A New or Improved Clip or Fastening. for Securing and Tipping the Exposed Ends of the Rafters of Glazed and other Roofs.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
A New or Improved Clip or Fastening. for Securing and Tipping the
Exposed Ends of the Rafters of Glazed and other Roofs.
I JONAH BANKS, of London Works, Clothier Street, Willenhall, in the County
of Stafford, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In order that my invention may be the better understood I reinark that the
exposed ends of the rafters of glazed and other roofs are ordinarily fixed to the
wall plate or supporting beam by driving a nail vertically through the end-of
the rafters into the wall plate or supporting beam. In consequence of the decay
or rotting of the exposed ends of the said rafters the fastening sooner or later
becomes insecure and during the prevalence of winds or storms the said roofs are
frequently detached from their supporting, wall plates or beams and much damage
to the roof results.
My invention has for its object to obviate the defects of the ordinary method of
fixing the rafters and consists in using for that purpose the new or improved clip
or fastening hereinafter described for securing and tipping or protecting the exposed
ends of the said rafters.
My new or improved clip or fastening is made preferably from strips of iron or
steel of a width equal or nearly equal to the width of the rebate of the rafters to
the ends of which the said clips or fastenings are to be applied. The said clip or
fastening is formed by bending a metallic strip of, say, about six inches in length
into two arms or branches of about equal length, one being vertical when the clip
is in use and the other inclined to the vertical arm or branch at the same angle as
the roof to which the said clips or fastenings are to be applied. The middle part
of the said clip is doubled upon itself the doubled part terminating in the vertical
arm or branch, the said doubled part constituting a tip or metallic termination to
the exposed end of the rafter for carrying rain water over the vertical arm or
branch and preventing the said rain water running.down the said vertical arm.
The clip or fastening is preferably galvanized by which treatment the branches
of the doubled part or tip are soldered together and are virtually made one
piece:
The new or improved clip or fastening is secured to the exposed end of the rafter
by means of screws passed through holes in the inclined arm of the clip and to the
wall plate by means of a screw or screws passed through the vertical arm of the
clip. In this way the said rafters are very securely fixed to the wall plate
the exposed end being covered and protected from the effects of rain water
running from the roof and the said roofs are not liable to the dangers hereinbefore
eferred to.
Dated this Fourth day of April 1895.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: A New or Improved Clip or Fastening for Securing and Tipping the
Exposed Ends of the Rafters of Glazed and other Roofs.
I JONAH BANKS, of London Works, Clothier Street Willenhall in the County
of Stafford, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
In order that my invention may be the better understood I remark that the
exposed ends of the rafters of glazed and other roofs are ordinarily fixed to the
wall plate or supporting beam by driving a nail vertically through the end of
the rafters into the wall plate or supporting beam. In consequence of the decay
or rotting of the exposed ends of the said rafters the fastening sooner or later
becomes insecure and during the prevalence of winds or storms the said roofs are
frequently detached from their supporting wall plates or beams and much damage
to the roof results.
My invention has for its object to obviate the defects of the ordinary method of
fixing the rafters and consists in using for that purpose the new or improved clip
or fastening hereinafter described for securing and tipping or protecting the exposed
ends of the said rafters.
My new or improved clip or fastening is made preferably from strips of iron or
steel of a width equal or nearly equal to the width of the top edge of the rafters to
the ends of which the said clips or fastenings are to be applied. The said clip or
fastening is formed by bending a metallic strip of, say, about six inches in length
into two arms or branches of about equal length, one being vertical when the clip
is in use and the other inclined to the vertical arm or branch at the same angle as
the roof to which the said clips or fastenings are to be applied. The middle part
of the said clip is doubled upon itself, the doubled part terminating in the vertical
arm or branch, the said doubled part constituting a tip or metallic termination to
the exposed end of the rafter for carrying rain water over the vertical arm or
branch and preventing the said rain water running down the said vertical arm.
The clip or fastening is preferably galvanized by which treatment the branches
of the doubled part or tip are soldered together and are virtually made one
piece.
The new or improved clip or.fastening is secured to the exposed end of the rafter
by means of screws passed through holes in the inclined arm of the clip and to the
wall plate by means of a. screw or screws passed through the vertical arm of the
clip. In this way the said rafters are very securely fixed to the wall plate
the exposed end being covered and protected from the effects of rain water
running from the roof and the said roofs are not liable to the dangers herein before
referred to.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in perspective one of my new
or improved clips or fastenings for securing and tipping the exposed end of the
rafters of glazed and other roofs; Figure 2 represents in vertical section a rafter
fixed to a wall plate by means of one of the said clips or fastenings.
Figure 3 is a perspective view drawn to a smaller scale of a portion of the wood-
work of a glazed roof the glazing bars of which are provided with and are secured
to the wall plate by the clips or fastening tips constituting my invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
The clip or fastening tip represented consists of a metallic strip, preferably of
sheet iron or steel, doubled upon itself at or about its middle. One of the arms or
branches marked a, of the doubled strip is bent at about three quarters of au inch

page_text: from the doubled end c so as to make such an angle with the other or unbent arm
or branch 6 that when the arm a is placed against the front or vertical face of the
wall plate the arm b fits on the inclined rafter or glazing bar e.
The arms or
branches a, b have countersunk holes made in them through which screws f, f, fare
passed for fastening the clip to the wall plate d and rafter or glazing bar e, the
fixing of the clip to the said rafter or glazing bar simultaneously securing the
latter to the wall plate. The doubled part c projecting beyond the rafter or
glazing bar e constitutes the tip for carrying rain water over the wall plate.
The clips or fastening tips are preferably galvanized to protect them from rust
and to effect the soldering of the two parts of the strip where they are doubled at c
upon one another.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention :-
The new or improved clip or fastening for securing and tipping the exposed ends
of the rafters of glazed and other roofs hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawing, that is to say, a clip or fastening consisting of a
metallic strip, preferably of iron or steel, doubled upon itself at or about its middle
the doubled part being again bent at a short distance from the doubled end at such
an angle that when the last named part is applied to the vertical face of the wall
plate the flat or unbent part of the clip fits on the rafter or glazing bar to be
secured to the wall plate, the doubled middle part of the clip projecting from the
end of the rafter or glazing bar and constituting the tip for the same substantially
as described and illustrated.
Dated the Twelfth day of December 1895.