US768009A - Apparatus for repairing shingled roofs. - Google Patents

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PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904.

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APPARATUS FOR REPAIRING SHINGLED RooPs.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

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LEROY s. BOULTER, or BOSTON,-MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR REPAIRING. SHINGLED ROOFS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,009, dated August 16, 1904.

I Application filed January 28, 1904:- Serial No. 190,967. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LLEROY S.BOULTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have inventedan Improvement in Apparatus for Repairing Shingled Roofs, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification,like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its obj tion of an apparatus by which to guide nails that they may be driven into a shingleat a point Where it is overlapped by another shingle, the apparatus being especially devised for repairing shingled roofs after the nails have rusted OE and the shingles have begun to get loose or become detached.

Figure 1 shows part of a shingled roof with my repairing-tool in position for operation.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section in the line 00,.

In the drawings let A, B, C, and D represent rows of overlapping shingles attached to usual roofboards E by shingle-nails in usual manner, the nails holding each row of shingles being overlapped by the lower' ends of the next higher row of shingles. Suppose one of the shingles has become loose and has slipped partially out of place or become detached, which isa common occurrence as nails rust and cease to hold the shingles in place. As now practiced after inserting the shingle that has become detached or another one in position in the roof the shingle is nailed in place by driving a nail through the overlapping row of shingles into the upper end of the shingle inserted in place below it, and also frequently a shingle-nail is driven through the lower end of the inserted shingle into a shingle of the course below. In either event the head of the nail is exposed, andsoon by the action of moisture and the sun the nail rusts and leaves a nail-hole through which water may pass through the roof-boards and into the house. I

Every nail driven into a shingled roof as it is being made has its head overlapped by a shingle, and with my apparatus every nail ect the producdriven as to be covered by ashingle of ahigher row.

Let it be supposed that the shingle a is one that has been inserted in the row of shingles marked A to repair the roof and that it is to be nailed in place. To do this, I crowd the wedge-shaped edge g of my repairer Gr under the outer end of the row of shingles B and lift the same from the row of shingles A. I insert the guide under the row B until the mouths of the inclined nail tubes or passages b arrive substantially at the end of the overlapping row of shingles B. This done, I drop a shingle-nail into one or more of the nail- -holes, and the nail drops with its point against the shingle a in which thenail is to be driven. I then place a nail-driving tool d in the inclined hole against the head of the nail, and with a hammer striking said tool I drive the nail obliquely into and through said shingle and into the roof-boards E. This done, I withdraw the nail-guide, and the row of shingles B immediately settle down into proper overlapping relation to the row Abelow, and the nail holding the shingle a just inserted'in the row A has its head covered by a shingle of the row B. In this way every new nail driven into an oldroof may be driven into the new shingle at a point where it is overlapped by an old shingle, and every nail so inserted is protected by a shingle, as in new Work.

My repairer G comprises a head tapered in cross-sectionand provided with a series of inclined nail-tubes to receive and hold the nails in oblique position to the face of the shingle. This head may have a handle G, and the head may be driven with greater or less force underneath the overlapping row of shingles and to any desired distance. ,The head shown is of wood, for sake of making the repairer light in weight, and it is covered with metal secured thereto by nails, screws, or the like.

The repairer may have any desired number of tubes or nail-holes.

Having described my invention, what I h, bent about the body part of the head anddriven to repair a shingled roof may be so claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ls-

1. Apparatus for repairing shingled root's comprising a Wedge-block having an inclined nail-guide to receive and sustain a nail to be driven obliquely into a shingle.

2. Apparatus for repairing shingled roofs comprising a Wedge-shaped block having an inclined nail-guide adapted to be driven betWeen one and the next row of overlapping shingles, said guide supporting in a line oblique to the face of the shingle the nails to be driven.

3. Apparatus for repairing shingled roofs comprising a head having a plurality of inclined nail-guides to present nails obliquely to the face of the shingle into which the nails are to be driven.

4. A shingled-roof repairer, con'iprising a Wooden block having nail-guides, and a metal covering to present an edge to be forced under a shingle that a nail may be sustained thereby and be driven obliquely into the shingle on Which the repairer rests at a point under an overlapping shingle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

LEROY S. BOULTER. Witnesses:

GEo. W. GREGORY, EDITH M. STODDARD.

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