US1397329A - Gutter-hanger - Google Patents

Description

M. RACHLIN.

GUTTER HANGER.-

APPLICATION FILED NOV.20, 1920.

Patented Nov. 15, 1921,

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MAX RAOHLIN, or NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOIB, TO rarnn'rnn METALWARE conno- RATION, or BRODKLYN, NEW YORK, a CORPORATION on NEW roan.

GUTTERrHANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 15, 1921.

Application filed November 20, 1920. Serial 110.425/124.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, MAX RACHLIN, a (Ll-bl. zen of Russia, and resident of the city of New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gutter-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in gutter-hangers, that is to say to devices for supporting roof gutters.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a gutter-hanger, which is extremely simple in construction, durablein use and capable of manufacture on a commercial scale, or in other words one which is not so diflicult to make as to be beyond the reasonable cost of such a contrivance.

Another object of the invention is to produce a gutter-hanger, including a strap portion wholly surrounding the gutter and so shaped that it prevents effectively a tilting the supporting brackets connected therewith.

With these and other objects in view,

which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and proportion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the in vention.

One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a gutterhanger constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a central vertical section taken through a portion thereof, on a larger scale; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the meeting ends of the strap portlon of the hanger; Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken through one of the ends of the strap with an extension piece thereon; and Fig. 5 is a top plan View of the other end of the strap, also with an extension piece in position thereon.

Referring now first to Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, of the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a roof gutter, the outer edge of which is provided with a bead 11, as usual in end of the hook being constructions of this type, while its inner rarest caries.

edge 12, adjacent the wall of the building, is v plain. relation to the roof 13 of the building, there IS provideda apart a suitable distance, each or said hangers including a strap portion '14, which surrounds transversely the gutter, and a bracket 15, attached to the said strap and the roof. The strap 14, made of a single piece of metal, includes a curved gutter embracing portion 16, having a hook shaped bend 17 at one of its ends, said bend fitting over the bead 11 of the gutter. The opposite end of thegutter embracing portion 01' the strap is bent back upon itself, as shown at 18, and fits over the plain end 12 of theguttcr, the downwardly bent section 18 or the bend 18 lpeing spaced from the body portion thereof,

or a The hook-shaped, bend 17 of the strap is shaped so as to engageand be partly closed around the bead 11 of the gutter, the inner 19, which extends horizontally and transversely of the gutter. This bar is substantially U-shaped in cross-section, as clearly appears from Fi s; 1 to 3, inclusive, of the drawings, its free end 20 being flat and sub stantially triangular in configuration. The 1.-

bar section 19 is disposed within the gutter, its flat end being bent upward and located between the downwardly bent section 18 or" the strap and the plain edge 12 of the gutter, it extending through a transverse slot 21 in the bight of the bent portion 18, and being bent outward horizontally, as shown at 22, against the said bight.

In the downwardly bent portion 18 of r the strap is provided an aperture 23, which is in alinement with apertures 24: and 25 in the flat end of the strap and the body portion of the said strap, respectively, when the ends of the strap are engaged in the manner above described and as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. A nail 26 is driven through these apertures and the adjacent portion of the wall of the gutter, said nail being driven into the wall 27 of the structure, upon which the gutter is to be positioned. The pointed outwardly extending portion 22 of the strap end may also be driven into the wall, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

The bracket 15 is joined with the bar sec- F or supporting this gutter in proper plurality of hangers, spaced purpose which will appear hereinafter.

joined to a bar section Fig. 1 of the drawings.

tion 19 by a rivet 28, or otherwise, it including an upwardly extending portion 29 and an outwardly projecting section 30, which is secured by nails 31, or otherwise, to the roof 13, from which the rain water is to be car-.

19'is then extended across the gutter and 7 its flatend 20 is engaged withthe bend 18 and caused to extend outward, as shown in The'nail 26 is then driven through the strap and gutter into the wall, ai'ter'whichthe bracket 15 is fastened to the root Inasmuch asthe straps wholly surround the gutter and the pointed ends 22 of the straps are driven into the building wall, the gutter is prevented fromtilting on the brackets.

In order to permit the hanger to be used on gutters oi varioussizes, the length of itsstrap is made adjustable. A construction of this type is shown in'Figs. 4t and'5 of the drawings, diii'ering from the one above described in that extension pieces 32 and 33 are hooked into the'ends of the strap.

These extension pieces are formed like the strap BHClS ClBSCllbGCl in connection with Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, of the drawings, their ends terminating in hooks 3 1 and 35, respecthe" bar section 19.

tion and operation of the elements are the tively, the hook 3 1 engaging any one of a series of openings 36 in the gutter embracing portion 16, while the hook 35 is adapted to engage any one of a series of openings 37 in Otherwise the construcsame as of those described in connection with Figs. 1 to, 3, inclusive, of the drawings.

1. A'gutter-hanger comprising astrap of metal surrounding transversely the gutter, and a bracket attached to said. strap, said strap including a curved ,gutteroembracing portion having a hook-shaped section on one of its'ends fitting over the beadbfthe gutter, the opposite. end of said curvedportion being bent back upon itself and extending downwardly intothe, gutter, the bight of said bent portion beingprovided witha transverse slot, said hook-shaped seotion-,,ex-

tending intothe gutter and merging into a horizontallyextending transverse bar having a fiat upwardly projecting end located between the inner'face ofthe gutter and the downwardly extending portion of said bend, said flat portion projecting through saidslot and being then bent "outward substantially horizontally against said to said bar.

' 2. In a gutter hanger according to claim New York "andEState "of New York, this 10thday'ofNovemberyAF'D. 1920. V

bight, said bracket beingattached-centrally

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