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Details

Inventors: Dobija, Michael J.;
Assignee: Commercial and Architectural Products, Inc. (Dover, OH)
Primary Examiner: Safavi; Michael
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Pearne, Gordon, McCoy & Granger LLP

A wall panel system in which individual panels are arranged in vertically extending rows and horizontally extending courses. Support rails or runners are mounted on the supporting subwall to establish vertical and horizontal alignment of the panels. The rails include panel positioning surfaces extending into the joints between the panels to locate adjacent panels. In one embodiment the positioning surfaces close the joint and provide a finished joint-trim appearance. In another embodiment, the positioning surfaces extending along vertical joints support battens that close the joint and provide a finished joint-trim appearance.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides a simple system for installing a panel wall consisting of an array of individual panels in which the panels are accurately positioned in both the vertical and horizontal directions.
The system employs positioning rails which are mounted on a support wall to establish the horizontal alignment of each panel in a course of panels.
Further, spacer means are provided to accurately position each panel in each course with respect to the next horizontally aligned panel in the course.
With this invention, a plurality of courses are accurately positioned with respect to the next adjacent course until the finished wall, or desired portion thereof, is provided by an array of accurately positioned panels.
The system also provides means to accommodate expansion and contraction of the individual panels caused by changes in temperature and humidity conditions.
Several embodiments of this invention are illustrated.
In a first embodiment, a ship-lap type joint is provided between adjacent panels.
A positioning rail is provided for each course of panels.
Each rail provides a projecting rib or key which mates with a groove in the panel of the associated course so that all of the panels in the course are positioned in proper horizontal alignment.
Spacer clips are positioned between each panel within the course in the next horizontally positioned panel to provide a uniform spacing between adjacent panels.
These clips are structured to accommodate expansion and contraction between the panels caused by changes in the environmental conditions of temperature and humidity.
Because a ship-lap type joint is provided between adjacent panels, such expansion and contraction is accommodated without producing gaps and the like.
Further in this embodiment, there are no visible panel mounting means.
Still further, a wide variety of finishes and patterns can be provided for special aesthetic effects.
In the second illustrated embodiment, support rails are again provided to establish the vertical position of each course

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