Metal siding with snap acting interlock

• US 3,325,952 A
• Filed: 12/08/1964
• Issued: 06/20/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sam Z. Trachtenberg
• Original Assignee: Sam Z. Trachtenberg
• Inventors: Trachtenberg, Sam Z.
• Application Number:
  US04/416,839
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• US Class Current: 52/276
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 13/0864 composed of superposed elements which overlap each other and of which the flat outer surface includes an acute angle with the surface to cover

Claims

1. A SIDING FOR BUILDINGS COMPRISING A SUCCESSION OF HORIZONTALLY-ELONGATED STRIPS, EACH OF WHICH HAS A TOP EDGE FOLDED FORWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY IN A CLOSED FOLD, PROVIDING A NAILING STRIP PORTION FOR SECURING THE TOP OF EACH STRIP TO A BUILDING WALL, SAID FOLD-OVER TOP EDGE HAVING A FREE EDGE PORTION EXTENDING HORIZONTAL FROM THE LOWER EDGE OF THE NAILING STRIP PORTION TO PROVIDE A LEDGE AND WHICH TURNS DOWNWARDLY AT THE OUTER EDGE OF THE LEDGE TO PROVIDE A LIP, THE BOTTOM OF EACH STRIP HAVING A REARWARDLY-TURNED FLANGE THEREON WITH THE FREE EDGE TURNED UPWARDLY TO PROVIDE AN UPWARDLY-TURNED LIP THAT FITS BETWEEN THE DOWNTURNED LIP AT THE TOP OF THE STRIP BELOW, THE DOWNTURNED LIP AT THE TOP OF THE LOWER STRIP AND THE UPTURNED LIP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE UPPER STRIP BEING LONGITUDINALLY RIBBED TO PROVIDE AN INTERFITTING SNAP ACTING INTERLOCK.