Patent ID: 6212837
Filing Date: 2001-04-10
Classification: E04B,E04D,E04F

Abstract:
Rain water collection apparatus adapted to be affixed to an underside of an elevated, water previous deck structure, said deck structure of a type including a plurality of parallel, regularly-spaced joists extending longitudinally from a building structure, and a plurality of deck boards secured to an upper edge surface of said joists and extending transversely thereto, comprising:(a) resilient, water impervious rectangular collector sheets having a predetermined length dimension and a width dimension between opposed side edges that is greater than the regular spacing between adjacent ones of said joists;(b) means for mounting said collector sheets between adjacent ones of said joists for supporting said sheets in a space between adjacent joists with an upper surface of said sheets convex and a lower surface of said sheets concave; and(c) a plurality of gutter members attachable to said joists and spanning a bottom edge of said joists to vertically overlap side edges of said sheets whereby water seeping between adjacent deck boards falls on said upper convex surface of said collector sheets and flows into said gutter members.