An Improvement in Tiles for Facing- or Lining Walls and other Surfaces..
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application; 8th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oct., 1885-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
An Improvement in Tiles for Facing- or Lining Walls and other
Surfaces..
We, JOHN LEEMING and JOSEPH LEEMING, Architects both of Victoria House,
117, Victoria Street, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-.
This invention relates to tiles for facing or lining walls and other surfaces; and
comprises the improvements hereinafter described:
Our improved tile consists (first) in forming a lip, flange, or rebate along each
side or edge of the tile, so as to enable the adjacent tiles to overlap or be overlapped
and (second) in having one or more bevilled or lipped projections at the back to
enable the tile to be keyed. onto a hevilled or lipped fixing secured to the wall.
This fixing may be of wood metal or other suitable material. The tile may be
bedded in cement or mortar, with or without the fixing referred to...
The tiles may be finished with an enamelled surface, white or coloured, glazed or
not, and may have a raised or other pattern on the face. The tiles may be
rectangular to course in with brickwork, or may be of any other suitable shape to
form a pattern.
Dated this 7th day of February 1895.
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JOHN LEEMING.
JOSEPH LEEMING.
An Improvement in Tiles for Facing or Lining Walls and other
Surfaces.
We, JOHN LEEMING and JOSEPH LEEMING, Architects, both of Victoria House
117, Victoria Street, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex 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 :-
This invention relates to tiles for facing or lining walls and other surfaces, and
comprises the improvements hereinafter described :-
Our improved tile consists (first) in forming a lip, flange, or rebate along two or
more sides or edges of the tile, so as to enable the adjacent tiles to overlap or be
overlapped, and, (second) in having one or more bevilled or lipped projections at
the back to enable the tile to be keyed onto a bevilled or lipped fixing secured
to the wall. This fixing may be wood metal, or other suitable material.
The tiles may be bedded in cement, or mortar, with or without the fixing
referred to.
The tiles may be finished with an enamel surface, white or coloured, glazed or
not, and may have a raised or other pattern on the face. The tiles may be
rectangular to course in with brickwork, or may be of any other suitable shape to
form a pattern.

page_text: Referring to the accompanying drawings:-Figure 1. is a front view. Figure 2.
is a vertical section. Figure 3. is a horizontal section, and Figure 4. is a back view
of the tile referred to.
(A) is the body portion of the tile, the face (a) of which may be ornamented in
any desired manner; (B) is the lip, flange or rebate, molded or formed on the outer
body portion A. to enable the adjacent tiles to overlap or be overlapped; (C) is
one of the bevilled or lipped projections at the back of the tile to enable it to be
keyed onto a bevilled or lipped wood or other fixing (D) secured to the wall (E).
We do not however restrict ourselves to the mode of fixing shewn upon the drawing,
nor indeed, to the form of the bevilled projection (D) shown; the latter may also
be formed to lip or key onto metal or other fixing or may be bedded direct onto
the wall by means of mortar, cement, asphalte or the like. (F) is a second bevilled
projection formed so as to lip onto the adjacent tile, the latter being also similarly
bevilled to receive the former.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
1. A tile made with a rebate or lip on the four (or a less number) sides,
and with a bevilled projection or projections, at the back thereof substantially as
and for the purposes specified.
2. The improved tiling substantially as described with reference to the
drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1805
JOHN LEEMING,
JOSEPH LEEMING,
Applicants.