Improvements in and relating to Metallic Facing Plates for Buildings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar, 1892-Accepted, 21st May, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Metallic Facing Plates for
Buildings.
I, LONGLEY LEWIS SAGENDORPH, of the cor. Hamilton and 23rd Streets
Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, United States of America, Inventor and
Sheet Metal Manufacturer, 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, reference being had to the
accompanying drawing :-
My invention consists in the method and means hereinafter set forth for connecting
the meeting and overlapping edges of adjacent facing plates, and is more particularly
designed to be used in connection with facing plates of a design and configuration
substantially as set forth in the Specification to Patent No. 5221, of 1891, granted
to myself; but, in so far as applicable, the means hereinafter set forth may be used
in connection with facing plates differing in contour from that set forth in said
Patent.
In the accompanying drawings :-
Figure 1, is a face view of a portion of two facing plates united together at their
overlapping edges and connected to the studding of a building according to my
invention.
Figure 2, is a cross-section, on an enlarged scale, taken through the overlapping
corrugated flanges of two plates, showing one mode of connecting the latter between
the studding, the dotted lines indicating the position of the staple points before
and after being bent to place.
Figure 3, is a view similar to Figure 2, in which a wire is used in place of the
staple.
Figure 4, illustrates the staples applied longitudinally with the corrugated flanges,
instead of cross-wise thereof, as in the other views.
To apply ordinary metallic facing, it is necessary that the building be first
sheeted, to which latter the plates are then nailed; but, by reason of the peculiar
formation of my improved facing plate the latter is doubly stiffened or strengthened,
and by this means 1 am enabled to apply my improved plates direct to the studding,
and thus dispense with extra sheeting; and, when so applied, it is desirable to
provide some means for connecting the overlapping portions of said plates between
the studding, and also for connecting said plates thereto.
It will be seen that the facing plates A terminate along their longitudinal edges
in a convex corrugation B, and that the corrugation on one plate overlaps the
corrugation on the adjacent sheet or plate.
In order to secure and lock said plates together, and also to secure them to the
studding C, I employ a staple D, which latter passes through the two plates at their
overlapping portion, as shown, the points of said staple being bent or clinched in
such a manner as to securely retain the body thereof in contact with the corrugated
flanges, and in this manner the latter are securely and firmly locked together,
forming an approximately solid plate.
At the points where the plates come into contact with the studding, the staples
are driven therein.
The same result as that attained by the use of staples between the studding, is
accomplished (by practically the same means) by the use of wires E, passed through
openings in the overlapping flanges of the plates, and then twisting said wires as
indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3,-the twisting of the wires tending to securely
lock said parts together.

page_text: Instead of having the staples or wires engage across the overlapping corrugations,
they may be arranged longitudinally therewith, as shown in Figure 4.
The advantages of my invention consist in the facility afforded for connecting
facing plates direct to the studding, and also for uniting said plates together between
the latter. Any suitable configuration of plate, (if properly stiffened) may be thus
connected and applied direct to the studding without the use of sheeting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
(1) The facing plates having overlapping flanges, in combination with staples D
passed through said flanges for connecting said plates to the studding."
(2) The overlapping plates, in combination with a staple, or its equivalent,
passed through the overlapping portions of said plates and clinched or locked at
the rear thereof, substantially as specified.
(3) The facing plates A having the overlapping flanges B, in combination with
staples D, or equivalent thereof, for connecting said plates together and to the
studding, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 29th day of January A.D. 1892.
LONGLEY LEWIS SAGENDORPH.