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D9075- OR D 33'480 DESIG N.

No. 33,480. Patented Oct. 30, 1900. W. P. MEEKER.

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(Application filed Aug. 1, 1900.,

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\VILLIAM P. MEEKER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

DESiGN FOR A TILE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Design N 0. 33,480, dated October 30, 1900.

Application filed August L 1900. Serial No. 25.595. Term of patent 14 years.

To all whom, it mwy concern.-

Be it. known that I, \VILLIAM P. MEEKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 192 Market s1 reet, Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, have in vented a certain new and useful Design for Tiles, fully described and represented in the following specification and he accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This design is embodied in a rectangular tile having two tapering dovetailed grooves extended parallel to one another upon the hack of the tile,wit [1 the ridges and the grooves dividing the tile at the broader ends of the grooves into live nearly equal divisions.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the tile; and Fig. 2, an end view,enlarged, to show clearly the relation of the tapering dovetailed grooves to the ridges between the same. The larger end of each groove is nearest the eye in Fig. 2, and the smaller end of the groove is therefore visible beyond the larger end.

(L designates the tile, of rectangular shape, which is provided upon the back with the two tapering dovetailed grooves, the edges of which are designated b,the sides c,and the bottoms d. The sides of the grooves are flared toward the bottoms to make them dovetailed in cross-section, and the grooves taper from the nearer to the farther end, as represented in the drawings. The axes of the grooves are parallel to one another and are parallel with two opposed edges of the tile, and both the grooves taper in the same direction, so that the wider-ends of the grooves open upon the same end of the tile. The dovetailed grooves are separated from one another by a. flat-top ridge 2, and the grooves are separated from the edges of the tile by fiat-top ridges f, these three ridges forming the flat bank of the tile, with the grooves so disposed that the ridges are nearly equal in their width and dimensions. The width of the tile is thus divided by the grooves and ridges (at the wide ends of the grooves) into five nearly equal portions, as is very obvious upon the nearer end of the tile. (Shown in Fig. 1.)

Having thus set forth my design, what. I claim is The design fora tile, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM P. MEEKER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS S. CRANE, FREDc. E. llAmtoUR.

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