BUILDING INSULATION AND SHEATHING

• US 3,826,054 A
• Filed: 05/15/1972
• Issued: 07/30/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bertram C. Culpepper Jr
• Original Assignee: Bertram C. Culpepper Jr
• Inventors: Culpepper, Bertram C. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Faw, Jr., Price C.
• Application Number:
  US05/253,152
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• Field of Search: 52/519-522,535,540,543-546,549-552,554-559,309,314 161/116,125,138
• US Class Current: 52/309.8
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 13/0862 composed of a number of elements which are identical or not, e.g. carried by a common web, support plate or grid
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 13/0864 composed of superposed elements which overlap each other and of which the flat outer surface includes an acute angle with the surface to cover
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24479 including variation in thickness

Abstract

A building sheathing having insulating qualities and adapted to be attached to the outside surfaces of the building studding to form a permanent insulation for the building. In one embodiment, the outer surface of the sheathing is so contoured as to mate with a building exterior wall finish such as an aluminum or vinyl siding; and in addition to providing a snap-on attachment of the siding to the sheathing, support and proper alignment of the exterior wall siding is provided. In a second embodiment, the sheathing has an outer surface contoured to mate with a mounting sheet, fabricated from a suitable material, such as aluminum, having a plurality of horizontally disposed, vertically spaced channels adapted to support a face brick.

Claims

1. A building sheathing adapted to be attached to the outside surfaces of the structural members of a building, said building sheathing comprising a material of a pre-selected length, width and thickness, said material having high thermal insulating characteristics, said sheathing material having a flat surface on one side thereof and adapted for abutting contact with the outside surface of said building structural members, the side of said sheathing material opposite said flat surface having a contoured shape adapted to receive and mate with the inside surface of an exterior covering of said building, said contoured side of said sheathing material having a plurality of vertically spaced horizontal rows separated by horizontal slots, each row having a flat surface disposed in an inclined plane such that the lower edge of each flat surface is associated with the slot immediately therebelow and the upper edge of each flat surface is associated with the slot immediately thereabove;

the flat surface of each row receiving in an abutting contact relationship the inner surface of a similarly shaped exterior covering, said exterior covering having inwardly bent upper and lower ends respectively receivable in said slots immediately above and below said flat surface on which said exterior covering is positioned, each slot having mounted therewithin attachment means independent of the exterior covering immediately therebelow for attaching to said sheathing the bent lower end of the exterior covering immediately thereabove which is received therein, the bent upper ends of said last mentioned exterior covering being received in the frequencies upper slot and engaged by the bent lower end of the covering immediately thereabove and maintained in said slot by said bent lower end independent of said attachment means; and

three wherein each of said attachment means within each of said sheathing slots comprises an elongated member disposed in said slots and extending the full length of said sheathing, said member having a U-shaped cross section including a base with horizontally disposed legs that extend toward the slot opening, the upper leg having an inwardly inclined tab means extending the full length of said leg and being of a flexible material;

the lower bent end of said exterior coverings having an upwardly disposed tab, said flexible tab means being so disposed as to permit said bent end tab to pass thereby and into said slot and restrain said bent end tab from being removed from stand slot.

2. The buIlding sheathing defined in claim 1, further comprising means for attaching said sheathing material to said building structural members.

3. The building sheathing defined in claim 1, wherein said material is fabricated from a polystyrene material.

4. The building sheathing defined in claim 1, wherein said sheathing material is a resin selected from the group consisting of polystyrene, polypropylene, polyurethene and polyamide.

5. The building sheathing defined in claim 1, wherein the peripheral edge of said sheathing has recessed and extending means for respectively receiving in an overlapping fashion similarly formed extending and recessed means in adjacent sheathings attached to said building structural members.

6. The building sheathing defined in claim 1 wherein the upper bent end of each of said exterior coverings has a reversed curved end section defining a recess extending the full length of said covering, the end of the bent lower end of the covering immediately thereabove engaging said recess to retain the covering associated therewith on said sheathing.