IMPROVEMENTS IN ROOFING HOUSES OR OTHER BUILDINGS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of
Robertson, Brooman,, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City
of London,. Patent Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ROOFING HOUSES OR OTHER BUILDINGS."-A communication from abroad.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 10th December 1868..
I, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman,
and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE..
MENTS IN ROOFING HOUSES OR OTHER BUILDINGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in roofing or covering houses or other
buildings with oblique slates or tiles secured by bent metallic wires.
or fastenings and staples or eyes on wooden or metallic lathwork. To.

page_text: carry out this mode of roofing square slates or tiles are employed
without a shoulder and with a notch at the base to receive the metallic
wires or fastenings fixed to oblique lathwork.
The wires or fastenings
are preferably of zinc or of galvanized iron. The bottom or lower part
of each engages into the notch of a slate or tile, whereby a strong roof
or covering is obtained. Near the sides and bottom of the roof, when
the complementary pieces of slate are not sufficiently secured by the
single fastening, small zinc pieces may be added and be disposed as the
workmen may think best according to the shape or size of the com-
plementary pieces. The wires or fastenings are twisted into such shapes
as may be found most advantageous.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 5th June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLINTON
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company,
of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting..
at
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her special
licence that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROOFING HOUSES OR OTHER BUILDINGS,"
communicated to me from abroad by Theophile Caranton, of Fresnay-les-
Chaumes, France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-

page_text: tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in roofing or covering houses or other
buildings with oblique slates or tiles secured by bent metallic wires
or fastenings and staples or eyes on wooden or metallic lathwork. To
carry out this mode of roofing square slates or tiles are employed
without a shoulder and with a notch at the base to receive the metallic.
wires or fastenings fixed to oblique lathwork. The wires or fastenings
are preferably of zinc or of galvanized iron. The bottom or lower part
of each engages into the notch of a slate or tile, whereby a strong roof or
covering is obtained. Near the sides and bottom of the roof, when the
complementary pieces of slate are not sufficiently secured by the single
fastening, small zinc picces may be added and be disposed as the
workman may think best according to the shape or size of the com-
plementary pieces. The wires or fastenings are twisted into such shapes
as may be found most advantageous.
Figure 1 represents a portion of a roof with oblique tiles according
to this Invention; Figure 2 is a side detailed view of a similar portion;
and Figures 3 and 4 are respectively front and side views of the wires
or fastenings which I employ.
The laths a, a, are oblique, as seen in Figure 1; they directly support
the square slates or tiles b, b, which are held in place by the wires or
fastenings c, c. These wires or fastenings are fixed in the laths and held
by means of the small staples d, d; the lower part of each fastening c
engages into the notch f of each slate. b, g, are the small zinc pieces
before mentioned to be used for fastening the complementary picces
of slate. It is preferred that the laths should be at an angle of 45° or
thereabouts with the eaves line, and the distance between the slates
will vary according to the kind of roofing desired. The roofing may
be commenced from the right or left, and the fastenings will vary
accordingly. When the laths are of iron the wires or fastenings are

page_text: pressed round the laths in the most convenient manner according to
circumstances.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,
roofing houses and other buildings by the employment of slates or tiles
without shoulders, and of wires and laths arranged and fitted substan-
tially in the manner herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-ninth day of May
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-ninc.