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This invention is especially applicable to
extension areas, which require several sections of illuminating tiling
to cover them.
In constructing and applying tiles to extension
areas, the usual plan has been to fit into the stone coping a cast-iron
frame, with cross-bars at suitable intervals, and then the illuminating
tiles or plates (cast separately from said frame) have been bolted or
screwed down upon the cross-bars. The improvements effected are:
First. Each section of the illuminating
tile is cast with a supporting rib, or cross-bar, having an offset or
shoulder to receive and support the adjacent section, all in one piece,
adapted to fit directly into the coping without a surrounding metal
frame, thus obviating the necessity of any such frame as had heretofore
been used.
Second. Making the supporting rib or
cross-bar, of each section, so shallow that it will not obstruct the
oblique rays of light passing through the glasses, and re-enforcing it
by a tension truss.
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