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US 7,082,724 · App. 10/287,164 · Granted Aug 1, 2006

Packaging of tabbed composite shingles having a backer strip containing uniform, identically spaced, vertical projections on its top edge

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Patent No.
US 7,082,724
App. No.
10/287,164
Granted
Aug 1, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

This invention relates to back-to-back inverse packaging of a pair of tabbed, composite roofing shingles consisting of (a) a top sheet having a lower butt portion divided into spaced tabs and an upper undivided headlap portion carrying a horizontal band of nailing indicia on the lower portion of its exposed surface; (b) a backer strip underlying the tabs of the top sheet and filling the spaces between the tabs and (c) vertical projections of approximately similar shape and spacing as the tabs, positioned on the top horizontal margin of the backer strip which projections extend upwardly beyond said band of indicia at a distance not more than one half the width of said headlap portion and which are interposed above the spaces between the tabs.

Claims (4)

1. A composite roofing shingle comprising: (a) a top sheet having an undivided headlap portion having a width and a lower butt portion containing a plurality of spaced tabs having empty spaces therebetween; (b) a backer strip having a top horizontal margin adapted to underlay said top sheet and to fill the empty spaces between said plurality of spaced tabs; and (c) vertical projections positioned on the top horizontal margin of the backer strip which projections extend upwardly at a distance not more than one half the width of said headlap portion and said projections are interposed above the spaces between the tabs, wherein the projections have approximately the same shape and spacing as the tabs.

2. The packaging of the composite shingle of claim 1 in pairs which comprise positioning a first shingle of the pair over a second shingle; inverting and reversing the surface of the second shingle so that the projections on the undersurface of the first shingle nest in abutment with the projections of the inverted and reversed second shingle.

3. A composite roofing shingle comprising: (a) a top sheet having an undivided headlap portion having a width and a lower butt portion containing a plurality of spaced tabs having empty spaces therebetween; (b) a backer strip having a top horizontal margin adapted to underlay said top sheet and to fill the empty spaces between said plurality of spaced tabs; and (c) vertical projections positioned on the top horizontal margin of the backer strip which projections extend upwardly at a distance not more than one half the width of said headlap portion and said projections are interposed above the spaces between the tabs, wherein the projections are mirror images of said tabs.

4. The packaging of the composite shingle of claim 3 in pairs which comprise positioning a first shingle of the pair over a second shingle; inverting and reversing the surface of the second shingle so that the projections on the undersurface of the first shingle nest in abutment with the projections of the inverted and reversed second shingle.

