Improvements in the Manufacture of Artificial Stone for Building, Paving, and other Suitable Purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 1st Sept., 1897-Accepted, 2nd Oct., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Artificial Stone for Building,
Paving, and other Suitable Purposes.
I, ALBERT TAYLOR of Daisy Croft, Hipperholme near Halifax in the County
of York do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention consists in the use of ashes, clinkers, destructor
refuse powdered or granulated stone of all kinds, mixed with Portland or other
cement and a suitable quantity of water, to sufficiently moisten the material when
mixed and pressed by hydraulic steam or other power and form the same into
various kinds forms or shapes required of artificial stone, for building or paving
material, such as paving slabs, coping, blocks, heads, sills, sinks, channels, and
the like either plain or decorative both in surface and in substance.
By this arrangement perforated plates and filter cloths or pads are dispensed
with, there being no liquid to express. To assist in hardening the blocks or stone
they may be immersed in a solution of silicate of soda or other suitable silicate
solution or silicic acid and the like.
Dated 3rd December 1896
J. E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers Boar Lane, Leeds, Agent.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Artificial Stone for Building,
Paving, and other Suitable Purposes.
I, ALBERT TAYLOR, of Daisy Croft, Hipperholme near Halifax, in the County
of York, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
The object of my invention consists in the use of ashes, clinkers, destructor
refuse, powdered or granulated stone of all kinds, mixed with Portland or other
cement or binding material, and a suitable quantity of water or other liquid to
sufficiently moisten the material when mixed and pressed by hydraulic steam,
or other power, and form the same into various kinds, forms or shapes (required)
of artificial stone for building or paving material, such as paving slabs, coping,
blocks, heads, sills, sinks, channels and the like, either plain or decorative both in
surface and in substance.
By this arrangement perforated plates and filter cloths or pads are dispensed
with, there being no liquid left to express.

page_text: To assist in hardening the aforesaid blocks or stone they might be immersed
in a solution of silicate of soda or other suitable silicate solution or silicic acid
and the like.
Or silicate of soda or other silicate solution or silicic acid may be mixed with
the water and powdered material before being pressed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
The production of artificial stone (for paving, building, and the like purposes)
as herein described.
Dated this 31st day of August 1897.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Waterhouse Chambers Crossley Street, Halifax.