US459473A

US459473A - Eaves-trough

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Publication number: US459473A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-09-15
Anticipated expiration: 1908-09-15

Description

(No Model.)

.W. LOSSIE & W. LOSSIE, Jr.

EAVES THOUGH.

No. 459,473. Patented Sept. 15, 1891..

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IVILLIAM LOSSIE AND IVILLIAM LOSSIE, JR, OF OVENSBOROUGH, KENTUCKY.

EAVES-TROUGH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,473, dated September 15, 1891.

Application filed October 10, 1890- Serial No. 367,736. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ILLIAM LOSSIE and WILLIAM Lossrn, J12, citizens of the United States, residing at Owensborough, in the county of Daviess, State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eaves-Troughs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in eaves-trough hangers; audit has for its object, among others, to provide a cheap and efficient hanger, readily attached to the roof of a building, and which may be also readily applied to or detached from the trough and securely locked against displacement.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof willbe specifically defined by the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letedge thereof, are each provided with a slot at upon the same plane, and B is the stay-bar, formed of sheet metal of sufficient length to extend across the trough and through the openings in the side walls thereof, the ends of the stay then being bent at rightangles to its length and embracing the outer walls of the trough, as shown in Fig. 1. The said ends are split, as shown in Fig. 3, one portion 19 extending upward and the other 12 downward to afford a betterhold. The side edges of the stay may be beaded, as shown at b in Fig. 3, between the inner walls of the trough to strengthen the same. This stay-bar is provided with a longitudinal slot 1), arranged,

preferably, centrally, as shown, and C a sheet-metal bar formed with a longitudinal roll or bend c, as shown best in Fig. 3, which extends for a major-portion of its length, and at this point the said bar is divided, as shown at-d, and the minor portion then also formed with a roll or bend e in line with the roll of the major portion. In practice the side edges of this bar are passed through the slot b of the stay-bar and straightened against the under side thereof, the smaller portion f of the minor portion remaining upon the upper face of the stay-bar, and is adapted to be bent or turned into a substantially vertical position to admit the hanger D and then bent down to retain the same and form a lock therefor. There is a space 9 between the two rolls for the vertical arm of the hanger, as shown in Fig. 1.

The hanger D consists of a piece of wire formed at one end with an eye h, and between this eye and the bend 't' with another eye j, through which eyes the securing means are designed to be passed, as shown in Fig. 1. From the bend t' the wire extends substantially vertical and terminates in a horizontal portion 7a. The hanger is attached to the staybar by turning up the minor portion of the bar 0, admitting the horizontal portion of the hanger into the roll of the major portion and then bending down the said minor portion, as indicated in Fig. 1. 'The hanger is then held firmly against displacement, and yet free to have sufficient play through the opening between the two rolls.

hat we claim as new is 1. The combination, with the trough audits stay-bar formed with a longitudinal slot, of the bar with a portion thereof held in said slot on the stay-bar formed with longitudinal roll, and the hanger held in said roll, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the trough'and its stay-bar formed with a longitudinal slot, of:95,,

formed With two separated rolls, one of which I having its horizontal portion confined by the is bendable, and the hanger held in the rolls major roll with its vertical portion Working 1n of the said bar, substantially as described. the space between the two rolls,substant1a1ly 15 4. The combination, with the trough and its as shown and described. 5 stay-bar formed with a longitudinal slot, of I In testimony whereof We affix our signatures the sheet-metal bar 0, held in the said slot in presence of two Witnesses.

and formed With a major and a minor roll,

with a space between the two, and the bar JR separated between the rolls, the major por- 10 tion being fixedly held and the minor portion 711311683632 adapted to be bent upward to receive the FRANK \VAGNER,

horizontal portion of the hanger, and a hanger HERMAN ARNOLD.