Patent ID: 8359800

Claim:
A shutter assembly having a shutter and a border frame attachable to a building fabric for surrounding the shutter, said shutter having a rectangular shutter frame and louvres in said shutter frame, and comprising; a plurality of border frame side sections each formed of extruded plastic, having a predetermined exterior profile, and assembled together at corner junctions to form said border frame; each of said border frame side sections defining a plurality of hollow tubes, separated by thin walls; a recessed fastener channel formed integrally in the border frame side sections for receiving fasteners for holding the border frame in place, said fastener channel defining opposed fastener channel walls; a plastic removable cover plug channel having flexible plug walls and an outer web wall extending between said plug walls, defining a three sided hollow channel shape in section for fitting in said fastener channel and closing said fastener channel and thereby concealing fasteners, said web wall defining an exterior profile complementing said border frame side sections; first locking devices on said fastener channel walls; and, second locking devices on said plug walls, said first and second locking devices interfitting with one another and retaining said plug channel in said fastener channel.