US390236A - Metallic roofing plate or shingle - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.

A. 0. KITTREDGB.

METALLIC ROOFING PLATE 0 SHINGLE.

No. 390,236. Patented Oct. 2, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANSON O. KITTREDGE, OF SLATE HILL, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T'O JACOB S. THORN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

METALLIC ROOFING PLATE OR SHINGLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,236, dated October 2, 1888.

Application filed October 20, 1887. Serial No. 252,873. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: of similar form embossed on it and with its Be it known that I, ANSON O. KITTREDG E, side prolonged to form a fiat lapping-flange. of Slate Hill, Orange county, State of New Fig. 4 is an edge View of this tile or plate on York, have invented a new and useful Ima roof, showing its flange projecting over the 5 provement in Metallic Roofing Plates or Shinside thereof, ready to be bent around and se gles, of which the following is atrue and exact cured. to the edge, as is shown in Fig. 2; and description, reference being had to the draw- Fig. 5 is a plan view of a tile of somewhat difings, which accompany and form part of this ferent pattern, and having both its bottom and 6c specification. one edge provided with folding flanges. Such To My invention relates to that kind'of roofing a plate is to be used at a corner.

material now generally known as metallic A is myimproved plate. shingles or "tiles, and which is made by B isthe embossed or seamed part of the plate bendingorstamping the edgesofsmallsheets of forming the shingle proper as now generally metal (generally tin) into such forms that they made.

:5 will register and interlock together, forming G O are the plain bending flanges, which I tight seams between adjoining plates, which form from the same plate. as the shingle B, and seamsalone, ortogether with an ornamental decause to extend out beyond it in the plane of sign stamped up in the visible part of the plate, its bottom or unembossed portions. give to a roof the appearance of one covered D represents the roof to which the plates or 20 with tiles. In covering roofs with this kind shingles are secured. v

of plating, trouble has been met with in secur The adaptabilityof my invention to all edges ing the shingles to the edges of the roof in and angles of a roof will he at once apprecisuch a way as to at the same time secure the ated, and the advantage of having the flexible plates in place and prevent leakage, and where flanges to serve as flushing strips and clamps 25 a section of roofabutted against ahigher wall, is apparent. The device can be used with or two sections met, forminga valley, it has nearly if not quite all of the numerousembeen usual to employ separate sheets of tin to bossed metallic shingles in use. re-enforce such points. It is of course not new with me to form a The object of myinvention is to furnish speflat edge on the outside of an embossed shino cial shingles adapted for use at the valleys, gle, as such edges are always provided to serve caves, and angles of a roof; and it consists in as nailing-flanges; but my improved shingle providing the shingles with plain flat uncorruhas, in addition to such nailing flanges, broad gated and unseamed flanges extending out flat extensions, which serve the purposes of from their bottom or side edges and in the flushing strips or clamps, taking the place of 5 plane of the bottom or unembossed portionof the separate metal strips heretofore used for the bent or stamped plate beyond the limits of such purposes, and rendering the roofs both the shingle proper, so that said plain flanges more sightly and more secure at exposed ancan be bent up or down, either to pass around gles than the old devices. 0 the edge of the roof at its side or bottom, or Having now described my invention, what I 0 to lit into or over a valley or ridgeiu the roof claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters and form what is called a flushing-plate. Patent, is-

Reference being now had to the drawings, As a new article of manufacture, an emwhich illustrate my invention, Figure l is a bossed metallicroofing plate or shingle having, 5 plan View of a metal plate having the impress in addition to the ordinary nailingflanges, one

4 5 of three diamondshaped tiles struck up on its or more broad fiat plates formed integral with surface, with grooves to facilitate its engageit and extending out from the shingle proper ment with similar plates, and a plain flange in the plane of its base or uuembossed portion, along its lower edge in the plane of its bottom so as to serve as flushing plates or clamps.

or unembossed surface. Fig. 2 is an edge view ANSON O. KITTREDGE. 50 of the same plate secured on a roof and with Vitnesses:

its flange bent around and secured to the eaves. WM. H. OSBORN,

Fig. 3 is a plan View of a plate having a tile 0. (J. TAINTOR.

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