Improvement in Surface Tiles for Walls, Partitions, Ceilings, and Floors.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1887.
Complete Left, 1st Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 5th Apr., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Surface Tiles for Walls, Partitions, Ceilings, and
Floors.
I, CHARLES JOHN FORD, of 1, Adelaide Street, Charing Cross London in the
county of Middlesex, Surveyor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists of forming two raised straps (in the shape of the
Boomerang") at regulated positions on the back of each tile, projecting so as to
form a lip beyond each edge, two of these lips will fit and key behind the adjacent
tiles, the other two lips will be nailed or screwed and covered by the next tiles.
The space behind the tiles (around the straps) will be run full with liquid cement
or plaster, every two or three courses, thus binding together the whole of the tiling
and making watertight the joints.
The tiles can be of any size and shape, the straps being regulated accordingly.
The straps are shewn by dotted lines on the accompanying Drawing.
CHARLES JOHN FORD.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Surface Tiles for Walls, Partitions, Ceilings, and
Floors.
I, CHARLES JOHN FORD of 1 Adelaide Street Charing Cross, London in the county
of Middlesex Surveyor 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:-
My invention of this improvement consists in molding on the back of each tile a
raised strap, or straps, straight or shaped, with lips or ears projecting beyond the
edge of the tile for nailing or screwing, and where they are not nailed or screwed, to
fit and key in behind the adjacent tiles, so that the whole becomes perfectly and
securely fixed together, the nails or screws being covered by the adjacent tiles.
The straps are so arranged that by running in cement or other substitute, every
2 or 3 courses, the back is made solid around the straps and the joints made water-
tight, or the tiles can be bedded in cement or other substitute.
Any of the straps on the backs of the tiles may be partly left off as shewn by
dotted line B to Con Figure 4, leaving the lips or cars with only short attachment to
the tiles.
The tiles can be of any size and shape, the straps being regulated accordingly and
can be plain, ornamental; glazed, or of any description.
In the Drawing left with Provisional Specification and the accompanying ones, the
straps are shewn by dotted lines.
The Drawing left with Provisional Specification illustrates oblong tiles with
2 Boomerang shaped straps to each tile.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 is a front view and Figure 2 a back view
of an oblong tile with two Boomerang shaped straps, Figure 3 being a section through
A. B of Figure 2.
Figure 4 illustrates oblong tiles with single straight straps from angle to angle of
each file, Figure 5 being a section through C. D of Figure 4.
Figure 6 illustrates oblong tiles with single swanneck straps.
Figure 7 illustrates square tiles with Boomerang shaped straps.
Figure 8 illustrates diagonal tiles with Boomerang shaped straps, the portion
marked A being a border made in the same way as the tiles, with raised straps on the
back with lips or ears for nailing and keying under adjacent tiles.
Figure 9 illustrates a section through border at E. F.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :
1st. Making tiles with raised straps on the back, projecting beyond the edge of tile
to form lips or cars for nailing or screwing through.
2nd. Placing the lips or ears in such positions as to be partly nailed or screwed and
partly to key under adjacent tiles.
3rd. The improved tiles substantially as hereinbefore described.
Datad this First day of March 1887
CHARLES JOHN FORD.