US1431126A - Weatherboard - Google Patents

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c. e. ROBINSON WEATHERBOARD.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12, I920- Patented Oct. 3, 1922.

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CHARLES GRIFFITH ROBINSON, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSTGNOE TO THE BEAVER.

- COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

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Application filed January 12, 1920. Serial Ito. 350,798.

' To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES GRIFFITH RoBINsoN, a citizen of the United States, residin at Bufialo, in the county of Erie, State of eW York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weatherboard (Case G) and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention'relates to weather board for use in building, and 'more especially to weather board or siding of the so-called wood brick veneer type. The invention has for its object the provision of an improved weather board of this character. More particularly, the invention contemplates the provision of an improved construction for effecting a weather-tight joint between the longitudinal edges of adj acent boards when assembled on the frame of a building.

Weather board is used in large quantities on the side of buildings where it is nailed, or otherwise appropriately sectured, to the frame of the building to form the exterior thereof. In order to present a pleasing appearance, such weather board should be of an artistic design, and to this end the weather board is frequently formed so as to present the appearance of a brick wall when assembled and secured to the frame of the buildin Weather board for producing this brick edect is generally known in the trade as wood brick veneer, and some times as imitation brick weather boarding, and it is to this type of weather board that the present invention particularl relates.

Weather board is ordinarily marketed in the form of board lengths, usually of about the width of ordinary buildin -bricks, for example, about three or four inc es in width. The longitudinal edges of these boards are formed with complementary tongues,- grooves, or the like, for providing a weathertight joint between adjacent boards when assembled and secured to the frame of the building. Various forms of joints for this purpose have heretofore been employed in the manufacture of weather board. The present invention contemplates the provision I p of an improved joint for the purposes aforesaid, and, in its broad aspect involves the provision of a board having a longitudinal groove extending to one edge of'the board with a longitudinally extending slot in the other portion of this edge of the board and havin in its opposite edge a longitudinally exten ing rib or tongue complemental to the slot in the other edge of the board.

Tn carryin out the invention, T form on the face of t eboard, and extending to one edge thereof, a longitudinal square-cornered groove of a depth approximately one-third of the thicknea .i we board. In this same edge of the beard 1 form a slot parallel to the aforementioned groove. On the opposite longitudinal edge of the board ll provide a rib or tongue complemental to the slot in the other edge. In defining the configurations of the opposite longitudinal edges of the board as complemental, ll mean that when the boards are properly assembled, the edge of one board will fit into or complete the contacting edge of the next adjacent board, thereby providing a satisfactory joint between adjacent boards as well as providing a more or less unitary structure of the assembled boards.

1 The novel features of the invention which I believe to be patentable are definitely indicated' in the appended claims. These features, together with the structure of Weather board embodying the same, will be clearly understood from the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. l is a perspective view of the improved weather board of the invention assembled as the corner of a building;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the section line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan of a portion of the weather board illustrated in Fig. 2?

Figs. 4 and 5 are plan and end views, respectively, of a weather board embodying the improved joint of the invention and of a width of corresponding to the width of ordinary building brick;

Fig. 6 is an end view of a weather board having a slightly modified form of joint embodying the principles of the invention; and

Figs. 7 and 8 are enlarged views of the joints of the boards shown in'Figs. 5 and 6,

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clined and having a. longitudinally extending slot intermediate the bottom of said groove and the back of the board, the opposite edge of the board having a square portion and having inclined portions with a tongue intermediate said inclined portions, said tongue and said inclined portions being complernental to the inclined portions and intermediate slot of the other edge of the board, substantially as described.

2. A weather board having a square cornered longitudinal groove in the face thereof extending to one of the longitudinal edges of the board, an adjacent square cornered longitudinal groove and transverse square cornered grooves extending between said longitudinal grooves, said edge of the board being inc-lined and having a longitudinally extending slot intermediate the bottom of said groove and the back of the board, the opposite edge of the board having a squared portion of sub stantially the same depth as the depth of said first mentioned groove and having inclined portions and a tongue intermediate said portions, said tongue and said inclined portions being complemental to the inclined portions and intermediate slot of the other edge of the board.

In testimony whereof ture.

CHARLES GRIFFITH RQBINSUN.

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