AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION KNOWN AS 'Idrofuga' TO BE USED FOR PAVING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION FOR TERRACES, ROADS, STREETS, PATHS, SKATING RINKS, AND EVERY CONCEIVABLE SURFACE WORK, FOR WALLS, PILLARS, MANTEL- PIECES, RESERVOIRS, AND ALI, HYDRAULIC WORKS WHATSOEVER, AND IN THE METHOD OF APPLYING AND USING THE SAME
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Woodward Wallis at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th September 1876. A communi-
cation from abroad by Signior Eusebio Finco, of No. 28, Via di San Giacomo,
& No. 23, Via di Guilio Rómano, Rome.
CHARLES WOODWARD WALLIS, of the Rookery, Belvedere, in the County of Kent,
Esquire. "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION KNOWN AS 'Idrofuga' TO BE USED FOR
PAVING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION FOR TERRACES, ROADS, STREETS, PATHS, SKATING
RINKS, AND EVERY CONCEIVABLE SURFACE WORK, FOR WALLS, PILLARS, MANTEL-
PIECES, RESERVOIRS, AND ALI, HYDRAULIC WORKS WHATSOEVER, AND IN THE METHOD
OF APPLYING AND USING THE SAME.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Woodward Wallis at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th September 1876. A communi-
cation from abroad by Signior Eusebio Finco, of No. 28, Via di San Giacomo,
& No. 23, Via di Guilio Romano, Rome.
CHARLES WOODWARD WALLIS, of the Rookery, Belvedere, in the County of Kent,
Esquire. "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION KNOWN AS 'IDROFUGA' TO BE USED FOR
PAVING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION FOR TERRACES, ROADS, STREETS, PATHS, SKATING
RINKS, AND EVERY CONCEIVABLE SURFACE WORK, FOR WALLS, PILLARS, MANTEL-
PIECES, RESERVOIRS, AND ALL. HYDRAULIC WORKS WHATSOEVER, AND IN THE METHOD
OF APPLYING AND USING THE SAME."
This composition known as "idrofuga" consists of two distinctive portions, viz,
solid and liquid.
The liquid portion is made up of the following ingredients in proportions varying
according to circumstances.
(a). Blood.
(b). Oil.
(c). Lime water.
The solid portion consists of a mixture, also varying according to circumstances,
of,-
(a) Hydraulic cement
(b). Powdered lime.
These two portions (solid & liquid) are well mixed together until they form a
consistency equal to that of soft dough; then if it be required, for instance, to form
a mosaic pavement of marble, take proportions of the above described composition
and marble chips, and having mixed them together apply it on a hard bed or
surface already prepared to receive it. It must then be well pressed down and
levelled & smoothed, and after allowing it to thoroughly dry and harden the due
application of the polishing stone will perfect the mosaic work. The surface must
then be properly cleansed & paid over by a duly proportioned mixture of beeswax,
white wax, cream of tartar, and turpentine.
If required for paths, roads, streets, and such like work, the process is the same,
except that instead of marble chips being mixed with the composition, gravel, or
scraps of stones, or pebbles, and such like, of various size, according to circumstances
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(b). Powdered lime.
These two portions (solid & liquid) are well mixed together until they form a
consistency equal to that of soft dough; then if it be required, for instance, to form
a mosaic pavement of marble, take proportions of the above described composition
and marble chips, and having mixed them together apply it on a hard bed or
surface already prepared to receive it. It must then be well pressed down and
levelled & smoothed, and after allowing it to thoroughly dry and harden the due
application of the polishing stone will perfect the mosaic work. The surface must
then be properly cleansed & paid over by a duly proportioned mixture of beeswax,
white wax, cream of tartar, and turpentine.
If required for paths, roads, streets, and such like work, the process is the same,
except that instead of marble chips being mixed with the composition, gravel, or
scraps of stones, or pebbles, and such like, of various size, according to circumstances

page_text: may be advantageously used, the whole to be well compressed and rolled to procure
a good surface.
If required to face walls, pillars, steps, mantelpieces, or other surfaces or places or
materials then add to the composition a proportion of sand and smooth it well
before it dries, when dry it will be ready for paint. This will also serve to put
together marble or stone pillars, and may be used for all hydraulic purposes
whatsoever.