Claims
- 1. A shingle assembly comprising:
a barrier; a base having first and second edges; a support securing the barrier to the base to create a shingle assembly; said shingle assembly defining a venting region between the barrier and the base for temperature regulation; and said first and second edges comprising first and second interengageable elements so that said first edge of one base is interengageable with said second edge of an adjacent base to be capable of resisting first and second disengaging forces, said first disengaging force oriented perpendicular to said edges along a plane oriented parallel to the base, said second disengaging force oriented perpendicular to said edges along a plane oriented perpendicular to the base.
- 2. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein said first edge further comprises a separate support surface fastener element engageable with said first and second interengageable elements.
- 3. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein said first and second elements comprise recurved extensions of said base.
- 4. The assembly according to claim 3 wherein said recurved extensions are generally U-shaped.
- 5. The assembly according to claim 3 wherein said first element comprises a separate support surface fastener element engageable with said first and second recurved extensions of said base.
- 6. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein:
said first and second elements comprise first and second integral extensions of said base; and said first element comprises a separate batten cap structure mountable over and engageable with said first and second integral extensions of said base.
- 7. The assembly according to claim 6 wherein said batten cap structure comprises a resilient cap structure.
- 8. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein:
said first and second elements comprise first and second integral extensions of said base; and said first element comprises a separate support surface fastener element engageable with said first and second integral extensions of said base.
- 9. The assembly according to claim 1 further comprising means for securing the shingle assembly to a support structure.
- 10. The assembly according to claim 1 further comprising means for securing at least one of the first and second edges to a support structure.
- 11. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein said barrier comprises a photovoltaic (PV) module and said shingle assembly comprises a PV shingle assembly.
- 12. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the barrier has an inner surface and the base has an outer surface, said inner and outer surfaces facing one another, and further comprising a low emissivity element associated with at least one of the barrier and the base.
- 13. The assembly according to claim 12 wherein the barrier is at said inner surface.
- 14. The assembly according to claim 12 wherein the barrier is at said outer surface.
- 15. The assembly according to claim 12 wherein the barrier is located generally centrally between the inner and outer surfaces.
- 16. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the base comprises at least one of metal, coated metal, plastic, ceramics, concrete, felt, bitumens, vulcanized elastomers, EPDM, neoprene, CSPE, CPE, PIB, NBE, thermoplastics, PCV and EIP.
- 17. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the base is a water resistant base.
- 18. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the base is a water resistant base sized to be at least as large as the barrier.
- 19. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the base is an effectively waterproof base.
- 20. The assembly according to claim 17 further comprising means for forming water resistant junctions between the water resistant bases of adjacent ones of the shingle assemblies.
- 21. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the base comprises an upper rigid member and a lower flexible, water resistant member, said lower member sized to be larger than the upper member.
- 22. The assembly according to claim 21 wherein the lower member is an effectively waterproof member.
- 23. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the support separates the entire barrier from the base.
- 24. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the barrier is spaced-apart from the base by an average distance of about 0.6 cm to about 10 cm.
- 25. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the barrier is spaced-apart from the base by an average distance of about 1.2 cm to about 5 cm.
- 26. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the barrier is spaced-apart from the base by an average distance of about 1.9 cm to about 3.8 cm.
- 27. The assembly according to claim 1 wherein the base comprises an upper water barrier and a lower thermal insulation layer, the upper water barrier overlying the lower thermal insulation layer.
- 28. The assembly according to claim 27 wherein the upper water barrier has an edge, said edge extending laterally outwardly of the thermal insulation layer.
- 29. A shingle system, for use on an inclined surface having an upper edge and a lower edge, comprising:
a plurality of shingle assemblies, at least some of said shingle assemblies comprising:
a barrier; a base; a support securing the barrier to the base; and a venting region defined between the barrier and the base and fluidly coupled to the ambient atmosphere for temperature regulation; said shingle assemblies arranged in an array having an array edge; and a deflector along at least a chosen portion of the array edge so to help reduce wind uplift forces and help prevent debris from entering the venting regions of the shingle assemblies.
- 30. The system according to claim 29 wherein the chosen portion of the array edge is an upper edge of the array.
- 31. The system according to claim 29 wherein the deflector is along the entire array edge.
- 32. The system according to claim 29 wherein the deflector is spaced apart from the array edge.
- 33. The system according to claim 32 wherein the deflector overlaps the array edge.
- 34. The system according to claim 32 further comprising an air-permeable debris barrier between the deflector and the array edge.
- 35. The system according to claim 29 wherein the deflector has a portion that is generally aligned with the barrier.
- 36. The system according to claim 29 wherein at least one of said barriers comprise a photovoltaic (PV) module to create a PV shingle assembly.
- 37. The system according to claim 29 wherein said array comprises a plurality of rows of said shingle assemblies, and wherein the barriers of one said row overlap the barriers of an adjacent one of said rows.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This is related to the applicant's following U.S. patent applications filed on the same date as this application: Shingle System And Method, Attorney Docket PWRL 1022-1; and Shingle System, Attorney Docket PWRL 1024-1.