Improved Means for Securing Tiles, Marble Slabs, and the like to Walls, Ceilings, and other Surfaces.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 30th Jan., 1900-Accepted, 17th Mar., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Tiles, Marble Slabs, and the like
to Walls, Ceilings, and other Surfaces.
I, HENRY ROBERTSON, of 1, Afton Place, Dumbarton, in the County of
Dumbarton, North Britain, Mason, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows, that is to say ;-
My said invention has for its object to provide improved means for securing tiles,
marble slabs, and the like to walls, ceilings, and other surfaces, the improve-
ments being specially applicable to the walls and ceilings of ship's rooms and
other places, where the surfaces are liable to vibration.
In carrying out my invention I provide a holding rib made preferably in
the form of an angle iron bar or L shaped strip, which is fixed to a part
requiring to be laid with tiles, (a wall for example) by screws or other suitable
fastenings. The web of the rib which projects out at right angles from the
surface of the wall, has formed on its outer edges small outer flanges, and is
made deep enough for the tiles to fit between the inner sides of the flanges
and the surface, of the wall. The holding ribs thus formed are fixed to the wall
at such distances apart that the tiles will fit between a pair of them, and when
the tiles are fixed in position, by means of stucco or other suitable composition,
the inner sides of the small flanges herein before referred to bear against their
outer edges, and thereby prevent them from being dislodged. If desired, the
outer surfaces of the small flanges exposed to view may be ornamented in any
0 suitable manner.
The joints of tiles extending between each pair of holding ribs may also
be covered by a flanged holding rib or strip.
1
Tune 1899
Improved Means for Securing Tiles, Marble Slabs, and the
to Walls, Ceilings, and other Surfaces.
I, HENRY ROBERTSON, of 1, Afton Place, Dumbarton, in the County of
Dumbarton, North Britain, Masou, 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, that is to say:-
My said invention has for its object to provide improved means for securing tiles,
marble slabs, and the like to walls, ceilings, and other surfaces, the improve-

page_text: ments being especially applicable to the walls and ceilings of ship's rooms and
other places, where the surfaces are liable to vibration, and where at present
holding screws are employed for securing the tiles, or slabs to prevent their
dislodgement by vibration.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the
same may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory
drawings to be hereinafter referred to in describing the improvements.
In the acompanying drawings Figúre, 1, is a horizontal section and Figure, 2,
is a
front elevation of a part used in carrying out the improvements.
Figure, 3, is a horizontal section, and Figure, 4, is a front elevation showing
the improvements as applied to a wall or part requiring to be laid with tiles.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or
like parts wherever they are repeated.
In carrying out my-invention I provide a holding rib, A, made preferably
in the form of an angle iron bar or L shaped strip of any suitable metal, which
is fixed to a part, B, requiring to be laid with tiles, (a wall for example as
shown), by screws, C, or other suitable fastenings. The web of the holding
rib, A, which projects out at right angles from the surface of the wall, has
formed on its outer edges small outer flanges, D, and is made deep enough
to suit the thickness of the tiles or slabs, E, which are fitted between the
inner sides of the flanges and the surface of the wall. The holding ribs thus
formed, are fixed to the wall at such distances apart, that the tiles,. E, will
fit between a pair of them, and when the tiles are fixed in position by means
of stucco or other suitable composition, the inner sides of the small flanges, D,
bear against the outer edges of the tiles and thereby prevent them from being
dislodged. If desired, the outer surfaces of the small flanges exposed to view
may be ornamented in any suitable manner.
The joints, G, of the tiles extending between each pair of holding ribs, A,
may also be covered if desired by a flanged holding rib or strip.
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
1 claim is:―
Improved means for securing tiles, marble slabs, and the like to walls, ceilings,
and other surfaces, consisting of holding ribs or strips preferably | shaped in
cross section, having small Hanges formed on the webs of the strips which
project out at right angles from the surface of the wall or other part, the strips
being fixed to the wall or other part at suitable distances apart substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore described with reference to the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of January 1900
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.