A Brick for Paving, Coping, and other Purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1893-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Brick for Paving, Coping, and other Purposes.
I, STEPHEN BALLARD, of Colwall, Malvern, in the County of Worcester,
Malt Vinegar Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as.
follows:-
My invention has for its object a brick for paving coping and other purposes,.
which is so made that when laid a portion of such brick overlaps a portion of the
adjoining brick or bricks. This is accomplished by making the brick of special.
shapes. For instance in the case of a square brick I may at just half its depth
form a shoulder by letting the upper half lap over at two sides and the lower half
lap over at the other two sides so that the brick would have the same appearance
on both sides. The brick if made as though in three slices with the middle slice
out of line edgewise with the top and bottom would have a recess or recesses
instead of ledge in two edges, and also a tongue or tongues to enter the recess or
recesses in the other edge. In other cases such as coping or sill bricks there.
might only be a projecting tongue or tongues at one end and a recess or recesses,
at the other end.
Dated this 13th day of May 1892.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A. Brick for Paving, Coping, and other Purposes.
I, STEPHEN BALLARD of Colwall, Malvern, in the County of Worcester, Malt
Vinegar Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object a brick for paving coping and other purposes,.
which is so made that when laid a portion of such brick overlaps a portion of the
adjoining brick or bricks. This is accomplished by making the brick of special
shapes. For instance in the case of a square brick I may at just half its depth
form a shoulder by letting the upper half lap over at two sides and the lower. half
lap over at the other two sides so that the brick would have the same appearance
on both sides. The brick, if made as though in three slices with the middle slice
out of line edgewise with the top and bottom would have a recess or recesses
instead of ledge in two edges and also a tongue or tongues to enter the recess or
recesses in the other edge. In other cases such as coping or sill bricks there
might only be a projecting tongue or tongues at one end and a recess or recesses.
at the other end.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practise I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon
which I have fully illustrated the nature of my said improvements.
Figure 1., is a view of a wall having a coping formed with my improved brick.
Figure 2., is a section through the wall showing one side of one of the coping.
bricks in elevation.
Figure 3., is a similar section but showing the other side of the brick in.
elevation.
Figure 4., shows the front of a coping brick detached.

page_text: Figure 6., is one view showing the application of my invention to sill bricks.
Figure 7., is a reverse view to Figure 6 of a side formed of my bricks.
Figure 8., is a plan showing the application of my improvements to paving
bricks.
Figure 9., is one view of my paving bricks detached.
Figure 10., is a reverse view of the same.
In carrying my invention into effect I form my coping brick A with the pro-
jecting tongue a on the one side and a recess or sinking a at the other side so
that when the bricks are laid together it is impossible for any single brick to
become detached while the whole of the coping bricks are firmly retained together.
The same arrangement applies in the case of sill and other such bricks B where
I form a projection on the one side of the brick and a recess on the other
side whereby the whole are retained in position as in the case of the coping. In
such cases I may of course have more than one projection and recess on each brick
and the projection and recess may be round square or other suitable shape. For
paving bricks I form a projection on the one side and end d' and d² of the edge
of the brick and a corresponding recess d³ and d on the other side and end so
that when the bricks D are brought together as shown at Figure 8 the whole form
one solid mass and no single brick can sink or become out of level.
Instead of the projection and recess as shown to the paving bricks two sides of
the brick may be made to lap over the other two sides.
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
claim is :-
1st The improvements in bricks for coping sills and other such purposes of
the projections with corresponding recesses, substantially as and for the purpose
herein set forth and shown upon the accompanying drawings.
2nd The improvements in bricks for paving, substantially as and for the
purpose herein set forth and shown upon the accompanying drawings..
Dated this 31st day of December 1892.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.