Deck construction

• US 5,392,575 A
• Filed: 11/16/1992
• Issued: 02/28/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pro Shop Plans Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Pro Shop Plans Company Incorporated
• Inventors: Hoffman, Paul, Bright, Sam H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Safavi, Michael
• Application Number:
  US07/976,611
• Time in Patent Office: 834 Days
• Field of Search: 52/294, 52/298, 52/299, 52/296, 52/297, 52/292, 52/169.9
• US Class Current: 52/299
• CPC Class Codes: E02D 27/02 Flat foundations without substantial excavation E02D27/04, E02D27/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/003 Balconies; Decks

Abstract

A deck construction including a plurality of supports for anchoring deck construction elements to a building site. The supports include a body (which may be an integrally molded concrete pier) having upper and lower portions. The upper portion includes at least one slot for seating a horizontally oriented construction member. The slot includes a center socket portion having four extended corners for seating the bottom end of a vertically oriented construction member. The slot and center socket are defined by connecting wall portions which may be integral to the body or may be of plastic or metal and suitable secured to the body. In some cases, two mutually perpendicular slots are provided.

Claims

1. A deck construction on a building site, comprising:

(a) a plurality of spaced-apart horizontally oriented support members, each of said members having a lower edge and an upper edge;

(b) horizontal decking surface structure fastened to said upper edges of said plurality of horizontally oriented support members;

(c) a plurality of supports, each of said supports including;

a body having an upper construction support portion and a lower portion adapted for supporting engagement with a building site, said upper portion including an open slot formed by side walls spaced apart for receiving the lower edge of one of said horizontally oriented support members;

an enlarged open center socket contiguous with the open slot and formed by the side walls extending at right angles away from each other to corner sections spaced apart substantially further than the width of the open slot; and

(d) wherein each of said plurality of horizontally oriented support members is supported by at least one of said supports,

(e) said deck construction further comprising at least one vertically oriented pillar member, wherein the bottom end of said pillar member is held within the center socket of one of said supports, and said top end of said pillar member supports the lower edge of one of said horizontally oriented support members.