Decorative room surface formed of interlocking decorative panels
AssigneeAmerican Metal Ceiling Panel Manufacturer
InventorGary Shapiro
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Abstract
A decorative panel is manufactured for installation on a surface of a room. The decorative panel is formed from a material that can be shaped having a decorative portion, two female mounting portions and two male portions. The female portions have punched holes for fastening the panels directly to a surface, and the male portions of an adjacent panel are positioned into the female portions to partially hold the adjacent panel and to obscure from view the punched holes and fastening hardware. The panel design and installation method allows the decorative panels to be attached directly to a building material such as sheet rock without any intervening supporting structure.
Claims5
A decorative room surface, comprising:
- a) a building material;
- b) a room surface constructed from said building material;
- c) a decorative panel further comprising:
- i) a plurality of male edges located on adjacent edges of said decorative panel;
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- ii) a plurality of female edges located on adjacent edges of said decorative panel not occupied by said male edges;
- d) a plurality of decorative panels organized on said room surface in rows and columns;
- e) a male edge of a first decorative panel of said plurality of decorative panels mated with a female edge of a second decorative panel of said plurality of decorative panels, wherein elongated indentations in a pressed together shape of said female edge of the second decorative panel maintains an opening in said female edge to receive said male edge from said first decorative panel;
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- f) said plurality of decorative panels butted together and attached directly to said room surface using screws that are obscured from view by the male edges of adjoining adjacent decorative panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.