Improvements in and Connected with Securing Terra-cotta, Porcelain, and other Tiles or Slabs to Surfaces.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1889-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1889
Improvements in and Connected with Securing Terra-cotta, Porcelain,
and other Tiles or Slabs to Surfaces.
I, HENRY SCOTT, of 16, Park Road, Eccles, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described in and by the
following statement:―
This invention bas reference to an improved means of securing Terra-Cotta,
Porcelain and other tiles or slabs to surfaces such as the ceilings and walls of rooms
and passages, and like surfaces, and the following is a full clear and exact description
of the same, reference being had to the annexed sheet of drawings, which make
a part of this Specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon
like letters and figures being used to denote the same or corresponding parts
throughout the drawings.
To secure Terra-Cotta, Porcelain and other tiles or slabs to surfaces such as the
ceilings and walls of rooms, buildings or structures, I employ carriers of metal which
may be of H section or of other suitable kind and material, and which I fix in
parallel rows extending over the surface to be covered and spaced apart, so as to
suit the width of the tile or slab used...The tiles or slabs are provided with grooves
or recesses which may slide onto flanges. or projections on the carriers or are other-
wise equivalently.supported or held. The tiles may be provided at one side with a
flange or projecting ledge that will overlap and hide the joint between the rows of
tiles or slabs. In the case of the carriers consisting of H, or channel, or other like
section iron or other metal, the tiles or slabs instead of having grooves to slide onto
flanges, or projections, may be adapted to rest on or be supported by the flange of
the carrier bar.
In like manner I provide cornices or mouldings for the side or edges and corners
of the surfaces to be covered, these cornices and mouldings are arranged to be held
in place by carrier bars in like manner to the surface tiles.
In the annexed sheet of drawings there are illustrated examples of the means above
set forth of securing tiles or slabs to ceilings of rooms.
With reference to Figure 1, a are the H iron bars which are fastened by nails or
spikes in parallel rows to the beams or joists of the ceiling. bare the tiles or slabs
which are provided with grooves c in their edges. These grooves are of size to slide
onto the flange d of the bar a, the groove on one side of the tile or slab sliding onto
the flange of one bar a and groove on the other side sliding onto the flange of the
next bar a.
On one side of the tile or slab I provide the flange or ledge e, which covers the
joint of the tiles and forms a beading. Instead of setting the tiles as shown in
Figure 1, they may, according to my invention, be set as shown in Figure 2, namely
they inay be placed with their edges resting in the channels of the Hiron bars with
the lower or outer flange d outside the tile or slab. The cornices or corners are formed
of special tiles or slabs k for example as shown at Figure 3 or 4, this cornice k is
provided with grooves i which take onto the flange d of the H iron bar a at the top,
and onto the Ziron at the bottom, as shown at Figure 3. At the sides there is
provided an additional channel iron bar a¹ running at right angles to the H iron a,
this channel iron a' takes the side cornice k as shown at Figure 1.
The tiles or slabs may be provided with holes at the joints or other part as shown
at Figure 5, which holes may be used for ventilating purposes, the space between the
tiles and the joists being connected with a suitable outlet.
By my invention tiles or slabs can be fixed to ceilings or walls without the use of
cement plaster or like material, and without much skilled labour, it being only

page_text: requisite to attach the carrier bars to the surface to be covered and then slide the tiles
or slabs into their place.
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 1
claim is :-
:-
1. The herein described mode or means of securing tiles or slabs to surfaces with-
out cement, mortar, or like material, consisting in securing suitable bars or equivalent
devices on or in connection with said surfaces and constructed and adapted in such a
manner as to hold said tiles or slabs in position.
2. In means for securing tiles or slabs to surfaces, the combination of bars, such
as a, and tiles or slabs such as ; substantially as set forth.
3. The use of metallic bars of the kind herein described for the purposes
specified.
4. Tiles such as provided with ledges for the purposes set forth.
5. A surface covered with tiles or slabs having a space between such surface and
the tiles or slabs and apertures in or through said tiled surface, for the purposes of
ventilation.
Dated this Eleventh day of Jul., 1880
HENRY SCOTT.
By Cheesbrough & Royston,
Agents.