Method for installing decorative panels onto a surface of a room
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.
Claims7
A method for installing decorative panels onto a surface of a room, comprising:
- a) forming a matrix of columns and rows on a surface of an area of a room;
- b) mating together a first plurality of decorative panels, wherein said first plurality of decorative panels comprises both a first row and a first column located at an edge of said surface and forming an “L” shape”, wherein each of said first plurality of decorating panels fastened to said surface;
- c) mating together a second plurality of decorative panels mated to said first plurality of decorative panels and fastening each of said second plurality of decorative panels to said surface;
- d) mating together an N plurality of decorative panels mated to an N−1 plurality of decorative panels and fastening each of said N plurality of decorative panels to said surface;
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- e) continuing until a last panel is positioned in a last column and last row, mated to adjacent decorative panels and fastened to said surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.