Roofing, Or Wall Shingle Patents (Class D25/139)
  • Patent number: 9410323
    Abstract: A roofing system is provided comprising a multiplicity of courses of roofing shingles having a reduced-width headlap portion and a non-straight longitudinal front edge, wherein a lateral trailing edge of a shingle in a single course overlaps (side-laps) an adjacent previously installed shingle, and where the buttlap portion includes an exposed buttlap portion having a surface area that is greater than the surface area of the headlap portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventor: Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: 9290942
    Abstract: A roofing shingle may include a shingle body having a buttlap portion with a butt edge and a headlap portion. An exposure zone may extend from the butt edge toward the headlap portion and may be configured to be exposed to the environment when the roofing shingle is installed on a roof. The butt edge may be variegated and may include at least one tab. A first shadowline may be on at least a portion of the at least one tab. A second shadowline may be in the exposure zone. The first and second shadowlines may differ from each other in at least one aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: CERTAINTEED CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert L. Jenkins, Gregory F. Jacobs
  • Patent number: 8789332
    Abstract: A method of producing laminated roofing shingles is provided, wherein the shingles are of a dragon's tooth type, and shingles made in accordance with the method, and packages of such shingles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: CertainTeed Corporation
    Inventors: Alistair G. Halliley, Robert L. Jenkins, Joseph Quaranta
  • Patent number: 8397460
    Abstract: The present invention provides a roof shingle comprising a shingle with at least one layer having a head lap and a butt, the head lap including at least one alignment notch and the butt including at least one corner that corresponds to the alignment notch. Also, the present invention provides a roofing shingle comprising at least one layer formed from a cutting cylinder having a circumference that is a fraction of said roofing shingle length. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing the inventive shingles and a method for installing the inventive shingles upon a roofing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventors: Tommy Rodrigues, Frederick W. Sieling, Awdhoot Vasant Kerkar, Atilla Sebuktekin
  • Patent number: 8371072
    Abstract: A molded hip, ridge or rake shingle is provided that is shaped to fit over angled intersecting planar surface of a roof hip, ridge or rake, by making a shingle precursor and draping it in heated condition over a rack having surfaces that have an included angle therebetween to cool and take form, such that portions of the shingle precursor conform to the surfaces of the rack, at a desired predetermined included angle between the shingle precursor portions, to form a hip, ridge or rake shingle with shingle portions having the desired included angle between the shingle portions. The shingle is formed according to the process, and on an apparatus, to produce the shingles that can be applied to a roof, in an array of shingles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: CertainTeed Corporation
    Inventors: Larry Wayne Shanes, Thomas Kevin MacKinnon
  • Patent number: D650920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Decra Roofing Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Willard C. Hudson, Jr., James F. Sauter, Kevin B. Pelka, Geoffrey S. Allan, Peter B. Richards, David R. Painter
  • Patent number: D650922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Decra Roofing Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Willard C. Hudson, Jr., James F. Sauter, Kevin B. Pelka, Geoffrey S. Allan, Peter B. Richards, David R. Painter
  • Patent number: D650923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Decra Roofing Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Willard C. Hudson, Jr., James F. Sauter, Kevin B. Pelka, Geoffrey S. Allan, Peter B. Richards, David R. Painter
  • Patent number: D653361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Decra Roofing Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Willard C. Hudson, James F. Sauter, Kevin B. Pelka, Geoffrey S. Allan, Peter B. Richards, David R. Painter
  • Patent number: D656248
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Inventor: Mitch Atchley
  • Patent number: D657072
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: West Development Group, LLC
    Inventor: Richard A. West
  • Patent number: D660989
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Inventor: Mitch Atchley
  • Patent number: D661818
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Hamblin
  • Patent number: D663047
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Certainteed Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Shaw, David Beck, David Stucky, David Steele, Robert Dodd, James (Jamie) Valentine
  • Patent number: D670407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corp.
    Inventor: Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: D670408
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corp.
    Inventor: Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: D670824
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Inventor: Gunter Preuss
  • Patent number: D670825
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corp.
    Inventor: Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: D674515
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: CertainTeed Corporation
    Inventor: Robert L. Jenkins
  • Patent number: D704353
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventor: Dorce Thomas Redwine
  • Patent number: D707856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Cochrane Steel Products (Pty) Ltd
    Inventor: Ian Dundonald Cochrane
  • Patent number: D721444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Exteria Building Products, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Schwarz, Kevin Martin
  • Patent number: D742552
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: TOP DOWN SIDING, LLC
    Inventor: Lief Eric Swanson
  • Patent number: D749240
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tommy F. Rodrigues, Sudhir B. Railkar, Emily Videtto, Leslie D. Franklin
  • Patent number: D750810
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen A. Buzza
  • Patent number: D754885
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Quality Edge, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Scott Rasmussen, Donald Mark Wilkinson, Marc Richard Spetoskey, Austin Timothy Harms, Bradley John Walbridge
  • Patent number: D755997
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer Lynn Frey, Lawrence Jerome Grubka
  • Patent number: D756540
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: ISCOM S.p.A.
    Inventor: Mauro Menegoli
  • Patent number: D760924
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tommy F. Rodrigues, Sudhir B. Railkar, Emily Videtto, Leslie D. Franklin
  • Patent number: D760925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tommy F. Rodrigues, Sudhir B. Railkar, Emily Videtto, Leslie D. Franklin
  • Patent number: D761445
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tommy F. Rodrigues, Sudhir B. Railkar, Emily Videtto, Leslie D. Franklin
  • Patent number: D761446
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tommy F. Rodrigues, Sudhir B. Railkar, Emily Videtto, Leslie D. Franklin
  • Patent number: D763468
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventors: Olan Leitch, Luis Duque, Ming-Liang Shiao, Sudhir Railkar
  • Patent number: D763469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Inventor: Mark Steven Mort
  • Patent number: D764076
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventor: Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: D765885
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventors: Olan Leitch, Luis Duque, Ming-Liang Shiao, Sudhir Railkar
  • Patent number: D766466
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventor: Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: D766467
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventor: Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: D767172
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventor: Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: D769472
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventor: Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: D769473
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tommy F. Rodrigues, Sudhir B. Railkar, Emily Videtto, Leslie D. Franklin
  • Patent number: D774215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventors: Luis Duque, Ming-Liang Shiao, Sudhir Railkar
  • Patent number: D775743
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventor: Mark Steven Mort
  • Patent number: D776303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Building Materials Investment Corporation
    Inventors: Luis Duque, Ming-Liang Shiao, Sudhir Railkar, Olan Leitch
  • Patent number: D776833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: CERTAINTEED CORPORATION
    Inventors: Craig Scott Rasmussen, Donald Mark Wilkinson, Marc Richard Spetoskey, Austin Timothy Harms, Bradley John Walbridge, Mark Allen Bredeweg
  • Patent number: D777952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Inventor: Jakob D Fiser
  • Patent number: D779684
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ROYAL GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Steven A. Mitchell
  • Patent number: D780952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ROYAL GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Steven A. Mitchell
  • Patent number: D788949
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Boral IP Holdings (Australia) PTY Limited
    Inventors: Russell Hill, Brian Below, Kenneth Bruns, Guy Crocco, Bob Rathbone, Brian Shaw
  • Patent number: D792615
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: CERTAINTEED CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen W. Steffes, Robert D. Shaw, David J. Stucky, Brian W. Kirn