Attic hatch systems with hanger parts for supporting an attic hatch, and related methods
AssigneeAir-Lok Technologies Inc.
InventorJordan Pelletier
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Abstract
An attic hatch system for mounting within an attic access conduit defined by a ceiling, has an attic hatch structured to mount within the attic access conduit, the attic hatch comprising an insulative hatch body; one or more hanger parts structured to support the attic hatch within the attic access conduit in use, with each of the one or more hanger parts comprising: a top flange member extended laterally outward from the insulative hatch body to extend over and secure on a top shoulder of a structural member of the ceiling in use; a skirt structured to depend from the top flange member through the attic access conduit in use; and a base flange member extended laterally inward from the skirt to define a seat that supports a base surface of the attic hatch.
Claims21
An attic hatch system for mounting within an attic access conduit defined by a ceiling, the attic hatch system comprising:
- an attic hatch structured to mount within the attic access conduit, the attic hatch comprising an insulative hatch body;
- one or more hanger parts structured to support the attic hatch within the attic access conduit in use, with each of the one or more hanger parts comprising:
- a top flange member extended laterally outward from the insulative hatch body to extend over and secure on a top shoulder of a structural member of the ceiling in use;
- a skirt structured to depend from the top flange member through the attic access conduit in use;
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- a base flange member structured to extend laterally inward to define a seat;
- and
- a locking part that is structured to reversibly lock and unlock the attic hatch in a closed position, in which the locking part is structured to form a base surface of the attic hatch that is supported by the seat of the base flange member when in the closed position.
A method comprising:
- installing one or more hanger parts about an attic access conduit defined within a ceiling, by securing a top flange member or top flange members of the one or more hanger parts to a top shoulder or top shoulders of a structural member or structural members, respectively, of the ceiling;
- such that:
- the top flange member extends laterally outward from the attic access conduit over the top shoulder;
- a skirt of the one or more hanger parts depends from the top flange member through the attic access conduit;
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- a base flange member of the skirt extends laterally inward from the skirt to define a hatch seat;
- mounting an attic hatch within the attic access conduit, the attic hatch comprising an insulative hatch body;
- and
- locking the attic hatch in a closed position using a locking part, in which the locking part forms a base surface that is supported by the hatch seat of the base flange member when in the closed position.
An attic hatch system comprising:
- an attic hatch mounted within an attic access conduit defined by a ceiling, the attic hatch comprising an insulative hatch body;
- one or more hanger parts supporting the attic hatch within the attic access conduit, with each of the one or more hanger parts comprising:
- a top flange member extended laterally outward from the insulative hatch body to extend over and secure on a top shoulder of a structural member of the ceiling;
- a skirt that depends from the top flange member through the attic access conduit;
- and
- a base flange member that extends laterally inward to define a seat that supports a base surface of the attic hatch;
- in which:
- the attic access conduit has four side walls;
- the skirt or skirts of the one or more hanger parts form a peripheral skirt that lines interior surfaces of the attic access conduit in use;
- the skirt or skirts of the one or more hanger parts are spaced from the interior surfaces of the attic access conduit to define an annular cavity between the interior surfaces of the attic access conduit and an exterior wall of the skirt or skirts;
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- a peripheral insulative collar fills the annular cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.