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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1990
Thomas J Boyd, Wellsburg, WV (US);
The Louis Berkman Company, Steubenville, OH (US);
Abstract
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.