Improvements in and Apparatus for Glazing Horticultural and other Glazed Structures.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 20th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 21st Sept.,
1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Apparatus for Glazing Horticultural and other
Glazed Structures.
We CHARLES ALLEN, WILLIAM ALLEN, WALTER ALLEN, JESSE ALLEN, and
FREDERICK ALLEN all of Macclesfield Road Holmes Chapel near Crewe Cheshire
Horticultural Builders and Hot Water Engineers do hereby declare the nature of our
said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements upon an invention for which Letters Patent
No. 3763 A.D. 1884 were granted to two of the present applicants and consist in a
novel means of supporting and protecting the extremities of the improved leaden or
other bars (provided with grooves at each side to receive the edges of the glass as
described in the former specification) where they are secured to the purlins of the
roofs and other parts of glass houses.
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This improved apparatus consists of a sheet brass suspender or clip inserted between
the leaden bar and the purlin and which is turned up at its lower extremity so as to
grasp the end of the leaden bar.
It will be apparent that when the screw which secures the leaden bar to the purlin
is passed through the leaden bar and the clip so disposed that the parts are more
securely fastened together than heretofore. Besides being used upon the purlins
these improved suspenders are equally applicable to the bars employed in the ends and
divisions of glass houses. And to prevent the drip running along the purlins more
effectually than heretofore we chamfer off the top edge of the purlins and thus allow
the moisture to continue to run down inside the glass.
Dated this 19th day of November 1888.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Apparatus for Glazing Horticultural and other
Glazed Structures.
We CHARLES ALLEN, WILLIAM ALLEN, WALTER ALLEN, JESSE ALLEN and
FREDERICK ALLEN all of Macclesfield Road, Holmes Chapel near Crewe, Cheshire,
Horticultural Builders and Hotwater Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of our
said 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 relates to improvements upon an invention for which Letters Patent
No. 3763 A.D. 1884 were granted to two of the present applicants and consists in a
novel means of supporting and protecting the extremities of the improved leaden or
other bars (provided with grooves at each side to receive the edges of the glass as
described in the former Specification) where they are secured to the purlins of the
roofs and other parts of the glass houses.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a side sectional view of a glazed roof
embodying our improvements.
Fig. 2 is a side view and Fig. 3 a plan view of our improved suspenders shewn
detached and drawn upon an enlarged scale.
In all the views a a are the purlins of the roof which to prevent the drip running
along are chamfered off at the top edge as illustrated and thus allow the moisture to
continue to run down the inside of the glass. Our improved supporting apparatus
consists of a sheet-brass suspender or clip 6 (seen more clearly in Figs. 2 and 3)
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page_text: inserted between the leaden bars cand the purlins a and which clip b is turned up at
its lower extremity so as to grasp the end of the leaden bar. It will be apparent that
when the screw d which secures the leaden bar to the purlin is passed through the
leaden bar and through the clip so disposed and is screwed into the purlin that the
parts are more securely supported and fastened together than heretofore. Besides
being used upon the purlins these improved suspenders c are equally applicable to the
bars employed in the ends and divisions of glass houses.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The improvements in and apparatus for glazing horticultural and other glass
structures substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawing.
Baron a way of August
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.