Patent ID: 7296989

Claim:
An apparatus for continuously producing elongated siding panels, said apparatus comprising: a conveyor; a plurality of mold plates formed of a rigid material adjacent one another and supported by said conveyor for forming the elongated siding panels; a die for extruding a sheet of material onto said mold plates; each of said mold plates having an upper edge portion and a lower edge portion with an intermediate portion therebetween; a plurality of vacuum passages disposed within each of said intermediate portion, said upper edge portion, and said lower edge portion for vacuum-forming said sheet onto said mold plates; said intermediate portion having an aesthetic pattern for imparting said pattern to said sheet of material with said adjacent mold plates having different aesthetic patterns; said lower edge portion having a lower leg extending substantially perpendicular from said intermediate portion defining a horizontal plane; and a projection portion between said lower edge portion and said intermediate portion extending beyond said horizontal plane for imparting a jagged pattern to said intermediate portion.