Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1886.
Complete Left, 23rd Nov., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 25th Mar., 1887.
ADAM JONES Cashier Calcutts House Jackfield near Ironbridge, in the County of
Shropshire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to the improved manufacture of Hip and Valley Tiles'
used at the outer and inner angles of Roofs, by means of a set of Dies and Bottom
Plate, with a Preparatory Moulding-Frame constructed as hereinafter described.
"
My Preparatory Moulding-Frame I construct with a Y shaped angular aperture of
necessary width, and at the required "pitch or angle for the Hip or Valley Tile;
through which aperture the clay is forced by means of the ordinary forcing mill, and
an elongated angular Slab is produced forming the basis of the Tile required. In
order to cut and press this angular slab into the finished Hip or Valley Tile I construct
my Bottom Plate of the required size and shape, with an angular depression in its
upper surface, corresponding with the convex or outer side of the Hip or Valley Tile,
which, when enclosed by the Die-Box, acts as a receiving-bed for the angular-slab
prepared as before described. The Boring-pin is placed at the narrow end of the
Die-Box, and passes through the slab in the usual manner as in the manufacture of
the ordinary flat Roofing Tile. The Top Die is made of a size and shape as to fit
exactly into the Die Box, having its lower surface constructed of an angular convex
form corresponding with the concavity of the Bottom Plate. At the four edges of
the Top Die are affixed knife-like projections, the outer sides of which are vertical with
the inside of the Die Box, the inner sides so formed as to give a square edge to
the Tile.
In pressing and finishing the Hip or Valley Tile, the angular clay-slab, prepared by
the Preparatory Moulding Frame as before described, is placed in position over the
Bottom Plate, and the Top Die caused to descend, its knife-like projections cutting
through the clay-slab and carrying down the necessary portion into the Die Box,
which, as the Top Die lower descends, is compressed against the Bottom Plate and the
Hip or Valley Tile is finished.

page_text: Used at the Outer and Inner Angles of Roofs.
ADAM JONES, Cashier, Calcutts House, Jackfield, in the County of Salop, 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 has reference to the improved manufacture of Hip and Valley Tiles,
used at the outer and inner angles of Roofs, by means of a set of Dies and Bottom
Plate, with a Preparatory Moulding-Frame, as shewn in accompanying Drawing, and
as hereinafter described."
Fig. 1, in the accompanying Drawing represents the plan of the Top Die and
Figs. 2 and 3 its longitudinal elevation and transverse section respectively. Fig. 4
gives the plan view of the Die Box with the Bottom Plate enclosed and in position,
and Figs. 5 and 6 shew the longitudinal and transverse sections respectively. Fig. 7
is the elevation of the Preparatory Moulding-Frame.
To improve the manufacture of the Hip and Valley Tile, I construct my Preparatory
Moulding-Frame, Fig. 7, with a Y shaped angular aperture, a, a, of necessary width,
and at the required" pitch" or angle for the Hip or Valley Tile, through which
aperture the clay is forced by means of an ordinary forcing-mill, and an elongated
angular slab is produced, forming the basis of the Tile required. In order to cut and
press this angular slab into the finished Hip or Valley Tile, I construct the Bottom
Plate, b, (Figs. 4, 5, and 6) of the required size and shape, with an angular depression
in its upper surface, corresponding with the convex or outer side of the Hip or Valley
Tile, which when enclosed by the Die Box, c, (Figs. 4, 5, and 6) acts as a receiving-
bed for the angular slab prepared as before described. The Boring-pin, d, is placed
at the narrow end of the Die Box, c, projecting up, and passing into the aperture, e,
when the Top Die (Figs. 1, 2, and 3) is lowered into the Dic Box, c, in the usual
manner as in the manufacture of the ordinary flat Roofing Tile. The Top Die,
Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is made of a size and shape as to fit exactly into the Die Box, c,
having its lower surface, ff, constructed of an angular convex form corresponding
with the concavity of the Bottom Plate, b, down towards which it is lowered. At the
four edges of the Top Die are affixed the knife-like projections, 9, 9, I, I, (Figs. 2
and 3), the outer sides of which are vertical with the inside of the Die Box, c, the
inner sides springing from the angular surface, f,f, and so formed as to give a square
edge to the Tile.
In pressing and finishing the Hip or Valley Tile by means of the set of Dies, the
angular clay-slab (prepared as before described) is placed in position over the Bottom
Plate, b, enclosed in the Die Box, c, and the Top Die, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, caused to

page_text: descend by means of the ordinary screw-press, the knife-like projections, I, I, I, I,
cutting through the angular clay-slab and carrying down into the Die Box, c, the
necessary shapely portion, which, as the Top Die lower descends, is compressed against
the Bottom Plate, b, and the Hip or Valley Tile is finished.
The Bottom Plate, b, is then raised by the ordinary lifting-lever to the level of
the top of the Die Box, c, and the Tile is removed by hand.
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 :--
A set of Dies and Bottom Plate, with a Preparatory Moulding-Frame, for the
better method of preparing, pressing, and finishing Hip and Valley Tiles, all con-
structed, arranged, and made to operate substantially as described and shewn with
reference to the Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1886.