US 12,320,115 B2
Top of wall ventilation screed device and assembly
Gary George Baltz, Jr., Mountain Brook, AL (US); and Frederic C. Mayer, Jr., Hoover, AL (US)
Assigned to Alabama Metal Industries Corporation, Birmingham, AL (US)
Filed by Alabama Metal Industries Corporation, Birmingham, AL (US)
Filed on Nov. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/455,723.
Application 17/455,723 is a continuation of application No. 16/194,718, filed on Nov. 19, 2018, granted, now 11,180,913.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/592,614, filed on Nov. 30, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0074196 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. E04B 1/70 (2006.01); E04D 13/152 (2006.01); E04F 13/00 (2006.01); E04F 13/06 (2006.01); F24F 7/10 (2006.01)
CPC E04B 1/7076 (2013.01) [E04F 13/007 (2013.01); E04F 13/068 (2013.01); E04D 13/152 (2013.01); F24F 7/10 (2013.01)] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A ventilation screed configured to be mounted at a vertical wall of a structure, the ventilation screed comprising:
an attachment flange having an upper end region and a lower end region opposite the upper end region;
a cavity structure disposed along the upper end region of the attachment flange, the cavity structure having a first side, a second side, and a third side, wherein (i) the first side extends from the upper end region of the attachment flange, (ii) the third side extends over the first side and is spaced from the first side and from the upper end region of the attachment flange, and (iii) the second side extends between the first side and the third side;
wherein at least one ventilation opening is formed through the first side of the cavity structure;
wherein a ventilation spacer extends from the first side of the cavity structure and is spaced from and extends partially along the attachment flange;
wherein, with the ventilation screed mounted at the vertical wall of the structure, the third side comprises an uppermost surface of the ventilation screed; and
wherein the cavity structure comprises a pap between the upper end region of the attachment flan e and an end of the third side that is distal from the second side.