A NEW OR IMPROVED TILE FOR ROOFING AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Hughes, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Builder, for an Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED TILE FOR
ROOFING AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Hughes at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd February 1880.
THOMAS HUGHES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Builder. "A
NEW OR IMPROVED TILE FOR ROOFING AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
My Invention consists in making a tile with a bead or fillet running along one
edge and continued along one end, which end is the top of the tile when laid in its
position upon the roof. On the opposite edge to the first named bead or fillet I
make a hollow. roll raised above the face of the tile, and sufficiently large to fit on
to or overlap the first named bead or fillet when two tiles are placed in their
position on the roof, and at the other end of the tile, which is the bottom end
when placed in its position upon a roof, I make a fillet or bead grooved or otherwise
on the underside, which fillet forms a weather guard and protection over the bead
or fillet at the top of the other tile. The hollow roll forms vertical lines upon a
roof, and at the corner intersection of the tiles the fillets, beads, and rolls interlock
and overlap each other. The tiles may have two or more nibbs or a fillet on the
underside to hang them on to the lath, and may be nailed or screwed to the lath,
The crest tiles, hip tiles, and valley tiles clip on to the rolls and overlap the beads
or fillets in manner before described. The raised bead on the outer edge of the
upper surface of one tile when overlapped and protected by the hollow roll of
another tile will entirely prevent any rain water getting under at the sides, and by
the raised bead on the top edge of the upper surface of one tile being over lapped
and protected by a fillet or bead on the bottom edge of the under surface of another
tile will entirely prevent rain water being driven under at the horizontal inter-
section of the tiles, and will permit of the tile being used for roofs of a much lower
pitch than by ordinary tiles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
August 1880.
THOMAS HUGHES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Builder. "A
NEW OR IMPROVED TILE FOR ROOFING AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
My Invention consists in making a tile with a bead or fillet running along two
[Price 4d.]

page_text: sides or edges thereof, one being the top edge and the other the side of such tile
when laid in its position upon the roof.
On a third side of such tile I make a hollow roll rising considerably above the
face of the tile, and sufficiently large to fit on to or overlap the bead or fillet of the
next tile when two tiles are placed in their position on the roof, and at the underside
of the lower end of the tile, which is the bottom end when placed in its position
upon the roof, I place a bead which overlaps the top bead of the next tile.
The last named fillet or bead is grooved or otherwise on the underside, and such
fillet forms a weather guard and protection over the bead or fillet at the top of the
other tile.
The hollow rolls of the tiles form vertical lines when laid upon a roof, and at the
corner intersection of the tiles the fillets, beads, and rolls inter-lock and overlap
each other.
The tiles may have two or more nibbs or a fillet on the underside to hang them
on to the lath, as hereinafter described, or instead thereof they may be nailed or
screwed to the lath, or both methods may be combined.
The crest tiles, hip tiles, and valley tiles clip on to the rolls and overlap the beads
or fillets in manner before described.
The raised bead on the outer edge of the upper surface of one tile when overlapped
and protected by the hollow roll of another tile will entirely prevent any rain
water getting under at the sides, and by the raised bead on the top edge of the
upper surface of one tile being overlapped and protected by the fillet or bead on
the bottom edge of the under surface of another tile, rain water will be entirely
prevented from being driven under at the horizontal intersection of the tiles, and
will permit of the tile being used for roofs of a much lower pitch than by the use
of ordinary tiles.
And in order that this my said Invention may be properly understood, I will
proceed to describe the same with reference to the annexed Drawings.
Fig. 1 is a plan of the top side of my Patent tile, a being the upper edge, b, the
bead, and c, the roll or weather guard which overlaps b of the next tile; Fig. 2
is a plan of the underside of the same; c is the underside of the roll or weather
guard, d, d, are the nibbs for holding the tiles upon the lath as shewn at e, Fig. 3; fis
the bead to overlap the top of the next tile; Fig. 3 shews the tiles (in section) placed
upon the roof and prevented from falling by the nibs or catches & resting against
the laths; Fig. 4 is a section on the line g, h, of Figs. 1 and 2.
Having now described and ascertained the nature and object of my said Invention,
I declare that what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein before in
part recited Letters Patent is,-
The mode and manufacture of tiles, substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the Drawings, as and for the purposes herein before described, or any
mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Hughes, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty first day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.