Abstract: A machine for storing, unrolling, guiding into position and fastening rolled roofing material to a roof deck. The machine includes a holder which cradles the roll of roofing material, or alternately, suspends it on a cantilevered spindle, so that the roofing material can be unrolled and guided into position on the roof deck. A nail gun under automatic control fastens the roofing material at selected intervals to the roof deck. The operator simply moves the machine across the deck and the roofing material is placed and fastened on the roof as quickly he walks. The machine also has a guide bar that follows the edge of the prior row of roofing material for proper placement of the next row. The machine is made n two sections that may be separated for ease of raising to the roof. Further, the machine presented heren can also be powered and controled by electrical energy or by stored pressured gas.

Abstract: A machine which greatly reduces the labor required for repairing flat roofs on commercial and industrial buildings. Formerly, old roofing material usually had to be removed manually from the roof deck before new material could be installed. Removal of this old material was the most labor intensive part of the job. The present labor-reducing machine not only scrapes off the old roofing from the roof deck but also loads any material so scraped into a cart for removal from the roof. The machine comprises a pair of drive wheels, a flat conveyor belt, and a chisel-like front member. To begin the removal process, the latter is first wedged between the old roofing material and the roof deck; and then the drive wheels are used to push the chisel-like front member, when it so wedged, forward. The flat belt conveyor is mounted in close proximity to the front member so that as the old roofing material is being dislodged, it is directed onto the belt.

Abstract: An assembly including rolled roofing material that can be easily installed on a roof and a special handling tool. The tool reduces the strain of carrying the roofing material and of raising to the roof. The roofing material, fabricated as an elongated strip which defines a plurality of narrow slots extending perpendicularly from one longitudinal edge thereof, can be formed into a roll or rolled onto a hollow cylinder. The handling tool includes a “U”-shaped tube in which one of its branches is inserted through the hollow core formed by the rolled roofing material itself or, alternately, the hollow cylinder upon which material has been wound. The branch of the “U”-shaped tube so inserted can then be used as an attachment point for a rope, useful in raising the roll of roofing material to the roof. Or one can use the distal end of the “U”-shaped tube as a handle to facilitate carrying the rolled roofing material and placing it on the roof.

Abstract: An assembly including rolled shingle roofing material that can be easily installed on a roof and a special handling tool. The tool reduces the strain of carrying the roofing material and of raising to the roof. The roofing material includes a membrane attached by pressure-sensitive adhesive to a plurality of standard flat roofing shingles so as to create a continuous array of shingles which can be formed into a roll or rolled onto a spool. This membrane also serves as a release sheet to prevent thermally-activated adhesive present on the shingles from causing them to stick together in the roll. Alternately, roofing material pre-cut with slots to resemble shingles is rolled together with a release sheet placed on the bottom of the material so as to isolate a thermally-activated adhesive applied thereto from other surfaces. In the assembly, either type of roofing material can be used with the special handling tool.