Window shadow and skirting system for manufactured and mobile homes

Abstract

A system for inexpensively updating manufactured mobile homes with decorative window shadows and skirting. Decorative panels are attached to the home by circular metal snaps. The panels may be of vinyl plastic or other suitable material of sufficient thickness to withstand the weather. A base frame is positioned on the ground. The snaps are attached by nails or screws in a conventional manner to the base frame and the lower periphery of the home. The panels have mating snap receivers at their corners which as snapped in place, side by side, between the base frame and the lower periphery of the home structure, thereby forming a skirt surrounding part or all of the structure. The decorative window shadows are panels sized to fit between the windows. These panels are attached to the exterior wall of the home by metal snaps at their corners like the skirting panels.

1 . A decorative window shadow and skirting system for manufactured and trailer houses comprising: 
 a plurality of decorative rectangular panels of plastic web construction and having snaps at at least the corners thereof;    a plurality of snap receivers located on the outer wall of the house arranged in rectangular patterns and spaced so as receive said snaps of said rectangular panels;    a ground base frame located on the ground and having an outer side spaced downward from the lower periphery of the outer walls of the house; and    a plurality of snap receivers spaced along said outer side of said ground base frame and a plurality of corresponding snap receivers spaced along the base portion of the house so located and arranged as to receive a plurality of said snaps of said rectangular panels, said rectangular panels being mounted in juxtaposed position so as to form a skirt.    
   
   
       2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein said rectangular patterns of snap receivers are located adjacent opposite sides of the windows of the house so that said rectangular panels form decorative window shadows.  
   
   
       3 . The system of  claim 2 , wherein said rectangular panels have printed or embossed patterns thereon, simulating building materials or shutters.  
   
   
       4 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising an upper boot extending along the base portion of the house and covering the snaps of said panels forming said skirt along the base portion of the house for decorative purposes and to further secure said snaps to said snap receivers.  
   
   
       5 . The system of  claim 4 , further comprising a lower boot extending along said ground base frame and covering the snaps of said panels forming said skirt along said ground base frame to further secure said snaps to said snap receivers.  
   
   
       6 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein said rectangular panels have printed or embossed patterns thereon, simulating building materials including brick, stone, and siding.  
   
   
       7 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein said web material is a flexible plastic material.  
   
   
       8 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein said web material is a relatively rigid plastic sheet material.  
   
   
       9 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein said skirt extends substantially completely around the house.  
   
   
       10 . A decorative window shadow system for manufactured and trailer houses comprising: 
 a plurality of decorative rectangular panels of plastic web construction and having snaps at at least the corners thereof; and    a plurality of snap receivers located on the outer wall of the house arranged in rectangular patterns and spaced so as receive said snaps of said rectangular panels.    
   
   
       11 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein said rectangular panels have printed or embossed patterns thereon, simulating building materials or shutters.  
   
   
       12 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein said web material is a flexible plastic material.  
   
   
       13 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein said web material is a relatively rigid plastic sheet material.  
   
   
       14 . A decorative skirting system for manufactured and trailer houses comprising: 
 a plurality of decorative rectangular panels of plastic web construction and having snaps at at least the corners thereof;    a ground base frame located on the ground and having an outer side spaced downward from the lower periphery of the outer walls of the house; and    a plurality of snap receivers spaced along said outer side of said ground base frame and a plurality of corresponding snap receivers spaced along the base portion of the house so located and arranged as to receive a plurality of said snaps of said rectangular panels, said rectangular panels being mounted in juxtaposed position so as to form a skirt.    
   
   
       15 . The system of  claim 14 , further comprising an upper boot extending along the base portion of the house and covering the snaps of said panels forming said skirt along the base portion of the house for decorative purposes and to further secure said snaps to said snap receivers.  
   
   
       16 . The system of  claim 14 , further comprising a lower boot extending along said ground base frame and covering the snaps of said panels forming said skirt along said ground base frame to further secure said snaps to said snap receivers.  
   
   
       17 . The system of  claim 14 , wherein said rectangular panels have printed or embossed patterns thereon, simulating building materials including brick, stone, and siding.  
   
   
       18 . The system of  claim 17 , wherein said web material is a flexible plastic material.  
   
   
       19 . The system of  claim 17 , wherein said web material is a relatively rigid plastic sheet material.