Patent ID: 9719253
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: E04B

Claim:
1. A sealing gasket assembly for sealing a head-of-wall construction, the wall construction including a ceiling track secured relative to a floor underside and supporting a plurality of studs, the gasket assembly comprising: a member body including a top member with first and second spaced apart side panels depending from the top member and defining an opening configured to receive the ceiling track within the member body, the intersection of the first side panel and the top member defining a first inside corner and a first outside corner and the intersection of the second side panel and the top member defining a second inside corner and a second outside corner; and a supplemental sealing member extending along each of the first and second outside corners, each supplemental sealing member manufactured from a flexible material and configured such that a panel abutment portion thereof extends along at least a portion of an outside surface of the respective side panel and a return portion extends along at least a portion of an outside surface of the top member, wherein a lip extends outwardly from each return portion at an acute angle relative to the top member.