AN IMPROVEMENT IN COR- STRUCTING AND FACING WALLS."
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Taylor, of Spring Grove, Hounslow, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN COR-
STRUCTING AND FACING WALLS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th February 1856.
I, JOHN TAYLOR, of Spring Grove, Hounslow, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CON-
STRUCTING AND FACING WALLS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in constructing and facing
walls. For this purpose the facing material is made into tiles or slabs, each
with a flange or projecting rib at the back (which, however, is not new, but
is similar to what was described in the Specification of a Patent formerly
granted to me), and the same may be of stone, artificial stone, cement, or other
materials. A wall, according to my improvement, is constructed of brickwork,
concrete, and the facing, slabs or tiles. In constructing a wall which is to be
faced on one side only, the brickwork is run up, leaving. headers projecting at
intervals (on the side to be faced), which support the flanges or ribs of the
facing tiles or slabs; concrete is poured in to fill up the space between the
facing slabs or tiles and the brickwork, the concrete resting on the ribs or
flanges, and aiding in bonding the brickwork with the facing slabs or tiles
In a similar manner is a wall to be built when the two sides are to be faced
in either case a large proportion of a wall will be constructed of concrete.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th August 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TAYLOR, of Spring Grove, Hounslow, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said John Taylor,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as. I, the said
John Taylor, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN CONSTRUCTING AND FACING WALLS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said John Taylor, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Taylor, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by tho
following statement thereof, (that is to say) :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in constructing and facing
walls. For this purpose the facing material is made into tiles or slabs, each
with a flange or projecting rib at the back (which, however, is not new, but
is similar to what was described in the Specification of a Patent formerly
granted to me), and the same may be of stone, artificial stone, cement, or other
materials. A wall, according to my improvement, is constructed of brickwork,
concrete, and the facing, slabs or tiles. In constructing a wall which is to
be faced on one side only, the brickwork is run up, leaving headers projecting
at intervals (on the side to be faced), which support the flanges or ribs of
the facing tiles or slabs; concrete is poured in to fill up the space between
".

page_text: the facing slabs or tiles and the brickwork, the concrete resting on the
ribs or flanges, and aiding in bonding the brickwork with the facing slabs
or tiles. When the two sides of a wall are to be faced headers are to be left
projecting on both sides; in either case a large proportion of a wall will be
constructed of concrete
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
The Drawing represents a section and plan of a wall constructed according
to my Invention, the facing slabs having flanges or rebates and the concrete,
before described.
In the Drawing, A is the brickwork, which is carried up in the usual way
up to the under side of the flange or rebate of the facing slab B; the course
of brickwork C is then laid as shown, or the courses may be more according
to the height of the facing slabs, or more in thickness if the wall is desired
thicker; the course of facing slabs D is then to be set, having fine mortar
under the lowest or bed joint and the upright or face joint; the course of
brickwork E is then to be constructed, the headers projecting at intervals
to receive the flange or rebate of the facing slab D; the course of brickwork
F is then to be constructed. Into the space formed by the brickwork at
the back and the facing slab in front, and through the intervals or cells
between the headers, concrete is to be poured, which will fill up all the
interstices below the level of the under side of the flange or rebate of the
facing slab D, flowing into and fixing the flange or rebate of the fixing slab B.
The concrete may be formed of lime, cement, or any other suitable material.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
ROB TAYLOR,
15, Furnivals Inn, Sol'.
JOHN TAYLOR. (LS.)