US 12,215,504 B2
System and method of installing facade panels
Henry H. Bilge, Fort Lee, NJ (US); Wendy Ann Pole, Burlington (CA); Viktor Drobyshevskiy, Monroe Township, NJ (US); Steven Douglas Mort, Cleveland Heights, OH (US); and John Richard Bunting, Nashville, TN (US)
Assigned to TREMCO CPG INC., Beachwood, OH (US)
Filed by TREMCO CPG INC., Beachwood, OH (US)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/682,616.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/154,801, filed on Feb. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0275651 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. E04F 13/08 (2006.01)
CPC E04F 13/0803 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wall cladding system comprising:
a slab bracket including a base wall mountable to a panel mounting location of a building structure and first and second forward extending flanges defining a gap therebetween;
a connector tube secured in the gap by one or more fasteners secured through first and second side walls of the connector tube and through the first and second forward extending flanges;
a first façade panel;
a first attachment rail secured along an upper edge of the first façade panel, including a mounting wall that abuts the connector tube for fastening thereto, and a support wall extending upward from the mounting wall, spaced from the connector tube to define a first slot;
a second façade panel; and
a second attachment rail secured along a lower edge of the second façade panel, including a downward extending hanger wall spaced apart from a rear surface of the second façade panel to define a second slot;
wherein the hanger wall of the second attachment rail is received in the first slot, and the support wall of the first attachment rail is received in the second slot, for interlocking retention of the second attachment rail and second façade panel with the first façade panel; and
wherein the connector tube provides a discrete panel mounting location and does not extend between multiple panel mounting locations of the building structure.