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US 9,333,569 B2Granted
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.
Claims11
A cutter for use with a seamless gutter machine, comprising:
- a frame having a slider assembly, index pins and index holes, wherein the slider assembly extends diagonally;
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- a cutting assembly supportably engaged by the frame that is attachably engageable with a discharge of a 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 and opposite the front and back upper edges;
- wherein the cutting assembly comprises a plurality of cutting rollers rotatably mounted to the cutting assembly and offset to have overlapping peripheral edges defining a cutting axis and wherein the formed gutter is moved through the cutting rollers to be cut along the cutting axis;
- wherein the cutting assembly is slidably positionable relative to the frame at the discharge of the seamless gutter machine among a first position where the cutting axis is parallel to the longitudinal axis and extends along the back wall of the formed gutter, a second position and a third position;
- wherein the slider assembly, the index pins and the index holes enable the cutting assembly to be slidably positioned and secured at the first position, the second position and the third position.
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