Interlocking gypsum building surface products, methods of manufacture, and interlocking gypsum building surface systems

US11851874B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CertainTeed Gypsum, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Robert L. Jenkins · Honey Brook, US
• Garrett Loomis · Northborough, US
• Kim Dupont-Madinier · Somerville, US
• Brock N. Jacobites · Northborough, US
• David Knutson · Winfield, US
• James Dimitrakopoulos · Conshohocken, US
• Stephen W. Reynolds · Mississauga, CA
• Douglas Wambaugh · Bend, US
• Rachel Z. Pytel · Newton, US
• Dennis Michaud · Groton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 17, 2020
• Grant date: Dec 26, 2023
• Expiry date: Jul 23, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02W30/91
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present disclosure relates generally to building surface products, for example, panels suitable for forming a building surface. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a building surface product including a gypsum panel with an upper edge that overlaps a lower edge of a neighboring gypsum panel.