New Method of Covering Bricks, Walls, and similar Surfaces with a Glazed or Enamelled Surface.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 15th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New Method of Covering Bricks, Walls, and similar Surfaces with
a Glazed or Enamelled Surface.
LOUIS TEBBUTT 4 Mortimer Road Cambridge Gentleman do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention consists in the use of enamelled iron or tin to form the surface of
walls made of bricks brickwork or concrete.
It has for its object to provide at a cheaper cost these surfaces, for the various
purposes for which glazed bricks and tiles are now used.
For this purpose, I provide thin sheeting of iron, or tin, cut into sheets of the
requisite size, and enamelled on one side in the ordinary way.
To affix such sheets to the wall or bricks, I either roughen the side not enamelled
somewhat so as to enable the cement or mortar used to affix them to the wall or
bricks to adhere to them, or I make the sheets of enamelled iron or tin somewhat
greater than the brick or tile to which they are to be affixed, and so as to overlap
it. This overlapping part is turned down over the side or sides of the brick or tile,
and is then fastened to it with cement or mortar.
Such sheets can be applied, either when the wall or surface is being made, or to
the bricks or tiles previously.
Such sheets can be also affixed to concrete walls by affixing them while the
concrete is plastic.
Such sheets can also be applied to existing walls or surfaces by providing such
walls or surfaces with a coating of cement or plaster, and affixing the sheets while
yet plastic.
My object in providing such enamelled sheets with turned down overlapping
parts, is to prevent the entrance of water between the iron or tin and the mortar or
cement, and to furnish them with greater holding power to the wall or surface or
brick or tile to which they are affixed.
Dated this 14th day of February 1894.
LOUIS TEBBUTT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New Method of Covering Bricks with a Glazed or Enamelled
Surface by Means of Metal Sheeting.
I LOUIS TEBBUTT of 4 Mortimer Road Cambridge, in the County of Cambridge,
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 consists in the use of iron or tin sheeting glazed or enamelled on
one side as hereinafter stated, to form the outside surfaces of the bricks instead of
glazing or enamelling them as heretofore.
The iron sheeting I use is of the kind ordinarily used in commerce for
advertisements and is of the thickness of about one sixteenth of an inch.
I cut the sheeting into different sizes, according to whether I desire to cover the
side or end of the brick; but in any case the piece cut is larger than the surface of
the brick to which it is to be affixed, so that when the brick is placed upon the
middle of it, it extends beyond the brick on all sides by about half an inch; that is
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page_text: to say if I am covering the side of an ordinary brick measuring 9 inches by
4 inches by 3 inches the piece of sheeting would be of the size of 10 inches
by 4 inches or thereabouts, and if for the end of such a brick it would be 5 inches
by 4 inches.
I next cut away the corners of the said piece of sheeting in the manner shown in
Figure so as not to form a double fold at the corners when the overlapping
margins of the piece are turned down.
I now turn down the said margins at right angles to the middle part so as
to make the piece of sheeting somewhat of the shape of the lid of a biscuit tin box.
The middle part is left of the same size as the surface of the brick to which it is to
be fastened, so as to fit it.
The lid shaped piece of sheeting is now enamelled on its front or middle outside
surface in the ordinary way used for enamelling the sheets used for advertisements
and similar purposes, but the turned down edges as well as the outside of the front
of the piece is coated with the first coat of enamel. I then fasten the lid shaped
piece thus enamelled upon the brick with mortar or cement, but I prefer cement;
and I press the turned down margins closely upon the sides of the bricks as shown
on Figure II.
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Such bricks are now ready for use, and walls and other structures are built
of them with mortar or cement, as in the case of ordinary glazed bricks.
The turning down of the margins of the pieces of sheeting both fastens them
more securely upon the bricks and also prevents moisture from soaking in the joints
of the wall, and entering between the said enamelled iron and the bricks, and thus
weakening the cement or mortar.
By use of bricks thus covered with an enamelled surface a wall is produced
having a glazed or enamelled surface fit for reflecting light or for use where water
is held or used or for other purposes in the same way as in the case of bricks having
the surface glazed in the ordinary way.
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
The method of obtaining a glazed or enamelled surface upon bricks intended to
be used for building walls and other structures by affixing glazed or enamelled iron
sheeting to the surface of such bricks, as and for the purposes hereinbefore, and on
the accompanying drawings, described, and illustrated.
Dated this Twenty-second day of June 1894.
LOUIS TEBDUIT.