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US 2016/0039018 A1Published application
Cutting tool for seamless gutter machine
AssigneeTom McIntosh
InventorTom McIntosh
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Abstract
A cutter for cutting a formed gutter discharged from a seamless gutter machine. The cutter may be positioned to cut a back wall of a formed gutter below a front upper edge of a front wall of the gutter. In turn, a gutter may be mounted to a building (e.g., a fascia board thereof) to achieve additional lift, thereby providing increased pitch over a given length of gutter while maintaining overlap between a gutter apron and a back upper edge of the back wall of the formed gutter.
Claims21
A cutter for use with a seamless gutter machine, comprising:
- a cutting assembly supportably engaged by a frame that is attachably engageable with a seamless gutter machine adjacent to a discharge of the seamless gutter machine, wherein the seamless gutter machine discharges a formed gutter along a longitudinal axis extending from the discharge, the formed gutter comprising a front wall having a front upper edge, a back wall having back upper edge, and a bottom wall extending between the front and back walls opposite the front and back upper edges;
- a cutting assembly having a cutting axis along which a work piece is moved to cut the work piece along the cutting axis;
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- wherein the cutting assembly is disposable at the discharge of the seamless gutter machine in a first position where the cutting axis is parallel to the longitudinal axis and extends along the back wall of the formed gutter a first distance from the bottom wall less than a second distance the front wall extends from the bottom wall.
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A method of cutting a gutter, the method comprising:
- locating a cutting assembly adjacent to a discharge of a seamless gutter machine to a dispose a cutting axis defined by the cutting assembly relative to a formed gutter discharged from the seamless gutter machine;
- discharging a length of the formed gutter from the seamless gutter machine along a longitudinal axis extending from the discharge, the formed gutter comprising a front wall having a front upper edge, a back wall having a back upper edge, and a bottom wall extending between the front and back walls opposite the front and back upper edges;
- passing the formed gutter relative to the cutting assembly such that cutting axis intersects the back wall;
- cutting the back wall of the gutter along the cutting axis at a first distance from the bottom wall less than a second distance the front wall extends from the bottom wall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.