Improved Compound for Paving or Covering Roads, Paths or Floors and for Manufacture of Paving Bricks or Blocks
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1899
Improved Compound for Paving or Covering Roads, Paths or Floors
and for Manufacture of Paving Bricks or Blocks.
We, HAROLD MILLS CLIFFORD, of 31, Charleville Road, West Kensington, W.,
Captain 4th Scottish Rifles, Cameronians, and WILLIAM FREDERICK LOWNDES FRITH,
of 21, St. Mary Axe, London, E.C., Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improvement in compounds for paving composed
of cork and bitumen such as were described in the Specification to Patents Nos.
9436 of 1886 and 8460 of 1892. The said improvement consists in mixing cocoa-
nut fibre, with the cork and bitumen whereby the compound is rendered harder and
more cohering and better able to withstand the action of heat and frictional wear,
than is the compound consisting of cork and bitumen alone.
We have found that an admixture of about 25 per cent. of cocoa-nut fibre to the
cork and bitumen compound gives good results; the proportions may however
be varied considerably.
The compound may either be employed in the form of a sheet or layer laid
upon a suitable foundation, or preferably it is formed into blocks or bricks by
being subjected to pressure in moulds.
Dated this 16th day of March 1898
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improved Compound for Paving or Covering Roads, Paths or Floors,
and for Manufacture of Paving Bricks or Blocks.
We, HAROLD MILLS CLIFFORD, of 31, Charleville Road, West Kensington, W.,
Captain 4th Scottish Rifles, Cameronians, and WILLIAM FREDERICK LOWNDES FRITH,
of 21, St. Mary Axe, London, E.C., Accountant, 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:-
This invention relates to an improvement in compounds for paving composed
of cork and bitumen such as were described in the Specification to Patents Nos:
9436 of 1886 and 8460 of 1892. The said improvement consists in mixing cocoa-
nut fibre with the cork and bitumen whereby the compound is rendered harder and
more cohering and better able to withstand the action of heat and frictional wear,
than is the compound consisting of cork and bitumen alone.

page_text: We have found that an admixture of about 25 per cent. of cocoa-nut fibre to the
cork and bitumen compound gives good results; the proportions may however
be varied considerably.
The, compound may either be employed in the form of a sheet or layer laid
upon a suitable foundation, or preferably it is formed into blocks or bricks by
being subjected to pressure in moulds.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the, nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is 'to be performed, we declare that what we claim
is :
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A compound for paving or covering roads and the like, and for the manufacture
of paving blocks consisting of a mixture of bituminous imaterial, finely divided
cork, and cocoa-nut fibre, substantially as described.
Dated this 9th day of December 1898.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.