US778863A - Device for attaching roofing. - Google Patents

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DEVICE FOR ATTAOHING ROOFING.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20, 1904.

P. S. HOWARD.

PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905.

Patented January 3, 1905.

UNTTED STATES PATENT FFICE.

FRANK S. HOWARD, OF LOMBARD, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR ATTACHING ROOFING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7'7 8,863, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed August 20, 1904- Serial No. 221,476.

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Be it known that I, FRANK S. HOWARD, residing at Lombard,in the county of Dupage, in the State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Devices for Attaching Flexible Material to Roofs andSides of Buildings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of my invention isto provide a simple, convenient, and economical device for fastening felt, paper, or other flexible material to the sheathing on roofs and sides of buildings and to reduce the number of nails required to be handled and driven, thereby reducing the expense of the materials used and facilitating the rapid and economical prosecution of the work required, and is particularly an improvement on the device and invention shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States N 0.7 57 ,193, dated April 12, 1904, issued to me.

This invention is especially adapted for use in sections of a foot more or less in length.

My invention consists in converting one end of each section of said device, being one of the loops designed in the Letters Patent above mentioned to receive nails, itself into a nail or brad by sharpening the extreme end thereof to a point for driving and bending the material of which the binder is made about an inch from the point into an arch perpendicularly to the plane of the surface to which the device is applied sufficient in diameter to overarch its own thickness and extending the same at a tangent perpendicular to the plane of said surface, as shown.

In the drawings like numerals indicate like parts.

Figure l is a plan view of my improved de- I vice. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

3 3 are convolutions in the material of which the device is made. 4 4 are loops in the same adapted to receive nails to fasten the device in place.

5 is a portion of the device formed and adapted to serve as a nail in applying the same, sharpened at the point 6 for that purpose.

7 is an elevation or arch adapted to overarch and accommodate the outer member of the loop 4.

The convolutions 3 3 may be an inch (more or less) in length and are adapted to increase the width and strength of the binder. They may be of any desired number, but in any event so arranged that one convolution, preferably the middle one, shall be formed in a loop 4, adapted to receive a nail for fastening the device at a point between the two ends. They are not essential to the merits of this invention and may be dispensed with, in which case a simple loop for receiving a nail may be substituted. The arch 7 is formed in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the surface to which the device is. to be attached and of sufficient diameter and adapted to overarch and accommodate the thickness of the material of which the device is made-that is to say, to overarch the outer member of the loop 4 and allow the extension 5 to be driven through said loop of an adjoining section and bind it firmly to the roofing material to be held in place, 5 is a nail or brad formed as an extension of the arch 7 at a tangent perpendicular to the surface to which the binder is to be attached and may be of any desired length as may be requird by the thickness of the roofing material, ordinarily from one-half inch to one inch, sharpened at the point 6 to serve for driving as a nail or brad.

In applying this improved device the extension or nail 5 of the section first applied is driven at the desired point of starting, the middle of the section is then fastened in place by driving a nail through the loop 4 and drawing the middle of the section firmly down on the material beneath, then the extension or nail 5 of the next section is driven through the loop 4 of the first section, and so on, each succeeding section supplying the brad or nail which fastens the adjoining end of the preceding section. The last section is of course fastened in its place by an ordinary nail driven through the loop 4.

By this device only one nail separate from the device itself is used in each section (ex:

cept the last one used) instead of three, as required by former devices, and time, labor, and material are all reduced.

I claim 1. A binder of wire or other suitable material, curved in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the roof or other surface to which it may be applied, having a loop between the ends thereof formed in a plane parallel to the plane of said surface, adapted to receive a nail, and having one end formed into a nail perpendicular to the plane of said surface, and the other end formed into a loop in a plane parallel to the plane of said surface and adapted to receive such a nail as the one so formed at the first end, substantially as shown and described.

formed into a loop adapted to receive such a nail as the one last mentioned, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I hereto afi iX my signature this 28th day of July, A. D. 1904.

FRANK S. HOWARD.

In presence of-- I GERTRU E L. 'NEFF, SAML. J. LUMBARD.

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