US 5,216,861 A · Building panel and method

Abstract

A joint, in one embodiment, between adjacent panels of sheet encased insulating material in which one lateral edge has an essentially frustoconical nose, and the other edge has a frustoconical pocket is disclosed. In an alternative embodiment, essentially frustoconical noses are at both lateral edges and the two adjacent panels are joined by means of an I beam embodying the interlock of the present invention. In both embodiments, the interlocking relationship is a function of the lateral edges of the cladding sheet, or in the flange of an I beam, in which one edge has a sealant pocket, and the opposite edge has a locking sealant press which engages the sealant pocket and thereby interlocks the panels as well as presses the sealant in the sealant pocket to compress and secure the same and to form a sealant gasket between the lateral edges of the sealant pocket and the locking sealant press.

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Dependent claims

An I-beam and panel combination in which said panel has a panel skin which sandwiches a core of structural foamed material and in which the edges of the skin have a sealant pocket comprising,

said I-beam having a web,
said web terminating at its remote ends with a pair of opposed parallel flanges,
each of said flanges having a lateral edge,
said lateral edges terminating with a reversely folded press member,
said press member proportioned to receive a portion of the complimentary lateral sealant pockets of the lateral edges of said panel, whereby said beam may be employed to nestingly receive adjacent panels to form a wall structure with a sealant in a sealant pocket.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Building panel and method

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