Neil A. Watkins
Engineering in Starkville, MS

4344413, Aug 17, 1982

Apr 21, 1980

6/142219

Neil A. Watkins - Starkville MS
Clayton H. Richardson - Starkville MS

Gulf States Manufacturers, Inc. - Starkville MS

F24J 302

126429

Entire or partial end wall or side wall sections of a corrugated metal building can be constructed economically with an integrated solar heating panel which can supply forty to sixty percent of winter heating during daylight hours. The solar heating panel or wall section matches and supplements the appearance of adjacent standard wall surfaces and a virtually unnoticeable transition from standard to solar heating wall surfaces is achieved. Heated air can flow by natural convection or with blower assistance through a plenum in the solar heating wall panel to and from connected ducting. A uniquely formed clip provides the proper stand-off spacing between superposed sheets which make up the solar heating panel and the clips also serve to securely join the several corrugated sheets in proper interfitting relationship with the use of strategically placed self-tapping screws and intervening closure strips which maintain solar plenum integrity.

4918797, Apr 24, 1990

Feb 17, 1989

7/312733

Neil A. Watkins - Starkville MS
Peter M. Rook - Starkville MS
George Woodruff - Corinth MS

B21D 3700

292435

A metal roof panel seaming apparatus which includes a main body portion that can be rolled along an unformed or partially formed seam, the body portion including a plurality of adjacent pairs of rollers, positioned along the underside of the body portion, one set of the rollers independent movable from a first position cammed away from the partially or unformed seam, to a second position cammed into the seam, for undertaking the seaming process. The second roll of rollers are stationary in position, and serve as drive rollers along the opposite side of the unformed or partially formed seam as the seam is crimped between the various pairs of rollers during the seaming process. There is further included, that the plurality of the two rolls of rollers provide a means for allowing the apparatus to move bi-directional and the ability to undertake the seaming process in either direction. The apparatus is able to undertake seaming in either direction along the roof panel and the seaming process may be initiated at any point along the length of the panel upon camming the rollers into position to undertake the seaming process.

5222341, Jun 29, 1993

Mar 11, 1991

7/667551

Neil A. Watkins - Starkville MS
Robert Bowers - Starkville MS

E04D 134

52547

A metal roofing clip member having a base portion, which is rigidly attachable to a roof purlin, an separate upper clip portion attached to the upper part of the base portion, the upper clip portion including means for allowing rotational and articulating movement of the upper clip portion relative to the stationary base member; a third lower portion, secured against the clip member, the lower portion including a first outwardly extending flange, and a pair of inward extending flange members, the pair of flange members defining a single plain wherein the upper level of the roofing seam rests thereupon, the lower member also providing means while being secured to the base member and the upper clip member allows rotational and transactional movement of the member both relative to the movable clip member and the stationary base member. In a second principal embodiment, the lower member would be secured to the base member and the upper clip member in such a manner as to allow only transnational movement of the lower member and the clip member in relation to the stationary base member.

5001882, Mar 26, 1991

Apr 13, 1990

7/520361

Neil A. Watkins - Starkville MS
Peter Rook - Starkville MS
Robert Bowers - Starkville MS

E04D 134

52547

A metal roofing clip member having a base portion, which is rigidly attachable to a roof purlin, a separate upper clip portion attached to the upper part of the base portion, the upper clip portion including means for allowing rotational and articulating movement of the upper clip portion relative to the stationary base member; a third lower portion, secured against the clip member, the lower portion including a first outwardly extending flange, and a pair of inward extending flange members, the pair of flange members defining a single plain wherein the upper level of the roofing seam rests thereupon, the lower member while being secured to the base member and the upper clip member allows rotational and translational movement of the member both relative to the movable clip member and the stationary base member.