CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE op TILES FOR ROOFING
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine.
Moreau, of the English and Foreign Patent Office, 4, South
Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris,
France, for the Invention.of." CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand Le
Comte de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th July 1858.
1, PETER ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the English
and Foreign Patent Office, 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, & 39,
Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, France, do hereby declare that the nature
of the Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE op
TILES FOR ROOFING to be as follows:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in constructing tiles
having a flat surface with two channellings, which divide it in nearly
five equal parts. The lower and upper ends of the tile are provided
with rims (of about three fifths of an inch); one of these rims projects
upwards and the other downwards, and their clamping together pre-

page_text: vents the rain and snow from oozing between the jointed tiles. Each
of the tiles is provided on its left end with a projecting rim, and on the
right end with a tapering channel into which the rim of the lower tile
fits to make a perfect joining.
The channelling covers the jutting out rim, thereby leaving a suffi-
cient space for the defects arising from the warping or cooling of the
tiles. The tiles can be constructel of cast iron, plastic clay, gutta-
percha, or of any other suitable substances.
Figure 1, is a plan of the tile.
Figure 2. section taken through the centre.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau
in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 27th January 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, T.
PETER ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the English and
Foreign Patent Office, 4, Sonth Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue
de l'Echiquier, Paris, France, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Ferself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de
Fontaine Moreau, Her special licence that I, the said Peter Armand Le
Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Treland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TILES FOR ROOFING,"

page_text: communicated to me from a foreigner residing abroad, upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de
Fontaine Moreau, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de
Fontaine Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement.
thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereto annexed, and to
the figures marked thereon, that is to say:
The Invention communicated to me consists in constructing tiles of
metal, clay, glass, or gutta percha, with a double channelling and over-
lapping sides, by which greater strength and a more perfectly water-
tight covering is obtained than by the ordinary mode of roofing.
Figure 1, of the Drawing is a plan of the tile made of metal.
Figure 2, a section through A, B, of the same.
Figure 3, section through C, D.
The tile is here shewn about fourteen inches in length by ten inches
in breadth, and one tenth of an inch in thickness; it is provided with
two channellings dividing the bottom of the tile into five nearly equal
parts, and serving to draw the water towards the middle of the tile.
A rim is made at the upper extremity of one tile projecting about one
fifth of an inch upwards from its face, and a similar rim made on
another tile projecting at its lower extremity, which overlaps the former
and forms the joint. The rims thus fisting the one over the other
protect the tile most securely from the penetration of water or snow.
The tiles are united sideways in the length of the roof, and prevent
any shrinking.
This new mode of covering is applicable to the known systems of
constructing roofs, which may in future be rendered considerably
lighter in consequence of the low pitch required.
The clay, glass, or gutta percha tiles of the above-described form

page_text: may be produced by known processes. They are made with one channel.
The dimensions and form of the tiles may vary according to the kind
and quality of the materials employed; the form of the jointing, how-
ever, remains the same.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the construction of metal, clay, glass, or gutta percha
tiles for roofing, with corrugations and overapping sides, as herein-
before described and referred to in Figures 1, 2, and 3, of the
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de
Fontaine Moreau, have hereto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
L' DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.S.)