US721967A - Joining metallic roofing-tiles. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAR. s, 1903.

B. L. QUINN. JOINING METALLIC ROOFING TILES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 16, 1902. I

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN LEE QUINN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

JOINING METALLIC ROOFING-TILES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 721,967, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed June 16, 1902. Serial No. 112,011. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN LEE QUINN, of the city of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Joining Metal Roofing-Tiles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description or specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters marked thereon.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the joints of what are designated or known as metallic roofing-tiles; and it consists as hereinafter described with reference to the annexed sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 is plan of a portion of a roof, showing a joint of metallic roofing-tiles constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a section of same on the line a a, Fig. 1, and drawn as looked at in the direction of the arrow X drawn beneath Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end view corresponding to Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on a larger scale than Figs. 1, 2, and 3, also, like Fig. 2, drawn in the direction of the arrow X beneath Fig. 1, showing the joint with its several parts in exaggerated proportions,for the reason that the metal of which the metallic roofing-tiles are made is too thin to be capable of showing the construction of the joint when drawn to the actual thickness of the metal of which such tiles are made. Fig. 5 is a plan of the lower right-hand corner of a metallic roofing-tile with a portion of the upturned edge thereof cut away. Fig. 6 is a plan of the lower left-hand corner of the tile, showing the slit therein which enables the portion of the flat edge below the slit to be bent slightly downward and placed under the lower right-hand corner of the adjacent tile. Fig. 7 is an end view corresponding to Fig. 5. Fig. 8 is an end view corresponding to Fig. 6. Fig. 9 is an end View showing the parts illustrated, respectively, by Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8 united. Fig. 10 is a plan, on an enlarged scale, showing the adjacent parts of two tiles in a row and a portion of the lower row of tiles, also the cleat by which the several tiles of the rows are held closely and permanently together.

In the figures the lower row of tiles is marked A and the adjacent parts of the upper row of tiles A and A, respectively. The

lower part of the upturned edge X of the lefthand tile A is cut out, as shown more especially at Fig. 5 and dotted in Fig. 4, to admit of that portion of the righthand tile A (marked Y, Figs. 4, 6, 8, and 9) situated below the slit W in the flat overlap C(shown in Fig. 6) to be bent, as shown at'Figs. 8 and 9, and to be passed beneath the corner portion of the fiat surface E of the right-hand tile A. When the tiles A and A" are placed together, as shown at Fig. 9, and also placed so that their lower edge at the joint rests upon the cleat, (marked F in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4,) each cleat is fastened by rivets O to the flat space G of the lower row of tiles A in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Then the upright part of the cleat F is bent over or upon the jointed parts of the adjacent tiles A and A, and this cleat F when thus bent over holds the adjacent tiles A and A of the upper row of tiles to the lower row of tiles A without these parts being nailed to the purlins B of the roof.

Having now described the nature of my said invention and the best system, mode, or manner I am at present acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I desire to observe, in conclusion, that what 1 consider novel and original, and therefore claim as the invention to be secured to me by Letters Patent, is as follows:

The new or improved joint for metallic roofing-tiles, consisting of the lowest part of the adjacent tiles of any row of tiles being slit, so that the part below the slit in one of the tiles may be placed beneath the fiat part of the lower edge of the adjacent tile, and

these two parts of any adjacent tiles in arow fastened to the row of tiles beneath, by means of the cleat secured to the row of tiles beneath being bent over the overlapping parts of the adjacent tiles, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as hereinbefore described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 7th day of April, A. D. 1902, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN LEE QUINN.

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