Construction of Concrete Walls without the Aid of Framing or Special Plant, and for Lining or Facing such Walls.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th June, 1894-Accepted, 14th July, 1894
Construction of Concrete Walls without the Aid of Framing or
Special Plant, and for Lining or Facing such Walls.
We JOHN WILLIAM COCKRILL of Municipal Buildings Great Yarmouth in
the County of Norfolk, Borough Surveyor and HENRY LEWIS DOULTON of
Lambeth Pottery, London, Potter do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
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This invention relates to the construction of concrete walls without the aid of
any wooden or iron moulds or framing the concrete being kept in its position before
it has set by thin ornamental or plain, glazed or unglazed, terra-cotta, carthenware,
stone ware, fire clay L shaped tiles, the lower portion bed or flange of the tile
being proportioned to its height to allow the weight of the soft concrete holding the
tile and retaining the face thereof in a vertical position until the concrete sets,
the wall so built having all the strength and solidity of a monolithic concrete wall,
the appearance being of a more ornamental character than has hitherto been
obtainable in the construction of concrete walls while the facing so applied cannot
possibly be detached from the wall as in the case of tiles bedded on the surface.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1893.
J. WM. COCKRILL.
Construction of Concrete Walls without the Aid of Framing or
Special Plant, and for Lining or Facing such Walls.
We JOHN WILLIAM COCKRILL, of Municipal Buildings, Great Yarmouth, in
the County of Norfolk, Borough Surveyor, and HENRY LEWIS DOULTON, of
Lambeth Pottery, London, Potter, 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:-
This invention for the construction of concrete walls without the aid of framing
or special plant and for lining or facing such walls has for its object to build up
cheaply a wall that shall be strong durable and neat in appearance and consists
essentially in forming the main body or mass of the wall of concrete or the like and
the exposed faces of the wall of glazed tiles or the like having projections bedding
into the concrete. The tiled faces of the wall present a neat appearance, when
light colored and glazed are very light for passages tunnels and the like, and serve
to protect the wall from the effects of the weather. The projections prevent them
from being detached from the wall with which they are practically solid.
The accompanying perspective illustration shows a partly built wall in section.
The facing tiles a are formed with a foot c having an upward projecting flange d
and they may also have a head b.
In building a wall according to this invention, the two parallel rows &ƒ of tiles
are laid at a distance apart corresponding to the desired thickness of the wall one
tile high. The space between the rows is then filled in with concrete y up to the
level of the top of the tiles. Fresh vertical rows of tiles are then placed on the top
of those already laid and are filled in with concrete and so on until the desired
height attained. Care must be taken during the building to keep the faces of
the tiles truly vertical and in the proper longitudinal line. It will readily be seen

page_text: that the flanges d aid in preventing the tiles from becoming detached from the
main, body of the wall.
It will be readily understood that the form of the facing tile may be modified in
various ways without departing from the nature of this invention, the principal
point being to form the tile in such manner that it will easily stand itself in place
whilst the concrete is being filled in and form a face rigidly attached to the mass of
concrete, whilst a secondary point is to key it firmly in the mass of concrete.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
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1. The method of building a wall consisting in first forming a portion of the
faces of the wall with tiles adapted to stand in place, in then filling up the space
between the said portions of the faces with concrete, and in repeating the above
process from the ground upwards until the wall is of the desired height substantially
as described.
2. A wall constructed of a main body of concrete and of facing tiles having
inwardly projecting feet, substantially as described.
3. A facing tile for concrete walls having an inwardly projecting foot sub-
stantially as described.
4. The improvements in the construction of concrete walls without the aid of
framing or special plant and for lining or facing such walls, substantially as
described with reference to the drawings."
Dated this 8th day of June 1894.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.