IMPROVEMENTS IN BLOCKS FOR BUILDING PURPOSES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sir John Scott Lillie, Companion of the most
Honorable Order of the Bath, of No. 105, Pall Mall, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of." IMPROVEMENTS IN BLOCKS FOR BUILDING
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 19th February 1861, and dated the 23rd August 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sir John Scott Lillie at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents; with his Petition, on
the 23rd August 1860.
I, Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, of No. 105, Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BLOCKS FOR BUILDING
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to manufacture blocks of hard material to be
used for building and such like other purposes in lieu of solid stone blocks or
bricks hitherto used for such purposes.
I propose casting in moulds broken stone, flint, or other hard material
united by bituminous compounds or other cements, and thus formed of such
size and shape as may be required for perpendicular walls, tunnels, common
sewers, or other purposes where solid stone blocks or bricks have hitherto
been used.

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
23rd February 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Sir JOHN
SCOTT LILLIE, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, of
No. 105, Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth 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 Şir John
Scott Lillie, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Sir John Scott Lillie, 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 " IMPROVE
MENTS IN BLOCKS FOR BUILDING PURPOSES," 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 perforined; 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.
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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
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
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The object of this Invention is to manufacture blocks of hard material to be
used for building and such like purposes in lieu of solid stone blocks or bricks
hitherto used for such purposes.
In order 'that my said Invention may be fully understood, I will now
proceed to describe the best means for carrying the same into practical effect
as follows:-
I take stone, flint, broken bricks, clinkers, or other hard material, and unite
the same by bituminous compounds or other cements, cast in moulds of such
form, shape, or size as may be required, being rectangular for perpendicular
walls, and in segments of circles for arches, "sewers, tunnels, &c.

page_text: Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention of
"Improvements in Blocks for Building Purposes," and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I would remark that I do not confine myself to
any particular size, shape, or material in the formation of such blocks; but
what I claim as my Invention intended to be secured to me by the herein in
part recited Letters Patent is the manufacture of blocks for building purposes
by mixing broken stone, bricks, flint, shingles, or other suitable materials, cast
in moulds and united with bituminous compounds or other cements, in the
manner herein described for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sir John Scott Lillie, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE, Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Sqre.,
Charing Cross.
J. S. LILLIE. (L.S.)