IMPROVEMENTS IN PAVEMENTS PARTLY APPLICABLE TO RAILWAYS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Rowland Mason Ordish, of Middle Scotland Yard, in the
City of Westminster, Civil Engineer, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN
PAVEMENTS PARTLY APPLICABLE TO RAILWAYS
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Rowland Mason Ordish at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd March 1883.
ROWLAND MASON ORDISH, of Middle Scotland Yard, in the City of Westminster,
Civil Engineer,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PAVEMENTS PARTLY APPLICABLE TO
RAILWAYS,"
The improvements relate to forming blocks or slabs of pavement of convenient
sizes by combining molten iron or steel with granite or other natural stones,
clinkers, bricks, terra-cotta or artificial stones (usually employed for forming
pavements or roadways) of any required or convenient sizes and shapes in such a
manner that the materials are grouted (so to speak) and supported or held together
in or by the cast metal-also by combining molten iron or steel with granite or
other stone slabs or blocks of any required sizes by forming grooves or holes in
the stones and filling the said grooves or holes with molten iron or steel. In some
cases such as for Street Railways or Tramways I make preparations in the blocks
or slabs for supporting and fixing the rails in such a manner that the blocks or
slabs form or take the place of sleepers usually employed in the formation of
railways or tramways, such improved blocks slabs or sleepers also forming a portion
of the pavement or roadway-I contemplate in some cases the use of a travelling
furnace with the necessary appliances for melting the metal so as to form the
improved blocks slabs or sleepers in situ or for connecting together the blocks
slabs and sleepers or so as to form large surfaces of pavement or roadway by
placing the said roadway materials as required and pouring in and about the same
the molten metal in situ.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Rowland Mason Ordish in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd September 1883.
ROWLAND MASON ORDISH, of Middle Scotland Yard, in.the City of Westminster,
Civil Engineer, IMPROVEMENTS IN PAVEMENTS PARTLY APPLICABLE TO RAILWAYS,
The improvements relate to forming blocks or slabs of pavement of convenient
sizes by combining molten iron or steel with granite or other natural stones, iron
slag, clinkers, bricks, terra-cotta or artificial stones of any required or convenient
sizes and shapes in such a manner that the materials are grouted (so to speak) and
supported or held together in or by the cast metal-also the improvements embrace
the combining molten iron or steel with granite or other stone slabs or blocks of
any required sizes by forming grooves or holes in the stones and filling the said
grooves or holes with molten iron or steel.
I contemplate in some cases the use of a travelling furnace with the necessary
appliances for melting the metal so as to form the improved blocks slabs or sleepers
in sitú or for casting or connecting together the blocks or slabs so as. to form large
surfaces of pavement or roadway by placing the said roadway materials as
required and pouring in and about the same the molten metal in situ.
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In witness whereof I the said Rowland Mason Ordish have hereunto set my
hand and seal this 21st day of September A.D. 1883.
RM ORDISH (L.S.)