Means for preventing panel roll out in a panel mounting system

Claim 1

In a panel mounting system particularly adapted for mounting panels in building wall openings wherein an elongated elastomeric panel mounting and sealing gasket is fastened to a rigid structural member of said building by means of a first tongue portion of said gasket which is engaged by a gasket receiving channel in saiD structural member, said gasket having a second portion which contains at least one continuous panel receiving channel opening therein, said gasket being disposed about a portion of said opening with said channel opening defining a panel mounting plane generally parallel with the plane of said channel opening, said gasket having at least one resilient side wall portion adjacent said receiving channel and disposed remote from said channel opening form the outermost edge of said gasket member, said resilient side wall portion being capable of being temporarily deformed sufficiently to receive the edges of a relatively rigid thin walled construction panel within said panel receiving channel and thereafter to maintain said panel therein, the improvement comprising: means for locking said resilient side wall in a panel retaining relationship with the edges of said panels, said locking means including at least one rigid bracket member disposed over at least said outermost edge of said gasket member and connected to an elongated mechanical fastener which is inserted into said first tongue portion of said gasket within said gasket receiving channel to hold said bracket in said panel retaining relationship and to force said tongue portion of said gasket into a tight fitting relationship with said gasket receiving channel of said structural member.