Patent ID: 8438800

Claim:
A sloped metal roof on a building, said metal roof comprising a plurality of roof panels, having lengths and widths, panel flats extending across such panel widths, said roof panels being arranged side by side, edges of adjacent said roof panels meeting and being joined to each other at elevated rib structure portions thereof and thereby defining ribs between the panel flats of adjacent said roof panels, a roof adaptive system being assembled to said roof, said roof adaptive system comprising: (a) an aperture extending through said roof, and defining a passage between an interior of such building and an ambient environment outside such building; (b) a rail and closure structure having an upper end and a lower end and comprising a plurality of closures mounted on said roof about such aperture, and a closure member overlying said closures, said rail and closure structure having an inner surface and an outer surface, and separating a surrounded space, over such aperture, from the ambient environment; and (c) insulation disposed under, and proximate, said metal roof at and proximate the aperture, an upstanding portion of said insulation extending up through the aperture, between the surrounded space and said closures closure, and being captured in one or more cavities at said closures, between walls of the one or more cavities and retaining rod elements in the one or more cavities.