Support spacer apparatus
AssigneeEncon Products, Inc.
InventorHarold G. Simpson
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Abstract
A support spacer apparatus relating to a paneling system for providing improved insulating qualities to pre-engineered buildings and the like in which stresses imparted to a supported structure are transferred through compressible insulation without diminishing the thermal character of the insulation, the support spacer apparatus comprising a spacer member having a plurality of fastener assemblies connected thereto and extendable through the insulation; the fastener assemblies attachable to an underlaying substrate by the application of energy to the fastener assemblies for supporting the spacer member at a predetermined distance from the substrate such that the insulation is disposed substantially in its prepenetration state after attachment of the fastener assemblies to the substrate.
Claims43
A support spacer apparatus supportable by a substrate in a predetermined spatial relationship thereto, the spacer apparatus comprising:
- a spacer member having a first support surface and an opposite second support surface, the spacer member having a plurality of fastener apertures communicating therethrough;
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- fastener means for attaching the spacer member to the substrate, the fastener means characterized as comprising:
- a plurality of discrete column members secured to the spacer member before installation of the apparatus, the column members extending from the second support surface of the spacer member, each column member having a channelway communicating with one of the fastener apertures and extending to the distal end of the column member, each column member maintainable substantially in nonpenetrating engagement with the substrate in the installed position of the apparatus;
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- a plurality of fastener members extendable through the fastener apertures, each fastener member extendable through the channelway of one of the column members and attachable to the substrate so that the first support surface is disposed a predetermined distance from the substrate in an attached position of the support spacer apparatus to the substrate.
A support spacer apparatus supportable by a substrate in a predetermined spatial relationship thereto, the spacer apparatus comprising:
- a spacer member having a first support surface and an opposite second support surface, the spacer member having a plurality of fastener apertures communicating therethrough;
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- fastener means for attaching the spacer member to the substrate, the fastener means comprising:
- a plurality of discrete column members connected to the spacer member before installation of the apparatus and extensive from the second support surface, each column member maintainable substantially in nonpenetrating engagement with the substrate in the installed position of the apparatus;
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- a plurality of fastener members extendable through the fastener apertures and attachable to the substrate so that the column members are disposed between the spacer member and the substrate, the first support surface being thereby disposed a predetermined distance from the substrate, each fastener member attachable to the
- substrate, at any substrate location by its corresponding fastener aperture in the spacer member, by the application of energy to one end of the fastener member to cause attachment of the other end of the fastener member to the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.