Patent ID: 8082716

Claim:
A roofing tile system of partially overlapping rows of tiles in side-by-side relation, on a substrate of a pitched roof, said system comprising: a plurality of weatherproof tiles, a plurality of primary fasteners, and a plurality of secondary fasteners; each of said tiles having a protected end, an exposed end, and two side edges; each of said tiles having at least one attachment hole, for receiving primary fasteners; said attachment holes being located proximate to said protected end; each of said tiles having at least one anchoring panel, for receiving secondary fasteners; said anchoring panels being affixed, proximate to said protected end, by engagement means; each of said tiles having at least one interlock hole; said interlock holes being located proximate to said exposed end and positioned to register with at least one anchoring panel of a tile in said overlapped row of tiles; said primary fasteners being driven through said attachment holes in a first row and second row of tiles and into said substrate to attach said first and second rows of tiles, in side-by-side relation; said second row of tiles partially overlapping said first row of tiles; and said secondary fasteners being driven through said interlock holes in said second row of tiles into said anchoring panels in said first row of tiles for interlocking said first and second rows of tiles.