CURBS OF ROADS AND FOOTPATHS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Jackson Wheeler at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th April 1882.
JOHN JACKSON WHEELER of 189 Fulham Road Middlesex
THE CURBS OF ROADS AND FOOTPATHS
"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
This invention of improvements in the curbs of roads and footpaths relates to
the curb usually of stone supporting a raised footpath from the action of the wheels
of vehicles and the object of this invention is to use such a curb as a means for
holding conducting wires for telegraphic or electrical purposes or oven for pneumatic
tubes where such tubes are used for dispatch of small pareels
To carry out my Invention in one way I make or mould the curb of any cement
or silicious material compounded or mixed from the formulæ of any of the well
known methods of making an artificial stone that will be sufficiently hard and
durable, and in its whole length, I leave a channel or channels or way or ways
round in section or of other suitable section along which may be laid the conducting
wires or tube-At certain intervals I provide a compound curb that is one mado
with the same channel or way but divided sectionally into an upper or lower half
the two parts being held in place by holes corresponding each to each and in which
are inserted dowels of wood metal or other suitable material to hold them together
and to prevent lateral displacement-The object of this is to allow at convenient
distances the workmen to examine the Wires and to repair them when broken or to
lay in the conducting wires tube &c when required.
In another method I carry out my invention in this way I take the ordinary
Granite curb as now used in section about 12 × 8 or any other size and I bore or
cut through in its whole length the channel or channels or way or ways described

page_text: and which for the size named would be a round way of about 4 inches diameter or
- 2 or perhaps 3, of 3 inches diameter or of other suitable sizes I make these holes
by any of the usual known methods of a rock drill or diamond drill and I make
certain of the curbs to conform to the compound curb described and for the same
purpose.
I am aware that iron curbs have been made but I am not aware that such curbs
have been made with the channels or ways I have described for the purpose of, a
receptacle in which may be placed the conducting wires or tubes for the purposes
described and I therefore in places where such iron curbs can be used use them for
the purposes of my invention and I make them with the channels or ways as
described and make certain of them to divide the upper from the lower part and
for the same purpose as described in the first indicated method of carrying out my
invention

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Jackson Wheeler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th October 1882.
:
JOHN JACKSON WHEELER of 189 Fulham Road Chelsea Middlesex "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CURBS OF ROADS AND FOOTPATHS "
This Invention of improvements in the curbs of roads and footpaths relates to
the curb (usually of stone) supporting a raised footpath from the action of the
wheels of vehicles and the object of this Invention is to use such a curb as a means
for holding conducting wires for telegraphic or electrical purposes or even for
pneumatic tubes where such tubes are used for despatch of small parcels.
To carry out my Invention in one way I make or mould the curb of any cement
or silicious material compounded or mixed from the formulæ of any of the well
known methods of making an artificial stone that will be sufficiently hard and
durable and in its whole length I leave a channel or channels or way or ways
round in section or of other 'suitable section, along which, may be laid the con-
ducting wires or tube. At certain intervals I provide a compound curb that is one
made with the same channel channels or way or ways but divided sectionally into
an upper or lower half the two parts being held in place by holes corresponding
each to each and in which are inserted dowels of wood metal or other suitable
material to hold them together, and to prevent lateral displacement The object of
this is to allow at convenient distances the workmen to examine the wires and to
repair them when broken or to lay in the conducting wires tube &c when
required.
In another method I carry out my Invention in this way I take the ordinary
granite curb as now used, in section about 12" x 8" or any other size and I bore or
cut through in its whole length the channel or channels or way or ways described
and which for the size named would be a round way of about 4 inches diameter or
two or perhaps 3 of 3 inches diameter or of other suitable sizes. I make these
holes by any of the usual known methods by a rock drill, or diamond drill, and I
make certain of the curbs to conform to the compound curb described and for the
same purpose.
I am aware that iron curbs have been made but I am not aware that such curbs
have been made with the channels or ways I have described, for the purpose of a
receptacle in which may be placed the conducting wires or tubes for the purposes
described, and I therefore in places where such iron curbs can be used use them for
the purposes of my Invention and I make. them with the channels or ways as
described and make certain of them to divide, the upper from the lower part, and
for the same purpose as described in the first indicated method of carrying out my
Invention.
Having now described and particularly set forth the nature of the said Invention
and the manner of carrying the same into effect I would have it understood that
what I claim is :-
1st. A curb for a footpath or road, of artificial stone, made with a way or ways,
in one or two nieces, as described for the nurnaces got forth

page_text: 2nd. A curb for a footpath or road, of granite, with a way or ways perforated
through its length, in one or two pieces, as described, for the purposes sot forth.
3rd. A curb for a footpath or road, of iron, with a way or ways through its
length, in one or two pieces, as described, for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof I the said John Jackson Wheeler have hereunto set my
hand and seal this fifth day of October in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.