Deck bracket
AssigneeLiv Building Products Inc.
InventorMaurizio Bertato
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Abstract
A deck board support bracket includes a drainage channel in a top surface of the bracket and deck boards are secured in an end to end manner with a space between two deck board ends centered over the drainage channel. Water presented on the deck surface at two deck board ends passes therebetween and to one side of a supporting joist. The deck board support bracket can be used with various deck board fastening arrangements and preferably is made of an injection molded plastic material.
Claims8
In combination a deck support bracket, a support joist and first and second deck boards generally aligned and extending perpendicular to said support joist;
- said deck support bracket being secured to one side of said support joist with said deck bracket supporting an end of said first deck board and said support joist supporting an end of said second deck board directly above said support joist;
- and wherein said deck support bracket comprises a back member secured to said joist, a top mount member separated from and spaced outwardly of said back member and said support joist generally at an upper edge of said back member with said top mount member supporting said end of said first deck board;
- said deck support bracket further including two gusset supports joining said top mount member to said back member and cooperating therewith to define an elongate drainage port located at an edge of said back member facing said top mount member, said elongate port defining an open clear space between said ends of said first and second deck boards allowing water to pass between the ends of said first and second deck boards and through said elongate drainage port past said top mount member and to said one side of said support joist.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.