US191208A - Improvement in roofing materials - Google Patents
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04D—ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS
- E04D11/00—Roof covering, as far as not restricted to features covered by only one of groups E04D1/00 - E04D9/00; Roof covering in ways not provided for by groups E04D1/00 - E04D9/00, e.g. built-up roofs, elevated load-supporting roof coverings
- E04D11/02—Build-up roofs, i.e. consisting of two or more layers bonded together in situ, at least one of the layers being of watertight composition
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- This invention relates to roofs for buildings; and consists in a roof composed, first, of a foundation-layer of two or more thicknesses of paper or felt, saturated in the usual manner either wholly or partially with vegetable or mineral tar, natural or artificial, or other suitable material; secondly, of a protecting water and air-tight layer of native bitumen, or mixture of bitumens, or a compound of native bitumen and the residuum or heavy oil of petroleum, or other equivalent non-volatile material, such as heavy oil of bitumen, candle-tar, or animal oil; thirdly, of a fire-proof layer of gravel, sand, broken stone, or other mineral substance.
- My invention is adapted to prevent or retard this deterioration, and greatly increase the durability of such roofs, by covering the paper or felt foundation with a non-volatile material or preparation, which will remain soft, flexible, and free from cracks, so that the saturated paper or felt will be protected from becoming hard and brittle by evaporation of its volatile ingredients through a defective surface-layer.
- bitumens of this class a quantity of some oily, tarry, or pitchy material, preferably of a non-volatile character, sufficient to bring it to the consistency of ordinary coal-tar roofingpitch.
- Bitumens of a softer character are made so by admixture of a suitable quantity of some harder variety of bitumen, rosin, or other'suitable stiffening material.
- rosin or other resinous material may be employed by combining it (in suitable proportions to form the pitch) with the heavy oil or residuum of petroleum, or other equivalent non-volatile and non-drying softening material, such as the heavy oil of bitumen, candle-tar, or a mixture of two or more of these or other equivalent non-volatile materials.
- this second or non-protecting layer thus composed is applied in the usual manner a fireproof layer of gravel, sand, broken stone, or other mineral substance, and following upon this, aftcr removal of the loose gravel, may be applied a finishing and further protecting layer of hydraulic-cement mortar.
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Description
UNITE CYRUS M. \VARREN, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS,
IMPROVEMENT IN ROOFING MATERIALS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195 ,208, dated May 22, 1877; application filed March 22, 1876.
To all whom it may concern.-
Be it known that I, CYRUS M. WARREN, of Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Roof, which invention is fully set forth in the following specification This invention relates to roofs for buildings; and consists in a roof composed, first, of a foundation-layer of two or more thicknesses of paper or felt, saturated in the usual manner either wholly or partially with vegetable or mineral tar, natural or artificial, or other suitable material; secondly, of a protecting water and air-tight layer of native bitumen, or mixture of bitumens, or a compound of native bitumen and the residuum or heavy oil of petroleum, or other equivalent non-volatile material, such as heavy oil of bitumen, candle-tar, or animal oil; thirdly, of a fire-proof layer of gravel, sand, broken stone, or other mineral substance.
That the natureof my invention may be clearly understood, I will state that hitherto it has been the common practice in the manufacture of roofs composed of felt, pitch, and gravel to employ a pitch made from coal-tar, or a mixture of pine or coal-tar and rosin, which materials are composed largely of volatile or drying matter which gradually evaporates or oxidizes on exposure to the sun and air, leaving a brittle residue, unsuitable either to bind the gravel or protect the felt, and resulting, finally, in a leaky roof.
My invention is adapted to prevent or retard this deterioration, and greatly increase the durability of such roofs, by covering the paper or felt foundation with a non-volatile material or preparation, which will remain soft, flexible, and free from cracks, so that the saturated paper or felt will be protected from becoming hard and brittle by evaporation of its volatile ingredients through a defective surface-layer.
In carrying out my invention I employ a foundation-layer of two or more thicknesses of paper or felt saturated with coal-tar or pine-tar, or other equivalent cheap material, or it may be saturated with the more expensive preparations of native bitumen, or other equivalent non-volatile material but I am enabled by my invention to use cheap material, with less regard to its more or less volatile character, since all evaporation through the upper surface of the roofis permanently prevented by the impervious nature of becoming hard and brittle by evaporation through the overlying layer, and eventually cracked and leaky.
As the more abundant native bitumens are commonly too hard to admit of being properly and conveniently applied as a surface coating to felt or paper upon a roof, I add to bitumens of this class a quantity of some oily, tarry, or pitchy material, preferably of a non-volatile character, sufficient to bring it to the consistency of ordinary coal-tar roofingpitch.
Bitumens of a softer character, if not already of the proper consistency, are made so by admixture of a suitable quantity of some harder variety of bitumen, rosin, or other'suitable stiffening material.
As an equivalent of native bitumen or asphaltum, rosin or other resinous material may be employed by combining it (in suitable proportions to form the pitch) with the heavy oil or residuum of petroleum, or other equivalent non-volatile and non-drying softening material, such as the heavy oil of bitumen, candle-tar, or a mixture of two or more of these or other equivalent non-volatile materials.
Upon this second or non-protecting layer thus composed is applied in the usual manner a fireproof layer of gravel, sand, broken stone, or other mineral substance, and following upon this, aftcr removal of the loose gravel, may be applied a finishing and further protecting layer of hydraulic-cement mortar.
What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is
In the construction of roofs, a protecting layer of native bitumen, or mixture of nahave hereunto set my hand and seal this 16th tive bitumens, or a, compound, of which this day of March, A. D; 1876. is an ingredient, in combination with a bottom layer of paper or felt and a top layer of CYRUS WARREN gravel, sand, broken stone, or other fire-proof E Witnesses: substance, substantially as set forth. I HERBERT M. WARREN,
In testimony that I claim the foregoing I l BEDLL'H. OURRIER.
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