US1059682A

US1059682A - Shingle.

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Publication number: US1059682A
Application number: US72737512A
Authority: US
Inventors: Thomas Denton Miller
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-10-23
Filing date: 1912-10-23
Publication date: 1913-04-22
Anticipated expiration: 1930-04-22

Description

T; D. MILLER.

SHINGLEQ APPLICATION FILED OUT. 23, 1912. 1,059,682. Patented Apr. 22,1913.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, 1 913.

Application filed October 23, 1912. Serial No. 727,375.

' To all whom it may com-('1'):

Be it known that I, Tiroaus Dnx'rox MILLER, citizen of the United States. residing at Catonsville, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and-useful I1nprovements in Shingles, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention comprises improvements in shingles, so formed as to inter-lock with one another. and also to expose more area to the. weather than the ordinary shingle.

proofed and protected from the weather,

such shingles will last indefinitely and may be made cheap enough to compete with shingles from other materials. While 1 contemplate using refuse sheet nietal for this purpose, of course, the shingles can be made from new sheet metal, although at greater cost, and they may also be made of material other than metal;

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a plan View of a number of shingles showing the manner in which they are assembled when applied to a roof Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of 'Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale; Fig. 3 is a top perspective view of one of the shingles; and, Fig. t is asection taken centrally through portions of two super? posed shingles, showing the bend at the lower end of the central rib of one of the shingles.

Referring first to Fig. 3 of the drawing, A'indicates' a shingle composed of a rectangular strip of sheet metal which is pref erably coated with a suitable water-proofing compound and treated'so that the surface of the metal will notbe exposed to the" weather. This strip of metal, either before or after the weather-proof coating is applied, is passed through rollers which form a wide'central convex rib a and two narrower convex ribs a'- upon one side of the strip, and corresponding grooves on the opposite side. The side having'the convex ribs is the upper side of the shingle when the shingle is placed upon a root. The ribs u and a. are straight and parallel with one another and with the lateral edges 14 of the strip. The ribs a are equidistant from the edges a and preferably the ribs a are midway between the edges a and the sides a of the wide central .rib a. After the ribs have ben formed in the shingle, one end of the central rib a is given a slight downward bend,'about equal to the thickness of the strip, as indicated at a. \Vhen the shingles are assembled, the downward bent, portions m are at the lower ends of the shingles and engage the central ribs of shingles below them, asshown in Fig. 1.

In applying the shingles to a roof, the shingles in the first row. some of which are indicated by-the numerals 1, 2, 3, in Fig. 1, are spaced apart from oneanother a distance approximately equal to the width of one of the central ribs a, and another layer of shingles, indicated by the numerals 4. 6, and T, is laid upon the first'layer. each of the shingles in the row or layer 4-5- (i--T, resting upon adjacent parts'of two shingles in the row 1-2-3, between the ribs (1 of the latter shingles, and'the ribs 1; of each shingle in the row 4-56 interlock with ribs (1 of the two shingles below it. In the third row of shingles,,indicated at 8-9-10, each shingle lies between the central ribs a of two adjoining shingles in the second layer 156, the ribs a of each shingle in the row 8-9-40 interlocking with ribs a of two shingles in the row 4-5-43. Similarly, the shingles in the next row, two of which are indicated at 11, 12, lie between the central ribs of adjacent shingles in the row 89-10.

lVith the ordinary wooden-shingle, the shingles in each row are placed side by side and close together'sof that rain driven by the wind crosswise of the roof will not be driven under the lateral edges of the shingles. With shingles ofmy invention. however; when assembled upon a .roof, the shingles in each row are separated from one another by a distance at least equal to the width of the central rib of a. shingle. and as the lateral edges of the shingles in each row extend close to the raised ribs a of the shingles in the rowbeheath, the water driven by the wind screw the roof cannot readily pass under the lateral edges ;of the shingles. If any-water does pass under the lateral edges of a shingle, it will enga e the rib a lonrthe shingle be -,low and 'wil be-prevente'd by this rib from "areaexposedto the weather than is the case with the ordinary shingle, this additional surface 'ing. the portions of the ribs a on each flayer which are exposed between the] shingles er the superposed layers. As the central -r1bs in the shingles of alternate layers aminline with one another but sepa-' rated byhadistance equal to the thickness of the shingle'sinthe intermediate layers,-it is desirablelto' turn down the lower end a of therthxdbf eaehshingle so that when the shingle is inposition, the' lower end of its rib axill meet the corresponding rib of the shinglin the'second layer below, so that water. cannot be driyen up under the shingles byjthe wind. Thus, the rib a of the shingle 13 extends over the corresponding rib of the shingle 9, and the end a on the shingle 13 plurality of transverse overlapping rows of 80 rectangular shingles, each shingle having is bent-downward adistance equal to the thickness of one of the shingles 1112', to ineet the'r'iba. on the shingle 9.

' What- I claim is: a

1. Akshingle comprising a rectangular strip-of material of suitable size having a wide'central l'ongitudinal rib and two narrower: longitudinal embossed ribs, and corresponding'groov'es, said ribs being parallel with. one'another, the narrower ribs bein substantially equidistant from the latera edges of the shingle and substantially equidistant from thetcentral rib. .QA shingle comprising a strip of material 'offsuitable size having a wide central longitudinal rib and two narrower embossed longitudinal ribs, and corresponding grooves,

the latter ribs being midway between the central rib and the lateral edges of the shingle. y

3. A shingle comprising a stripof material of suitable size having a ,wide central longitudinal rib and two narrower embossed shingle having two embossed ribs and corresponding grooves near to and parallel wlth its lateral edges and each slunglehavlng also two ridges or shoulders spaced apart from one another and from said ribs, and parallel with said ribs, one shoulder between eaehflo rib'and the longitudinal center line of the shingle, each shingle of'an upper row overlapping-the sides of two adjacent shin l'ess-.v

of the next lower row, and having its grooves engaging a rib oneach of said adjacent shingles and its lateral edges fitting. close to the adjacent shoulders or ridges on adjacent shinglese 5. A covering for buildings comprising a a wide central longitudinal ribextending parallel with its lateral edges,'each' shingle of an upper row overlapping the sides of two adjacent shingles of the next lower row and extending in close proximity to the central ribs of said two adjacent shingles.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS DENTON MILLER Witnesses v Jomx' A. 'HENKUS, CHAS. E. TURNER.