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‘Speci?cation of Letters Patent; 3 p ' ,_ '_ PatentedxDec. 24, 1907'.‘ '
_ Applicatioii ?iéa‘iugusit‘eg 1906. Serial ‘Nor 3219.940. Y
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, _ .*Be it ‘known that ‘1, PETER J. risen-ER‘, a: 5 ends out, of register with-‘each other.
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citizen of the-United States. of Anierica, and? 'I- ,The'tile‘s are secured to the wall of a build
resident of Cincinnati, __county of- Hamilton, ing-byj-rneans of metallic lugs which roject
‘ State of Ohio,~h"ave invented certain new and outward‘ from, the" wall at an angle t ereto,
usefullrnprovements in‘ Tile Construction, " ;.=lsimil_ar"to.the._an is of, the groove, a5, to the 55:
of which the following is a speci?cation.
, facefgfgthe said ugs being made of a width
The object of my inventionisa tileconé such as to ?t the groove, ‘a5, snu l'y. ‘
struc'tion; especially‘ for use as-a covering for‘ 1
Fi '. 1 thejsupportinglugs, ,Tare struck
buildings, i'n'ywhich,_' the tile are of a shape 'outwar' ‘from
a piece of vsheet metal, B, the
such as lends itself. readilytornianufacture; In s, I)‘, being_ ‘arranged
in aseri'es oflhorizon
inwhich theymay be‘ coupled readily‘ to the v ta?
- lines,1the'_ successive lines being at a dis 6a
supporting means and whichv is, strong vand tance apart-equal‘ to the height of the'tile7
durabler;
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‘the lugs; inone row’v being preferably stag~
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i gered .with the lugs. inv the adjacent row.
nection with the accompanying ‘drawings, in‘ heet,'B,-,m_ay be secured tothe' sheathing‘, c, .
which like ‘parts are indlc'atedby similar‘ ref-'1 of the building,’ ‘or-may be'secured‘to, the up-'
erence ‘letters, and ‘will then specifically set ' rights, _ 0,‘ thereof“. After.‘ the sheet, B,'. has
‘fit forth iii'th'e' claini's. i
been thus secured, ‘theltiles are put upon "the
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supporting lugs, ‘12', starting ‘with the? lower
‘ perspective _view'of apart of abiiilding in'the', row first, ‘the operation being simply to push
course; of construotion,"the walls'of which are - Ithejtilel so .that the lugs, 12, project into the
supplied with 'a'tile construction, embodying ‘ ‘groove, a‘, the tiles, in one rowfbeing ar»
my invention‘. ,Fig. 2iis a vertical sectiona ' ‘ranged so that the‘ends'of one project .over
25 (VIEW 'u' on an enlarged ‘scale through line
the» ends of the: adj acent' .tile. _ When » the
x'——ac o Fi '. 1;. Fi" .> 3 is a-perspecti-v'e?view wti‘lesiare secured in place, it is seen that the
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upon-'a 'stil more e arged scale of one of the ' upper. and ‘lower faces-?t into the correspond
1 ing. faces of fthexadjacen't rows, ‘so that the
tile inverted. _
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a - Referring to} the fparts: the-‘tile e'inbodyin
my. invention are" ormed. with ‘?at , ex't‘erha
angularity~ of *the face,‘ together with the
steps’, a‘iyprevent theentrance of moisture\' 'to ~80
and internal faces, a", anda'l.‘ I I The-upper'and the, internal faces of the tile. '
front‘ face, a, ‘and with‘ the rear part .of ‘the lu sis the same as that a oredes'cribed.
lower faces- are made atan-acute angle to the ‘ Q The method .of-rsecurin the tile upon ‘the '
face,,a2, in a highenplan'e thanthe forward :
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at I claim is;
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part'ofv the face, (Li-‘leaving a st_ep,'. at, be ‘_ 1 The combination of a {rertical sheetimetal
tween them; ‘In theifa'ce', a’, alongitudinal. wall ‘with metal lugs struck upward at an
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groove, a5,‘is cut WhlOll" in the Vertical; PO81“ I angIe-therefrom'and arranged in a series of
tion of the “tile inclines from‘ the face, a’, up ‘horizontal 1 lines, [tiles with ‘flat-faces to ?t
lwardlfattan angle vto the horizontal._ Thev against the metal wall with upwardly in»
49 ends of the tile have notches cut-into‘. them _, ‘clin'ed slotsjjeir'tendin' inward from said
extending‘, at one. end ‘from the front‘ face half _ facesand with their e' ges inclined fromthe 90
way, in; and at'thef other end from the rear. said ‘faces downward, the-lower edges of each
face Thalf_.way into-the tile;_ Or,- inother vrovgrfoffétiles' ?tting-over the upper*_edges of
,words, each tile might be; considered, to. -.be. l-_ thenext lower row‘ of tiles.
made up of 7 two -equal»,parallelépipedons' inf
PET-ER J. FISCHER;
which the upper and, lower faces 'rneetithe' '
front and-‘rear facesat- an acuteangle reé,
' sp aced
ectively,_together,
the said'parallelepipedons,
so‘zthajt the inner‘ one'stands >
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