US2008952A

US2008952A - Roofing device

Info

Publication number: US2008952A
Application number: US756970A
Authority: US
Inventors: Gach Erich
Original assignee: Bird and Son Inc
Current assignee: Bird Inc
Priority date: 1934-12-11
Filing date: 1934-12-11
Publication date: 1935-07-23
Anticipated expiration: 1952-07-23

Description

July 23, 1935. E. GACH 2,008,952

ROOFING DEVICE Filed Dec. 11, 1954 ATTORNEY Patented July 23, Q 1935 UNITED 'STATES ROOFING DEVICE Erich Gach, Chicago, Ill., assignor to Bird & Son, Inc., East Walpole, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application December 11, 1934, Serial No. 756,970

6 Claims.

This invention relates to a roofing device and has to do principally with the provision of a device and method for blind nailed roofings.

Heretofore blind nailed roofings and the like,

which depend on a viscous asphaltic cement to hold the laps or tabs to the underlying overlapped portions of the roofings, have had the cement applied by means of trowels, putty knives or the like with resultant slow and troublesome application, and objectionable variations in the thickness and width of the cement thus applied. With such tools it is not possible to either pick up and hold any considerable amount of cement or apply it uniformly. Moreover, because of such lack of uniformity, in order to secure a watertight lap it has been necessary to use an excess of cement with resultant waste and non-uniformity of surface. 7

The present invention concerns a device whereby a considerable quantity of viscous roofing cement may be withdrawn from a can or container of the same and then be drawn along over the edge of the roofing adjacent the edge thereof or wherever it is desired to distribute a stripe of cement of uniform width and thickness without spilling or any other application of the cement to other than the desired stripe. Other and additional advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the drawing which shows the preferred form of device and use thereof: Fig. l is a perspective view showing the device in use;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the device with the handle broken away;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the device of Fig. 2;

and

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the same.

Referring to the drawing in which like numerals represent like parts, and particularly to Fig. 1,there is there shown the application of strip rolled roofing to a roof structure 2, the strip of a lower course, partly broken away, being indicated at 4 and a strip of an overlying course, also partly broken away, being shown at l 6. Along the upper edge of the lower course I are driven roofing nails 8 which are placed sumciently close to the edge as to be covered by the lower overlapping edge of the course 6, so that the lower cut edge of the course 6 overlies and becomes substantially coincident with the lower edge of a stripe of cement l0 which is being laid thereon by the roofing device generally designated l2. This device I2 embodies a handle l4 having at one end an enlarged grip portion l6,

and at the other end firmly affixed thereto a cup-like portion having converging side and front walls I8, 20 respectively, and being open at the top as well as the bottom thereof as clearly shown in the figures. The side walls or wings l8 at 5 their lower edges are slightly curved in order to minimize the chance of the advancing pointed ends catching upon the roofing material, and the lower edges of the side walls I8 which confine the cement at the sides and preferably extend somewhat below the lower or cement-spreading edge 22 of the wall 20 so as to leave said straight edge 22 sufiiciently spaced vertically from the roofing as to lay upon the latter the cement in a stripe of the desired thickness. The thickness can be regulated or varied by slightly raising or lowering the edge 22 as it is pulled along over the roofing, rolling the same on the lower edges of the side walls 88 as desired. In fact, the side walls need not extend below the edge 22 in which 20 case, however, the tool must be so held and moved as to keep the edge 22 vertically spaced from the surface of the roofing. The converging shape of the device is a valuable feature in that the same may be readily filled by forcing it in and up against the wall of a cement container, even a relatively small container as shown at 2 8, which may be as small as a pint size. In this way the device may be readilyand quickly filled and the outside kept clear of cement because the outside of the converging walls l8 and 20 does not contact the mass of cement in the container. Further, because of the converging character of the device, the cement does not tend to stick to the same and, in use, the device readily clears itself and deposits substantially its entire content upon the roof in stripe form. There is thus provided a device which enables one to readily pick up a substantial quantity of cement and deposit the same in a stripe of uniform thickness along the desired area of the roofing, usually the edge, so that the cement is uniformly and precisely laid thereon. The blind nailing is therefore uniformly and completely covered by a stripe of uniform width, the straightly defined lower edge of which stripe forms a sufficiently straight and accurate line as to provide a mark or gauge to which the lower edge of an overlapping course may be laid. In this way parallelism between courses is insured for the 50 stripe is laid parallel to the upper edge of an underlying course.

Though the invention has been described primarily with respect to blind nailing and overlapping of courses, it will be appreciated that the device is also applicable to the laying oi serrated edge roll roofing, tabs and laps oi strip shingles, side-lapped shingles, fiashings and the lilze.

Having described my invention what I claim l A roofing device for applying viscous cement in a stripe to roofing, said device embodying a handle and a portion having cement-retaining side walls and a rear wall together defining a substantially bottomless cup-like portion secured to said handle, said rear wall having a cementspreading after edge between the bottom edges of the other walls of the device.

2. A roofing device for applying viscous cement in a stripe to roofing, said device embodying a handle and a portion having converging cementretaining side walls and a rear wall together defining a substantially bottomless cup-like portion secured to said handle, said rear wall having a cement-spreading after edge connecting the parallel bottom edges of the other walls of the device.

3. A roofing device for applying viscous cement in a stripe to roofing, said device embodying a handle and a substantially bottomless cup-like portion afiixed thereto, said portion having cement-retaining side walls and back wall, said back wall having a cement-spreading after edge ofiset above the bottom edges oi the side walls of the device.

4:. A roofing device for applying viscous cement in a stripe to roofing, said device embodying a handle and a portion having converging cementretaining side walls and a rear wall together defining a substantially bottomless cup-like por tion secured to said handle, said rear wall having a straight after edge ofiset above the other bottom edges of the other walls of the device.

5. A roofing device for applying viscous cement in a stripe to roofing, said device embodying a handle and a substantially bottomless cup-like portion affixed thereto, said portion having converging oement-retaining walls two of which present parallel bottom edges and a straight after edge ofiset above and connecting said parallel bottom edges.

6. A roofing device for applying viscous cement in a stripe to roofing, said device embodying a handle and a substantially bottomless cup-like portion affixed thereto, said portion having converging cement-retaining side walls and back Wall, said back wall having a straight after edge ofiset above the bottom edges of the side walls of the device.

ERICH GACH.