Patent ID: RE43457

Claim:
A window buck for forming a window frame opening in a wall, said window buck comprising: side member means assembled to define a window frame opening, said side member means being formed to have: a perimeter, a width adapted to be substantially the width of a wall into which the window buck is to be placed, a substantially planar interior surface extending along said perimeter and having a width substantially the same as said width of said wall, said interior surface having a first planar surface and a second planar surface, said second planar surface being sized and configured to receive a portion of a frame of a window, said second planar surface spaced a distance below relative to said first planar surface, an interior flange connected to and extending away from said interior surface, an exterior flange connected to and extending away from said interior surface, said exterior flange being spaced from said interior flange a distance to receive said wall there between, a plurality of at least three side by side internal channels of , each of said side by side internal channels being in a side by side relationship and coaxial with having a common walls wall with an adjacent channel , and each of said side by side internal channels having said first planar surface as another wall thereof, and each of said side by side internal channels being hollow and extending along said perimeter, and a window frame channel, said window frame channel having a common wall with at least one of said side by side channels, said window frame channel having said second planar surface as another wall thereof, said window frame channel being hollow and extending along said perimeter, a separating wall formed from a portion of said side by side channel having a common wall with said window frame channel, said separating wall having a length equal to said distance said second planar surface is located relative to said first planar surface, said separating wall being configured to abut a portion of said frame of said window, and a first end and a second end spaced from said first end along said perimeter, said first end and said second end being formed to abut one another at least two ends each formed to abut the other proximate the end of the other ; and connector means for a locking member holding said at least two ends first end and said second end in abutment to each other, said connector means being a locking member having one a first end sized and shaped for insertion into and engagement with any one of said plurality of adjacent internal channels in one of said at least two ends at said first end and having another a second end sized and shaped for insertion into and engagement with a corresponding any one of said plurality of channels in the other of said at least two ends at said second end .