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Snow guards and mounts for attaching to seams of metal roofs have tops, spaced sides and inward and downward extending holes for elliptical tipped set screws. Square recesses opposite inner extremities of the holes form square bends in the seams. One screw and recess deform two layers below a rolled

Snow guards and mounts for attaching to seams of metal roofs have tops, spaced sides and inward and downward extending holes for elliptical tipped set screws. Square recesses opposite inner extremities of the holes form square bends in the seams. One screw and recess deform two layers below a rolled seam. Another screw and recess deform five layers in the rolled seam. Bottom lobes near one support provide a lowered hole and a lowered opposite recess. Snow blades extend upward and outward from the top and sides and downward to near a level of the bottoms of the sides.

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1. Apparatus comprising a mount having a body adapted for mounting on a seam of a metal roof, the body having a top portion and first and second side portions respectively having first and second spaced inner surfaces adapted for positioning on opposite sides of a seam of a metal roof, at least one

1. Apparatus comprising a mount having a body adapted for mounting on a seam of a metal roof, the body having a top portion and first and second side portions respectively having first and second spaced inner surfaces adapted for positioning on opposite sides of a seam of a metal roof, at least one inward and downward angled threaded fastener-receiving hole extending through the first side portion and adapted for receiving a fastener extending at a downward angle to engage a roof seam. 2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second sides respectively have first and second inner surfaces, and wherein the downward angle of the at least one fastener-receiving threaded hole is about 5° to 20° to a direction perpendicular to the first inner surface. 3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second sides respectively have first and second inner surfaces, and wherein the downward angle of the at least one fastener-receiving threaded hole is about 10° to a direction perpendicular to the first inner surface. 4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second sides respectively have first and second inner surfaces, and wherein the second inner surface has at least one recess opposite an opening of the at least one fastener-receiving threaded hole in the first inner surface. 5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein a center of the at least one recess is centered below a center of the at least one fastener-receiving hole. 6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the at least one recess has walls perpendicular to the second inner surface. 7. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the at least one recess has a polygon-shaped perimeter. 8. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the at least one recess a rectangular shaped perimeter. 9. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the at least one recess is square. 10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the top portion has a surface, wherein the first and second side portions have first and second bottom surfaces, and wherein the first and second bottom surfaces have opposite first and second downward extending lobes. 11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first and second lobes hold one of the at least one fastener-receiving holes and one of the at least one recesses. 12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the body has first and second ends, and wherein the lobes are positioned nearer the first end of the body. 13. Apparatus comprising a mount having a body adapted for mounting on a seam of a metal roof, the body having a top portion and first and second side portions respectively having first and second spaced inner surfaces adapted for positioning on opposite sides of a seam of a metal roof, at least one inward and downward angled fastener-receiving hole extending through the first side portion and adapted for receiving a fastener extending at a downward angle to engage a lower area of a roof seam, wherein the first and second sides respectively have first and second inner surfaces, and wherein the second inner surface has at least one recess opposite an opening of the at least one fastener-receiving hole in the first inner surface, wherein the top portion has a surface, wherein the first and second side portions have first and second bottom surfaces, and wherein the first and second bottom surfaces have opposite first and second downward extending lobes, wherein the first and second lobes hold one of the at least one fastener-receiving holes and one of the at least one recess, wherein the body has first and second ends, and wherein the lobes are positioned nearer the first end of the body, wherein the at least one inward and downward angled fastener-receiving hole comprises first and second inward and downward angled fastener-receiving holes extending through the first side portion of the body, the first fastener-receiving hole being positioned in or near the first lobe and the second fastener-receiving hole is positioned in the first side nearer the second end and nearer the top portion, and wherein the at least one recess further comprises first and second recesses in the second inner surface opposite openings of the fastener-receiving holes in the first inner surface, wherein the second hole and the second recess are relatively raised with respect to a seam on a roof, and the first hole and the first recess are relatively lowered with respect to the seam on the roof. 14. The apparatus of claim 13, further comprising a snow and ice blade transverse to the body at the first end of the body, and wherein the snow and ice blade has lower edge portions nearly aligned with the first and second bottom surfaces. 