Abstract: An apparatus for consolidating earth and anchor setting device. The apparatus includes a vertical support, a plurality of spaced media consolidation plates swingably mounted to the vertical support, a rib disposed along a lower edge of respective ones of the consolidation plates and a bearing plate secured to the vertical support. The apparatus can be used to install a bearing and moment foundation having an upper surface, a lower surface and a converging side surface. The upper surface is adapted to receive a pushing force for pushing the foundation into the soil and the side surface adapted to contact the soil when a pushing force is applied to the upper surface. The anchoring device can also be used to install a pier foundation having a plug, an installation load bearing member, an installed load bearing member and a cap.

Abstract: A seal assembly, which minimizes or eliminates infiltration of rain water along the roof of a truck parked in a loading dock, generally comprises a downwardly inclined roof panel which extends outwardly from the building wall and collects the water. A gutter member, supported by and disposed along the length of the roof panel, collects water runoff from the building walls and the roof panel and channels the water away from the center of the door opening and towards either side of the loading dock opening. The seal assembly also comprises a seal member mounted to the roof panel and/or the gutter member so that it generally hangs into the upper portion of the door opening and engages the top portion of the truck so as to sealably engage the truck roof and form a water blocking barrier, thereby minimizing or eliminating infiltration of rain water along the truck roof.

Abstract: An arrangement in a protective membrane (1; 101; 201), particularly for floors (11; 111; 211), comprising a substantially plane membrane of a preferably rigid material, e.g.

Abstract: A method of forming a joint (2) and the member (8, 28) used therein between two cementitious faces (3, 4) in which the space between the faces is not of uniform cross-section, but has at least two different widths (5, 6) and is stepped with a shoulder (7). The joint member has a central upright portion (9), a lower portion or head (10) for positioning the member relative to the lower faces (5). The lower portion includes one or more sets of projections (14) which are resiliently deformable. Flanges 11 on either side of the central portion have limited movement relative to the central portion rest on the shoulder (7) of the faces when the space between the member and the faces 3, 4 is filled with a resilient but compressible product.

Abstract: A skylight panel has a first skylight frame adapted to be adjacently positioned to the first building panel. The first skylight frame includes an upper and a lower first connector respectively coupled to the top of the first skylight frame and the bottom of the first skylight frame. The upper and lower first connectors are adapted to be coupled to the upper and lower connectors of the first building panel. A first lower flange is mounted to the first skylight frame for supporting one side of the radiation attenuating member. The skylight panel also includes a second skylight frame adapted to be adjacently positioned to the second building panel. The second skylight frame includes an upper and a lower second connector respectively coupled to the top of the second skylight frame and the bottom of said second skylight frame. The upper and lower second connectors are adapted to be coupled to the upper and lower connectors of the second building panel.

Abstract: A truss which is premanufactured and shipped to a job site for the construction of supper-insulated buildings walls has a two-by-four stud which is joined to a two-by-two stud positioned in spaced parallel relation to the first stud to form a twelve inch wide insulation cavity. The two-by-two stud is spaced from the two-by-four stud by spacers and is rigidly supported by diagonal cross braces. The braces and spacers are joined to the two-by-four stud by truss plates. A foundation, is especially designed to accommodate the wall truss members. The truss has a sill extension 81/2 inches wide formed of two-by-twos. The extension extends downwardly from the truss structure to provide an insulation face across the front of a step in the foundation. The wall trusses may be manufactured with the same equipment as utilized in the construction of floor and rafter trusses formed of dimensional two-by-fours.

Abstract: A roof tile formed of a sheet metal, preferably steel, in which the sheet material tile is strengthened by integral flanges (11) raised bosses (14) and depressions (15). The raised bosses (14) in use act as supports between one tile and an overlapping portion of another tile.

Abstract: An adjustable foundation-to-frame member connection including a foundation, a frame member and an adjustable foundation plate connector attached to the foundation and frame member by a frame fastener member and foundation fastener member. The adjustable foundation-to-frame member connection being easily formed and adaptable to a wide variety of installation dimensions, including those where the frame member overhangs the side face of the foundation and is not in alignment with the side face of the foundation. The foundation plate connector includes a foundation attachment member, having foundation attachment openings, guide members, and an elongated openings, releasably connected to a frame attachment member, having frame member attachment openings and a staircase openings, by a held-holding fastener and a holding member attached thereto.

Abstract: A shingle is provided having a headlap section and a buttlap section with at least one portion of the buttlap section having a relatively uniform color and/or value and an adjacent portion of the buttlap section having a value gradation from light to dark. A plurality of horizontal striations with transition stripes disposed between adjacent horizontal striations may be used to establish the desired value gradation. An illusion of depth or thickness is created on the portion of the buttlap section having the value gradation. The buttlap section defines in part the exposed weather surface of the associated shingle. The relatively uniform color and/or value portions may be formed on tabs or dragon teeth and the value gradation formed on a backer sheet disposed beneath the tabs. Openings between adjacent tabs expose the associated enhanced value gradation to view.

Abstract: A storm panel and attachment apparatus for protecting an exterior window in a structure includes three frame members attached to the structure peripheral to the window. A panel assembly includes a panel member and a panel-mounted connector assembly connected to the panel member. The panel-mounted connector assembly connects the panel assembly to the structure either directly or by way of a frame member. In a first embodiment, the panel-mounted connector assembly includes a panel-attached frame member which includes a first frame portion connected to the panel member and a second frame portion adapted for connection to the structure. U-shaped channels in the frame members are adapted to receive edges of the panel member when the panel member is slid onto the frame members. In a second embodiment, the panel-mounted connector assembly includes a plurality of captive first connector elements distributed at first positions on the panel-mounted connector assembly.

