Patents Assigned to Building Products, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8083214
    Abstract: A fastener is configured to affix a first article such as a picket to a second article such as a rail to form a railing or balustrade. The fastener includes a first engaging surface having a maximum diameter configured to engage an interior surface of an opening in the first article and a mating surface configured to mate with the second article. The first engaging surface can have shape selected from cylindrical, ellipsoidal, conical, elliptic conical frustum, pyramidal frustum, and ball and other shapes having cross-sections of rectangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal and other regular polygons having at least four sides such that good engagement is obtained and the fastener is hidden from view in the assembled railing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Elk Premium Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: David DeRogatis, Kevin Connor
  • Publication number: 20110308195
    Abstract: A universal handrail support bracket is disclosed in which a bracket is configured to be mounted to a handrail or banister and the bracket has an annular ring attached thereto. The annular ring has a concave interior surface and a convex exterior surface. A curved nut and a cap have surfaces which mate with respectively the inner and outer surfaces of the annular ring. The curved nut and the cap are positioned respectively inside and upon the annular ring such that they may both freely rotate and pivot. A fastener such as a screw passes through both the curved nut and the cap and into a fixed substantially vertical surface such that the bracket may be attached to the fixed substantially vertical surface at any desired pitch angle, yaw angle, and roll angle for attaching a rail to a vertical surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Dotsey
  • Patent number: 8061102
    Abstract: A starter block and a shingle are utilized to form courses that may be positioned in overlapping fashion on a roof to form a roofing covering system. The particular design of the starter block and shingle result in a roofing product that provides increased durability over previous designs. The starter block may be formed with top and bottom surfaces, opposite side surfaces with tapering heights, and a front surface having a greater height than a back surface of the starter block. When the starter block is coupled to a roof deck, a semi-rigid shingle having a generally planar bottom surface may be placed upon the starter block so that a portion of the shingle extends off of the starter block over the back surface thereof and onto the roof deck to facilitate contact between the shingle and the roof deck at a location more proximal to the starter block back surface than if the same back surface had the same height as the front surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: TAMKO Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Travis Turek, Adam Guenther
  • Patent number: 8015769
    Abstract: A connector for securing a roofing band to a roofing beam by a threaded fastener may include a circumferential flange portion, first and second recess extending within the circumferential flange portion sized to accept a roofing band, and a central portion extending within the circumferential flange portion between the first recess and the second recess, a middle area of the central portion being offset laterally from the circumferential flange portion by a distance enough to permit the roofing band to be slid through the first and second recesses so that the circumferential flange portion is located on a first side of the roofing band and the middle area of the central portion is located on a second side of the roofing band opposite the first side. A single fastener opening defined through the central portion, the fastener opening sized for receiving a threaded fastener therethrough for fastening the roofing band to a roofing beam. Related roofing assemblies and methods of construction are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Guardian Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Crostic, Jr., Lawrence Zupon
  • Publication number: 20110214798
    Abstract: The tile installation system provides a system for installing an architectural covering material to a substrate surface utilizing a plurality of release sheets where each release sheet has a top side surface and a bottom side surface. A plurality of discrete adhesive substrate portions are positioned on the top side surface of the release sheet, wherein the top side surface of the release sheet has a stronger bonding affinity with the plurality of adhesive substrate portions than the bottom side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: Custom Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman C. Tracy, Charles R. Cornman, Zosimo D. Pamaran
  • Patent number: 7972546
    Abstract: Useful composites and methods of using such composites are provided. The composites include an outer layer containing a first polymeric material, an intermediate layer circumscribed by the outer layer and containing a second polymeric material, and an inner layer circumscribed by the intermediate layer and containing a third polymeric material. The inner layer, in combination with the intermediate layer, is structured and effective to reinforce the composite relative to a substantially identical composite without the inner layer. The present composites can be produced using co-extrusion processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Tamko Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick E. Hughes, Kevin Fidati, Joe Schiff, Jack Cuttle, George Vuduris
  • Patent number: 7954282
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to a storm shutter assembly clip used for stitching together multiple storm shutter panels in making a storm shutter system, and/or assembly method for accomplishing the same. The clip includes upper and lower portions, with the upper portion having at least one arm extending therefrom, and the lower portion having a housing including a nut. A hole is formed in the lower portion. The upper and lower portions of the clip may be angled so as to correspond with an angle formed by intermediate portions of the storm shutter panels. The at least one arm of the clip is slipped over an end of the first shutter panel so that the hole of the clip aligns with holes of the inner and outer shutter panels. A screw is fed through the holes of the first and second shutter panels and the clip so as to engage with the nut, the shutter panels tightening together via the screw being received by the nut in forming the storm shutter system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Guardian Building Products, Inc.
