US320567A - Tile setting - Google Patents

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A. H. LORD.

I TILE SETTING. No. 320,567. Patented June 23,-1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREV H. LORD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES H. HITCHCOCK AND JOHN A. COOPER, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

TILE-SETTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.320,567, dated June 23 1885.

Application filed December 5, 1888. Renewed November- 24, 1884. (No model.)

1'0 to whom it 17mg concern.-

Be it known that '1, ANDREW H. LORD, it citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tile-Setting, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a plan view of a frame on which the tiles are to be set; Fig. 2, a plan view showing the relative positions of the parts in the process of forming a panel; Fig. 3, a plan view of the panel complete, the tiles being uppermost; Fig. 4, a longitudinal section of a part of a panel, taken on the line 00 m, Fig. 2, and on an enlarged scale; and Fig. 5, a crosssection taken on the line 3/ 3 Fig. 1, and on the same enlarged scale.

In the present use of tiling it is the practice to set each tile separately in the body of cement, which is first spread on the surface to which the tile is to be applied. This is a somewhat difficult work where the tiling is applied to upright surfaces-as, for instance, in mantelpicces, wainscoting, &c.aud great care is re quired to make tile-work in such places satis factory in appearance and durability. It is the object of my improvement to avoid this difficulty to a very considerable extent by setting the tiles on a frame, to which they are fastened by the usual cement, thus making a kind of panel of tiling, which then may be placed in position and secured the same as panels of'stone or wood or metal.

I will proceed to describe one mode of carrying out my invention, and will then point out definitely in the claims the special improvements which I believe to be new and wish to protect by Letters Patent.

In the drawings, A represents a metallic frame, which is made of the same shape and dimensions as the panel which it is desired to produce. This frame is of lattice or open work form, as shownin Fig. 1 ofthe drawings. The outside bars, a, of the frame are, however, wider or thicker than the bars a forming the latticework and running from one side to the other diagonally, or in any other direction, and crossing each other, so as to form the latarranged to about the middle of the thickness or width of the outside of the bars, so that the latter will project beyond the lattice-work on each side of the frame, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings. The frame is made of the'width of the tiles B that are to be applied thereto, so that they will just extend from one side of the frame to the other, resting on the outside bars, being flush therewith. give a support to the middle of the tiles, I also extend a center strip or bar, a, from end to end and midway of its width. This frame is preferably cast, as that is the cheapest and easiest way of making it; but of course it may be made of wrought-iron or in any other manner suitable for the purpose, if desired, or there is any occasion for a frame of special strength.

In order to make the panel of tiling, the tiles B, which are to compose the panel, are first laid face down on a smooth level surface, it being understood, of course, that the tiles are of such shape and size and arrangement as to exactly fill the pattern of the panel desired. The frame is of course made of the same pattern, and is now laid on the tiles B, as shown in Fig. 2 ofthc drawings. Plaster or cement, C, is then poured in to fill the entire space between the back of the tiles andthc plane of the upper edges of the highest parts of the frame, so as to make a perfectly even and level surface therewith, asshown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The plaster or cement will, of course, pass all around and through the lat tice-work, which serves to hold it in place, and at the same time the plaster or cement will fasten the backs of the tiles to the frame, the same as the latter are secured to any surface in the usual way. \Vhcn the plaster or cement is fully set and hardened, the entire structure is substantially one piece, and may be handled and used as such. The face will present the appearance of a tiled surface, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and the struc ture becomes a sort of panel or strip of tiling. These panels or strips, or any form desired for ordinary work, may be made at a factory, where everything can be suitably arranged and adapted to doing the work cheaply and quickly, and, if desired, sold as a manufac- In order to tice-work mentioned. The lattice-bars a are I tured product for use by others. The panels are used the same as panels of stone, wood, or metal-that is, they are set up entire in the places where they are desired, and fastened in any suitable way, either by plaster or cement, or by screws, or in any other way in which stone or metal strips or panels of similar shape and form are secured.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myselfto the special construction of the frame just shown and described, for that is a matter of nnimportance, except that there should always be some space back of the lattice-work body for the cement, to secure the best fastening of the tiling, and also a covering of the same material outside of the web, as I have described, for the back of the panel. As these panels will obviously be of exactly the shape and dimension required for any particular piece of work, it is evident that a particular pattern or design can be obtained accurately with less trouble and labor by using my mode of setting the tiles to form these panels first, instead of setting them piece by piece in the usual way, and as the panels can be made outside of the building in which they are to be used their manufacture will be convenient and cheap. They can also be kept as stock on hand by dealers, the same as stone and metal work, and set up by ordinary artisans in places where, perhaps, itwould be difficult to obtain skilled tilcsetters, as is necessary when tiling is set in the ordinary way.

Havingthus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is V 1. A panel or strip of tile, consisting of a metallic lattice-work frame and tiles applied and secured thereto by mortar or cement applied to the backs of the tiles and filling the said frame, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The frame A, composed of outside bars, a. and inside lattice-bars, a, of less thickness than the former, in combination'with the tiles B, and the mortar or cement filling 0, all applied to form a panel of tiling, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The herein-described method of setting tiles, the same consisting in, first, laying the v tiles in the desired pattern upon their faces on a level surface; second, applying to the backs of the tiles a metallic lattice-work frame of the same pattern; third, filling the frame with mortar or cement, by which the tiles are sesecured to the frame, and, fourth, setting the completed article or panel a's'an entire piece in the position desired.

ANDREW H. LORD.

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