Plastic panel hurricane protection system
OwnerWayne Trundleinventor
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Abstract
A hurricane protection system, specifically for protection of the window and door openings in a building using transparent plastic panels attached in a manner that accommodates new and old architectural designs. The present system uses old standards and new unique methods, a transparent panel shaped to grow in strength when wind pressure is applied, attached to buildings using standard industry methods with an unique use of a rubber washer that acts as a shock absorber and lock washer on all bolted applications. The system has new and unique extrusions that allow the panels to be mounted away from the wall, to avoid protruding decorative trim and sills, in one-sixteenth inch increments.
Claims16
A transparent system of shutter panels for protecting glass widow or door in a walled structure, comprising:
- a corrugated sheet of shatter resistant and transparent plastic material with a mounting system of standard industry methods augmented by new innovative and unique methods using a rubber washer to act as a shock absorber for impact resistance and lockwasher that overcomes expansion and contraction of the plastic material due to temperature changes, also new unique mounting extrusions that allow to panel to be set off the in exact one-sixteenth inch increments to avoid protrusions, such decorative trim and sills;
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- resist impact of flying debris in a storm and an impact of a two by four weighing nine pounds traveling at a speed of fifty feet per second without penetration.
A transparent plastic shutter panel for protecting glass window and door in a walled structure, comprising:
- a corrugated panel attached to the structure using a rubber washer that is squeezed into the panel between the fastening bolt or stud and the mounting hole, which is two times the bolt diameter, when the bolt is tightened and acts as a shock absorber and lockwasher, and
- this unique use of a rubber washer adds flexibility and strength needed to withstand the impact of a nine pound wood two by four traveling at fifty feet per second without penetration, without the rubber washer the panel would fail the foregoing impact test.
An adjustable mounting system that allows precision build-out distances from the structure to avoid protruding objects such as, decorative trim and sill, it is an adjustable “h” header made of aluminum angle serrated on the outside that is attached to the structure and a “u” shaped aluminum extrusion serrated on one side, the “u” serrations mesh with angle serrations to form an adjustable “h” header, then tek screwed in place, that can be adjusted in one-sixteen inch increments, to complete the system an adjustable “F” track made of aluminum angle serrated on the outside that is attached to the structure and a “F” shaped aluminum extrusion serrated on one side, the “F” serrations mesh with angle serrations to form an adjustable “F” track, then tek screwed in place, that can be adjusted in one-sixteen inch increments.
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