Moulding for building exterior and machine for cutting same

A cutting machine for cutting a bottom wall of an eavestrough having a pair of upstanding side walls which extend upwardly from said bottom wall and terminate at upper limits, said cutting machine comprising:

• a guide plate having a downstream side;
• a pair of cutting wheels;
• and
• a pair of brackets fastened to said downstream side of said guide plate, each of said cutting wheels being rotatably mounted to a respective one of the brackets,
• said guide plate having an opening of a shape that conforms to a shape of a cross-section of said eavestrough and having a size that permits said eavestrough to advance with minimal lateral movement thereof from an upstream side of said guide plate, the entire opening being formed permanently and immovably in the guide plate, through said opening to the downstream side of said guide plate,
• said pair of cutting wheels being rotatable about parallel axes spaced vertically apart such that one of said cutting wheels is disposed above the other of said cutting wheels, said pair of cutting wheels being positioned to contact said bottom wall as said eavestrough exits from said guide plate with resulting formation of an elongated longitudinally extending cut in said bottom wall, said pair of cutting wheels being caused to rotate solely by friction between said pair of cutting wheels and said bottom wall as said eavestrough advances between said pair of cutting wheels,
• wherein said opening includes a bottom portion configured to receive the bottom wall of said eavestrough, one of said cutting wheels being disposed above the level of said bottom portion and the other of said cutting wheels being disposed beneath the level of said bottom portion.