Patent ID: 6170215
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: E04F

Abstract:
A building siding panel assembly of a type which simulates wooden clapboard, said siding panel assembly comprising:(a) a building siding panel having a top and a bottom, a first end region and a second end region, two or more longitudinally extending, and outwardly and downwardly depending, declination portions, each said declination portion having a top and a bottom, the uppermost declination portion being surmounted by a longitudinal clamping region, the lowermost declination portion terminating at a lower extremity thereof in an upwardly curving longitudinally extending edge, the upwardly curving edge of the lowermost declination portion being receivable in the longitudinally extending clamping region of a vertically adjacent siding panel when the panels are mounted to a building wall; and(b) a retaining clip attached to an inner face of said siding panel at one said end region of a respective said declination portion, and defining a space at said one end region between the inner face of said siding panel and a flexible arm portion of said retaining clip, said retaining clip being oriented such that the space is disposed between an end edge of said building siding panel assembly and a main body portion of said retaining clip, whereby said retaining clip is positioned to receive in the space between said clip and the inner face of said declination portion, an end region of a corresponding declination portion of a laterally adjacent siding panel.