Patent ID: 7318282

Claim:
A method for making a trim member for a building structure, comprising the steps of: a) impregnating a plurality of fibers with a resin; and b) pultruding the resin impregnated fibers through a pultrusion die for pultruding a cornice assembly including: a. a pultruded frieze with a forward portion, a rearward portion, a lower end portion and an upper end portion, the lower end portion including a wall that terminates at a lower wall end with a first horizontally disposed substantially flat segment, and folds back upon itself in the rearward portion in a single integrated structure, in a generally serpentine manner, upwardly from the first horizontally disposed substantially flat segment of the lower wall end with a first vertically disposed substantially flat segment that projects partially toward the upper end portion, and then adjoins a second horizontally disposed substantially flat segment that projects rearwardly, with the second horizontally disposed substantially flat segment terminating at a second vertically downward disposed substantially flat segment, the second vertically downward disposed substantially flat segment thereby forming both (a) a first nailing surface in the rearward portion and (b) a frieze channel that extends above the lower wall end for receiving a siding or brick or stone veneering so that upon fastening the frieze to an underlying surface at the rearward portion first nailing surface with a fastener, and upon insertion of the siding or brick or stone veneering, the fastener is concealed from view; b. a generally vertically disposed pultruded facia that includes a substantially straight wall and is located at an elevation higher than the frieze; c. a gutter that adjoins the facia and includes the facia as a rearward wall of the gutter; d. a pultruded crown with a lower end portion integrally adjoining the upper end portion of the frieze, and an upper end portion, the crown including an outer surface for simulating an ornate crown molding that includes a generally undulating surface contour, the crown being located at an elevation below the gutter; e. a pultruded soffit that is generally horizontally disposed between the crown and the gutter piece, is integrally formed with the facia and the gutter, and projects away from the upper end portion of the crown; f. a generally U-shaped pultruded structure that defines a crown channel integrally formed at the upper end portion of the crown into which the pultruded soffit and gutter piece is joined; and g. a pultruded wall that projects rearwardly from the upper end portion of the crown, and includes an upwardly projecting segment for defining a second nailing surface that is generally juxtaposed with the gutter, is generally parallel with the facia, and is also generally co-linear with the first nailing surface; and c) fabricating the cornice assembly at ground level; wherein the pultruded construction expands and contracts less than the expansion or contraction of steel over a given temperature range.