Bundle of shingles

#The present invention relates to an improved bundle for shingles. Certain coverings or certain sidings are made by using flat wooden tiles also called shingles. The shingles at present have a flat rectangular shape. Certain shingles, obtained by slicing in two, along the length and diagonally along the cross-section, of a flat shingle in the form of a plate, thus have a tapered cross-section and accordingly have a variable thickness with one thin side and one thick side. We will call these shingles beveled shingles. No matter what the support, battens, joint laths or not, these shingles are either nailed or stapled or fixed by any other means to this support.

#Shingles are at present bundled. The bundle according to the invention fulfills several functions in the industrial and commercial uses of shingles. The first function is to offer improved bundles for the treatment phase. The treatment is at present effected in an autoclave or by immersion and particularly for impregnation with fungicide and insecticide or specific properties particularly improving the characteristics of mechanical resistance of the shingles. The second function is to secure the shingles together favorably during bulk transfer. For bulk transfer, the shingles are at present assembled in bundles on a pallet, the pallets being themselves disposed in containers. For this transport phase, the bundles according to the invention optimize the good strength of the bundles, ensure the bundles a parallelepipedal external volume and thus increase the number of shingles that can be contained in one container. The third function is to secure together desirably the shingles during the laying phase. The laying phase is a phase at the workplace during which the roofers carry the bundles to the roofs, open the bundles and then fix the shingles one by one on their supports. The bundle according to the invention has transport characteristics, good handling characteristics, characteristics of the protection of the shingles and of improved presentation. An object of the invention is to provide improved bundling of shingles which desirably fulfills each of these phases, of treating, bulk transport and laying at the worksite and which as to each of these phases improves the bundles known to the prior art.

#The prior art provides packaging for shingles. This packaging at present takes the form of a bundle of shingles comprised by three columns, in its standard form two columns including 18 shingles in 1 column including 17 shingles. This bundle now has a single hoop. The bundles are also sometimes bundled in an indefinite number and this with a single hoop, the shingles being disposed without a particular direction with the thick sides and thin sides mixed, randomly arranged and not patterned.

#Reference will now be had to the drawings, in which:

#FIG. 1 is a side view of the bundle according to the invention.

#FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the bundle according to the invention.

#In FIG. 1 is shown a bundle (1) of shingles (2, FIG. 3) seen from the side. The bundle contains 36 shingles. All the shingles are superposed over their width and in a single column (20) of the bundle. In FIG. 1 there is shown for better visibility the shingles assembled pairwise. There are thus 9 pairs of shingles in a first sub-column of the bundle (5) disposed alternately in the bundle with 9 other pairs of shingles disposed in a second column (6) of the bundle. The shingles have their thick sides outwardly of the bundle and the thinner side of their section inwardly of the bundle. There are thus shown 9 pairs of shingles disposed in one direction in a first sub-column (5) and nine pairs of shingles disposed in the opposite direction in a second sub-column (6). The bundle thus has a regular symmetrical shape that is perfectly parallelepipedal. Seen from the side, the shape of the bundle is toothed. The two sub-columns of the bundle (5, 6) are separated by a distance (7) of less than half the length of a shingle and more than a sixth of the length of the shingle. By way of example, we give here the dimensions of a bundle according to standard forms: 1 Lengths of Length of the shingles Number of shingles bundle 800 mm 36 1000 mm 600 mm 36 800 mm 400 mm 36 550 mm 300 mm 36 400 mm

#To secure the bundle, the bundle is circled with two hoops (9).

#FIG. 2 shows a top view of the bundle according to the invention. The bundle in this view has a strictly rectangular shape. There is shown the first shingle (2) of the first sub-column of the bundle (5) and a visible portion of the first single (2′) of the second sub-column of the bundle (6).