Parapet bracket and method of using thereof
AssigneeRestco Roofing, Inc.
InventorCraig John Cechini
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Abstract
A parapet bracket is disclosed that may be mounted on a parapet wall of a roof without the usage of fasteners. The parapet bracket may be used to attach utility pipes to the parapet wall without using fasteners directly on the parapet wall. The parapet bracket may have a short leg, long leg, and a connecting plate between the two legs that form an inverted U-shape. The short leg may be used to hook the parapet bracket on the parapet wall, and the long leg may be used to couple pipes to the parapet bracket. Consequently, the pipes may be mounted to the parapet wall indirectly and without having to pierce the parapet wall with fasteners, such as screws and nails.
Claims20
A method of renovating a parapet of a roof and using a parapet bracket to reattach a pipe to the parapet, comprising:
- removing the pipe from an interior surface of the parapet, the interior surface facing a roof deck of the roof;
- cleaning the interior surface of the parapet;
- coating the interior surface of the parapet with a weather-resistant coating;
- hanging the parapet bracket on the parapet such that a long leg of the parapet bracket hangs vertically along the interior surface of the parapet, a connecting plate of the parapet bracket that is connected to the long leg lays horizontally on a top surface of the parapet, and a short leg of the parapet bracket connected to the connecting plate and opposite to the long leg hangs vertically along an exterior surface of the parapet, the exterior surface being opposite to the interior surface of the parapet;
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- coupling the pipe to an external surface of the long leg of the parapet bracket, the external surface of the long leg facing away from the parapet.
A method of attaching a pipe to a parapet using a parapet bracket, comprising:
- adjusting a bracket spacing between a long leg and a short leg of the parapet bracket by horizontally moving a first connecting plate attached to the long leg relative to a second connecting plate attached to the short leg, the bracket spacing being greater than or equal to a thickness of the parapet;
- hanging the parapet bracket on the parapet such that the long leg of the parapet bracket hangs vertically along an interior surface of the parapet facing a roof deck, the first and second connecting plates of the parapet bracket lay horizontally on a top surface of the parapet, and the short leg of the parapet bracket hangs vertically along an exterior surface of the parapet, the exterior surface being opposite to the interior surface of the parapet;
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- coupling the pipe to an external surface of the long leg of the parapet bracket using a plurality of coupling holes on a column of coupling holes on the long leg of the parapet bracket, the external surface of the long leg facing away from the parapet.
A parapet bracket for hanging a pipe to a parapet of a roof, comprising:
- a long leg having a column of coupling holes, the long leg configured to hang vertically along an interior surface of the parapet facing a roof deck of the roof;
- a first connecting plate orthogonally attached to the long leg and configured to lay horizontally on a top surface of the parapet, the first connecting plate having a first set of teeth structures extending along a length of the first connecting plate;
- a short leg being shorter than the long leg and configured to hang vertically along an exterior surface of the parapet that is opposite to the interior surface of the parapet;
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- a second connecting plate orthogonally attached to the short leg and configured to lay horizontally on the top surface of the parapet, the second connecting plate having a second set of teeth structures extending along a length of the second connecting plate, the second set of teeth structures configured to face the first set of teeth structures of the first connecting plate;
- wherein the first and second connecting plates are configured to move longitudinally relative to each other to define a bracket spacing between the long leg and the short leg, the bracket spacing being greater than or equal to a thickness of the parapet;
- wherein the first set of teeth structures are configured to engage the second set of teeth structures to keep the first and second connecting plates stationary relative to each other after creating the bracket spacing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.