US1683016A - Roofing strip - Google Patents

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Sept. 4,1923.

E. L. BELL ETAL ROOFING STRIP Filed Sept. 6, 1927 gvwemto'u' Patented Sept. 4, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELVA L. BELL AND ORLANDO M. BEEBE, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

ROOFING STRII.

Application filed September 6, 1927. Serial No. 217,772.

This invention relates to roofing strips for buildings, and more particularly such a strip having a scalloped edge and having a collapsible fastener applied thereto.

The object of the invention is to provide rooting strips which can be applied to the roof in different relative positions to produce-a wide range of ornamental effects. Another object is to provide such a strip with an attached fastener in such a manner that the strip with the fastener may be rolled for the purposes of transportation and handling by the roofer. A further object is the provision in a strip of this kind of indicia to assist the roofer to lay it quickly and accurately, and in a Wide range of designs. A still further object is the production of a fastener which will avoid liability of moisture reach-. ing the roof proper through the holes in the strip produced by the securing elements.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear in the following description and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout theseveral figures of the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of a roof having a number of the strips applied thereto,

Figure 2 is a plan of 'a portion of a piece of roofing material from which two strips may be cut andshowing a method of provid ing the strips with indicia for proper alignment of the strips upon a roof.

Figure 3 is an end View of a rolled package formed by the strip with fasteners attached.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section tliroul rfi a fast ener attached to the strip, and

Figure 5 is a perspective of the fastener as applied With the strip shown in dotted lines.

The invention has been shown as embodied in a'strip of roofing fabric or similar mate.' r rial, such as is commonly employed for composition shingles for roofs, which may be graveled if desired, and is designed to be made in lengths equal to or greater than the width of the roof to be covered, Such strips may be rolled into bundles and are placedon the roof by unrolling and securing them to the roof in overlapped relationship so that a portion of one strip protects the edge of the next strip below. The attached fasteners are employed to secure the overlapped edge of an adjacent strip as Well as the strip to which they are secured.

In Figure 2 is shown a portion of a length of roofing fabric or material, such as is commonly used in the manufacture of composition shingles for roofs. Thismay be graveled if desired, and may be of any desired color. By cutting this'strip longitudinally on the line A-A, two strips 10 and 10 are formed, which are duplicates and a description of one will be sufficient.

The strip 10 has one straight edge 11 and a scalloped edge 12, defining lobes 13 and concavities 14. The lobes are regular in size and shape. It will be appreciated that at the point where a lobe is formed in strip 10, a concavity is formed in the scalloped edge of the strip 10', and where a concavity is formed in the strip 10, a lobe will be formed in the strip 10. By the term scalloped edge is meant any edge having an irregular form, and by the term lobes itis intended to include any projections in said scalloped edge which occur regularly therein.

In order that thestrips may be accurately and quickly positioned upon the roof there is provided along-the line AA marks or indicia 15 at the centers of the lobes and at the centers of the concavities, such a mark being simply a scoring of the material or the equivalent thereof. These marks or indicia are used in securing the proper alignment of the strips with relation to each other, to secure the desired ornamental effect by providing the roofer with a point on-the laid strip to measure from.

To each lobe-is secured, at a point slightly "removed from'the edge of the strip, a collapsible fastener 16. Both the location of the fastener on the strip and its construction are productive of results in a roofing strip of this type. When the strip isapplied to the roof, its scalloped edge overlaps and protects the straight edge of an adjacent strip. In securing the lobe portions of the strip to the roof, the overlapped edge of the adjacent strip is secured.

The fastener shown is made from a single piece of sheet metal of substantially diamond shape. The ends of the blank form attaching prongs 17 and 18, while from the center of the blank is struck down a securing prong 19. \This securing prong is struck out to lie in a plane slightly below the plane of the' fastener body, as shown in Figure 1, so that it ma be bent into the position shown'in dotte lines in Figure 5 by the roofer at the time the strip is applied to the roof.

, strip is entirely out of alignment with those made by the prongs 17 and 18 in the strip above. Any moisture which might find its way through the superposed stri creep to the aperture formed by tile prong 19. By applying the strip in this manner, the fastener is protected from the action of the weather, and is practically hidden from view, and the roof is protected from see ing water. By securing the fastener to the strip as shown in Figures 4 and 5, where thesecuring prong is collapsedfand attaching it to the lower portionof the lobes 13, the strip may 7 be rolled for transportation and handling. Theaddedthickness at the lobes due to the presence of the-fasteners is compensated for in the decrease of strip material at thatend of the roll due to the concavities in the strip. It will be appreciated th'at'a rolled roof strip made 'in lengths to cover the whole width of the roof eliminates seams and particularly side laps. In laying the roof, the 1 1 strips may be overlapped as shown in Figure would not I 1, where the lobe of one strip registers with the concavity in the adjacent strip. The marks15 in that event register. But it will be appreciated that the strips may be positioned on the roof in a wide range of relationships, resulting in a variety of produced designs, and these may be augmented by the making of adjacent strips ofdifierent colors.

What is claimed is:

1. As an element. of a roof made up of plurality of strips of composition material applied in overlapped relationship, a strip of flexible material having one edge scalloped, and fasteners in the lobe portions of said edge adapted to hold said lobe ortions flat against the underlying strip an to pass through said'underlying strip into the roof to secure both strips inv place.

2. The combination" of claim 1, wherein the lobes and c'oncavities ofthe scalloped I edge are provided with matching indicia.

3." As an article of manufacture, a roofing strip in roll form comprising a length of flexible roofing material having one of its edges straight and the other edge scalloped, andfasteners secured in the lobes of said scalloped edge desi ed to hold said lobes vflat against an under ying strip and to pierce said underlying strip and the roof.

4. The combination of claim 3 in-which the fastener comprises lobe-piercing and roofpiercing prongs which are out of vertical alignment.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

ELVA L; BELL. ORLANDO M. BEEBE.

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