Metal roofing member, and roofing structure and roofing method using same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10233645-B2
Application number	US-201515560223-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 8, 2015
Priority date	Mar 27, 2015
Publication date	Mar 19, 2019
Grant date	Mar 19, 2019

Abstract

A metal roofing member 1 has a front substrate 10, a rear substrate 11 and a core material 12. The front substrate 10 is made of a metal sheet. In the front substrate 10, a box-shaped body portion 100 and a flange portion 110 extending from the body portion 100 are provided. The flange portion 110 is formed by folding back, over the rear side of the front substrate 10, of a metal sheet 111 extending outwards of the body portion 100 in a direction 100b perpendicular to a height direction 100a of the body portion 100, from a lower edge of the body portion 100, in such a manner that the metal sheet 111 wraps around the rear substrate 11. The metal roofing member 1 is disposed on a roof base, with the flange portion 110 butting against a flange portion 110 of another metal roofing member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A metal roofing member disposed side by side with another metal roofing member on a roof base, the metal roofing member comprising:
a front substrate made of a metal sheet, and comprising a box-shaped body portion and a flange portion extending from the body portion;
a rear substrate disposed on a rear side of the front substrate, so as to cover an opening of the body portion; and
a core material comprising a foam resin and filled in between the body portion of the front substrate and the rear substrate,
wherein the flange portion is formed by folding back, over the rear side of the front substrate, the metal sheet extending outwards from a sidewall of the body portion in a direction away from the core material and perpendicular to a height direction of the body portion, from a lower edge of the body portion, such that the metal sheet wraps around the rear substrate;
wherein the flange portion comprises a rear end configured to contact the roof base;
wherein the distance between the rear end of the flange portion and the rear surface of the rear substrate is set to 1 mm to 4 mm; and
wherein the flange portion is configured to be disposed on the roof base while butting against a flange portion of the other metal roofing member.

2. The metal roofing member according to claim 1 , wherein the body portion is formed by performing drawing or bulging on the metal sheet.

3. The metal roofing member according to claim 1 , wherein an extension width of the flange portion from the body portion is 2 mm to 5 mm.

4. The metal roofing member according to claim 1 ,
wherein the metal sheet, which is a material of the front substrate, is made of a hot-dip Zinc-based plated steel sheet, a hot-dip Al plated steel sheet, a hot-dip Zinc-based plated stainless steel sheet, a hot-dip Al plated stainless steel sheet, a stainless steel sheet, an Al sheet, a Ti sheet, a coated hot-dip Zinc-based plated steel sheet, a coated hot-dip Al plated steel sheet, a coated hot-dip Zinc-based plated stainless steel sheet, a coated hot-dip Al plated stainless steel sheet, a coated stainless steel sheet, a coated Al sheet or a coated Ti sheet.

5. The metal roofing member according to claim 4 , wherein the thickness of the metal sheet that makes up the front substrate is 0.27 mm to 0.5 mm.

6. The metal roofing member according to claim 4 , wherein the radius of curvature of a bent portion of the metal sheet included in the flange portion is set to 0.5 mm or greater.

7. The metal roofing member according to claim 1 , wherein the body portion is formed by performing drawing or bulging processing on the metal sheet; and
the metal sheet, which is a material of the front substrate, is made of a hot-dip Zinc-based plated steel sheet, a hot-dip Al plated steel sheet, a hot-dip Zinc-based plated stainless steel sheet, a hot-dip Al plated stainless steel sheet, a stainless steel sheet, an Al sheet, a Ti sheet, a coated hot-dip Zinc-based plated steel sheet, a coated hot-dip Al plated steel sheet, a coated hot-dip Zinc-based plated stainless steel sheet, a coated hot-dip Al plated stainless steel sheet or a coated stainless steel sheet.

8. The metal roofing member according to claim 1 , wherein the height of the body portion is set to 4 mm to 8 mm.

9. The metal roofing member according to claim 1 , wherein the rear substrate is made from aluminum foil, aluminum metallized paper, aluminum hydroxide paper, calcium carbonate paper, a resin film or glass fiber paper.

10. A roofing structure comprising a plurality of metal roofing members, each metal roofing member comprising:
a front substrate made of a metal sheet, and comprising a box-shaped body portion and a flange portion extending from the body portion;
a rear substrate disposed on a rear side of the front substrate, so as to cover an opening of the body portion; and
a core material made from a foam resin and filled in between the body portion of the front substrate and the rear substrate,
wherein the flange portion is formed by folding back, over the rear side of the front substrate, the metal sheet extending outwards from a sidewall of the body portion in a direction away from the core material and perpendicular to a height direction of the body portion, from a lower edge of the body portion, such that the metal sheet wraps around the rear substrate,
wherein the flange portion comprises a rear end configured to contact a roof base, and
wherein the distance between the rear end of the flange portion and the rear surface of the rear substrate being set to 1 mm to 4 mm,
wherein the plurality of metal roofing members are disposed side by side on the roof base, while the flange portion of each metal roofing member is configured to butt each other.

11. A roofing method, comprising:
using a plurality of metal roofing members, each metal roofing member comprising:
a front substrate made of a metal sheet, and provided with a box-shaped body portion and a flange portion extending from the body portion;
a rear substrate disposed on the rear side of the front substrate, so as to cover an opening of the body portion; and
a core material made from a foam resin and filled in between the body portion of the front substrate and the rear substrate,
wherein the flange portion is formed by folding back, over the rear side of the front substrate, the metal sheet extending outwards from a sidewall of the body portion in a direction away from the core material and perpendicular to a height direction of the body portion, from a lower edge of the body portion, such that the metal sheet wraps around the rear substrate,
wherein the flange portion being provided with a rear end that comes in contact with a roof base, and
wherein the distance between the rear end of the flange portion and the rear surface of the rear substrate being set to 1 mm to 4 mm; and

arranging the plurality of metal roofing members side by side on the roof base, while causing the flange portion of each metal roofing member to butt each other.

12. The metal roofing member of claim 1 , wherein the front substrate comprises a top plate extending from the sidewall in the direction perpendicular to the height direction of the body portion.

13. The metal roofing member of 1 , wherein the side wall of the body portion is continuous in a circumferential direction of the front substrate.

14. The metal roofing member of claim 13 , wherein a hardness of the side wall is increased by drawing or bulging processing the metal sheet.

15. The metal roofing member of claim 14 , wherein a Vicker hardness of the side wall is increased to 1.4 to 1.6 times from the drawing or bulging processing of the metal sheet.

Assignees

• Nisshin Steel Co Ltd

Inventors

• Izumi Keiji
• Oota Yuugo
• Nagatsu Tomoyuki
• Miura Norimasa
• Norita Katsunari
• Okubo Kenichi

Classifications

• C23C2/06 Primary

  Zinc or cadmium or alloys based thereon · CPC title

• C23C18/31

  Coating with metals · CPC title

• E04D3/30 Primary

  of metal · CPC title

• E04D2001/3482

  the fastening means taking hold directly on elements of succeeding rows and fastening them simultaneously to the structure · CPC title

• E04D3/36

  Connecting; Fastening · CPC title