US 5,259,163 A · Anchor board system

Abstract

An anchor-board construction system suitable for incorporation into the interior of buildings and homes is disclosed for use as a cladding to replace conventional plaster based wall board similar to that known in the trade as GYPROCK, having one surface thereof incorporating a layer of protruding attachment hooks. These hooks can accept and retain decorative and functional surface finish units embodying a looped or other suitably "piled" posterior surface portion, for attachment to the hooks. For use, within a building as a wall system, the novel anchor boards are secured into position as an underlying wall layer, and a selected form of area finish embodying a complementary attachment surface is secured thereto simply by pressing into place. The area finish can be carpet tiles, wallpaper or fabric with looped backing or wood paneling. The system includes provision for trims, baseboards, cornice moldings, door moldings and outlet covers together with electrical conduit and permits rapid erection, replacement and change-over, with low associated labor costs.

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Dependent claims

Cladding on an interior of a building, the cladding comprising:

substantially rigid panels having parallel major faces spaced one from the other by minor edge faces, and having one half of a hook and loop attachment system projecting from a front major face to cover at least substantially over the whole of the front face, the minor edge faces being free of said one half of the hook and loop attachment system, the panels being cut to the shape required and attached to a wall framework;
and
finishing material having the other half of the hook and loop attachment system projecting from a rear surface area being attached to the panels through the hook and loop attachment system over substantially the whole of the rear surface area.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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