Patent ID: 6715240
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: E04D,E04F

Abstract:
A siding or roofing panel adapted to be applied to a building and secured through a stud-obscuring sheet material to a plurality of visually obscured-from-view spaced apart supports of pre-set, known spacing between supports, comprising:(a) a sheet of panel having upper and lower edges and right and left edges; (b) with an upper lip adjacent the upper edge; (c) with the upper lip including a fastener zone means (i) adapted to receive fasteners therethrough for securing the panel to supports, and (ii) to allow for panel expansion and contraction with variations in temperature and (d) with indicia means in addition to said fastener zone means, integral with and comprising part of the upper lip; (e) with a plurality of said indicia means being spaced apart along the upper lip an amount corresponding to the known spacing of spaced apart supports for providing a visual indication on the upper lip of the pre-set known spacing between the spaced apart and obscured-from-view supports, for guiding the placement of fasteners through the lip into the supports.