Central Discrete Ridge Member Patents (Class 52/54)
  • Patent number: 5605018
    Abstract: A flexible end cap includes at least one flexible membrane, such as a rubber sheet, for covering the end of the roof rib, having a top peripheral portion and a bottom peripheral portion. At least one frame member is attached to at least a portion of the top peripheral portion of the flexible membrane for supporting the membrane in a sealing relationship with the roof rib. At least a portion of the bottom peripheral portion, such as the portion for covering a ridge profile, includes at least two sealing ribs wherein a cross-sectional height of one rib is larger than a cross-sectional height of the other rib. The sealing ribs with the larger cross-sectional height allow the end cap to accommodate varying designs of roof rib profiles formed by adjacent sheets of roof panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Work Inc.
    Inventors: James W. McElderry, Michael C. Dill, Juergen O. Rathgeber, John A. Wand, John F. Fox
  • Patent number: 5277002
    Abstract: Ridge cap means adapted to secure one or more roof panel members to a modular building structure. Such a ridge cap means has a horizontally disposed base portion that is adapted to engage a supporting member incorporated in, and presented from, the modular building. An inclined, plate portion is supported from the base portion. The plate portion is adapted to receive, and support, the roof panel. A locking member frictionally secures each roof panel to one or more inclined plate portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Inventor: E. Keith Haag
  • Patent number: 4864793
    Abstract: A slate and the method of manufacturing therefor comprising substantially a single color mortar cement. The outer surface of the slate has at least two different shapes which produce a different color variation to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Alps Slate
    Inventor: Hiroshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 4420913
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for covering the ridge or peak of a metalroof system is disclosed. After the metal roofing panels are set in place on the sloping surfaces of the roof and seamed together, mating halves of a ridge panel are positioned along the ridge and parallel thereto. The mating halves have cut-outs corresponding to the rib seams of the roofing panels, the cut-outs each being covered by a seam cap. After the ridge panel halves are secured to the roofing panels, the interlocking joint between them is folded over and permanently seamed together. Finally, the areas at the ends of the ridge adjacent the rakes of the building are covered by filler panels. The filler panels have cut-outs corresponding to the rib seam of the ridge panel, and the cut-outs are similarly covered by seam caps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: AMCA International
    Inventors: Gene M. Long, Terry E. DeWitt, John R. Bell, III