US1394298A - Framing-tool - Google Patents

Description

W. E. FOORE.

FRAMING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILI-:D DEc.2. T919.

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WILLIAM E. FOORE, OF NOGALES, ARIZNA.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

i Application filed December 2, 1919. Serial No. 341,876.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. F conn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nogales, in the county of Santa Cruz and State of Arizona, have invented new and useful Improvements in F raming-Tools, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide efficient means for facilitating the operation of laying off and cutting roof framing including common, jack, valley and hip rafters and for determining accurately and guiding the workmen in laying olf the plumb and cheek cuts for such rafters and similar timbers employed in roof and analagous structure, such apparatus to be in a convenient and compact and therefore readily portable forni with its members so related and designated as to enable a workman of comparatively slight knowledge and experience to properly lay oft' the several timbers before attempting to assemble them.

With these and related objects in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drawing, it being shown that changes in the form, proportion and details may be resorted to within the scope of the claims without departing from the principles involved.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view of the roof framing tool embodying the invention.

Figs. 2 and 3 are opposite side or edge views of the same.

Fig. 4 is a rear view.

Fig. 5 is a detail section on the plane indicated by the line 5 5 of Fig. l.

Fig. 6 is a transverse section on the plane indicated by the line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 7-7 of Fig. 2.

The tool embodies essentially a stock or body portion 10 provided with a converging end 10. Disposed longitudinally on the rear of the stock and, preferably on a Inedial line, is a web 11 provided with an inwardly beveled end which coperates with a slot 11 in the converging end of the stock to form a stop. The web is adapted in 0peration to be arranged against the side of a timber which is to be terminally cut either as common or jack rafter or as a hip or valley rafter, the arrangement of said web on an intermediate line of the stoclr'or body portion, and preferably upon a longitudinal Patented Oct. 18, 1921. y

medial line, being topermit of the tool being used against either side edge of a timber, and thus either right handed or left handed as may suit the convenience of the operator; and carried by said stock in planes respectively parallel with and perpendicular to the plane of the web are the blades 12 and 13 which are respectively pivotally mounted as shown at 14C and l5 and are held in their adjusted angular positions by locking means such as thumb screws 16 and 17.

At its opposite end the stock is provided with a head 18 which is received between the parallel disks 19 and 20 carried by the blade 12, said disk 19 constituting a dial and being graduated to represent angles or degrees with reference to an indicator 21 on a segmental scale 22 carried by the stock adjacent to the periphery of the disk 19. This scale 22 is provided with graduations indicating miter cuts and angular cuts for structures such as heXagon, Octagon and the like and may as indicated include scales subdivided into degrees and parts thereof, and having relation for the guidance of the operator to a table 23 preferably inscribed upon the face or front surface of the stock. The blade 12 is provided with beveled ends and is adjustable at various angles by relation of the dial 19 carried thereby with the indicator 21 on the stock whereby the blade is adapted to be arranged at any desired angle with relation to the web 11 to accu* rately indicate the cheek cut for hip and jack rafters and similar timbers of a roof framing.

The blade 13 which is mounted for movement in a plane parallel with the web 11 and preferably in the plane thereof as indicated clearly in Figs. 2 and 3 is provided with a segment 211 bearing a graduated scale indicating degrees and also angular graduations for use in designating on one side the plumb cuts for valley and hip rafters and on the other side the plumb cuts for common and jack rafters, the indicator for cooperation with these scales being the forward edge 25 of a block 26 carried by the stock and which is slotted at 27 to receive the blade of which the pivot extends therethrough.

llhat I claim is A roof framing tool comprising a stock provided with a slotted converging end, a longitudinally disposed web secured to one Side of said stock and provided with an i11- ioo Wardly beveled endvterminating at one end of said slot, a block secured to the opposite side of said stock and provided with a longitudinal slot in the same plane with the slot in the converging end of said stock, a

blade pivotally mounted in the slot in said` block and adapted to engage the beveled end of said Web and bearing a graduated scale for cooperation With one edge of said 10 block, a segmental scale carried by said stock and bearing an indicator, a blade provided with beveled ends7 parallel disks secured to opposite sides of the last mentioned blade and pivotally secured to said stock adjacent to said shield and bearing a graduated scale for cooperation With said indicator and means for securing said blades im adjusted position.

In testimony vvhereolc I ax my signature.

WILLIAM E. FOORE.

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