System of placement of shingles on a roof, a plurality of shingles thus placed, and a roof with such shingles thereon
OwnerGregory F. Jacobsinventor
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Abstract
A system of placement of adjacent roofing shingles on a roof is provided, whereby the horizontal spacing of adjacent shingles, the vertical placement of shingles, and the proper angular orientation of shingles is provided, due to a system of indicia on a visible upper surface of the shingles. A plurality of adjacent appropriately oriented shingles and appropriately placed shingles are provided, as is a roof having a plurality of shingles laid up thereon in courses.
Claims11
A system of placement of adjacent roofing shingles of the real or simulated tile, slate or shake types on a roof, such that the placement of adjacent shingles when laid up on a roof as to lateral spacing, vertical spacing and alignment, is in accordance with a predetermined desired placement, comprising:
- (a) a plurality of shingles having top and bottom surfaces, upper and lower edges and right and left side edges, with the shingles being adapted to be laid up on a roof with their bottom surfaces disposed toward the roof and their top surfaces facing generally upwardly;
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- (b) visual indicia on top surfaces of the shingles;
- (c) with the visual indicia including at least one line disposed on each said shingle;
- (d) with said at least one line being non-perpendicular to and non-parallel to any of said upper, lower, right and left side edges of said shingle;
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- (e) with a projected extension of said at least one line of a given shingle being in a predetermined visual intersection with at least one different line of a next-adjacent shingle when the two adjacent shingles are laid up on a roof with the predetermined desired placement and not being in the predetermined visual intersection with said at least one different line of a next-adjacent shingle when the two adjacent shingles are laid up on a roof and not having the predetermined desired placement.
A system of placement of adjacent roofing shingles of the real or simulated tile, slate or shake types on a roof, such that the placement of adjacent shingles, when laid up on a roof as to lateral spacing, vertical spacing and alignment, is in accordance with a predetermined desired placement, comprising:
- (a) a plurality of shingles having top and bottom surfaces, upper and lower edges and right and left side edges, with the shingles being adapted to be laid up on a roof with their bottom surfaces disposed toward the roof and their top surfaces facing generally upwardly;
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- (b) visual indicia on top surfaces of the shingles;
- (c) with the visual indicia including at least one line disposed on each said shingle;
- (d) with said at least one line being non-perpendicular to and non-parallel to any of said upper, lower, right and left side edges of said shingle;
- (e) at least one mark comprising visual indicia on a top surface of each said shingle;
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- (f) with a projected extension of said at least one line of a given shingle being in a predetermined visual intersection with a different mark of a next adjacent shingle when the two adjacent shingles are laid up on a roof with the predetermined placement and not being) in the predetermined visual intersection with said different mark of a next adjacent shingle when the two adjacent shingles are laid up on a roof and not having the predetermined desired placement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.