    Inventor: William H. Crostic, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7934699
    Abstract: A fence system having a post and a bracket. The post preferably has at least one longitudinal channel extending a length of the post, the channel being narrower at an opening of the channel than at an interior of the channel. The bracket preferably has an engagement member slidingly engaged with the channel of the post, and a rail receptacle housing adapted to support a rail. A method of assembling a fence comprising the steps of providing a post, inserting an end of a rail into a rail receptacle housing of a bracket, sliding an engagement member of the bracket into engagement with a dovetail-shaped channel extending the length of the post, and attaching the bracket to the post at a desired position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Westech Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Zell, John-Paul Braaten
  • Patent number: 7882677
    Abstract: A roofing shingle with a laying line that facilitates the alignment of an overlying course of shingles with respect an underlying course of shingles is provided. The laying line is located on a front surface of the shingle and has a width such that the laying line is exposed when an edge of another shingle is placed in contacting proximity with the laying line. The shingle may also have a scale and one or more nibs that protrude from the sides of the shingle that assist in aligning the shingles in the second course with the shingles in the underlying course. The shingle may also include nailing zones located on the front surface of the shingles provide a location for fastening the shingles to the roof. A method of laying the shingles of the present invention on a roof is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Tamko Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Randal J. Jolitz, Dennis Dean Carlson, Charles Doyle Ziulkowski
  • Patent number: 7861631
    Abstract: A system and method for cutting shingles according to which a plurality of cutting blades are mounted on the outer circumference of a cutting cylinder, and the cylinder is rotated with the blades engaging the sheet while effecting relative translational movement between the cylinder and the sheet so that shingles are cut from the sheet upon one rotation of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Elk Premium Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: John G. Freshwater, Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: 7851051
    Abstract: An improved roofing material having an upper and lower surface in which a thin layer comprising re-melted polypropylene or other suitable plastic is adhered to at least a portion of its lower surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Elk Premium Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel C. DeJarnette, Richard Allen Chasteen, Jr., Michael L. Bryson
  • Patent number: 7832176
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are photovoltaic building materials and related methods of manufacturing and installing such materials. In one embodiment, a modular roofing structure comprises a photovoltaic shingle panel having a planar lower surface and an upper surface, and a rigid back member having a length the same as or greater than the length of the shingle panel and attached to the planar lower surface of the shingle panel. The roofing structure also includes at least one electrical contact pad on a lower surface of the back member, and at least one electrical conductor electrically coupled to the shingle panel via the lower surface and passing through the back member and out the lower surface. In such embodiments, the electrical conductor is electrically coupled to the at least one contact pad and extends past a front end of the back member sufficient to electrically contact a contact pad on another back member of a separate modular roofing structure couplable to the first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Elk Premium Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: John R. McCaskill, Matti Kiik
  • Patent number: 7833371
    Abstract: A multi-layered roofing shingle is described. The layers of the shingle are connected via a mechanical fastener. A method for manufacturing a multi-layered shingle is also described. The method includes aligning the layers of the shingle, and connecting the layers via at least one mechanical fastener. Further described is a multi-layered shingle having layers that are mechanically fastened by deforming one of the layers into one of the other layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Elk Premium Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse A. Binkley, Perry J. Prudhomme, Frank M. Bartolic, Louis T. Hahn, Daniel C. DeJarnette, Charles M. Reed, Richard Allen Chasteen, Jr., John W. Haughton, J. Gary Falls, Paul G. Wilson, Casimir Paul Weaver
  • Patent number: 7833383
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a multi-layer nonwoven fiber material, and related methods of manufacturing the material. In one exemplary embodiment, the fiber material includes a first layer of directionally aligned fibers together with a second layer of randomly dispersed fibers dispersed over the first layer. Consistent with one exemplary method for manufacturing a nonwoven fiber material, the method includes dispersing a first plurality of fibers horizontally in one or more predetermined directions, as well as dispersing a second plurality of fibers horizontally in random directions. In such an embodiment, the second plurality of fibers is dispersed over the first plurality of fibers. Moreover, an exemplary embodiment of a roofing shingle employing a nonwoven fiber material as described herein is as disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Elk Premium Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul G. Wilson, Darrell R. Heine, John J. Andrews, Louis T. Hahn, Matti Kiik
  • Patent number: 7823334
    Abstract: The present invention generally encompasses a ridge cap roofing product that is formed from a composite material. The ridge cap has a cross section that is generally in the shape of an inverted V with a rounded apex and includes a front section and a back section. The front section has a straight lower edge. The back section has a lowered edge that tapers both upward and inward. The tapered shape of the ridge cap's back section insures that installed ridge caps lie flat and that a covered ridge or hip does not have a saw tooth appearance. The ridge cap of the present invention is somewhat flexible so that it can be used with roofs that have a range of pitches. In one embodiment, the top surface of the ridge cap's front section is textured or contoured so that it simulates certain conventional shingles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Tamko Building Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Randal J. Jolitz
  • Publication number: 20100272958
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure a laminated composite product is provided. The product comprises a composite base, the composite base including filler material and a thermoplastic material. The product further comprises a surface layer extruded on at least a portion of the base, the surface layer being non-adhesively joined to the composite base and including about 0.1 weight percent to about 10 weight percent pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Guardian Building Products, Inc.
    Inventor: William H. Crostic, JR.
  • Patent number: RE41994
    Abstract: The invention provides a building component comprising first and second high density foam panels each having inner and outer surfaces, top and bottom, and first and second ends, the panels arranged in spaced parallel relationship with their inner surfaces facing each other, and at least two bridging members extending between and through and molded into the panel members. Each bridging member comprises a pair of elongated end plates oriented vertically and abutting against the outer surfaces of the panels; a thin narrow strip member joining the mid-areas of the end plates; a series of first narrow bracing members extending from positions adjacent a mid-point of the narrow strip member to positions spaced a short distance from the ends of the end plates; and a series of second narrow bracing members extending from positions on the first bracing members to positions on the strip member intermediate the plates and the mid-point of the strip member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: ARXX Building Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Hendrik Mensen
  • Patent number: D637896
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Dotsey
  • Patent number: D645575
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Pacific Coast Building Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Ernest E. Bone
  • Patent number: D651507
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Dotsey