Window well assembly
AssigneeTapco International Corporation
InventorGlen R. George
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Abstract
A window well assembly for buildings and the like include at least a first well unit and a second well unit each having opposite first and second flanges at opposite ends of a retaining wall of each unit for securing the well units to a sub-grade foundation of the building. Preferably, the assembly has a plurality of releasable spacer couplings that are mated and carried between well units when the assembly is in a stored state, and has indexing features that are mated and carried between well units when the assembly is in an assembled state.
Claims21
A window well assembly generally for the retention of earth away from a subgrade foundation of a building and the defining of a cavity therebetween, the window well assembly comprising:
- first and second well units each having a retaining wall, a first flange and an opposite second flange;
- wherein the retaining wall of the first well unit projects above the retaining wall of the second well unit when the assembly is in an assembled state;
- a spacer coupling carried integrally between the first and second well units;
- wherein the spacer coupling is mated when the assembly is in a stored state and is unmated when the assembly is in the assembled state;
- an indexing feature carried integrally between the first and second well units and comprising a first snap lock feature carried between the first flange of the first well unit and the first flange of the second well unit, and a second snap lock feature carried between the second flange of the first well unit and the second flange of the second well unit;
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- wherein the indexing feature is mated when the assembly is in the assembled state and is unmated when the assembly is in the stored state, the first and second well units indexed and secured together through the first and second snap lock features in the assembled state.
A window well assembly generally for the retention of earth away from a subgrade foundation of a building and the defining of a cavity therebetween, the window well assembly comprising:
- an arcuate wall having an outward face constructed and arranged to face the earth, an inward face constructed and arranged to define the cavity and peripheral first, second, third and fourth edges, wherein the first and second edges are arcuate and opposite to one-another and the third and fourth edges flank the first and second edges and are opposite to one-another;
- a first flange projecting outward from the outward face along the third edge;
- an opposite second flange projecting outward from the outward face along the fourth edge;
- first and second webs contiguous to the outward face and the respective first and second flanges, the first and second webs each having a distal stop edge spaced outward from and parallel to the respective first and second flanges;
- the first and second flanges each having an outward surface contiguous to the outward face and an inward surface contiguous to the inward face, the first and second flanges respectively having first and second apertures therein defined by the respective inward surfaces;
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- first and second protrusions projecting away from the outward surfaces of the respective first and second flanges along respective first and second centerlines spaced radially away from the outward face and disposed perpendicular to the respective flanges.
A well unit of a window well assembly for a building, comprising:
- a retaining wall that is generally U-shaped in plan view and having a convex outward face, an opposite concave inward face, and peripheral first, second, third and fourth edges, wherein the first and second edges are generally U-shaped and opposite to one-another and the third and fourth edges extend between the first and second edges and are opposite to one-another;
- first and second mounting flanges extending transversely from the outward face and along respective third and fourth edges, the first and second mounting flanges each having an outward surface and an opposite inward surface, wherein at least a portion of the inward surface is adapted to secure directly to a vertical foundation of the building;
- first and second protrusions projecting from the outward surfaces of the respective first and second flanges for nesting a plurality of well units, each of the plurality of well units having the same size and shape as the well unit, wherein the first and second protrusions are spaced away from the outward face;
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- first and second apertures in the respective first and second flanges each contoured to receive at least a portion of the first and second protrusions of an adjacent, nested well unit of the plurality of well units.
A window well assembly generally for the retention of earth away from a subgrade foundation of a building and the defining of a cavity therebetween, the window wall assembly comprising:
- a first well unit having a wall having a convex outward face facing the earth, a concave inward face facing the cavity and peripheral first, second, third and fourth edges, wherein the first and second edges are opposite to one-another and wherein the third and fourth edges flank the first and second edges, a first flange projecting outward from the outward face along the third edge, an opposite second flange projecting outward from the outward face along the fourth edge, first and second protrusions projecting outward from and perpendicular to the respective first and second flanges, and first and second apertures in the respective first and second flanges associated with the first and second protrusions;
- a second well unit being identical to the first well unit and having a wall, a first flange, an opposite second flange, first and second protrusions, and first and second apertures;
- and wherein the first aperture in the first well unit receives one of the first and second protrusions of the second well unit and the second aperture of the first well unit is mated to the other of the first and second protrusions of the second well unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.