Improvements in or relating to Paving for Streets, Floors, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1893—Accepted, 8th Apr., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Paving for Streets, Floors, and the
like.
I, PEARSON JACQUES JACKSON of 17. Grainger Street in the City and County
of Newcastle upon Tyne, Advertising Contractor, 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:-
This invention refers to improvements in or relating to paving for streets, floors
and the like.
My improvements consist in certain compositions specially designed and adapted
to resist the wear and tear of traffic and in the combination of such compositions
with wood or other paving blocks as hereinafter described.
I find that a composition consisting of equal parts of ground steel or iron slag,
sand, cement and pitch forms a hard and resisting paving composition; similarly a
composition consisting of one part of pitch or asphalt-like material to three parts
of ground steel or iron slag may be advantageously used, or a mixture in equal
parts of ground steel and iron slag with cement and pitch or asphalt-like material
will be found to give good results.
Instead of sand in the above composition, a mixture of sand granite dust and
fine pea gravel may be substituted and mixed along with equal parts of ground
steel or iron slag, cement and pitch.
Such compositions as above mentioned in all of which ground steel or iron slag
forms an essential feature may be used to form pathways, floors and the like, or
these compositions may be used in combination with wooden paving blocks, after
the manner described in the Specification of my Patent application No. 21,105".
The paving blocks may be oblong or built or formed so as to leave square,
diamond-shaped, circular or other recesses or pockets for the above compositions
to enter, for the purpose of forming alternating surfaces of wood and concrete
material.
The compositions above described may be used in blocks or deposited "en masse";
such compositions will be found to be very durable and the compound paving of
wood and improved concrete material described has a tendency to promote durability
and diminish slipperiness.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved combination of materials forming a composition adapted to
resist the wear and tear of traffic consisting of a mixture of equal parts of ground
steel or iron slag, cement, pitch and sand substantially as herein set forth.
2. The improved combination of materials forming a composition adapted to
resist the wear and tear of traffic consisting of a mixture of ground steel or iron
slag or ground, steel and iron slag and pitch in or about the proportions stated
substantially as set forth.
3. The improved compound paving for streets, floors, path ways and the like
consisting in the formation and arrangement of wooden paving blocks so as to form
a series of alternating wooden block surfaces and hollow spaces or interstices, the
hollow spaces or interstices being filled with one or other of the improved

page_text: compositions described and claimed in Claims 1 and 2 substantially as and for the
purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 15th day of February 1893.
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3, St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle on Tyne, Patent Agent.