IMPROVEMENTS IN ROOFING TILES."
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Taylor, of No. 6, Whitehall, in the City
of Westminster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROOFING
TILES."

page_text: other side is the roll c. The body a of the tile is wider at the upper
end than at the lower, but the roll c on the contrary is widest at the
lower end.
.
When the tiles are laid to form a roof the roll of one tile receives
beneath it the flange of the tile next it at the side.
The upper end of
the roll and the lower end of the flanged side are notched as is shewn,
so as to allow each row of tiles to overlap the tiles in the row beneath.
The upper end of each tile is secured to the roof battens or laths by a
tender hook.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Taylor in the Great Scal Patent Office on the
18th October 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TAYLOR, of No. 6, Whitehall, in the City of Westminster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Taylor, Her special licence that
I, the said John Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Taylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROOFING TILES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Taylor, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great

page_text: Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Taylor, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in roofing tiles. For
this purpose I form roofing tiles in the manner shewn in the annexed
Drawings.
The body A of the tile is flat and has upon it the projection or lump B.
On one side is the flange of the part A projecting upwards, and on the
other side is the roll C. The body A of the tile is wider at the upper
end that at the lower, but the roll C on the contrary is widest at the
lower end.
When the tiles are laid to form a roof the roll of one tile receives
beneath it the flange of the tile next it at the side. The upper end of
the roll and the lower end of the flanged side are notched as is shewn,
so as to allow each row of tiles to overlap the tiles in the row beneath:
The upper end of each tile is secured to the roof battens or laths by a
tenter hook.
For the ridge of a roof similar tiles are formed of a A shape. These
tiles may be made in clay, glass, metal, and other materials.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Taylor, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
JOHN TAYLOR. (LS)