Sectional roof ridge vent
US6277024A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 22, 2000 |
| Grant date | Aug 21, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 22, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF24F7/02
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An adjustable-pitch sectional roof ridge vent formed as a one-piece, plastic, injection-molded body having an elongate top wall and a pair of opposed outer sidewalls depending outwardly and downwardly from peripheral longitudinal edges of the top wall. Each of the outer sidewalls has a lowermost edge, a plurality of ventilation openings, and an upturned flange projecting from the lowermost edge. The vent has a pair of opposed, integrally-formed end walls which depend from opposite ends of the top wall and which are each formed by a plurality of separate, spaced apart wall segments extending across the end of the top wall in substantially end-to-end single file alignment. Each pair of adjacent wall segments are spaced apart to form an open gap therebetween to enable ready flexing of the vent, and selected ones of the wall segments have an undulating configuration such that they interconnect to the top wall via a sinusoidal shaped juncture.
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