Panel installation

Claim 1

A panel installation on a supporting surface which comprises: multiple panel pieces having front and back sides one piece beside an adjacent piece and their said front sides facing outwardly, the pieces having essentially parallel opposed side margins, said pieces having slots extending along each of their opposite margins indented laterally inwardly from the margins and said pieces having a shoulder defined at each side margin located between the slot which extends along the margin and the front side of the piece, the shoulders of adjacent pieces being laterally spaced from each other, an elongate anchoring element of generally U-shaped cross section securing adjacent pieces through said margins to said surface, said anchoring element having a base web which is adjacent said surface and opposed upstanding flange portions joined to said base web along opposite margins of the base web to define a receptor channel which faces outwardly from said surface, said anchoring element further having wing flanges joined to said upstanding flange portions forming the top of the element and said wing flanges being disposed below the shoulders of adjacent pieces, the wing flanges extending laterally outwardly and fitting within the slots of adjacent panel pieces, and an elongate cover strip having a top, a bottom, and opposed sides mounted with the sides thereof frictionally seated within the receptor channel defined by said anchoring element and the top thereof filling the space between shoulders of adjacent pieces.