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Application filed February 23, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Alfred Guedle, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canal Dover, in the county of Tuscarawas and State 5 of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Roofing-Bracket, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to roofing- brackio ets; and it consists in the construction andnovel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my im15 proved roofing-bracket extended to its fullest capacity, and in place on a roof of the steepest pitch to which it is applicable—viz., ten and one-half inches to the foot. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, the dotted lines show20 ing the different pitches of roofs from four inches up to ten and one-half inches, the latter being in full lines. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the angle-irons removed from the seat, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of 25 the intermediate and lower serrated leg-sections of the bracket.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the seat of the bracket, which is of wood of about one-half inch in 30 thickness, and is about twelve inches long and eleven inches wide in a full-sized bracket. The castings are all of malleable iron, to prevent breakage. Two angle-irons, b, are secured to the under face of the seat a, near each edge, 35 in the direction of its length, by screws c, passed through screw-holes c' in the arms, and through screw-holes c² in lateral strengthening - lugs d d at the upper ends of the vertical sections e e of these angle-irons b. These lugs are made 40 solid and integral with the angle-irons, as also are the strengthening-webs f f of said irons b V. The vertical portions e e of the irons b V are four inches in length from the under face of the seat a to the spurs g g at their lower ends.' 45 These sections e e, as well as the lower and intermediate sections, hereinafter described, are about one-fourth of an inch thick and one inch wide. Their outer faces are provided xvith lateral notches or serrations e², which are about 50 one-eighth of an inch thick and about one-eighth of an inch apart. They are also each provided xvith two screw-holes, i i'·—one near their lower ends and the other just below the lower ends of the strengthening-webs. These screw-holes ii' are for the reception of the points of the set- 55 screws i~ i², by which the intermediate sections, kk, of the bracket-legs are adjustably secured to the sections e e, to lengthen the legs when necessary. The middle or intermediate leg-sections, k k, are provided on both faces with Jat- 60 eral notches or serrations similar in thickness . and as to distance from each other to the serrations e² on the sections e e. The intermediate sections, k k, are slotted vertically at I through the middle nearly throughout their 65 entire length, as shown, and through these slots I the set-sciews i² i² pass into either the screw-hole i or ϊ, as the case may be. The lower ends of the intermediate leg-sections, k k, are also provided with spurs g g, which 70 are intended, as well as the other spurs g g used in this roofing-bracket, to engage the roof or shingles quickly and safely without injuring either. The set-screws have washers interposed between their heads and the faces 75 of the leg-sections. The lower leg-sections, m m, are serrated on one face only, are slotted at m' similarly to the intermediate leg-sections, and are provided at their lower ends with spurs g g also. The intermediate sections, k k, 80 are provided near their lower ends, in line with their slots Z, with screw-holes n, to receive the points of the set-screws 0 0, by which the lower leg-sections, mm, are adjustably secured thereto. Every adjustment ofthe sections one 85 notch is equivalent to one-fourth of an inch, as the teeth are one-eighth of an inch thick and one-eighth of an inch apart.

It will be observed that the bracket can be adjusted from four inches by twelve inches up 90 to ten and one-half inches by twelve inches, as shown. To get the adjustment between seven inches and eight and one-half inches, the setscrews connecting the intermediate and upper leg-sections should be placed in the upper 95 screw-holes, ii, in the sections ee. The bracket may be used by removing the intermediate and lower sections for four inches, with the intermediate sections, (which then become thelower sections,) up to seven inches, and with all of 100

298,463 the sections, up to ten and one-half inches; and this latter is as great a pitch as any bracket is likely to be used upon.

The device is cheap, simple, safe, and du5 ruble, and is not likely to get out of order.

A bracket and shelving support consisting of a rib-support having wall-bearings and a series of transverse pin-seats in the rear of a smooth continuous front edge, and a bracket io forked at its rear end to embrace the rib-support, said bracket having edge-notches designed to engage pins or screws in the shelf, to prevent warping, has been used prior to my invention, and the construction is shown in 15 Letters Patent No. 255,695, of March 28,1882; and I make no claim to said construction.