Patents Assigned to Construction Specialties, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5170603
    Abstract: A panel wall system is based on panels, each of which includes a sheet of high density fiberboard, a vapor barrier on the back surface of the fiberboard sheet and a sheet of substantially rigid polymeric material adhesively secured to the front face of the fiberboard sheet, the polymeric sheet having a thickness of not less than about 0.022 inch. The other components of the system are various trims and moldings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary F. Bartlett
  • Patent number: 5165643
    Abstract: An ergonomic handrail adapted to be mounted on a wall in spaced-apart relation therefrom by means of mounting brackets and comprises an elongated metal retainer of substantially uniform cross-section along its length and having a channel-shaped body portion, upper and lower flange portions extending upwardly and downwardly, respectively, from the body portion, a web portion extending upwardly from the body portion from a juncture therewith rearwardly of the upper flange portion and defining with the upper flange portion a slot that opens generally upwardly, and front and rear arcuate arm portions extending upwardly from a common juncture with an upper edge of the web portion and defining the major portion of substantially circular cylindrical surface except for a space between upper edges thereof. An elongated bumper cover member of an impact resistant substantially rigid polymeric material and of substantially uniform cross-section along its length is received on the retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Shreiner
  • Patent number: 5157804
    Abstract: A foot mat comprises a multiplicity of elongated rail members formed by coextrusion of a substantially rigid polymeric material and a compressible polymeric material. Each rail member has a rigid tread-supporting web portion, at least two rigid leg portions, which are adapted to support the tread-supporting web portion stably on a surface, a cushion portion of the compressible material on the bottom of each leg portion, and a pair of rigid bulbous coupling portions of the substantially rigid material, one on each side of the tread-supporting web portion. Each coupling portion is substantially longitudinally coextensive with the tread-supporting web portion and extends generally laterally outwardly from the tread-supporting web portion. A tread member is received on the top of the tread-supporting web portion of the rail member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Howard Williams
  • Patent number: 5123224
    Abstract: A drainable louver comprises a frame composed of a sill, a head and a pair of side members forming a rectangular opening and a multiplicity of vertically spaced-apart louver blades extending across the opening between the side members and fastened to the side members. Each of the blades has a drainage trough extending along its lower front edge and terminating at each end adjacent a corresponding side member of the frame, and each of the side frame members has a base wall portion engaging the corresponding ends of the blades throughout their lateral extent. Each side member has a front flange portion defining with a front part of the base wall portion a vertical drainage channel located laterally of the corresponding ends of the drainage troughs of the louver blades on the side of the base wall portion opposite from the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Olsen
  • Patent number: 5078529
    Abstract: A seismic expansion joint cover comprises a pair of elongated frame members, each of which is adapted to be secured to a building member, one on one side of an expansion gap and the other on the other side of the expansion gap, and each of which has a planar support surface and an edge adapted to overhang the gap. An elongated cover member spans the expansion gap and is supported on the support surfaces of the respective frame members for sliding movement of the frame members relative to the cover member. A hold-down assembly resiliently holds the cover member in engagement with the support surfaces of the frame members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Moulton
  • Patent number: 5048249
    Abstract: A gasket for a flush expansion joint cover comprises a longitudinally continuous central body portion and two longitudinally continuous side portions, one at either transverse edge of the central body portion. The central body portions and the side portions are comprised of a colorable thermoplastic rubber and are co-extruded to form an integral gasket structure. The side portions, which are adapted to keylock with mating grooves in structural members of the expansion joint cover, are harder than the central body portion to enhance retention of the gasket in place during use. The central body portion has a cellular core structure and a slightly concave upper surface to remain substantially smooth and flush with adjacent surfaces throughout the complete movement cycle of the expansion joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Shreiner, Paul Moulton
  • Patent number: 5048253
    Abstract: The cross sections of louver blades are located exclusively within zones defined primarily by concentric arcs configured to maintain a substantially equal spacing between the boundaries of the zones of adjacent blades throughout the width of the louver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Olsen
