Abstract: A unified cornice apparatus formed of metal or plastic, which is secured at one end by a roof nailer portion to the roof decking by conventional fasteners. A shingle mold portion extends from the roof nailer portion. The shingle mold portion has an outer face portion and a bottom face portion. A facia portion extends from the bottom face portion adjacent to the facia board. The facia portion extends beneath the facia board, to a bottom facia portion which extends in spaced relation beneath the facia board. An outer soffit portion extends upwardly from the bottom facia portion to a soffit portion which extends beneath the sub-facia to an inner soffit portion. The inner soffit portion extends downwardly from the inner soffit portion to an lower freeze portion. The lower freeze portion joins a bottom freeze portion, which is secured to an existing wall freeze portion. Alternately, the lower freeze portion connects to an outer wall freeze portion which extends upwardly to a hidden nailer portion.

Abstract: This invention relates to exterior building wall systems utilizing multiple wall panels forming horizontal and vertical wall joints. Each individual wall panel consists of an essentially flat exterior facing member and four perimeter members structurally connected to the facing member. The design of the perimeter members and the combination of differential pressure seals and pressure equalized seals enable the system to prevent water from infiltrating into the building. In addition, this invention is easily disassembled and saves much time and expense.

Abstract: A composite frame member that includes a longitudinally extending external member that defines a longitudinally extending internal cavity within which a longitudinally extending internal member is disposed. The internal member and external member, while being distinct components, are constructed and arranged to cooperate in a substantially synergistic fashion that seeks to provide a frame member having superior strength characteristics. Further, the internal member and the external member cooperate to define an accessible stapling channel that is capable of being readily stapled into. The external member includes walls that at least partially bound the internal cavity. The internal member is disposed within the internal cavity and defines the stapling channel, wherein the stapling channel receives a cover sheet and staples through an opening defined by the external member.

Abstract: A trough with superimposed shield to reject leaves and allow water to enter the trough include a bracket which supports the shield and the trough and which rests on a back wall of the integral shield and trough. The front of the shield ends in a backward facing upturned curve for engaging the bracket. The front of the trough ends in a backward facing downturned curve for engaging the bracket.

Abstract: A suspended ceiling system having a trim strip and ceiling runners. A trim connector fastens the trim strip to the ceiling runners. The trim connector being a two part structure is fastened to the trim strip by a releasable fastening action. One of the two parts of the trim connector is also fastened to the ceiling runner.

Abstract: A dynamic insulation wall element for use in a building to improve in natural manner the comfort of the building with respect to temperature, sound level, air flow, and humidity, the element being constituted by a composite plate having at least one layer made of a thermally insulating material that is provided with spacers on at least one of its faces, the spacers defining an air passage in at least two directions parallel to the plate for causing air to enter and flow within the building, wherein the composite plate further includes a layer that is strong and hydrophilic and that is disposed against the spacers of the layer of thermally insulating material.

Abstract: A spacer or gauge is provided for maintaining accurate spacing between adjacent wooden boards of a deck, patio, walkway or the like incident to the performance of a nailing operation. The spacer is formed from two members, namely, an elongated leg welded in transverse relationship to a support member. A lower flat surface of the support member rests upon and spans adjacent deck boards while a lower leg portion of the elongated leg has opposite substantially parallel space defining surfaces which are spaced a predetermined distance from each other. The space defining surfaces are contacted by opposite edges of the deck boards, and the support member has a pair of apertures which allows a person to view the deck board edges and ascertain that the same are in contact with the space defining surfaces.

Abstract: A building structure adapted allows for ventilation of vapors from within the structure so as to retard deterioration of the structure. The building structure has a roof extending over one or more vertical side walls. An attic space is enclosed between the roof and an internal ceiling. The roof is constructed on a plurality of parallel rafters. The rafters are supported by a top plate capping each vertical side wall. The roof has a roof sheathing member overlying the roof rafters. A fascia is secured to the outer ends of the roof rafters and at least one portion of the fascia is spaced from the outer ends of the rafters. An air permeable and resilient strip is interposed between the fascia and the outer ends of the rafters to provide for the flow of vapor therebetween and into the attic.

Abstract: A spiral stairway (10) includes a center support pole(14), a plurality of steps (16), and an adjustable pitch railing assembly (12). The steps (16) are attached at a narrow end (22) to the center support pole (14) and at a peripheral end (24) to the railing assembly (12). The railing assembly (12) includes an upper railing (38), a lower railing (36), and a plurality of pickets (32). Each railing (36), (38) includes a continuous channel (54) formed along a length therein. Each picket (32) includes portions (62), preferably in the shape of a cylinder having a longitudinal axis transverse to the length of the picket (32). The railing assembly (12) further includes a plurality of inserts (34) having a length corresponding to the distance between pickets (32). The picket end portions (62) are engageable within corresponding partial circular cutouts formed within the inserts (34), and the combination is receivable in the railing channel (54).

Abstract: A partition wall comprising a plurality of partition wall units each of which includes two extruded hollow aluminum columns, two extruded hollow aluminum beams, and four plastic joints; a plurality of resilient snap elements; a plurality of holding bars; and a plurality of sets of locking members, characterized in that the joint comprises a vertical portion and a horizontal portion perpendicular to each other, so that the column and the beam are connected to each other by inserting the vertical portion and the horizontal portion into the column and the beam respectively; and in that the wall units are connected by means of grooves and/or tongues provides on the columns and beams, a plurality of holding bars, and a plurality of sets of locking members.

Abstract: A clean out block assembly for providing access to the interior of a building block which has a back wall and two side walls, and an essentially open front. The side walls have slots or shoulders. A replaceable front wall member is inserted into the front of the block, and is engaged by the slots or shoulders. A spring is used between the back wall and the front wall to hold the front wall in position.

Abstract: A landscape module includes a plurality of projections at predetermined intervals positioned around the periphery of the back and sidewalls to index modules when they are stacked. The landscape module is constructed to be filled with fill material such as dirt, gravel, sand, etc. It is lightweight and has an imitation concrete front. The preferred embodiment has sidewalls which include a first and second part with the projections only being on the underside of the second part of the sidewall and the back wall.

Abstract: A wall structure for buildings comprising a plurality of vertical frames spaced equidistant and two steel nets welded with the front side and the rear side of the frames to form a front and a rear side of a wall, each frame consisting of two vertical parallel bars, a zigzag bar welded on and between the two vertical bars, and two vertical parallel angle steel posts welded on the outer sides of the two vertical parallel bars, the two steel nets respectively having a plurality of horizontal semi-round ridges spaced equidistant to strengthen the nets and being fastened with the front surfaces of the front and the rear vertical parallel steel posts, concrete material being poured in the empty space surrounded by the vertical frames and the two metal nets for forming a wall of a building.