Patent ID: 8171689

Claim:
A roofing system comprising: a) a plurality of support members secured to a roof deck, a plurality of said support members spaced apart from one another, a plurality of said support members having a support flange spaced above said roof deck; b) a plurality of roofing panels, each of said roofing panels includes a peripheral edge, a plurality of peripheral edges of adjacently positioned roofing panels overlapping one another; c) a compression bar, said compression bar designed to compress together said overlapping peripheral edges of said roofing panels, said compression bar positioned at least partially on top of said overlapping peripheral edges of said roofing panels, said compression bar including a body and a lip, said lip positioned along at least a portion of a longitudinal length of said body of said compression bar, said body having two sides, a top surface and a bottom surface, said bottom surface having a plurality of gripping arrangements designed to enhance gripping features of said compression bar when said compression bar is secured to at least one of said roofing panels, said lip angling downwardly from one of said sides of said body of said compression bars and an end of said lip extending below a bottom plane of said bottom surface of said body, said compression bar secured to said roofing panels such that said bottom surface of said body is positioned over at least one of said roofing panels and said lip is positioned over at least a portion of one of said edges of said roofing panel; and, d) a plurality of connectors, said connectors include a top and body portion, said body portion of said connectors penetrating through said body of said compression bar and through said overlapping peripheral edges of said roofing panels.