Improvements in the Mode of and Means for Glazing Roofs and Skylights.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 12th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of and Means for Glazing Roofs and
Skylights.
We GEORGE MARTIN Zinc Worker 164 High Street Smethwick Staffordshire
THOMAS LITTLEHALES, Draper, "Oakhurst" Holly Road, Handsworth,
Staffordshire and JOSEPH LOCKETT of 41 Willow Road Balsall Heath
Birmingham Warwickshire Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Improvements in the Mode of and Means for Glazing Roofs and Skylights.
Our invention has for its object Improvements in the Mode of and Means for
effectively Glazing Roofs and Skylights which we accomplish in a cheap and
simple manner so as to be thoroughly waterproof. In carrying our invention into
effect we provide a wood bar and also an iron bar half moon shape, round the half
moon shaped bar we wrap lead, we then screw the half moon shaped bar to the
wood bar, by so doing we secure the lead iron and wood-we then place the glass
on the half moon-shaped bar and turn the lead back thereby making a thoroughly
watertight glazing or sash bar.
Dated this 29th day of June 1893.
GEORGE MARTIN.
THOMAS LITTLEHALES.
JOSEPH LOCKETT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of and Means for Glazing Roofs and
Skylights.
We, GEORGE MARTIN, Zinc Worker, 164 High Street, Smethwick, Staffordshire,
THOMAS LITTLEHALES, Draper, "Oakhurst" Holly Road, Handsworth,
Staffordshire, and JOSEPH LOCKETT of 41 Willow Road, Balsall Heath,
Birmingham, Warwickshire, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention comprised in the following Specification relates to " Improvements
in the Mode of and Means for Glazing Roof and Skylights," and consists
substantially in the construction and combination of parts forming bars or supports
for receiving the glass and also provided with a channel to carry off the moisture
arising from condensation, the said bars being watertight.
This we effect in a more simple and efficacious manner than hitherto.
And in order that this our said invention may be more particularly described
and ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of drawings,
in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is an end view in elevation of the component parts of our invention,
forming bars and shewing the mode of affixing the glass thereto for glazing roofs
and skylights.
Fig. 2 is the stop plate, removed from the end of Fig. 1.
a is the metallic bar preferably of a semi-circular form in cross section, as shewn
at Fig. 1. We cover this bar a with metal in the sheet of a ductile nature, such
as lead or metal that will yield with facility as b, the bar a, being provided with

page_text: holes at required distance apart to receive wood screws, these screws are for
securing the lead or ductile metal b, and a, the bar, to the wood bar or rafter c, at
one time, the edges of the metal 6 are now upturned which admit of the glass being
arranged upon b, at e, the upturned edges of b, are now divided and brought down
upon each surface of the glass d, so that the whole is watertight.
The wood bar or rafter c, is provided with the channels 7, for carrying away the
moisture arising from condensation.
The end of the bar a, has an hole, suitably, to receive the point of the stop plate
which holds the glass in position.
We do not limit ourselves to the precise details, or to the form, or configuration
of parts as shewn on the drawings, as we may modify the same without departing
essentially from our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
1st. The construction of a bar covered with a ductile metal and a bar or rafter
therewith provided with channels, the "stop plate" substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings.
2nd. The general construction and combination of parts, the whole forming
"Improvements in the Mode of and Means for Glazing Roofs and Skylights,"
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated 6th April 1894.
THOS. KENDRICK,
3, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent.