Improvements in Brick and Stone Work.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1898-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1898
Improvements in Brick and Stone Work.
We, JOHN WESLEY KLINCK, Builder, of 486, Yonge Street, and WILLIAM COOKE,.
Gentleman, of 72, Grenville Street, both of the City of Toronto, in the County of
York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in brick and stone work and the object of
the invention is to design a simple, cheap and durable substitute for the ordinary,
sized brick or cut stone, which can be applied very quickly to cover a building and
when completed have an appearance superior to ordinary brick or rough stone and
fully equal to pressed brick or cut stone and it consists essentially of brick or stone
work slabs subdivided if desired into the ordinary sized brick and preferably made of
a suitable clay mixed with cement, stones or made of any other suitable composition
to represent the color, shape, class or style of brick or stone desired, each slab having
preferably V-shaped tongues on two sides thereof and two V-shaped grooves at the
opposite sides, so that they may be fitted together, and chamfered edges, so that the
chamfers coming together will give the appearance of the joints between the brick or
stone as the case may be, the slabs being of such a size in brick work that the joints
are also formed by cross grooves as well as the meeting chamfers as hereinafter more'
particularly explained.
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of our brick and stone work slab forming portion of two
walls and corner thereof.
Fig. 2, is a perspective detail of one slab showing the tongues.
Fig. 3, is a perspective detail showing the grooves at the opposite sides.
Fig. 4, is a vertical section showing the manner of fastening the slabs to the planking
at the sides of the house.
Fig. 5, is a detail of a corner of a building clad in accordance with our invention.
Fig. 6, is a detail of a portion of the window frame showing the manner of abutting.
the brick or stone work against it.
In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each
figure.
In this invention it is our object to attain a cheaply clad form of frame house,
which will have all the appearance of a brick house and be fully as warm, in fact be,
a great improvement on the ordinary brick used and so much so that it will really
have the appearance of pressed brick.
It is well known that it is a very laborious task as a general rule to clad a frame'
house with brick and even when clad the brick frequently cracks and breaks away,
and thus renders the house unsightly. To overcome this difficulty and produce an
outside covering for the house, which will have all the advantages in appearance to
the best class of brick and yet no disadvantages that are so commonly incident to
brick layed singly, is the result which we have accomplished.
A represents the studding and B the planking, which is nailed thereto in the
usual manner at the outside. Care the slabs, which are provided with projecting
V-shaped tongues c on two edges thereon (see Fig. 2) and meeting together at on
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page_text: angle, the tongues being preferably located substantially in the centre of the edge o
the slabs. c are two grooves located in the centre of the opposite sides and meeting
together at the opposite angle. The grooves c¹ extend into the tongues as shown.
c² are chamfered edges extending completely around each slab at the outside thereof
and forming when placed together as shown in Fig. 1, representations of joints in
brick work. c3 are channels made in the brick work class of slab extending
longitudinally throughout the slab and crosswise between the channels, thus forming
the joints of the ordinary sized brick work.
Care the corner angle slabs, which are made right angle-shaped and have no
channels but are only provided with a plurality of chamfered edges ct. The corner
angled slabs C¹ are made of a form and color to represent stone of any description.
In Fig. 6, we show a portion D of a frame of a window and a slab C2 with an angled
corner which extends into the groove d cut in the side bar of the frame. It will thus
be seen that our slabs may be moulded into any desired form and adapted for any
desired use.
In placing our slabs it will be seen on reference to Figs. 1 and 4 that the horizontal
portion of the tongues are placed uppermost, so as to fit into the grooves on the
lower edge of the adjacent slab. The tongues are also in alignment and fitted together
as indicated in Fig. 1.
In order to secure the slabs in position we provide holes co, which pass through the
tongue at the angle thereof and obliquely through the slab, so that the nails 2 may
be driven through the hole into the planking or boarding 3 fastened to the studs of
the house frame.
Our slabs for brick and stone work may be made in any suitable design of brick or
stone work either with the intermediate joints formed in the slab or without them
and of any suitable composition capable of withstanding the weather, it being essential
for the proper fastening of the work that the edges of the slabs be bevelled off to
form joints for the brick or stone work when placed adjacent to each other when
laid.
The slabs may be made of any desired thickness and instead of having the backing of
planking if made of the thickness of ordinary brick the backing may be made of
ordinary brick and the slabs suitably connected thereto. In connecting the slabs
together that is to say fitting the tongues into the grooves they would of course be
cemented and as the tongues are always uppermost the wall would be completely
water and air proof.
We may also mention that instead of the chamfered edges any suitable form such
as beads in which recesses would be on one or both sides may be used to give the
appearance of the joints. Instead of the corners being made of stone work they
might be made the same as the main body of the wall in brick work or the main
body of the wall may be of stone work as herein before particularly described.
Our invention as above described may also be used for various other purposes, such
as for instance walks and pavement in which case it would be necessary to make the
work very much thicker.
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 :-
1. As a new article of manufacture, a composition slab for forming brick and stone
work having tongues along the edges of the slab forming one angle and grooves
along the edges of the slab forming the opposite angle, such grooves extending into
the tongues oppositely formed as and for the purpose specified.
2. As a new article of manufacture, a composition slab for forming brick and stone
work having tongues along the edges of the slab forming one angle and grooves along
the edges of the slab forming the opposite angle, such grooves extending into the
tongues oppositely formed and cut-away edges on the four sides of the slab forming
when the slabs are placed together the joints as and for the purpose specified.
3. As a new article of manufacture, a composition slab for forming brick and stone

page_text: work having tongues along the edges of the slab forming one angle and grooves along
the edges of the slab forming the opposite angle, such grooves extending into the
tongues oppositely formed and holes extending obliquely through the tongues and
main portion of the slab as and for the purpose specified.
4. The combination with a suitable backing, of composition slabs forming brick
and stone work having tongues along the edges of the slabs forming one angle and
grooves along the edges of the slabs forming the opposite angle, cut-away edges on
the slabs forming when placed together joints for the brick work, boles extending
obliquely through the tongues and slabs, and nails extending through the holes into
the backing for securing it in place as and for the purpose specified.
5. The combination with the suitable backing, of composition slabs forming brick
and stone work having tongues along the edges of the slabs and forming one angle
and grooves along the edges of the slabs forming the opposite angle, cut-away edges
on the slabs forming when placed together joints for the brick work and intermediate
longitudinal and cross channels on the slabs forming the intermediate-joints and sub-
dividing the slabs, all the slabs being suitably cemented together at the joints as and
for the purpose specified.
6. As a new article of manufacture, a composition slab for forming brick and
stone work having interlocking projections and recesses on the edges of the slabs as
and for the purpose specified.
Dated the 3rd day of February 1898.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.