Siding element for creating structured facades of buildings

#A. Field

#The invention relates to a siding element for creating a structural facade of buildings.

#B. Related Art

#The invention will now be described in detail in conjunction with the following schematic drawings in terms of various embodiments of the siding elements of the invention. In the drawings:

#FIG. 1, in side view, shows a siding element in one structural basic form;

#FIG. 2, in side view, shows a siding element of FIG. 1, in which groovelike indentations are provided on one side of the element and a plurality of projecting protuberances are provided on the other side of the element;

#Turning first to the illustration of the siding element 10 in FIG. 1, the siding element 10 will be described in detail. The siding element 10 serves to create a facade 11 of building constructions 12, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8. The siding element 10 substantially comprises a slablike element 13, which has a protrusion 15 that protrudes from the plane 14 of the slablike element 13. The view in FIG. 1, which also applies to FIGS. 2 through 6, is a view toward the side or end of the siding element 10. The width, or as shown in FIGS. 1 through 6, the height, of a siding element 10 is in the range of approximately 200 mm, although this is intended here only as an example for better understanding of the basic dimension of the siding element 10. For completed manufactured siding elements 10, the length of one siding element 10, or in other words the length in its longitudinal direction 22—see FIG. 8—is for instance 6 m and more, and these lengths can be cut to suit the lengths wanted or needed for a building construction or building 12 for finished siding elements 10 of the invention.

#The slablike element 13, on its diametrically opposed sides 130, 131, has connection devices 133, 134, by way of which a respective adjacent siding element 10 can be connected to the siding element 10. In the siding elements 10 shown in the drawings, the connection device 133 is configured as a protrusion 135 of strutlike cross section, and the other connection device 134 is configured as a receiving part 136 of U-shaped cross section. The strutlike protrusion 135 of the one siding element 10 can be detachably introduced into the U-shaped receiving part 136 of the siding element 10 adjacent to it, for making the connection.

#In principle, however, arbitrarily suitably formed connecting elements are possible in combination with the siding element 10 of the invention, so that the connecting elements described above must be considered only as one possible connection possibility, although one that has thoroughly proven itself in use; see also the detailed description of these connecting elements in connection with siding elements 10 in the European Patent Application 04 030 577.3-2303, as yet unpublished, which is hereby incorporated by reference.