Patent ID: 8695303
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: E04B,E04D,E04F

Abstract:
1. Siding for a building exterior wall that can be attached to the side wall of a building including a stud or a flat building surface, said siding mounted to an exterior wall of a building, said siding comprising: a fiber cement siding board, said fiber cement siding board being substantially elongated between a first end and a second end along a longitudinal direction to a predetermined length and said fiber cement siding board having a rectangular cross section of a pre-determined vertical height and a uniform thickness; an adaptor strip that includes a longitudinally elongated body, said elongated adaptor strip body having a substantially flat upper front wall surface, an L-shaped lower front wall surface and an angled downwardly top edge; said adaptor strip having a first end and a second end including a body having an upper rear flat back wall surface and a lower rear flat back wall surface, said adaptor strip body upper rear flat back wall surface and lower rear flat back wall surface being coplanar and separated by a channel disposed longitudinally in said adaptor strip body from said first end to said second end, directly opposite said upper front wall surface, said channel configured to reduce the amount of mass and volume of material in said adaptor strip and also to allow moisture passage substantially vertically, said adaptor strip lower front wall recessed in an L-shape in a different plane and recessed from said upper front wall surface of said adaptor strip; an adhesive layer attaching said adaptor strip upper front wall surface to said siding board; said fiber cement siding board having a front flat surface and a rear flat surface and a bottom flat surface and a top flat surface, said fiber cement siding board attached on its rear flat surface by said adhesive layer to the flat upper front wall surface of said adaptor strip along its complete length longitudinally, said fiber cement siding board bottom flat surface extending below said adaptor strip upper front wall surface forming a trapezoidally shaped longitudinal groove with the L-shaped lower front wall surface of said adaptor strip, said trapezoidally shaped groove being sized in thickness to receive said fiber cement siding board top flat surface from an adjacent interlocked lower fiber cement siding board and an interlock for trap locking said fiber cement siding board top flat surface of said adjacent lower fiber cement siding board; said adaptor strip attached to said fiber cement siding board at a specific location and extending the entire length of the fiber cement siding board, said adaptor strip L-shaped lower front wall having a lower portion that extends vertically below the bottom flat surface of said fiber cement board delimiting an open surface area on said adaptor strip; and one or more fasteners received through said open surface area on said adaptor strip to secure said adaptor strip and said fiber cement siding board to the exterior wall of the building without said one or more fasteners penetrating said fiber cement siding board.