IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE- WAYS AND FOOTWAYS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sir John Scott Lillie, Knight and Companion of the
Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, of 105, Pall Mall, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARRIAGE-
WAYS AND FOOTWAYS."
Sealed the 6th February 1868, and dated the 9th August 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sir John Scott Lillie at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th August 1862.
I, Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE, Knight and Companion of the Most Honorable
Military Order of the Bath, of 105, Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CARRIAGEWAYS AND FOOTWAYS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to construct carriageways and footways in a
manner not hitherto adopted for such purposes. I propose to cover carriage-
ways and footways with india-rubber, gutta percha, asphalted felt, or other
suitable material rendered impervious to water, or with any composition of
two or more such materials; and I propose to cause the same to be studded
with nails, bolts, wooden pegs, or blocks when the carriageway or footway is
required for heavy traffic.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Sir John Scott Lillie in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th February 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Sir JOHN
SCOTT LILLIE, Knight and Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order
of the Bath, of 105, Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Sir John Scott Lillie, Her special licence that I, the said Sir John Scott
Lillie, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such other as I, the said
Sir John Scott Lillie, 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
CARRIAGEWAYS AND FOOTWAYS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Sir John Scott Lillie, 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 Sir John Scott Lillie, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
These improvements consist in the construction of carriageways or footways
with gutta percha, asphalte, asphalted felt, wood, or other suitable material
or combination of such materials rendered impervious to water by a solution
of caoutchouc or other solution suitable for that purpose. When such
carriageways are intended for heavy traffic, I cause the same to be studded
with metallic bolts, or with bars of iron, or rows of metallic bolts or studs;
such rows to be placed transversely or at right angles to the line of traffic, at
intervals of not less than three inches apart.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark, in conclusion, that I do

page_text: not limit myself to the exact details described, as the same be varied or
modified without in any way departing from the principle of the Invention;
but what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein in part recited
Letters Patent, are, the "Improvements in Carriageways and Footways,"
5 substantially as herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sir John Scott Lillie, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
0 Witness,
R. S. BUNSTON,
Fore Street, Chard,
Somerset.
J. S. LILLIE. (LS.)