Parapet bracket and method of using thereof
AssigneeRestco Roofing, Inc.
InventorCraig John Cechini
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Abstract
A parapet bracket is disclosed that may be mounted on a parapet wall of a roof without the usage of fasteners. The parapet bracket may be used to attach utility pipes to the parapet wall without using fasteners directly on the parapet wall. The parapet bracket may have a short leg, long leg, and a connecting plate between the two legs that form an inverted U-shape. The short leg may be used to hook the parapet bracket on the parapet wall, and the long leg may be used to couple pipes to the parapet bracket. Consequently, the pipes may be mounted to the parapet wall indirectly and without having to pierce the parapet wall with fasteners, such as screws and nails.
Claims14
A method of renovating a parapet of a roof and using a parapet bracket to reattach a pipe to the parapet, comprising:
- removing the pipe from an interior surface of the parapet, the interior surface facing a roof deck of the roof;
- cleaning the interior surface of the parapet;
- coating the interior surface of the parapet with a weather-resistant coating;
- hanging the parapet bracket on the parapet such that a long leg of the parapet bracket hangs vertically along the interior surface of the parapet, a connecting plate of the parapet bracket that is connected to the long leg lays horizontally on a top surface of the parapet, and a short leg of the parapet bracket connected to the connecting plate and opposite to the long leg hangs vertically along an exterior surface of the parapet, the exterior surface being opposite to the interior surface of the parapet;
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- coupling the pipe to an external surface of the long leg of the parapet bracket, the external surface of the long leg facing away from the parapet.
A method of attaching a pipe to a parapet using a parapet bracket, comprising:
- adjusting a bracket spacing between a long leg and a short leg of the parapet bracket by horizontally moving a first connecting plate attached to the long leg relative to a second connecting plate attached to the short leg, the bracket spacing being greater than or equal to a thickness of the parapet;
- hanging the parapet bracket on the parapet such that the long leg of the parapet bracket hangs vertically along an interior surface of the parapet facing a roof deck, the first and second connecting plates of the parapet bracket lay horizontally on a top surface of the parapet, and the short leg of the parapet bracket hangs vertically along an exterior surface of the parapet, the exterior surface being opposite to the interior surface of the parapet;
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- coupling the pipe to an external surface of the long leg of the parapet bracket using a plurality of coupling holes on a column of coupling holes on the long leg of the parapet bracket, the external surface of the long leg facing away from the parapet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.