Patent ID: 6955018
Filing Date: 2005-10-18
Classification: E04D,E04F

Abstract:
1. In combination, a roof insulation support carriage for use with similar roof insulation support carriages, each including a support frame for spanning and mounting on a pair of adjacent ones of a plurality of parallel purlins of a roof structure and a reel support disposed upwardly from said support frame for supporting a reel of flexible sheet material, so that as a plurality of the carriages are advanced forwardly along adjacent ones of the purlins flexible sheet material is paid out from reels of flexible sheet material supported by said reel supports and is laid behind the carriages onto the adjacent purlins, a sheet support pivotally connected to at least one of said carriages and configured to rest on the purlins of the roof structure on which the carriage is mounted and movable with said carriage along the purlins and having a rear segment extending rearwardly behind said carriage and movably supported by the purlins and spanning the space behind the carriage between the adjacent purlins on which said carriage is mounted and temporarily supporting and movable out from beneath the sheet material being paid out behind said carriage, said sheet support having side segments positioned on opposite sides of said rear segment in the spaces between the purlins on which the carriage rests and the next adjacent purlins and extending beyond opposed sides of said carriage beyond the purlins on which said carriage is mounted and movable along the purlins and slidably supporting flexible sheet material previously laid by other carriages on opposite sides of said carriage.