Siding structure

Claim 1

A PREFINISHED SIDING STRUCTURE COMPRISING: A GENERALLY VERTICAL SUPPORT WALL STRUCTURE; A PLURALITY OF SUPERJACENT, PREFINISHED, SIDING PANELS, INCLUDING A LOWER PANEL, ARRANGED IN OVERLAPPING, LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING COURSES ONE ABOVE THE OTHER ON THE OUTER SURFACE SAID SUPPORT WALL STRUCTURE; LONGITUDINALLY SPACED LOWER CLIPS EACH COMPRISING: A BODY PORTION BETWEEN THE LOWER PANEL AND SUPPORT WALL STRUCTURE TO SPACE THE SAID PANEL THEREFROM, AN OUTWARDLY EXTENDING LOWER PART EXTENDING ANGULARLY FROM THE BODY PORTION TO SUPPORT THE BUTT PORTION OF THE LOWER PANEL, AND A NAILING FLANGE EXTENDING ABOVE SAID BODY PORTION ADJACENT SAID WALL STRUCTURE; VERTICALLY SPACED ROWS OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED CLIPS FOR MOUNTING EACH OF THE SUCCESSIVELY UPPERMOST PANELS TO THE SUPPORT WALL STRUCTURE, EACH OF THE LATTER CLIPS HAVING AN INVERTED U-SHAPED PORTION WITH LEGS, SHAPED TO ACCOMMODATE THE UPPER EDGE OF A PANEL, AND EACH OF SAID LATTER CLIPS ALSO HAVING A TILTPREVENTING BASE FORMED BY THE ONE LEG OF SAID U-SHAPED PORTION WHICH EXTENDS GENERALLY VERTICALLY BEHIND THE UPPER EDGE OF THE PANEL AND A CONTINUING PORTION THEREOF WHICH EXTENDS UPWARDLY ABOVE THE UPPER EDGE OF THE PANEL TO FORM A NAILING FLANGE; SAID LATTER CLIPS IN EACH ROW HAVING OUTWARDLY EXTENDING PARTS ON THE OTHER LEGS OF THEIR INVERTED U-SHAPED PORTIONS FOR SUPPORTING THE SUPERJACENT PANEL; AND SECURING MEANS EXTENDING THROUGH SAID NAILING FLANGES OF SAID CLIPS INTO SAID SUPPORT WALL STRUCTURE TO SECURE SAID CLIPS IN POSITION.