Year: 1885

page_text: I, BENJAMIN BAUGH, Enamel Works, Bradford St. Birmingham Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for THE CONSTRUCTION OF ENAMELLED
IRON PLATES to be as follows:-
The disadvantages attaching to the system of fixing plates to walls &c now in
vogue areFirstly. Damage done to the surface of the plate by fixing the
holdfasts A. Secondly the rust from the holdfasts & dirt from the walls &c
running over the surface of the plate causes great disfigurement. The object of
my invention is to avoid these disadvantages, this I do by so shaping the top &
bottom edges of the plates as to form a flange B and groove C (as shown by
attached drawing) (into which groove holes or slots may be punched if desirable),
for outlet of accumulated refuse. The consequent advantages being that the rust,
dirt &c are removed by the grooved flange without disfiguring the plate, & any
damage caused by fixing is localized to the flange, leaving the face of the plate
entire, & intact.

page_text: I BENJAMIN BAUGH, Enamel Works, Bradford Street, Birmingham Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
My invention consists of the improvements herein after described in such
enamelled iron plates as are attached to walls and other vertical surfaces and are
generally provided with an inscription, design or ornament. My improvements are
especially applicable to street tablets or name plates and other like plates. In
attaching street tablets name plates and other like plates by the ordinary method
the surface of the plate is damaged by the holdfasts used in attaching the plate to
the wall or surface and the rust from the holdfasts and the dirt from the wall or
surface running over the surface of the plate cause its disfigurement.
The object of my invention is to avoid the disadvantages referred to. This
I effect by shaping the top and bottom edges of the plate in the manner hereinafter
particularly described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I have represented an
enamelled iron plate of the ordinary kind and enamelled iron plates constructed
according to my invention.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation and cross section, an enamelled iron plate
of the ordinary kind. It consists of a flat plate a and is fixed to the wall or
surface b by boldfasts c, c engaging with its longitudinal upper and lower edges.
In fixing the holdfasts c, c the edges of the plate are generally injured and the
rust from the holdfasts and dirt from the wall running over the surface of the
plate cause its disfigurement. Figure 2 represents in front elevation and cross
section an enamelled iron plate inade and attached according to my invention.
The longitudinal upper and lower edges of the plate a are so shaped as to form a
flange d and a groove e running along the whole length of the said edges and to
give a convex figure to those portions of the edges marked g between the groove e
and face of the plate a as will be understood by an examination of the cross
section. The plate a is fixed to the wall b by the holdfasts c, c being engaged with
the flanges d, d and as the said holdfasts are confined to the flanges the plate is
uninjured by the fixing operation.
In the groove e between the flange d and part g the rust from the upper hold-
fasts and the dirt from the wall are received and washed away by the rain and
the said rust and dirt are thereby prevented from disfiguring the surface of the
plate.
Instead of using continuous flanges at the longitudinal edges of the plate
portions only of the flanges may be left by which to attach the plate to the
wall or surface as illustrated in elevation and cross section in Figure 3 where the

page_text: attachment pieces or portions of the flanges with which the heads of the
holdfasts c, c are made to engage are marked h, h. Or the attachment pieces h
instead of being on the upper and lower edges of the plate may be formed at the
ends of the plate. This modification is represented in front elevation cross section
and end elevation in Figure 4. In this plate the convex edges i, i are made larger
than in the arrangements Figures 2 and 3 and the dirt or foreign matter from the
wall on which the plate is fixed is received on the inner convex half of the upper
edge i and is conducted between the plate and wall and thus prevented from
injuring and disfiguring the surface of the plate. The ears or attaching pieces ab
the ends of the plate are marked k, k.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in the construction as relating to the attachment of
enamelled iron plates to walls and other vertical surfaces'
First. Making the longitudinal edges of the said plates convex and with
continuous flanges and grooves for the purposes and substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figure 2 of the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. Making short flanges or attachment pieces instead of continuous
flanges either at the horizontal or vertical convex edges of the plates substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying
Drawing.