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AssigneeComposite Panel Systems, LLC
InventorsGlenn P. Schiffmann, Daniel J. Wojtusik
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Footer products, and footers made with such products. Such product includes an insulating member between its upper and lower surfaces. The upper surface receives a load. The interior transfers the load from the upper surface to the lower surface, and distributes the load laterally and longitudinally such that the load received at the lower surface is within the load-bearing capacity of underlying soil. The product provides a thermal shock barrier between underlying soil and the interior of the building. The insulating member can comprise the entirety of the product, or can be combined with top and/or bottom load distributing layers, or can be combined with intercostals which extend top-to-bottom through the foam. Such footers are useful in constructing structures which use footers to spread the overlying load onto a greater surface area of the underlying soil than the cross-section area of the structure which presents the load to the footer.
A footer product adapted to receive a given rated load from an overlying construct, said footer product comprising an elongate insulating member having an upper surface, a lower surface, a first side surface, a second side surface, and an interior bounded by said upper surface, said lower surface, and said first and second side surfaces, said insulating member having a length, a width of about 4 inches to about 30 inches, a height of about 2 inches to about 20 inches, and a density of about 10 pounds per cubic foot to about 40 pounds per cubic foot, said footer product exhibiting a strain deformation in height of no more than 10 percent when subjected to the rated load, and providing thermal insulation of at least R4 through the height of said footer product.
A footer product adapted to receive a given rated load from an overlying construct, said footer product comprising:
A footer product having a top and a bottom, a length and a width, and being adapted to receive and bear a given rated load from an overlying construct, said footer product comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.