A NEW OR IMPROVED BRICK TO BE USED FOR THE BORDERS OF PATHS, WALKS, OR ALLEYS, IN GARDENS OR PARKS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 90, Cannon
Street, in the City of London, Patent Agent, for an Invention of "A NEW
OR IMPROVED BRICK TO BE USED FOR THE BORDERS OF PATHS, WALKS,
OR ALLEYS, IN GARDENS OR PARKS." A communication from Emile
Beaucantin, of Rouen, France..
.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th November 1880.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 90, Cannon Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent. "A NEW OR IMPROVED BRICK TO BE USED FOR THE
BORDERS OF PATHS, WALKS, OR ALLEYS IN GARDENS OR PARKS." A communi-
cation from Emile Beaucantin, of Rouen, France.
The Invention communicated to me relates to an important improvement in the
manufacture of the new or improved brick, patented under date of Oct. 28, 1878,
No. 4322. This improvement consists in leaving while moulding the brick a space
in the form of an arch at its base, so that when the bricks are placed side by side
to form the border, all the spaces having been equally placed one after the other,
they form a semi-circular tunnel or continual arch answering the purpose of a
draining pipe, into which all the water finding its way into the interstices between
the bricks is gathered, and finally lost in the ground, where it is absorbed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th May 1881.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de
la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 90, Cannon Street, in the City of London,
Patent Agent. "A NEW OR IMPROVED BRICK TO BE USED FOR THE BORDERS
OF PATHS, WALKS, OR ALLEYS IN GARDENS OR PARKS." A communication
from Emile Beaucantin, of Rouen, France.
The Invention communicated to me relates to an important improvement in the
manufacture of the new or improved brick, patented under date of Oct. 28, 1878,
No. 4322. This improvement consists in leaving while moulding the brick a space
in the form of an arch at its base, so that when the bricks are placed side by side
to form the border, all the spaces having been equally placed one after the other,
they form a semicircular tunnel or continual arch answering the purpose of a
draining pipe, into which all the water finding its way into the interstices between
the bricks is gathered and finally lost in the ground, where it is absorbed.
After having thus briefly described the said Invention, I shall now do so more
thoroughly by referring to the accompanying Drawings, of which the two Figures
represent two bricks differing in shape and outline, but which show the application
of the improvement in the invention.
The same Figures refer to corresponding parts.
A is a depression or cavity or chamber in the vertical side of the brick, so that
when two bricks differing in shape and outline are placed side by side, the capacity of
the cavity or chamber is increased to facilitate the passage of the water coming
from the top of the bricks set in order to the tunnel or draining pipe B formed by
the juxtaposition of the bricks in forming the border.
Whatever the shape of the border bricks be and the use applied to, the arch
shaped cavity can be applied to them.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention and the means of
carrying it into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the shape or outline that may be given to the bricks, and which may be
modified without departing from the principle of the Invention, but what I claim
in the manufacture of bricks for the border of paths, walks, or alleys in gardens
or parks, is a semicircular chamber or arched space in the base of the brick resting
upon the ground, and which forms a drain pipe for the gathering and passage of
the water coming from the surface of the soil through the interstices between the
bricks when set in order, substantially as above described and shown in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)