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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7536933 | Plank seating apparatus A plank seating apparatus includes an elongated panel that has a top side, a bottom side, a first end, a second end, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. A bracket is attached to the bottom side and extends downwardly therefrom. The bracket includes a pla... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7451671 | Porta jack for flooring An improved method and apparatus for urging a flooring strip into close or tight engagement with the adjacent flooring strip, which has already been fixed into position, and holding the flooring strip securely in position for nailing or otherwise fixing the flooring... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7398628 | Method and apparatus for laying floors A tool and method for abutting an individual floor panel which is near an obstruction, such as a wall, to the assembled floor. The tool and method provide a rod having a flanged member at one end. The flanged member has a notch in its vertical flange which contacts ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7313985 | Rapid roof remover In the past shingles and nails were removed from a roof by means of a shovel, pitch fork, or shingle removal tool. All of these methods require intense physical labor, and because of the small width of the available tools are very time consuming to achieve the desir... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7152507 | Tongue and groove sheet decking installation kit, including protector block controller shoe and sledgehammer attachment A Kit with a protector block controller shoe being a treadle with two upwardly raised sides, a handle and a crossbar laterally placed before the operator's foot so when the controller shoe is attached by the crossbar to a protector block of standard dimension and ma... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7127968 | Mechanized roofing removal tool A tool designed specifically for removing roofing shingles, sub-roofing, and the like from roofs, offered in two examples, one powered pneumatically and one powered electrically, each with an elongated adjustable stalk with handle, the lower end of the stalk with an... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7013758 | Apparatus for removing shingles and shingle fasteners from a roof An apparatus for removing shingles and shingle fasteners from a roof. The apparatus comprises a frame and a driver unit coupled to the frame, the driver unit including at least one motor. The apparatus also comprises a stripping unit coupled to the driver unit, the ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6918321 | Shingle ripper A Shingle Ripper is provided for removing existing shingles from a roof. A claw which includes a generally triangularly-shaped plate with a front edge. The claw has a bottom surface and a top surface. The front edge of the claw has teeth. A handle, which is connecte... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6711971 | Roofing removal apparatus Disclosed is a roofing removal apparatus for removing existing shingles from a roof. The apparatus includes an elongate base member that has a front end and a back end. A frame is mounted on the base member, and a power source is secured to the frame. A pair of whee... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6370836 | Floor board compression apparatus An apparatus for compressing floor boards, the apparatus comprising a first plate including a first edge gripping device for gripping an edge of a first floor board, and a compression biasing device such as a coil spring or bungee cord mounted on the firs... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6095015 | Mechanical shingle remover A mechanical shingle remover for removing shingles from a roof includes a pair of frame arms, a plate pivotally coupled at one end between the frame arms, and a machine for pivoting the free end of the plate away from the frame arms to lift shingles away ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6062109 | Pressure jaw for compression device for installation of floating floor panels The pressure jaw (1) for a compression device to install floor elements in a diagonal manner relative to a rectangular floor area is generally triangular in shape, the longest side providing an edge part (2) bent downwardly to press against the outer edge... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6029545 | Roofing tool A roofing tool having a handle with an attached thin blade. The blade has a relatively short, tapered, front portion with a leading edge. The blade has a straight top surface with the back portion of the blade having a straight bottom surface parallel to ... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5984271 | Slide tapper for tongue-in-groove flooring A slide hammer has end blocks of a material that will not damage wooden boards when it is used to tap the boards into place. The slide hammer includes a slide rod or bar and a weighted hammer movable on the slide rod. With one of the end blocks in contact... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5845548 | Flooring tools The flooring tool includes a slide hammer located in an elongate body. The body having a flat bottom for resting on the upper surface of the newly laid down tongue and groove flooring. The elongate body, in which the slide hammer is mounted, has at one en... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5134907 | Device for use in the installation of flooring An apparatus for facilitating the laying of floor boards on a subfloor includes a base member having an arrangement of subfloor engaging spikes provided on its bottom surface for anchoring the device during operation. A floor engaging member for engaging ... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5076119 | Roof shingle remover Apparatus for removing an outer layer, or covering, such as of shingles from a flat surface such as a roof includes a frame with an elongated, linear cutting blade attached to a lower, forward portion thereof and adapted for displacement along and in cont... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5010791 | Shingle pry bar A prying blade (42) having an essentially triangular forward portion (43) is secured to a pipe handle (41) at an angle (D) of between about 20°-25°. The triangular forward portion is formed with a rounded or blunt apex region (47) and the two lateral si... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4493477 | Carpenters tool A carpenter's tool for use in construction of wood framed structures includes an elongated handle having one end sharpened for penetration into wood and a bar pivoted to the handle adjacent the sharpened end. A sharpened member at the outer extremity of t... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4266586 | Plywood driving tool A device for seating tongue and groove plywood is disclosed consisting of a member to be laid against the long side edge of tongue and groove plywood sheets, the member being adapted to be struck with a sledge to drive the opposite side of the plywood she... | 05/12/1981 |
