Improvements in Temporary Metallic Roofing Applicable to Hay or other Ricks or like purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1898
Improvements in Temporary Metallic Roofing Applicable to Hay or
other Ricks or like purposes.
I, JOSEPH EDWARD LILLEY, of The Chestnuts, Wealdstone, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to temporary metallic roofs applicable to hay or other ricks
or like purposes, and consists of means whereby the said roof or covering can be
cheaply applied to such purposes and can be readily removed in sections as may
be required in order to uncover and remove parts of such ricks, or other material,
covered by such temporary roofs.
To carry my invention into effect I form a light wooden frame-work over the
rick or other material to be covered, and upon such framework I fix a covering or
roof in sectional sheets of light metal, such as corrugated iron
I affix such sectional sheets to the rafters and to one another by means of eye-
studs; that is screwed shanks terminated with a bent round eye-driven and
screwed into the said wooden rafters through holes provided in the said metallic
roof sheets.
The eye-studs being sharp pointed can be driven some distance by the blow of
a hammer and can be then screwed sufficiently home by a turn or two, effected by
the use of any rod or pin passed through the eye of the stud, and therefore without
the use of any special tools such as screw-drivers or spanners.
For removal of the sectional sheets at any time, it is found that to unscrew and
remove the eye-studs is an infinitely easier and quicker job than to prise out nails
or to remove screws by a screw-driver or nuts by a spanner as these latter tend to
rust in place and the leverage to turn afforded by the rod or pin through the eye of
the eye-stud is infinitely greater than that of a screw-driver on an ordinary wood
screw.
It is obvious that such a temporary metallic roof is better and cheaper as regards
labour than thatching and the removal of sections, to cut away portions of the
rick as required, can be done with ease and despatch, leaving the remainder of
the rick still protected.
Dated this 4th dow of You 1007
FELL & JAMES,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Temporary Metallic Roofing Applicable to Hay or
other Ricks, or like purposes.
I, JOSEPH EDWARD LILLEY, of The Chestnuts, Wealdstone, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascei-
tained in and by the following statement:-
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My invention relates to temporary metallic roofs applicable to hay or other ricks
or like purposes, and consists of means whereby the said roof or covering can be
cheaply applied to such purposes and can be readily removed in sections as may
be required, in order to uncover and remove parts of such ricks, or other material,
covered by such temporary roofs.
To carry my invention into effect I form a light wooden frame-work over the
rick or other material to be covered, and upon such frame-work I fix a covering or
roof in sectional sheets of light metal, such as corrugated iron.
I affix such sectional sheets to the rafters and to one another by means of eye-
studs that is screwed shanks terminated with a bent round eye; driven and
screwed into the said wooden rafters through holes provided in the said metallic
roof sheets.
The eye studs being sharp pointed can be driven some distance by the blow of
a hammer, and can be then screwed sufficiently home by a turn or two, effected by
the use of any rod or pin passed through the eye of the stud, and therefore without
the use of any special tools such as screw-drivers or spanners.
For removal of the sectional sheets at any time, it is found that to unscrew and
remove the eye studs is an infinitely easier and quicker job than to prise out nails
or to remove screws by a screw-driver or nuts by a spanner as these latter tend to
rust in place, and the leverage to turn afforded by the rod or pin through the eye of
the eye-stud is infinitely greater than that of a screw driver on an ordinary wood
Screw.
It is obvious that such a temporary metallic roof is better and cheaper as regards
labour than thatching and the removal of sections to cut away portions of the
rick as required, can be done with ease and despatch, leaving the remainder of
the rick still protected.
And in order that my invention may be the better understood, I now proceed
to describe the same reference being had to the drawings hereto annexed and
to the letters and figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of a rick with my improved covering.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, and Fig. 3, is an enlarged detail of the easily
attached and detachable holding down screw I use. A, A is a light frame-work of
wood or other suitable material forming a covering structure over the rick or othe
material to be covered, and having light wood trusses or rafters B preferably of
wood into which holding down screws may be driven and screwed home, or
alternately the said roof trusses can be mounted on posts at the corners of the rick.
Upon such roof trusses or rafters B I affix sheets of light metal C, such as corru-
gated and galvanised iron. Holes are provided or can be readily made when or
as the sheets are laid in position, in the edges of such sheets, so that where they
overlap on the said rafters or trusses B3, the holes in the sheets may be co-incident,
and the sheets may thus be secured to one another, and to the said rafters or trusses
by the screwed eye-bolts D shewn in Fig. 3. The eye-bolt as shown is an advan-
tageous form of attaching screw, inasmuch as it can be first driven some distance
by the blow of a hammer, and can then be screwed home or unscrewed by aid of
any rod pin or bar passed through the said eye d, or it may actually be driven the

page_text: necessary distance without screwing at all, & yet give the advantage of being able
to be unscrewed in the easy manner described for removal. It is obvious that such
an independant roofing over a rick will give protection from rain at any time
during construction of the rick, or immediately on completion and the removal of
either very small or large sections to cut away portions of the rick as required,
can be done with ease, and despatch, leaving the remainder of the rick still pro-
tected, as the structure will last for many years and for successive ricks, it is
obviously cheaper in the long run than thatching and more effective in its
immediate protection from wet.
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:-
1st. A protective framing and sectional detachable metallic roofing for hay or
other ricks substantially as described.
2nd. In combination with sectional detachable metallic roofing for hay or other
ricks, sharp pointed and screw threaded eye-bolts suitable for use by farm labourers
without special tools substantially as described, and illustrated in Figure 3.
Dated this 4th day of February 1898.
FELL & JAMES,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.