Patent ID: 9590398
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: E04B,E04H,F16L,F16M,H02G,Y10T

Claim:
1. An apparatus for protecting a building against lightning, the apparatus comprising: an anchor having a second surface shaped to conform to a contour of a first surface selected to be protected on a solid, contiguous, non-penetrated skin of at least a portion of a building; the anchor, further comprising a third surface, opposite the second surface and shaped to retain a cable, sized to carry current from a lightning strike and secured in intimate, rigid, mechanical contact with the third surface; a pad preformed as a solid from a pad material selected to be an elastomeric polymer, distinct from the material of the first surface and sufficiently flexible to conform simultaneously to the contour and to the second surface; the pad, further treated to contact the first and second surfaces with an adhesive sufficiently mechanically stable to remain thereon from manufacture until after installation on the skin and to adhere to the anchor and the first surface exclusively by adhesive action absent penetration of the first surface, the second surface, and the pad; and a first bracket shaped to electrically connect to the cable and to mechanically constrain the cable between the anchor and the first bracket and in rigid mechanical contact therewith.