JPH11350677A - Eaves gutter hanging tool - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an eaves gutter hanging tool which surely locks a rear-side edge part of an eaves gutter by a receiver part, presses the rear-side edge part on the fitting part side by the double spring elastic resiliency of a leaf spring and a guide piece, and prevents the drop of the rear-side edge part of the eaves gutter by snow load after construction. SOLUTION: This eaves gutter hanging tool 1 is provided with a fitting plate 10 having a receiver part 11 in its front face and a support part 20 projected to the front face of the fitting plate 10, and a leaf spring 22 is provided in a position in the bottom face of the support part 20 base end and in the front part of the receiver part 11. A guide piece bent from the tip of the leaf spring 22 to the front side of the fitting plate 10 is extended diagonally downward, the extension length of the guide piece is set longer than the width of a groove 37 opened inward the rear-side edge part of the eaves gutter and the bottom end of the guide piece is arranged downward than the tip of the receiver part 11 of the fitting plate 10.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an eaves gutter used for attaching an eaves gutter to an eaves of a building.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there are various types of eave gutter hanging tools, and the common points are a mounting portion mounted on an outer wall of a building and a concealed plate, and a projecting portion provided on the front surface of the mounting portion. The mounting part of the eaves gutter having the supporting arm is attached to the outer wall or the nose shield with nails or screws, and the supporting arm supports the both ears of the eaves gutter.

[0003] For example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. Hei 3-21562 discloses a fixing plate 11a attached to a fixed surface of a building.
And a support arm 12a protruding from the front surface of the fixing plate. The rear ear portion 22a of the eaves gutter 20a is provided on the front surface of the fixing plate 11a.
An inner suspension type eaves gutter provided with an ear receiving portion 15a for receiving the same, and a spring plate 16a for preventing the rear ear portion 22a from falling off is provided on the lower surface of the base end of the supporting arm and in front of the ear receiving portion 15a. A supporting structure for supporting the eaves gutter 20a using the hanging tool 10a (see FIG. 7) is described.

The rear end side support structure 1 for supporting the rear ear 22a of the eave gutter with the ear receiving portion 15a and the spring plate 16a.
4a. 13a is a front end side support structure, 21a
Is the front ear.

[0005] In the above-mentioned eave gutter hanging tool, no particular problem occurs when the rear ear portion of the eave gutter supported by the eave gutter is hollow as shown in the figure. However, when the shape of the rear ear portion 35 of the eaves gutter has a groove 37 opened inside the gutter as shown in FIG.
There were the following problems.

As shown, the height of the front side wall 32 and the rear side wall 33 are the same, the shape of the front ear portion 34 and the rear ear portion 35 are the same, and both ear portions 34 and 35 are provided.
Has grooves 36 and 37 opened inside the gutter, and by using one type of eaves gutter, by reversing the positional relationship between the front side wall and the rear side wall, a Japanese or Western style building can be obtained. It can be applied correspondingly.

[0007]

FIG. 8 (a)
As shown in (c), when the rear ear portion 35 of the eaves gutter 3 is locked to the rear ear support portions 15a and 16a, the tip of the leaf spring once fits into the groove 37 of the rear ear portion 35. At this stage, the worker may mistakenly think that the rear ear 35 has been locked at the correct position, and the installation worker may complete the mounting work.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 9 (a) to 9 (c),
Even if the rear ear portion 35 can be locked in a correct position, the rear ear portion 35 will slip down by a length corresponding to the opening width of the groove 37 in the vertical direction due to, for example, a snow load after construction.

Therefore, in any of the above cases, the front ear 34
And the rear ear 35 are not uniform, and there is a problem that a meandering phenomenon occurs due to the difference in the resistance.

It is an object of the present invention that the rear ear can be securely locked to the receiving portion even if the rear ear of the eaves gutter has the form shown in FIG. An object of the present invention is to provide an eaves gutter hanging device in which the rear ear portion does not slip down due to a snow load after construction because the rear ear portion can be pressed toward the mounting portion side by the double spring elasticity of the guide piece and the spring.

[0011]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an attachment portion attached to a fixed surface of a building, and a support portion projecting from a front surface of the attachment portion. An eaves gutter having a receiving portion for receiving a rear ear portion of an eaves gutter provided on a front surface, and a leaf spring provided at a lower surface of a support portion base end and at a position in front of the receiving portion to prevent the rear ear portion from falling off. In the tool, a guide piece curved toward the front side of the mounting portion from the tip of the leaf spring extends obliquely downward.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the eaves gutter suspension of the first aspect, the extension length of the guide piece is longer than a groove width opened inward in the rear ear portion of the eaves gutter. At the same time, the lower end of the guide piece is located below the tip of the receiving portion of the mounting portion.

