Power crimping device and method for crimping building panels

[0025]Certain features of the exemplary embodiments described herein are described with reference to directions, e.g., up, and down. With reference to FIG. 1, for the purposes of this disclosure, up, upwardly, and the like refers to a direction from the crimping device 10 generally toward the building panels 16, 18. Down, downwardly, and the like refers to the direction from the building panels 16, 18 generally toward the crimping device 10. Thus the top of the crimping device 10 would refer to a side of the crimping device facing the building panels 16, 18 and the bottom of the crimping device 10 would refer to an opposing side of the crimping device 10, for example. Obviously the directions are relative and are described for illustrative purposes only—they should not be construed to limit the scope of the disclosure or the claims.

[0026]FIGS. 1-7 illustrate an exemplary crimping device 10 for crimping together edge portions of adjacent building panels in accordance with certain embodi