The Louis Berkman Company

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Thomas J Boyd

A vent ridge assembly for a metal roof includes a pair of adjacent roof sections spaced from one another. Each of the roof sections is constructed of a roof substrate, a batten overlying and extending along a longitudinal edge of the substrate and one or more roofing panels overlying the roof substrate and spaced from the batten. A plate overlying the batten has one longitudinal edge extending along the length of the batten and a second opposing longitudinal edge overlying a roofing panel. A ridge cap overlies the panels of the adjacent roof sections and has first and second coupling flanges receiving the second opposing longitudinal edges of the plates. A corrugated sheet is disposed between the plate and the batten of each roof section for venting air and water vapor from the beneath the roof.

Vent ridge assembly

A sheet steel cladding roof assembly comprised of a series of side-by-side sheet steel roofing panels of shallow U-shaped cross-section and joined together along their adjacent upstanding side walls by folded over standing seam joints is secured to the roof substrate continuously along each of the standing seam joints by a two-part continuously extending cleat arrangement comprising an anchor member fixedly secured to the roof substrate underneath one of the jointed roof panels and a slide member clamped in the standing seam joint and having a longitudinal upstanding sliding lap seam expansion connection with the anchor member permitting longitudinal sliding movement of the slide member and its associated roofing panels relative to the anchor member to accommodate thermal longitudinal expansion and contraction of the elongated jointed roofing panels.

Sheet cladded roof assembly and cleat arrangement

An improved method and apparatus is disclosed for a roofing system which uses an improved standing seam joint such that the roofing system can be used for flat roof applications. A standing seam is conventionally formed and then compressed in a press fit manner by compression apparatus. Provisions are made to apply a gasket material to the compressed sections of the standing seam prior to compression which material is deformed when the seam is compressed to provide a sealed joint which is significantly stronger than the conventional standing seam.

Roofing system using standing seam joints

A lap joint structure for adjoining panels of a sheet metal roofing assembly permits shifting of the joint panels longitudinally and transversely with respect to the joint as caused by thermally induced expansion and contraction, as well as providing a securely anchored connection of the panels to the roof structure. Two adjacent panels are rigidly connected to one another, an underlying cleat is rigidly connected to the roof substrate, and the two joined panels are securely connected to the cleat with clearance allowed for thermally induced movements of the panels across the substrate.

Lap joint roof assembly

A lap joint structure for adjoining panels of a sheet metal roofing assembly permits shifting of the joint panels longitudinally and transversely with respect to the joint as caused by thermally induced expansion and contraction, as well as providing a securely anchored connection of the panels to the roof substrate. Two adjacent panels are rigidly connected to one another, an underlying cleat is rigidly connected to the roof substrate, and the two joined panels are securely connected to the cleat with clearance allowed for thermally induced movements of the panels across the substrate.

Suspended from a carriage that straddles a standing seam, in which the upper portions of adjoining upright flanges are interlocked, is a vise having a pair of normally spaced jaws with a short length of the standing seam between them. One of the jaws is rigidly connected to the carriage, but the other jaw can be moved toward and away from the first jaw by a fluid pressure cylinder supported by the carriage. The movable jaw is moved toward the other jaw periodically to compress and close the interlocked upper portions of the seam. Each time the jaws are separated the carriage can be moved along the seam in order to close an adjoining length of the seam. Preferably, the carriage is moved along the seam automatically by means of motor-driven rollers that frictionally engage the standing seam. The rollers are rotated to move the carriage only while the vise is released from the seam.

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Wellsburg, WV, United States of America

Thomas J Boyd