Ventilation – Having outlet airway – Along roof ridge
Patent
1996-09-30
1997-12-16
Joyce, Harold
Ventilation
Having outlet airway
Along roof ridge
52199, F24F 702
Patent
active
056978421
ABSTRACT:
A vent apparatus for peaks of sloped roofs formed of roofing sheets include a number of roof tiles, a longitudinal vent gap between the roofing sheets at the peak, two rail members, one rail member being secured to the roofing sheets longitudinally along each side of the vent gap, where the rail members are laterally spaced apart from each other a distance, each rail member including an upright side wall portion, a fastening flange portion angling downwardly and outwardly from the lower edge of the side wall portion to rest against the roofing sheets, a series of tile fastening blocks fitted between the rail members and spaced apart from each other a distance substantially matching the length of the individual the roof tiles, a series of the tiles placed in overlapping fashion and longitudinally along and straddling both of the rail members, each tile having a higher end which rests on top of the lower end of the next tile in the series of the tiles so that the overlapping tile segments are located over positionally corresponding fastening blocks, where the roof tiles are secured to the roofing sheets in conventional fashion and where the upper end of each row of tiles is adjacent to the side wall portion of one of the rail members, so that the rail members are substantially hidden behind the rows of tiles.
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