US Patent: 5,630X
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| Covering Houses With Tin-plate, Sheet-iron, or Zinc
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Patentee:
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| Richard S. Tilden (exact or similar names) - Lynchburg, Campbell County, VA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Sep. 10, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“For an improvement in the mode of Covering Houses with Tin-plate, Sheet-iron, or Zinc; Richard S. Tilden, Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia, September 10.
The specification states that the sheets are to have an edge of about half an inch turned on each side in order to lock them together, and in putting them on the house, one or more clamps, as necessity may require, are used, one end of which is locked in the groove formed by the edging of the sheets, and the other edge is nailed to the sheeting plank, which secures the sheet to the roof.
What I claim as my improvement, is, the use of the clamps, by which the sheets are made fast to the roof, thereby protecting the nails from the weather, and the possibility of leakage through the nail holes, and differs from the old plan, inasmuch as it prevents the necessity of nailing through the sheets in order to secure them to the roof, thereby leaving the nails in a great measure exposed to the weather, and the probability of the rain penetrating the nail holes. We do not clearly understand the description given by the patentee, and it does not appear that his specification is accompanied by a drawing of the mode proposed. He speaks of “the old plan, as though but one had been known, and seems to consider it as having been the practice to leave the heads of nails exposed, in both of which assumptions he is altogether incorrect. Perhaps some of our readers may be able to discover the intention of the patentee and be able to point out that novelty and utility which have escaped us.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 9, Dec. 1829 pgs. 401-402
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