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Channel assembly for mounting building panels
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Inventors: Wright, John T.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Chilcot, Jr.; Richard E.
Assistant Examiner: Nguyen; Kien
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sommer; Evelyn M.
A channel assembly for mounting exterior panels on a structural member of a building has extruded support members which cooperate with a filler strip. The support members have grooves for holding the peripheral edges of respective panels to be mounted adjacent each other spaced apart by an intermediate space, and projections from opposite sides into the intermediate space. A filler strip is pressed into the intermediate space in sealing engagement with the projections. The support members have linking members with ends extending into the intermediate space closely adjacent each other, and mounting washers or a ledger strip are used to secure the ends of the linking members together and to mount them to a structural member of a building. The filler strip may be a V-shaped snap-in strip having a spine portion and a pair of compressible legs, or a compressible strip or tube which is pushed into the intermediate space and sealed therein with caulking. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION The channel assembly of the invention is used to mount exterior panels onto the underlying structural members (e.
g.
studs) of a building.
The exterior panels 100 may be of the multiple-layer, fire-resistive type, as shown in FIG.
1A, having a prefinished aluminum face 101, a fiber-reinforced ceramic layer 102, and an aluminum back 103.
Since the non-combustible ceramic layer 102 may absorb water, the panels must be well sealed, otherwise damage to the aluminum layers by "backside corrosion" may result.
In FIG.
1B the exterior panels 100 are shown mounted by channel assemblies 110 to structural members (studs) 9 to form a building wall.
Referring to FIG.
2A, a channel assembly according to the present invention includes a pair of opposing, extruded support members 2a, 2b which cooperates with a V-shaped snap-in extruded filler strip 3.
The support members 2a, 2b each has a respective top wall 21a, 21b, connecting wall 22a, 22b, and bottom wall 23a, 23b which define a respective panel holding groove 20a, 20b.
Each support member has its panel holding groove engaged on a peripheral edge of a respective panel 100a and 100b.
The support members are mounted to a building structural member 9 spaced apart from each other by an intermediate space S with the panel holding grooves facing oppositely apart from each other.
The support members each have a linking member 10a, 10b which extend from the respective bottom member 23a, 23b so that their ends 11a, 11b are closely spaced apart from each other.
The ends 11a, 11b of the linking members are secured or clamped in position against the structural member 9 by mounting washers 4 secured by sheet metal screws 6 spaced along the length of the extruded support members.
Alternatively, instead of individual washers, the mounting element 4 may be a mounting strip of comparable length as the support members with holes drilled at the time of installation with self-drilling screws.
The ends 11a, 11b of the linking members are angled such that the mounting element 4 can be secured adjustably at different depths to the structural member 9 to accomodate panels of different thicknesses within a given tolerance range, as explained in further detail below
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