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Vertical soffit vent
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Inventors: Butler, Dennis;
Assignee: Glenn Technologies, Inc. (Cecil, PA)
Primary Examiner: Joyce; Harold
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Webb, Burden, Ziesenheim & Webb
A vertical soffit vent in which a length of frieze board is affixed adjacent a length of soffit molding, with a unique arrangement of vents--volutes--in between. More particularly, a length of frieze board having particularly shaped and dimensioned volutes therein is attached or integrally molded to an adjacent length of molding by means of a solid spacer strip. (Alternatively, the spacer strip may be eliminated and replaced with protruding teeth on the frieze board.) The entire combination may be integrally molded. The volutes in the frieze board are contained in the upper half of the frieze board, in and around the solid spacer strip. The combined vertical soffit vent is intended for mounting under the eaves of roof constructions, and permits enhanced air flow into the attic area by means of the uniquely shaped volutes. The outlet ends of the volutes are covered with an insect screen. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a vertical soffit vent in which a length of frieze board is affixed adjacent a length of soffit molding, with a unique arrangement of vents--volutes--in between.
More particularly, a length of frieze board having particularly shaped and dimensioned volutes therein is attached to an adjacent length of molding by means of (in one embodiment of the invention) a solid spacer strip.
The volutes in the frieze board are contained in the upper half of the frieze board, in the area adjacent the solid spacer strip.
Except for periodic "teeth" along the upper portion of the frieze board, which teeth abut and bond with the spacer strip, the upper surface of the frieze board is sculpted to create a concave louvre between the frieze board and the spacer strip.
The apertures thus provided between the frieze board and the soffit molding are covered--at the upper edge of the spacer strip and the upper surface of the frieze board--with a screen, mesh or other perforate material to prevent entry of insects into the attic or crawl space to be ventilated.
Two of the four main components of the first embodiment of the present vertical soffit vent are of simple, straight-forward structural design.
Referring now to FIG.
1, the vertical soffit vent 10 (an inside pre-mitered corner) includes the soffit molding 12, the spacer strip 14 and the frieze boards 16 having the teeth 18 and volutes 20 therein.
The wood-like parts are molded of polymer, usually, and preferably are molded (most preferably as a single unit) of high density polyurethane.
The soffit molding 12 is a molding known in the art, and the spacer strip 14 is merely a strip, as illustrated.
The remaining structures are a little more complicated.
The volutes 20 in the frieze boards 16 are periodic cutouts in the upper half of the face of the frieze board 16 opposite to the flat surface 17 of the frieze board 16, which flat surface 17 abuts the vertical exterior wall of the building.
The insect screen 22 is affixed to the uppermost surfaces of the spacer strip 14 and the frieze board 16
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