Patent ID: 6427408
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: E04F

Abstract:
A finished wall construction comprising a plurality of rectangular generally planar panels arranged in rows and columns in a vertical plane with their edges lying in vertical and horizontal orientations and runners adjacent the edges of the panels, the panels having a front face and a rear face and being constructed of material selected from wood material and material which is susceptible to warping because of ambient humidity conditions, the runners being formed of a material selected from metal and relatively stiff structural material that is substantially free of a tendency to warp due to ambient humidity conditions, the panels each having grooves along substantially the full length of each of its edges, the runners being received in the grooves of the four edges of the panels, along substantially the full length of the respective grooves, the runners being proportioned to fit in their respective grooves tightly as received therein so that there is no significant clearance in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the arranged panels, each panel having a pair of said runners on opposite edges attached to a supporting wall in a manner that permits such runners to hold the panel in place relative to the supporting structure.