Blown insulation apparatus and method

摘要

The subject apparatus is designed to facilitate the installation of blown insulation during construction of building assemblies. In a typical embodiment, there is provide a length or strip of friction clip configured to provide a tight grip along the outer surface of a framing member such as a stud, thereby maintaining tension on a masking film or web thereby affixed to an array of studs. The masking film arrayed in such manner thereby defines a plurality of voids or cavities which may thereafter be filled with blown insulation and then finished with wall paneling. The friction clips are designed to complement conventional framing members. Thus, one embodiment described below is suitable for a solid stud such as lumber or polymer; other embodiments are designed to be affixed to steel light framing members such as C-studs and similar profiles.

主权项

1. An insulation system for installing blown-insulation in a framed construction assembly having an array of periodically placed and parallel first framing members mechanically fastened to at least one perpendicular second framing member and a panel member fastened in a first plane to said first and second framing members thereby defining a generally rectangular volume to be filled with blown-insulation, the insulation system comprising: a generally rectangular masking screen configured to be affixed upon exposed faces of the parallel first framing members in a second vertical plane opposite and parallel the panel member, wherein the masking screen is mechanically fastened to the exposed faces of the parallel framing members with a linear segment of a friction clip track configured from a shaped planar web, the friction clip track having a length selected to match the length of the first parallel framing members and a width selected to accommodate the exposed face of the parallel framing members, wherein the shaped friction clip track further comprises a pair of opposite flanges depending from the web, each flange having an inwardly angled return configured for frictionally engaging the masking screen to opposite sides of the parallel framing member thereby securing the masking screen between the parallel framing member and the friction clip track and thereby providing a generally parallelepiped volume to receive blown-insulation; and further comprising one or more one-legged fastening tracks having lengths matching any unfastened peripheral edges of masking screen, the fastening track configured to seal the unfastened edges of masking screen thereby providing interior volumes ready for containing blown-insulation.