Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 6th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 10th Feb., 1888

page_text: Improvements in the Construction of Roadways and Footpaths.
I, EGERTON TUTHILL, of 2 Vigo Street in the County of Middlesex, 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:
My invention consists of stone, stone composition, asphalt, metalic stone, cement,
composition, or of any other kind of material, or hard substance, constructed with an
imprint, impressed or otherwise formed into furrows, guttered, with ridges, lines, or
any other like shapes, one quarter of an inch in depth, or to any required depth, as
may be desirable, running in parallel lines, across or along any public or private,
roads and footpaths, yards, stables, or any other floor, formed in the aforesaid manner
to give a grip to the feet of horses or pedestrians, to prevent them falling or slipping
along the road way.
If preferable my invention can be formed in circles, squares, angles, or any other
shape, any size or thickness, and the gutters or ridges can be any width apart from
each other.
My invention may be constructed in block, bricks, tiles, or the like, or laid down
and imprinted in the manner or process of laying ordinary asphalt, with a fluted
surface, forming ridges and gutters, running across the roadway.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters marked
thereon.
Figure 1, represents a section of the top of the roadway, describing the ridges
marked A, and the gutters marked B, in the asphalt C, the ridges being so formed to
give a grip to feet passing over them. Figure 2, describes the plan of the top surface
of the ridges A, and the gutters B.
Figure 3, denotes a section of an ordinary roadway laid with this invention, with
the ridges A, and the gutters B, running from one side of the roadway to the other,
and running into the gutter channels marked D, by the side of the foot path
marked F.
Like letters refer to like parts in each of the figures.
A, the ridges. B, the gutters. C, the asphalt or any other material. D, the side
gutters. F, the foot paths. I do not limit myself to the particular shape or size of
my invention, or of any particular material it may be made from, as shewn on the
drawings, as they may be varied without departing from the nature of my invention,
provided they be of such a nature as herein before described.
Having now fully described the nature and object of my invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I claim as new and novel the
following :-
First. The combination of ridges A, and the gutters B, constructed in any shape or
size, on any public or private roadway, footpath, yards, stable floors, or the like. to

page_text: prevent feet slipping about on the surface, substantially herein described and according
to the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. I claim the construction of my invention, either across or along any
roadway, to give a grip, or firm foothold for man or beast, to prevent either falling,
or slipping, substantially herein described and according to the accompanying
drawings.
Thirdly. That I claim to make my invention in blocks, bricks, tiles, and the like,
of any material substantially herein contained.