New or Improved Manufacture of Bricks and Plates or Tiles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 26th Mar.. 1890-Accepted. 27th Sept.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Manufacture of Bricks and Plates or Tiles.
I, Baron ARNOLD VON SOLEMACHER-ANTWEILER, of Schloss Wachendorf, near
Satzvey, Rheinprovinz, German Empire, Landed Proprietor, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a new or improved manufacture of artistic enamelled
bricks and plates or tiles, weather proof, acid proof, not penetrable by moisture, and
of so highly durable a nature as to be practically indestructible. They are intended
for use in building operations whether to serve in lieu of ordinary facing bricks the
same size as which they can be made or to be employed alternately or in conjunction
with ordinary facing bricks for example in the adornment of facades. They are also
intended to serve in the form of plates or tiles for covering walls in all cases where
dryness, cleanliness and elegance are desired, for which purposes it has been usual to
employ known kinds of glazed clay plates or tiles of the less valuable or costly
descriptions. My bricks, plates or tiles are also specially suitable for use in the
construction of friezes, floors and so forth. They are opaque and can be produced as
a pure white enamel, and also in all colours or shades of colour and marbled and with
various patterns designs and emblems.
The enamel is made of a mixture of the following substances in or about the
proportions stated, namely, ..
100 parts by weight of silicic acid.
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fluor spar.
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tin ash (zinnasche).
alum earth (alaunerde).
red lead..
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talc.
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cryolite.
This mixture is melted in a regenerative gas melting furnace at a temperature of
from about 1500 to 2000°, in such a manner that the resulting mass of enamel becomes
quite fluid and appears perfectly white.
By the addition of suitable quantities of iron, copper, nickel, manganese, oxide of
uranium, &c., all shades of colours can be produced as well as marbling.
The fluid mass thus produced is cast in iron moulds into half and quarter bricks
or plates or tiles. The moulds are so formed that the bricks and plates or tiles thus
produced are provided on the under or back face with a projecting or raised border
and with broken or interrupted transverse ribs or rows of projections in such a manner
that a number of inter-communicating or connected spaces are produced which, as the
bricks plates or tiles are built up or secured in place become filled with mortar or
cement, thereby ensuring a firm attachment of the bricks plates or tiles to the wall
or floor or surface to which they are applied. The designs, ornaments, emblems,
monograms, &c., on the upper or front faces are obtained by pressure in the moulds
by means of dies or parts adapted to produce the patterns or designs required.
The bricks plates or tiles can be produced with a polish or lustre, or with a dull
surface.
Dated this 4th day of March 1890.

page_text: fluor spar, felspar, soda, tin putty or oxide of tin, alumina, red lead, talc and cryolite
in or about the proportions stated melting the same in a suitable furnace such as a
regenerative glass melting furnace and casting the resulting fluid mass with or without
the addition of suitable colouring agents, in moulds into the form of bricks or plates
or tiles of the desired shape and size with projecting border and perforated rib or
interrupted transverse ribs or projections at the back.
2. Artistic enamel bricks plates or tiles manufactured as hereinabove described.
Dated thin ofth
CL 1000
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.