US1817743A - Roof and shingle securing means - Google Patents

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Aug. 4, 1931.` c; C., FIGGE ,817,743

ROOF AND SHINGLE SECURING MEANS Filed July 9I 1925 -Patented Aug. 4, 1931 UNITED STATES CARROLL C. FIGGE, 0F HILAGO, ILLINOIS Root` AND SHINGLE sEouRiNe MEANS Application filed July 9,

This invention relates to a device which can be made of strip material, Wire or the like, and is adapted to engage the acute or obtuse pointed end of a shingle for holding it in place. Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this kind which may be used to engage and hold down by compression four shingles in three adjacent courses. Other objects of the invention will appear hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 illustrates a roof constructed in accordance with the principles of this invention; Figs. 2 and 3 are side and top views respectively of a shingle holding means made of flat wire; Figs. 4 and 5 are side and top views respectively of a shingle holding device made of round wire; Fig. 6 is a perspective of a shingle holding device constructed of flat strip material; and Fig. 7 represents a strip of sheet material from which the device of Fig. 6 is cut.

This invention is illustrated as applied to a shingle, probably of the preferred roofing type in which one end is acutely and the other obtusely pointed. The device is also adapted to be used in connection with rectangular or diamond-pointed shingles without modification, except possibly as to length.

In carrying out this invention, a shingle 1 is shown having an acute tip 2 and obtuse tip 3 so that for the greatest economy the shingles are laid in alternate rows of acute V n y d g -W'thganyof-these; strip Vdevices itis apand obtuse points downwardly.

The fastening devicesproper may consist of a flat Wire or strip 4, asshown by Figs. 2 and 3, a round wire 5, as shown by Figs. 4 and 5, or a flat strip of sheet material 6, as shown by Figs. 6 and 7. The round or flat wire 4 may be slit and spread to provide an opening 7 through which a nail or other fastening device may be inserted for holding it in place. At the ends of the central or intermediate portion of the wire 4 are offsets 8 with rounded bends 9 adapted to receive a nail or other fastening device, the head of which will engage the wire. The extremity of each end of the wire Vis bent upwardly and reversely to form a hook 10,

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and the 'tip-11'; isj-bent downwardly and, `is sharpened so that the hook 10 may be bent Y downwardlywitha thevsharpened; tip: engaging the upperxsurf'ace over the edge of al shingle tolswhich iis' is applied. A. similar constructionis employed with around wire having an offset 8,: a rounded bend 9,an upwardly extending reverse hook 10 and a pointed'extremity 11. r

Wheni this fasteningv device is -made of strip material,v the bends:` forming the offset portions 12 are preferablsyv at an angle to each other' and the bendsV 13' forming the overlying hook. portion 14 are at a different angle to each' other so that the down turned tipss15 willextend over the edge of a shingle and engage the upper surface: thereof out of line with the base or offset portions of the device itself. The4 base; or extremity portions as well as the offset portions 12 70 may be provided. with perforations 7 by means lof whichE this device may be held in place.

VIt will be readily understood that wire devices may be cut from and formed out of a continuous coil. or strip of Wirefand .that even a. device. made of strip'- material, as in Fig. 6, may be made from a continuous strip of material, as shown in Figi?, by making notches 16 at proper intervals ,and by cutting; offgtheI individual pierces.` on the line 17, thel pointed extremities 18- of the strip formthe pointedextremities-15 of the fastening devices.

pamentftha-t means: is provided` for engaging the shingles in three. different j adjacent courses. ,ln..Fig. la arel shown.f shingles inj four courses, A, BC andD so that in laying the shingles a fastening device, as shown by Figs. 2 to 6 is applied to the uppermost end of the "shingles in course A, the offsets at the end of the body portion'affording means for positioning and for holding down the two adjacent shingles in course B; the

hook portion providing means for engaging and positioning-the lower end of the shingle in the course C, and the pointed extremities of the'fastening device being adapted to extend over and engage the surface of the m0 shingle in the course C. To hold the fastening device in place, a single nail 19 may be inserted through an opening 7 or 7 in the body portion of the device, and the offset ends pressed or hammered down against the edges of the shingles in the adjacent course B; or fastening devices may be inserted at the ends in the offset portions Whichwill pass through the adjacent edges of shingles in courses A and B. The tip of the shingle in course C Will then be securely held down by the overlapping extremities Which are bent and preferably hammered into firm engagement With the upper surface of the shingle in course C. If the stock of Which the shingle holding device is made is sufficiently rigid, it is obvious that a single nail will be sufficient for eachy shingle so that the device itself Will actually engage, position and hold down by compressionv four shingles in three adjacent courses. This makes it a very easy matter for even an unskilled workman to lay a roof Which apparently is quite complicated; for after the first course of shingles is in position all he needs to do is apply the fastening devices in the proper places and the shingles in the adjacent courses are automatically positioned and thereafter fastened in place in a similar manner. By having the fastening devices made from a continuous strip of material, they may be produced rapidly*` and inexpensively7 requiring' no heavy stamping or forming machinery. 1

I claim:

l. A positioning and holding device for shingles in adjacent courses comprising a portion of a continuous strip formed With an intermediate base adaptedlto contact with the upper face of one shingle, opposite upwardly extending offsets for positioning and engaging over the edges of adjacent shingles in the next uppermost course, bent hooks at the extremities ofthe offsets to position the extremity of a shingle in the neXt uppermost course, and pointed tips bendable over the edge of the uppermost shingle to engage the surface thereof and hold the tip down by compression.

2. In a shingle holding device as set forth in claim l and opening in the-base or offset portions to receive a fastening nailto hold the device and the shingles in place.

CARROLL C. FIGGE.

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