Selectively removable panel assembly

• US 3,347,009 A
• Filed: 04/16/1965
• Issued: 10/17/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John W. Meddick
• Original Assignee: John W. Meddick
• Inventors: Meddick, John W.
• Application Number:
  US04/448,749
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• US Class Current: 52/545
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 13/0803 with load-supporting elongated furring elements between wall and covering elements
• 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

3. IN A BUILDING STRUCTURE, THE COMBINATION OF (A) A WALL MEMBER, (B) A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY DISPOSED SUPPORT MEMBERS SECURED TO SAID WALL MEMBER, (C) A PLURALITY OF CLIP MEMBERS SECURED TO EACH OF SAID SUPPORT MEMBERS AT PREDETERMINED VERTICALLY SPACED INTERVALS, EACH OF SAID CLIP MEMBERS HAVING (1) A FIRST RETAINING PORTION, (2) A SECOND RETAINING PORTION IN SPACED, NONCONTACTING RELATIONSHIP RELATIVE TO SAID FIRST RETAINING PORTION, (D) A PLURALITY OF PANEL MEMBERS, (1) THE UPPER ENDS OF EACH OF SAID PANEL MEMBERS BEING SUSPENDED FROM A FIRST RETAINING PORTION OF ONE OF SAID CLIP MEMBERS, (2) THE LOWER ENDS OF EACH OF SAID PANEL MEMBERS BEING SECURED TO A SECOND RETAINING PORTION OF ANOTHER OF SAID CLIP MEMBERS IN OVERLAPPING RELATION TO THE PANEL END THEREBELOW, THEREBY SESELECTIVELY BLOCKING REMOVAL OF THE UPPER ENDS OF THE PANEL MEMBER THEREBELOW, WHEREBY A SELECTED ON OF SAID PANEL MEMBERS MAY BE REMOVED BY MOVING THE PANEL MEMBER NEXT ABOVE OUT OF ITS OVERLAPPING RELATION TO THE END OF THE PANEL TO BE REMOVED, THEREBY PERMITTING DISENGAGEMENT OF THE UPPER END OF THE PANEL TO BE REMOVED FROM SAID FIRST RETAINING PORTION ON SAID CLIP MEMBER.