AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE-
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Zachariah Round, of Dudley, in the County of
Worcester, Plasterer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Zachariah Round at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
April 1854.
I, ZACHARIAH ROUND, of Dudley, in the County of Worcester, Plasterer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN BRICKS TO BE USED IN CERTAIN PARTS OF BUILDINGS" to be
as follows:-
My Invention relates to bricks to be used in the construction of doorways
and other parts of buildings where an attachment for nails or screws, or other
fastenings is required, my said Invention being used (among other purposes) in
substitution of the blocks of wood usually introduced into doorways and other
parts of buildings, for the purpose of effecting an attachment of some part of
the structure thereto. My Invention consists in introducing pieces of wood or
metal in bricks made of clay or other material, the said bricks being made of
a shape suitable to receive the said pieces of wood or metal. I do not confine
myself to any particular form of piece of wood or metal to be introduced into
the said bricks, as the same must be varied to suit the particular purpose to
which the brick is to be applied. The said pieces of wood and metal are some-

page_text: times let into the ends and sometimes into the sides of the bricks, and fastened
therein by pins or otherwise. When I introduce pieces of metal into bricks,
I usually make a wormed hole in the said piece of metal, so that a screw may
engage therein. Bricks made according to my Invention, when built into a
wall in a suitable place, form a convenient attachment for matters requiring to
be attached thereto..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Zachariah Round in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th October 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ZACHARIAH
ROUND, of Dudley, in the County of Worcester, Plasterer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Zachariah Round, Her special licence that I, the said
Zachariah Round, my executors, administrators, and assigns; or such others
as I, the said Zachariah Round, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN BRICKS TO BE USED IN CERTAIN
PARTS OF BUILDINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Zachariah Round, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Zachariah Round, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
My Invention relates to bricks to be used in the construction of doorways
and other parts of buildings where an attachment for nails, screws, and other
fastenings is required, my said Invention being used (among other purposes)

page_text: in substitution of the blocks of wood usually built in or inserted into doorways
and other parts of buildings for the purpose of effecting an attachment thereto
by means of nails, screws, and other fastenings. My said Invention consists
in introducing or attaching pieces of wood or metal, or both, into bricks, the
said bricks being made of a shape suitable to receive the said pieces of wood or
metal, as herein explained and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing. The
said pieces of wood or metal are introduced into the said bricks after the said
bricks are burned, and the said pieces of wood or metal are fixed in their places
in the said bricks by pins or otherwise.
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 represent bricks of different forms constructed accord-
ing to my Invention. In each of these several Figures the brick, or the portion
made of clay, is marked a, and the pieces of wood or metal inserted therein are
marked b; where convenient, the pieces of wood or metal are fixed in the clay
portion of the brick by pins, as indicated at c in the several Figures. Figure 6
represents a brick, in which a metallic wormed nut, marked d, is inserted
in the clay portion a of the brick, the said nut d being dropped down the
opening e; a screw or pin f passes through a hole formed longitudinally in the
brick, and engages in the nut d, as represented; the said screw f fastens the
door or window frame or other upright g to the brick, as represented. A piece
of wood b may also be inserted in the said brick. Figure 7 illustrates the uses to
which my Invention may be put. h is a door frame, attached in its place in
the doorway by nails or screws engaging in the bricks i, i, i, which said bricks
may be constructed according to either of the methods illustrated in Figures 1
and 6. The use of the brick constructed according to the method represented
in Figure 2 is also illustrated in Figure 7, in which said Figure the bricks
marked are constructed according to the method represented in Figure 2;
the said bricks being built in the wall, so as to form parallel courses or rows,
as represented, which serve as convenient attachments for the lath work l.
Although I have represented in the accompanying Drawing those forms of my
Invention which I have found most convenient in practice, yet I do not confine
myself to the same, as the shape of the pieces of wood or metal to be introduced
into the bricks must be varied to suit the particular purpose to which the bricks
are to be applied. I wish it to be understood, that by the word "brick" I
mean such masses of burnt clay, cement, composition, stone, or other material
as are or may be used in the construction of the walls of buildings.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my
Invention, the introduction or attachment of pieces of wood or metal, or both,
into or on bricks, for the purpose of affording a convenient means of attaching

page_text: to the walls into which the said bricks are built such objects or matters as may
require to be attached thereto, as herein described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Zachariah Round, have hereunto set.
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
ZACHARIAH ROUND. (L.S.)