Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Cover with surface water receiver at eave or valley
Patent
1982-03-24
1984-02-28
Murtagh, John E.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Cover with surface water receiver at eave or valley
248 481, E04D 1306
Patent
active
044335121
ABSTRACT:
A new reinforced gutter-hanger supporting bar designed to be incorporated with the conventional spike and tube gutter hanger and installed on any eaves-hung metal gutter. The supporting bar creates the novel LOCK-IN preferred embodiment of the invention, which LOCKS-IN the spike. This greatly improves the performance of the spike and tube hanger by permanently correcting the serious fault of these hangers--loosened and often lost spikes--as no other device known to the art does. No changes are made in the existing spike and tube hangers.
This new supporting bar is an inexpensive stamping, preferably fabricated from heavy sheet metal. Basically a one-piece metal strip it is shaped into three contiguous, yet different appearing sections.
First, a short flat end section of an embodiment of the invention which comprises two transverse, appropriately spaced deep score marks and two 3.degree. bends, coinciding with an superimposed upon the score marks. They facilitate bending the bar by hand manipulation, over the spikehead and gutter flange to LOCK-IN the spike. One hole centered at the end of this section of the bar, allows the hanger spike to pass through during installation.
Second, a rib-reinforced, gutter-spanning section, supports the gutter at the flange and adds truss-like strength to resist stress on the spike and tube hanger and gutter.
Third, a long flat terminal section with nail holes centered along the axis, engages the roof to which it is secured by several nails. Only these nails and the existing spike of the hanger fasten the reinforced gutter-hanger supporting bar to the facia board and roof. This completes the novel LOCK-IN preferred embodiment of the invention.
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Ford Kathryn L.
Murtagh John E.
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