Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Karin E. Peterka
  • Patent number: 6176053
    Abstract: A cap track assembly for use with a fire resistant wall structure where the cap track assembly is adapted for attachment to a top structural member and to a plurality of wall studs. The apparatus is also directed to a method for installing the cap track assembly into a fire resistant wall structure. In one version, the apparatus provides a track assembly comprising a U-shaped longitudinal metal track having angled lips depending outwardly from the bottom ends of each of the side walls of the track, and an end tab and top tabs having longitudinal openings and depending downwardly at an angle of about 90 degrees from a top wall of the track. The track assembly further comprises a fire resistant material extending along the outer side walls of the track and supported on the lip of each of the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Inventor: Roger C. A. St. Germain
  • Patent number: D446756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Y-III Holdings Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Mervyn A. York
  • Patent number: D456326
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Y-III Holdings Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Mervyn A. York
  • Patent number: D459946
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Inventor: Boyd I. Willat
  • Patent number: D355218
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Inventor: Edward S. Peterka