181 |
Shingle with reinforcement layer |
US12857868 |
2010-08-17 |
US08173243B2 |
2012-05-08 |
Husnu M. Kalkanoglu; Stephen A. Koch |
A laminated shingle and a method of making it is provided in which the rear surface of the shingle is provided with an attached reinforcement layer through which fasteners may be applied when the shingle is applied to a roof. |
182 |
Shingle With Reinforcement Layer |
US13291234 |
2011-11-08 |
US20120047838A1 |
2012-03-01 |
Husnu M. Kalkanoglu; Stephen A. Koch |
A laminated shingle and a method of making it is provided in which the rear surface of the shingle is provided with an attached reinforcement layer through which fasteners may be applied when the shingle is applied to a roof. |
183 |
MICROBE MITIGATING ARCHITECTURAL BARRIERS, COMPOSITIONS FOR FORMING SUCH BARRIERS AND RELATED METHODS |
US13028476 |
2011-02-16 |
US20120039977A1 |
2012-02-16 |
John Dracopoulos; Lionel Borenstein; Shawn Melancon |
The invention includes a microbe-mitigating architectural barrier that includes a barrier forming material, and at least one biocide. The barrier forming material may be a bitumen product, an elastomeric polymer and combinations thereof. The microbe-mitigating architectural barrier may be formed by applying an emulsion composition directly to an architectural surface, or it may be preformed and adhered or otherwise secured to the architectural surface in the form of a sheet or film.The invention also includes architectural assemblies and/or building envelopes that include the microbe-mitigating barrier. Related methods are encompassed within the scope of the invention. Such methods include a method of preparing an architectural barrier that includes: (a) preparing an emulsion that comprises a barrier forming material chosen from a bitumen product, an elastomeric polymer and combinations thereof, and at least one biocide, (b) applying the emulsion to at least one architectural surface, and (c) drying and/and or curing the emulsion to form a barrier. |
184 |
Roof membrane and roof system using the membrane to simulate a standing seam metal roof |
US12883265 |
2010-09-16 |
US08015770B2 |
2011-09-13 |
Husnu M. Kalkanoglu; Stephen A. Koch |
A roof membrane is disclosed, for use in simulating a standing seam metal roof when applied to a roof surface and a roof system is also provided, that employs the roof membrane, disposed between longitudinal, but spaced-apart, generally parallel roof battens. Underlayments of various constructions are also provided, beneath the membrane, as an option. Caps are provided for upstanding legs of the roof battens. |
185 |
Asphaltic roofing shingle with self seal adhesive composition |
US11640689 |
2006-12-18 |
US07900266B1 |
2011-03-01 |
William K. Longcor, IV |
It has been unexpectedly found that the solvent extracted aromatic cut of heavy vacuum gas oil can be oxidized to produce an adhesive composition that has all the needed attributes of a self seal adhesive for asphalt roofing shingles. This adhesive composition does not require any volatile organic solvents and is accordingly environmentally friendly. It does not contain any asphalt or polymers and will not phase separate. Thus, it offers excellent long term stability. Additionally, it is made by the simple oxidation of the solvent extracted aromatic cut of heavy vacuum gas oil and is accordingly relatively inexpensive. The subject invention more specifically reveals an asphaltic roofing shingle comprising a back surface and an exposure surface, wherein the back surface is covered with an oxidized solvent extracted aromatic cut of heavy vacuum gas oil. |
186 |
System For Manufacturing A Granule Covered Roofing Shingle Having A National Shingle Color |
US12911326 |
2010-10-25 |
US20110036290A1 |
2011-02-17 |
Edward R. Harrington, JR. |
Systems for manufacturing national shingles are provided. The systems include the steps of establishing a standardized process for manufacturing shingles having standardized performance characteristics. The national shingles can be manufactured in more than one manufacturing facility, and further wherein the national shingles can be mixed on a common roof and provide a standardized performance. |
187 |
ADHESIVE WATERPROOF TAPE SYSTEM FOR ROOFING AND FLASHING |
US12537242 |
2009-08-06 |
US20110033685A1 |
2011-02-10 |
Jon E. Folkersen |
A detail membrane for bonding together materials of a building envelope includes a reinforced inner core having first and second sides, a tacky, bitumen-based adhesive on the first and second sides of the reinforced inner core, rubber polymers and/or styrene-rubber block copolymers and/or other elastic materials added to the bitumen-based adhesive, wherein the detail membrane either bonds an underside of an exposed cover roofing material to an underlying roofing material on a building envelope, or bonds two like roofing materials together on a building envelope, or replaces caulking, plastic roof cement, mastic or any traditional material used on a sloped roof or the walls of a building exterior. The roofing structure can be roofing, flashing, protrusions through the roof, or walls that abut the roofing structure. |
188 |
Roofing Shingle |
US12851504 |
2010-08-05 |
US20100313512A1 |
2010-12-16 |
Tommy Rodrigues; Frederick W. Sieling; Awdhoot Vasant Kerkar; Atilla Sebuktekin |
The present invention provides a roof shingle comprising a shingle with at least one layer having a head lap and a butt, the head lap including at least one alignment notch and the butt including at least one corner that corresponds to the alignment notch. Also, the present invention provides a roofing shingle comprising at least one layer formed from a cutting cylinder having a circumference that is a fraction of said roofing shingle length. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing the inventive shingles and a method for installing the inventive shingles upon a roofing area. |
189 |
System for manufacturing a granule covered roofing shingle having a national shingle color |
US11245548 |
2005-10-06 |
US07820237B2 |
2010-10-26 |
Edward R. Harrington, Jr. |
A system for manufacturing a granule covered roofing shingle includes establishing at least two sources of granules. A standardized process for manufacturing granules having a standardized appearance is then established, wherein a color of the granules from one of the sources of granules is substantially identical to the color of the granules from the others of the sources of granules, thereby defining at least one standardized granule color. Granules of the standardized granule color are then manufactured according to the standardized process. The manufactured granules are transported to at least one shingle manufacturing facility, and granule covered roofing shingles are then manufactured using the manufactured granules of the standardized granule color. |
190 |
Roofing shingle |
US10777950 |
2004-02-12 |
US07805905B2 |
2010-10-05 |
Tommy Rodrigues; Frederick W. Sieling; Awdhoot Vasant Kerkar; Atilla Sebuktekin |
The present invention provides a roof shingle comprising a shingle with at least one layer having a head lap and a butt, the head lap including at least one alignment notch and the butt including at least one corner that corresponds to the alignment notch. Also, the present invention provides a roofing shingle comprising at least one layer formed from a cutting cylinder having a circumference that is a fraction of said roofing shingle length. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing the inventive shingles and a method for installing the inventive shingles upon a roofing area. |
191 |
ADVANCED ANTIBALLISTIC MATERIALS |
US12733930 |
2008-10-07 |
US20100247847A1 |
2010-09-30 |
Jan Adolph Dam Backer; Benjamin Slager; Bart Clemens Kranz |
A stack is proposed comprising at least one layer of tapes and at least one layer of multifilament yarn. |
192 |
WEATHERPROOF UNDERLAYMENT WITH HIGH FILLER CONTENT POLYMER ASPHALT LAYER |
US12731706 |
2010-03-25 |
US20100233408A1 |
2010-09-16 |
Thomas Zickell; James Karlis |
A roofing membrane underlayment material includes a fibrous mat generally encapsulated within a non-adhesive asphalt coating, the resulting encapsulated mat having an adhesive asphalt layer applied to one surface thereof, typically the bottom surface. An acrylic, talc or granular coating is applied to the surface of the encapsulated mat that is not in contact with the adhesive asphalt layer. The non-adhesive asphalt coating is characterized in that it includes a high filler content made possible by the use of non-oxidized flux asphalt to which has been added a small percentage of an asphalt additive such as radial or linear polymer or other elastomer. The resulting membrane, when applied to a roofing deck, provides a high traction surface that will not adhere to shingles and provides an effective waterproofing seal on the roofing deck and is flexible in both hot and cold environments. |
193 |
Nonwoven polymeric fiber mat composites and method |
US11376538 |
2006-03-15 |
US07786028B2 |
2010-08-31 |
Roger Lee Souther; Ralph Michael Fay; Ruben Gregory Garcia |
A flexible nonwoven mat of polymeric fibers is liquid water transmission resistant and is particularly well suited for use as a prefabricated building construction underlayment. The polymeric fibers may be standard polymeric fibers or sheathed polymeric fibers that have fiber sheaths with a lower softening point temperature than the softening point temperature of the fiber cores. Preferably, the polymeric fibers are spunbond fibers and are bonded together through the application of heat and pressure. Where the fibers are sheathed fibers, interstices of the nonwoven mat are at least partially filled by a portion of the polymeric material of the sheaths that is dispersed into the interstices to reduce the porosity of the mat. In certain embodiments, the polymeric fibers on the top major surface of the mat are coated with a hydrophobic binder coating material, which is overlaid with a water repellant coating material, such as a filled asphalt, modified bitumen, or a non-asphaltic polymeric film, to increase the liquid water impermeability and enhance other physical properties of the mat. |
194 |
Roofing Shingle |
US12709212 |
2010-02-19 |
US20100205898A1 |
2010-08-19 |
Tommy Rodrigues; Frederick W. Sieling; Awdhoot Vasant Kerkar; Atilla Sebuktekin |
The present invention provides a roof shingle comprising a shingle with at least one layer having a head lap and a butt, the head lap including at least one alignment notch and the butt including at least one corner that corresponds to the alignment notch. Also, the present invention provides a roofing shingle comprising at least one layer formed from a cutting cylinder having a circumference that is a fraction of said roofing shingle length. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing the inventive shingles and a method for installing the inventive shingles upon a roofing area. |
195 |
Waterproofing Membrane |
US12549780 |
2009-08-28 |
US20100196648A1 |
2010-08-05 |
Susnata Samanta; Robert A. Wiercinski |
Disclosed is a waterproofing membrane that performs well at both high and low temperatures. The waterproofing membrane comprises a carrier support layer and an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer comprises a pressure sensitive bitumen composition comprising bitumen (asphalt), synthetic rubber, high density polyethylene, ground vulcanized crumb rubber and, optionally, a plasticizer. The waterproofing membrane also may optionally include a removable release sheet on the adhesive layer. |
196 |
Impact Resistant Shingle |
US12629943 |
2009-12-03 |
US20100098912A1 |
2010-04-22 |
Richard Allan Snyder; Husnu M. Kalkanoglu; Gregory F. Jacobs |
An impact resistant shingle is provided, wherein the base mat is impregnated with an asphaltic material, with an asphaltic material on the upper surface of the shingle, and wherein another asphaltic material is disposed on the rear surface of the shingle, which other asphaltic material is softer with greater elongation than the asphaltic material used elsewhere in the shingle, such that crack resistance is afforded because energy from impact on the shingle is dissipated. |
197 |
COATING FOR GRANULATED PRODUCTS TO IMPROVE GRANULE ADHESION, STAINING, AND TRACKING |
US11755452 |
2007-05-30 |
US20080038513A1 |
2008-02-14 |
Louis Grube; Michael DeSouto; Anthony Ruffine |
A building material product and a method of making building material products, having increased resistance to granule rub off and staining. The building material product comprises a substrate having embedded granules and an acrylic latex coating positioned on the granules, where the polymer of the acrylic latex coating has the repeating structural unit [CH2—C(R1)(R2)], where R1 is hydrogen or C1-C8 alkyl; R2 is hydrogen, cyano or —COOR; and R is a linear or branched hydrocarbon containing 1-22 carbon atoms, with the proviso that R1 and R2 are both not hydrogen. The method includes applying this acrylic latex waterbased composition to a granule embedded substrate. |
198 |
Waterproofing UV-resistant bituminous membrane, system incorporating such a membrane, and manufacturing process |
US11724602 |
2007-03-15 |
US20070218268A1 |
2007-09-20 |
Pierre Bindschedler; Christine Robach; Remi Perrin |
A waterproofing UV-resistant bituminous membrane, a system incorporating such a membrane, and a manufacturing process are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a UV-resistant waterproofing membrane includes a mass of at least one bituminous composition, formed in at least one continuous layer, and of at least one ply of filamentous or fibrous material, embedded in the mass. The membrane is characterized in that the at least present bituminous composition consists of a bituminous mixture based principally on bitumen, SBS elastomeric polymer and mineral fillers and in that said at least one ply (3) consists of a fine web, of open-work structure, with no preferred direction of stress resistance and formed of filaments and/or fibers in a material that is preferably resistant to UV, said web (3) being embedded in the mass (2) of bituminous composition(s) while being situated next to the face (4) designed to be visible or exposed, after laying said membrane (1). |
199 |
Energy efficient construction materials |
US11601094 |
2006-11-17 |
US20070218251A1 |
2007-09-20 |
Jeffry Jacobs; Jeffrey Peterson; Christopher Haak |
A roofing shingle may include a substrate, granules and multilayer infrared light reflecting film particles. In some cases, a roofing shingle may include a substrate, granules and a multilayer infrared light reflecting film disposed either above or below the granules. Such roofing shingles may exhibit improved solar reflectivity. An infrared light reflecting mixture may include inorganic granules and polymeric multilayer infrared light reflecting film particles. An existing construction surface may be treated to improve its solar reflectivity. |
200 |
Asphalt coated polyester glass mats |
US11083497 |
2005-03-18 |
US20050208861A1 |
2005-09-22 |
Carlton Dwiggins; Kevin Campbell |
The present invention is based on the discovery that in order for polyester fibers to be used in a polyester/glass mat, which will have superior tear properties after being coated with bitumen, they need to have a single filament toughness of greater than about 140. Toughness being defined as the product of tenacity (in units of cN/tex) and the cube root of the breaking elongation (as a % of elongation). Specifically, the mat has polyester and glass fibers bound together with a binder, and the bound fibers are coated with asphalt. The invention also describes a process by which the web is dried and cured into a mat at a temperature of greater than about 200° C. The polyester is at least about 5 wt. % of the fibers in the coated mat. |