Improvements in Plinths, Pedestals, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Plinths, Pedestals, and the like.
I, THOMAS BRINDLE, of 76, Hawkshead Street, Southport, in the County of
Lancaster, Stone Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
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This invention relates to plinths, pedestals or other supports or bases for monu-
ments, statues and the like, and its object is to so construct them that they may be
formed in a plurality of steps without any undue waste of material.
As an example of how these improvements may be carried into effect I will
take the case of a circular stone base formed in three steps. A slab of stone or
suitable thickness is cut through concentrically in two places. Three pieces are
thus formed, viz., an outer part with a circular hole, a ring fitting within the
hole of the outer part, and a circular core or slab fitting within the ring. The ring
and the slab are removed from the outer part and from each other and form respec-
tively the second and third steps of the base or support.
In order to enable the ring to lie upon the outer part, the hole in the latter is
covered by a thin plate or slab of suitable material of slightly larger diameter.
Upon this plate the ring is placed and the hole in the latter is similarly covered
to carry the central slab. A three step base is thus formed from practically the
same amount of stone that has hitherto been used to form the lower step alone.
The slabs or plates which are used to cover the holes in the different steps may,
if desired, be substituted by rings cut out concentrically, and the hole or space
in each step may be filled up with concrete or other suitable material.
A base or support is thus formed of three steps and two intervening rings or thin
plates, the edges of the latter forming beads, fillets, or projections between the
different steps.
Although I have described my improvements with reference only to a base
having circular steps, it will be evident that they are equally applicable to square
or other shaped bases, in each case the material to form one of the upper steps
being removed from or cut out of the next lower one or out of a piece adapted to
be the next lower one; each step being in a single piece.
Dated this 10th day of March 1898.
W. E. HEYS: & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: 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 relates to plinths, pedestals or other supports or bases for monu-
ments, statues and the like, and its object is to so construct such supports or bases
that they may be composed or formed of a plurality of steps, without any undue
waste of material.
As an example of how these improvements may be carried into effect I will take
the case of a circular stone base formed with four steps as illustrated in and by
the accompanying drawings which are hereinafter referred to. In these drawings,
Figure 1 represents a plan of the base before erection and Figure 2, a sectional
elevation...
A square or other suitably shaped slab of granite, stone, marble or the like
(hereinafter called "stone") having the desired thickness, is cut through con-
centrically so as to form an inner disc A, two concentric rings B C, and the outer
part D. These will form respectively, the lower, second, third and upper steps
of the base, as shown by Figure 2. There is also cut from a thin slab of preferably
different stone, three discs E, F, G, of which E has a diameter slightly larger
than that of A; F, slightly larger than that of B; and G, slightly larger than
that of C.
In erecting the base, which is preferably done in the position it has to per-
manently occupy, the part D is first laid and the disc G is then laid thereon
concentrically. The ring C is then laid concentrically upon the disc G, and the
discs and rings F, B, E, A, are then successively and concentrically laid, where-
upon the base is completed and the desired statue or monument, such as the
cross H, may be fixed upon A. The base thus formed is constructed from
practically the same quantity of stone as has hitherto been used for the lower part D
alone, hence there arises a large economy of material and in the cost of transport.
If desired, and preferably, each of the parts or rings may be filled with concrete
cement or the like when it is laid in nlace.
The discs E, F, G, may, if desired, be substituted by equivalent rings, and, in
either case, their outer edges or parts form fillets or beads in the angles between
contiguous steps. A certain amount relief may thus be obtained as for example
if the steps be cut from statuary marble, and the parts E, F, G, from coloured
marble or granite.
Although I have described and illustrated my improvements with reference
only to a base having a square plinth and circular steps, it will be evident that
they are equally applicable with other shapes. Usually, the rings or their equiva-
lents cut from the lowermost part D, will be used in the construction of the same
base or support, but this is not at all essential, as a greater variety may be obtained
by combining in one base, parts, which may even be of different shapes, cut from
different stones.
In other cases the discs E, F, G, or their equivalent rings may be dispensed
with and each of the upper steps may be laid directly upon the next lower cement
or concrete filled step or part. In a further modification a step or cut out part
would not be employed to form the next upper step to the part from which it had
been, but would be employed in another similarly formed base, and be placed
upon a ring or part the hole through which is of smaller diameter so as to be
completely covered. A base so constructed would consist, as before, of a number
of rings and the like, but the external diameter of each step would be slightly
greater than the internal diameter of the ring or part upon which it is placed.
Each step may be filled with cement or similar or equivalent material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The hereinbefore described method of constructing 'bases or sunporta for

page_text: monuments, statues and the like, which consists in cutting rings or their equiva-
lents from a comparatively thick slab, and discs or their equivalents from a thin
slab and laying them successively and concentrically in steps one upon another
with a thin disc or equivalent between successive steps, substantially as herein-
before described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. The method of constructing bases or supports for monuments, statues or the
like, which consists in cutting rings or their equivalents from stone and placing
them concentrically one above another with the addition of cement or similar
fillings, substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The method of constructing bases or supports for monuments, statues or the
like, which consists in cutting rings or their equivalents from stone and placing
them concentrically one above another, each ring or the like having an external
diameter greater than the internal diameter of the one next below it substan-
tially as hereinbefore described.
4. Bases or supports for monuments, statues and the like, constructed substan-
tially as herein before described.
Dated this 7th day of December A.D. 1898.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.