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US 5,613,337 AGranted
Metal shingle with gutter and interlocking edges
AssigneeVail Metal Systems, LLC
InventorsDavid J. Plath, James M. Buster
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AssigneeVail Metal Systems, LLC
InventorsDavid J. Plath, James M. Buster
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A shingle is formed with a first, or trailing, side edge folded over toward the top surface of the shingle to catch moisture and direct it down to the top surface of the next lower shingle. A second, or leading, side edge of the shingle is not folded. An "S" shaped fold, spaced apart from the trailing edge fold, receives the unfolded leading edge of an adjacent shingle. The trailing edge and S fold form a gutter under the leading edge of the adjacent shingle. The top edge of the shingle is folded-over toward the top surface of the shingle for engagement with the folded-under lower edge of the next higher shingle. The folded-over top edge extends to the right or leading edge of the shingle and slides under the left edge of the folded-over top edge of the next adjacent shingle to the fight side. The folded-under lower edge extends along the lower edge of the shingle but leaves a gap relative to the folded-under lower edge of the lateral adjacent shingle. In this way water is caught by the gutter and flows out the gap between folded-under lower edges of laterally adjacent shingles. One or more S-shaped folds are also made in the middle of the shingle to form a panel having the appearance of multiple shingles.
A substantially planar roofing shingle having a top surface and a bottom surface, and further comprising:
A roofing shingle having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a lower edge, further comprising;
A roofing shingle, comprising:
A roofing system comprising a plurality of shingles in which each shingle has a top surface and a bottom surface extending between an upper edge and a lower edge and between a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge, a first one of said shingles having said first lateral edge folded over toward its top surface to form one side wall of a gutter with said one side wall extending substantially from the upper edge to the lower edge and an S-shaped fold spaced apart from the one side wall of the gutter to form another sidewall of the gutter extending substantially from the upper edge to the lower edge, said first one of said shingles being positioned over a part of a second one of said shingles such that the upper edge of the second one of said shingles underlays the bottom surface of the first one of said shingles and the lower edge of the first one of said shingles overlays the top surface of the second one of said shingles in such a manner said gutter channels water caught in said gutter onto the top surface of said second one of said shingles.
A roofing system comprising a plurality of shingles in which each shingle is an elongated rectangular sheet with a top surface and a bottom surface extending between an upper edge and a lower edge and between a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge, said sheet of each of said shingles having a plurality of S-shaped folds in laterally spaced relation to each other, each of said S-shaped folds extending substantially from the upper edge to the lower edge and with alternate ones of said S-shaped folds in a shingle being folded in opposite directions from adjacent folds on either side such that alternate portions of the top surface between the S-shaped folds are higher than adjacent portions of the top surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.