Patent ID: 7698865

Claim:
A building product comprising: a pultruded product adapted to be exterior siding of a building, the pultruded product having a profile defining a shape of exterior siding and a lower joint member at a bottom of the pultruded product, the lower joint member configured to mate with an upper joint member disposed at a top of a second pultruded product mounted adjacent the pultruded product, the upper joint member including a fastening surface configured to abut the building and accept a fastener through the fastening surface with fastening of the pultruded product to the building, wherein the lower joint member includes a substantially downwardly-opening U-shaped portion and the upper joint member includes a substantially upwardly-extending finger configured to extend upwardly into the U-shaped portion, the upwardly-extending finger being disposed on a first side of the upper joint member above the fastening surface of the pultruded product, the upper joint member including a first abutment portion disposed on a second side of the upper joint member below the fastening surface, the first abutment portion configured to abut a second abutment surface of the lower joint member.