Patent ID: 7013758

Claim:
An apparatus for removing shingles and shingle fasteners from a roof, said apparatus comprising: a frame; a driver unit coupled to said frame, said driver unit including at least one motor; a stripping unit coupled to said driver unit, said driver unit being operative to alternately move said stripping unit between two positions, said stripping unit being adapted to lift shingles off from a roof and to extract shingle fasteners out of the roof as said stripping unit alternately moves between the two positions and said apparatus moves on the roof; and a pair of cutters coupled to said driver unit, said driver unit being operative to drive said pair of cutters, said pair of cutters being adapted to cut shingles lifted off from the roof by said stripping unit to produce a strip of shingle material, the strip of shingle material including at least a portion of a first shingle connected to at least a portion of a second shingle by at least one shingle fastener extracted out of the roof by said stripping unit.