An Improved Structure for Forming Flooring, Street and Road Paving, Fences, Partitions, Skylights, and for other purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Aplication, 8th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 13th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Structure for Forming Flooring, Street and Road
Paving, Fences, Partitions, Skylights, and for other purposes.
VICTOR JETLEY and GUSTAVE JETLEY of No. 8 North Audley Street in the
County of Middlesex Decorators and Cabinet Makers do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
To construct a tissue. The tissue is constructed of bars and blocks.
The bars are horizontal perpendicular or both combined.
The bars are round square or any other shape or formn and of any dimensions,
length, thickness width or breadth.
The bars are made of iron steel, brass or other metal of wood, petrified wood,
asbestos, ivory, imitation ivory, glass marble, stone, or any other material or
substance.
The bars are to be left in the rough material, or can be plated, galvanized,
japanned enamelled, polished, painted covered with silk, cotton, wool or any other
finish.
The blocks are of any size or dimensions, length, width or breadth, and may be
square, round, oval, octagon, oblong, concave, convex, or any other shape or form.
The blocks may be made of iron steel, brass or any other metal, of wood, asbestos
or petrified wood, of ivory, imitation ivory, bone, glass marble, stone or any other
material or substance.
The tissue block in order to form the tissue is threaded alternately either on two,
three or four of the before mentioned bars & either on the horizontal or on the
perpendicular bars or both combined, and to be threaded either close together or
any distance apart, to form straight, upright, or horizontal lines, or so as to form
various geometrical designs or patterns.
The tissue is constructed either transparent or opaque open for light and ventila-
tion or close for darkening.
The tissue is constructed of either of, or several of the above mentioned materials
combined.
An Improved Structure for Forming Flooring, Street and Road
Paving, Fences, Partitions, Skylights, and for other purposes.
We, VICTOR JETLEY and GUSTAVE JETLEY of No. 8 North Audley Street
in the County of Middlesex Decorators and Cabinet Makers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manuer the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of our invention is to provide an improved structure for forming
paving for streets, bridges and the like, parquet flooring, fireproof and other flooring.
partitioning, fencing, walls, roofing, and for other purposes.
We construct this structure of blocks connected together by tightly fitting bars
or rods. These bars preferably run either horizontally or perpendicularly, or two

page_text: series of bars may be employed, one series being at right angles to the other, but
for most purposes one series of bars will suffice. The bars need not necessarily be
straight, as they may be curved, and the blocks in that case are, or may be, made
slightly angular either at the top or bottom, or at the sides, to produce the desired
curve for arches and the like. The blocks are tightly clamped together and the
bars preferably fit so tightly into the holes in the blocks that we are enabled as a
general rule to dispense with further fastenings such as nails, screws, glue, plaster,
cement, nuts, and the like.
On the accompanying drawings are shown some examples of the application of
our invention.
Figure 1 represents in perspective the invention applied for paving.
Figure
is a perspective view showing a convenient mode of keying together
or connecting two slabs of the tissue-like structure when laying the road or the
like.
Figure 2 shows the invention in plan applied for instance to ordinary flooring in
which each block is provided with four holes and with bars to correspond.
Figure 3 shows an application of the invention to parquet flooring.
Figure 4 represents a water-tight block which may if desired be made of trans-
parent material to admit light.
Figure 5 is a plan on a reduced scale showing three of these blocks placed in
position.
Figure 6 represents an example of a fence with a wall constructed according to
our invention.
Figure 7 shows another example of a wall.
The structure or fabric consists, as before indicated, of a number of blocks A,
which may be made of the same or of varying sizes or dimensions, and either square,
oblong, round, oval, polygonal, or of other shapes, forms or sections according to
the requirements of the particular case. The material employed may for instance
be iron, steel, brass or any other metal, wood, petrified wood, asbestos, celluloid,
vulcanite, ivory, bone, glass, marble, or other stone, or the like. The blocks to a
suitable number are first put in a frame to break joint with each other and clamped
up together under considerable pressure. The necessary holes are then drilled
right through the blocks and each hole has then forced into it a bar B so that as a
general rule no other fastening of any kind is needed. The bars as before mentioned,
may either be only parallel to each other, or as shown in Figure 7, they may in
addition thereto, be also at right angles to each other for additional strength or for
forming joint in a better manner. The bars B may have any cross section and be
solid or hollow, but for convenience sake they are herein shown round in section.
