Year: 1886

page_text: I, RICHARD STEINAU, of Maschstrasse, Brunswick in the Empire of Germany Civil
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
Heretofore two kinds or forms of bricks have been required to form the facing of
an ordinary wall.
My invention has for its object to enable the facing of a wall, to be made with only
one kind or form of facing-brick, by which a great saving of time material &
cost in transport, is obtained, besides forming a nicer, stronger, and more durable
facing for the wall.
To this end I form such facing bricks hood-shaped with two shanks being in
thickness exactly half the thickness of the back bricks, less half of the thickness of
the layer of mortar, preferably at right angles to each other, one shank serving as
facing for the wall, and the other as a means for fastening and building the facing
bricks into the wall.
When setting these facing bricks, the shanks to be built into the wall are placed
consequently on top of each other in front of the back bricks in such a manner,
that the shanks serving as a facing will cover the layer of mortar between the back
bricks, and the top & bottom edges of the said shanks will have their joints and
layer of mortar exactly in front and in the middle of each layer of back bricks, thus
displacing the facing bricks.
1
1000
Pro RICHARD STEINAU,
F. Bosshardt & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester,
Agents to the Applicant.

page_text: an ordinary wall.
My invention has for its object to enable the facing of a wall to be made with only
one kind or form of facing brick, by which a great saving of time, material, and cost
in transport, is obtained, besides forming a nicer, stronger and more durable facing
for the wall.
And in order that my invention may be better understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1. 2. 3 and 4 show a few shapes of improved angular facing bricks for the
sides, and Figs. 5 & 6 for the corners of a wall, respectively.
Fig. 7 shows the same applied and the manner of setting.
In carrying out my invention form such facing bricks with two angular
shanks a & a preferably at right angles to each other, and of about half the thickness
of the back brick A, less half the layer of mortar B, the shank a serving as facing
and the shank aas means for fastening and building the facing bricks into the back
bricks A.
These facing bricks are set in alternate reversed positions, so that the shanks a and a¹
of two bricks respectively, lic on each other in front of, and fill up the spaces c & d
of the back brickwork A and the layer of mortar or joints B-between the shanks a
and a will come exactly in front and in the middle of each course of the back-
brickwork A, thus causing a half course binding and displacing of the angular facing
bricks.
To afford a key for the mortar, the sides of the shanks a & a¹ of these angular
facing bricks, which come next to the mortar, are formed with cavities or recesses b,
as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, or with projections b', see Figs. 2 & 3 thus effectually
binding the same with the back bricks A.
The corner bricks shown in Figs. 5 & 6 may be made with or without archi-
tectural ornament or moulding and are angular-shaped in plan.
They are perforated, and when made in a continuous machine represent a four sided
figure, the part indicated by dotted lines being afterwards broken off, so as to leave
them of the desired angular shaped form,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1st. Half-course binding angular facing bricks formed in such a manner, that two
shanks a¹ of the same respectively, when laid on each other, will fill up the brick
space c, formed by the back brickwork, while the shanks a will correspond with the
alternate courses of the brick work behind, and form the face of the wall, substantially
as set forth.
2nd. The manner of facing an ordinary brick work with half course binding
angular facing bricks, so that two adjacent courses of such facing bricks will
alternately form a brick space d, which is filled up by the back brickwork, and
fill up a brick space c formed by the brickwork behind; while the horizontal joints
of the facing bricks are opposite the middle of each course of the brickwork
behind, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the annexed
drawing.
Dated this 22rd der of March 1987
E. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester,
Agents for Applicant.