Maintenance platform for a building roof
AssigneeButler Manufacturing Company
InventorAlbert W. Sandring
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Abstract
A maintenance platform for a building roof. The maintenance platform comprises a plurality of pre-formed panels, each seated on the roof panels of the roof and connected thereto by a non-penetrating clip. The maintenance platform can extend either longitudinally or transversely of the building ridge direction, or can be otherwise specially arranged.
Claims18
A maintenance platform for use on a building roof formed of a plurality of roof panels interconnected by seams, the maintenance platform comprising:
- a maintenance platform panel seated on one of the roof panels;
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- a clip securing said maintenance platform panel to a roof panel seam, said clip including an elongate tab having one end which is hooked into the seam and a U-shaped clasp having a pair of legs and a bight portion connecting said legs together, said clasp having defined therein a tab receiving slot, with the other end of said tab being received in said tab receiving slot to be hooked over one of said clasp legs to secure said clasp to the roof panel seam in a non-penetrating manner.
The maintenance platform of claim 14, wherein one edge of each maintenance platform panel has an upwardly angled lip thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.