Building cladding system
OwnerStephen Chaninventor
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Abstract
A building cladding system employs fasteners for securing cladding panels, each having a front face, a near face and a peripheral edge, to support rails mounted horizontally on a wall of a building. The cladding panels have metal support members extending rearwardly from the rear faces of said cladding panels and the support members and the support rails have portions which interengage for suspending the cladding panels from the support rail. The cladding panels also have metal projections extending from the rear faces and including securement portions located beyond the peripheral edges of the respective cladding panels and further fasteners engageable engaging the securement portions for securing the metal projections to the building wall.
Claims6
A building cladding system, comprising:
- a plurality of cladding panels each having a front face, a rear face and a peripheral edge;
- a plurality of metal support rails;
- rail fasteners for securing said support rails horizontally on a wall of a building;
- said cladding panels having metal support members extending rearwardly from said rear faces of said cladding panels;
- said support members and said support rails having portions which are interengageable for suspending said cladding panels from said support rails;
- said cladding panels further comprising metal projections extending from said rear faces and including securement portions located beyond said peripheral edges of the respective ones of said cladding panels;
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- further fasteners engageable with said securement portions for securing said metal projections to the building wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.