(Effect) In the eaves gutter hanging device according to the first aspect of the present invention, the rear ear portion is provided by the guide piece extending obliquely downward from the tip of the leaf spring and curved toward the front side of the mounting portion. The guide piece plays the role of a guide when pushing and locking the rear ear support from below, so that the operation of pushing the rear ear can be performed smoothly. Also, at this time, the connection corner between the leaf spring and the guide piece does not fit into the groove of the rear ear. The rear ears of the eaves gutter are pressed toward the mounting part by the spring elasticity (elastic repulsion) of both the leaf spring and the guide piece. Will not fall.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the extension length of the guide piece is made longer than the groove width opened inward of the rear ear portion of the eaves gutter. Since the lower end of the is located below the receiving part tip of the mounting part,
When the rear ear portion is pushed in from below, the connection corner between the leaf spring and the guide piece does not fit into the groove of the rear ear portion.

[0015]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the eaves gutter hanging device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a first embodiment of the eave gutter hanging device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view of a main part of FIG.
3 is a cross-sectional end view taken along the line XX in FIG. 2, FIG. 4 is a front view showing the eaves gutter, FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a main part showing a use state of the eaves gutter of FIG. 1, and FIG. FIGS. 5A to 5C are main part explanatory diagrams showing a mounting state of a rear ear portion of the eaves gutter of FIG. 4.

1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes an eaves gutter hanging tool made of a polycarbonate resin. The eaves gutter hanging tool 1 includes a mounting portion 10 and a support portion 20. The mounting portion 10 is an inverted pentagonal plate-like body, and a receiving portion 11
Is formed to project slightly obliquely upward, and three through holes 12 are provided in the outer peripheral edge thereof so that it can be attached to a fixed surface such as a nose cover of a building by a fixing tool such as a nail.

As shown in FIG. 3, the supporting portion 20 has an I-shaped cross section, and has a receiving portion 11 on the front surface of the mounting portion 10.
It protrudes integrally from the position further away by a predetermined distance to the outdoor side. A bent piece is formed upward at the tip of the support portion 20 to form an outdoor-side ear support portion 21 that supports an outdoor-side ear portion 34 of the eaves gutter 3 (see FIG. 4), while a base end portion on the indoor side is provided. On the lower surface, a leaf spring 22 is provided to protrude obliquely upward integrally with the receiving portion 11 of the mounting portion 10 substantially.

Reference numeral 22a denotes a guide piece, which extends from the tip of the leaf spring 22 toward the front side of the mounting portion 10 and extends obliquely downward. The extension length of the guide piece 22a is shown in FIG.
So that the lower end of the guide piece 22a is positioned lower than the tip of the receiving portion 11 of the mounting portion 10 while being longer than the vertical width of the groove 37 opened inward of the rear ear portion 35 of the eaves gutter 3 shown in FIG. Have been.

The distance between the distal end of the receiving portion 11 of the mounting portion 1 and the guide piece 22a facing the distal end is formed to be smaller than the width of the indoor side ear portion 35 of the eaves gutter 3, and the receiving portion 11, the leaf spring 22 and The guide piece 22a forms an indoor ear support portion 23 that supports the indoor ear portion 35 of the eaves gutter 3. In addition, the part except the both ends of the said support part 20 is recessed below, and the recessed part 24 is formed.

Using the eaves gutter 1 of the above embodiment, the eaves gutter 3
A method of attaching the to the nose shield will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, the eaves gutter 3 will be described. As shown in FIG. 4, the eaves gutter 3 has a curved front wall 32 and a substantially vertical rear wall 33 on both sides of a flat bottom portion 31. An (outdoor side) ear portion 34 and a rear (indoor side) ear portion 35 are provided. As shown in the figure, the height of the front side wall 32 and the height of the rear side wall 33 are the same, and the front side ear portion 34 and the rear side ear portion 35 are provided so as to protrude outward from the upper ends of both side walls. Both ears 34 and 35 have the same shape, and have grooves 36 and 37 each having a substantially C-shaped cross-section and opened to the inside of the gutter.

