course of shingles and said base, the improvement comprising:

• at least a plurality of said shingles each being secured to said base by:
• (i) first fastener means extending from the shingled side of said panel through each shingle proximate a narrow end thereof into said base;
• (ii) second fastener means extending from a back side of said panel through said base and into each shingle proximate a thick end thereof;
• (iii) said membrane means being formed to and exposing an area beneath a portion of each of said shingles for direct face-to-face juxtaposition with areas of said base;
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• (iv) adhesive means positioned between said base and each of said shingles and adhesively bonding said area of each of said shingles directly to said areas of said base.