Improvements in Ridge Tiles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1898
Improvements in Ridge Tiles.
We JOHN CARROLL of 33 Crocus Street Flax Sorter and JOHN Joseph
MCDONNELL of 27 Chichester Street Architect both in the City of Belfast and
County of Antrim in Ireland do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
Our invention relates to the construction of ridge tiles for the roofs of houses
and consists in forming the ends thereof so that adjoining tiles will interlock and
hold each other together in order to resist the action of the wind.
For this purpose we form one side of each tile with a flange on the upper surface
at one end and a flange on the under surface at the opposite end and the other side
with similar flanges reversed, a portion or portions of the flange or flanges being
cut away so as to allow the tiles to be placed closely together.
Or, we may form one end of each tile with a V or C shaped groove and the
other end with a relative projection.
Dated this 18th day of May 1895
HUGH
HYNDMAN,
6 Chichester Street, Belfast, Agent for Applicants.
Improvements in Ridge Tiles.
We JOHN CARROLL of 33 Crocus Street, Flax Sorter and JOHN JOSEPH
MCDONNELL of 27 Chichester Street Architect both in the City of Belfast and
County of Antrim in Ireland 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 :-
Our invention relates to the construction of ridge tiles for the roofs of houses
and consists in forming the ends thereof so that adjoining tiles will interlock and
hold each other together in order to resist the action of the wind in stripping the
ridge of a house roof.
For this purpose we form one side of each ridge tile with a flange on the upper
surface at one end and a corresponding flange on the under surface at the opposite
end and the other side with similar flanges reversed so that at one end the flange is
upon the upper surface of one side and upon the under surface of the other side
while at the opposite end the flange is upon the under surface of the first mentioned
side and upon the upper surface of the secondly mentioned side.
A portion of the under flange at the apex of one end of the tile is cut away or
notched to admit the flange of the adjoining tile so as to allow adjoining tiles to be
placed closely together and held in position.
Or we may form the face or edge of each tile at one end with an angular or
semicircular plough or groove and at the opposite end with a correlative projection
or bead but we prefer and claim only the flanged or rebated ends.
And in order that our said invention may be better understood we shall now
proceed to refer to the several figures on the sheet hereunto annexed the same
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page_text: letters of reference being employed to indicate the same or corresponding parts of
our contrivance throughout all the figures.
Fig. I is a front view of a ridge-tile having a flange on the upper surface at one
end and on the under surface at its other end.
Figs. II and III are the end views of the same ridge-tile opposite to each other
respectively and
Figs. IV and V are perspective views of two tiles shewing the ends to be placed
in contact with each other.
a a a are the ridge-tiles having the flanges bb on the upper surface and the
flanges c and c¹ on the under surface and the notch d in the flange c¹ to admit the
flange c so that the adjoining tiles may be set in close contact to each other and
held thus together in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
1. The manufacture and use of ridge-tiles having the ends thereof correlatively
flanged or rebated and having a notch in the under flange of one of such ends
substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before described and shewn
in the drawings hereunto annexed.
2. The manufacture and use of ridge-tiles constructed and employed substantially
in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn in the
drawings hereunto annexed.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting our improved ridge-
tile constructed and employed substantially in the manner and for the purposes
herein before described and illustrated by the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 19th day of February 1896.
HUGH HYNDMAN,
6 Chichester Street, Belfast, Agent for Applicants.