Patent ID: 7739807

Claim:
A siding gauge device arranged for use with a staple gun comprising a body, a head and a safety tip on the head which is movable relative to the body of the staple gun so as to be arranged to dispense a two prong staple from a head of the staple gun into one of a plurality of fastener apertures in a siding member comprising a panel having a hook portion along a bottom edge, a nailing flange forming a top free edge of the panel and locating the fastener apertures therein, and a lock edge channel extending along the top free edge of the panel below the nailing flange for receiving the hook portion of a subsequent siding member of similar configuration therein, the device comprising: an attachment member arranged to be secured to the safety tip on the head of the staple gun; a pair of depending flanges supported spaced apart from one another on laterally opposed sides of the attachment member such that the flanges are arranged to depend from laterally opposed sides of the head of the staple gun; each depending flange being arranged to be positioned relative to the head of the staple gun such that abutment of the flange below the lock edge channel of the siding member locates one prong of the two prong staple to be in alignment with one of the fastener apertures and locates the other prong of the two prong staple above the top free edge of the nailing flange; the depending flanges being mounted on the attachment member so as to be arranged for movement together with the safety tip relative to the body of the staple gun.