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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 1980
Filed:
May. 17, 1978
Alexander A Chalmers, Warren, OH (US);
J Lynn Gailey, Newton Falls, OH (US);
Alcan Aluminum Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A soffit system includes a plurality of panels of individually adjustable length, in a side-by-side nested array supported on at least two spaced-apart stringer members. Each adjustable panel has at least two similar components, an end portion of one being inserted in an end portion of the other so that the two components overlap. Each component has a horizontal web and two parallel side flanges with conformingly curved profiles opening in the same direction, i.e. one flange being externally concave and the opposite externally convex. The side flanges of the overlapped components snap fit together to interlock their overlapping end portions, thus providing the adjustable-length feature. The side flanges of each panel component snap fit into inversely contoured notches formed in a stringer member, thus to resiliently engage the stringer member providing support; in the mounted array, the sides of adjacent panels are nested together by the mating interfit of each contoured flange with the inverse contour of the flange on the next immediately adjacent adjustable panel.