Installation tool for roof gutters
OwnerDon Lewis, Roy E. Evansinventors
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Abstract
A tool for driving gutter nails through the ends of gutter brackets to secure a gutter to a gutter board includes a nail guide which engages a bracket of the gutter and holds a gutter nail and a nail driver which when struck with a hammer delivers the impact to the nail and drives it from the guide. When engaged with the bracket, the nail guide aligns the nail with holes in the end of the bracket, so that the driven nail passes through the end of the bracket and into the gutter board.
Claims15
A tool for installing on a support structure a roof gutter formed from a sheet metal trough and brackets extended across the open upper end of the trough to reinforce it, said tool comprising:
- a nail guide having a bore large enough to receive a gutter nail and being configured to fit over a bracket of the gutter said nail guide having a downwardly opening cutout to receive the bracket of the gutter so as to align the bore and a nail within it with a portion of the gutter that is determined by the bracket;
- and a nail driver extended into the bore and beyond one end of the bore for delivering, when struck, an impact to the nail so as to drive the nail through the roof gutter and into the support structure.
In combination with a roof gutter including a sheet metal trough having spaced apart front and back walls and a bottom wall connecting the front and back walls and further including brackets which extend transversely between the front and back walls to connect those walls near the open top of the trough, a tool for driving gutter nails through the gutter and into a gutter board along which the gutter is positioned with its back wall against that board, all to secure the gutter to the gutter board, said tool comprising a nail guide having within it a bore that is large enough to receive a gutter nail and being configured to engage a bracket said nail guide including a head provided with a downwardly opending cutout which is configured to receive a cross portion of said bracket to thereby enable said guide to engage said bracket, so as to align the bore and the nail within it with a portion of the gutter that is determined by the bracket;
- and driver means for delivering impacts to the nail that is within the bore so as to drive the nail through the portion of the gutter with which the bore is aligned and into the gutter board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.