Abstract: A pole top safety device in general comprises a housing including an inner sleeve member dimensioned to fit over the top of the utility pole. A securing mechanism for selectively securing the inner sleeve member onto the utility pole at least at a point below the top of the utility pole. An outer sleeve member is positioned around the inner sleeve member, with the outer sleeve member being rotationally supported on the inner sleeve. The outer sleeve member carries a beam member extending outwardly from the outer sleeve, with the beam member including attachment means at its distal end to which a fall arrest system is selectively attachable. Particularly, the beam member extends radially outward from a position adjacent the utility pole, with the safety device and particularly the inner sleeve and associated outer sleeve being attached to the pole at points both above and below the beam member.

Abstract: An insulated covering for building sheathing comprising foam insulation shaped to occupy the area between raised construction panels and the building sheathing and sized to leave narrow air-gaps, horizontally and vertically, between the outside surfaces of the foam insert and inside surfaces of the raised aspects of the construction panel. The panels are secured to the building in a manner that allows the foam insert to float, freely, within the raised panel. The inserts provide the panels with enhanced structural durability and improved insulating qualities. Allowing the insert to float freely within the raised panels prevents annoying noises and panel deformation caused when tight fitting foam insulation expands during rapid temperature changes and warm weather. A foam insert shaped to accomodate simulated shake roof aluminum roofing panels is illustrated.

Abstract: A panel cover system for covering panels such as those comprising overhead doors. The cover system includes a plurality of covers with longitudinal and side margins for generally being aligned with the door panel longitudinal and side edges. The cover includes a field portion in a first, inner plane and a raised decorative portion in a second, outer plane spaced therefrom. The raised, decorative portion of the cover is bounded by the field portion. The covers are attached to the panels by edge strips extending along the panel longitudinal edges and receiving the cover longitudinal margins. The edge strips have J-shaped cross-sectional configurations.

Abstract: A hearth form is utilized for pour-forming a fireplace hearth in the absence of eventual removal thereof from an opening established by floor joists and a conventional concrete masonry unit. The hearth form is preferably constructed from two relatively slidable body portions which may be reinforced by inter-engaged parallel channels or grooves. The body portions collectively define a chamber or cavity into which concrete can be poured. A peripheral wall defined in part by side walls and front walls carry brackets for establishing a predetermined space between the hearth form and floor joists, not just for supporting the hearth form upon nails or fasteners and nail centering marks for establishing the location of fasteners to assemble the hearth form in an associated floor opening.

Abstract: A masonry reinforcement device is used in construction to strengthen the courses of laid hollow block. The masonry reinforcement device is fashioned with ends and a trough. In use, the trough will retain cement which will bind hollow block in a lower course to hollow block of an adjacent upper course.

Abstract: An anchor head assembly comprising a main body member with a plurality of cavities having the shape of a frustum of a cone in an exterior section and a corresponding number of cavities which may also have the shape of a frustum of a cone in an interior section. The cavities are orientated such that the narrow ends of those in the exterior section are of a different diameter than and face the narrow ends of those in the interior section. The interior section is dome-shaped so as to facilitate the fabrication of the cavities therein and to facilitate the splaying of strands or tendons as they are passed into and through the cavities in both the interior and exterior sections. The dome-shaped section also facilitates self-centering of the anchor head assembly in a bearing plate. Wedge members are used for capturing the strands and tendons in the cavities in the exterior section of the anchor head assembly.

Abstract: A holdown strap connection including a sheet metal holdown strap connector for joining a generally vertical frame member such as a post or stud to a concrete foundation made from one piece of sheet metal that installs easily to otherwise identical left and right corner vertical frame members with the same load values for resistance to uplift forces. The one-piece, in-line sheet metal holdown strap connector includes a foot section embedded in the concrete, a transition section connected to the foot section and an elongated strap section integrally connected to the transition section that extends in registration with the side face of a vertical frame member and attaches thereto.

Abstract: A ground support structure and a base system are provided in which the ground support structure is configured to have a recessed area disposed inside a peripheral rim, into which a base or a drag plate may be inserted and fastened. The associated base has a principal lower surface and a ground support-engaging lower protrusion that has a fastener corresponding to at least one fastener on an athletic device mounting surface disposed in the recess of the ground support structure. The drag plate is configured to substantially fill the entire area of the recess, and to provide an upper planar surface that is essentially flush with the peripheral rim on the ground support structure.

Abstract: A reinforcing arrangement or device which substantially prevents sagging of the lower section of a multi-sectional Up and over type door. The natural load on the lower center of the bottom panel of the door being upwardly and vertically controlled and translated laterally and downwardly to the bottom corners the door by the device, to maintain overall conformity.

Abstract: A hollow, cylindrical pier foundation is constructed of cementitious material poured in situ between inner and outer cylindrical corrugated metal pipe shells. The foundation is formed within a ground pit and externally and internally back filled. The lower end of the foundation has a circumferential ring fully embedded therein and sets of inner and outer circumferentially spaced bolts have their lower ends anchored to the anchor ring, their upper ends projecting up outwardly of the top of the foundation and a majority of the midportions thereof free of connection with the cementitious material of which the foundation is constructed. The base flange of a tubular tower is positioned downwardly upon the upper end of the foundation with the upper ends of the inner and outer sets of bolts projecting upwardly through holes provided therefor in the base flange and nuts are threaded downwardly upon the upper ends of the bolts and against the base flange.