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US 4,729,199 AGranted
Snow slide kit
OwnerFrank G. Ollerinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed for the removal of accumulated snow loads from roofs. The apparatus comprises a plurality of upper and lower brackets affixable to a planar roof surface in spaced configuration thereon. Each bracket has one or more slots capable of receiving and retaining a wire. Actuation of the system by pulling a wire causes the wire to be released from the upper brackets, and to slice through an accumulated snow load, breaking the seal between the snow and the roof and resulting in the snow sliding off the roof.
Claims6
An apparatus especially adapted to effect removal of a snow load adhering to a planar roof surface, comprising;
- a. a plurality of upper and lower brackets adapted to be securely affixed to said roof surface in a spaced apart configuration thereon, each of said brackets having at least one wire-retaining slot therein, and
- b. said lower brackets securely retaining a wire within said wire-retaining slot and said upper brackets releasably retaining a wire therein,
- whereby, when said wire is pulled downwardly from one of said lower brackets, said wire releases from said upper brackets and sweeps downwardly across the roof surface thereby breaking the adhesion between said snow load and said roof such that said snow load slides off of said roof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.