US1492610A - Roofing material and method of making the same - Google Patents

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May 6 1924. 1,492,610 J. T. SIMPSON ROOFING MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed Dec. 14, 1922 [N VEN T018.

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Patented May 6, i924.

JOHN THOMAS SIMPSON, OF NEW NEW JERSEY.

ROOTING- MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

Application filed December 14, 1922. Serial No. 606,842.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN THOMAS SIMP- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Roofing Material and Method of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to roof or'wall coverings which, while having all of the appearances of a thatch, will form a waterproof covering. 7

The objects of the invention are to provide a thatched roofing or wall covering which may be shop made; which may be manufactured in sections which may be easily handled and shipped; which may be readily placed in position; which will be waterand wind proof; in which the thatch will be ofwstrong and rugged construction, and which will function as a covering even when the thatch is removed.

These and further objects will more fully appear in the following specification and accompanying drawings considered together or separately. L

One embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

which like parts in all of the several figures are designated by corresponding characters of reference, and in which Fig. 1 is a plan view of a shingle or tile provided with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a plurality of shingles in position.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a shingle reinforcement with the thatch applied thereto.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the reinforcement and thatch in folded position.

Fig. 7 is a detail sectional view illustrating one method of attaching the thatch to a shingle.

Fig. 8 is a detail sectional view of a ridge cap with thatch applied thereto, and

Fig. 9 is a detail sectional view of an eaves member.

The device of the invention may be made up in the form of a shingle or tile, or in sheets of any desired length, and should preferably, but not necessarily, be applied to a roof or wall with one shingle, tile or sheet, as the case may be partly weathering an adjoining sheet, shingle or tile.

, In the embodiment of the invention illustrated 1O designates a shingle or tile composed of a suitable plastic, waterproof and fireproof material. The shingle may be made of any desired size or configuration.

Projecting from one, the lower. edge of the shingle is a fringe or thatch 11 which may be of any suitable material. The thatch may be shredded bamboo, straw, grass, rope, wooden rods, wire, metal tubes or the like. The dried leaves of the yucca, a plant indigenous to the arid regions of the western States are admirably suited for the purpose. When yucca or other fibrous vegetable substance is employed, the same may be waterproofed and fireproofed in any known manner. and may be dyed or otherwise oolored if desired.

As illustrated in the drawings the thatch 11 of each shingle is in two layers one shorter than the other and the shorter layer weathers the longer. It is to be understood, however, that the arrangement of the thatch may be varied within wide limits. The thatch projecting from a shingle may be in a single layer in which all of the thatch elements project to the same distance, or there may be any number of layers each projecting a distance shorter than that immediately below it.

As shown in the drawings each shingle is provided with a rabbet 12 whereby each shingle may weather the shingle immediately below the same.

In forming the shingle illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, a sheet 13 of wire cloth of approximately the same width as that of the contemplated shingle, and of a length somewhat greater than the shingle, is provided. A layer of the desired thatch material 11 is placed upon one side of cloth with the ends projecting from that end thereof. The thatch 10 is now secured to the cloth, as by stitching 14 as shown in Figs. 4:, 5 and 6. I

Alayer of thatch is now secured to opposite side of the cloth and projects from that end opposite the first mentioned layer. The cloth is now bent in the middle and one thatch layer is superposed over the other, as shown in Fi 6.

The shing e 10, which is preferabl composed of a plastic, fireproof and waterproof material, is now molded, pressed, rolled, or otherwise applied to the thatch foundation whereby the latter and the secured portions of the thatch elements are embedded in the ments instead of bein shingle. The embedded wire cloth not only forms an anchorage for the thatch elements, but acts also as a reinforcement for the shingle.

As illustrated in Fig. 7, the thatch ele stitched to the foundation, are secured t ereto by 'means of a clip 14 such for example, as that used as a belt fastening.

In Fig. 8, 15 indicates a ridge cap 15 preferably formed of the same material as the shingle, and having embedded a foundation carrying projecting thatch elements 16, one projecting from each side edge of the cap.

Fig. 9 illustrates a member 7 which may depend from the caves of a buildingI to which improved roofin is applied. mbedded in the member% is a plurality of thatch foundations each carrying thatch elements projecting from the face of the element, which latter when in place will give an appearance of thickness to the thatch.

The thatch may be employed in connection with wood shingles, or with weatherboarding by securin the foundation sheet 13 between the over apping ends of the shingles or weatherboards with the thatch be projecting outward over the exposed portions thereof.

Owing to the fact that the thatch is not required to shed water, it, the thatch, may be made considerably thinner than is necessary. when the thatch is the roof, and the roof may also be made with flatter angles.

By impervious in the followin claims, is meant waterproof or water shed ing.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes the principle of the invention has been described together with the article which is now considered to represent the best embodiment thereof, but itis desired to have it understood that the article shown is merely illustrative, and that the invention may be carried out in other ways.

The invention having been described, what is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. A roof comprising overlapping impervious members, and a fringe of fila- .mentous elements covering the otherwise exposed surfaces of the members.

2. A roof comprising overlappin impervious members, and a frin e 0 filamentous elements covering the ot erwise exposed surfaces of the members, said fringe eing secured to one of the members.

3. A roof comprising overlappin impervious members, and a frin e o filamentous elements covering the ot erwise exposed surfacesof the members, said fringe eing secured to the overlapping member.

4. A device of the character described,

comprising a member of impervious mamaterial, a series of filamentous elements secured to the reinforcement, said elements projecting from the member.

8. A device of the character described, comprising a member of reinforced plastic material, a series of flexible, filamentous elements secured to the reinforcement, said elements projecting from the member.

9. A device of the character described, comprising a member of plastic material, a metal reinforcement embedded in the member, a plurality. of elongated elements secured to the reinforcement, a portion of each element being embedded in the mem- 10. A device of the character described, comprising a member of plastic material, a metal reinforcement embedded in the member, a plurality of elongated, fibrous elements secured to the reinforcement, a portion of each element being embedded in the member, the free portions of the elements being unsecured to each other.

11. A device of the character described, comprising a sheet-like body, a plurality of elongated elements secured to the body at opposite ed es of the body, said elements projecting rom the body to form fringes, said body being folded on itself whereby one fringe will overlap the other, and a sheetlike member embedding the body and the portions of the elements secured to the body.

12. The method of making a roofing material, which comprises securing a series of elongated elements side-by-side to a sheetlike body, said elements projecting from the body in approximately the plane of the body, and securing the body to a sheet-like member of im ervious material.

13. The met 0d of making a roofing material, which comp-rises securing a series of elon ated elements side-by-side to a sheetlike %ody, said elements projecting from the body in approximately the plane of the body, and forming a sheet-like member to embed the bod 14. The met 0d of making a roofing material, which comprises securing a series of elonggtsd elements side-by-side to a sheetlike y, said elements projecting from the body in approximately the plane of the body, and forming a sheet-like member to embed the body and the attached portions of the elements.

15. The method of making a roofing ma- 6 terial, which comprises attaching aseries of elongated elements to one face of a body of woven Wire fabric, portions of said elements projecting from the body in the plane thereof, attaching a series of elements to the no opposite face of the body and projecting from that edge of the body opposite the first mentioned elements, folding the body on itself to cause one series of elements to overlap the other, and forming a sheet-like member of plastic material to embed the body and the attached portions of the elements.

This specification signed and witnessed this fifth day of December, 1922.

JOHN THOMAS SIMPSON. Witnesses:

ETHEL M. JoNEs, FLORENCE I. CARMAN.

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