HORIZONTAL SIDING PANEL SYSTEM WITH VERTICAL STRINGERS

摘要

An array of overlapped, interlocking horizontal cladding panels is secured to a wall by parallel vertical stringers having vertically spaced resilient clips for holding the top margins of the panels. The top margins of the panels and stringer clips cooperatively provide a double locking arrangement such that as a panel is mounted on the stringers, it is moved into a first position in which its top margin engages clips of the stringers and then is moved upwardly into a second position in which it simultaneously further engages the clips and interlocks with the next lower panel in the array. To this end, the top margin of each panel has a locking projection above the conventional lip provided for interlocking with the bottom margin of the adjacent higher panel, and each clip has two vertically spaced locking surfaces for successively engaging this locking projection as the panel top margin is pushed upwardly undr the clip. In some embodiments, each panel also has a central flange projecting inwardly and upwardly for engagement with retaining tabs formed in the stringers.