Multi-piece eaves beam for preassembled glazed roof system
AssigneePark Lane Conservatories Ltd.
InventorsMark A. Back, J. Michael Riley, John E. Welsh
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Abstract
An eaves beam for a glazed roof system includes a base member and an upper member. The base member includes a base plate adapted to rest on a building wall and includes upstanding wall members. The base member can be fastened from the top into the wall with the fastener extended between the two upstanding wall members. In turn, the upper portion of the eaves beam includes downwardly extended legs which are adapted to fit over the base member and are fastened to the base member by screws extended laterally through the legs into the base member. This facilitates installation of the eaves beam and allows the roof to be pre-assembled, taken to the work site and installed.
Claims13
A method of installing a glazed roof system including a plurality of rafters with panels between said rafters, said method comprising:
- combining a plurality of rafters with panels between said rafters and connecting said rafters to an upper eaves beam member;
- glazing said panels to said rafters and said upper eaves beam member to form a unitary roof structure;
- placing said unitary roof structure on a wall structure;
- attaching a lower eaves beam member to a header of said wall structure;
- placing said unitary roof structure on said lower eaves beam member on said wall structure so that said lower eaves beam member and said upper eaves beam member mate with each other;
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- fastening said upper eaves beam member of said unitary roof structure to said lower eaves beam member of said wall structure.
A method of installing a glazed roof system including a plurality of rafters with panels between said rafters, said method comprising:
- combining a plurality of rafters with panels between said rafters and connecting said rafters to an upper eaves beam member;
- glazing said panels to said rafters and said upper eaves beam member to form a unitary roof structure;
- placing said unitary roof structure on a wall structure and fastening said upper eaves beam member to said wall structure;
- wherein said upper eaves beam member has first and second downwardly extending generally parallel leg members, and
- wherein said wall structure has a lower eaves beam member having first and second upwardly extended leg members being fastened to said first and second downward extending parallel leg members of said upper eaves beam member.
A method for installing a roof structure comprising:
- providing an elongated lower eaves beam member having a base plate and a pair of generally parallel upwardly extended legs, the base plate and the upwardly extended legs providing a channel;
- securing the elongated lower eaves beam member to a building wall by positioning a first fastener in the channel and extending the first fastener through the elongated lower eaves beam member and into a header of the building wall;
- providing a pre-assembled upper unitary roof assembly comprising an elongated upper eaves beam member having a pair of generally parallel downwardly extended legs, a plurality of rafters attached to, supported by, and extending from the elongated upper eaves beam member to an upper rafter support member, and a plurality of panels glazed to the rafters;
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- attaching the pre-assembled upper unitary roof assembly to the elongated lower eaves beam after the elongated lower eaves beam is attached to the header of the building wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.