IMPROVEMENTS IN BRICKS SUITABLE FOR BEING USED FOR PAVING STABLES AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Hallen Cottam, of the St. Pancras Iron
Works, Old Saint Pancras Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRICKS SUITABLE FOR BEING USED FOR
PAVING STABLES AND OTHER PLACES."
Sealed the 27th November 1863, and dated 2nd June 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Hallen Cottam at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd June 1863.
I, GEORGE HALLEN COTTAM, of the St. Pancras Iron Works, Old
Saint Pancras Road, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRICKS SUITABLE FOR BEING USED FOR
PAVING STABLES AND OTHER PLACES," to be as follows:-
In making bricks for paving stables and other places, I form the bricks of
an oblong shape as heretofore, but in place of making the bricks deeper than
they are wide, I form them square in transverse section, so that in laying them
either side may be placed uppermost. They can also be made in cube blocks,
to use all sides alike when required for paving stable yards, or at the backs of
stalls; all the edges of the bricks are also bevilled, so that whichever side of
the bricks is placed uppermost there will always be a hollow space between the
upper surfaces of two neighboring bricks; they can also be made without the
bevil edges, so as to form a plain surface..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Hallen Cottam in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 2nd December 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HALLEN COTTAM, of the St. Pancras Iron Works, Old St. Pancras Road, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Hallen Cottam, Her special licence that I, the said George Hallen
Cottam, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said George Hallen Cottam, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BRICKS BUITABLE FOR BEING USED FOR PAVING STABLES AND OTHER PLACES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Hallen Cottam, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, 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 immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Hallen Cottam, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
In making bricks for paving stables and other places, I form the bricks of
an oblong shape as heretofore, but in place of making the bricks deeper than
they are wide, I form them square in transverse section, so that in laying them
either side may be placed uppermost. They can also be made in cube blocks
to use all sides alike when required for paving stable yards, or at the backs of
stalls; all the edges of the bricks are also bevilled, so that whichever side of
the bricks is placed uppermost there will always be a hollow space between the
upper surfaces of two neighboring bricks; they can also be made without the
bevilled edges, so as to form a plain surface

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a brick constructed according to my
Invention; Figure 2 shows one of the sides thereof; and Figure 3 shows one
of the ends thereof; Figure 4 shows a brick according to my Invention, with
all the six sides or faces of the same dimensions; Figures 5, 6, and 7 show
respectively an end view, a plan, and a perspective view of a brick according
to my Invention, where the angles are not removed.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hallen Cottam, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
GEORGE HALLEN COTTAM. (L.S.)