Device for cladding architectural shingles
OwnerJohn V. Pellegrinoinventor
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Abstract
A flat sheet, having nailing tabs on both sides or edges thereof is to be fastened directly onto existing clapboard or shingles. The tabs are so configured that juxtaposed panels can be interdigitated via the tabs, and the sheets obscure the nailing tabs. The panels have ledges in which to nest the lowermost course of the to-be-sheathed clapboard or shingles, and a stub projecting from one side of the sheets is slidably received by a juxtaposed panel to effect a linear alignment of the juxtaposed panels.
Claims14
A cladding panel, for sheathing an exterior curtain formed of clapboard, shingles, and the like, comprising:
- a flat sheet having a front, decorative surface, and a rear, curtain-interfacing surface, wherein
- said surfaces are (a) bounded by rectilinear sides, top and bottom of said sheet, and (b) uninterrupted;
- first means, integral with said sheet, and extending from only sides thereof, for attaching said panel to an exterior curtain;
- second means, integral with said sheet, and extending from only the bottom thereof, for nestably engaging a lowermost course of such exterior curtain;
- third means, integral with said sheet, and extending from only one side thereof, for slidably engaging another, same, juxtaposed cladding panel, for effecting a linear alignment of both, so-juxtaposed panels;
- said sheet subsists in a first plane;
- said first means terminates, outwardly from said sheet, in a second plane which is parallel with said first plane;
- and further including
- means integral with said sheet, and extending from only one side thereof, for (a) slightly spacing such a juxtaposed panel from said sheet, and (b) absorbing any thermal expansion of such so-juxtaposed panels.
A cladding panel, for sheathing an exterior curtain formed of clapboard, shingles, and the like, comprising:
- a flat sheet having a front, decorative surface, and a rear, curtain-interfacing surface, wherein
- said surfaces are (a) bounded by rectilinear sides, top and bottom of said sheet, and (b) uninterrupted;
- first means, integral with said sheet, and extending from only sides thereof, for attaching said panel to an exterior curtain;
- second means, integral with said sheet, and extending from the bottom thereof, for nestably engaging a lowermost course of such exterior curtain;
- and
- third means, integral with said sheet, and extending from only one side thereof, for slidably engaging another, same, juxtaposed cladding panel, for effecting a linear alignment of both, so-juxtaposed panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.