APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR A NONINVASIVE ROOF ATTACHMENT SYSTEM WITH VERTICAL MEMBERS

• US 20190316360A1
• Filed: 05/31/2019
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Araystays Corporation
• Original Assignee: Araystays Corporation
• Inventors: Holt, John Granville, Holt, Mark Anthony
• Granted Patent: US 10,815,667 B2
• Time in Patent Office: 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. A high friction foam polymer padding is used to further secure the non-slip attachment system to the roof.

Claims

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

an array stay comprising a vertical member that protrudes through a seam between a first shingle and a second shingle arranged in a pattern on a roof with the first shingle separated from the second shingle via a seam and a lateral member that lies underneath one or both of the first shingle and the second shingle;

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

a ballast, wherein the ballast comprises a pre-drilled ballast hole and a frictional support pad having a frictional support pad hole, and wherein the vertical member of the array stay passes through the pre-drilled ballast hole and the frictional support pad hole.

2. The non-slip retainer attachment system of claim 1 wherein the vertical member of the array stay comprises a bendable material, and wherein the vertical member of the array stay is bent after being passed through the ballast hole and the frictional support pad hole to sit flush with a surface of the ballast.

3. 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.

4. 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 each lie on respective distal sides of the of the vertical member of the array stay.

5. The non-slip retainer attachment system of claim 4 wherein the first beam comprises a first beam vertical component with a predrilled hole and a first beam lateral component, and the second beam comprises a second beam vertical component with a predrilled hole and a second beam lateral component and the first beam vertical component predrilled hole aligns with the second beam vertical component predrilled hole.

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

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

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

9. The non-slip retainer system of claim 4, wherein at least one of the first beam and the second beam supports a solar panel.

10. A method for reversibly attaching items to a roofing system, the method comprising:

placing a first array-stay retainer attachment upon a roof, wherein the first array-stay retainer comprises a lateral member and a vertical member, and wherein the lateral member of the first array-stay retainer attachment comprises a bar and is positioned underneath at least a first installed roofing shingle and a second installed roofing shingle, and the vertical member of the first array-stay retainer attachment protrudes through a seam between the first roofing shingle and the second roofing shingle, and wherein the seam lies between an edge of the first roofing shingle and an edge of the second roofing shingle and said vertical member;

placing a second array-stay retainer attachment upon the roof, wherein a lateral member of the second array-stay retainer attachment is positioned underneath at least a third roofing shingle and a vertical member of the second array-stay retainer attachment protrudes through a seam between the third roofing shingle and a fourth roofing shingle, and wherein the seam lies between an edge of the third roofing shingle and an edge of the fourth roofing shingle;

placing a first half split-beam upon the roof, wherein the first half split-beam comprises a first pre-drilled hole;

aligning the first pre-drilled hole with a hole in the first array-stay retainer attachment;

placing a second half split-beam upon the roof roughly parallel with the first half split-beam, wherein the second half split-beam comprises a second pre-drilled hole;

aligning the second pre-drilled hole with a hole in the second array-stay retainer attachment;

placing a fastener into the hole in the first array-stay retainer attachment and through a hole in the first half split-beam;

attaching a slotted-rail attachment clip to at least the first half split-beam; and

attaching a support member to the slotted rail attachment clip.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising attaching a solar panel to the support member.

12. The method of claim 10 further comprising attaching a high friction foam polymer padding to one of the first beam and the second beam.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising attaching a solar panel to the support member.