Improvements in Tues and in CHIC BECUES ади them to Ceilings, Wooden Partitions, Walls, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in
Tues and in
CHIC
BECUES
ади
them to Ceilings, Wooden Partitions, Walls, and the like.
I WILLIAM JAMES WHITE of 3 Hamilton Road Highbury in the County of
Middlesex, Tile Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TILES AND IN THE MEANS AND METHOD OF FIXING THEM TO
"to be as follows:-
CEILINGS WOODEN PARTITIONS WALLS AND THE LIKE
My invention relates more particularly to glazed ornamental and other tiles such
as are used for decorative and similar purposes both externally and internally and for
Ceilings and the liko.
It is well known that the methods at present in general use do not afford such
perfect security against the Tiles becoming detached, by age or otherwise from the
surfaces to which they are applied as is desirable and this remark applies with special
force to tile-lined ceilings. Now my invention is intended to afford a means of
attaching tiles made in accordance therewith securely, and yet so that no indication
of the manner of fixing may remain visible in the finished work.
According to my invention I make the tiles with several, preferably three, lugs to
each tile, such lugs being made of less than (preferably about half) the thickness of
the tile, and flush with the back of it, that is, so that the front surface of the
lug is set back, say about half the thickness of the tile from the front surface of
the tile.
I place one such lug at, preferably the centre of one edge of the tile, and the other
two on the opposite edge at equal and convenient distances from the centre.
In the back of each tile I also make a corresponding number of, say three,
indentations or recesses, cach of such size and depth as to conveniently receive one
of the lugs of the tile placed next to it and to allow room for the effects of warping
shrinkago &c. one such indentation being midway between the two lugs before
mentioned, and the remaining two indentations being ono on each side of the other
lug first above mentioned and opposite the two lugs on the other edge.

page_text: The two lugs which are placed on one edge are each pierced with a hole for a
screw or nail while the other lug need not be pierced.
It is intended that the Ceiling or other surface to which such tiles are to be attached
should be faced with wooden battens or other material suitable for receiving and
holding screws or nails and the tiles fixed thereto either with or without the use of
cement or plaster.
Each tile when fixed has its front edge supported by the lug thereon being inserted
into the recess provided in the tile immediately preceding it, and the two lugs at the
back edge are secured by screws or nails passing through them to the wooden battens,
or the like of the surface to which they are to be attached each tile thus being
supported on the one side by the tile immediately preceding it and, in its turn,
supporting that which follows each tile being thoroughly socured by two screws
or nails.
The great advantage of my improved tiles and means and method of fixing thom
is that when once fixed they are thoroughly secure and safe and are not liable to fall
as has too often been the case with such tiles heretofore more particularly with those
applied to Ceilings.
Dated this 90th day of March 1000

page_text: Improvements in Tiles and in the Means and Method of Fixing
them to Ceilings, Wooden Partitions, Walls, and the like.
I, WILLIAM JAMES WHITE, of 3 Hamilton Road, Highbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Tile Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TILES, AND IN THE MEANS AND METHOD OF FIXING THEM TO
CEILINGS WOODEN PARTITIONS, WALLS AND THE LIKE and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
"
My invention relates more particularly to glazed, ornamental and other tiles such
as are used for decorative and similar purposes both externally and internally and
for ceilings, and the like.
It is well known that the methods at present in general use do not afford such
perfect security against the tiles becoming detached, by age or otherwise, from the
surfaces to which they are applied as is desirable, and this remark applios with special
force to tile-lined ceilings.
Now my invention is intended to afford a means of attaching tiles made in
accordance therewith, securely, and yet so that no indication of the manner of fixing
may remain visible in the finished work.
According to my invention I make the tiles with several, preferably three, lugs to
each tilo, such lugs being made of less than, (preferably about half) the thickness of
the tile, and flush with the back of it, that is, so that the front surface of the
lug is set back, say about half the thickness of the tile, from the front surface of
the tile.
I place one such lug at, preferably, the centre of one edge of the tile, and the other
two on the opposite edge at equal and convenient distances from the centre.
In the back of each tile I also make a corresponding number of, say threo,
indentations or recesses, each of such size and depth as to conveniently receive one of
the lugs of the tile placed next to it and to allow room for the effects of warping,
shrinkage &c., one such indentation being midway between the two, lugs before
mentioned, and the remaining two indentations being one on each side of the other
lug first above mentioned and opposite the two lugs on the other edge.
The two lugs which are placed on one edge are each pierced with a hole for a screw
or nail while the other lug need not be pierced.
It is intended that the ceiling or other surface to which such tiles are to be attached
should be faced with wooden battens, or other material suitable for receiving and
holding screws or nails, and the tiles fixed thereto either with or without the use of
cement or plaster.
Each tile when fixed has it's front edge supported by the lug thereon being inserted
into the recess provided in the tile immediately preceding it, and the two lugs at the
back edge are secured by screws or nails passing through them to the wooden battens,
or the like, of the surface to which they are to be attached, each tile thus being

page_text: supported on the one side by the tile immediately preceding it, and, in its turn,
supporting that which follows-each tile being thoroughly secured by two screws
or nails.
The great advantage of my improved tiles and means and method of fixing them
is that when once fixed they are thoroughly secure and safe and are not liable to fall
as has too often been the case with such tiles heretofore, more particularly with those
applied to ceilings.
In the accompanying shoot of drawings Fig. 1 is a plan view of the back of two
tiles made according to my said invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are end elevations; Fig. 4
is a longitudinal section of the same taken on the dotted line 1, 2 in Fig. 1, showing 1
also the timbers &c. above. Fig. 5, which is on a smaller scale, represents the face
of the tiles when fixed. A A, are the tiles; B B, are two lugs at one end of each
tilo, each pierced with a hole for a screw or nail; C, is a lug in the centre of the
other extremity of the tilo, which lug need not be pierced; D, D and E are recesses
in the back of the tile for the reception of the corresponding lugs of the adjacent
tiles; F, F, are the battens to which the tiles aro screwed or nailed; G one of the
joists above and L, L laths between the battens.
The space between the battons I prefer should be lathed and filled in with cement
or other fire proof matorial, and the coment may, if desired, in order to afford
additional protection in case of fire, be made to cover the face of the battens as
shown in Fig. 4, the screws or nails boing driven through such layer of cement into
the battens.
It
Each tile, it will be seen, when thus fixed is secured to the battens above or at the
back of it, as the case may be, by screws or nails J passing through the lugs B, B,
and further by the lug U which rests on the adjacent or preceding tile in the recess E.
The recesses D, D, afford space for the lugs B, B, of the preceding_tile.
will be obvious that the same arrangement may be applied to tiles of Hexagonal
and other shapes with, in some cases, a slight modification to adapt it to the
particular shape.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :
1. Constructing tiles for the lining or decoration of ceilings and walls, with lugs
and recessos for their attachment and support substantially as and for the purpose
described and set forth.
2. Attaching tiles to ceilings and walls by means of lugs and recessos arranged
substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Datod this Twentieth day of December 1888.