Quick connect roof clip and compatible rooftop equipment

Abstract

A device to which a compatible a roof jack, safety rail, or other rooftop equipment may be attached, which device reduces or eliminates damage to roof components, to which lanyards may be attached, which allows the roof jack, safety rail, or other equipment to be removed, and which may be permanently affixed to the roof for future use.

1 . A rooftop equipment attachment system comprising:
 a rooftop equipment comprising:   a base,   an attachment head releasably attachable to a clip affixable to a roof, which attachment head comprises:
 a plate attached to the first end of the rooftop equipment, wherein the plate is held above the base of the rooftop equipment by a first attachment head-rooftop equipment connector and wherein a bottom of the plate is held a sufficient distance above the base of the rooftop equipment by the first attachment head- rooftop equipment connector to accommodate the roof-affixable clip when both are on a roof, 
 the first attachment head-rooftop equipment connector connecting the attachment head and the rooftop equipment, and 
 a projection releasably attachable to the roof-affixable clip; 
   the clip affixable to a roof comprising:   a first portion comprising one or more perforations, which perforation is not open to an edge of the roof-affixable clip and which perforation is sized to receive a fastener to attach the roof-affixable clip to a roof,   a second portion comprising an opening sized to accommodate the projection, wherein the second portion is oriented on the same horizontal axis as the first portion and wherein a bottom surface of the second portion is above a top surface of the first portion, providing an open space below the bottom surface of the second portion, and   a sloped portion connecting the first and second portions.