IMPROVEMENTS IN ASPHALTING USED IN WOOD PAVING AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: I GEORGE WALKER of Whitehall Road Leeds in the County of York, Contractor
do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ASPHALTING
USED IN WOOD PAVING AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES" to be as follows:-
The primary object of my invention is to provide a mixture of various ingredients
or materials to form asphalt to be used as a foundation or bed for the blocks used
in wood paving, also for other purposes for which asphalt of the hereinafter
described nature is applicable. The composition is more particularly, applicable
when the material is used as a bed or foundation for the blocks in wood paving as
it forms an elastic bed instead of a rigid ono. as is the case when the ordinary
concrete is used. In consequence of this elasticity the wear upon the wooden
blocks is much reduced as against wooden blocks that are set or laid upon a rigid
concrete foundation,
The composition forming the asphalt consists of mungo, and the like refuse of
woollen mills "shivy-dan" and the like refuse from flax mills, inferior hay, chopped
straw and animal or vegetable fibre.. These ingredients are mixed in a suitablo
vessel with boiling liquid, coal tar or creosote oil and mineral pitch after which the
asphalt thus formed is of a bituminous elastic nature and may be used for the
purposes above mentioned.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, GEORGE WALKER of Whitehall Road, Leeds, in the County of York, Contractor
do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ASPHALTING
USED IN WOOD PAVING AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES" and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:--
The primary object of my invention is to provide a mixture of various ingredients
or materials to form asphalte to be used as a foundation or bed for the blocks used
in wood paving, also for other purposes for which asphalte of the hereinafter
described nature is applicable.
The composition is more particularly applicable when the material is used as a bed
or foundation for the blocks in wood paving, as it forms an elastic bed instead of a
rigid one as is the case when the ordinary concrete is used. In consequence of the
elasticity the wear on the wooden blocks is much reduced as against wooden blocks
that are set or laid upon a rigid concrete foundation. The composition forming the
asphalte consists of mungo and the like refuse of woollen mills "shivy-dan" and
the like refuse from flax mills, inferior hay, chopped straw and animal vegetable or
woody fibre. These ingrediants are mixed in a suitable vessel with boiling liquid
coal-tar or creosote oil and mineral pitch, after which the asphalte thus formed is of
a bituminous elastic nature and may be used for the purposes above mentioned.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I clam is
Composition forming the asphalte, consisting of mungo and the like refuse of
woollen mills, "shivy-dan" and the like refuse from flax mills, inferior hay chopped
straw, and animal vegetable or woody fibre, mixed in a suitable vessel with boiling
liquid, coal-tar or creosote oil and mineral pitch, forming asphalte of a bituminous
elastic nature for laying wood paving blocks and for other purposes.
Dated this Twenty sixth day of February 1885.
J. W. HARDING,
For the Applicant. 30