Cauikless panelized wall system.U.S. patent: 7,155,868 Issued: January 2, 2007 Inventors: Dawn R. Cole and Weiling Peng Assigned: James Hardie
James Hardie Industries Ltd. is an industrial building materials company headquartered in the Netherlands, specializing in fibre cement products. International Finance B.V. Key statement: A caulkless panelized pan·el·ized adj. Consisting of or characterized by prefabricated wall, floor, and roof sections that are shipped to and assembled at the building site: panelized housing. wall system wherein the wall systems have elastomeric joints that are resistant to cracking. Building panels are fastened to a frame with the edges adjacent to each other. No caulk caulk also calk v. caulked also calked, caulk·ing also calk·ing, caulks also calks v.tr. 1. is applied to the seam seam (sem) a line of union. osteoid seam on the surface of a bone, the narrow region of newly formed organic matrix not yet mineralized. between the building panels. A backing material is applied over the seam between the panels and the wall is then finished with an elastomeric finish. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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