AN IMPROVED RIDGE TILE FOR VENTILATING THE UPPER PARTS OF HOUSES STABLES WAREHOUSES OR OTHER BUILDINGS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I SYDNEY TURNER of Barrow Haven in the County of Lincoln Civil Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED RIDGE TILE FOR
VENTILATING THE UPPER PARTS OF HOUSES STABLES WAREHOUSES OR OTHER
BUILDINGS to be as follows:
The Ridge may be plain roll ornamental or of other design. The mode of
construction is of a ridge of any design with a raised part A in the body thereof
which forms a chamber B communicating with a cylindrical or other shaped
horizontal or other hole C running in some part of the Ridge Tile by preference
in the top thereof thus forming a passage through the Ridge Tile. The Roll or
other top or in case of an ornamental Ridge the portion under the crest of the
Ridge being shorter than the wings thereof thus allows a space D so that air can.
freely escape from the hole or passage C above mentioned. The air can thus freely
pass between the rafters or otherwise through the chamber B along the hole or
passage C and escape through the space D between the ends of the Rolls or other
tops. I also make a hole through that part of the Ridge in which the air passage
is formed at an angle from the centre line of such passage preferably at a right
angle and slightly drooping towards the exterior of the Ridge Tile so formed as
to drain away any moisture that may reach or accumulate in such passage and
more perfectly to ventilate in certain directions of the wind. By this invention
each Ridge Tile forms a separate ventilator and there is no possibility of the water
beating in or entering the Roof through the ventilating passages.

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I SYDNEY TURNER of Barrow Haven in the County of Lincoln Civil Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED RIDGE TILE
FOR VENTILATING THE UPPER PARTS OF HOUSES STABLES WAREHOUSES OR OTHER
BUILDINGS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The Ridge may be plain, Roll, ornamental or of other design. The mode of
construction is of a ridge of any design with a raised part A in the body thereof
which forms a chamber B communicating with a cylindrical or other shaped
horizontal or other hole C running in some part of the Ridge Tile by preference
in the Roll thereof thus forming a passage through the Ridge Tile. The Roll or
other top or in case of an ornamental Ridge the portion under the crest of the
Ridge being shorter than the wings thereof thus allows a space D so that air can
freely escape from the hole or passage C above mentioned. The air can thus freely
pass between the Rafters or otherwise, through the chamber B, along the hole or
passage C, and escape through the space D between the ends of the Rolls or other
tops. I also make a hole through that part of the Ridge in which the air passage
is formed at an angle from the centre line of such passage preferably at a right
'angle and slightly drooping towards the exterior of the Ridge Tile so formed as
to drain away any moisture that may reach or accumulate in such passage and
more perfectly to ventilate in certain directions of the wind. By this invention
each Ridge Tile forms a separate ventilator and there is no possibility of the
water beating in or entering the Roof through the Ventilating passages. I make
the Ridge Tiles in clay which is afterwards burned but they may be made either
in pottery ware glass concrete cement asphalte or other similar substances.
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
I claim is forming a communication from a chamber in the body of the Ridge Tile
with the above mentioned hole or passage in the Ridge Tile as described thus
utilizing the hole or passage as a means of ventilation. I also claim constructing
that portion of the Ridge Tile containing the hole or passage shorter than the
wings or other part thereof so that an outlet for the passage of the air is formed.
Signed by the said Sydney Turner
in the presence of
"..
TOM TURNER,
Justice of the Peace for the Borough of Beverley.
SYD. TURNER.