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US 11,613,889 B2Granted
Weeping control joint system
AssigneeInnovations & Ideas, LLC
InventorSteven Preston
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Abstract
Drainage channels are added to a control joint to provide a weeping control joint wherein condensate or other sources of water that finds its way between the stucco and the substrate, above the weeping control joint, flows through the channels to the exterior surface of the stucco below the weeping control joint.
Claims19
A weeping control joint system comprises:
- a substrate wall, the substrate wall being vertically oriented such that force of gravity is downward on any water standing on an exterior surface of the substrate wall, the substrate wall having a top portion and a bottom portion opposite of the top portion;
- an exterior wall covering having an exterior surface facing away from the substrate wall, whereby the exterior surface is exposed to rain and weather, and whereby the exterior wall covering covers the exterior surface of the substrate wall;
- a vent disposed at the top portion of the substrate wall such that air passes from the top portion of the substrate wall from outside the exterior surface of the exterior wall covering at the top portion of the substrate wall to the substrate wall and downward via the vent;
- a weeping control joint disposed at a distance below the vent, the weeping control joint comprising a drainage structure, arranged such that the drainage structure of the weeping control joint is in fluid communication with vent, wherein water collecting above the weeping control joint is directed through the drainage structure of the weeping control joint to the exterior surface of the exterior wall covering;
- a pattern of channels disposed between the vent and the weeping control joint and between the exterior surface of the substrate wall and the exterior wall covering, the pattern of channels being in fluidic communication between the vent and the drainage structure of the weeping control joint such that air from the vent above the pattern of channels vents the pattern of channels wherein liquid water between the exterior wall covering and the exterior surface of the substrate wall flows under the influence of gravity through the pattern of channels to the drainage structure of the weeping control joint and through the drainage structure of the weeping control joint to the exterior surface of the exterior wall covering;
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- a pesticide disposed in a gap of the weeping control joint system such that the pesticide prevents certain insects from using the weeping control joint system as a bug run.
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