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US 2023/0323669 A1Published application
Rafter Guard
OwnerEdward Higginbothaminventor
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The present invention provides a rafter cap having a top plane, side planes, and channels that protrude outward from the side planes. The rafter cap installs on the top edge of a rafter and may be made of material, or overlie material, that is able to envelope nail and screw shanks that pierce a subroof, and the rafter cap beneath it, as they affix the subroof to underlying rafters. The rafter cap, or material beneath it, may also able to expand into the holes the nails or screws create further sealing the holes preventing water from seeping through the rafter cap and contacting an underlying rafter. The channels of the rafter caps may unilaterally, or combination with rafter trays constructed to have their lateral edges insert into a rafter cap’s channel, direct water that has penetrated a subroof past the outer walls of a building.
A partial sleeve having a 1st plane that rests atop a rafter with the 1st plane having a 2nd plane that extends downward for a distance from the left or right lateral edge of the 1st plane with the 2nd plane having a 3rd plane extending outward from the lowest edge of the 2nd plane toward an adjacent rafter, for a distance, with the 3rd plane having a 4th plane extending upward from the left lateral edge of the 3rd plane with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th plane forming a channel that is of a width less than that needed for the channel or any intrinsic or adjacent element of the channel to make contact with an adjoining rafter with the partial sleeve having a 5th plane that extends downward for a distance from the lateral edge of the first plane that is opposite the lateral edge of the 1st plane from which the 2nd plane extends.
A partial sleeve having a 1st plane that rests atop a rafter with the 1st plane having a 2nd plane that extends downward for a distance from the left or right lateral edge of the 1st plane with the 2nd plane having a 3rd plane extending outward from the lowest edge of the 2nd plane toward an adjacent rafter, for a distance, with the 3rd plane having a 4th plane extending upward from the left lateral edge of the 3rd plane with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th plane forming a channel that is of a width less than that needed for the channel or any intrinsic or adjacent element of the channel to make contact with an adjoining rafter with the partial sleeve having a 5th plane that extends downward for a distance from the lateral edge of the first plane that is opposite the lateral edge of the 1st plane from which the 2nd plane extends with the partial sleeve having a portion of its 1st and 2nd and 3rd planes flared outward at a terminal end of the partial sleeve allowing the partial sleeve to overlie a portion of a successive partial sleeve without deforming the overlying partial sleeve.
A sleeve having a 1st plane that rests atop a rafter with the 1st plane having a 2nd plane that extends downward, for a distance, from the left lateral edge of the 1st plane with the 2nd plane having a 3rd plane extending outward from the lowest edge of the 2nd plane toward an adjacent rafter, for a distance, with the 3rd plane having a 4th plane extending upward, for a distance, from the left lateral edge of the 3rd plane with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th planes forming a channel that is of a width less than that needed for the channel or any intrinsic or adjacent element of the channel to make contact with an adjoining rafter with the sleeve having a 5th plane that extends downward for a distance from the right lateral edge of the first plane with the 5th plane having a 6th plane extending outward from the lowest edge of the 5th plane toward an adjacent rafter, for a distance, with the 6th plane having a 7th plane extending upward from the right lateral edge of the 6th plane for a distance forming a channel that is of a width less than that needed for the channel or any intrinsic or adjacent element of the channel to make contact with an adjoining rafter with the left and right channels of the sleeve receiving the downward extending planes of a tray having a 1st plane having 2nd and 3rd planes extending downward from it’s left and right lateral edges for a distance from the first plane.
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