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US 10,329,779 B2Granted
Standing seam mounting brackets
OwnerScott G. Bondinventor
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Abstract
A standing seam mounting bracket and a method of using two or three to provide attachment points along a standing seam roof is provided. The standing seam mounting brackets enable complementary use of commonly-owned equipment for enabling roof maintenance and construction. The standing seam mounting brackets may be used in concert with roof jacks, roof ladders, scaffolding members and the like that are commonly owned by most contractors so as to facilitate safe and easy horizontal and vertical movement along the sloped roof.
Claims8
A standing seam mounting bracket, comprising:
- a planar base having a front surface, a rear surface opposite the front surface, and a bottom side;
- a cross member slot within the planar base, the cross member slot having a closed perimeter and being elongated in a direction substantially parallel to the bottom side, wherein the cross member slot is dimensioned to slidably receive a rectangular cross member;
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- at least one compression member adapted to removably sandwich a mated portion of a standing seam roof between the compression member and the rear surface such that that the bottom side is substantially parallel to a planar upper surface of the roof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.