Staggered look shake siding
AssigneeCertainTeed Corporation
InventorsThomas Charles Gilbert, Kenneth David Bosler, Steven Craig Booz
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Abstract
Siding panels and intermediate articles of their manufacture are provided. The siding panels include a central portion including an aesthetic pattern and a pair of lateral edge portions which are molded while the polymeric material is still hot or molten. One exemplary aesthetic pattern provided is a cedar shake siding pattern. Adjacent cedar shake shingle impressions have substantially the same lengths, but a plurality of bottom edges of the individual shingle impressions are beveled to give the appearance of shingles having different lengths.
Claims15
A siding panel, comprising:
- a sheet of polymeric material, said sheet including a molded central portion comprising a plurality of adjacent shingle impressions of substantially the same length, each of said shingle impressions including a bottom edge, at least one of said bottom edges being beveled to give the appearance of shingles having different lengths.
A continuously formed siding panel, comprising:
- a sheet of polymeric material, including a central portion comprising a plurality of adjacent shingle impressions of substantially the same length, each of said shingle impressions including a bottom edge, a plurality of said bottom edges being beveled to give the appearance of shingles having different lengths;
- a butt edge disposed along a first lateral edge portion of said sheet;
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- a nail edge disposed along a second lateral edge portion of said sheet, said butt edge and said nail edge being formed substantially independently from said central portion.
A continuously formed siding panel of substantially unlimited length, comprising:
- an extruded sheet of polymeric material comprising polyvinyl chloride, said sheet including a central vacuum-formed portion having a plurality of adjacent cedar shake shingle impressions of substantially the same length, each of said cedar shake shingle impressions having a bottom edge, a plurality of non-adjacent cedar shake shingles having a bottom which is beveled to give the appearance of shingles having different lengths;
- a butt edge disposed along a first lateral edge portion of said sheet;
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- a nail edge disposed along a second lateral edge portion of said sheet, said lateral edge portions formed after said central portion has been vacuum-formed and while the polymeric material in said lateral edge portions is above the heat deflection point of said polymeric material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.