US828291A - Eaves-trough. - Google Patents

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Na; 828,291. PATENTED AUG. 7, 1906.

D. LIJOHNSON. EAVES THOUGH.

APPLIGATIDN FILED OUT. 30. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DENNIS L. JOHNSON, OF COOKS MILLS, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DAVID F. HOOTS, OF MAT'IOON, ILLINOIS.

EAVES-TROUGH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. '7, 1906.

Application filed October 30, 1905. Serial No. 285.056.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, DENNIS L. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oooks Mills, in the county of Ooles and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eaves-Troughs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to eavestro'ughs, and more particularly to screens for preventing the collection of leaves and other trash therein; and it contemplates the provision of a simple, strong, and durable screen and one adapted to be applied and connected to a roof and an eaves-trough with great facility and also adapted to tie the trough to the roof with a view of strengthening the connection of the former to the latter.

Other advantageous features peculiar to my invention will be fully understood from the following description when the same is considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in Which- I Figure 1 is a transverse section illustrating one arrangement of my improved screen relative to a roof and an eaves-trough. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the screen per se removed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged. transverse section taken in the plane indicated by the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction indicated by arrow; and Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1, illustrating a different, arrange ment, hereinafter referred to, of my novel screen relative to a roof and an eavestrough. I

Referring by letter to said drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1 to 3 thereof, A is a portion of a side wall of a building. B is the shingle roof thereof, and C is an eavestrough. All of these parts may be and preferably are of the ordinary well-known construction, the trough O being secured to the facier or crown-molding or cornice of the buildin and arranged to receive water, &c., from t e shingle roof, which is sharply pitched, as illustrated.

D is my novel screen as a whole. The said screen comprises an open frame, of comparatively large caliber galvanized steel wire, having parallel side stretches a and also having end stretches b, longitudinal mesh-Wires c of small caliber and soft galvanized metal extending between and connected to the end stretches b of the open frame D and arranged about the proportional distance illustrated apart, and cross mesh-wires (Z of similar metal extending between and connected to the side stretches a of the frame and interlaced with the longitudinal wires c, as shown. Some of the cross-wires d, preferably those adjacent to the ends of the open frame and certain of those arranged at intervals in the length of the screen, are extended beyond one longitudinal side of the screen-frame, as in dicated by E, for a purpose presently described.

In case the eaves-trough is secured to the facier or crown-molding or cornice of a house my novel screen is applied in the manner shown in Fig. 1-that is to say, the screen is arranged with one longitudinal side of its frame bearing on the shingle roof B and the other longitudinal side of said frame resting on the bead 6, usually provided at the outer edge of the eaves-trough. With the screen thus arranged the inner side of the screenframe is connected by staples f to the roof B,

while the tongues E, afforded by the extension of the cross mesh-wires beyond one side of the screen-frame, are bent down and under the bead e, as shown in said Fig. 1. By virtue of this latter it will be obs JI'VGd that the screen is expeditiously and securely fastened at its outer edge to the outer ed e of the trough; also, that the outer edge of t e screen is he and this without liability of the screen being broken or its mesh opened. From this it follows that there is no liability of openings being formed between the screen and the trough through which trash can enter the trough, and it will also be observed that in addition to effectually preventing trash from entering and settling in the eaves-trough the screen assists materially in the connection of the eaves-trough to the building.

In lieu of connecting one side of the screenframe to the shingle roof through the medium of staples, as shown in Fig. 1 and before described, the side of thescreen-frame may be secured under the lower shingles of the roof B, as shown in Fig. 4. When this arrangement is resorted to, the eaves-trough may be connected to the facier or crownmolding or cornice after the manner shown or else may be connected to the extended portion of the shingle roof.

In practice I contemplate manufacturing my novel screens in sections of various len ths and widths and with endsof different ang es to fit gutters of different makes and sizes.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that an important advantage peculiar to my novel screen is that the said screen is adapted to be expeditiously and securely applied without the necessity of cutting or otherwise weakening the screen, diminishing the wearing quali ties thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination with the roof of a building, and an eaves-trough arranged to receive from the roof and having a bead on its outer ed e of a screen comprising an open frame, of ar e-caliber wire, having sides and ends; one 0% said sides resting on the bead of the

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