US1051702A - Roofing for buildings. - Google Patents

Description

H. W. DEMING.

ROOFING POR BUILDINGS.

APPLIUATION FILED 11113.51, 1912.

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Specification of Lettera Patent.

Patented Jan. 28,1913,

Application filed February 5, 1912. Serial No. 875,494.

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Be it known that l, 'HOLMES W, DEMING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Appleton in the county of Outagamie an State of Wisconsin, taveinvented a new an useful Roofing for uildings, of which the following is a speci cation. y

Mytinvention re ates to covering plates and the manner of applying the covering for the above named purpose and securing the platesin position, and it consists of a series of four 'edged plates of suitable ma-y terial and fastening means,- 'suitel for the particular coverin to be fastened, 'sA will be fully'7 explaine' in the` specification and shown in the accompanying rawings, in which,- l

Figure 1 is a lari showing one end of the roof 'of a bui ding', broken between the ridge and eaves. Fig. 2 is a'vertical section of said roof upon the line a., a, of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a fastening molding for the roof ends, as shown at the left in'Fig. 1. Fi 4 is a vertical sec'- tion of a fastenin s rip vfor roofing and outside wall sheat ing plates, formed 'of sheet metal. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of a fastening strip for the same purpose as that in Fig. 4, but made of different material.

Similar numerals and letters indicate like parts in the several views.

The design of my invention is to form the covering for buildings, that is, the roof, of plates of various kin s of material, such as wood, cement, tile, glass, metal, felt compositions, paper pulp, slate or mineral, those of each kind of material to be of a standard thickness, and which may be of four sided figures, no particular form being required, excepting that the edges of the plates are straight and will fit closely alongside of adjoining plates and are of substantially uniform thickness alone, said edges: The plates are to be applied to a plain and reasonably Smooth surface, which may be length, it is advisable to secure them at points intermedia e the corners 0f their lon er edges, and t e plates are spaced from eac other a short distance for that purpose. These fasteners may be formed of 'any of the before mentioned materials of which the plates can be made. i They are preferably or roofing and outside useof a half circular form in cross section, as is shown in Figs. 4' and 5H. They arep'rovided with a tongue which separates two adjoining plaies', and have overhanging sides of a plain smooth surface which lap over` ad joining plates, and are of considerable thickness at their ends. of the fastenings lain and smooth, the plates which they lap over are permitted to shrin or swell without impairing the security o. the fasteni g. Ifunade of a not -easily penetrated material, holes should provided for the insertion of a screw or nail unless said element is made integral pr 'em'- bedded in it in the making of the strip.

The manner in which the covering plates.

are applied, will new be desefibed, as relates t a rbof, Figs. 1y and 2.

1, indicates the usual roof board of a building; 2, a covering of suitable roofing material, such as those of the usual wool felt type of commerce, asbestos, rubber, &c., and made water-proof; 3, roofing plates, which 'may be of any of the before mentioned materials with straight edges adapted to be laid in courses alongside of other plates. Before applying the plates, a cementitious paint 4, is to be applied upon the roofing 2, in such abundance and in a semiliquid state, that the plates will, when laid, be embedded in it, and after a plate has been placed in position, said paint is to be spread along its edges in such abundance that when the next plate is laid, said paint will fill the joints between, and when dry, form a smooth, flush and water-tight vjoint along the horizontal joint 5, and also, along the vertical joint 6, into which the fastening strip 7 is to be secured, the joints 6"L and 5, showing the paint 4 spread therein. The fastening strips are provided with a tongue 8, for entering and filling the space 9, and with perforations 10, for receiving a nail or screw, 11 or 11, one of which is to be inserted through each perforation and into the roof board 1,near each corner of a plate, and also, at one or more'interrnediate points along the length of the strip. The fastening strips it will be observed, are placed upon the roof over the vertically arranged joints between the plates in broken lines.; This is for a two fold purpose, one of which is, to permit them to extend, to a short distance over the plates above and below the joint they cover, and assist in holding the plate it laps over in position, and the other is, to prevent large bodies of snow or ice from sliding'od and falling upon persons below as it often oes in cold Yweather in snowy sections of the country, the ends 12 of the strips forming stops against which the snow or ice will be held untilit is turned into water. The molding strip 13, can be formed in sections of any desired length.

rlhe roofing plates 3, and fastening strips and also the molding 13, being formed of a non-iniammable material, as slate., cement,`

sand, dic., and put on in the manner described, a dre-proof roof of llasting qualities will be formed.

Having described my invention, what ll claim and desire to secure by Let-ters Pat-` ent, is,-

A surface covering for buildings, adapted to be secured upon a suitable surface, composed of a series of plates of suitable material laid in horizontally arranged courses, each plate having' tour straight edges ot even thickness, the opposite edges belng of equal length, the two shorter edges being armemos ranged to dt closely the plates in an adjoining horizontall row of plates and the longer edges to ,leave a narrow vertically arranged space between said plate and an adjoining plate at a point intermediate-a like space 'in allowed' to melt, and thereby preventing large bodies thereof from sliding Jfrom the roof upon persons below the building eaves. a tongue-depending from the underside of said strip intermediate length and width corresponding with the aforesaid vertically arranged space, said strip having a plain smooth surface each side of and at each end of said tongue overlapping adjoining side plates and the plate in the adjoining horizontal row or rows of plates, nails or' screws being adapted for `use as a fastening means for securing said stripsto the surface to be covered.

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