JPH09287257A - Gutter support - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a creep trough support capable of coping with various roof materials different in thickness without preparing many kinds of supports and capable of firmly fixing a creep trough to the roof materials such as roof tiles. SOLUTION: This attachment 3 is constituted of the upper and lower flanges 31, 32 substantially parallel apart at the distance slightly larger than the thickness of a roof material and a web 33 connecting the upper and lower flanges 31, 32. A main body 2 can be connected to the attachment 3. The upper and lower flanges 31, 32 pinch the roof material, and they can be firmly fixed to the roof material. When only the attachment 3 is replaced, this creep trough support can be fitted to the roof material different in thickness and color. Various kinds of the creep trough supports integrated with different attachments according to the thickness of the roof materials are not required to be prepared unlike in the past, and this creep trough support is convenient at a low cost.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a gutter support.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional gutter support is disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open Publication No.
As described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 535, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-160035, and Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 51-5732, a main body for holding a gutter and an attachment attached to a roof material such as a roof tile are integrally connected. It is a thing.

The attachments of the gutter supports described in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 57-16535 and Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-160035 are substantially parallel to each other with a distance slightly larger than the thickness of the roofing material such as roof tiles. And a web connecting the upper and lower flanges, and the roof material is sandwiched between the upper and lower flanges. The attachment of the gutter support described in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 51-5732 comprises a horizontal portion and a vertical portion, the horizontal portion being along the surface of a roof material such as a tile, and the vertical portion being the upper end surface of the roof material. It can be attached by hooking on.

[0004]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]
In the gutter support described in Japanese Patent No. 5732, since the vertical part of the attachment is merely hooked to the upper end surface of the roof material, the attachment is easily dislodged or moved, and therefore the gutter cannot be firmly fixed to the roof material. There is a problem. Also, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 57-16535, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 6
The gutter support described in Japanese Patent No. 2-160035 is preferable because the gutter can be firmly fixed to the roof material because the roof material is sandwiched between the upper and lower flanges of the attachment.

However, there are many types of roofing materials for attaching the roof mounting portion. For example, there are various types of tiles such as Japanese roof tiles, Spanish roof tiles, Italian roof tiles, French cement roof tiles, slate corrugated sheets, color vests and thick slate. Since all of the roofing materials have different thicknesses, it is inconvenient because it is necessary to prepare a large number of types of gutter support tools having attachments adapted to the respective roofing materials. Therefore, the purpose of the present invention is to
It is an object of the present invention to provide a gutter support tool that can be adapted to roof materials of various thicknesses without preparing many types and can firmly fix the gutter to roof materials such as tiles.

[0006]

The present invention has been made to achieve the above object, and the invention according to claim 1 comprises a main body for holding a gutter and an attachment attached to a roof material. In the gutter support, the attachment comprises upper and lower flanges that are substantially parallel to each other with a distance slightly larger than the thickness of the roofing material, and a web that connects the upper and lower flanges, and the main body can be connected to the attachment. It has been done.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a gutter support comprising a main body for holding the gutter and an attachment attached to the roof material, wherein the attachment is substantially separated by a distance slightly larger than the thickness of the roof material. It consists of parallel upper and lower flanges and a web connecting the upper and lower flanges.The lower flange is provided with a pressing portion that projects upward, and the upper flange is provided with a concave portion that is recessed upward in the lower side surface. The main body includes a holding portion for holding the gutter, and a connecting portion provided on the lower side of the holding portion, and the connecting portion has a contact piece having a shape along the lower surface of the upper flange of the attachment. The upper surface of the contact piece is provided with a protrusion protruding upward, and the lower surface of the upper flange of the attachment is in contact with the contact piece of the main body in a superposed state. Convex portion is inserted in which the body is adapted to be connected to the attachment.

(Operation) In the gutter support according to claim 1,
Since the attachment consists of upper and lower flanges that are substantially parallel to each other with a distance slightly larger than the thickness of the roof material, and a web that connects the upper and lower flanges, the attachment can be firmly fixed by sandwiching the roof material with the upper and lower flanges. Since the gutter support of the present invention has a main body that can be connected to the attachment, each kind of attachment with different distances of upper and lower flanges is prepared so that it can be applied to various roofing materials with different thicknesses, and the roof By selecting the optimum attachment according to the thickness of the material and connecting the main body to this attachment, it is possible to adapt to various roofing materials with different thicknesses.

