The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-08
Great Discovery.
Complete Revolution IN Roofing!
THE PLASTIC SLATE - For

hOOnng ana OCner purposes.
Patented February 2lst, 1865.
NvHIS INTERESTING DISCOVERY
Farmers Club of New York, at their meet
ing in the latter part of June, 1865, and its
Importance to our country and the world
was earnestly discussed; but the inventor,
William L. Potter, of Clifton Park, N. Y,
has been carefully experimenting with the
material T. for many years, and has demon
After suffering many partial failures in
compounds of lime in all its various forms
eral coal, clay of various kinds. marble
dust, sOap-StOne, cement, cOal-tar, vege
table tar, asphaltum, etc-in all the pro-
portions and combinations that an intel
figent and inventive mind could suggest,
for fourteen gears. He tried the slate-stone
also, in many combina tiOns, before he dis
was exceedingly simple, requiring only
gluten to hold the pa ticles in connection
till time and the action oil the elements
If ever a roof leaks, it will be owing to
other causes than the decay of the cover
ing. 1t will be because the water goes
round, not through 1t. 1t is uneQhdted as a
paint over new tin, and would preserve 1t
many years without further attention,
and should be used for that purpose in
stead of paint. 1t will repair all defects in
old tim roofs, such as rust-holes, cracks, and
breaks, making them permanently water
proof, and more durable, at much less cost
than a tin-smith could afford 10 do 1t, even
in his imperfect manner. Old roofs OF
every description can be repaired much
more d.rG6ig and eheaply Will, With Easc
Coal.tar is found to be the viscOus ete-
ment alike of coal and slate: and It was
discovered, not tnUented, and scientific In
vestigation, as well as experience, fully es-
tabliShing the fact that its exposure to
heat and cold, wet and dry, serves only to
reconstruct the two elements IN their con-
ditiOn-SOLID SLATE
PLASTIC SLA TIE IS SUPERIOR To TIN.
l. Because it l. better non-conductor of
heat The rooms under 1t viii be cooler III
summer and warmer in winter. s@
2, 1t will not rust. y :
8. 1t will not break or crack open like tin
does where jointed.
: 4. 1t is less DANGEROUS. Dr.. Tyng.s church,
in November. 1867 causing loss of $3.50 900,
from FIRE in its tin root, from the braziers
Of n en Who nn p wGTs winch ON tin
amounts in a few years to the entire cost
of a Plastic Slate Roof.
6. Because it costs half as much, and lasts
t,oice as long. .-
MANNER OF MAKING Il NEW PLAS-
a TIC SLATE ROOF. -ti
It is not necessary to match, or tongue
and groove the sheating- but the
1 1aHIe the better and more durable the roof
will be. They should by ali means be sea-
soned. tis
laid in shingle form, each edge ..eing fast
ened down with cieats. This lining is de-
signed to i7lsutGte the roofing from the
boards, lest their shrinking and swelling
should injure the covering. After the pro-
cess of felting or lining the roof is COM
pleted, the mastic, mixed to- the consist
ency of thick mortar being more than three
fourthS sldte), is then spread upon the felt,
about one-eighth OF an inch thick, with a
trowel or brush, and furnishes u complete
FZezible Slate Roof. -.
1 have at considerable expense obtained
from 1.-THE Plastic Slate Joint Stock COM
FOR Evansville and Vanderburgh County,
and repair old tin roofs, repair tin, zinc
and cop er cutters.
Present price for new Plastic Slate Roofs
is eight dollars per square OF ten feet; same
applied TO new or old tin roofs four dollars
per square. Cutters repaired at reasonable
rates as to size; and at these prices all work
will be kept in order accidents excepted)
fve gears, at the expiration of which time
it will be better than when new
We have the privilege of referring to the
following parties for whom we have an
piled the Plastic Slate Roofing: r. s. Ten
n.y. ESQ.,; John j. Deig, ESQ.,; Messrs. Reitz
s. Haney VIM. Heilman, Esq: Messrs.
Gilbert & Co.; Mark Sherwood, ESQ.,; Jo-
seph p. Elliott, Esq; Messrs. Forth, Bowles
& Co.; Anthony Refs, Esq; Evansville Ma
Lional Bank.
Orders for roofing or repairing may be
left at my Lumber Yard Office, corner of
Main and Seventh Streets. or with NV |
Agent, Charles VI. Tileston, ESQ.
- JOHN f. GLOVER,
Evansville, Ind, April LIST, 1867. "a pl d6m |