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Details

Inventors: Austin, Barry G.;
Assignee: General Aluminum Products, Inc. (Charlotte, MI)
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A patio enclosure adapted for affixation to the exterior wall of an existing structure consisting of a plurality of side and front panels, a roof support structure and an overlying fabric roof. The roof support structure includes a series of rafters having centrally depending therefrom a cable receiving slotted finger. A cable extends between the rafter assembly from its point of affixation to the existing structure to its point of affixation to the front panels of the enclosure. The cable passes through the slot in the depending finger.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The patio enclosure which is the subject of the present invention is adapted to be secured adjacent an exterior wall of an existing structure.
It comprises a plurality of front panels and side panels, the panels being hingedly secured, one to another, and erectable to form the sidewalls and front wall of the enclosure.
A plurality of rafter assemblies extend in downwardly sloped fashion from the exterior wall to the top of the front wall, each of the rafter assemblies including upper and lower rafter sections having centrally depending therefrom a cable receiving finger, the finger having at least one stabilizing cable receiving slot therein.
First means are provided for connecting upper rafter sections to the exterior wall and second means for connecting the lower rafter sections to the top of the front wall.
A stabilizing cable interconnects between the first and second connecting means and passes through the slot in the cable receiving finger, the length of the stabilizing cable being such that in its secured condition the rafter assembly of which it is a part is generally straight.
A flexible roof overlies the rafter assemblies and means are provided for securing the roof in this overlying position.

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