US623369A

US623369A - Eaves-trough hanger

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Publication number: US623369A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1899-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 1916-04-18

Description

No. 623,369. Patented Apr. l8, I899.

W. HEIB. .EAVES THOUGH HANGER.

(Application filed Sept. 28, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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WILLIAM HEIB, or AKRON, OHIO.

EAVES-TROUGH HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,369, dated April'18, 1899. Application filed September 23, 1898. Serial No. 691,672. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM HEIB, a' citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Eaves-Trough Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a new and improved hanger for eaves-troughs in which two separate parts shall be united to secure the desired result, to wit: a bar, rod, or equivalent to be attached to the roof and to depend vertically therefrom, and a curved arm to support the trough, arranged to slide on the pendent rod and to be retained thereon at any height by cramping or binding. Its further object is to adapt the curved arm to subserve the purpose of a conductorpipe hook.

To theaforesaid objects my invention consists in the certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying d ratvingsiorming apart of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, which show a preferred form of construction of my improved device and in which similar reference numerals indicate like parts in the different views, Figure l is a side'elevation of my improved hanger; Fig. 2, a front View of the upper end of the same, illustrating its construction; and Fig. 8, a View of the curved arm adapted to operate as a conductor-pipe hook.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is the bent rod, to be attached to the roof and hang therefrom. This rod I preferably construct of two wires 2 8, bent at the center so that the two halves lie parallel, laid side by side, andthe adjacent wires twisted together more than half their length, and thence the four twisted into a straight rod or cable 4. I secure a peculiar advantage by this construction from having the surface of the part 4 practically corrugated for the better retention of the arm. The arm 5 I also preferably construct of two wires 6 7, the former bent in the center to bring the bent downward, forming ahook 11 to engage and hold the back edge of the trough. The rod 1 is bent at the edge of the roof and the inclined portion adapted to lie on the roof and be retained by nails or staples.

In operation the loops 8 9 1O slide freely on the rod 4 when there is no weight on the curved arm 5, and hence may be readily adjusted to any height; but when the arm is loaded with the weight of the trough they cramp and bind on the rod and retain the arm,

and this power to resist sliding increases with the weight of the trough.

In using the arm 5 for a conductor-pipe hook I preferably straighten the frontend, pass it about the pipe 12, and fasten it with a nail 13, these changes being indicated in Fig. 2 by dotted lines.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination with the bar adapted to be attached to the roof and having a vertical depending portion, and an arm to receive the trough and provided with loops at different heights in vertical alinement to receive the dependent portion of said bar, of a bracerod extending from the lower part of said arm and provided with a loop in vertical alinement with the former loops to receive the dependent part of said bar below them, substantially as shown and described.

2. The herein described eaves trough hanger consisting of 'the wires, 2, 3, bent in their centers with their inner halves parallel and twisted together for a portion of their lengths, and the four halves twisted into a cable for the balance of their lengths, in com- In testimony that I claim the above I herebination with a Wire bent in its center, its two unto set my hand.

halves twisted together for a part of their lengths and thence bent horizontally backward with their ends turned into loops in vertical alineinent, and adapted to receive the \VILLIAM HEIB.

In presence of Table portion, substantially as shown and (le- G. P. IIUMPHREY,

scribed.

O. E. HUMPHREY.