Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1902 — Another Jasper County Inventor. [ARTICLE]

Another Jasper County Inventor.

F. 0. Leek, of near Surrey, is of an inventive term of mind, and has received notice from the patent department, at Washington, of the granting of his application for a patent on a recent invention of his. It is an apparatus which is to be used by carpenters in the process of shingling roofs. By its use, the carpenter, while putting on shingles sits on a comfortable but movable seat, with an umbrella over his head. The rows of shingles are laid in perfectly straight lines, without the use of chalk lines, and thirty courses can be laid without changing the position of the “cleat” to which the apparatus is fastened. And in most cases the machine can be hooked to the comb of the roof and the cleats be entirely dispensed with. It looks to us like a very practical and useful invention.