The attachment of the gutter support according to claim 2 has, in addition to the function according to claim 1, upper and lower flanges which are substantially parallel to each other with a distance slightly larger than the thickness of the roof material. Since the lower flange is provided with a pressing portion protruding upward, when the roof material is sandwiched between the upper and lower flanges, the pressing portion presses the lower surface of the roof material and the attachment. Can be firmly attached to the roofing material.

In the gutter support of the present invention, the contact piece of the main body is superposed on the lower surface of the upper flange of the attachment in a superposed state, and the convex portion of the main body is detachably inserted into the concave portion of the attachment. Since the main body can be connected to the attachment, while inserting the convex part of the main body into the concave part of the attachment in advance, the lower surface of the upper flange of the attachment is overlapped with the contact piece of the main body, and After the roofing material is sandwiched between the abutting piece and the polymerized material and the lower flange, or the roof material is sandwiched between the upper and lower flanges of the attachment, the upper flange of the attachment and the roof material Insert the contact piece into the, and insert the protrusion of the contact piece into the recess of the attachment, and the contact piece of the main body will contact the lower surface of the upper flange of the attachment in a superposed state. Is inserted convex portion of the body into the recess of the attachment, easily and firmly, it is possible to connect the body attachment.

[0011]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described. 1 to 3 show one embodiment of the gutter support of the present invention. FIG. 1 (a) is a front view of the main body, (b) is a side view of the main body, and (c) is a type of attachment. Explanatory drawing, FIG.
Is an explanatory view showing a state in which the gutter is attached by the gutter support, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

1 to 3, reference numeral 7 is a roofing material made of roof tiles, and this roofing material 7 is thatched on the roof of the first floor as shown in FIG. The eaves gutter 8 is attached below the side. Reference numeral 9 is a gutter consisting of a cylindrical body having a substantially square cross section with its corners curved inward. This gutter 9 is connected to an eaves gutter attached to the roof of the second floor (not shown) and the lower part. Opens to the eaves gutter 8 on the first floor via the elbow 95. Therefore, the rainwater flowing through the eaves gutter on the second floor passes through the gutter 9 and enters the eaves gutter 8 on the first floor from the elbow 95.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a gutter support, and this gutter support 1
Consists of a main body 2 and an attachment 3. As shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, the main body 2 includes a holding portion 4 formed of an annular body having an inner peripheral surface along the outer peripheral surface of the gutter 9, and the holding portion 4
And a connecting portion 5 provided on the lower side. The holding portion 4 is divided into an upper holding portion 41 and a lower holding portion 42 on both sides, and one end 43 of the upper holding portion 41 is rotatably attached to one end of the lower holding portion 42 to hold the upper holding portion. When the part 41 is rotated to open the other end part 44, the gutter 9 can be put in the holding part 4, and when the upper holding part 41 is rotated in the opposite direction to be closed, the other end of the upper holding part is closed. 44 is the lower holding portion 42
The gutter 9 can be fixed to the other end by locking it.

The connecting portion 5 is a strip-shaped body attached to the lower side of the holding portion 4, and the portion 5 attached to the holding portion 4.
3, a contact piece 51 is formed which protrudes in a substantially horizontal direction and then is curved and protrudes on the opposite side, and a convex portion 52 which protrudes upward from the tip of the contact piece 51. Incidentally, this contact piece 51
Has a shape along the lower surface of the upper flange 31 of the attachment 3 described later. This main body 2 is colored in the same color as the gutter 9.

As shown in FIG. 1C, the attachment 3 is a strip-shaped body composed of substantially parallel upper and lower flanges 31 and 32, and a web 33 connecting the upper and lower flanges 31 and 32. The root portion of the upper flange 31 near the web 33 is provided with a recess 34 that is recessed upward. Further, a pressing portion 35 protruding upward is provided at a tip portion near the outlet of the lower flange 32. Then, the attachments 3 with different distances between the upper flange 31 and the lower flange 32, that is, with different lengths of the web 33 are, as shown in a, b, c, d of FIG.
There are many types.

Next, the method of use and the operation of this gutter support will be described. The roof material 7 is put into the opening of the attachment 3 so that the gutter 9 is sandwiched between the upper flange 31 and the lower flange 32 of the attachment 3 from the underwater side of the roof material 7 at the position where the gutter support 1 is attached. Then, the pressing portion 35 presses the lower surface of the roof material 7, so that the attachment 3 can be firmly attached to the roof material 7.

