Patent ID: 7389618

Claim:
A building panel and clip system comprising: a plurality of building panel members of selected shape and selected dimensions, each panel member including a planar exterior portion and a planar peripheral frame portion spaced a selected distance from and attached to the exterior portion by a peripheral spacer portion, thereby forming an interior channel beneath an interior edge of the frame member, the frame portion containing a plurality of notches on the interior edge thereof, the frame portion laterally offset from the exterior portion, thereby forming a lip on at least two edges of the panel member; and a plurality of clip members for fastening abutted panel members together, each clip member including a slot for accepting frame portions therein and finger portions for positioning within the frame portion's interior channel, the clip member insertable over a pair of aligned frame notches on abutted panel members, the clip member spanning the frame portions of abutted panel members and displaced laterally on the frame portions relative to the aligned notches, with each clip member's finger portions secured within one frame portion's interior channel, thereby reversibly securing abutted panel members together.