US430363A

US430363A - Roofing and sheathing tile

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Publication number: US430363A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-06-17
Anticipated expiration: 1907-06-17

Description

(No Model.)

G. H. BABOOGK.

ROOFING AND SHBATHING TILE.

No. 430,363. Patented June 17, 1890.

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GEORGE I-I/BABCOCK, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

ROOFING AND S HEATHING TILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,363, dated June 1'7, 1890.

Application filed November 8, 1889. Serial No. 329,678. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. BABCOCK, a citizen of the United States, residing atPlainfield,in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Roofingand SheathingTiles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan View of several tiles embodying myinvention arranged as they would lie upon a roof; Fig. 2, avertical section taken on the line 00 00, Fig. 3, showing the tiles combined as in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, aface View of a single tile, represented on an enlarged scale.

My improvement relates to clay or other tiles which are rectangular, or nearly so, in form and abut at the sides in continuous rows lengthwise of the roof, being laid so as to break joints (shingle fashion) between consecutive rows.

The novelty consists in applying to this character of tile a downturned flange at its lower edge, or reveal, giving a high relief to the same, and conforming the adjacent portion of the underlying tile with an upward bend or wave near its middle, which fits the downturned flange of the overlying tile so as to bring every part of the adjacent lappingsurfaces closely together and effect the sealing of the -abutting joints. An upturned flange is also provided to the uppermost edge of the tile, which flange interlocks with and beneath the adjacent upward bend or Wave of the overlying tiles to prevent penetration of wind, rain, or dust between the part of the abutting joints that intersect said upward bend or wave of the overlying tiles.

The upper and lower portions A and B of the tile lie in distinct planes joined by the olfset or wave portion a. When the tiles are combined, a double thickness of the material is formed throughout the roof, thereby closing the space beneath the abutting joints between the plain edges 1) at every part.

c 0 represent the downward flanges, terminating the exposed surfaces of the tiles, and d the upward flanges, terminating the underlying ends thereof.

The tiles may be lightened by cutting 01f portions of the upper half, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3,without interfering with their tightness.

The tiles may be secured to the substructure by any suitable mode or device. I have illustrated that of providing ears 6, having perforations for the reception of nails.

By the interlocking of the flanges at the ends with the wave in the center the tiles are rendered mutually supporting, so that should the fastening of any one become loosened it cannot fall and endanger persons below, as is dle, and an upward flange at its upper end.

3. In a tile, the combination of an upward wave across the middle and an upward flange or bend across its upper end, substantially as described.

GEO. I'I. BABCOCK.

Witnesses:

CHAS. W. FORBES, AUG. CREVELING.