Exterior building product device
CA 2120118 C · Owner: Canplas Industries Ltd. · Inventors: Ward, John Frederick
Overview
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An exterior ventilation device having a main body with an upstanding perimeter wall and an attachment flange extending outwardly from the upstanding perimeter wall. A plurality of louvers extend across the body adjacent to the other end of the perimeter wall each of the louvers being sloped downwardly and outwardly. A trim ring is attachable to the main body and defines a cavity between the attachment flange and the skirt of the trim ring into which siding may be inserted. The body is provided with a water directing rib to direct any water running down the body from the back of the body towards the front of the body and thus outside of any cladding material located in the cavity between the …
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- Filed March 28, 1994 and granted December 11, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 28, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by March 28, 2016.
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