Improvements in or Connected with the Construction of Walls or other Brick Structures.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1889-Accepted, 22nd June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Connected with the Construction of Walls or
other Brick Structures.
I WILLIAM DE MORGAN of 45 Great Marlborough Street Regent Street in the
County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my Invention is to provide a tile faced wall which is constructed with
facility and economy. According to my Invention 1 apply to the face sides or ends
of the bricks of which the wall is to be constructed (that is to say the part of the brick
which is presented outwards in constructing the wall) with a tile or veneer of tile
material which projects all round to about half the space allowed for the mortar
between the joints of the bricks so that when the bricks are placed together the edges
of the tile or veneer portions meet the edges of the tile or veneer portions of the adjacent
bricks or nearly so and form a good joint and an appearance of an even and well
jointed tiled wall. Corners may be made good by special pieces of tile material or
by projections from alternate bricks or by mitering the tile portions together or in any
other convenient way.
1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Connected with the Construction of Walls or
other Brick Structures.
1 WILLIAM DE MORGAN of 45 Great Marlborough Street Regent Street, in the County
of Middlesex 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:-
The object of my Invention is to provide a tile faced wall which is constructed with
facility and economy.
According to my Invention I apply to the face sides or ends of the bricks of which
the wall is to be constructed (that is to say the part of the brick which is presented
outwards in constructing the wall) with a tile or veneer of tile material which projects
preferably all round to about half the space allowed for the mortar between the joints
of the bricks as shewn in end view in Figure 1, plan in Figure 2 and perspective in
Figure 3, (where the brick part is marked A and the tile or veneer part is marked B) so
that when the bricks are placed together as shewn in vertical section in Figure 4 the
edges of the tile or veneer portions meet the edges of the tile or veneer portions of the
adjacent bricks or nearly so and form a good joint and an appearance of an even and
well jointed tiled wall. Corners may be made good by special pieces of tile material
as shewn at D Figure 8 for example or by forming the bricks for the corners with tiles on
two adjacent faces as shewn in Figures 9, 10 and 11 the meeting edges of the tiles
being either simply mitred as in Figure 9, rounded off as in Figure 10 or provided
with a filling piece D as in Figure 11 by mitering the tile portions together or in any
other convenient way.
The bricks are laid so as to bring the edges of the tiles almost in contact, a very
slight separation being left to allow for shrinkage of the wall. The appearance of the
joint is improved when the edges of the tiles are chamfered as shewn at b² in Figure 7
so that each overlaps the one below it, the upper edge being glazed like the tile face.

page_text: The tile or veneer portion may of course extend only on one side and one end of
each brick if desired as shewn at 6 in end view and plan in Figures 5 and 6 in which
case the projecting portions will be of the requisite additional extent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the saine is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. For the construction of walls or other brick structures a combined brick and
tile with extended or projecting portions of the tile parts to meet or nearly meet when
the bricks are put together and cover the mortar substantially as hereinbefore
described and shewn in the accompanying drawings whether the edges be chamfered
or not.
2. A. wall or like brick structure made of bricks and tiles combined substantially as
herein before described and illustrated.
Dated this 11th day of May 1880
WILLIAM DE MORGAN.