Assignments (9)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Sep 23, 2021
From: BMIC LLC; ELKCORP; ELK COMPOSITE BUILDING PRODUCTS, INC.; ELK PREMIUM BUILDING PRODUCTS, INC.; HBP ACQUISITION LLC; GAF ENERGY LLC; SIPLAST, INC.; SPECIALTY GRANULES INVESTMENTS LLC
To: DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH
Reel/Frame 057572/0607 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 24, 2021
From: BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION
To: BMIC LLC
Reel/Frame 057292/0184 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 5, 2011
From: DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
To: BUILDING MATERIALS CORPORATION OF AMERICA; BMCA ACQUISITION INC.; BMCA ACQUISITION SUB INC.; BMCA FRESNO LLC; BMCA FRESNO II LLC; BMCA GAINESVILLE LLC; BMCA INSULATION PRODUCTS INC.; BMCA QUAKERTOWN INC.; BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION; BUILDING MATERIALS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; DUCTWORK MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; GAF LEATHERBACK CORP.; GAF MATERIALS CORPORATION (CANADA); GAF PREMIUM PRODUCTS INC.; GAF REAL PROPERTIES, INC.; GAFTECH CORPORATION; HBP ACQUISITION LLC; LL BUILDING PRODUCTS INC.; PEQUANNOCK VALLEY CLAIM SERVICE COMPANY, INC.; SOUTH PONCA REALTY CORP.; WIND GAP REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION CORP.
Reel/Frame 027180/0331 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 5, 2011
From: DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
To: BUILDING MATERIALS CORPORATION OF AMERICA; BMCA ACQUISITION INC.; BMCA ACQUISITION SUB INC.; BMCA FRESNO LLC; BMCA FRESNO II LLC; BMCA GAINESVILLE LLC; BMCA INSULATION PRODUCTS INC.; BMCA QUAKERTOWN INC.; BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION; BUILDING MATERIALS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; DUCTWORK MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; GAF LEATHERBACK CORP.; GAF MATERIALS CORPORATION (CANADA); GAF PREMIUM PRODUCTS INC.; GAF REAL PROPERTIES, INC.; GAFTECH CORPORATION; HBP ACQUISITION LLC; LL BUILDING PRODUCTS INC.; PEQUANNOCK VALLEY CLAIM SERVICE COMPANY, INC.; SOUTH PONCA REALTY CORP.; WIND GAP REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION CORP.
Reel/Frame 027180/0368 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 5, 2007
From: BUILDING MATERIALS CORPORATION OF AMERICA; BMCA ACQUISITION INC.; BMCA ACQUISITION SUB INC.; BMCA FRESNO LLC; BMCA FRESNO II LLC; BMCA GAINESVILLE LLC; BMCA INSULATION PRODUCTS INC.; BMCA QUAKERTOWN INC.; BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION; BUILDING MATERIALS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; DUCTWORK MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; GAF LEATHERBACK CORP.; GAF MATERIALS CORPORATION (CANADA); GAF PREMIUM PRODUCTS INC.; GAF REAL PROPERTIES, INC.; GAFTECH CORPORATION; HBP ACQUISITION LLC; LL BUILDING PRODUCTS INC.; PEQUANNOCK VALLEY CLAIM SERVICE COMPANY, INC.; SOUTH PONCA REALTY CORP.; WIND GAP REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION CORP.
To: DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH
Reel/Frame 019122/0197 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 19, 2007
From: BUILDING MATERIALS CORPORATION OF AMERICA; BMCA ACQUISITION INC.; BMCA ACQUISITION SUB INC.; BMCA FRESNO LLC; BMCA FRESNO II LLC; BMCA GAINESVILLE LLC; BMCA INSULATION PRODUCTS INC.; BMCA QUAKERTOWN INC.; BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION; BUILDING MATERIALS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; DUCTWORK MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; GAF LEATHERBACK CORP.; GAF MATERIALS CORPORATION (CANADA); GAF PREMIUM PRODUCTS INC.; GAF REAL PROPERTIES, INC.; GAFTECH CORPORATION; HBP ACQUISITION LLC; LL BUILDING PRODUCTS INC.; PEQUANNOCK VALLEY CLAIM SERVICE COMPANY, INC.; SOUTH PONCA REALTY CORP.; WIND GAP REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION CORP.
To: DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
Reel/Frame 019028/0534 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 16, 2007
From: CITIBANK, N.A.
To: BUILDING MATERIALS CORPORATION OF AMERICA; BMCA INSULATION PRODUCTS, INC.; BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION; BUILDING MATERIALS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; DUCTWORK MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; GAF LEATHERBACK CORP.; GAF MATERIALS CORPORATION (CANADA); GAF PREMIUM PRODUCTS, INC.; GAF REAL PROPERTIES, INC.; GAFTECH CORPORATION; LL BUILDING PRODUCTS, INC.; PEQUANNOCK VALLEY CLAIM SERVICE COMPANY, INC.; SOUTH PONCA REALTY CORP.; WIND GAP REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION CORP.
Reel/Frame 019019/0695 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jul 31, 2003
From: BUILDING MATERIALS CORPORATION OF AMERICA; BMCA INSULATION PRODUCTS INC.; BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION; BUILDING MATERIALS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; DUCTWORK MANUFACTURING CORPORATION; GAF LEATHERBACK CORP.; GAF MATERIALS CORPORATION (CANADA); GAF PREMIUM PRODUCTS INC.; GAF REAL PROPERTIES, INC.; GAFTECH CORPORATION; LL BUILDING PRODUCTS INC.; PEQUANNOCK VALLEY CLAIM SERVICE COMPANY, INC.; SOUTH PONCA REALTY CORP.; WIND GAP REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION CORP.
To: CITIBANK, N.A.
Reel/Frame 014294/0558 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 4, 2002
From: RAILKAR, SUDHIR; CHICH, ADEM
To: BUILDING MATERIALS INVESTMENT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 013477/0447 →