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Claim 1

AN ANCHOR STRIP, TO BE SECURED TO A BACK-UP STRUCTURE, FOR ADJACENT PANEL SECTIONS OF A PANELLING SYSTEM COMPRISING AN ELONGATED DISTORTED H-SHAPED MEMBER OF UNIFORM CROSS SECTION THROUGHOUT HAVING ONE OF ITS SIDES PLANAR AND CONSTITUTING A BASE ELEMENT ADAPTED TO COOPERATE WITH A SURFACE OF A BACK-UP STRUCTURE, A NECK ELEMENT COEXTENSIVE WITH SAID BASE ELEMENT EXTENDING CENTRALLY THEREOF AND LYING IN A PLANE PERPENDICULAR TO THE PLANE OF THE BASE ELEMENT, A TOP ELEMENT COEXTENSIVE WITH SAID BASE ELEMENT, CENTERED WITH RESPECT TO, AND SUPPORTED BY SAID NECK ELEMENT SO AS TO LIE IN SPACES PARALLEL RELATION TO SAID BASE ELEMENT, WHEREBY THE SPACES FORMED BETWEEN THE BASE ELEMENT AND THE TOP ELEMENT FORM POCKETS ADAPTED TO RECEIVE PANEL EDGES; A FLANGE COEXTENSIVE WITH EACH LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF SAID TOP ELEMENT, EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULARLY TO SAID TOP ELEMENT AND IN A DIRECTION AWAY FROM SAID BASE ELEMENT; THE UNATTACHED END OF EACH OF SAID FLANGES BEING PROVIDED WITH AN INWARDLY DIRECTED HOOK; SAID TOP ELEMENT HAVING A LONGITUDINAL GROOVE LOCATED AT THE CENTER THEREOF, WHICH LIES DIRECTLY OVER THE NECK TO FACILITATE THE DRILLING OF HOLES AND THE DRIVING OF NAILS THROUGH THE TOP, NECK AND BASE ELEMENTS FOR FITTING THE SAID ANCHOR STRIP TO A BACKUP SURFACE OR THE LIKE.