<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE ep-patent-document PUBLIC "-//EPO//EP PATENT DOCUMENT 1.4//EN" "ep-patent-document-v1-4.dtd"><!-- Disclaimer: This ST.36 XML data has been generated from SGML data available on ESPACE discs EPAS Volumes 2003/201 to 203 enriched by the abstract retrieved from the corresponding A2/A1 document - March 2013 - EPO - Dir. Publication - kbaumeister@epo.org --><ep-patent-document id="EP84308929A3" lang="en" country="EP" doc-number="0147179" date-publ="19860326" file="84308929" kind="A3" status="n" dtd-version="ep-patent-document-v1-4"><SDOBI lang="en"><B000><eptags><B001EP>ATBECHDEFRGBITLILUNLSE</B001EP></eptags></B000><B100><B110>0147179</B110><B120><B121>EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION</B121></B120><B130>A3</B130><B140><date>19860326</date></B140><B190>EP</B190></B100><B200><B210>84308929</B210><B220><date>19841220</date></B220></B200><B300><B310>8334475</B310><B320><date>19831224</date></B320><B330><ctry>GB</ctry></B330></B300><B400><B405><date>19860326</date><bnum>198613</bnum></B405><B430><date>19850703</date><bnum>198527</bnum></B430></B400><B500><B510><B511> 6E 04F  13/12   A</B511></B510><B540><B541>en</B541><B542>Cladding buildings</B542><B541>fr</B541><B542>Revêtement de bâtiments</B542><B541>de</B541><B542>Verkleidung von Gebäuden</B542></B540></B500><B700><B710><B711><snm>WARD BROTHERS (SHERBURN) LIMITED</snm></B711></B710><B720><B721><snm>Frederiksen, Anton Robert</snm></B721><B721><snm>Wallis, Malcolm Robert</snm></B721></B720></B700><B800><B840><ctry>AT</ctry><ctry>BE</ctry><ctry>CH</ctry><ctry>DE</ctry><ctry>FR</ctry><ctry>GB</ctry><ctry>IT</ctry><ctry>LI</ctry><ctry>LU</ctry><ctry>NL</ctry><ctry>SE</ctry></B840><B880><date>19860326</date><bnum>198613</bnum></B880></B800></SDOBI><abstract id="abst" lang="en"><p id="pa01" num="0001">A building having two cladding panels connected to a support member wherein each panel comprises a web part, to provide a generally outwardly facing surface of the panel, having at one edge thereof.a first edge portion and at an opposite edge thereof a second edge portion:</p><p id="pa02" num="0002">the first and second edge portions having a configuration whereby the first edge portion of a first panel is resiliently interengaged with the second edge portion of the second panel as a result of resilient deformation of at least one of said portions to retain the adjacent edges of the panels from displacement in directions normal to the edges, and wherein the first edge portion of the first panel is connected to the support member by a fastener means and the second edge portion of the second panel is connected to the support member by means of the first edge portion of the first panel.<img id="iaf01" file="imgaf001.tif" wi="124" he="55" img-content="drawing" img-format="tif" inline="no" /></p></abstract><search-report-data lang="en" id="srep" srep-office="EP" date-produced=""><doc-page id="srep0001" file="srep0001.tif" type="tif" orientation="portrait" he="295" wi="208" /><doc-page id="srep0002" file="srep0002.tif" type="tif" orientation="portrait" he="295" wi="208" /></search-report-data></ep-patent-document>