IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOD-PAVING
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Hall, of Leicester, Builder, and Christopher
Cleever Woodcock of the same place, Gentleman, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOD-PAVING
"
:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Hall and
Christopher Cleever Woodcock at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents
on the 5th December 1883.
RICHARD HALL, of Leicester, Builder, and CHRISTOPHER CLEEVER WOODCOCK
of the same place, Gentleman, "IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOD-PAVING "
Our Invention relates to improvements in wood pavements for roadways or
other purposes and has for its object to provide a pavement which will obviate the
injurious liability to slipping which exists with such pavements as at present.
constructed
According to the said Invention we form the pavement of blocks which are
provided with slots grooves or recesses of say about three quarters of an inch in-
width and extending downwards to some little distance into the block say about
half way The ends of the blocks are so formed that they give the requisite slot
groove or recess when the blocks are placed end to end-In constructing the
pavement with these blocks we place them end to end and we put strips or pieces
of wood or other material between each row of blocks, the said strips or pieces
extending to say half way from the lower part of the blocks and forming between
the rows of blocks the counterpart of the slots or recesses in and between the
blocks. The blocks when thus laid together present comparatively small wood
squares or other shaped pieces with a considerable gap between them, and into these
gaps we pour concrete or other like material. The wood pavement thus formed
will prevent the dangerous slipping which occurs with wood roadway or pavements
as at present constructed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard Hall and Christopher Cleever Woodcock in the Patent Office
on the 4th June 1884.
RICHARD HALL of Leicester Builder, and CHRISTOPHER CLEEVER WOODCOCK of
the same place Gentleman "IMPROVEMENTS IN WOOD PAVING"
Our Invention relates to improvements in wood pavements for roadways or
other purposes and has for its object to provide a pavement which will obviate the
injurious liability to slipping which exists with such pavements as at present
constructed. We will explain our Invention with reference to the accompanying
drawing, Figure 1 of which is a plan and Figures 2, and 3 are vertical sections at
right angles to each other of a part of a pavement constructed according to our
Invention.
According to our said Invention we form the pavement of blocks A which are
provided with slots grooves or recesses a of say about three quarters of a inch in
width and extending downwards to some little distance in the block say about half
way. The ends of the blocks are so formed at a² that they give when the blocks
are placed end to end slots grooves or recesses corresponding to those at a In
constructing the pavement with these blocks A we place them end to end and we
put strips or pieces of wood or other material B between each row of blocks the
said strips or pieces extending to say half way from the lower part of the blocks
and forming between the rows of blocks the counterpart of the slots or recesses in
and between the blocks. The blocks when thus laid together present comparatively
small wood squares or other shaped pieces with a considerable gap between them as
shewn clearly in Figure 1 and into these gaps we pour concrete or other like cement
or material. In figure 1 the right hand portion is represented before the cement is
poured in whilst the left hand portion shews the cement in place. The wood
pavement thus formed will prevent the dangerous slipping which occurs with wood
roadway or pavements as at present constructed.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect we would observe in conclusion that what we consider to be novel and original
and therefore claim as the Invention secured to us by the hereinbefore in part
recited Letters Patent is.
The construction of wood paving in the manner hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof we the said Richard Hall and Christopher Cleever Woodcock
have to this our Specification set our hands and seals this thirtieth day of May
One thousand eight hundred and eighty four.
RICHARD HALL
(L.S.)
CHRIST C. WOODCOCK (L.S.)

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