IMPROVEMENTS IN SKYLIGHTS AND GLASS ROOFING
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Stanley, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Merchant, and Joseph Fittall, of Birmingham, aforesaid,
Warehouse Clerk, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SKYLIGHTS AND
GLASS ROOFING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Stanley and Joseph
Fittall at the Oflice of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 28th May 1858.
We, CHARLES STANLEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant,
and JOSEPH FITTALL, of Birmingham aforesaid, Warehouse Clerk, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SKYLIGHTS AND
GLASS ROOFING," to be as follows:-
Our said Invention consists of the method berein-after explained of con-
structing glass plates to be used for skylights and roofing, and also in tho
method described of fixing the same in the bars or framing of the skylight or
roofing.
We make the said glass plates of a somewhat trough-like form, that is to
say, we turn up those edges of the glass plate which have to rest upon the
bars of the skylight or roofing. We also make the said bars of a concave
figure at their base. The plates are laid in their places between the bars, the
lower edge of one overlapping the upper edge of the next below it; we lay

page_text: over the edge of the supporting bars plates of metal bent into a V shape,
the said plates being laid on the bars in the position of an inverted V, the
edges of the said V plates covering the edges of the glass plates; at each junc-
tion of the glass plates we attach clips to the supporting bars, the said clips
fitting on the bars, and being attached thereto by screws. The under surface
of the clip, is of such a form that it fits the overlapping ends of the plates, and
prevents the sliding of the said plates. The clips also retain the V shaped
plates in their places. In constructing skylights and roofing according to our
Invention, the use of putty is unnecessary.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Stanley and Joseph Fittall in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th November 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
STANLEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant, and JOSEPHI
FITTALL, of Birmingham aforesaid, Warehouse Clerk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Charles Stanley and Joseph Fittall, Her special licence that we, the
said. Charles Stanley and Joseph Fittall, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Charles Stanley and Joseph Fittall,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at 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 SKYLIGHTS. AND
GLASS ROOFING," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Charles
Stanley and Joseph Fittall, our executors or administrators, by an instrument -
in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the band and seal
of one of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, 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 Charles Stanley, do hereby declare
tho nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
Our said Invention consists of the method herein-after particularly described,
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, of constructing glass plates to be
used for skylights and roofing, and also in the method herein-after particularly
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, of fixing the said glass
plates in the bars or framing of the skylight or roofing. Our said Invention is
particularly applicable to the construction of glass roofing and skylights for
warm climates; but our Invention may be applied to the construction of glass
roofing and sklyights for general use.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in perspective a portion
of a glass roofing made according to our Invention; and Figure 2 represents
a transverse vertical section of a portion of the same, the said section,
Figure 2, being represented on a larger scale than the roofing represented in
Figure 1. The other Figures represent detached portions of the same, as
herein-after explained. The same letters are employed to indicate the same
parts in the several Figures.
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We make the glass plates a, one of which is shown separately on a largo
scale in Figure 3, of a somewhat trough-like form, as represented, that is to
say, we turn up those edges of the glass plate which have to rest upon the bars
of the skylight or roofing. We also make the bars or framing of the sky-
light or roofing of a concave figure at their base, as represented. A portion
of a bar made according to our Invention is shown separately in perspective
(partly in section) in Figure 4. The glass plates a are laid in their places
between the bars b, b, as seen in Figures 1 and 2, the lower edge of one over-
lapping the upper edge of the next below it, as in glass roofing of the ordinary
construction. After the plates a have been put in their places between the
bars b, b, we lay over the edge of each of the said bars plates of metal c (see
Figure 2) bent into a nearly V shaped figure, the said metal c being laid on
the bars in the position represented in Figure 2, the said V shaped plates
covering the edges of the glass plates a, and thus preventing the rain from
passing over the turned up edges of the said glass plates a. At cach junction
of the glass plates a we attach metallic or other clips d to the supporting bars
or framing b, b, the said clips d fitting on the said bars b, and retaining the
V shaped plates c in their places on the said bars, as will be understood by
referring to the section, Figure 2. The clips d are fixed to the bars 6 by
screws c. The under surface of each of the clips d is cut away at f, as shown
in the section of one of the said clips, Figure 5, in order that the said clips may
fit upon the upper edge of the two overlapping plates, as will be best seen by

page_text: referring to Figure 1; the shoulder or boss 7 on the lower ends of the said
clips supporting the lower edge of the glass plates, and preventing the sliding
of the same. We prefer to make the bars or framing b, b, of iron, but any
other suitable metal or material may be used. In constructing skylights and
glass roofing according to our Invention, the use of putty is unnecessary.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner
of carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood that we do not
limit ourselves to the precise details herein described and represented, as the
same may be varied without departing from the nature of our said Invention;
but we claim as our Invention, the improvements in skylights and glass
roofing, herein-before described and represented in the accompanying Drawing,
that is to say, giving the glass plates used for skylights and glass roofing a
trough-like figure, the said trough-like plates being supported and fixed on
suitably shaped bars or framing by means of clips or clamps engaging with the
said plates, the said clips or clamps being fixed on the bars or framing, in the
manner described and represented.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Stanley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
CHARLES STANLEY. (L.S.)
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.