CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PAVING, PITCHING, OR COVERING STREETS, ROADS, AND OTHER WAYS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1837

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
MACNAMARA,, of Hunter Street, Southwark, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His late most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster the Fifteenth day of March, in the seventh year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Macnamara, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said Richard Macnamara, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Macnamara, my exors, adññiors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, aud the Town
of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PAVING,
PITCHING, OR COVERING STREETS, ROADS, AND OTHER WAYS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS
ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that I, the said Richard Macnamara, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said. Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument under my hand and
seal, to be inrolled in His Majesty's said High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Macnamara, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say):
My Invention consists in an improved mode of cutting or forming stone or
other suitable material for paving or covering roads and other ways and places,
such as roofs of buildings or floors; as hereafter described.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents seven stones or other substances, shaped or formed
according to my improvements, and laid together in the proper order. Figure
2 shows two stones or other substances separately, of which Figure 1 is
composed. The paving consists of two forms of stone or other substances,
(that is to say), in preparing stone or other substance for paving a road or for
covering other places, each stone or other substance of one half of the number
is to be cut or formed like those at A, and the other half. like those at B,
hence, the side from a, b, c, of the stone or other substance A will be shaped
to two bevels, one from a to b, which bevels from the top inwards, the other
from 6 to c, which bevels from the top outwards, and the side e, f, g, of the
stone or other substance is also bevelled in two directions, that from e to f
being outwards, and that from f to g being inwards. The stone or substance B
has its two sides bevelled in like manner to the stone A, but in such wise that
where the bevels to A are outwards those to B which come opposite are inwards,
as will readily be understood by an examination of the Drawing; and it will
be further seen that when the stones or substances A, B, are laid together,
they are so combined as to brake joint, and the projecting bevel of one stone A
supports the inward bevel of a stone B, and hence the stones or substance A, B,
support each other, and it should be stated that the stones A and B are plain,
and butt one against the other respectively. Figure 3 shows the section of a
road or way, arranged according to my Invention. It should be stated that
there are to be a number of half stones A or B to fill up at completing the
laying of a road or way, and further the ends of all the stones which come
against the gutter stones should be bevelled inwards, and the gutter stones to
be bevelled to correspond, as is shown in Figure 3. The half stones above
stated are those which are to be last put in their places, and they become the
key-stones of the others; for it will be seen that when a surface is covered in
the manner above described, the stones A B will so support and be supported

page_text: by each other that when the half or key stones are put in, the whole surface
is tied or combined together in such manner that no stone can be removed till
the half or key stones are first taken
up.
Having thus described my Invention, I would remark that in forming the
covering of a floor or for a roof, the surface is to be slightly arched, when the
same will require little under support, provided the outer walls or bearings are
sufficiently strong. I would have it understood that I am aware that bevelled
stones for the paving of roads have been before vsed, though bevelled according
to a different principle, as was described in the Specification of a Patent
granted to me, and bearing date at Westminster the Twentieth day of Novem-
ber, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, but
in such case it was requisite to bevel all four sides of each stone, videlicet, two
sides acute and two sides obtuse, as was fully described in the said Specification,
and that there was no bevelling of the stones at any one side with two opposite
bevels, as is described in respect to the stones or other substances A, B, as
above described. And I would have it understood that what I claim is the
mode herein explained of forming or making the stones or other substances
to the figures shewn at A or B, for the purpose of producing better paving,
pitching, or covering of streets, roads and ways, and other purposes, as above
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Macnamara, have hereunto set
my band and seal, this First day of September, in the first year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
RICHARD (L.S.) MACNAMARA.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of September, in the
year of our Lord 1837, the aforesaid Richard Macnamara came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.