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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1998
Frederick W Sieling, Bound Brook, NJ (US);
Alfredo A Bondoc, Somerset, NJ (US);
William R Carroll, Sussex, NJ (US);
Building Materials Corporation of America, Wayne, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a laminated roofing and siding shingle unit including (a) a rectangular shingle sheet having an undivided headlap portion and a lower butt portion divided into tabs of a given color which are uniformly spaced from each other, each tab having two opposing bottom corners defining the bottom boundary of the butt portion and (b) an elongated undivided top strip of the same or a contrasting hue or color having indentations at its bottom edge conforming in outline to the corners of the tabs, said strip affixed over the shingle sheet at the upper tab boundaries where the tabs depend from the headlap and positioned in an offset manner so that each indentation corresponding to a corner of a tab is centered above the tab immediately below.