US24066A - Stop-g-age for weather-boarding - Google Patents

Description

OFFICE.

WRDEN E. STODDARD, 0F HORIGON, NEW YORK.

STOP-GAGE FOR WEATHER-BOARDING, 85C.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No. 24,066, dated May 17, 1859.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WORDEN E. STODDARD, of the town of I-Ioricon, in the county of l/Varren, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful instrument for holding clapboards, moldings, and other pieces of joiners work to their place while being fitted and nailed, called a clapboardgage; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal elevation with slide detached. Fig. 3 is a back side elevation of the slide.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The nature of my invention consists in the employment of a pair of adjustable gages or stops for spacing the width of the show of clapboards, moldings and other boards and at the same time holding them to their places while being fitted and nailed thus dispensing with a helper and securing a more uniform show of the boards. By the use of these gages a given space can be covered accurately by a given number of boards without the use of dividers or any marking, spacing, or measurement of them.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my 'invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I use a bar A of cast iron in the form of a right angle, (any strong material will answer). Upon this bar is placed an adjustable slide B (see Fig. l). On the end of this bar of the part perpendicular to the required distance from the spur D and secured by set screw E, the iirst clapboard being mailed to its place on the building the gages are placed vertically upon it one at each end of the board with the slide B held firmly against its lower edge when a light blow with the hand upon the knob C forces the spur D, into the wood and secures the gage firmly to the board thus forming a rest or stop upon which to place the neXt board for fitting and nailing. This board being secured the gages are taken from the lower one and placed upon it in like manner as the former and so continued until the whole building is inclosed.

I do not claim a straight bar nor an adjustable slide for a gage for these have been previously used in various ways; but

l/Vhat I do claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The use of the bar A, forming a stop or support for boards and moldings and the knob C, the spur D and the adjustable slide B substantially as here shown for the purpose set forth.

VORDEN E. STODDARD.

W. H. GREENE.

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