CERTAIN IMROVEMENTS IN PAVING OR COVERING STREETS, ROADS, OR OTHER WAYS
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GALLEY HARTLEY, of Narrow Street, Limehouse, in the County of Middlesex,
Mast and Block Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of June, One thousand eight hundred
and forty-three, in the sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Galley Hartley, my
exors, adiňors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full "power, sole privilego
and authority, that I, the said John Galley Hartley, my exors, admors, and
assigns, and such others as I, the said John Galley Hartley, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of tlie
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMROVEMENTS IN PAVING OR COVERING STREETS, ROADS, OR OTHER WAYS;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
John Galley Hartley, to particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and to cause the same to be inrolled in
Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within-six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as

page_text: in and by the same, reference being thereunto a more rany and a
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Galley Hartley, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being
had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon (that is to say):-
My Invention of Certain Improvements in Paving or. Covering Streets,
Roads, or other Ways, consists in a novel and peculiar arrangement and com-
bination of a series of bundles of wood (similar to the ordinary firewood used
for domestic purposes) as a substitute for the solid wooden blocks hitherto
employed for the purposes of paving. According to the system hitherto
adopted for paving roads and other ways with wood, great expence is incurred
to obtain blocks of any peculiar form, as also in transporting masses of blocks
from one place to another. The expence of laying such paving blocks is like-
wise very great. In order, therefore, to obviate these objections I employ
wood so arranged and placed as to enable me to cover roads or ways at con-
siderably less expence both for labor and materials, but quite equal in
durability to the roads or ways as hitherto covered with blocks of wood.
And in order to explain my said improvements as completely as possible,
I will proceed to describe the arrangement of parts and mode of placing them
so as to form a roadway which I consider well calculated for carrying out my
said Invention, and which will be found to answer extremely well. I prepare
the surface of the ground upon which the wood has to be placed by covering
such surface with concrete in the ordinary. way of forming substrata; and
having the wood conveyed to the spot in bundles as above mentioned, I
proceed to cover the surface of the concrete therewith by placing the said
bundles endways thereon, so as to offer the end of the grain of the wood (fir
by preference) to the action of the traffic, and I continue so to place the said
bundles as that they are in contact with each other until I have laid down from
side to side of the street, or from gutter to gutter, about fifteen square yards;
and in order to consolidate this mass I fill up the interstices between the
bundles and the pieces of wood forming such bundles by running in "asphalte,
bitumen,"
or other suitable mixture or material, between the spaces, whereby
perfectly solid mass is obtained. The road thus formed may be readily
repaired by withdrawing or removing with a crowbar or other convenient
instrument one or more of the said bundles, and replacing them with
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new ones.

page_text: But in order more fully to explain the disposition of the aforesaid bundles
as employed for covering roads or other ways, I have added to these Presents
a Drawing of them as they would appear when laid, and before running in the
asphalte, bitumen, or other suitable mixture or material. A, A, the bundles;
B, B, concrete.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be particularly understood
that I do not claim as of my Invention or the exclusive use of any of the
separate parts above mentioned and referred to; neither do I claim the
exclusive use of wood for the purposes above described, except so far as the
same may be employed in furtherance of my said Invention, which I hereby
declare to consist in and I claim the covering or paving roads or other ways
with bundles of wood, of any shape or form, arranged and combined in the
manner above described, and represented by the Drawing hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Galley Hartley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
JOHN GALLEY (L.S.) HARTLEY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1843, the aforesaid John Galley Hartley came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication 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.
Enrolled the Thirteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-three.