A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WAREHOUSES, SHEDS, AND OTHER BUILDINGS INTENDED FOR THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY
Year: 1829

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
ROBINSON PALMER, of the London Docks, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirtieth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-nine, in the tenth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Robinson Palmer, His
especial licence, licence, that I, the said Henry Robinson Palmer, my exors,
adiiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Robinson Palmer,
my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WAREHOUSES, SHEDS, AND
OTHER BUILDINGS INTENDED FOR THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Henry Robinson
Palmer, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly
to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as

page_text: in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Robinson Palmer, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and
the following description thereof (that is to say):-
My Improvement or Improvements in the Construction of the Roofs and
other Parts of Warehouses, Sheds, and other Buildings intended for the
Protection of Property, consists in the application of metallic plates or sheets,
in a fluted, indented, or corrugated form, to the purposes, in relation to
buildings, for which metallic plates with even or plain surfaces have been
already applied. The advantage to be derived from the form or forms
proposed consists in the additional strength obtained in the metal itself, so
that less aid is required from framework supporting or attached thereto to
preserve the plates in their proper form and position. Various forms of the
flutings, indentations, or corrugations may be adopted; but that which I prefer
is the fluted or that which is composed of curved or waving 'lines, as repre-
sented in Fig. 1 in the Drawing: annexed. The fluted sheets or plates of
metal may be applied to roofs of buildings, to the sides of them, to the
doors, the shutters, and to partitions in the buildings, whether moveable- or
stationary. The form of the flutings, and the manner of applying the fluted
sheets or plates, máy. vary, according to circumstances and to the taste of
those who require their use; 'I therefore shall confine my explanation of the
manner. of applying them to such examples only as are necessary for the
illustration of the purposes intended by-me.
Fig. 2 in the Drawing hereunto annexed represents four plates/or. sheets
rivetted together.
Fig. 3 represents the section of a roof; the two sides of which a, a, are
composed of fluted* plates or sheets. These plates are rivetted to their upper
ends to a crown plate, made in an angular form, and represented at b. The
lower extremities of the fluted plates or sheets are rivetted or otherwise
connected with a gutter. composed of metal, and formed as represented at c, c.
The gutters rest on bearers, commonly known by the name of gutter plates,
which may rest on pillars, or any other usual supports most convenient. The
horizontal thrust or pressure of the roof thus formed may be resisted by any
known means most conveniently applicable. The application of the *fluted;
indented, or corrugated plates or sheets to the sides of buildings, or to-par-
titions, or to doors or shutters, is best performed by rivetting or otherwise

page_text: connecting the said sheets or plates to a frame made of wood, or any other
substance that may be preferred, though a frame of the same metal as the
plate is best adapted for the purpose.
Fig. 4 represents a fluted sheet or plate inserted in a metallic frame, the
section of which is angular, and represented by Fig. 5. In this case the sheet
or plate of metal is inserted within the recess of the frame, and rivetted to the
flanch thereof.
The Figures 4 and 5 referred to may be considered to represent the general
mode of applying my improvement or improvements to the sides of buildings,
to partitions, to doors, and to shutters.
I do not claim as my Invention any particular mode of forming the plates
or sheets, as herein described, the means of producing such forms being well
known; neither do I claim as my improvement or improvements any par-
ticular mode of connecting the fluted, indented, or corrugated sheets or plates
of metal together, or the mode of attaching them to buildings so as to form a
part or parts of such buildings; but I claim as my improvement or improve-
ments the use or application of fluted, indented, or corrugated metallic sheets
or plates to the roofs and other parts of buildings, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Robinson Palmer, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirtyeth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
HENRY R. (L.s.) PALMER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of June, in the
tenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, the said
Henry Robinson Palmer came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also
the Instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
made in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George
the Third.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of June One thousand oight hundred and