A NEW FORM AND COMBINATION OF AND MODE OF MANUFACTURING BLOCKS FOR PAVEMENT
Year: 1841

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
RANKIN, of College Street, Islington, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-seventh day of April, in the fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Benjamin Rankin, Her especial licence, that I, the said Benjamin
Rankin, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Benjamin Rankin, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend. within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A NEW FORM AND COMBINATION OF AND MODE OF MANUFACTURING
BLOCKS FOR PAVEMENT;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Benjamin Rankin, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part

page_text: represent in section ther lines shewn at Figure 11,.and in perspective. those
shewn at Figure 16; and if the pavement is to be used for a street, a block G
had better be used for the centre, and two strong hollow.iron box blocks at
each side by the curb, with a grating, as shewn at Figure 12. These hollow
box blocks and gratings are best shewn at Figures 13, 14, and 15. Figure 16
represents four base blocks, with one surface block in perspective, to show how
the tenons and grooves combine them and keep them firmly in their position.
Figure 17 is a surface view of a portion of pavement made with my said
blocks; and if the surface blocks are not chamfered, nor the apex of the base
blocks cut down, may have-grooves cut in any direction across it to give foot
hold if necessary; but this forms no part of my said Invention.
Now, whereas, my Invention consisting in the new form herein before
described, and the subsequent combination depending of course upon that
form, it is evident that the said form and combination would be equally
applicable to blocks cut in stone or cast in metal, or formed or moulded of
other suitable materials, though the mode of manufacturing herein-before
described as part of my Invention would not in that case apply.
whereas, I claim as my Invention,―
But,
First, the peculiar form of blocks with side grooves and tenons herein-before
described, and shewn by Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7;
Secondly, the combining of such blocks to form a pavement by the said
grooves and tenons in manner aforesaid, shown by Figures 11 and 16; and,
Lastly, the manufacturing of the said blocks out of long pieces of timber,
grooved and tenoned in one length, and then cut transversely, and at certain
angles afterwards, as herein-before described, so as to form my said blocks:
and such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new, and never before used within that part of Her said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her said
Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare
this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this
my said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or
disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent contained; wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right
and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Rankin, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
B. RANKIN. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid Benjamin Rankin came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.