US1118235A - Spout-guard and strainer. - Google Patents

Description

D. B. ROCK.

SPOUT GUARD AND STRAINER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26, 1913.

1, 1 1 8,235. Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

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DANIEL B. ROCK, OF FAIRFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA SPOUT-GUARD AND STRAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

Application filed November 26, 1913. Serial No. 803,331.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL B. RocK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fairfield, in the county of Adams and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spout-Guards and Strainers; and I do declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to malt-e and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in spout guards and strainers and more particularly to those adapted for insertion within the discharge pipe from the ordinary roof gutter.

It is a well-known fact that birds very often build their nests in the various elbows of the discharge pipes from roof gutters, and that leaves are often washed into said discharge spouts and lodge in the various angles thereof.

The primary object of this invention is to provide an improved spout guard and strainer which will obviate the above mentioned objections, but will allow water running from the roof into the gutter to freely enter the spout.

A secondary object is to provide a device of this character which may be constructed of a single piece of wire.

with the above objects in view, the invention resides in certain novel features of structure herein described and claimed, and shown in the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of a gutter and discharge pipe showing my improved guard applied, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of the guard removed from the spout.

In the accompanying drawings, I have shown my improved spout guard and strainer as formed of a single piece of wire coiled into a plurality of upwardly inclined convolutions 1, said convolutions growing smaller from the lower end of said coil to the upper end thereof. After forming the upper convolutions of the coil, the free end of the wire is bent as at 2, extends laterally beyond one side of the coil, is bent upon itself as at 3, and then passes under said uppermost convolution andprojects laterally beyond the opposite side of said coil.

It will be clearly seen, by reference to Fig. l of the drawings, that by the above construction, two supporting arms a and 5 are formed on the opposite sides of the coil, and that by passing the arm 5 beneath the uppermost convolution of the coil, said coil is given a very rigid support. It will also be noted, by reference to the drawings, that when the device is applied to the discharge spout 6 of a gutter 7 the lower convolution of the coil will rest loosely within the spout 6, and that the arms 4 and 5 rest upon the bottom of the gutter 7 and support the guard in proper position.

Thus it will be seen that I have produced a very simple, strong and eflicient guard and strainer for the above stated use, which may be very cheaply and easily manufactured, and which may be furnished in various sizes for discharge spouts of different diameters.

Although I have described my device as formed of a single piece of wire, I do not wish to be limited to this feature of construction, since the supporting arms 4 and 5 would answer the same purpose if they were secured in any suitable manner to the upper convolution of the coil.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A device of the character described comprising a coil of wire and an arm carried by the upper convolution thereof, said arm extending beyond one side of said coil, and being bent upon itself and extended beneath said upper convolution and beyond the opposite side of said coil.

2. A device of the character described formed of a single piece of wire and comprising a coil and an integral arm extending laterally beyond one side of said coil from the upper convolution thereof, said arm being bent upon itself and extended beneath said upper convolution and beyond the opposite side of said coil.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL B. ROCK.

WVitnesses J. J. REINDOLLAR,

J. IIARRY Low.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). O."

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