US 12,410,612 B2
Wall panel module comprising dual gasket assembly
Timothy D. Wilson, Wilmigton, DE (US); James Dean Katsaros, Wilmington, DE (US); Andrea Wagner Watts, Midland, MI (US); and Jeffrey Hutchins, Buffalo, NY (US)
Assigned to DDP SPECIALTY ELECTRONIC MATERIALS US, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US); and DUPONT SAFETY & CONSTRUCTION, INC., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed by DDP SPECIALTY ELECTRONC MATERIALS US, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US); and DUPONT SAFETY & CONSTRUCTION, INC., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/307,273.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/339,109, filed on May 6, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0358039 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. E04B 2/82 (2006.01); E04B 2/02 (2006.01)
CPC E04B 2/822 (2013.01) [E04B 2/02 (2013.01); E04B 2002/0202 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wall panel module comprising a first wall panel and a dual gasket assembly,
the first wall panel having a first major face and an opposing second major face, the first and second major faces lying in a set of parallel planes,
the first wall panel further having a first edge face being generally perpendicular to both the first major face and the opposing second major face,
the dual gasket assembly being suitable for sealing an abutment joint between edge faces of two wall panels, the abutment joint having a length, width, and depth, the dual gasket assembly comprising a support coupling, a compressible interior gasket, and a compressible weather gasket,
the support coupling comprising a base, the base having a top surface and a bottom surface, the top surface further having an interior gasket support and an exterior gasket support on opposing ends of the support coupling,
the support coupling having at least one gutter channel for directing water, the at least one gutter channel formed between two weirs on the top surface of said support coupling,
the compressible interior gasket attached to the interior gasket support and the compressible outer weather gasket attached to the exterior gasket support,
each of the compressible interior gasket and the compressible outer weather gasket having a length, the compressible interior gasket and the compressible outer weather gasket mounted on the support coupling with the lengths of the compressible interior gasket and the compressible outer weather gasket parallel to one another, with each of the compressible interior gasket and the compressible outer weather gasket further bounded by the set of parallel planes, and
the bottom surface of the support coupling base having a contact area for stabilizing the support coupling on one of said edge faces, and
the bottom surface of the support coupling base further having an attachment area with the dual gasket assembly attached to the first edge face of the first wall panel via said attachment area.