They may be made of any suitable material.
The blocks A may also be set in the clamping frame closely together or be kept
at a certain distance apart by washers or distance pieces so as to form a rigid and
partly open-work structure. The blocks A employed to form a structure may be
of various materials and forms so as to present various geometrical designs or
patterns, either wholly or partly transparent, opaque or open for light and
ventilation, or close for darkening.
In applying the invention to paving roads and the like, of which Figures 1 and 2
show an example, the blocks A are preferably clamped together so as to form rigid
slabs of a convenient size ready for laying, the holes are then drilled right through
and the bars B forced in. The blocks A' at the sides of each slab are made grooved
as shown in Figure 2 so as to allow the upper and lower surfaces to come fair and
make joint while giving the necessary space for a feather F, which has holes therein
made if desirable when making the holes through the biocks and corresponding
with the latter in such manner that each slab has a feather on the one side and
groove on the other thus each slab as shown registers perfectly with the next and
a level road or floor is obtained. The slabs may conveniently be nine feet long by
two feet wide but naturally we do not limit ourselves to these dimensions as they
may be varied to suit circumstances.

page_text: Under some circunstances the blocks may be turned when worn.
In Figure 2A which shows a modification adapted to flooring each block is
provided with four holes and a corresponding number of bars but otherwise the
mode of carrying the invention into effect is as aforesaid.
As applied to parquet flooring, of which an example is shown in Figure 3, the
blocks A are here shown of different shapes and sizes but the mode of construction
is the same.
As applied, for instance, to building bricks, skylights and pavement lights, the
blocks A are, as shown in Figures 4 and 5, provided with projections A* A and
recesses A³ A³ so as to effectually cover every joint between same, each projection
or ledge A registering with and partly covering the recesses A³ of two of the
adjoining blocks.
be
As applied to fences or other open-work structures, represented by the upper
part of Figure 6, the blocks A may be of any ornamental form and of a compara-
tively small cross-section. In the example the fence is very open, but it may
made still more so by perforating each block with one or more holes in the middle.
Or each block may be formed of a piece of tube flattened in the middle with boles
or spaces at each end to allow of the insertion of the bars or rods, or instead of
using tube each block may be formed from a piece of flat metal bent into the desired
shape, or in any other convenient manner. Spikes or other suitable ornamental
tops G may be screwed on or riveted to the rods B and thus serve to keep the fence
together. The lower part of Figure 6 represents a wall constructed on the same
principle. The lower ends of the bars may, as shown, conveniently serve as stakes
which are driven or bedded in the ground or other foundation.
Figure 7 shows another example of how a wall or other fabric constructed
according to this invention may be made proof against the entry of rain, by making
the upper part of each block recessed in front at A³ and forming the lower part
with a corresponding ledge or projection A which takes over the recess A³ when
the blocks are in place. Or instead thereof, packing may be interposed between
each two blocks. In this example the bars B are shown threaded both vertically
and horizontally.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. A structure consisting of a series of blocks or the like which are clamped
together and provided with holes into which are forced one or two series of bars
with or without other means for further securing the blocks on the bars, substan-
tially as set forth.
2. A structure for forming flooring, paving or the like consisting of a series of
blocks A and A' and a feather F which are clamped together and having holes into
which are forced a series of bars B substantially as described and shewn with
reference to Figures 1, 2, 2 and 3.
3. A structure for forming walls, skylights and the like consisting of a series of
blocks each having one or two recesses A³ and one or two projections A which
blocks are clamped together and being provided with holes have forced therein one
or more series of bars B substantially as described and shewn with reference to
Figures 4, 5 and 7.
4. A structure for forming walls or fencing or the like consisting of a series of
bars B on to which are forced a series of blocks A substantially as described and
shown with reference to Figure 6.
5. The constructions shown on the drawings.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.