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The present invention provides a rafter cap having a top plane, side planes, and channels that protrude outward from the side planes. The rafter cap installs on the top edge of a rafter and may be made of material, or overlie material, that is able to envelope nail and screw shanks that pierce a subroof, and the rafter cap beneath it, as they affix the subroof to underlying rafters. The rafter cap, or material beneath it, may also able to expand into the holes the nails or screws create further sealing the holes preventing water from seeping through the rafter cap and contacting an underlying rafter. The channels of the rafter caps may unilaterally, or combination with rafter trays constructed to have their lateral edges insert into a rafter cap’s channel, direct water that has penetrated a subroof past the outer walls of a building.
The present invention provides a rafter cap having a top plane, side planes, and channels that protrude outward from the side planes. The rafter cap installs on the top edge of a rafter and may be made of material, or overlie material, that is able to envelope nail and screw shanks that pierce a subroof, and the rafter cap beneath it, as they affix the subroof to underlying rafters. The rafter cap, or material beneath it, may also able to expand into the holes the nails or screws create further sealing the holes preventing water from seeping through the rafter cap and contacting an underlying rafter. The channels of the rafter caps may unilaterally, or combination with rafter trays constructed to have their lateral edges insert into a rafter cap’s channel, direct water that has penetrated a subroof past the outer walls of a building.
Rafter Guard
HIGGINBOTHAM EDWARD (author)
2023-10-12
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC:
E04D
ROOF COVERINGS
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Dacheindeckungen
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