IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METAL TILES AND FOR THE METHOD OF FIXING THE SAME IN POSITION
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 4th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th June, 1887.
Method of Fixing the same in Position.
I THOMAS HENRY REES of 4 Bolingbroke Grove Villas Wandsworth Common, in
the parish of Battersea and in the County of Surrey Tin Plate Decorator do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
METAL TILES AND FOR THE METHOD OF FIXING THE SAME IN POSITION to be as
follows:-
In the letters patent granted to me in 1879 No. 1055 I have fully described the
process of manufacturing metal Tiles and in that description the flange or projecting
edge by which the Tile itself is attached to the wall or secured in position, is a part
of the Tile itself, and made of the same metal. I propose to improve upon this, by
making the flange or projecting edge by which the Tile is fixed in position, of a
seperate peice or peices of metal so that they can be applied or detached as required,
and also to make these peices of a non corodible metal, that rust may be avoided. The
seperate flanges or projecting edges are bent to groove into the bent edges of the
Tiles, and the ends so cut or notched, that they lock into each other.
November 8th 1886
THOMAS HENRY REES.

page_text: Method of Fixing the same in Position.
I THOMAS HENRY REES of 4 Bolingbroke Grove Villas Wandsworth Common
in the parish of Battersea and in the County of Surrey do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
I enamel and ornament sheets of Metal (Tinned Iron by preference) or Zinc, with
any suitable pattern by the means already known and then having cut up the sheets
so decorated or ornamented into squares or pieces of suitable size and shape I
secure to the edges of the squares or pieces so cut, pieces of tinned iron or zinc by
folding the two together in an ordinary folding machine, so that the pieces so joined
on shall form projecting tongues or flanges on the four sides of the metal tile to
which they are attached. After the tongues or flanges are folded in with the squares
or pieces of metal, which form the face of the tile, they are pressed down in an
ordinary press and thus securely fastened.
The squares or pieces which form the face of the Tile may be tinned iron but the
Tongues or Flanges should be of Zinc or other non rustable metal, as it is the tongues
or flanges that are in actual contact with the walls to which the tiles are fixed by them,
and rust is prevented if a non-rustable metal is used for this portion of the Tile.
Having described the nature of my invention and the method of carrying out the
same, I wish it to be understood that I do not claim for the Metal Tiles here this
claim having been the subject of a former patent of mine, but what I do claim for in
this specification is
The seperate tongue or flange which is attached to the tile, instead of being as
before made out of the same piece of metal. And I do also claim for making these
tongues or flanges of Zinc or other non-rustable metal thus preventing the Tiles being
destroyed by rust when fixed to damp walls.
Dated this the 4th day of May 1887.