Year: 1888

page_text: We, HENRY THOMAS HOLLOWAY, and HENRY HOLLOWAY (trading as Holloway
Brothers), Builders and Contractors, of Victoria Works, Queens Road, Battersea, in
the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention relates to improvements in block floors or pavements whereby they
may be immovably laid or interlocked without the aid of tie or fastening of any kind,
by the combination of particular forms of slabs or blocks of concrete, cement, stone,
wood, burnt clay, or other suitable material.
We propose to use a block having two of its sides splayed or tapered one way and
the two other sides the reverse way.
In laying a floor or pavement with this block, we place one block or slab with the
splayed edge in juxtaposition with the reversed splay of the adjacent block, the two
splays which come in contact exactly fitting each other in such way that the blocks
lock together and become immovable. To. remedy a consequent inverted pyramidical
hole that would occur at the angles of these blocks, we propose to use in combination
therewith blocks having all their sides splayed in the same way; if these blocks are
laid with their small face upwards, the other blocks being around them, no one block
of the whole pavement can be lifted, nor (except the filling block) can be pushed
down without disturbing the surrounding blocks.
In the use of these blocks for fire proof floors the filling block would be reversed
and become a key.
We may make the blocks hollow to save weight, vary the forms thereof within the
limit of the shapes giving the immovability desired, and combine these as we may find
most expedient.
Dated this Thintinth day of May 1888
W. E. GEDGE,
Agent for the Applicants.

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We, HENRY THOMAS HOLLOWAY and HENRY HOLLOWAY (trading as Holloway
Brothers), Builders and Contractors, of Victoria Works, Queens Road, Battersea, in
the County of Surrey, 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 improvements in block floors or pavements whereby they
may be immovably laid or interlocked without the aid of tie or fastening of any kind,
by the combination of particulars forms of slabs or blocks of Concrete, Cement, Stone,
Wood, burnt clay, or other suitable material.
We use a block having two of its sides splayed or tapered one way and the two
other sides the reverse way.
On the accompanying sheet of Drawings
Fig. 1. Is a plan illustrating the method-of-laying square blocks or slabs according
to our invention.
Fig. 2. Being a transverse section through the same on line 1. 2.
Fig. 3. Is a cross section through line 3. 4.
Fig. 4. Represents a plan of the above as seen from below; Fig. 4* being a cross
section through the same on line-9-10.-
Fig. 5. Is a plan of an arrangement in which the slabs or blocks are-of-an-oblong
or brick shape.
Fig. 6. Being a transverse section through the same on line 5. 6.
Fig. 7. Is a section through line 7. 8.
A. being the slab or block.
B B. are the splayed or bevelled sides extending outwardly.
C. C. are the opposite sides splayed or bevelled in an inward direction.
D is an inverted pyramidical plug or key.
In laying a floor or pavement with this block as at Figs. 1. to 5 inclusive, we place
one block or slab A with the splayed edge B in juxta-position with the reversed
splay C of the adjacent block, the two splays which come in contact exactly fitting
each other in such way that the blocks lock together and become immovable. The
small holes left between the blocks on the underside (see Fig. 4) will fill up with
cement when laid as a floor or pavement.
In laying Floors as at Figures 5, 6 and 7 an inverted pyramidical hole occurs at
the angles of these blocks, which we fill with blocks D having all their sides splayed
in the same way; these blocks being laid with their small face upwards and the other
blocks being around them, as shown, no one block of the whole pavement can be
lifted, nor (except the filling block D) can be pushed down without disturbing the
surrounding blocks.
In the use of our splayed blocks for fire proof floors the filling block D would be
reversed and become a key.

page_text: In forming a square block we firstly make a slightly oblong block which we
transform into a square by cutting a bevel in two opposite sides; the bevelling of the
two other sides being undercut or formed from beneath the square shape of the block
is unaffected thereby-We may also make these blocks in two or more pieces, the end
pieces locking with the adjoining blocks on three sides and the middle pieces by their
two ends only.
We may make the blocks hollow to save weight, vary the forms thereof within the
limit of the shapes giving the immovability desired, and combine these as we may find
most expedient.
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. A block floor or pavement formed of blocks each block having two sides splayed
or tapered in one way and the two others in the reverse way these blocks being laid
with the splayed edges of one block in juxta-position with the reversed splay of the
adjacent block, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated Figures 1. 23
and 4 of the Drawing.
2. In a pavement or floor formed of blocks splayed as set forth in claim one and
laid as herein before described with reference to Figures 5. 6. and 7, the application of
the filling block D, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. In fire proof floors formed of blocks having splayed edges and laid as herein-
before described, the combination therewith of filling blocks D reversed and forming
keys substantially as described.
Dated this Twenty eighth day of February 1889: