Abstract The top of a parapet brick wall of a building is protected from the elements by a coping which is simple in construction and readily applied thereto. Inverted U-shaped anchor elements are secured to the wall at space points where the lengths of the coping units substantially abut. The anchoring element may be 6 to 8 inches wide and may be secured by nails or screws to the sides of the wall or preferably is anchored by an adhesive placed upon the bricks which is extruded through apertures in the anchor element. A drain shoe of plastic material is placed centrally of the anchor element to slope toward the inside of the wall and after a cover plate is hung in the front end of the shoe the coping unit is hooked over the front side of the anchor element and swung downwardly over the center of the shoe and hooked onto the end of the inner side of the anchor element. The ends of the coping units are spaced apart to permit water to pass therebetween down onto the shoe and drain to the inside of the wall onto the roof.
Inventors
👤 W Hickman
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionUS
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-11-08 18:16
CPC Classifications
E; E04; E04D; E04D3/00; E04D3/40; E04D3/405
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
165 words
In a coping for a parapet wall, an anchor element secured across the top of the wall, said anchor element being of inverted channel shape having a web and front and rear downwardly extending sides which have an outwardly sloping flange at the bottom edge, means for securing a plurality of said anchored elements in predetermined spaced relation along the top of said wall, a shoe having a drain recess in the top disposed on each said element, said shoe and recess sloping from the front to the rear of the wall, and a coping unit of inverted channel shape having hook edges on the sides which are engaged by the sloping flanges at the bottom edges on the sides of the anchor elements to secure the ends of the units thereto with the adjacent ends in spaced relation over the top of said shoe recesses for directing any water passing between the ends to flow to the rear of the wall onto the roof.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
165 words
In a coping for a parapet wall, an anchor element secured across the top of the wall, said anchor element being of inverted channel shape having a web and front and rear downwardly extending sides which have an outwardly sloping flange at the bottom edge, means for securing a plurality of said anchored elements in predetermined spaced relation along the top of said wall, a shoe having a drain recess in the top disposed on each said element, said shoe and recess sloping from the front to the rear of the wall, and a coping unit of inverted channel shape having hook edges on the sides which are engaged by the sloping flanges at the bottom edges on the sides of the anchor elements to secure the ends of the units thereto with the adjacent ends in spaced relation over the top of said shoe recesses for directing any water passing between the ends to flow to the rear of the wall onto the roof.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
58 words
In a coping for a parapet wall as recited in claim 1, wherein the end of the shoe adjacent to the rear face of the wall is flexible to provide an upward bias for maintaining the hook edge on the rear side of the coping unit locked to the flange on the rear side of the anchor element.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
59 words
In a coping for a parapet wall as recited in claim 1, wherein a cover plate has a downwardly extending channel portion at the top edge which hooks into the front portion of the drain recess, said plate having an angularly directed flange at the bottom which mates with the flange on the outer side of the anchor element.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
38 words
In a coping for a parapet wall as recited in claim 3, wherein said shoe is molded from a plastic material and provided with flanges and ribs to form the drain recess and to prevent the warping thereof.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
50 words
In a coping for a parapet wall as recited in claim 1, wherein said anchor element is provided with a plurality of rows of apertures and wherein said means for securing the anchor element to the wall is an adhesive material which extends through at least some of said apertures.