43 results about "Vinyl siding" patented technology

The present invention is a vinyl siding panel and a method of making the vinyl siding panel. The vinyl siding panel comprises a planar portion extending the longitudinal length of the vinyl siding panel. The planar portion comprises a first edge and a second edge. The width from the first edge to the second edge is at least about 4.0 inches. The planar portion has a surface variance of less than about 0.05 inches relative to an imaginary straight line connecting the first edge and the second edge, and the radius curvature between the first edge and the second edge is at least about 85 inches.

An apparatus and methods of use for a wire channel device that is positioned between an upper siding panel and a lower siding panel along the side of a building and that routes, supports, and / or secures one or more wires. The wire channel device includes an upwardly extending arm, a transverse leg, and a wire channel having a downwardly extending leg, a channel portion, and a rear upwardly extending leg.

A variegated polymeric article such as a variegated siding panel having improved depth of color and a three-dimensional appearance is formed having a substantially clear, methacrylic acid based capstock coextruded to a tinted polyvinyl chloride based substrate material. A specially formulated streaker pellet provides accent color streaks within the capstock to simulate a wood grain appearance. The use of a clear capstock material eliminates the need for capstock tinting necessary in the prior art to color match the capstock to the substrate material in post formed variegated vinyl sidings. Titanium dioxide may also be introduced in small amounts to the capstock to provide further ultraviolet light protection to the underlying tinted polyvinyl chloride based substrate material.

This prefabricated locking quoin block is used to construct the surface of buildings. The surface of the block has decorative portions resembling brick, stone, wood, or other construction materials. Preferably the surface of each block has both a raised and a recessed decorative portion, so as to form, when assembled, a quoin corner assembly resembling sawn or quarried stone blocks. Installers can attach the assemblies to conventional building structures and install cladding materials such as vinyl siding without needing to alter the blocks other than to adjust the base block for height. The block includes wedge locks to securely connect adjacent blocks matingly to each other. Installers thereby are able to assemble a secure stack of quoin corner blocks and attach it to a building with few additional steps, saving time, labor, and cost in construction.

A window or door with a radially extending metal or vinyl casing flange mounted in an opening of a building having vinyl siding is protected from hurricanes and other violent weather by providing a panel having dimensions greater than the opening and bracket receiving slots; and a plurality of L-shaped brackets having base plates and perpendicular mounting plates. The bracket base plates are inserted between the window flange and the vinyl siding and secured to the building with fasteners, which are inserted into a wooden frame surrounding the building opening. The panel is then positioned over the opening, with the mounting plates inserted through the slots. The panel is secured in place by temporary fasteners, such as cotter keys.

A horizontally mounted siding component for finishing of a top course of a vinyl siding installation while minimizing the lateral deformation of the vinyl siding. The invention additionally relates to the method for post-form extruding a thermoplastic dual undersill trim with complex geometry including extensive folding of the extruded material in a series of fixtures.

Disclosed is a coating composition comprising: (a) hydroxy group-containing inorganic particles having an average particle diameter of between 5 and 30 nm; (b) hydroxy group- containing inorganic particles having an average particle diameter of between 0.2 and 5 [mu]m; (c) an organosilane compound represented by the formula of RnSi(OR') 4-n (wherein R is a C1-C8 aminoalkyl group, glycidoxyalkyl group or isocyanatoalkyl group; R'is a C1-C6 lower alkyl group; and n is an integer of between 0 and 3); and (d) a solvent. A method for preparing the above coating composition, a substrate such as film or structural exterior material, having excellent self-cleaning property and staining resistance by using the above coating composition and methods for producing the same are also disclosed. The coating composition using hydroxy group-containing inorganic particles can improve the initial hydrophilicity of conventional coating agents. Additionally, the coating composition can form a hydrophilic coating layer having a contact angle with water of 30 DEG or less by using two kinds of inorganic particles having a different particles diameter. Particularly, the coating composition uses an organic solvent having erosive property to a substrate to be coated and a low boiling point, and thus can be applied to a conventional production line for structural exterior materials without adding a separate coating line. Therefore, the coating composition can provide structural materials having hydrophilicity, excellent self-cleaning property and long service life, when coated on substrates such as vinyl sidings.

An adaptor is mounted on the tip of a nail gun normally used to attach roofing materials on the roof of a building to enable the nail gun also to be effective in attaching vinyl siding onto the exterior of a building structure. The adapter is mounted on the tip of the nail gun to engage nails discharged therefrom. The adaptor is formed with a circular projection that has a frusto-conical opening therethrough to guide discharged nails into engagement with the connective structure along the top edge of the siding panel. The circular projection has a depth that properly positions the discharge opening of the adaptor at the proper location for engagement with the siding connective structure. The conical shape of the opening through the adaptor is operable to deflect any misaligned nails being discharged from the nail gun into the discharge opening at the tip of the circular projection.