Skylight guard
AssigneeEverCo, LLC
InventorsKristina M. Everingham, Thomas G. Coop
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Abstract
A skylight guard for preventing people or objects from falling through a skylight of a roof panel on a roof provides a wire mesh screen and a plurality of hooks securable to the roof. Each hook includes a hook base, a hook wall and a hook flange. Each hook is securable to the roof using one or more roof fasteners. Each roof fastener can be disposed through a fastener hole predefined in the hook base, and each fastener may also extend through the roof panel into a supporting purlin positioned underneath the roof panel.
Claims5
An apparatus for covering a skylight on a roof, the roof including a roof panel and a roof panel surface, the roof defining an opening and the skylight spanning the opening, the apparatus comprising:
- a wire mesh screen having a plurality of longitudinal wire strands, the screen being positioned above the skylight;
- a first hook including a first hook base securable to the roof, the first hook including a first hook wall extending upward from the first hook base and a first hook flange extending from the first hook wall in a direction generally away from the screen;
- a second hook including a second hook base securable to the roof, the second hook including a second hook wall extending upward from the second hook base and a second hook flange extending from the second hook wall in a direction generally away from the first hook;
- a first purlin supporting the roof panel, wherein the first hook is aligned with the first purlin;
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- a first fastener configured to extend from the first hook into the first purlin,
- wherein a first one of the plurality of longitudinal wire strands is received in the first hook between the first hook base and the first hook flange and a second one of the plurality of longitudinal wire strands is received in the second hook between the second hook base and the second hook flange.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.