Improvements in Cement Roofing Tile Presses.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1898 -Accepted, 26th Nov.,
1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cement Roofing Tile Presses.
I, ABRAHAM WEIL, of Steinheim, Westphalia, in the Empire of Gormany, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention has for its object an arrangement in cement roofing tile presses,
whereby the front edges of cement roofing tiles may be bevelled so that the tiles
obtain a better appearance and a less surface for attack is afforded to storms.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of the frame of the press with this im-
proved arrangement, all the remaining parts of the press being omitted for the
sake of clearness;
Figure 2 is a plan view of Figure 1;
Figure 3 shows a portion of Figure 1, the separate parts being in another
position;
Figure 4 shows a cross section of a portion of a cement roofing tile;
Figures 5 and 6 show details of the arrangement.
As may be seen in Figure 1 the moulding plate 8 is as usual mounted in the
frame 7, on which plate there lies a sheet metal moulding piece 10, the cement
material for forming the cement roofing tile 11 being conveyed onto this plate 10.
Under plate 10 a slide 12 is adjustably arranged in the ordinary manner which
provides the covering lip or bar 13 on the inner side with a groove 14 (see
Figure 4).
The movement of the slide 12 takes place in the following way. A guide plate 15
is movably arranged under the moulding plate 8 and connected with the slide 12
by means of a bolt 16. A lever 18 is pivotally mounted on the frame plate 17, and
is connected by means of a bolt 19 with a slide piece 20 movable on the frame
plate 17. A bolt or pin 21 mounted in the plate 15 engages in the said slide
piece 20. If the lever 18 be moved in the direction of the arrows a and b (Figure 2,
the slide 12 will be moved to right and left, thus producing the groove 14.
In order to bevel off or profile the front edges of the cement roofing tile at the
point c (see Figure 4) a suitably profiled slide 23 is movably mounted on the
frame 22, which slide is guided in the frame at the point d. Further as may be
seen in Figure 2, it is guided in slots in the frame by means of three bolts 24, 24
and 25. The centre bolt 25 is connected with an elbow lever 28 by means of a
double lever 27 pivoting on a pin 26, the elbow lever 28 being connected with the
slide piece 20.
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When the cement material has been placed on the moulding table 10 and the
cement roofing tile 11 hammered firm, the lever 18 is moved in the direction of the
a so that the slide 12 is moved to the right and the profile slide 23 to
the left simultaneously, that is to say from the position in Figure 3 into the position
of Figure 1. The slide 12 produces the groove 14 while slide 23 profiles or shapes
(bevels) the tile at the part c.

page_text: When the upper covering ledge has been formed on the cement roofing tile also
at the point in the ordinary manner, the lever 18 is moved in the direction of the
arrow b and the cement roofing tile is ejected by means of an ejecting device 30.
When the slide 23 is to be cleaned the wing nut 31 on the two armed lever 27 is
unfastened so that the front part 32 can be taken off and the slide withdrawn with
ease.
Figures 5 and 6 show the arrangement of the system of levers and the frame 22.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The improvement in cement roofing tile presses consisting in the arrangement
of a slide (23) profiled on the inner side and carried on the surface of the frame of
the apparatus, which slide by means of suitable parts such as a lever (27),
slides (28, 20 and 15) and bolts (25, 21 and 16) is connected with a slide (12) lying
under the moulding plate with the object of forming a groove in the lower covering
lip of the tile and may be moved simultaneously and in the opposite direction with
the same with the object of bevelling or profiling the front edges of the cement
roofing tile, substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 20th day of September 1898.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.