15. Apparatus comprising a snow guard, further comprising a roof seam attachment body having a top portion adapted for overlying a seam of a metal roof, and having spaced first and second side portions extending downward from the top portion, the first side portion having first and second threaded set screw-receiving through holes and the second side portion having first and second polygon-shaped recesses with angular walls in an internal surface opposite openings of the screw-receiving holes. 16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the recesses have rectangular sides extending inward from the internal surface. 17. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising set screws having elliptical inner ends mounted in the set screw-receiving holes. 18. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising lobes extending downward from bottom surfaces of the side portions beneath the first set screw opening and the first recess, whereby the first set screw opening and the first recess are lower so that a first set screw and the first recess are adapted to engage a lower portion of a double standing seam and the second set screw opening and the second recess are higher so that a second set screw and the second recess are adapted to engage an upper portion of a double standing seam. 19. The apparatus of claim 18, further comprising a snow blade transversely connected to an end portion of the body near the lower first through hole. 20. A method of locking an object to a roof panel, comprising providing a roof mount having a top portion and spaced first and second side portions extending downward from the top portion and adapted for enclosing a portion of a standing seam on a roof, providing the first side portion with first and second through holes, providing threads in the through holes, providing first and second polygon-shaped recesses with perpendicular sides extending into an inner surface of the second side portion opposite inner openings of the through holes, adapted for engaging and deforming layers of the standing seam into said recesses. 21. The method of claim 20, further comprising providing fasteners in the threaded through holes and providing elliptical ends on the set screws for deforming the standing seam with the elliptical ends and pressing portions of the seams into the recesses. 22. The method of claim 21, further comprising providing downward extending lobes on bottom surfaces of the first and second side portions near first ends of the side portions and providing the first hole and the first recess in or near the lobes. 23. The method of claim 20, wherein the providing of the first and second recesses further comprises providing rectangular walls in the first and second recesses. 24. A method of locking an object to a roof panel, comprising providing a roof mount having a top portion and spaced first and second side portions extending downward from the top portion and adapted for enclosing a portion of a standing seam on a roof, providing the first side portion with first and second through holes, providing threads in the through holes, providing first and second polygon-shaped recesses with perpendicular sides extending into an inner surface of the second side portion opposite inner openings of the through holes, adapted for engaging and deforming layers of the standing seam into said recesses, further comprising said first and second threaded through holes oriented in a downward and inward manner, providing the first downward and inward extending through hole and the first recess in positions adapted for engaging a lower two layers of a double standing seam, respectively positioning the second through hole and second recess higher than the first hole and the first recess and adapted for engaging a higher five layers of the double standing seam between the second hole and the second recess. 25. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising a snow retention blade transversely connected to the roof seam attachment body portion. 26. Apparatus comprising a roof mount for connecting to metal roof panels, the roof mount further comprising a top portion and spaced first and second side portions extending downward from the top portion and adapted for enclosing a portion of a standing seam on a roof, the first side portion having first and second through holes, threads in the through holes, first and second recesses having polygon-shaped perimeters with perpendicular sides extending into an inner surface of the second side portion opposite inner openings of the through holes, adapted for engaging layers of the standing seam between the first and second threaded through hole and the first and second recesses. 27. The apparatus of claim 26, further comprising a top portion and spaced first and second side portions extending downward from the top portion and adapted for enclosing a portion of a standing seam on a roof, the first side portion having first and second downward and inward extending through holes, threads in the through holes, first and second recesses of a polygon-shaped perimeter with perpendicular sides extending into an inner surface of the second side portion opposite inner openings of the through holes, the first downward and inward extending through hole and the first recess in positions adapted for engaging a lower two layers of a double standing seam, respectively positioning the second through hole and second recess higher than the first hole and the first recess and adapted for engaging a higher five layers of the double standing seam between the second hole and the second recess.