| 摘要 |
An assembly including rolled shingle roofing material that can be easil y 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 materi al includes a membrane attached by pressure-sensitive adhesive to a plurality o f standard flat roofing shingles so as to create a continuous array of shingle s 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 shingle s from causing them to stick together in the roll. Alternately, roofing materi al 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 adhesiv e applied thereto from other surfaces. In the assembly, either type of roofing material can be used with the special handling tool. This tool includes a "U "- shaped tube in which one of its branches is inserted through a hollow core formed by the rolled roofing material itself or, alternately, a hollow cylinder upo n 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 o f roofing material to the roof. Or one canuse the distal end of the "U"-shaped tube as a handle to facilitate carrying the rolled roofing material and placing it on the roof.
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