Improvements in or relating to Decorative Artificial Stone for Forming Pavements and for other purposes,
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1892-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Decorative Artificial Stone for
Forming Pavements and for other purposes,
I WILLIAM FREDERICK THOMAS of Dolguan in the Parish of Llanllwchaiarn
in the County of Montgomery Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
A process of inserting from back to front, or vice versa, various colored granites,
marble, and other stones, metals and compounds, into artificial stone, asphalte,
pavements, and others, made from cements, or mixtures, for decorative and other
purposes, the whole forming one solid block, by means of using moveable metal or
other moulds, of geometrical, floral, and other devices or patterns, and by filling
such moulds, with an admixture of ground stone, metals, or compounds, with cement,
or other mixtures and pouring or adding around such moulds, when in position,
any kind of artificial stone, asphalte, cement or other mixtures, removing the moulds
when the whole is in a plastic state, thus forming, when dried, a solid and compact
body. The above is specially adapted for the decoration of pavements, for church,
and other in and outdoor pavements, also for names of streets, notices, advertisements,
and directions to pedestrians and others, laid as pavements in public thoroughfares,
and elsewhere.
Dated this 9th day of September 1891.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Decorative Artificial Stone for
Forming Pavements and for other purposes.
WILLIAM FREDERICK THOMAS of Dolguan, in the Parish of Llanllwchaiarn in
the County of Montgomery, Gentleman 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 :-
A process
of inserting from back to front or vice versa various coloured granites,
marble and other stones, metals or compounds into artificial stone, asphalte or other
pavements, made or manufactured through the medium of cement or other mixtures,
for decorative and other purposes by means of using moveable metal or other moulds
of geometrical, floral and other devices and patterns, and by filling such moulds
with an admixture of ground stone metals or compounds with cement or other
mixtures, and pouring or adding around such moulds when in position any kind of
artificial stone, asphalte, cement or other mixtures, removing the moulds when the
whole is in either a plastic or hardened state thus forming when dried a solid and
compact body.
Also by the insertion of formed letters and devices, running from back to front
or vice versa made from wood, cement, china, glass, clay or metal and by pouring
around such formed letters and devices any kind of artificial stone or compound.
The process of inserting or embedding letters, figures or designs in artificial
stone is sufficiently indicated by the following examples.
Firstly. Take a mould say 24 inches long x 18 inches wide, in this mould
place letters to form the word Patent Office, then fill in the mould, with concrete,
cement, asphalte or other hard setting material, the letters may be made of any
suitable material but are to be of sufficient depth to extend through the artificial
stone, thus a slab is made with the words Patent Office embedded in it.

page_text: Second Example.-Take a mould 24 inches long by 18 inches wide, in this mould
place solid block letters to form the words Chancery Lane, then fill in the mould
with concrete, asphalte, cement or other hard setting material, pull out the block
letters before the material with which the mould has been filled has set too hard,
then fill in the spaces left by the removal of the letters with liquid cement or other
hard setting material thus a slab is formed with the words Chancery Lane let in.
By either of the above methods any design figure or name can be inserted or
embedded in artificial stone.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
sion and in what manner the same is performed I declare that what I claim is
1st. The adaptability of the above compounds for decoration of artificial stone
pavements dados and wherever artificial stone is introduced.
2nd. For the naming of streets, notices to pedestrians, advertisements in public
thoroughfares or elsewhere.
3rd. The lettering of tombstones and wheresoever indelible and everlasting
inscriptions devices and patterns are necessary.
4th. Generally where artificial stone work is introduced.
Dated this
dex of Amonet 1800