Patent ID: 6199340
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: C08L,E01C,E04C,E04F

Abstract:
A decking structure comprising a plurality of interconnected decking planks each having spaced top and bottom walls interconnected by opposed side walls, first connecting means projecting outwardly beyond one side of a first decking plank and comprising a laterally projecting flange including a fastening portion for receiving fasteners therethrough for attaching the first decking plank to a supporting structure, and said flange including a connecting portion extending in a plane parallel to but offset from the plane of said fastening portion, second connecting means complimentary to said first connecting means formed at the opposite side of the first decking plank, each of said first and second connecting means being located adjacent the bottom wall of and extending continuously along the first decking plank from one end thereof to the other whereby the first decking plank is interconnected to a like second decking plank having corresponding first and second connecting means solely by engagement of said first connecting means of said first decking plank and said second connecting means of said second decking plank in side by side relation, with the top and side walls of the adjacent first and second decking planks spaced apart to define between the first and second decking planks a void extending without obstruction from the level of the top walls of the first and second decking planks to said engaged first and second connecting means, said engaged first and second connecting means serving to close off a bottom of said void and being adapted to permit limited sliding movement of the first and second decking adjacent planks relative to one another in a direction transverse to the length of the first and second decking planks and limited angular movement about an axis extending parallel to the length thereof.