Patent ID: 9670661
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: E04B,E04C,E04D,E04H

Claim:
1. A one-piece elongated rail for assembling panels, comprising: a bottom; a pair of sides extending from the bottom; a pair of walls located between the sides and perpendicular to the bottom; a central channel floor extending between the parallel walls and parallel to the bottom; a central channel formed between the walls and delimited by the central channel floor; a pair of lateral channels, each lateral channel being formed between one of the sides and one of the walls; and a pair of lateral channel floors further delimiting the lateral channels, each lateral channel floor being defined between one of the sides and one of the walls; wherein: each wall is separated in two sections at a junction of one of the lateral channel floors with the central channel floor, the central channel being formed between upper sections of the walls; lower sections of the walls define a generally rectangular cavity of the rail with the central channel floor and with the bottom; and generally quadrilateral cavities of the rail are defined by the bottom, the lateral channel floors, the sides and the lower sections of the walls.