Bridger Strip And Coextensive Elongated Member At Juncture Patents (Class 52/461)
  • Patent number: 4206578
    Abstract: A structure of a grid tee member for suspension ceilings, and a method for producing such structure is disclosed. Such grid tee provides a web, a bulb at one web extremity and a flange at the other web extremity. The tee section includes three strips of material in which the first strip is relatively thin and is shaped to provide the web, a portion of the bulb and a portion of the flanges. A separate cap strip is secured to the flanges on the side thereof remote from the web and separate stiffening material having a generally U-shaped cross section is located within the bulb with the base of the U located at the extremity of the section. The three strips provide a structure in which material is concentrated at the extremities and is therefore efficiently placed to provide a high moment of inertia and high rigidity to the total structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: Donn Incorporated
    Inventor: David F. Mieyal
  • Patent number: 4164830
    Abstract: The invention relates to a frame assembly for making double-glazed doors or windows comprising a metal extrusion having a cross-section, preferably an H-section, providing an open channel having oppositely facing abutments along the internal surfaces of the free edges of the channel side walls, a facing strip extruded of a substantially rigid plastics material of a desired color having a profiled rib along its rear face which fits between and interlocks with the abutments to hold the facing strip bridging the channel side walls. The metal extrusion provides the necessary rigidity to a frame as well as a fixing for hinges or hardware, while the inner and/or outer facing strips provide a thermal break between the inner and outer sides of the frame as well as a substantially permanent and weatherproof decorative finish to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1979
    Inventor: Johannes H. Bierlich
  • Patent number: 4161088
    Abstract: An improved pipe-and-ball truss array for supporting a deck surface, such as a roof deck or a wall panel, thereon in a predetermined plane is provided in which the outer chord of the truss array comprises an outer hollow pipe element having a structural tee element extending radially outward from the outer surface thereof in a plane normal to the plane in which the deck surface is to be supported on the truss array and an inner rod running through the pipe along the longitudinal axis thereof. A hollow substantially ball-like member, such as a hollow spherical member, is provided which is common to a plurality of truss members which truss members are joined to the spherical member by bolting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1979
    Inventors: Paul F. Gugliotta, David Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 4147003
    Abstract: A reel of flexible sheet material of a width wider than the space between adjacent ones of the purlins in a roof structure is mounted on a support framework over a space between adjacent ones of the purlins. The framework is moved along the purlins and the reel of sheet material is progressively unrolled and the sheet material is formed and guided by the framework down into the space between the adjacent purlins to create a trough in the space between the adjacent purlins. Insulation material is placed in and supported in the trough of sheet material and additional hard insulation can be applied to the upper and lower flanges of the purlins and also can be applied to the purlins to span the space between adjacent ones of purlins. Hard sheets of roofing material are applied to the purlins to cover the roof structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Assignee: Butler Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Robert J. Alderman
  • Patent number: 4144691
    Abstract: A roof, that is constituted by a number of contiguous three-dimensional roof pans, has fascia-supporting clips adjacent one side thereof; and has a fascia releasably held by those clips. That fascia also extends along the ends of that roof. The opposite side of the roof is supported by a flashing-like bracket; and that bracket has a shelf-like bottom which extends under, and which is secured to, the roof pans to enable the weight of that opposite side to tend to draw that bracket into intimate engagement with that opposite side. The one side of the roof is underlain and supported by an elongated channel which, in turn, is supported by vertically-directed posts. The upper ends of those posts extend upwardly through openings in a horizontally-directed lower portion of that channel and are co-extensive with, and are directly secured to, the vertically-directed portion of that channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1979
    Inventor: Milo F. Hindman
  • Patent number: 4135342
    Abstract: An insulated roofing and siding system is disclosed. A plurality of elongate insulation bins are located side by side on the roof or wall of a supporting structure. Each bin has a flat base and vertical side walls defining a cavity in which insulation material can be inserted. A plurality of elongate plates are located over the respective bins, and the edges of the plates snap into incurved portions on the associated bins to enclose the cavities which contain the insulation material. Each plate has an upwardly directed flange at each of its lateral edges having an outwardly directed C-shaped section juxtaposed to adjacent such sections on adjoining plates. A plurality of discrete clips attach the insulation bins and plates to the supporting structure. Battens are snapped over adjacent flanges on contiguous lateral edges of the plates to provide weatherproofing for the roofing and siding system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Field Form, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald P. Cotter
  • Patent number: 4129970
    Abstract: A building construction in which a unit of the building is composed of wall and roof sections, at least some of which are sandwich panels having surface sheets disposed in spaced relation with an insulating material therebetween. Each panel is provided with a framing element extending about the periphery, the element being of U-shaped cross-section to telescopically engage over the edges of the panel with opposite legs disposed flush against the surface sheets of the panel and a transverse leg defining the edge of the panel. The three legs of the U-shaped framing element are identical in exterior configuration to permit connection of adjacent panels to any one of the three legs interchangeably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1978
    Inventor: Franklyn L. Whitney
  • Patent number: 4128983
    Abstract: A connector assembly for connecting two panels edge to edge with a joint opening therebetween, each of the panels having a groove extending longitudinally along such edge thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K.K.
