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Flashing member
   
Document Number
US Patent 4598505
Issued Date
July 8, 1986
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A flashing member having a two leg construction, such member being adapted for use between the ends of corrugated roof panels adjacent to the open space below ridge type ventilators and the base of the ventilator in its resting position at the ridge of a building roof. The flashing member has a generally V-shape transverse profile, and includes one leg having corrugations formed thereupon to correspond with the surface of the corrugations of the roof panel, and a second leg interval with the corrugated leg, such leg being angularly disposed with respect to the corrugated leg and formed with a substantially smooth, flat and uncorrugated surface adapted to provide bearing support for the ventilator in its resting position. A watertight seal is then disposed between the ventilator and the roof panels.
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Published
July 8, 1986
Application Number
06/699,746
Filed
February 8, 1985
US Classification
52/58   454/366 52/199
Int'l Classification
E04D   13/147   (20060101)   E04D   13/14   (20060101)  
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52/199   52/58   98/42.21  
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Ridge cap ventilators and roof constructions incorporating such ventilators are disclosed. The ridge cap ventilator is low in profile and comprises either two corrugated vertilating members and a cover member, or alternatively comprises of a single piece member which has a plurality of raised ribs. Both ridge caps have a plurality of channels through which air is educed from the roof cavity to the building exterior.

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