At this time, the attachment 3 having the optimum distance between the upper flange 31 and the lower flange 32 is selected from the various types of attachments 3 shown in FIG. 1C according to the type of the roofing material 7. Attach the attachment 3 to the roof material 7. As described above, since the attachments 3 can be selected from various types of attachments and attached, the attachments 3 can be attached firmly and inconspicuously to the roofing material 7 having different thicknesses and colors. Since the attachment 3 has a simple structure and can be manufactured at low cost, the cost of the gutter support 1 can be reduced as compared with the conventional case where different gutter supports having different thicknesses and colors are used. it can.

Next, the upper flange 3 of the attachment 3
Insert the contact piece 51 of the main body 2 between 1 and the roof material 7,
The convex portion 5 of the abutting piece 51 is placed in the concave portion 34 of the attachment 3.
Insert 2. Then, the contact piece 51 is attached to the attachment 3
Since the upper flange 31 has a shape along the lower surface of the upper flange 31, the contact piece 51 of the main body 2 is in contact with the lower surface of the upper flange 31 of the attachment 3 in a superposed state, and the convex portion of the main body 2 is projected into the concave portion 34 of the attachment 3. By inserting the portion 52, the main body 2 can be easily and firmly attached to the attachment 3. Thus, this gutter support 1 is valuable because it can be applied to roofing materials 7 having different thicknesses only by preparing a large number of inexpensive attachments 3.

In this embodiment, the main body 2 was attached to the attachment 3 after the attachment 3 was attached to the roof member 7, but the main body 2 was previously attached to the concave portion 34 of the attachment 3.
While inserting the convex portion 52 of, the lower surface of the upper flange 31 of the attachment 3 is overlapped with the contact piece 51 of the main body 2,
The roof material 7 may be sandwiched between the upper flange 31 and the contact piece 51 of the main body 2 that is superposed with the lower flange 32.

[0020]

According to the gutter support according to the first aspect of the present invention, the attachment is composed of upper and lower flanges that are substantially parallel to each other and are spaced apart from each other by a distance slightly larger than the thickness of the roof material, and a web connecting the upper and lower flanges. Can be firmly fixed to the material. In addition, since the main body of this gutter support can be connected to the attachment, it is possible to adapt to various roofing materials with different thicknesses and colors simply by preparing different types of attachments with different distances of the upper and lower flanges. Therefore, unlike the prior art, there is no need to change the gutter support for each roofing material having a different thickness and color, which is inexpensive.

In addition to the effect of the first aspect, the attachment of the gutter support according to the second aspect has substantially parallel upper and lower flanges separated by a distance slightly larger than the thickness of the roofing material, and the upper and lower flanges. Since the lower flange is provided with a pressing portion protruding upward, the lower surface of the roof material can be pressed by this pressing portion to firmly attach the attachment to the roof material. .
Further, in this gutter support, the contact piece of the main body is in contact with the lower surface of the upper flange of the attachment in a superposed state, and the convex portion of the main body is inserted into the concave portion of the attachment to detachably connect the main body to the attachment. Therefore, the main body can be easily and firmly attached to the attachment, which is convenient.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 shows an embodiment of a gutter support of the present invention,
(A) is a front view of the main body, (b) is a side view of the main body, (c)
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing types of attachments.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a state in which a gutter is attached by a gutter support tool.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 gutter support 2 main body 3 attachment 31 upper flange 32 lower flange 33 web 34 recessed portion 35 pressing portion 4 holding portion 5 connecting portion 51 contact piece 52 convex portion 7 roof material 8 eaves gutter 9 gutter

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A gutter support comprising a main body for holding a gutter and an attachment attached to a roof material, wherein the attachment has upper and lower flanges substantially parallel to each other with a distance slightly larger than the thickness of the roof material. And a web connecting the upper and lower flanges, and the main body can be connected to the attachment. 2. A gutter support comprising a main body for holding a gutter and an attachment attached to a roof material, wherein the attachment has upper and lower flanges substantially parallel to each other with a distance slightly larger than the thickness of the roof material. , A web connecting the upper and lower flanges, the lower flange is provided with an upwardly projecting pressing portion, the upper flange is provided with a downward concave portion on the lower side surface, and the main body is a gutter. And a connecting portion provided on the lower side of the holding portion, the connecting portion having a shape along the lower surface of the upper flange of the attachment, A convex portion protruding upward is provided on the upper side surface,
A gutter characterized in that the contact piece of the main body is in contact with the lower surface of the upper flange of the attachment in a superposed state, and the convex portion of the main body is inserted into the concave portion of the attachment so that the main body can be connected to the attachment. Support.