    Inventor: Isamu Matsubara
  • Patent number: 4126978
    Abstract: Apparatus for interconnecting panels is disclosed which includes a plurality of members which are attached to panel edges and a plurality of core elements. Each core element has a pair of longitudinally extending arms which cross at the axial center of the core element. The portions of the arms extending outwardly from the axial center of the core element are reversely bent so that they are radially and tangentially resilient. The arm ends are configured so that adjacent arm ends can snap over parallel tongues which extend outwardly along the length of each member and the core element can releasably hold a plurality of panels together. The apparatus may further include a plurality of cover plates, each having a pair of parallel tongues which extend outwardly along the length of the cover plate. The tongues of each cover plate can be snapped into engagement with the core element where no members are attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1978
    Inventor: Stephen M. Heller
  • Patent number: 4114333
    Abstract: A load bearing wall panel unit is comprised of a pair of facially opposed co-extensive panels connected together by edge fasteners and has a core of foam-like material located between the panels. The unit has an outer layer of weatherproofing material and is connected to adjacent units by tongue and groove fasteners. Tongue and groove fasteners are also used to connect the units to a building foundation and roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Inventors: Harold E. Jones, Donald T. Ottenweller
  • Patent number: 4114330
    Abstract: A modular skylight system comprises a continuous sill for supporting a lower edge of a plurality of panel frames, each pre-assembled and having a lower edge member interlocked on the sill. Each frame includes a pair of upwardly sloping side frame members adapted to be secured and interlocked to those of adjacent members and attached at their lower ends to the lower edge member. All of the frame members include an elongated glazing pocket for receiving an edge portion of a glazing panel and they also provide gutter structure for collecting liquid from the glazing panel and for carrying the liquid down to the sill for discharge therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Kawneer Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald D. Sukolics
  • Patent number: 4099355
    Abstract: Paneling of fireproof insulating elements for walls, floors and ceilings, comprises a plurality of metal-sheathed panels in edgewise abutting relationship. The panels are filled with endothermally variable insulating material that absorbs a great deal of heat during its phase change. To permit the panels to be welded together at their butt joints, the panels have double metal walls adjacent these joints, there being insulation within the double metal walls thereby to protect the endothermally variable insulating material from the heat of welding. A semi-solid, flexible insulating composition can be disposed in the butt joints. External insulating paneling, also arranged in edgewise abutting relationship, can be provided, the butt joints of the external paneling being offset from those of the internal paneling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: Horst Lampertz
    Inventor: Ernst-Joachim Strunk
  • Patent number: 4089145
    Abstract: A metal roof construction of the type wherein elongated metal panels are joined together at upstanding vertical side walls by a crimped batten strip. Shallow step strengthening ribs are positioned closely adjacent to the side walls to strengthen the side walls and prevent buckling and to promote flexure of the panel central portions at the step strengthening ribs under high upward stresses on the panels. The panels are secured to underlying roof support means through a special clip having a radius of curvature between an upstanding body portion, positioned between side walls of adjacent panels, and a lower flange portion, positioned beneath a panel. The radius of curvature is sufficient to accommodate the head of a threaded fastener between the clipped lower flange and an overlying panel. Radius bends are also provided between the clipped body portion and top flanges which overlie inwardly directed flanges on the panel side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1978
    Assignee: Wm. DeVries & Sons, Inc.
