IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC TILES FOR ROOFING PURPOSES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Alexandre Calley St. Paul de Singay,
Director General of the Société Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies. de
Zino de la Vieille Montagne, of 13, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC TILES FOR ROOFING
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 23rd July 1869, and dated the 9th February 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Alexandre
Calley St. Paul de Sinçay at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th February 1869.
I, LOUIS ALEXANDRE CALLEY ST. PAUL DE SINÇAY, Director General
of the Société Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vieille
Montagne, of 13, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC TILES FOR ROOFING
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to improvements in metallic tiles for roofing
purposes. These improved tiles are made in squares of any suitable
dimensions, but preferably of from 12 to 30 inches square.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a plan of one of
my improved tiles, and Figure 2 an underside plan of same; Figure 3
shows a number of the tiles connected together to form the roofing;
Figure 4 is a section of a metallic tile taken on the line A, B, Figures 1
and 3; and Figure 5, a section on line C, D, Figure 3, showing the mode
of connecting two tiles together. The same reference letters apply to
the several Figures.
According to my Invention I provide the tiles with lateral flanges
E, F, by which they are connected together, and also with ears G, H,
for securing the tiles to the framing of the roof. The ears G are fixed
at one corner of the tiles, while the ears H are made to hook on to the
flanges E, and are also secured by nailing to the rafters. The number
of these ears H varies according to the size of the tiles. By making
the tiles of small dimensions, as shown, I am enabled to use much
thinner and cheaper metal than is the case when the tiles are made of
considerable size.
The tiles, of my Invention are further designed with a view to prevent
the admission of wet or moisture. For. this purpose the four lateral
flanges by which the tiles are connected together are provided with
hollow beads or rims J, so that when the tiles are superposed a free space
is left between them, and the wind is prevented from entering under
the tiles. Owing to the slant of the roof and the disposition of the
flanges any water which may have penetrated to a certain extent
between the tiles under the action of a high wind will run off to the
lower corner K of the tiles, and so on to the roof. This improved mode
of attaching the tiles the one to the other is adapted to tiles of all
dimensions, whether made of zinc or other metal.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Louis Alexandre Calley St. Paul de Sinçay in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th July 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
ALEXANDRE CALLEY ST. PAUL DE SINÇAY, Director General of the
Société Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vieille Montagne,
of 13, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, send greeting.
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page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Louis Alexandre Calley St. Paul de
Singay, my Her special licence that I, the said Louis Alexandre Calley
St. Paul de Singay, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Louis Alexandre Calley St. Paul de Sinçay, my exe-
cutors, 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 Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
METALLIC TILES FOR ROOFING PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Louis Alexandre Calley St. Paul de Sinçay my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, 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 Louis Alexandre Calley St. Paul
de Singay, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures
marked thereon (that is to say):-
My Invention relates to improvements in metallic tiles for roofing
purposes. These improved tiles are made in squares of any suitable
dimensions, but preferably of from 12 to 30 inches spuare.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a plan of one of
my improved tiles, and Figure 2 an under side plan of same; Figure 3
shows a number of the tiles connected together to form the roofing;
Figure 4 is a section of a metallic tile taken on the line A, B, Figures 1
and 3; and Figure 5, a section on line C, D, Figure 3, showing the mode
of connecting two tiles together. The same reference letters apply to
the several Figures.
According to my Invention I provide the tiles with lateral flanges E. F.

page_text: by which they are connected together, and also with ears G, H, for
securing the tiles to the framing of the roof. The ears G are fixed at
onc corner of the tiles, while the ears H are made to hook onto the
flanges E and are also secured by nailing to the rafters. The number
of these ears H varies according to the size of the tiles. By making
the tiles of small dimensions, as shown, I am enabled to use much
thinner and cheaper metal than is the case when the tiles are made of
considerable size.
The tiles of my Invention are further designed with a view to prevent
the admission of wet or moisture. For this purpose the four lateral
flanges by which the tiles are connected together are provided with
hollow beads or rims J, so that when the tiles are superposed a free
space is left between them, and the wind is prevented from entering
under the tiles, while the reflux of the rain water cannot take place.
Owing to the slant of the roof and the disposition of the flanges any
water which may have penetrated to a certain extent between the tiles
under the action of a high wind will run off to the lower corner K of
the tiles, and so onto the roof. This improved mode of attaching the
tiles the one to the other is adapted to tiles of all dimensions, whether
made of zinc or other metal.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to
be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the improved construction of metallic tiles for roofing purposes hercin-
before described consisting of thin plates of zinc or other metal of various
sizes, as also the mode of uniting the tiles one to the other, substantially
as shown in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Alexandre Calley St. Paul
de Sinçay, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.
L. A. C. ST. PAUL DE SIN AY. (L.S.)