A siding system has elongated stringers, each having a plurality of clips spaced at regular intervals along its length. In use, the stringers can be mounted upright, spaced apart and parallel, on an upright wall, and aligned so that the clips are in horizontal rows. A siding panel has a plurality of
A siding system has elongated stringers, each having a plurality of clips spaced at regular intervals along its length. In use, the stringers can be mounted upright, spaced apart and parallel, on an upright wall, and aligned so that the clips are in horizontal rows. A siding panel has a plurality of elongated connectors, spaced apart and parallel, on a rear face. In use, the panel can be mounted upright, with the connectors horizontal, and each connector engaged in the clips of one of the horizontal rows of clips so that the weight of the panel is supported by the clips of a plurality of the horizontal rows of clips through the connectors.
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1. A stringer for a siding system, the stringer comprising: a base member elongate in a length direction and having a width direction and a depth direction perpendicular to each other and to the length direction; andclips regularly spaced along the length of the elongate member, each clip projecting
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A stringer for a siding system, the stringer comprising: a base member elongate in a length direction and having a width direction and a depth direction perpendicular to each other and to the length direction; andclips regularly spaced along the length of the elongate member, each clip projecting from the elongate member in the depth direction and defining a channel extending in the width direction, the channel open away from the elongate member in the depth direction through a neck narrower than the channel and extending in the width direction;wherein each clip is so constructed as to permit an elongated connector extending in the width direction to snap into the channel through the neck, and to support the connector against forces in the length direction while the connector is received in the channel; andwherein each clip comprises a body, within which the channel is formed, mounted on the stringer base member by a stalk narrower than the body in a length direction of the stringer, forming spaces between the clip body and the stringer base member on either side of the clip stalk, and wherein the block is formed of resiliently flexible material, whereby parts of the body separated in the length direction by the channel can flex relative to the stalk of the clip into said spaces to permit the neck of the clip to open to permit the head of a correspondingly dimensioned connector to snap into and out of the channel. 2. The stringer of claim 1, wherein each clip has chamfered surfaces on either side of the channel facing in the length direction of the stringer base member away from the channel and in the depth direction away from the stringer base member, whereby a connector being displaced along the stringer base member towards the clip tends to be deflected by the chamfered surfaces away from the stringer base member and towards the channel of the clip. 3. The stringer of claim 1, further comprising at least three said regularly spaced clips. 4. The stringer of claim 3, further comprising at least six said regularly spaced clips. 5. An upright wall, comprising a plurality of stringers according to claim 1, the stringers being mounted upright in spaced, parallel relation on the wall and aligned so that their respective clips are in horizontal rows. 6. A siding system comprising: a plurality of elongated stringers according to claim 1; anda siding panel having on a rear face regularly spaced, parallel, elongated connectors, wherein the spacing of the connectors matches the spacing of the clips, each connector adapted to be engaged in the clips of one of the horizontal rows of clips so that the weight of the panel is supported by the clips through the respectively engaged connectors;wherein each connector comprises a head on a rib narrower than the head, the connector head dimensioned to fit within the clip channel and to snap in and out of the channel through the neck, and the connector rib dimensioned to fit within the clip neck. 7. A stringer for a siding system, the stringer comprising: a base member elongate in a length direction and having a width direction and a depth direction perpendicular to each other and to the length direction; andclips regularly spaced along the length of the elongate member, each clip projecting from the elongate member in the depth direction and defining a channel extending in the width direction, the channel open away from the elongate member in the depth direction through a neck narrower than the channel extending in the width direction and narrower than the channel in the length direction;wherein each clip is so constructed as to permit an elongated connector extending in the width direction to snap into the channel through the neck, and to support the connector against forces in the length direction while the connector is received in the channel;wherein each clip has chamfered surfaces on either side of the channel facing in the length direction of the stringer base member away from the channel and in the depth direction away from the stringer base member, whereby a connector being displaced along the stringer base member towards the clip tends to be deflected by the chamfered surfaces away from the stringer base member and towards the channel of the clip. 8. The stringer of claim 7, wherein the clip neck is bounded on a side away from the stringer base member by beveled surfaces on either side of the neck between the neck and the chamfered surfaces, facing in the length direction towards the neck and in the depth direction away from the stringer base member, whereby a connector being inserted into the clip tends to be guided by the chamfered surfaces into the neck of the clip. 9. The stringer of claim 7, further comprising at least three said regularly spaced clips. 10. The stringer of claim 9, further comprising at least six said regularly spaced clips. 11. An upright wall, comprising a plurality of stringers according to claim 7, the stringers being mounted upright in spaced, parallel relation on the wall and aligned so that their respective clips are in horizontal rows. 12. A siding system comprising: a plurality of elongated stringers according to claim 7; anda siding panel having on a rear face regularly spaced, parallel, elongated connectors, wherein the spacing of the connectors matches the spacing of the clips, each connector adapted to be engaged in the clips of one of the horizontal rows of clips so that the weight of the panel is supported by the clips through the respectively engaged connectors;wherein each connector comprises a head on a rib narrower than the head, the connector head dimensioned to fit within the clip channel and to snap in and out of the channel through the neck, and the connector rib dimensioned to fit within the clip neck.
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