Abstract: A ridge cover used to shingle houses, that gives a roof the appearance of a wood shake shingle. The cover is constructed from a rectangular sheet of asphalt composition which has a plurality of folding tabs. The tabs are arranged such that when the tabs are folded from the side, the resulting cover has a thickened portion on one end of the cover.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved planter edging landscaping system. In a first embodiment, the planter edging landscaping system includes a planter wall edging member which may be installed along wall structures or the like to create a planter area as well as provide an edging lip for ease of grass trimming or shearing. In a second embodiment, the present invention includes a flexible wall structure which is combinable with an edging cap to create an edging system which is adaptable to varying terrain. In addition, the edging cap may have channels therein to facilitate the installation of plumbing, wiring or drainage channels in outside environments.

Abstract: A framework for supporting the glass panels of a skylight is formed of spacedrafters inter-connected by cross bars. The rafters have upstanding side flanges provided with pairs of transverse slots. The ends of the cross bars have pairs of outwardly extending headed members adapted to be engaged in the slots to locate the cross bars. The rafters have a ledge below each side flange upon which the bottom of a cross bar can rest. The cross bars are locked in place on the rafters by extending a pin from the cross bar to engage in a recess on the underside of the side flange. The recesses and ledges in the rafters form parts of gutters. A channel-like gutter is also provided on the sides of the cross bars so that condensation from the cross bars will flow into the channel gutters and then to the gutters in the rafters where it can flow to a collection point.

Abstract: A swimming pool corner sun shade device for use on in-ground, vinyl-lined rectangular swimming pools in the shape of a flat generally keyhole-like shaped mat.

Abstract: An expansion joint for covered floor panels such as concrete slabs, as well as wall and ceiling panels, has a thickness equal to a covering material on the panels and is surface mounted. An expansion joint member having hingeable lateral sections bridges across substantially abutting panels at a gap which may vary laterally, longitudinally or in elevation. A U-shaped body portion incorporating the hingeable lateral sections has a width greater than a maximum width of the gap, and fasteners adjacent one side of the gap for affixing the body portion to the panel at an attachment side of the joint. The body portion bridges across the gap and carries a strip of the covering material. The lateral section opposite from the attached lateral section may rotate downwardly at the hinge, to rest freely on the surface of the panel on an opposite side of the gap. Wing members on the hinged lateral sections extend laterally outwardly at a height equal to the thickness of the covering material side.

Abstract: A method of installing concrete slabs on girders includes arranging a girder to extend along a moving direction of slabs to be installed. A first slab then is positioned at a mounting position at an upstream end, relative to the moving direction, of the girder. The first slab then is moved from the mounting position in the downstream direction by a predetermined distance. Another slab then is positioned at the mounting position after removal therefrom of the first slab. Then another slab is moved in the downstream direction together with the first slab. The operations of positioning slabs and moving the slabs in the downstream direction are repeated until the installation is completed.

Abstract: An service line conduit access box for forming a void in a poured concrete slab comprising a body portion and lid, the body portion having a seating flange and an outwardly angled seating rim, the lid having a bottom sized to fit over the seating flange and an outwardly angled lid rim abutting the seating rim. The lid is adapted to receive a concrete layer and has a pry lip for removal of the lid and a plateau for excluding concrete from a portion of the lid. The access box is set in place prior to pouring the concrete slab and the conduits are connected to its sides. The floor is then poured and allowed to harden. The lid is removed and the service lines are pulled through. The lid is then replaced with the lines extending through a hole cut in the plateau.

Abstract: An arrangement for interconnecting and supporting a pair of hexagonal building structures includes a pair of common support columns each having a hexagonal shaped connector tube mounted to an upper end thereof. Each connector tube includes apertures in each of the six lateral walls thereof which are adapted for receiving a nut and bolt combination for coupling the tube to the eave beams and roof trusses of two hexagonal building structures. The nut and bolt combinations are hidden from view within the connector tube and adjacent beams to provide a clean, attractive appearance and are not exposed to the elements. The use of common support columns and a common eave beam for adjacent hexagonal building structures simplifies assembly, reduces the number of structural components and building cost, and integrates two or more of such building structure for increased structural strength.

Abstract: An improved insulating spacer assembly for reducing heat transfer between panes of an insulated glazing unit comprises an extruded or roll-formed hollow metal spacer together with thermal breaks and primary sealant. The spacer and thermal breaks are preferably coextruded together, with the thermal breaks being extruded along the upper third portion of the spacer sidewalls, lengthwise along the spacer sidewall. The primary sealant is extruded along the middle third of the spacer sidewalls, parallel to and in cohering relationship to the thermal breaks. The invention also provides insulated glazing units wherein the spacer assembly is sandwiched between two glass panes to provide an exterior channel which is filled with a secondary sealant composition which also covers the exposed edges of the glass panes.

Abstract: A concrete joint in concrete slab structures in which the joint includes an insert that is retained in centered position in a slot or recess formed in the upper surface of a concrete slab generally in alignment with a crack or fracture line extending downwardly from the slot or recess formed in the concrete slab. The bottom of the slot or recess is provided with a seal of cementitious material which extends completely across the bottom of the slot or recess and fills the crack or fracture line with the lower edge of the insert being inserted partially into the cementitious seal which is in the form of a quick setting sand and cement mixture which has high compression strength and low tensile strength and which will adhere to concrete surfaces but will not adhere to the insert. The space above the bottom seal on each side of the insert is then filled with a filler of an epoxy or similar material which encapsulates the spring clips and fills the slot or recess on both sides of the insert.

