Structural assembly construction

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AN OVERHEAD ROOF COVER STRUCTURAL ASSEMBLY TO BE SUPPORTED OVER A SURFACE TO BE PROTECTED THEREBY COMPRISING: A COVER STRUCTURE DEFINED BY A PLURALITY OF PRESHAPED ELONGATED IMPERFORATE COVER ELEMENTS EACH OF WHICH INCLUDES GENERALLY UPWARDLY EXTENDING RIDGES ALONG OPPOSED LONGITUDINAL EDGES THEREOF, SAID RIDGES BEING CONTOURED TO INTERFIT WITH OTHER SIMILAR RIDGES OF SIMILAR COVER ELEMENTS, THE LONGITUDINAL EDGES OF ADJACENT COVER ELEMENTS OF SAID COVER STRUCTURE BEING IN OVERLAPPING CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER WITH A RIDGE OF ONE SUCH ELEMENT INTERFITTED WITH A RIDGE OF ANOTHER SUCH ELEMENT, THE INTERFITTED RIDGES OF THE RESPECTIVE COVER ELEMENTS IMPARTING A GENERALLY CONTINUOUS IMPERFORATE RAIN PROOF CONSTRUCTION TO SAID COVER STRUCTURE; AND AT LEAST ONE HOLLOW SUPPORTING BEAM IN COMBINATION WITH SAID COVER ELEMENTS OF SAID COVER STRUCTURE, SAID SUPPORTING BEAM EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF SAID INTERFITTED EDGES OF SAID COVER ELEMENTS AND SUPPORTING SAID COVER STRUCTURE FROM BENEATH SAID COVER ELEMENTS; SAID BEAM INCLUDING A STRUCTURAL MEMBER INTEGRAL THEREWITH AT THE TOP THEREOF, SAID STRUCTURAM MEMBER HAVING A PLURALITY OF BENDABLE TABS FORMED DIRECTLY THEREON IN PREDETERMINED LONGITUDINALLY SPACED RELATIONSHIP THEREALONG, EACH OF SAID TABS BEING INTEGRAL AT ONE OF ITS ENDS WITH SAID STRUCTURAL MEMBER AND PROJECTING GENERALLY UPWARDLY THEREFROM; SAID INTERFITTED COVER ELEMENTS OF SAID COVER STRUCTURE BEING SECURED DIRECTLY TO SAID BEAM BY SAID TABS, SAID TABS BEING FOLDED OVER AND OVERLYING EDGE PORTIONS OF SAID COVER ELEMENTS WHICH OVERLIE SAID BEAM STRUCTURAL MEMBER, SAID TABS THUS OBVIATING THE NEED FOR SEPARATE FASTENERS FOR SECURING SAID COVER ELEMENTS OF SAID COVER STRUCTURE TO SAID BEAM.