  • Patent number: 4877672
    Abstract: A floor mat is composed of a multiplicity of rigid elongated rails arranged parallel to each other, each rail having a body portion adapted to receive a tread member and a coupling portion by which it is joined to an adjacent rail. The body and coupling portions are found by extrusion of a rigid high-impact strength thermoplastic polymeric material and are joined by a living hinge of a highly flexible thermoplastic elastomer formed by coextrusion with the body and coupling portions. Each rail includes at least two ribs along its underside laterally spaced apart from each other and adapted to support the rail on a surface, each rib being formed by coextrusion with the body and coupling portions and the living hinge of a soft, compressible thermoplastic polymeric material and serving as a cushion and an anti-slip element of the mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Shreiner
  • Patent number: 4866896
    Abstract: A panel wall system is composed of a multiplicity of rectangular panels arranged in closely spaced relation in columns and rows such as to define vertical junctures between horizontally adjacent panels and horizontal junctures between vertically adjacent panels and affixed at their upper edges to horizontal support members by mounting clips and joined at each vertical juncture to a vertically continuous vertical track member. Each panel has a peripheral frame composed of a top member, a bottom member and a pair of side members joined at the respective corners and a facing of sheet material adhesively bonded to the frame. A seal is formed along each horizontal juncture by a horizontal gasket on the bottom frame member of the panel above the juncture that engages a flange on the top frame member of the panel below the juncture. A seal is formed at each vertical juncture by vertical gaskets on the vertical track that engage the respective side members of the panels on either side of the juncture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Shreiner, William W. Vincent, Robert W. Olsen
  • Patent number: 4622794
    Abstract: A panel wall assembly comprises rectangular panlike panels mounted close together side by side and end to end. Retainers located at all junctures between the panels are fastened to the building structure, and the panels are fastened to the retainers by clips having arms that extend out through slots in the panel flanges and clamp the edges of the flanges against seating surfaces on the retainers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Jack Geortner
  • Patent number: 4607471
    Abstract: A building panel wall assembly comprises a multiplicity of pan-like rectangular panels arranged side by side and end to end in closely spaced relation. Each panel has an L-shaped top flange and a bottom flange and side flanges that extend in from the principal wall of the panel toward the building structure. A drainage gutter extends vertically along the vertical junctures between laterally adjacent panels. Either the upper or the lower flange of each panel is fastened to the building structure, and one or more clips connect the upper flange of each panel to the lower flange of the panel above it in the manner of a slip joint to allow relative movement in a plane parallel to the principal wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Olsen
  • Patent number: 4597235
    Abstract: An exterior panel wall assembly comprises a multiplicity of pan-like rectangular panels arranged in closely spaced relation side by side and end to end and joined to a horizontal retainer that is, in turn, fastened to the building structure at the horizontal junctures between side by side pairs of vertically adjacent panels. Each horizontal retainer has a drainage trough for conducting water to the end of the retainer, and a drainage channel member is located at the vertical juncture between each pair of horizontally adjacent panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Olsen
  • Patent number: 4506484
    Abstract: A panel wall assembly comprises rectangular pan-like panels mounted close together side by side and end to end. Retainers located at all junctures between the panels are fastened to the building structure, and the panels are fastened to the retainers by clips having arms that extend out through slots in the panel flanges. Troughs on each horizontal retainer drain condensate or water that leaks through seals between adjacent panels to drainage slots in the vertical retainers. Gaskets between the retainers and the panel flanges provide additional control of water flow behind the panel faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary F. Bartlett, Robert W. Olsen
  • Patent number: 4295315
    Abstract: An expansion joint cover comprises a pair of elongated rigid frame members, each of which includes a generally vertical, longitudinally continuous wall portion and a multiplicity of longitudinally spaced-apart, substantially horizontal plate-like tongues supported in cantilevered relation from the vertical wall portion at locations spaced from the upper edge of the wall portion and in longitudinal alignment. The longitudinal spacings between adjacent tongues of each frame member are not less than the widths of the tongues of the other frame member such that in the cover as installed in the expansion gap the tongues of each frame member project into the spaces between the tongues of the other frame member, and a generally longitudinally continuous bridge is formed by an intervening of the tongues of each of the frame members between the tongues of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1981
