Patent ID: 7712277
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: E04D,E04F

Abstract:
1. A building siding for covering a building exterior surface that includes at least one top starter strip and a plurality of horizontally disposed planks that are interfaceable vertically from the top of the building exterior surface to the bottom of the building exterior surface to cover the exterior surface of the building comprising: an elongated starter strip substantially rectangular in shape and having a generally “J-shaped” body in cross section including an inverted trapezoidal groove formed by the “J-shaped” cross section, said body inverted trapezoidal groove having an interior tapered shape defining an opening of a first dimension, said starter strip body having a flat back wall for attachment to-said building exterior surface; a plurality of planks, said planks being substantially rectangular in length and width, each of said planks having a cross section that includes an upper protruding wall, trapezoidal in shape with a recessed back wall portion said upper protrusion wall having a flat end surface perpendicular to said back wall portion, said end surface having a second dimension, said second dimension being significantly less than said first dimension, the upper wall trapezoidal portion being sized to fit substantially identical into the inverted trapezoidal groove in said starter strip for interfacing, each of said planks including a lower wall having an inverted trapezoidal groove that is sized and shaped to be substantially identical to said starter strip inverted trapezoidal groove, said upper plank wall portion being interfaceable with the lower wall trapezoidal groove of an above plank, said planks being disposed horizontally in rows and interfaced in a sequence that starts at the top of the building surface and works downwardly; said elongated starter strip having a top flat surface perpendicular to the starter strip flat back wall and a starter strip front wall and extending completely between front wall and back wall, said front wall disposed at an oblique angle to said starter strip top flat surface said starter strip inverted trapezoidal groove formed between said starter strip front wall and said starter strip flat back wall, said starter strip having a first flat bottom surface perpendicular to said starter strip front wall and disposed between said starter strip front wall and said starter strip inverted trapezoidal groove, said starter strip having a second flat bottom surface perpendicular to said starter strip flat back wall, said second flat bottom surface of said starter strip extending downwardly below the first flat bottom surface of said starter strip front wall, said starter strip flat back wall and said starter strip front wall forming said inverted trapezoidal groove between said flat back wall and said front wall, said starter strip flat back wall extending below said inverted trapezoidal groove and below said starter strip front first flat bottom surface sized for receiving one or more fasteners; and fasteners for attaching said planks to a building exterior surface attached to said plank back wall in the area extending only below said inverted trapezoidal groove formed between said plank back wall and said plank front wall.