Seamless simulated stone panel
A seamless simulated stone panel has a top edge, a bottom edge, two side edges, a front surface, a rear surface, stone-like patterns, at least one engaging portion and at least one mounting recess. The stone-like patterns are formed on the front surface and has at least one non-straight stone overhang formed along the stone-like patterns. The at least one engaging portion is optionally formed on the top edge. The at least one mounting recess is optionally defined in the bottom edge. After lightweight, user friendly and seamless simulated stone panels are assembled on a surface, a natural looking stone wall is easily and quickly achieved.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a seamless simulated stone panel, and more particularly to a seamless simulated stone panel that is convenient for assembling.
2. Description of Related Art
Stonewall built by traditional stone is often used to decorate an appearance of a building. However, building stone wall by stones is heavy and experienced workers are necessary to construct stone wall. Therefore, cost for constructing stonewall is high and to assemble stonewall is inconvenient.
Building stonewall by stones in a preconfigured panel definitely increases the efficiency of building stone wall. However, making the horizontal and vertical joint where panels connect to each other seamless is a challenge.
To overcome the shortcomings, the present invention tends to provide a seamless, lightweight and user friendly to assemble simulated stone panel to mitigate the aforementioned problems.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe primary objective of the present invention is to provide a seamless simulated stone panel that is convenient for construction.
A seamless simulated stone panel has a top edge, a bottom edge, two side edges, a front surface, a rear surface, stone-like patterns, at least one engaging portion and at least one mounting recess. The stone-like patterns are formed on the front surface and has at least one non-straight stones overhang formed along the stone-like patterns. The at least one engaging portion is optionally formed on the top edge. The at least one mounting recess is optionally defined in the bottom edge.
After lightweight, user friendly and seamless simulated stone panels are assembled on a surface, a natural looking stone wall is easily and quickly achieved.
Other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
To solve the shortcomings of the conventional stone panel, the present invention intends to provide a seamless simulated stone panel that has stone-like patterns on a front surface and has connecting elements for combining multiple seamless simulated stone panels.
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The advantage of the seamless simulated stone panel (10) of the present invention is described as follows.
The seamless simulated stone panels (10) are connected together smoothly, and the edges of the seamless simulated stone panel (10) are formed along the stones overhang (111) of the stone-like pattern and are not straight lines. Furthermore, the stone overhang (111) of the stone-like patterns (11) on the panel could cover a joint formed between the engaging portion (14) and the mounting recess (15) when multiple panels connect to each other as shown in
It is to be understood, however, that even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and function of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only, and changes may be made in detail, especially in matters of raw material used, shape, size, installing surface and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the fill extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.
Claims
1. A seamless simulated stone panel comprising:
- a top edge,
- a bottom edge,
- two side edges,
- a front surface,
- a rear surface,
- stone-like patterns formed on the front surface having at least one edge, and at least one non-straight stones overhang formed along the at least one edge of the stone-like pattern,
- at least one engaging portion formed on the top side edge or one of the side edge and having an inclined surface formed on the top side edge or one of the side edge and being from the front surface to the rear surface of seamless simulated stone panel, and
- at least one mounting recess defined in bottom side edge or the other side edge of the seamless simulated stone panel for holding the engaging portion of an adjacent seamless simulated stone panel and having an inclined surface formed on the bottom edge or the other side edge and being from the front surface to the rear surface of seamless simulated stone panel.
2. The seamless simulated stone panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the seamless simulated stone panel further comprises a recess defined in the rear surface of the base.
3. The seamless simulated stone panel as claimed in claim 2, wherein the rear surface of the seamless simulated stone panel further comprises multiple slots respectively defined in the rear surface and communicating with the recess.
4. The seamless simulated stone panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rear surface of the seamless simulated stone panel further comprises multiple slots respectively defined in the rear surface.
5. The seamless simulated stone panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein two engaging portions are respectively formed on the top edge and one of the side edges, and two mounting recesses are respectively defined in the bottom edge and the other side edge.
Type: Application
Filed: Jun 29, 2006
Publication Date: May 29, 2008
Inventor: Chia-Ying Chang (Taichung)
Application Number: 11/478,079
International Classification: E04F 13/14 (20060101); E04C 2/30 (20060101);