IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MATERIALS SUCH AS BLOCKS, SLABS, PILLARS, Tubes, and such like, SUITABLE For Building and foOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Butler Coddington, of Kensington Park
Gardens, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MATERIALS SUCH AS BLOCKS,
SLABS, PILLARS, Tubes, and such like, SUITABLE For Building and foOR OTHER
PURPOSES." A communication from abroad by Gasherie De Witt, of
Belleville, State of New Jersey, and James Fairman, of New York,
State of New York both in the Tinited States of Amerion
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Butler Cod-
dington at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 19th March 1873.
I, THOMAS BUTLER CODDINGTON, of Kensington Park Gardens, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MATERIALS, SUCH
AS BLOCKS, SLABS, PILLARS, TUBES, AND SUCH LIKE, SUITABLE FOR BUILDING AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES," a communication to me from abroad by Gasheric De
Witt, of Belleville, State of New Jersey, and James Fairman, of of New
York, State of New York, both in the United States of America, to be
as follows:-

page_text: The improvements consist in the introduction and blending of metal
into and with materials, such as stone, gravel, iron slack, or other hard
refuse materials mixed and made plastic with cement, under pressure or
otherwise, so that such metal may become more or less introduced or
woven into the said materials, and form a permanent casing, serving to
shape, preserve, strengthen, and protect from disintegration the said
materials, and the using such metal woven material for blocks, slabs,
pillars, tubes, pipes, pavement, and such like, for building or other
purposes.
The improvements may be performed by forming a case or basket of
open metal work, as shown in Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings,
in which A is the frame and B the open metal work thereof. The outer
edge or frame A may be made to represent a moulding or any other
required and convenient design, and the open metal work panels B may
be of any required convenient design or shape, the basket case thus
formed is then placed in a mould of the same size and shape or nearly
so, fitting it; the faces of the mould may bear any convenient design; a
mixture of the most approved cements mixed with broken stone, brick,
gravel, iron slack, cinder (or any convenient refuse hard material may
be used) is then deposited into the basket case, held in the mould, and
subjected to pressure sufficient to secure close contact and left until
perfect cohesion has taken place, the basket case and its contents are
then removed from the mould and are ready for use.
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation showing the basket case filled, in
which C is cement and gravel, D broken stone, E the interwoven metal.
Various applications of the Invention are further illustrated in
Figures 3, 4, and 5, which show elevation and section of slabs, formed
for Mansard roofs, also in Figures 6 and 7, which show elevation and
section of railway sleeper; C, being the cement and gravel; D, the broken
stone; E, the interwoven metal; I, I, metal or wood plates; H, H, bolts;
and in Figure 8, which shows a column or post in which G is an iron
tube or core; C, the cement, stone, and gravel; E, the interwoven metal.
Figure 9 shows a water pipe or tube, C being the cemented material,
E the interwoven metal.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Butler Coddington in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 16th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BUTLER CODDINGTON, of Kensington Park Gardens, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord. One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Butler Coddington, Her special
licence that I, the said Thomas Butler Coddington, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Butler
Coddington, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MATERIALS, SUCH AS BLOCKS,
SLABS, PILLARS, TUBES, AND SUCH LIKE, SUITABLE FOR BUILDING AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES," a communication to me from abroad by Gasheric De Witt,
of Belleville, State of New Jersey, and James Fairman, of New York,
State of New York, both in the United States of America, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Butler Coddington,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what-
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Butler Coddington, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:—
The improvements consist in the introduction and blending of metal

page_text: into and with materials, such as stone, gravel, iron slack, or other hard
refuse materials mixed and made plastic with cement, under pressure or
otherwise, so that such metal may become more or less introduced or
woven into the said materials, and form a permanent casing, serving to
shape, preserve, strengthen, and protect from disintegration the said
materials, and the using such metal woven material for blocks, for
railway sleepers, slabs, pillars, tubes, pipes, pavement, and such like, for
building or other purposes.
The improvements may be performed by forming a case or basket of
open metal work, as shown in Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing,
in which A is the frame and B the open metal work thereof. The outer
edge or frame A may be made to represent a moulding or any other
required and convenient design, and the open metal work panels B may
be of any required convenient design or shape, the basket case thus
formed is then placed in a mould of the same size and shape, or nearly so,
fitting it; the faces of the mould may bear any convenient design; a
mixture of the most approved cements, mixed with broken stone, brick,
gravel, iron slack, cinder (or any convenient refuse hard material may be
used), is then deposited into the basket case, held in the mould, and
subjected to pressure sufficient to secure close contact, and left until
perfect cohesion has taken place, the basket case and its contents are
then removed from the mould and are ready for use.
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation shewing the basket case filled, in which
C is cement and gravel, D broken stone, E the interwoven metal.
Various applications of the Invention are further illustrated in
Figure 3, 4, and 5, which shew elevation and section of slabs formed for
Mansard roofs, also in Figures 6 and 7 which show elevations and
section of railway sleeper; C, being the cementand gravel; D, the broken
stone; E, the interwoven metal; I, I, metal, or wood plates; H, H, bolts.
In making railway sleepers we prefer to use in the skeleton frame
two plates separated and held apart by bolts, so that the pressure is
divided and conveyed to the centre of the mass.
Figure 8 shows a column or post, in which G is an iron tube or core;
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page_text: Figure 9 shows a water pipe or tube, C being the cemented material,
the interwoven metal.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Butler Coddington, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.