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US 2021/0395993 A1Published application
Modular decking system
OwnerFred A. Wagner, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A modular decking system includes a plurality of modular components. Each component has a frame, a deck, a jack screw, and alignment blocks. The frame includes a pair of vertically disposed and offset boards banding the exterior periphery with internal cross members and block adjacent corners. The deck is a plurality of boards fitting within the offset boards of the frame's periphery. The screw jacks are located within the corner blocks. The alignment blocks affixed to the frame's periphery are used to position one modular component adjacent another modular component.
Claims8
A modular decking system comprises:
- a modular component includes
- a frame with
- an exterior periphery defined by an interior 5/4 inch deck board and an exterior 5/4 inch deck board that are vertically disposed and fastened together with the interior board offset below the exterior board by a thickness of the deck board,
- a plurality of 5/4 inch deck boards forming cross members within the frame, and
- a plurality of 4×4 inch blocks located at each corner of the frame and extending to the bottom of or below the interior deck board,
- a deck includes
- a plurality of 5/4 inch deck boards horizontally disposed within the frame and resting on the interior deck board and the cross members,
- a screw jack associated with each block,
- each screw jack is disposed offset from a center of the block with a split nut affixed within the block and a threaded rod fit into the nut for movement up and down with the nut and a foot associated with a terminal end of the threaded rod for engagement with a ground surface, and
- a plurality of alignment blocks,
- each alignment block is removably affixed to a bottom of the exterior periphery and extends outwardly beyond the exterior periphery to facilitate placement of modular components together in the system,
- whereby a plurality of modular components is joined together and leveled to from a deck surface.
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The modular system of claim 4 wherein the modular component is about 96 inches×96 inches square.
A modular decking system comprises:
- a square modular component having a nominal dimension of 8 foot×8 foot or about 92 inch×92 inch and includes
- a frame with
- an exterior periphery defined by an interior 5/4 inch pressure treated deck board and an exterior 5/4 inch deck board that are vertically disposed and fastened together with the interior board offset below the exterior board by a thickness of the deck board,
- a plurality of 5/4 inch pressure treated deck boards forming cross members within the frame, and
- a plurality of 4×4 inch pressure treated blocks located at each corner of the frame and extending to the bottom of or below the interior deck board,
- a deck includes
- a plurality of 5/4 inch pressure treated deck boards horizontally disposed within the frame and resting on the interior deck board and the cross members or a plurality of panels including a plurality of 5/4 pressure treated deck boards joined together with a 5/4 pressure treated deck board horizontally joined to an underside of the deck boards forming the panel,
- a screw jack associated with each block,
- each screw jack is disposed offset from a center of the block with a split nut affixed within the block and a threaded rod fit into the nut for movement up and down with the nut and foot associated with a terminal end of the threaded rod for engagement with a ground surface, a vertical hole formed within the block and the split nut is affixed within the lowermost end of the hole and the threaded rod is movable within the hole, and
- a plurality of alignment blocks,
- each alignment block is removably affixed to a bottom of the exterior periphery and extends outwardly beyond the exterior periphery to facilitate placement of modular components together in the system,
- the modular decking system further includes:
- a removable canopy, a plurality of removable block extension, a removable staircase, a removable railing, and/or a removable ramp,
- whereby a plurality of modular components is joined together and leveled to from a deck surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.