Cover wall construction

Claim 1

Cover wall construction for shipboard modernization and other uses, and comprising; cribbing for providing a wall supporting structure in front of an older wall to be modernized and including channel members of relatively greater width than depth disposed at baseboard levels, overhead heights and vertically therebetween, panel members for covering and enclosing said cribbing therebehind and including aluminum sheet stock having a vinyl clad exterior surface and a relative size for spanning baseboard to overhead heights and between next adjacent vertically disposed channel members, means for retaining said panel members in engagement with said cribbing including panel retaining members of extended length and minimal width formed to provide, in cross-section, an inwardly offset center portion for fastener engagement to said channel members and reversely bent side edges for overlapping fastenerless engagement with a panel member edge received thereunder, fastener means for engaging said panel retaining members to said channel members at spaced intervals both between next adjacent panel members and at baseboard and overhead heights for both a functional and decorative use, said panel retaining members being formed from like vinyl clad aluminum stock as said panel members and having said vinyl cladding provided over the reversely bent side edges thereof, the center portion of said panel retaining members being set inwardly sufficiently to extend rearwardly less than a panel thickness beyond the reversely bent side edges thereof for both double and single panel edge engagement use, inside and outside corner covering members having each right angle portion of comparable cross-section to said panel retaining members, and pressure-sensitive adhesive coated decorative tape for use with said retaining and corner covering members in obscuring and protecting the headed ends of said fastener means as used within the inwardly set center portions thereof.