Then, a plurality of eave gutter hanging tools 1, 1,... Are attached to a fixed surface 4 such as a nose cover of a building by using fixing members (not shown) such as screws using the through holes 12 of the mounting portion 10.・ ・ Mount at predetermined intervals. Next, the front ear portion 34 of the eaves gutter 3 is locked to the outdoor ear support portion 21 using the groove 36, and the eaves gutter 3 is centered on the locking portion as shown in FIGS. 6 (a) to 6 (c). By rotating the gutter 3 counterclockwise, the rear ear portion 35 is pushed into the indoor ear support portion 23 from below and locked to the receiving portion 11.

In the above embodiment, as is apparent from FIG. 6, a guide piece 22a curved obliquely downward from the tip of the leaf spring 22 to the front side of the mounting portion 10 is provided. The length of the eaves gutter 3 is longer than the vertical width of the groove 37 opened in the rear ear 35 of the eaves gutter 3, and the lower end of the guide piece 22 a is located below the tip of the receiving portion 11 of the mounting portion 10. Therefore, when the rear ear portion 35 is pushed into the indoor ear support portion 23, the tip end of the leaf spring 22 does not fit in the groove 37, and the work of attaching the eaves gutter 3 can be performed accurately and reliably.

Further, in the snowy area, after the mounting work, a snow load acts on the front ear 34 of the eaves gutter 3, and the rear ear 3
Even if the user wants to drop the lower part 5 downward, the inner surface of the rear ear part 35 comes into contact with the guide piece 22a, and as a result, the rear ear part 35 can be prevented from falling off.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the drawings, the specific configuration is not limited to the above embodiment.
The present invention includes any design changes that do not depart from the gist of the present invention.

For example, in the above embodiment, the eaves gutter hanging material is made of synthetic resin, but may be made of metal such as stainless steel.

[0027]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the rear ear portion is provided at the rear ear support portion by the presence of the guide piece extending obliquely downward from the tip of the leaf spring and curved toward the front side of the mounting portion. The guide piece plays the role of a guide when it is pushed in from below and locked, so that the work of pushing in the rear ear can be performed smoothly. Also, at this time, the connection corner between the leaf spring and the guide piece does not fit into the groove of the rear ear. Then, the rear ear portion of the eaves gutter is pressed toward the mounting portion side by the spring elastic repulsive force of both the leaf spring and the guide piece, so that the rear ear portion does not slip down due to, for example, a snow load after construction.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the extension length of the guide piece is made longer than the groove width opened inward of the rear ear portion of the eaves gutter, and the lower end of the guide piece is attached to the mounting portion. When the rear ear portion is pushed in from below, the connecting corner between the leaf spring and the guide piece does not fit into the groove of the rear ear portion.

Therefore, in any case, the resistance to thermal expansion and contraction of the eaves gutter is almost the same at the front ear portion and the rear ear portion, and the eaves gutter after installation does not meander, and the design appearance is impaired. Not.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a first embodiment of an eave gutter hanging tool according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a main part of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional end view taken along line XX of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a front view showing an eaves gutter.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a main part showing a use state of the eave gutter hanging device of FIG.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a mounting state of a rear ear portion of the eaves gutter of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a conventionally known eave gutter hanging tool.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing a state where a rear ear portion of the eaves gutter of FIG. 4 is attached to the eaves gutter suspension of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is an explanatory view of a main part showing a state in which a rear ear portion of the eaves gutter of FIG. 8 is dropped off.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 eave gutter hanging device 10 mounting portion 11 receiving portion 20 support portion 21 outdoor ear support portion 22 leaf spring 22a guide piece 23 indoor ear support portion 3 eave gutter 31 bottom portion 32 front side wall 33 rear side wall 34 front side ear portion 35 rear side ear portion 36 , 37 grooves 4 Nose plate (fixed surface)

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A mounting part, which is attached to a fixed surface of a building, and a support part protruding from a front surface of the mounting part, a receiving part for receiving a rear ear part of an eaves gutter on a front surface of the mounting part. An eaves gutter suspender provided with a leaf spring at a lower surface of a base end of a support portion and at a position in front of the receiving portion to prevent a rear ear from falling off. An eaves gutter having a front-side curved guide piece extending obliquely downward. 2. An extension length of the guide piece is made longer than a groove width opened inward of a rear ear portion of the eaves gutter, and a lower end of the guide piece is lower than a tip of a receiving portion of the mounting portion. The eave gutter hanging tool according to claim 1, wherein