US1438302A

US1438302A - Method of laying paper or roofing materials on flat or sloping roofs

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Publication number: US1438302A
Application number: US491735A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frederiksen Fred
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-08-12
Filing date: 1921-08-12
Publication date: 1922-12-12
Anticipated expiration: 1939-12-12

Description

F. FREDERIKSEN.

METHOD OF LAYING PAPER 0R ROOFING MATERIALS 0N FLAT 0R SLOPING ROOFS.

APPLICAT ON FILED AUG-12,1921.

Patented Dec. 12, 1922.

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Patented Dec, 312, 1922.

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Application filed August 12, 1921. Serial No. 491,735.

To all whom it may cmwem:

Be it known that I, FRED FRnDnRIKsEN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, anda resident of Port Alberni, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Methods of Laying Paper or Roofing Materials on Flat or Sloping Roofs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to methods of laying paper or roofing materials on flat or sloping roofs, and the object of my invention is to devise a method to enable such work to be accomplished in a simple and highly efficlent manner.

I attain this object after the manner shown in the accompanying drawings in which- Fig. l is a fragmentary plan view of a roof covered according to my improved 2o melghod.

' ig. 2 is an end View of F 1g. 1

Fig. 3 .is an enlarged fragmentary end view. 1

Similar figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

The method of laying the paper or other roofing material may be described as follows: Commencing at the eave of the roof one row of 2 by 4 timber, or if preferred 1" b 4:" timbers, indicated by the numeral 1, is aid from end to end between the wind shield timbers 2, which are slightly higher than the timbers 1. -A second row of 2" by 4" timbers, indicated by the numeral 3, is

laid seven inches apart from the timbers 1, and from the second row 3 the other rows of timbers 4 are laid to the ridge of the roof spaced nine inches apart. The roofing material, which should he in strips eighteen inches wide, is then laid, starting from row 1, and the first strip 5 is placed with its lower edge folded under to extend inwardly beyond the lower edge of the row as at 6, while ts upper edge is turned over upwardly for one-half inch, as at 7. A first row of shingles 8 is then laid with the thin ends towards the peak of the roof and secured in any suitable manner to the timbers of rows 1 and 4, being even at their upper ends with the upper edge of row 4 while at their lower ends the shin gles lie within the fold 6 of the material. Other strips of material and rows of shin les are laid in asimilar manner from which it will be seen that the first strip of material is folded under at its lower end to extend inwardly beyond the lower edge of the row with the fold 6 covering the lower edge of the shingle and then extends on top of the shingle to its upper end to cover the shingle, being then folded back on top of the main portion as at 7, while the lower fold 6 of each of the other strips of material lies on top of the main portion of the strip below it and hooks into the up er fold 7 of the layer,

each course of shing es being laid as described that is, with the lower edge lying within the fold 6 of each strip and the upper edge directly on the 2" by l timbers, and thus the shingles are covered with strips of roofing material which overlap. each other along their longitudinal edges and which strips themselves are divided in sections 9, as shown, the sections overlapping asshown at 10 in Fig. 1.

What I claim as my invention is A method of laying roofing material on flat or sloping roofs which consists in laying spaced longitudinal supporting timbers from the cave of the roof to the peak, laying strips of roofing material along each pair of timbers, said strips being folded under at each lower ed e and folded back on the body portion at eae upper edge, the folded lowei edge of each upper strip being hopked in the folded upper edge of the strip below it, and securing a row of shingles to each pair of timbers with the lower edge of the row disposed within the lower fold of the strip and secured to the lower timber and theupper edge resting directly on and secured to the upper timber.

Dated at Port Alberni, B. (3., this 27th day of July, 1921.

' FRED FREDERIKSEN.