HEXAGON GLAZED METAL ROOF AND UPRIGHT FRAMING
Year: 1884

page_text: J, HENRY WILLIAM FRAMPTON of 41, 42, 43, & 44, Jewry Street, Winchester,
Hampshire, Builders' Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
HEXAGON GLAZED METAL ROOF AND UPRIGHT FRAMING, to be as follows:
Wrought or rolled bar metal, either, steel, iron, copper, zinc, brass, or phosphor
bronze worked or bent through the whole rafter length of roof, or the whole
height or breadth of upright framing to equal successive hexagon angles. The
said wrought bars are then braced by a screw passed through their sides at every
angle to a nut or female screw provided in the end of a complete shaped bar of
cast metal which forms one side of two hexagons. The said complete shaped bar
has four arms to overlap and complete adjoinining hexagons, and the end of each
arm is braced at its abutment with another by the same screw which connects the
wrought or rolled bar to the cast metal bar.
The roof or upright framing is, covered or fitted with overlapping butted, or
rebate inserted glass, slate, tile, sheet metal, wood, or composition whole hexagons,
or parts of the same.
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page_text: I, HENRY WILLIAM FRAMPTON, of 41, 42, 43, & 44 Jewry Street, Winchester,
Hampshire, Builders' Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
HEXAGON GLAZED METAL ROOF AND UPRIGHT FRAMING, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
Of wrought, or rolled bar, flat, or hoop metal, either steel, iron, copper, zinc,
brass, phosphor bronze, or any alloy of the requisite strength, I make core
bars, A, A, which are wrought, or bent into equal successive hexagon angles
through their whole length as roof rafters, or to the whole height or breadth of
upright framing.
The wrought metal roof rafter or upright framing core bars, A, A, have a hole
drilled through their sides at every angle to the guage of a bracing screw, S, which
I provide, and pass through the core bar to a female screw tapped in each end of a
moulded cast, or pressed, or cut metal complete bar, B, or through a hole in the
same position to a screw nut sunk in a cavity, or imbedded near each end of the
said metal complete bar which forms one side of two hexagons.
In moulding, casting, pressing, or cutting the metal complete bar, and following,
as far as necessary, its outline, I, at both ends of it, add two arms, identical with it
in length, and with it and each other, I set these arms at hexagon angles.
Each arm is, by its interior of section line, made to enclose a half of one edge,
and a part of the side depth of the wrought metal core bar, and the direction of
the arm lengthways is the reverse of the arm on which it abuts throughout to
complete the enclosure of one edge, and part of the depth of two sides, of the
wrought metal core bar.
The arranged three separate parts, C, are in section outline when braced, D,
similar to the cast, pressed, or cut metal complete bar, B, and like it form one side
of two hexagons. The arms at their mitre end abutments each furnish one half of
the hole through which they are secured in position by the bracing screw, S.
By means of screws, screws and nuts, or bolts and pins, I secure the roof
gradient, upright, and horizontal margins of the framing, to those parts of
buildings, or structures, they are fitted to, or impinge upon.
glaze the metal roof framing with overlapping hexagons by the mode shown in
accompanying Drawings, and use putty or cement, with, or without, clips, in fixing
the same. I also sometimes use, or partially use, for covering the metal roof
framing, abutted thick glass, slates, sheet metal, tiles, fibrous composition, and wood
in hexagon, or other forms.
The upright framing is rebate glazed, or filled in with plain, or ornamented glass,
or any of the before named materials.
I also rebate glaze, or fill in with hexagon ornamented glass, or any of the said
materials, the whole, or a portion of the metal roof framing inside the overlapping
hexagon glazing, or other covering, where that itself is not specially ornamented,
and varied effect is required.
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,
1. Metal core bars, wrought, or bent, to equal continuous hexagon angles, the
entire length of each rafter, or bar, in the framing of roofs, or roof lights, for
edifices, conservatories, greenhouses, vineries, verandahs, and other, erections, and in
the general construction of the same, applying like wrought metal core bars, as
part of each hexagon, in the whole height or breadth of framing for upright lights,
partitions, panels, or screens.

page_text: 2. The perfecting and bracing of the before named core bars, by casting, cutting,
or pressing, moulded complete metal bars, the exact side length of hexagons,
furnishing both ends of the said bars with two moulded arms, for each to embrace
part of two sides of the core bars, and by reversing the direction lengthways of the
abutting arms, and screw bracing the same, through the core bar, at all their end
abutments, to a tapped, or imbedded nut, at each end of the complete bars,
producing uniform rigid hexagon framing.
3. Glazing, or covering roof lights, or framing, with overlapping hexagons, so
that inside sight spaces are all kept free for ornamentation.
Dated this 4th day of April 1884.
HENRY WILLIAM FRAMPTON.