Claims
- 1. In a roof having a substrate, an underlayment covering the substrate and a plurality of roof tiles adhesively affixed to said substrate, the improvement comprising:each roof having an underside, an outside, a leading edge, and tile being affixed to said roof by a one-component adhesive applied to individual roof tiles of said plurality of roof tiles in a U-shaped, continuous sandwiched pattern, one pattern for one roof tile, the pattern including a bottom leg adhesive deposit between the underside of any given roof tile and the roof substrate, a top leg adhesive deposit between the outside of the given tile and the underside of an overlying tile and a connecting bight adhesive deposit extending beyond the leading edge of the given tile and vertically extending between the underside of the overlying tile and the roof substrate.
- 2. The improved roof of claim 1 wherein said individual roof tiles are one or more tiles selected from the group consisting of flat tiles having a planar exterior configuration, high profile tiles having a non-planar exterior configuration and low profile tiles having a generally non-planar exterior configuration.
- 3. The improved roof of claim 2 wherein the one-component adhesive is a low density polyurethane foam having a density of between 0.8 to 4.0 lbs/ft.
- 4. The improvement of claim 3 wherein the area contacted by the U-shaped pattern between the roof and the underside of a given tile is about 10 in2.
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
This patent application is a division of application Ser. No. 09/317,325, filed on May 24, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,206,991 B1, and incorporated herein by reference.
The following patents are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof:
My U.S. Pat. No. 5,895,536, issued Apr. 20,1999, entitled “METHOD OF ADHERING ROOF TILES USING ONE-COMPONENT ADHESIVE AND ROOF CONSTRUCTION OBTAINED THEREBY” and U.S. Pat. No. 5,362,342, to Murray et al., issued Nov. 8, 1994, entitled “METHOD OF BONDING ROOF TILES TO ROOF SUBSTRATE UTILIZING URETHANE FOAM”.
Neither patent incorporated by reference herein forms any part of this invention. The material is incorporated by reference so that the detailed description of this invention need not set forth in detail prior art construction techniques and methods known in the art as explained in the patents listed above.
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