Patent ID: 7302763

Claim:
An adjustable jig for assisting an operator when attaching a bargeboard to a gable end of a house and thereby save time and materials when a box end is required to finish off an end of a bargeboard where it meets a fascia on the house, said adjustable jig comprising: a plurality of arms formed from rigid material, each said arms having a rectilinear shape provided with a centrally registered longitudinal axis and provided with oppositely registered edges equidistantly spaced from the respective axes, said edges of each said arms traveling parallel to the respective axes and along an entire longitudinal length thereof respectively, each said arms being provided with an elongated central opening formed therein and disposed along the respective axis, each said arms having axially opposed ends abutted directly with adjacent ones of said ends of said arms respectively; a plurality of fasteners directly interfitted within at least two of said openings associated with at least two of said arms such that said at least two arms become statically affixed to each other during operating conditions, each said fasteners being detachable from associated ones of said openings such that said arms can be linearly biased along said openings respectively; and a level gauge for establishing a horizontal plane along one said arms, said level gauge being releasably conjoined directly to a top surface of said one arm and positioned at an interior one of said edges associated with said one arm; wherein first and second ones of said arms are registered parallel to each other, a third one of said arms is medially disposed therebetween and aligned orthogonal to the respective longitudinal axes of said first and second arms; wherein fourth and fifth ones of said arms are situated obliquely to said first and second arms and are directly connected thereto respectively, said fourth and fifth arms extending laterally outwardly and away from said first and second arms wherein distal ends of said fourth and fifth arms are directly conjoined at a location defined between said first and second arms.