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Lynn-Jones, R. Gordon Stewart
  • Patent number: 4271650
    Abstract: An expansion joint cover comprises at least one elongated frame assembly which includes a base member having a bridge-supporting rib adjacent the gap and a cover-supporting flange spaced laterally outwardly from the rib, the cover-supporting flange having an upwardly open groove and an abutment located laterally outwardly from the groove, relative to the expansion gap. A cover member having, in cross-section, a web portion, a bridge-supported flange extending down from the underside of the web portion adjacent to the gap and generally vertically above the rib of the base member and a retainer rib extending down from the underside of the web portion, is fastened to the base member of the frame assembly by longitudinally spaced-apart, generally U-shaped spring clips received on the retainer rib of the cover member and in the groove of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1981
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: David M. Lynn-Jones
  • Patent number: 4200261
    Abstract: A handrail and crash rail comprises a rigid retainer and a cover of a resilient, impact-resistant plastic mounted on the retainer by means of upper and lower flanges on the cover which engage and are held on corresponding flanges on the retainer. Clearances are left between the impact wall of the cover and the front surfaces of the retainer flanges so that the cover can deflect inwardly toward the retainer upon impact. At least one longitudinally extending, resiliently compressible cushion mounted on the retainer between the retainer flanges engages the impact wall of the cover to control the extent of deflection of the cover upon impact, absorb some of the energy of the impact, and restore the cover to its initial position after impact. Additional cushions can be included. Special internal and external corner assemblies and an end assembly are used with rail sections to form a complete rail system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1980
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary F. Bartlett
  • Patent number: 4196552
    Abstract: A crash rail for mounting on a wall or the like to absorb impacts comprises mounting clips fastened at intervals to the wall, an elongated crash member of a resilient, impact-resistant polymeric material fastened to the clips, and an elongated structural back-up member mounted on the clips between the front wall of the crash member and the wall. A longitudinally continuous impact cushion is interposed between the structural back-up member and the inner face of the front wall of the crash member and permits deformation of the front wall of the crash member, but limits the degree of such deformation, and absorbs part of the energy of an impact to the crash member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1980
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary F. Bartlett
  • Patent number: 4182093
    Abstract: A grille for use as a sun screen, decorative facing, vision barrier or the like is made up of a multiplicity of modular pieces, each of which is of uniform cross section along its length and has walls having spaced-apart, parallel edges defining a base plane and a portion intermediate the edges spaced from the base plane in one direction. An edge flange extends from each edge of the walls of the piece in a direction generally perpendicular to the base plane and opposite from the said one direction, and a pair of spaced-apart slot flanges extends from the intermediate portion of the walls in the said one direction and generally perpendicular to the base plane. The slot flanges define between them a slot that opens generally away from the base plane, the slot having a width at a location nearer the base plane that is greater than its width at a location farther from the base plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1980
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexandra A. Porumbescu
  • Patent number: 4178738
    Abstract: A grille for use as a sunscreen, decorative facing, vision barrier and the like is made up of a multiplicity of modular pieces, each of which is of uniform cross section along its length. Each piece has walls terminating in spaced-apart parallel edges that define a base plane of the piece, and each piece is paired with another piece by bringing the edges of the two pieces together to produce a closed cell. An edge flange extends outwardly from a portion of the walls adjacent each edge of the piece, and a pair of closely-spaced, parallel slot flanges extend outwardly from a portion of the walls and define an outwardly open slot that is centered on a medial plane perpendicular to the base plane and parallel to the edges of the piece. The slot is, moreover, spaced from the line of intersection between the base plane and the medial plane, which line may be considered the axis of the piece, a distance substantially equal to one-half the perpendicular distance between the edge flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1979
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward C. Hallock, Robert Olsen, George Ennesser
  • Patent number: D251617
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1979
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward C. Hallock, Gary Steinberg