Hinged nailing fin for window installation
AssigneePlastic Profiles, Inc.
InventorJames P. Tix
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Abstract
An integrally formed plastic strip for use as a nailing fin for installing a window assembly in a building has a first stiff plastic member with nail holes through which the strip is attached to the supporting structure, a second narrower stiff plastic member for insertion into a kerf running along the outside of the window assembly for attaching the nailng fin to the window assembly, and a further narrow section of flexible plastic which hingedly connects together the stiff plastic sections so that the nailing fin can be attached to the window assembly and folded back to reduce space requirement during shipment of the window assembly.
Claims18
For use with a window assembly having a window glazing enclosed by a surrounding frame, a foldable nailing fin, comprising:
- a first flat elongated thin strip of generally stiff material containing nail holes for attaching said first strip to a support structure;
- a second elongated strip of generally stiff material with an elongated edge parallel to and adjoining an elongated edge of said first strip;
- means for attaching said second strip lengthwise to a side of the frame of a window assembly;
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- flexible means hingedly attaching said strips along said adjoining edges for releasably folding said strips.
Asa a foldable nailing fin for a window assembly having a window glazing enclosed by a surrounding frame, an elongated integrally extruded strip of plastic comprising:
- (a) a relatively wide thin elongated stiff plastic member containing nail holes for attaching the strip to a support structure;
- (b) a relatively narrow thin elongated stiff plastic member having an elongated edge parallel and closely adjacent to an elongated edge of said first-mentioned member;
- (c) a still narrower thin flexible plastic member hingedly connecting together said first and second mentioned members along their parallel adjacent edges for releasably folding together said first and second mentioned members;
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- (d) means for attaching said second mentioned member to a side of a window assembly.
In combination:
- a window assembly comprising a window glazing enclosed around its edges by a surrounding window frame;
- a foldable nailing fin comprising a first flat elongated thin strip of generally stiff material containing nail holes for attaching said first strip to a support structure, a second elongated strip of generally stiff material with an elongated edge parallel to and adjoining an elongated edge of said first strip, and a third resilient strip hingedly attaching together said first and second strips along their adjoining edges;
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- means for attaching said second strip lengthwise to a side of the frame of said window assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.