CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL STONE
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of
the General Patent Offices, 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the
Empire of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Patent Agent,
for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
ARTIFICIAL STONE."-A communication from abroad by Charles Pasquin,
of Verdun, France.
Sealed the 21st February 1865, and dated the 27th August 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand Le Comte
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 27th August 1864.
I, PETER ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the General Patent
Offices, 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South
Street, Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL
STONE," being a communication from Charles Pasquin, of Verdun, France, to
be as follows, that is to ŝay :-
The Invention consists in making solid or hollow artificial stones with
baked earth, or a compound of cement and sand or plaster, or with any other
substance capable of being united and hardened by baking; and to form with
them fractional blocks of a determined shape, and being united together by
means of keys are employed as courses for building purposes; passages are,
also provided for the circulation of air in the thickness of the masonry, by

page_text: means of which the buildings are rendered more healthy. The course can be
laid partly. formed of baked earth and partly of a corresponding section of the
artificial stone, which would afford a vast saving in building.
To produce hollow stones, I deposit in a mould a certain number of small
hollow appendices, previously made of baked earth or cement and sand, or
any other suitable material; these are fixed on iron or wooden pins at certain
distances apart, and forming cross sections, that is to say, that the empty space
of one section is filled up by the artificial stone of the 'opposite section in the
interior of the block formed by their union. When the artificial hollow stones
are still in a flexible state, I place on one of their surfaces a frame provided
with moveable teeth set at regular distances one from the other, and composed
of one or more rows; the teeth being pressed on the stones are moved to and
fro by means of a rod set on the upper part of the frame. I form by such a
movement conical holes of any, depth, wider at bottom than at the top; into
these holes I put fragments of stone or marble, and then pour cement to unite
them together. Any colored compound can be used, and by such means I
can form any architectural or other design. These artificial stones are baked
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 25th February 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND LE COMTE DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of the General Patent Offices, 10,
Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victória, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the-year of our
Lord One thousand eight liundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me; the said Peter Armand Le Comte de- Fontaine Moreau, Her special
licence that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my
executors, administrators, "and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter
Armand Le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors, administrators, and.
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully.
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for

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“ĊERTAIN ImprovemENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL STONE," (communi-
cated to me from abroad by Charles Pasquin, of Verdun, France,): upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Peter Armand Le Cônite de
Fontaine Moreau, my executors or-administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their,or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in manufacturing artificial
stones, either solid or hollow, with blocks or fragments of baked earth, or with
a compound of cement and sand, of plaster, or of any other like substances
capable of being amalgamated and hardening as stone after being dried.
To carry out the Invention I fit on iron rods small hollow balls of the
materials with which are to be produced the artificial stones, and of a sufficient
resistance to support the pressure of the article to be moulded; these balls can
also be made with canvas covered with tar and sprinkled with sand, cement,
or plaster, or again made with any other substance capable of resisting the
pressure of the stone to be moulded. These balls are separated one from the
other at a convenient distance, in order to produce as many solid as hollow
parts, and to obtain, by the balls crossing each other, a perfect regularity.
The baked earth or composition to form the stone is then run into the moulds,
and when the mass is sufficiently dried the rods are withdrawn from the balls
composing the blocks. When the rods are taken off the blocks the cavities
or holes through which they were passing are closed up with cement or with
any other suitable substance. These artificial stones can be made of any
form and dimensions, and receive any kind of ornament; and for this purpose,
before they are dried, I prepare on one or more of their faces grooves or
channels of a given section, which are wider on their inside than on their
outside surface. I set in these grooves or channels thin slabs or plates of
stone, marble, stucco, or other ornaments resembling stone, marble, &c. The
blocks made as herein-before described can be joined together if required with
key pieces inserted in dovetail cuts, and afterwards cemented together.
Sections of all kinds of forms and dimensions are thus united.
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And having now described the Invention communicated to me, and the best.

page_text: mode of putting the same into execution, I declare that I do not restrict
myself.to the details of manufacturing or ornamenting, as they may be varied,
provided the principle of the. Invention be,. retained; but what I claim as the
Invention and wish to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the manufacturing. of artificial stone by means of rods set on
small hollow or solid balls, on which the artificial stones are moulded, as
herein-before described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day
of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.
Witness,
H*. GILBEE,
10, Ruo de la Fidélité,
Paris,
P. DE FONTAINEMOREAU. (L.S.)
24th February 1865..