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US 4,866,896 AGranted
Panel wall system
AssigneeConstruction Specialties, Inc.
InventorsThomas A. Shreiner, William W. Vincent, Robert W. Olsen
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AssigneeConstruction Specialties, Inc.
InventorsThomas A. Shreiner, William W. Vincent, Robert W. Olsen
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A panel wall system is composed of a multiplicity of rectangular panels arranged in closely spaced relation in columns and rows such as to define vertical junctures between horizontally adjacent panels and horizontal junctures between vertically adjacent panels and affixed at their upper edges to horizontal support members by mounting clips and joined at each vertical juncture to a vertically continuous vertical track member. Each panel has a peripheral frame composed of a top member, a bottom member and a pair of side members joined at the respective corners and a facing of sheet material adhesively bonded to the frame. A seal is formed along each horizontal juncture by a horizontal gasket on the bottom frame member of the panel above the juncture that engages a flange on the top frame member of the panel below the juncture. A seal is formed at each vertical juncture by vertical gaskets on the vertical track that engage the respective side members of the panels on either side of the juncture. Each frame member of each panel has a continuous rear flange portion of generally L-shaped cross-section defining a recess that opens outwardly toward the perimeter of the panel, the ends of the flange portions meeting adjacent the corners of the panels so as to form a continuous water drainage channel and spray trap at the panel perimeter. The bottom and end recesses also constitute parts of slip joints, the other parts of which are a flange on the top frame member of a vertically adjacent panel, a bottom closure or a flange on a vertical track.
A panel wall system composed of a multiplicity of rectangular panels arranged in closely spaced relation in columns and rows such as to define vertical junctures between horizontally adjacent panels and horizontal junctures between vertically adjacent panels and affixed at their upper edges to horizontal support members by mounting clips and joined at each vertical juncture to a vertically continuous vertical track member characterized in that each panel has a peripheral frame composed of a top member, a bottom member and a pair of side members joined at the respective corners and a facing of sheet material adhesively bonded to the frame, in that each of the frame members has a base flange portion having a back surface facing toward the support members and track members, the back surfaces being substantially planar and contiguous, in that a seal is formed along each horizontal juncture by a horizontal gasket on the back surface of the base portion of the bottom frame member of the panel above the juncture that engages an upstanding leg portion on the top frame member of the panel below the juncture, and in that a seal is formed at each vertical juncture by continuous vertical gaskets on the vertical track that engage the back surfaces of the base flanges of the respective side members of the panels on either side of the juncture and also engage portions of back surfaces of the upstanding leg portions, whereby continuous vertical seals are formed along the vertical junctures in intersecting relation with the seals at each horizontal juncture.
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