Patents Represented by Attorney Thomas A. Kahr
  • Patent number: 5383533
    Abstract: A ladder clamping tool for holding a ladder in a fixed position relative to a rain gutter attached to the eaves of a roof and releasing therefrom. The ladder clamping device includes a screw driver handle defining an axis, a threaded shaft extending along the axis from the handle, terminating with a swivel joint for movably engaging a moveable clamping bar mounted on the swivel joint for engaging the ladder in a slanted position. The ladder clamping tool includes a fixed gutter plate for engaging an interior wall of said gutter mounted at one end of an elongated post wherein as the screw driver handle turns, which is configured to turn the shaft in a threaded socket for moving and holding said clamping bar relative to the fixed gutter clamp, pressure is applied on said gutter clamp, said clamping bar, and on the objects being clamped such as a leg of a ladder and a rain gutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Inventors: Dale Nikula, Brian Shanahan