Improvements in the Method of Making Glazed Bricks, Tiles, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st Mar., 1895-Accepted, 6th Apr.,
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Making Glazed Bricks, Tiles,
and the like.
I, JOHN GORDON 54 New Broad Street London in the County of London,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This my invention has reference to new and useful improvements in the method
of making glazed bricks, tiles and the like.
The object of my invention is to produce a glazed brick tile or the like for.
building or ornamental purposes that will be cheaper than the ordinary glazed
bricks and that will better resist climatic and other influences.
In order to carry out my invention I provide one or more pieces of glass of any
desired shape or color and I coat the same on one or both surfaces with bitumen
in a heated or melted condition, I prefer ashphalte or pitch mixed with sand or
other suitable material, but rosin or other like substances may be used. I coat an
ordinary brick or tile in similar way and while the cementing material is in a
heated or melted condition I bring the two coated surfaces together and submit,
them to sufficient pressure to make them unite and become solid.
Dated this Sixth day of July 1894.
;
Improvements in the Method of Making Glazed Bricks, Tiles,
and the like.
I, JOHN GORDON, of 54 New Broad Street, London, E.C., 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 relates to new and useful improvements in the method of applying
glazed surfaces to bricks, tiles, walls, and the like, and has for its object the
production of a glazed brick or tile or the like for building or ornamental
purposes, or the conversion of ordinary walls or brickwork in situ into the
appearance of glazed bricks or tiles, in a cheaper manner than can be effected by
the ordinary glazed brick; and which, when completed, will better resist damp,
climatic, and other destructive influences.
which
In order to carry out my invention, I provide one or more pieces of glass
may have smooth or polished surfaces of any desired shape or colour, but prefer-
ably arranged, so as to hide the wall or material underneath; and I apply these
pieces of glass to the exposed surface of bricks, tiles, or of any wall in situ, in
the manner hereinafter fully described, to cause the said glass faces to become a
firmly adherent part of the said bricks, tiles or wall.
In order to prevent cracking or destruction of the glazed faces, by the
irregular expansion or contraction of the body of the bricks, tiles, or walls, and of
the glass faces; or by the possible after bulging or distortion of the wall; I use

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essentially an elastic adhesive and damp-proof material of a bituminous nature
between the bricks, tiles or wall and the glass faces, such as asphalte or pitch
mixed with sand, rosin, or earthy or refractory material, but preferably I find an
admixture of about 75% of rock asphalte such as that known as the "Val de
Travers rock asphalte with about 25% of best bitumen, to be an excellent
adhesive medium for my purpose, as it is sufficiently elastic, and not materially
affected by climatic high or low temperatures, is not readily inflammable, and resists
the passage of damp from the body of the bricks, tiles, or walls to the under
faces of the glass.
To prepare the glass, bricks, tiles, or a wall, for mutual adhesion, 1 may either
coat the surfaces of the glass, bricks, tiles, or wall, with a slight heated bituminous
medium, in order to raise the temperature of the glass, brick, tiles or wall, to a
suitable degree, before the mass of melted or plastic adhesive medium is applied;
or I may heat the said glass, bricks, tiles or the surface of a wall in situ by any
convenient ineans, after which melted or plastic bituminous medium may be
applied, and I press the glass upon the bricks, tiles or surface of the wall, when
coated with a sufficient layer of my bituminous compound, with sufficient pressure
to cause them to unite and adhere firmly.
When cooled, the glass surfaces even when smooth or polished will be found to
have become solid with the underlying bricks, tiles or wall, so that they cannot
become detached by climatic influences, nor by relative differences of expansion or
contraction, nor even by a bulging or distortion of the wall.
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
1st. The method of application of glazed faces to bricks, tiles and the like, or
to a wall in situ, by the preparation of the glass and receptive surfaces in a heated
condition, and the employment of an elastic adhesive bituminous and damp-proof
compound, applied in a melted or plastic condition, the glass and the receptive
surfaces being brought together by pressure, substantially as described.
2nd. In a method for the facing of bricks, tiles or walls with glass, the com-
position of an adhesive elastic medium, consisting of about 75% of rock asphalte
such as that known as the "Val de Travers rock asphalte," with about 25% of
good bitumen, substantially as described.
3rd. In a method for the facing of bricks, tiles or walls with glass, the preparatory
treatment of the receptive surface, and the glass by a slight coating of a bituminous
compound in a heated condition before the application of the melted adhesive
medium, or the preparatory heating of the receptive surfaces of the bricks, tiles,
walls or glass in any convenient manner, substantially as described.
4th. In a method for the facing of bricks, tiles, and walls, with glass, the inter-
position between the glass and the receptive surface, of a damp-proof bituminous
medium, for the adhesion of the glass surfaces, and their protection from damp,
communicated from the receptive surfaces, substantially as described.
Dated this 1st day of March 1895.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.