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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2009
Patrick J. Bertke, Dayton, OH (US);
John M. Van Leeuwen, Dayton, OH (US);
Michael P. Weaver, Dayton, OH (US);
Patrick J. Bertke, Dayton, OH (US);
John M. Van Leeuwen, Dayton, OH (US);
Michael P. Weaver, Dayton, OH (US);
We Design Partners, LLC, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
Components for use in the assembly and installation of a modular decking system, comprised of structural free floating piers which distributes loads of deck pad to ground, piers have a pad bearing surface and four uniformly placed receiver blocks which interlock with corresponding recesses at four pad corners, an interlocking cam passes through pad recesses at deck surface and locks to piers by rotating cam with custom designed tool. The system is designed to be assembled without permanent fasteners to allow for expansion, reconfiguration or relocation, or addition of traditional and contemporary deck accessories that engage and interlock with the piers, pads and cams. One ideal manufacturing method of one or any of the system components is compression molded post-consumer and/or industrial thermo-plastic waste.