CESERVE Floors, and other Surfaces.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th July, 1886
Complete Left, 11th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th Apr., 1887.
CESERVE
Floors, and other Surfaces.
I, JAMES AUGUSTUS PARKER of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales Assayer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has been devised in order to produce a durable and economical
covering or paving for roads streets paths and all descriptions of ways and floorings,
and for any surfaces requiring protection from traffic. The covering or paving is of
such a nature that it may be made in bricks or blocks or it may be made in situ
while being spread over a surface or foundation.
My improved composition for paving or covering roads and ways floors and other
surfaces is formed by the admixture of granulated cork in and with asphaltum bitumen
tar pitch or other bituminous material.
In making the said composition I first granulate the cork preferably so that it will
resemble sawdust and of this I take one part by weight and mix it in and with say
six parts of the bituminous material, (preferably asphaltum) while hot. To form
blocks or bricks I pour the said admixture into moulds and impart a slight pressure
to the quantity in each mould until it becomes hard and cool. To pave and form
the composition in situ I spread the said admixture upon a previously prepared
foundation say of concrete preferably to the depth of say two inches and while still
hot roll it evenly by passing a roller over it until it becomes sufficiently cool and hard.
Whether laid down in blocks or spread as an unbroken surface and formed in situ
the improved composition will be found to make a hard yet sufficiently elastic
flooring pavement or covering to resist and bear the traffic of vehicles, horses,
pedestrians, &c, and at the same time will allow of a good foothold.
Dated at Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales this Fourth day of June One
thousand eight hundred and eighty six,

page_text: Ways, Floors, and other Surfaces.
I, JAMES AUGUSTUS PARKER of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales, Assayer
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 has been devised in order to produce a durable and economical
covering or paving for roads streets paths and all descriptions of ways and floorings
and for any surfaces requiring protection from traffic. The covering or paving is of
such a nature that it may be made in bricks or blocks or it may be made in situ while
being spread over a surface or foundation.
My improved composition for paving or covering roads and ways floors and other
surfaces is formed by the admixture of granulated cork in and with asphaltum
bitumen tar pitch or other bituminous material.
In making the said composition I first granulate the cork preferably so that it will
resemble sawdust and of this I take one part by weight and mix it in and with say six
parts of the bituminous material (preferably asphaltum) while hot. To form blocks
or bricks I pour the said admixture into moulds and impart a slight pressure to the
quantity in each mould until it becomes hard and cool. To pave and form the
composition in situ I spread the said admixture upon a previously prepared foundation
say of concrete preferably to the depth of say two inches and while still hot roll it
evenly by passing a roller over it until it becomes sufficiently cool and hard.
Whether laid down in blocks or spread as an unbroken surface and formed in situ
the improved composition will be found to make a hard yet sufficiently elastic flooring
pavement or covering to resist and bear the traffic of vehicles horses pedestrians &c
and at the same time will allow of a good foothold.
I would have it understood that I do not pretend to have invented a composition
or block for similar purposes of which asphaltum is the basis but-
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is.
The admixture of cork in and with asphaltum bitumen tar pitch or other bituminous
material to form an improved composition for paving or covering roads and ways
floors and other surfaces substantially as herein described and explained.
Dated at Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales this Twenty-seventh day of
January One thousand eight hundred and eighty seven.