US358405A

US358405A - Sheet metal or paper ceiling

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Publication number: US358405A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-02-22
Anticipated expiration: 1904-02-22

Description

(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 1.

0 B. NIEHAUS. SHEET METAL OR PAPER CEILING.

No. 358,405. Patented FebfZZ, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. NIEHAUS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK MESKER, OF SAME PLACE.

SHEET-METAL OR PAPER CEILING.

SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 358,405, dated February 22, 1887.

\ Application filed November 8, 1886. Serial No,2l8,312. (No'mcdel) To all whom it may concern: The sheets are united in the manner shown Be it known that I, CHARLES B. NIEHAUS, in Fig. 2. At one side, that having the flange of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and a, the sheet A rests, at the side of the ceiling useful Improvement in Sheet-Metal or Paper D, Fig. 1, upon a suitable support, such as the 5 5 Ceilings and Valls, of which the following is a molding E. At its opposite side the sheet is full, clear, and exact description. upheld by reason of its flange a being inter- The improvement consists in a special mode locked with the flange a of the next sheet, A, ofshaping and uniting theshcets attheir edges, Fig. 2, the flange a resting upon the flange a, substantially as hereinafter described and and at the same time concealing the fastening 6o 10 claimed, reference being had to the annexed I F, used to secure the sheet A directly to the drawings, making part of this specification, joist G. The farther edge (not shown) of the in whichsheet A is similarly in turn upheld by the next Figure l is a view from beneath of a ceilsheet, and so on throughout the ceiling. wing in which the improvement is embodied. I desire notto be restricted to the precise 6 Two of the panels are shown corrugated, and angles or directions shown, in which the flanges in four of the panels the mode of joining the a a are extended, as quite a variance theresheets at their ends is shown. Fig. 2 is a from might be made without departing from Vertical section, upon an enlarged scale, on the the principle of the improvement; but in all line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section cases the flange a upon one sheetand the flange 7o on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a view in a upon the adjoining sheet should be so relaperspective, from beneath, of a portion of the. tively shaped as to enable the flange a to enimproved ceiling, portions being broken away ter and hang in the flange a. Nor do I Wish to give abetter understanding of the constructo be confined to the particular form, in crosstion and one of the panels being shown corsection, shown of the bar 0; but, whether re- 75 rugated; and Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the duced in size or altered in form, it should be line 5 5 of Fig. 1. sufficiently depressed to provide space for the The sameletters of reference denote the same flange a to pass beneath the flange a, substanparts. tially as shown. V

The ceiling is composed, mainly,of the sheets At their end edges the sheets are not j oined 80 A A and the cross-bars B B. An additional together, but the cross-bars B are employed to form,'B, of cross-bar may be used. The sheets give a finish to that part of the construction. are interlocked at their side edges and laid to-' The shape of the bar, as Well as the mode of gether at their end edges. attaching it to thesheetsfls shown in Figs. 3, 4.

Sheets having been combined in various The sheets A, constructed andunited as de- 85 ways in ceilings and walls, no claim is made scribed, can be used upon a wall or other upi generally thereto, but only to the special form right construction as well as upon a ceiling; but imparted to the sheet and the special mode of when thus used I preferably employ a much uniting the edges of adjoining sheets, as folflatter bar or piece than the crossbar B at the lows: At one of its side edges the sheet is joints between the ends of the sheets. This 0 o inclined downward to form a flange, -a, Figs. flatter bar B, Figs. 1, 5, may also be used to 2, 4., substantially as shown. At its opposite advantage in combination with the bar 13- side edge the sheet is turned backward to form that is, in ceilings having long panels in which the horizontal or substantially horizontal two or more sheets are required to complete flange a, and within the last-named flange the the panel, the sheets may be united midway 95 sheet is shaped to form the longitudinal bar in the panel by means of the bar B,which, as

C, the sheet being bent downward at 0, exshown in Fig. 5,is bent to form the oppositelytended horizontally at c, and then upward at turned folds b b, in which, respectively, are c to the point where the flange a begins, and received the edges a c of the sheets AA, subwhich flange extends horizontally, or therestantially as shown. This mode of uniting the 100 about, backward above the depression in the sheets is useful, irrespective of the use of the sheet occasioned by the formation of the bar 0. bars B at the ends of the panels.

The sheets A can be of any suitable metaliron, brass, or copper, for instanceand they can be formed, also, of paper or pasteboard, and, within the lines of the panel, they can be pressed, stamped, or embossed, to present to the view any desirable ornamental figure or design. The sheets A, at their interlocking edges, may also be shaped to form the flanges a" and a, which are useful instifl'euing the construction, and also as a means for straightening the sheets at the points where the flanges a and a, respectively, bear against the abutting sheet, for sheet metal sheets as they are supplied to the trade are liable to be more or less untrue at their edges; but such irregularity can be disposed of in the folds a a.

I claim-- 1. The herein-described ceiling or wall sheet A, having at one side edge the flange a and at the opposite side edge the flange a, and within the last-named flange having the rib C, said flange a being inclined downward and inward, and said flange a being turned backward abox e the depression in said rib.

2. The combination of the sheet A, having the flanges a and a and the rib G, the sheet A, having similar flanges and rib, and the joist G, substantially as described.

3. A sheet-metal or paper ceiling or wall composed of the sheets A and the ribs B, said sheets A each at one side edge having a downwardly and inwardlyturned flange, a, and at the opposite side edge having the flange a,

turned backward above the rib O, substantially as described.

4. A sheet-metal or paper ceiling whose sheets A are similarly provided with the flanges a and e, constructed, respectively, as described, one of the sheets at the edge having the flange a being secured to the frame of the ceiling or wall, and the flange a of the adjoining sheet being hung upon the flange a of the first-named sheet, substantially as described.

5. A sheet-metal or paper ceiling whose sheets A are similarly provided with the flanges a and a, constructed substantially as described, one of the sheets at the edge having the flange a being secured to the frame of the ceiling or wall, and the flange aot' the adjoining sheet being hung upon the flange a of the firstnamed sheet, and the sheets at their ends being connected by means of the bar B, substantiall y as described.

6. The combination, in a sheet-metal or paper ceiling, of the sheets A A and the folded bar B, substantially as described.

7. The combination of the sheets A A, the cross-bar B, and the cross-bar B, said sheets having the interlocking flanges a a, and said bars B B being connected with the sheets, as described.

CHARLES B. NIEEIAUS.

Vitnesses:

(J. D. MOODY, O. C. LOGAN.