초록 ▼

To avoid the need for nailing through tiles and other cladding elements, they are formed with oppositely directed hook formations at opposite edges for engaging supports, which may be retaining profiles mounted on battens. For example, an upwardly facing hook formation is engageable under a downward

To avoid the need for nailing through tiles and other cladding elements, they are formed with oppositely directed hook formations at opposite edges for engaging supports, which may be retaining profiles mounted on battens. For example, an upwardly facing hook formation is engageable under a downwardly directed supporting tongue of a profile when the element is tilted. It can then be pivoted about that tongue, into its cladding configuration. Its other hook formation snap-engages behind the tongue of the adjacent supports, which already engages the upwardly facing hook portion of another cladding element. Each support profile extends for most the width of one or more elements and provides support.

대표청구항 ▼

A cladding assembly comprising a plurality of cladding elements and a plurality of supports therefor; wherein each cladding element has a first hook formation at a first edge region, and a second hook formation at a second, opposite edge region, the first and second hook formations being oppositely

A cladding assembly comprising a plurality of cladding elements and a plurality of supports therefor; wherein each cladding element has a first hook formation at a first edge region, and a second hook formation at a second, opposite edge region, the first and second hook formations being oppositely directed; and each support is adapted to be mounted to a batten of quadrilateral section, each support having three flanges in a stepped array comprising (a) a first flange for overlying an outer surface of the batten, (b) a second flange extending inwardly from the first flange, and (c) a third flange extending from the inner end of the second flange, said first and second flanges being arranged to engage said batten and provide an attachment portion whereby the support is attachable to the batten of a structure to be clad; said support further including a tongue extending from adjacent the junction of the first and second flanges towards the third flange at an angle to the second flange, said tongue providing engagement means for engaging a mutually adjacent pair of first and second hook formations provided by an adjacent pair of cladding elements which extend away from the support in opposite senses, the engagement means acting to restrain their disengagement; the outer surfaces of said first and third flanges of the support providing support means for supporting the adjacent edge regions of the pair of cladding elements; and wherein each support extends in use for at least a substantial part of the width of a cladding element and provides support for both of the adjacent pair of cladding elements over at least a substantial part of the width of each.