Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1888
Complete Specification Lelt, 17th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 16th Nov., 1888
FRANCIS FREDERICK PILLINER Llanlarnam Grange near Newport Monmouthshire
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
By this invention which relates to a metallic corrugated roofing for stacks of hay
or other produce a free space is provided for ventilation without any loose ridge piece.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 2 A & B are corrugated iron plates and these have
securely fastened to them, with rivets or bolts pieces of sheet iron C & D) of rather
thicker material than the sheets and these are bent to a sutable angle (about
120 degrees). Thus the plates B & D and A & C are formed into single & separate
plates B D and A C & these form one side of the stack, which are fastend together
and to the opposite side by bolts or other sutable means, at E Fig. 1. and E¹ Fig. 2.
A lath as at F Fig. 1 may be put between so as to keep the plates in a perfectly straight
line. The whole then forms a very inexpensive and weather tight roof and by allowing
the top of the rick to take its natural shape a free space G. Fig. 2 is provided for
ventilation The sheets have holes in them at proper intervals through which
screws H Fig. 3 are passed and screwed into the stack making the whole very
secure.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1888.

page_text: A Metallic Corrugated Roofing for Stacks of Hay or other
Produce.
FRANCIS FREDERICK PILLINER Llanlarnam Grange near Newport Monmouthshire
Gentleman 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 :-
By this invention which relates to a metallic corrugated roofing for stacks of bay
and other produce also for buildings and coverings for which it is sutable, Consists
of galvanized Iron corrugated sheets which have securely fastened to them with bolts
rivets or other sutable means, a piece of flat galvanized sheet iron rather thicker than
the sheets, themselves and of the same width and about a foot (more or less) in depth
and about three inches of this piece of flat sheet iron (or about a quarter of its depth)
is bent up the wide way to an angle of about 130° degrees or to suit inclination of the
roof Thus forming a sort of semi ridge which will be more readily understood by
reference to AC & B D Fig. 2 in the plan annexed. Thus this piece of bent flat
sheet iron fastened to the corrugated sheet form one side of the roof of stack or
building, and this is bolted or otherwise sutably fastened to the opposite side which is
the same, with a lath or flat piece of timber between so as to keep the sheets in a
perfectly, straight line, both horizontally and laterally as shown at C, Fig. 1 The
sheets also rest on purloins which are placed about a foot from the eves as shown
at K. in Fig. 1 & 2 so as to keep them in the same plane The outer corrugations of
each sheet are not fastened to the piece of bent, flat iron, or semi ridge so as to allow
the next sheet to it to slip up between the other sheet, and the semi ridge, and in this
way the roof may be continued to suit any length stack or building.
A free space is provided for ventilation without the necessity of any loose ridge
piece by allowing the rick to remain slightly flattened at the top thus providing a
continuous passage for the circulation of air along the top of the rick as shown at G²
and G Figs. 1 & 2. The sheets have oblong holes in them at proper intervals, and
these holes have washers soldered or rivitted round them to prevent them tearing out
through which pins or spikes are passed to secure same to the stack. A convenient
form of spike consists of an iron rod of about two feet in length ending in a point,
and having barbs, or fangs, at sutable distances thereon so as to admit of easy pene-
tration of the stack, but to resist withdrawal. The handle of this spike or pin is curved
so as to fit the corrugation of the sheet, the holes in which are about the width of the
thickness of the pin or spike but in length are nearly equal to the length of the handle.
When the sheets are intended to be secured on the stack or building the handle it as
right angles to the hole, or crossways with it, and when the sheets are required to be
taken off the handle is inerely turned round parallel with the holes so that the sheet
may slip up over the saine, without any occaison to take the spike out; this arrange-
ment will be more readily understood by reference to Fig. 2 & 3 in the plan. Washers
such as shown in Fig. 4 are place between the sheet and the handle. The cover is also

page_text: secured to the stack by allowing the wood lath at the top F in Fig. 2 to project over a
little at the ends and round this a piece of wire is fastened with a loop to it through
which a spike is driven into the ends of the stack as at L Fig. 2, making the whole
very secure.
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
The use in conbination with galvanized Iron sheets for all kinds of roofings of a
piece of flat galvanized sheet iron fastened thereto and bent at a sutable angle forming
a sort of semi ridge which, which is bolted at the top to the opposite side, and which
by allowing the stack of hay or other produce to remain flattened at the top provides
ample ventilation without the necessity of a loose ridge piece. Also of a lath or flat
piece of timber placed between the two semi ridge's for the purpose of keeping the
galvanized sheets in a perfectly straight line both horizontally & laterally and also for
facilitating the secureing to the stack of hay or other produce, which is particularly
described in Figs. 1 & 2 in the annexed plan.
The use in conbination with galvanized iron sheets for securing them to stacks of
hay or other produce of a pin or spike ending in a point and having barbs or fangs at
sutable distances thereon so as not to materially obstruct penetration of the produce
but to resist withdrawal, with a T handle formed in such a way as to allow the sheets
to be removed without the necessity of having to draw out the spike or pin which is
effected by turning it round so as to bring the handle parallel with the oblong hole in
the sheet thus allowing the sheet to slip up over the handle Also the principle of
removing galvanized sheets from roofings without taking out the fasteners thereof
Also the use in conbination with galvanized iron sheets for roofings of a washer that
will take of such spike or pin when same is in actual work, as illustrated in Fig. 4 in
the annexed plan.
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