AN IMPROVED METHOD OF LAYING COVERING, COMPOSED OF LEAD OR OTHER METAL, ON THE ROOF OF HOUSES OR OTHER BUILDINGS, WITH DRAINS, WHEREBY THE PART OF THE WATER PALLING ON SUCH ROOF, WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE PENETRATE IS CARRIED OFF, AND ROLLS AND SEAMS ARE RENDERED UNNECESSARY
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWIN
MARTEN, of the Village of Brasted, in the County of Kent, Plumber, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twelfth day of January, in the second year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Edwin
Marten, Her especial licence, that I, the said Edwin Marten, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edwin Marten, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from, time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, 'should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF LAYING COVERING, COMPOSED OF LEAD OR OTHER METAL, ON THE ROOF
OF HOUSES OR OTHER BUILDINGS, WITH DRAINS, WHEREBY THE PART OF THE WATER
PALLING ON SUCH ROOF, WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE PENETRATE IS CARRIED OFF, AND
ROLLS AND SEAMS ARE RENDERED UNNECESSARY;" in which said Letters: Patent
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Edwin Marten, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High.Court
of Chancery within six calendar' months next and immediately after the date

page_text: of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edwin Marten, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to consist
in cutting the metal covering for roofs into small sheets or plates, and forming
drains or gutters therein or thereto, and then arranging them in such manner
as to make the gutters effective in carrying off the water which falls on the
said roofs. And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Edwin
Marten, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be
performed, by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to
on my Patent plan,
Figure 1 is a plan of one of my said small sheets or plates, and supposed
in this Figure to be made of zinc. G is what I call a gutter piece soldered
underneath, and on to one side of the plate, as shown in section at Figure 2,
or bent in the plate as shown at Figure 3. A is one side of the plate turned
up to form a hook, and B is the opposite side turned down to form a hook, as
shewn in section at Figure 4. Figure 5 is the plan of a plate for the ridge
or apex of the roof; and Figure 6 is the ridge plate shown in section;
Figure 7 is a sectional end view of a pitch roof with metal covering laid on
my Patent plan. The hooks A and B only are shown in this view, and it
will be seen that for the ridge plates they are both turned down. Figure 8.
is another sectional view taken from end to end of the roof, and showing
the gutter pieces G. Figure 9 is a plan of a roof with metal covering laid
showing how the gutter pieces are nailed through in
order to keep the plates down to their places, while the weather boards to
which they are nailed are separated a little from each other, where the line of
gutters runs, in order to let the gutter pieces drop, and thus preserve the level
surface of the roofs. C, C, C, are ridge plates, and one ridge plate and one
other plate are removed, in order to shew more clearly my Patent plan of
laying the series of plates, which form the covering at D, D, D, D; the sides
of the plates are cut at each side of the gutter, and dressed down to the
eve plates, leaving the roof gutters projecting conveniently to carry off the
water from those gutters into the eve gutters. Figure 10 is a sectional end
view of a flat or nearly flat roof, to be masked by a parapet with a central
gutter, and in which one side of each plate is so turned up as to form a
second and smaller gutter g, Figure 11; this smaller gutter must become
shallower at the side opposite to the larger gutter G, as shown at e, Figure 12,

page_text: in order to slip conveniently under its neighbouring plate. Figure 13 is a
plan of Figures 11 and 12; Figure 14 is a plan of Figure 10; and Figure
15 is a section of Figure 14; Figure 16 is a plan of gutter that may be
adopted in situations but little exposed to driving rains.
Now, whereas it is evident that my said Invention is equally applicable to
lead, zinc, iron, tin, copper, or other the like metal coverings to roofs, and I
claim as my Invention laying the metal covering, of whatever metal it may be,
in small sheets or plates made with drains or gutters, as herein-before described,
soldered or fastened to or formed in the same, and arranged and fixed as
shewn in the Drawing annexed; and such my Invention being to the best
of my knowledge and belief entirely new and never before used, within that
part of Her said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
called England, Her Dominions of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do
verily believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects fully and
without reserve or disguise with the proviso in the said herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I hereby claim to maintain ex-
clusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Marten, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
year of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid Edwin Marten came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-nine.