Casing trim

• US 4,843,790 A
• Filed: 01/17/1989
• Issued: 07/04/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Armor Bond Building Products Incorporated
• Original Assignee: National Gypsum Properties LLC
• Inventors: Taravella, Salvatore R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedman, Carl D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Johnson, Jerrold D.
• Application Number:
  US07/297,379
• Time in Patent Office: 168 Days
• Field of Search: 52/211, 52/212, 52/287, 52/288, 52/716, 52/717, 52/730, 52/518, 52/60
• US Class Current: 52/60
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/944 covered with fire-proofing material
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 19/02 Borders; Finishing strips, e.g. beadings; Light coves for protecting edges of plaster E04F13/06

Abstract

A casing trim, and the combination therewith of a flat vinyl strip, and the method of concealing building wooden casings and the like, wherein the casing trim is nailed to the edge portion of a casing, with one flange of the casing trim extending over an edge of the casing, and the perpendicularly directed face portion has a channel which receives and retains an edge of the flat vinyl strip. In an added embodiment, the flat vinyl strip is replaced by a wide cap having a rearwardly extending flange, for engagement in a forwardly extending channel of a receiver, all of which are disposed around the edge of adjacent vinyl siding.

Claims

1. A casing trim system for use with wooden casings and vinyl siding comprising an elongate cap, an edge receiving elongate casing trim element and an elongate receiver, said casing trim element comprising an edge wall and a pair of flanges forming an elongate channel opening in a direction away from said edge wall whereby an edge of said elongate cap may be retained therein, said receiver comprising a base and elongate means extending away from said base for engaging said cap, and said cap comprising a relatively wide face and elongate means extending rearwardly for engaging and being held in place by said retainer, said rearwardly extending means being spaced inwardly from one side edge of said cap face sufficient to permit said one side edge to conceal edges of vinyl siding when said cap is placed over the face of a wooden casing.

2. A casing trim system as defined in claim 1 wherein said edge receiving casing trim element edge wall consists essentially of a casing edge concealing flange.

3. A casing trim system as defined in claim 1 wherein said receiver consists essentially of a base and a pair of perpendicularly extending flanges.

4. A casing trim system as defined in claim 3 wherein said rearwardly extending elongate means on said cap consists essentially of an elongate leg suitable for insertion between said flanges of said base.

5. A casing trim system as defined in claim 4 wherein said base flanges and said cap leg have interlocking ridges for retaining said leg between said flanges.

6. A casing trim system as defined in claim 1 wherein said edge receiving trim element has a plurality of nailing holes in one of said flanges and said receiver base has a plurality of nailing holes therein.

7. In combination, a wooden casing for a door or window opening, a building wall on which said casing is affixed, a plurality of strips of vinyl siding affixed to said wall extending away from said casing, and a casing trim system concealing said casing and a small portion of said adjacent siding, said casing trim system consisting essentially of an elongate edge receiving casing trim element, an elongate cap having an edge extending into and retained by said edge receiving trim element, and a receiver, said receiver comprising a base, said base being nailed to said building wall adjacent said wooden casing, said receiver further comprising means for receiving and holding a rearward element on said cap, said cap comprising a wide thin face including said edge retained by said edge receiving trim element, said cap further comprising an opposite edge which conceals said small portion of said siding, said cap further comprising said rearward element which is held by said receiver, said rearward element and said receiver holding means being disposed between said wooden casing and said vinyl siding.

8. In the combination of claim 7, said receiver holding means and said cap rearward element consisting of a leg on one element inserted and held within a channel on the other of said elements.

9. In the combination of claim 8, the further provision of interlocking ridges on said leg and said channel.

10. In the combination of claim 7, an elongate edge receiving casing trim element having an elongate edge concealing flange and an elongate face portion extending perpendicularly from one edge of said edge concealing flange, said face portion having a relatively wide bottom flange and elongate means in parallel spaced in relation to said bottom flange, said elongate cap having an edge retained between said bottom flange and said parallel spaced elongate means.