    Inventors: William S. DeVries, Jr., Elmer M. Malek
  • Patent number: 4086739
    Abstract: This invention pertains to a wall frame construction in which metal studs or frame support members are formed with a panel supporting face. In this face is formed a longitudinal slot or slots terminating at a substantially right angle undercut which provides an internal lip which is substantially parallel with the panel supporting face surface. In combination with the stud is provided a J-clip having a front strip portion and at substantially right angles to its rear face is a stem portion. This stem portion at its free or distal edge is bent into a ninety degree curve and terminates with a very short straight lip extending portion. This curved stem portion of the J-clip is inserted into the slot in the face of the stud and the J-clip is then rotated to bring the lip extending portion behind the internal lip of the undercut in which position the front strip portion of the J-clip provides opposed grooves or channels for retaining the edge of a panel inserted thereunder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Inventor: Raymond L. Hall
  • Patent number: 4067155
    Abstract: A system for joining and adhering a pair of abutting panels to a rigid substrate and providing a seal against thermal and moisture transfer. The system is comprised of an elongated receptacle member with a base and a pair of spaced vertical elements extending upwardly from the base and forming a channel, to be placed under and between edges of the panels to be joined. The receptacle member is firmly attached to the rigid substrate by fastening means passed through the base. The adjacent side walls of the vertical elements include a plurality of vertically spaced, downwardly angled teeth projecting inwardly towards the center of the channel. An elongated resilient insert member includes a cap and a projection extending downwardly from said cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1978
    Assignee: Grefco, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Ruff, Sherman A. Stewart, Harlan E. Tarbell
  • Patent number: 4063393
    Abstract: A panel assembly comprised of two or more pre-formed panel members securely joined operatively with each other without utilizing separate fastening means. The panels employed utilize pre-formed snap locking means provided along margins thereof to effect interconnection of adjacent panels to each other or to a pre-formed connecting member interposed therebetween. The panel assembly may be incorporated into roof, ceiling and wall constructions, which may include integral corner joints depending upon structural requirements. Tools to assist in assembling panels into an integral assembly also are disclosed. The procedure of hook and snap-lock assembling a panel structure may be performed by hand; by utilizing the assistance of tools disclosed; or by utilizing other mechanical aids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1973
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1977
    Inventor: Andrew J. Toti
  • Patent number: 4062161
    Abstract: The head portion of a T-shape strip of elastomeric material is threaded lengthwise into the undercut sides of a channel formed in one of two members to be joined together so that the stem or body portion of the strip projects therefrom. The strip is so located, and this projecting stem portion is of such thickness, as to enter a narrow channel with serrated sides formed in the other of said members. Supported as on a fulcrum on a narrow neck portion projecting from the free edge of the strip stem portion, and spaced slightly from the stem portion, is a transversely curved portion which is slightly wider than the serrated channel. Upon movement of the two members toward each other, the stem portion forces the transversely curved portion to flex, and enter into the serrated channel, in which position the edges of the curved portion are in gripping relation with the channel serrations, and thus resist its withdrawal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1977
    Assignee: Rohr Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Theodor C. Schubach
  • Patent number: 4058950
    Abstract: A roofing system of the batten type using sheet metal components only.The battens are of channel section having bottom and side walls, with the side walls having spaced apart extensions at their upper edge, folded inwards to lie in a plane parallel with the plane of the bottom wall. Each of the battens is disposed on an underlying wooden roof structure and secured thereon in spaced apart parallel arrangement of screws passed through the bottom wall of the battens. Pan sections are disposed between the battens and have side walls in contact with the side walls of the battens. Extensions project from the upper edges of the pan section side walls, some of which are folded over the top edge of the side walls of the battens and others of which lie over the inwardly folded extensions of the side walls of the battens and have portions thereof folded under the said inwardly folded extensions to interlock the pan sections with the battens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1977
    Inventor: Louis Leonce Vallee
  • Patent number: 4043086
    Abstract: There is disclosed a module for erected wall elements for providing an exhibition space, the wall elements being formed from fibrous material such as corrugated board folded along score lines to provide spaced front, rear and end wall portions, the wall elements being confined along the upper and lower edges by devices having spaced flanges confining the wall portions but having discontinuous portions to accommodate irregularities in the dimensioning of the wall elements and to enable the wall elements to be secured together at such discontinuous portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: Container Corporation of America
    Inventors: William P. Kaulfuss, Robert H. Kaulfuss
  • Patent number: 4014150
    Abstract: Building structures, such as pre-engineered metal buildings, concrete buildings, and combination concrete and metal buildings in most areas require insulation due to the relatively high thermal conductance of the metal and concrete components in the buildings walls and roof. Because of energy conservation measures brought on by fuel shortages and rapidly rising fuel costs, insulation systems used in the past are generally not adequate to meet more stringent standards either recently established or planned for the near future. The present invention provides an improved insulation system for use in either new construction or in reinsulating existing building structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1977
