Patent ID: 7165366
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: H02G

Abstract:
1. In a building structure, the building structure having upright walls and a roof structure, the roof structure having a coating layer, an insulation layer positioned below the coating layer and a deck layer positioned below the insulation layer wherein the deck layer includes at least one corrugated channel formed by downwardly projecting beveled channel sides connected by a channel top and terminated by a channel bottom wherein at least one conduit is disposed within the corrugated channel, the improvement, comprising; a box, the box being sized and shaped within the downwardly projecting beveled channel sides, the box having a top, a front, a back and opposed sidewalls wherein the top includes bevel portions, the bevel portions extending downwardly from the top toward the sidewalls, the bevel portions being shaped to nest within the downwardly projecting channel sides provided by the corrugated channel while the sidewalls vertically extend downward from the bevel portions to be perpendicular to the top; and a pair of flanges, the flanges being positioned on the sidewalls below the bevel portions to extend outwardly from the bevel portions and the sidewalls, the flanges being sized and shaped to be positioned co-planar in abutment with the channel bottom while positioning the box within the corrugated channel wherein the at least one conduit is disposed through the corrugated channel and the box such that the at least one conduit is free of offsets between the corrugated channel and the box.