Improvements in Weather-tiling, and in the Tiles therefor, and for Roofs and Ridges.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Feb., 1896-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Weather-tiling, and in the Tiles therefor, and for
Roofs and Ridges.
I, WILLIAM BUCK, of 60 West Street, Horsham, in the County of Sussex
Architect, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Tiles for weather, or roof tiling, or for ridge tiles, have hitherto, when formed
with an ornamental device or edge, been made with the farthest projecting portion
of the ornamental edge in the centre or central portion of such edge and with the
shortest or most cut away portions at the two side edges, and by this arrangement
the line of junction between any two tiles is rendered shorter and consequently less
efficient for the exclusion of moisture than in the case of plain rectangular tiles.
Now according to my invention the ornamental device is formed in the central
portion of the edge of the tile, so as to leave the two side edges of undiminished
length, and by this means I obtain, in weather tiling, as good a joint between
ornamental tiles as would be had in plain rectangular tiles.
In forming the corners and return angles of buildings various devices, all more
or less unsatisfactory, have been adopted. Now in order to form such corners
more perfectly I employ, for the half tiles necessary to make out the end of every
alternate line of tiles, half tiles made for this purpose of plain rectangular form
so that the joint at the corner may not be shortened by the ornamentation of the
lower edge, and I prefer to make all tiles used in forming such corners and returns
with one mitred edge so as to fit the tile which meets it which is also mitred to
correspond.
The same tiles are applicable for roofing except that the hips and valleys must
be treated in the usual manner with hip and valley tiles.
For ridge tiles the ornamental device is formed in the upwardly projecting
edge of the tile, the ornamental device, as in the other tiles being formed by
regular and symmetrical indentations-which do not extend to the extremities of
the tile.
My invention is applicable to tiles made of other materials than those
ordinarily used, such for instance as metal, wood, cement or other applicable
material.
Dated the Second day of May 1895.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Weather-tiling, and in the Tiles therefor, and for
Roofs and Ridges.
1, WILLIAM Buck, of 60, West Street, Horsham, in the County of Sussex,
Architect, 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:-
Tiles for weather, or roof-tiling, or for ridges have hitherto, when formed with

page_text: an ornamental device or edge, been made with the farthest projecting portion of
the ornamental edge in the centre, or central portion of such edge, and with the
shortest, or most cut-away portions at the two side edges, and by this arrangement
the line of junction between any two tiles is rendered shorter and consequently
Jess efficient for the exclusion of moisture than in the case of plain rectangular
tiles.
Now according to my invention the ornamental device is formed in the central
portion of the edge of the tile, so as to leave the two side edges of undiminished
length, and by this means I obtain, in weather tiling, as good a joint between
ornamental tiles as would be had in plain rectangular tiles.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings I have represented a variety of patterns
arranged according to my invention, and in Fig. 1 the application of such tiles to
the vertical walls of a house, showing the method of treating the corners and the
lower or tilting course. Various patterns of tiles are represented in Figs. 2 to 15
in which the whole of the device on the ornamented edge a is in the central portion
of that edge, that is to say, so that no part of the pattern extends quite across the
tile, and so that the side edges b and c are not shortened or cut away by the pattern,
but extend to the full length of the tile.
In forming the corners and return angles of weather tiled buildings various
devices, all more or less unsatisfactory have hitherto been adopted. Now in order to
form such corners more perfectly I employ, for the half tiles necessary to make
out the end of every alternate line of tiles, half tiles made for this purpose, one of
which is shown in elevation in Fig. 18 and in section in Fig. 19, of plain rectangular
form, so that the joint at the corner may not be shortened by the ornamentation of
the lower edge, and I prefer to make all tiles used in forming such corners and
returns with one mitred edge so as to fit the tile which meets it which is also mitred
to correspond.
Fig. 1 shows part of one side of a house covered with my improved tiles. For
the lower course, or courses, commonly called the tilting course or courses, plain
ordinary tiles d, d, are preferably used, and I prefer that the tile d' next the corner
of the building should be made with its outer edge inclined as shown in elevation
in Fig. 16 and with the same edge of mitred as shown in section in Fig. 17 so as to
form close joint with the adjacent tile on the other face of the building. The
course next rhove and every subsequent course of tiles,, are of my improved
construction, but with the holf tiles,, at the end of every alternate course, of
plain rectangular outline, with the edges preferably mitred as shown in elevation
in Fig. 18 and in section in Fig. 19.
The name tiles are applicable for ranfing provided only that the hips and valleys
must be treated in the usual memer with hip, and valley tiles.
Ridge tilsy be made to correspond in pattern with the tiles used for the
other parts of the house in which case the ornamental device is formed in the
upwardly projecting edge of the tile, as shown in perspective elevation in Fig. 20
and in cross section in Fig. 21, but I do not claim such ridge tiles as any part of my
invention.
Other patterns embodying the essential features of my invention may be arranged
besides those represented in the drawings which are intended as examples of the
various styles of treatment.
My invention is applicable to tiles made of other materials than those ordinarily
used, such for instance as metal, wood, cement or other applicable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my wild invers
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
claim is :-
1. The improvements in weather-tiling and in the tiles therefor substantially 25
hereinforced.
2. The improvements in tiles for roofs substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. Ornamental tiles for weather-tiling, and for roofs in which the ornamental

page_text: pattern is so limited as not to extend quite across the tile and so that the side
edges b and c are not shortened by such ornamentation but are of the full length of
the tile substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the drawings.
4. Weather-tiling buildings with tiles such as herein before described arranged
and applied substantially as hereinbefore set forth and shown in the drawing.
Dated the First day of February 1896.
WILLIAM BUCK.