    Assignee: Johns-Manville Corporation
    Inventors: David Lee Wells, Ronald Buxton Raab
  • Patent number: 4001994
    Abstract: A glazing device is formed of a longitudinal strip engaging and holding the periphery of a glass panel, and the strip is formed of a length of spring material with an extruded elastomeric covering. The spring material is formed of a high-tensile-strength, resilient wire element formed in a transverse pattern of zig-zag loops with longitudinally extending rows of knitted strands linking the loops together. The strip is anchored in place against the glass panel so the spring material extends from the anchorage into a cantilevered portion of the strip to engage the glass panel in a displaced position flexing the spring material to produce a predetermined pressure against the glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1977
    Assignee: Schlegel Corporation
    Inventors: Fred Williams, Charles Yackiw
  • Patent number: 3994471
    Abstract: A ply joint bar for casting a seamless ceiling from a hardening material such as plaster or concrete, poured over the surfaces of adjacent molding panels, has a bridge with a lower surface resting on and flush with two such adjacent panels and an upper gable-like portion adapted to be anchored in the hardened casting material, an optional base member with two adjacent coplanar surfaces which grasp the underside of the panels, and a leg frangibly connected at one of its ends to the bridge and permanently connected at its other end to the base member, so as to separate adjacent panels sandwiched between the bridge and base member. After the casting material hardens, the molding panels are removed and the frangible leg separated from the bridge leaving a substantially seamless ceiling surface with the bridge embedded therein and its lower surface flush therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1976
    Inventor: Anthony Turolla
  • Patent number: 3978629
    Abstract: An improved curtain wall or wall system for building construction is provided which employs a unitary thermal barrier or thermal break vertical mullion. The novel unitary vertical thermal barrier mullion comprises metal exterior and interior vertical members uniquely joined together, and an insulating medium, or member further joining and separating the metal members. The members are so constructed that a fail-safe condition is provided which prohibits complete separation of the metal members should the insulating member or medium subsequently lose its structural integrity. The shape of the mullion may be varied without changing the construction providing the fail-safe condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1976
    Assignee: The William L. Bonnell Company
    Inventor: Charles W. Echols, Sr.
  • Patent number: 3973364
    Abstract: A sealed joint construction for connecting membrane segments covering a domed framework of rigid trusses. The side edges of adjoining segments are connected to brackets overlying the outer chord of the truss and the segments are tensioned by cables extending between the truss members and along the bottom edges of the segments. The joint is weather sealed by an overlying coextensive membrane strip having tensioning cables in its edges anchored to the foundation and resisting uplift loads on the membrane segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1976
    Assignee: Seaman Corporation
    Inventor: Norman R. Seaman
  • Patent number: 3973371
    Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for constructing a skeletal framework adapted to support wall, furniture or other structural panels. The apparatus includes a plurality of elongate channel members each having a generally rectangular cross section, one side of which defines an axial slot. A plurality of generally flat elongate cover plates are also provided, each having elongate tongue means extending lengthwise along the cover plate and adapted to engage the slot in one of the channel members. The cover plates and channel members each have flanges at their outer edges so that when joined together to form a skeletal frame member, they define a plurality of exposed recesses. A plurality of spline members are provided to interconnect the joined cover plates and channel members at their ends. Each spline member has a generally cubical block portion and at least two orthogonal extensions adapted to project into the ends of adjacent channel members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1976
    Inventor: Stephen M. Heller
  • Patent number: 3971075
    Abstract: A fluid tight enclosure suitable for use as a swimming pool positioned either above or below ground level, or for relining an existing pool. The enclosure comprises a plurality of waterproof panels forming the side walls and floor, the panels being sealably interconnected by a structure which includes a resilient elastomeric sealing member bridging the adjacent panels and sealably contacting the front faces thereof. A relatively rigid plastic cover member overlies the sealing member, and in one embodiment of the disclosed invention, a relatively rigid plastic base member is positioned to underlie the sealing member, the base member including an upwardly directed flange adapted to operatively engage a conforming portion of the cover member to secure the cover member in it position overlying the sealing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Heinbaugh, Carl F. Seibert, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3943678
    Abstract: A pair of panels is located substantially in a common plane, the panels having juxtaposed edge portions bounded by edge faces which define with one another an elongated gap. Elastically yieldable sealing strips overlie the gap and the edge portions at opposite sides of the common plane, and pressure-exerting elements press these sealing strips into sealing engagement with the edge portions in order to seal the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1976
    Assignee: Heinrich Worner Fabrik Fur Autoteile
    Inventors: Kurt Ehrenberg, Klaus Worner