Abstract: A glazing system for a wooden door or window employs coextruded vinyl trim strips which have a planar base with flexible compression members and flexible seal tubes and a projecting barb extending from the base. The trim strips engage in kerfs in the window sash and the seal tubes are compressed against the window lights by extruded aluminum trim caps which engage with the trim strip barbs and against the sash. Sashes which have more than one light separated by a wooden muntin are glazed with a vinyl extruded muntin strip which is attached to the muntin so that a flexible seal tube which is a part of the muntin strip base overlies the glass lights on each side of the muntin. An extruded aluminum muntin cap is snap-fit to the muntin strip such that the muntin strip seal tubes are compressed against the window glass. The aluminum muntin cap and trim caps substantially cover and shield the trim strips and muntin strips from exposure to sunlight.

Abstract: A storm window assembly is described including a retainer member which has a ridge along its length and is permanently affixed to an existing window casing and a frame member which has a channel for glazing and a channel for snap-accepting the ridge on the retainer member and a cover frame. The frame member can pivot relative to the retainer member to allow mounting on non-vertical casings. The ridge on the retainer member has a tip thereon to restrict the amount of pivoting permitted between the frame member and retainer member.

Abstract: A clip is disclosed for retaining an insulation panel or the like to a planar surface. The insulation panel has opposite edges provided with a tongue and groove formation for matingly interlocking with adjacent like panels. The clip comprises a piece of sheet material having a base adapted to lie flush on the planar surface upon which the insulation panel is to be mounted. The base is adapted to be secured to the planar surface. The clip has an interlock portion adapted to follow the contours of the joint between adjacent tongue and groove interlocks. The interlock portion terminates within the thickness of the insulation panel. The interlocking member has a slot extending substantially perpendicular to said base portion for receiving a fin member.

Abstract: A molding for attachment to a vehicle having a flange edge, said molding comprising a generally U-shaped metallic support member having in cross-section, first and second legs joined together by a web and a spiraled section formed from a portion of one leg said support member, said spiraled section extending inwardly in a channel of said support member and in opposition to the other leg of said support member. A ramp section may be formed from a portion of the first leg and extends inwardly into the channel.

Abstract: This invention relates to devices and methods for installing ceilings made from tiles that are supported by a suspension grid that is not visible from the underside of the ceiling. One embodiment comprises channels that form the suspension grid, channel wall supports for supporting the grid where the ceiling abuts the walls, and hangers that are capable of establishing the ceiling level as well as supporting the suspension grid in its mid-span regions. Another embodiment comprises a method of installing the wall hangers, suspension grid channels, and hangers.

Abstract: A metal wall frame structure for a building which includes a horizontal top plate, a horizontal bottom plate and a number of vertical studs. The top and bottom plates are identical each being of U-shaped channel section, having side walls and a base, and having a plurality of paired inwardly directed tabs arrayed along each of the side walls. The studs each are of a U-shaped section having side walls and a base. The studs are of such a width that their ends nest neatly within the plates. The wall frame structure is characterized in that each stud is adapted to be nested in a plate between two adjacent pairs of tabs or around a single pair of tabs, or both. Each stud has adjacent at least one end and adjacent to each side wall at least a pair of aligned apertures aligned transversely to the axis of the stud.

Abstract: An insulated wall assembly which combines strength with good insulating qualities includes spaced apart, elongated wooden posts, which are I-shaped in cross section; and elongated rigid foam plastic panels extending between adjacent posts, the panels being generally cruciform in cross section so that projections on the lateral edges thereof extend into the recesses of the posts while the front and rear or outer and inner surfaces of the panels are in the same planes as the outer and inner surfaces of the posts. Alternatively, the panels are parallelepipedic blocks with longitudinally extending, rectangular grooves in the sides thereof for receiving splines, which connect the blocks to rectangular, grooved insulating inserts in the posts.

Abstract: A space frame structure has parallel spaced lower and upper sub-frames joined by interconnecting members, each sub-frame comprising a multiplicity of members connected in a grid, and a concrete layer secured to the upper sub-frame, wherein the concrete layer embeds the grid members of the upper sub-frame in the layer to form a composite upper sub-structure. Preferably the structure comprises permanent shuttering supported on the grid members of the upper sub-frame within the depth of the upper sub-frame, the concrete layer being laid on the shuttering to a depth sufficient to embed all of the grid members above the shuttering in the layer.

Abstract: A bidimensional support or tower for overhead electric energy transmission lines is formed of a flat truss structure, the stringers of which consist of at least one truss beam comprising a pair of cold-bent channel sections connected together, with their cavities facing, by means of a zigzag-bent steel rod applied by welding to the flanges of said sections. Said tower comprises two stringers connected by one or more horizontal girders, which stringers can be vertical and parallel, or else converging towards the top substantially in correspondence of the point where the loads are applied, in which latter case a vertical structural element is provided above said point. Said stringers and said vertical structural element are formed of said truss beams, positioned either singly or side-by-side.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for mounting stone panels comprising a rectangular support frame unit formed by upper and lower horizontal frames and left- and right-hand vertical frames both of which being respectively connected to the upper and the lower horizontal frames, a stone panel having a continuously extending notch formed along the outer peripheral edge of the rear surface thereof and mounted through the notch on the front surface of the support frame, and a rectangular mounting framework formed by upper and lower mounting frames fixedly secured through upper and lower connecting metal fixtures, respectively, onto a building body, and left- and right-hand vertical mounting frames both of which being respectively connected to the upper and the lower mounting frames. The upper and lower mounting frames are provided with upwardly extending receiving pieces formed integrally on their respective front portions so as to mount at least one support frame unit thereon.