US974461A - Roofing or siding shingle. - Google Patents

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A. D. BIERMAN. ROOFING 0B SIDINGBHINGLE. APPLIdATIOH FILED AUG-6, 190$. I 974, 1 Patented Nov. 1,1910.

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ALBERT 1). BInRMAN, or COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE 'KINNEAR AND Glacier;

MANUFAc'rUmNG COMPANY, OFF-COLUMBUS, omo, A conrofna'rronor onr'o'. f

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To all whom it may concern: 7

ribs 9 and 9 are approximately parallel Specification of Letters Ia tent s Application filed August 5,1909. Serial Nb. -51'1,s54.- J M frP-a'tented Nov. '1,

ribs like those indicated at 10 and .11.

Be it known that L ALBERT D. BIERMAN, ribs 10 and 11 are inclined downward'toa citlzen of the United States, residing at ward the middle hip of the shingle so asto. Columbus, 1n the county of Franklin and deflect 'such water as may splash or seep up- 5 State of Ohio, have invented a certain new ward be 0nd them away from the jointing and useful Improvement in Roofing or Sidedges ot the slat. The ribs 11 are made 1ng Shingles, of which the following is a tapering in outline the smaller end pointing speclfication. toward the middle of the shingle and the The principal object of this invention is lower edge thereof lyin ,substantially at 10 to prov de a shingle that when properly laid right angles to the middle hip 9 and the up with shin les of the same sort will direct jointing edge. On each side of the middle water away f i om the joints. rib 9 are a number of embossmcnts as seen The inventlon is embodied in the conat 14, 15, 16 and 17 symmetrically arranged struction hereinafter descrit. nd particuon opposite sides of the middle rib or so as 15 larly pointed out in the claims. to form between them channels as indicated In the accompanying drawing: Fi 'ure 1 by the arrows inclined ,toward the middle shows in plan View a section of mo comof the shingle and adapted to direct water prised of three of the shingles properly astoward that portion of theshingle. These sociated to shed water. Fig. 2 is a section channels are of increasing inclination or 20 on the line arr-00 Fi 1. Fig. 3 is a detail pitch toward the lower end of theshingle in sectional View slowing the joint on a and at that portion of the shingle the main larger scale. channel into which the lateral channels be- The shingles are preferably made of rectween the embossments dischar e is deflected tangular or oblong plates of metal. At its outward away from'the midd e line of the 25 right hand side edge the metal is bent to shingle. form a hip 5 the metal at the right hand The shingles are laid by lapping a higher side of the'hip being tucked inward and one over the upper end of the joint of two upward to form an inclined groove 6 with next lower shingles and so as to cover.the a mouth that opens downward there being ribs 10 and 11 of two separate shingles and 30 enough of the margin projecting beyond the further, so that the middle hip or rib 9 of mouth of the groove to form a nailing edge one shingle alines with the hip joint of 7. The left band edge of the shingle is bent two shingles all as clearly shown in I*:ig. 1. upward to form a tongue 8 that can be When the shingles are so laid it Wlll be fitted into a groove like that described 18 observed that water on the upper end of 35 being formed at the right hand side of tie the higher shingle runs first toward the shingle. Along the middle of the shingle middle rib of that. shingle and then down and extending lengthwise thereof. in the 'inthe shingle adjacent the nilddle and finally stance shown, is pressed upward a rib or in a lateral direction toward the middle hip 9 that terminates at its upper end in ribs of each of the shingles next below. In 40 two lateral downwardly inclined ribs lying other words, the main flow or drift of the at opposite sides like those indicated at 9 water is always away from the omts and and 9" each rib extending only part way toward the middle of the shingles. Thls toward the correspondirg edge of the shin construction prevents the collection of wagle and in a downward direction. The lower ter for any considerable period in the neigh- 45 end of the central rib or hip 9 is broadened borhood of the oints and therefore, avoids toward each side so as to be of water width leakage and rapid rusting. It Wlll be parthan the space between the adjacent upper ticularly observed thatthe channels between ends of the exposed downwardly inclined the embossme-nts lead in a downwardly 1nribs of the two jointed shin les next below clined direction from olnts near the oint- 50 to deflect Water awa Y from t e center of the ing edges of the slnng es.

shingle at that on and into channels to The form of the embossmcuts can be deflect water toward the middles of the shinvaried without departing from the gist of gles next below as will presently appear. the invention. Positioned beyond the ends of the lateral \Vhat I claim 1s: 55 l. A roofing or siding shingle consisting llO of a, plateof suitable material having suitable- Jointing edges and a' middle r'1b expanded at its lower end, and inclined embossments between then iddle rib and the, edges oi the shingle ada ted'to formdowm wardly inclined channe s to direct water toward the middle ofthe shingle at. the up- ,per portion and toward the edges of the shingle atits lower portion, the width of the expanded lower 'end' of the middle rib being greater than that of the space between fthe adjacentends of the upper inclined exposed embossments ,of two similar shingles w en o n A roofing or siding shingle having :1 1111 1e rib terminating at 1ts upper end 1n op ositely laterally extending sho'rt r1bs each downwardly inclined toward the edge of the shingle and reversely inc-ling ribs beyond the ends of said lateral ribs and extending above and below said ends and in-

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