Apparatus and methods for secure, non-invasive and non-permanent surface attachment systems

• US 10,640,981 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2018
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: John Granville Holt, Mark Anthony Holt
• Original Assignee: John Granville Holt, Mark Anthony Holt
• Inventors: Holt, John Granville, Holt, Mark Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Michener, Joshua J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ahmad, Charissa
• Application Number:
  US16/174,645
• Publication Number:
  US 20190063068A1
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• CPC Class Codes: E04D 13/00 Special arrangements or devices in connection with roof coverings; Protection against birds; Roof drainage ; Sky-lights ventilation tiles E04D1/30; ventilation slabs E04D3/40; internal channels E04F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/00 Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices F21V17/00, F21V19/00 take precedence; arrangement of signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor, for vehicles in general B60Q, stands for supporting apparatus or articles in general F16M11/00; Hand grips
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/107 of the exterior of buildings
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 2025/014 Methods for installing support elements
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 2025/016 Filling or spacing means; Elastic means
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 2025/02 Ballasting means
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 2025/021 Sealing means between support elements and mounting surface
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 2025/6004 by clipping, e.g. by using snap connectors
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 2025/6006 by using threaded elements, e.g. stud bolts
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 2025/6009 by deforming the material, e.g. by crimping or clinching
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 2025/601 by bonding, e.g. by using adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 25/00 Arrangement of stationary mountings or supports for solar heat collector modules
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 25/30 using elongate rigid mounting elements extending substantially along the supporting surface, e.g. for covering buildings with solar heat collectors extending in directions away from the supporting surface F24S25/10; peripheral frames for modules F24S25/20
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 25/40 using plate-like mounting elements, e.g. profiled or corrugated plates; Plate-like module frames extending in directions away from a supporting surface F24S25/10
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 25/60 Fixation means, e.g. fasteners, specially adapted for supporting solar heat collector modules
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 25/61 for fixing to the ground or to building structures
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 25/613 in the form of bent strips or assemblies of strips; Hook-like connectors; Connectors to be mounted between building-covering elements
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 25/65 for coupling adjacent supporting elements, e.g. for connecting profiles together
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 25/67 for coupling adjacent modules or their peripheral frames for fixing modules or their peripheral frames to supporting elements F24S25/63
• CPC Class Codes: H02S 20/23 specially adapted for roof structures
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 10/10 : Photovoltaic [PV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 10/20 : Solar thermal
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/72 : in street lighting
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/47 : Mountings or tracking
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/50 : Photovoltaic [PV] energy

Abstract

A non-slip roof attachment system for attaching structures to residential and commercial roofs without the use of penetrations to roofing shingles and sealing layers is described. The non-slip attachment system may be used to attach roof mounted systems such as solar panels. The non-slip attachment system also allows for the quick removal of such roof mounted systems rapidly and without the need for repair of penetrations. The non-slip attachment system uses, among other things, an array-stay retainer comprising a vertical member and a horizontal member. The horizontal member comprises a spiral.

Claims

1. A non-slip retainer attachment system for roofing structures comprising:

a first shingle and a second shingle on a roof, the first shingle and the second shingle arranged in a pattern with the first shingle separated from the second shingle via a seam;

a spiral array stay comprising a vertical member that protrudes through the seam between the first shingle and the second shingle and a lateral member that lies underneath one or both of the first shingle and the second shingle, wherein the shape of the lateral member in plain view is a spiral;

a first hole in the vertical member of the spiral array stay;

a first beam comprising a second hole;

a fastening component penetrating the first hole in the vertical member and the second hole in the first beam thereby fixedly attaching the first beam to the spiral array stay; and

wherein no fastener penetrates through a body of the lateral member of the spiral array stay and into the roof.

2. The non-slip retainer attachment system of claim 1 further comprising high friction polymer foam padding, wherein the high friction polymer foam padding is positioned between the first beam and the roof, wherein the high friction polymer foam padding is a modification to increase friction between the lateral member and the first shingle.

3. The non-slip retainer attachment system of claim 1 further comprising a second beam, wherein the second beam is positioned next to the first beam, wherein the first beam and the second beam lie on distal sides of the vertical member of the array stay.

4. The non-slip retainer attachment system of claim 3 wherein the first beam and the second beam include a vertical component and a lateral component, wherein the first beam and the second include pre-drilled holes, wherein the holes on the vertical component of the first beam and the second beam are aligned.

5. The non-slip retainer attachment system of claim 4 additionally comprising conventional solar panel slotted-rail attachment clips.

6. The non-slip retainer attachment system of claim 5 additionally comprising a first solar panel.

7. The non-slip retainer attachment system of claim 4 additionally comprising soffit under-mount hardware.