US403203A

US403203A - Metallic shingle

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Publication number: US403203A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-05-14
Anticipated expiration: 1906-05-14

Description

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. J. MILLS.

METALLIC SHINGLE No. 403,203. Patented May 14, 1889.

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METALLIC SHINGLE.

No. 403,203. Patented May 14.1889.

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JOSHUA MILLS, OF OTTAWA, ILLINOIS;

METALLIC SHINGLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,203, dated May l l, 18.89. Application filed February 2, 1889 Serial No. 298,472. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSHUA MILLS, of Ottawa, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metallic Shingles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvementin metallic shingles, and has for its object to provide a shingle of simple, durable, and economical construction, wherein the joints will be re-enforced and so formed as to effectually check the efiects of a driving wind; and a further object of the invention is to provide a means of securing the shingles without puncturing or otherwise perforating them, whereby the necessity of soldering them is dispensed with.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating three connected shingles; Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on line 00 0c of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan View of a single shingle, and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section on line y y of Fig. 3.

In carrying out the invention the right and left longitudinal edges of the shingle are stamped, crimped, or otherwise manipulated to produce an outwardly-extending triangular rib. The outer longitudinal edge of the rib 10, upon the left, which is struck up from the under side, is bent inward horizontally, as shown at 11 in Fig. 2, to a point beneath and in vertical alignment with the upper angle or apex of the rib. The said horizontal section is then bent upon itself to provide a vertical inner section, 12, as illustrated in the same figure. The rib 13, upon the right, is smaller than the rib 10, and is not projected upward as high, while the outer longitudinal edge is bent over the upper surface of the shingle, whereby a triangular rib is formed over the body. The said rib 13 is provided at the inner longitudinal edge with a horizontal basesection, 14, of less width than the equivalent section of the rib 10. The center of the shingle is stamped or otherwise manipulated to produce a central embossed figure, 15, of any approved design, and at oneend of the shingle, at 5 a the center, the surface is upwardly embossed to form a short triangular rib, 16, extending fromthe edge, preferably, to an intersection with the lines of the figure 15, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3.

The edge of the shingle, at the end in which the rib 16 is produced, is bent downward and inward under the body to form a short open loop, 17, as best shown in Fig. 4. The edge of the opposite end of the shingle, between the

side ribs

10 and 13, is bent upward upon itself to form a bead, 18, then downward slightly from the bead in the direction of the top of the body, and horizontally over the body in the direction of the end carrying the short loop 17. The upper fold just described produces an open loop, 19, of greater width than the opposite or under loop, 17, and the inner end of the said longer loop, 19, is strengthened by being bent upon itself, preferably, downwardly and inwardly, as best illustrated in Fig. 4.

In applying the shingles to the roofs of dwellings or to the sides thereof a shingle is placed in proper position upon the roof, with, for in stance, the end carrying the narrow loop 17 downward, as illustrated in Fig. 1. One or more angled clamps, 20, are now placed in engagement with the outer surface of the right-hand rib, 13, of the shingle, the said clamps be- 8 ing provided with a horizontal extension, 21, adapted to rest upon the roof, and a nail is then driven through the extension of the clamp, as illustrated in Fig. 1, whereby that edge of the shingle is firmly secured. The left hand rib of another shingle is then made to overlap the right-hand rib of the shingle in position, whereupon the horizontal section 11 of the upper rib, 10, will support the equiva lent section, 14, of the inner rib, and the vertical section 12 of the outer rib will extend upward, essentially, in contact with the apex of the inner rib, as illustrated in Fig; 2. Thus each rib is strengthened by the other, and the two ribs are strengthened by the vertical Ioo section 12, and should force be brought to bear upon the apex of the ribs the section 12 will tend to brace and support said sections. It will also be observed that when the rib is made to cover or overlap the rib 13 the clamp is effectually concealed. The shingles are laid, for instance, lengthwise of the roof or of the side of the dwelling in this manner until as many as are desired are placed in position.

Another set of clamps, 22, is then made to engage with and hold the upper end of the shingle upon which thelong loop 19 is formed, and to that end the clamp is provided with an inner hooked end, 23, adapted to conform to the contour of the bead 18, and an outer flange-section, 24. When the hook-section is brought in engagement with the bead 18, the flange-section 24 is in contact with the roof or side of the dwelling, and may be attached thereto by a nail, screw, or equivalent device, as best illustrated in Fig. l. The next shingle, commencing the second line, for instance,

' is made to break joint, and the central rib,

16, is brought in contact with the upper surface of the overlapping

ribs

10 and 13, and the short loop 17 is made to interlock with the long loop 19. In attaching the clamps 22 to I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A metallic shingle provided with a triangular rib at each longitudinal side, the edge of one rib being carried horizontally inward and the edge of the opposite rib horizontally inward and vertically upward, substantially as shown and described.

2. A metallic shingle provided with a triangular rib at each longitudinal side, the edge of one rib being carried horizontally inward and the, edge of the opposite rib horizontally inward and vertically upward, and a central triangular rib located at one end of the body of the shingle, substantially as shown and described' 3. A metallic shingle provided with a triangular rib at each longitudinal side, the edge of one rib being carried horizontally inward and the edge of the opposite rib horizontally inward and vertically upward, and having a short loop at one end upon the under face and a longer loop upon the opposite end upon the outer face, and the said latter loop provided with an outer longitudinal bead, substantially as shown and described.

JOSHUA MILLS.

Witnesses:

B. F. BOWMAN, WM. A. YOUMAN.