Plates and Buttons for Fixing and Securing Roof and other Coverings of Various Materials in such Manner that Winds and other Forces cannot Displace them.
Year: 1887

page_text: Plates and Buttons for Fixing and Securing Roof and other
Coverings of Various Materials in such Manner that Winds
and other Forces cannot Displace them.
I, WILLIAM RICK WOOD of 243, Burrage Road, Plumstead in the County of Kent,
Architect and Surveyor 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 :-
The nature of this my invention is a simple and effecacious means of securing loose
Slates, Tiles and other articles, adjustable to any thickness and guage and easily
fixed.
Plates and buttons made in accordance with this my invention consist of a metal
plate slightly sunk in the centre for additional stability thereto, and to prevent the
nail or screw head rising above the surface, the sunk portion is pierced to receive nails
or screws for fixing the plates to the battens or boarding, the lower end of the plate is
thickened and tapped to receive a screw to be inserted after the Roof covering has
been placed in position and is provided with a circular or other shaped button screwed
on as far as may be necessary to press upon the slate and thus prevent it rising.
The primary object of this my invention is a substitute for the ordinary Zinc, Lead
or wire clips generally used for fixing Slates in repairs and which are as a rule too
pliable or too easily broken to be relied upon, and are not found efficient.
That this my said invention may be more readily seen and understood, I have
bereunto annexed drawings thereof which' will illustrate the practical application of
the same, like letters and figures marked thereon are used to denote similar parts.
[Price 6d.]

page_text: Figure 1. Plan of the said plate.
2. Longitudinal section of same.
3. Cross section.
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4. The button and screw.
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5. The nails for firing plate
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,
Firstly. The thin strong plate sunk in centre to fit in between the rough edges of
the slates and pierced at several points to fix them to any guage of battens.
Secondly. The application of an adjustable screw to be inserted after the Slate has
been put in position.
Thirdly. The application of the screw down button which presses the Slate as nearly
as possible into its original position and prevents its rising or shifting.
Dated this Eighth day of October 1887
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,
Firstly. The thin strong plate sunk in centre to fit in between the rough edges of
the slates and pierced at several points to fix them to any guage of battens.
Secondly. The application of an adjustable screw to be inserted after the Slate has
been put in position.
Thirdly. The application of the screw down button which presses the Slate as nearly
as possible into its original position and prevents its rising or shifting.
Dated this Eighth day of October 1887
WM. RICKWOOD.