Patent ID: 6889475

Claim:
A rectangular plastic shed following the last recitations of “walls”, said shed having side walls, end walls with upper portions which slope upwardly from said side walls to a central ridge line, a roof support arrangement comprising an upper central roof support beam assembly comprising a metal beam having a top and bottom, said end walls supporting ends of said beam which spans between said end walls and is aligned with said central ridge line, a plastic sleeve sleeved on and enclosing said metal beam between said end walls, said sleeve having a pair of spaced side walls, one of said sleeve side walls extending downwardly of the top from said metal beam on one side of said beam and central ridge line, the other of said sleeve side walls extending downwardly from the top of said beam on an opposite side of said beam and central ridge line, each of said sleeve side walls having a downwardly sloping roof support shelf located entirely below the top of said beam, said sleeve side walls and said roof support shelves forming a single unitary element, a cap mounted on the top of each repective one of said shed side walls, each of said side wall caps having an upwardly and inwardly sloping roof support platform in a respective one of alignment with the downwardly extending sleeve shelves respective one, a cap seated on each of said end wall portions and sloping upwardly from a respective one of said shed side walls to said central ridge line, each of said end wall caps having spaced projecting flanges terminating in inturned locking fingers, a roof assembly mounted on each side of said central ridge line, each said roof assembly being slidably interlocked with the locking fingers of the end wall caps at the side of said central ridge line on which the roof assembly is mounted and being supported at the upper and lower ends thereof, respectively by the roof support sleeve shelf sidewall and cap platform at the side of said central ridge line on which the roof assembly is mounted, said beam assembly including a cover connected to said sleeve and overlying said upper ends of said roof assemblies.