Brickmould window trim
AssigneeAssociated Materials, LLC
InventorMichael Luvison
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Abstract
A brickmold window trim can include a single-piece body that can be installed by hand on a window frame without tools. The brickmold window trim resiliently couples to the window frame, is self-retaining on the window frame, and self-centering relative to the window frame. The brickmold window trim can have a flange that contact a top surface of a ledge portion of a window frame, a support wall that contacts a side surface of the ledge portion and an angled wall portion that contacts an underside of the ledge portion. One or more of the flange wall, support wall and angled wall snaps or clips onto the ledge portion to couple the brickmold window trim to the window frame.
Claims28
A brickmould window trim frame, comprising:
- a single-piece body having a left frame portion, a right frame portion and a top frame portion, each of the frame portions comprising
- a brickmould body,
- a support wall extending generally transversely to the brickmould body to a distal edge located past a bottom surface of the brickmould body,
- a flange wall attached to the brickmould body and extending inwardly from the brickmould body, a proximal end of the support wall attached to the flange wall, and
- a hook portion extending from the distal edge of the support wall, the hook portion being an angled wall that extends at an acute angle from the distal edge of the support wall toward the flange wall so that a cross-section of the flange wall, support wall and angled wall is generally c-shaped
- wherein the single-piece body is configured to resiliently couple to a window frame assembly over an outer perimeter of the window frame assembly so that the flange wall contacts a top surface of the outer perimeter and the hook portion contacts an underside of a portion of the window frame assembly when the single-piece body is coupled to the window frame assembly, the single-piece body configured to be installed on the window frame assembly by hand.
In combination with a window frame assembly, a single-piece brickmould window trim frame comprising:
- a single-piece body having a left frame portion, a right frame portion and a top frame portion, each of the frame portions comprising:
- a brickmould body,
- a support wall extending generally transversely to the brickmould body to a distal edge located past a bottom surface of the brickmould body, and
- a hook portion extending from the distal edge of the support wall toward the window frame assembly;
- wherein the single-piece body is configured to couple to a window frame assembly over an outer perimeter of the window frame assembly so that the hook portion contacts a portion of the window frame assembly and so that the single-piece body is spaced apart from a nail-fin of the window frame assembly, the single-piece body configured to be installed on the window frame by hand.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.