Improvements in Copings for Walls and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 30th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 11th Dec., 1897
Improvements in Copings for Walls and the like.
I, JOHN ECKERSLEY of 43A Market Street, Manchester, Estate Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to coping for protecting or adding a finish to the top edge of
a wall or gable and has for its object to so construct the coping that it will be more
securely located and held on the wall than heretofore.
In accordance with my invention I form the coping in clay or other ordinary
inaterial, and in the ordinary way, but instead of forming the underside with a flat
face or with a small longitudinal groove or cavity as heretofore for the mortar which
lies upon the top of the wall to enter, and thereby form anything but a permanent
attachment to the wall, I form the coping with a set of ribs or flanges upon its
underside, which run parallel with each other; and leave between them a longitudinal
groove or recess, equal to, or, by preference, slightly greater than, the width of the
wall to be protected.
When now the coping is placed upon the wall the two ribs or flanges take on either
side thereof, and depending downwards effectually prevent the coping from working,
or being pushed sideways, off the wall, and with the addition of mortar, and say the
opposite sides of the groove slightly dovetailed, the coping is also effectually prevented
from being lifted bodily off the wall in ordinary wear and tear.
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JOHN ECKERSLEY,
By John G. Wilson & Co,
Improvements in Copings for Walls and the like.
I, JOHN ECKERSLEY of 43A Market Street, Manchester, Estate Agent, 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:
My invention relates to coping for protecting or adding a finish to the top edges
of walls or gables, and has for its object to so construct the coping that it will be
more securely located and held on the wall than heretofore.
In accordance with my invention I form the coping in clay or other suitable
material, and in the ordinary way, but instead of forming the underside with a flat face,"
or with a small longitudinal groove or cavity as heretofore for the mortar which lies
upon the top of the wall to enter, and thereby form anything but a permanent
attachment to the wall;-I form the coping with a set of ribs or flanges upon its
underside which run parallel with each other, and leave between them a longitudinal"
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page_text: groove or recess, equal to, or, by preference, slightly greater than, the width of the
wall to be protected.
When the coping is placed upon the wall, the two ribs or flanges take on either
side thereof, and depending downwards effectually prevent the coping from working,
or being pushed sideways, off the wall, and with the addition of mortar, and say the
opposite faces of the groove slightly dovetailed, the coping is also effectually
prevented from being lifted bodily off the wall in ordinary wear and tear.
And in order that any said invention may be more readily understood and carried
into practical effect I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings and will now
proceed to describe the same with the figures and letters of reference marked
thereon.
Fig. 1 is a transverse section (about half size) of my improved wall coping.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view on a small scale.
Fig. 3 illustrates the Application of my invention to a like purpose and
Fig. 4 illustrates a modification.
As clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, I form the coping proper (A) of the usual cross-
section, and without in any way increasing its height above the wall, 1 form or
provide upon its under face two flanges or ribs (B), which when the coping is placed
on the top of a wall (C) take on either side of such wall as illustrated, and producing
a 'saddle' like effect, prevent the coping being pushed off the wall.
The flanges are, by preference, made of the cross-section shewn in the drawing,
and lie well beneath the coping in order to give a neat appearance and finish to the
top of the wall and to facilitate manufacture. The edges of, the .coping at (A¹) are
made vee-shape to form a dripping edge for the rain.
The opposite inner faces of the projections may slope inwards, and thus produce a
dovetail grip on the mortar placed between them and bricks, and so prevent the
coping being lifted, as well as pushed, off the wall:
In lieu of forming the coping of clay I may form it of any suitable composition;
and instead of the flanges being moulded in one piece with the coping (nade of the
saine substance), I may produce them of other substances intermoulded with the
coping proper, and in such connection I may employ sectional or segmental flanges
or ribs.
Whilst chiefly applicable to copings for walls my invention may be applied to.
copings, or like objects, for securing chimney pots, as shewn in Fig. 3, the copings (D)
being formed square and provided with flanges (E),-one taking over the outer
side of the bricks (F) and the other taking on the inside, and thus locking the coping
in position.
The said coping also comprises a rib or flange (G) which takes into the interior of
the chimney pot (H), or lies around it as shewn in dotted lines, aud thus the chimney
is effectually stayed and prevented moving.
In like manner to the wall coping the respective flanges may have a 'slight inward
slope, and thus tie with the mortar on the bricks or chimney.
To allow of the coping being placed or used either way up, and so be reversible, I
may provide both sides with flanges as shewn for example in Fig. 4, and in such way
permit of the coping being used for locking or retaining anything placed upon, or
above, it as well as being itself locked upon that which is beneath it.
Similarly, the coping may be used for various architectural purposes, and for
example as a spouting or gutter for draining purposes with its upper side formed
with a groove or recess to receive the rain, and its lower side formed with flanges to
lock on the wall.
Having thus 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 and desire to secure by Letters Patent is :-
1: The improved coping for walls composed of any suitable material and formed
with depending ribs, flanges or projections of any suitable depth, as and for the
purposes set forth,

page_text: 2: The improved flanges herein described for securing coping or the like upon
walls or gables, or of supporting or tying with structural devices, as set forth.
3. The use of coping (A) with depending ribs,, flanges or projections (B), sloping
or otherwise, and continuous or segmental, as set forth.
4: The use of coping (D) as shewn in Fig. 3, or coping (1) as shewn in Fig. 4. for
the purposes set forth.