An Improved Brick, Tile, or Slab, for Building and other Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1988
Complete Specification Left, 12th July, 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Brick, Tile, or Slab, for Building and other Purposes.
I, GEORGE PANKHURST, Manager of the High Brooms Brick and Tile Works,
Tunbridge Wells, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved Brick, Tile or Slab, for building and other
purposes, and has for its object to construct such articles so as to overcome such
defects as now exist.
In carrying my invention into practice, I construct such Brick, Tile, or Slab of any
suitable material with ribs, raised ledges or projections, thus forming a cavity, or
hollow space underneath.
My improved form of Brick, Tile or Slab can be applied either to walls floors, or
roofs, either inside or out, by any suitable means thus doing away with wall battening
and lathing and at same time providing a perfectly dry, water-proof and fire-proof wall,
roof or floor.
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HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Brick, Tile, or Slab, for Building and other Purposes.
1 GEORGE PANKHURST, Manager of The High Brooms Brick & Tile Works,
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved Brick, Tile or Slab, for Building and other
Purposes, and has for its object to construct such articles so as to overcome such
defects as now exist.
In carrying my invention into practice, I construct such Brick, Tile or Slab of any
suitable material, with ribs, raised ledges or projections, thus forming a cavity or
hollow space underneath the said Brick, Tile or Slab.
My improvements can be applied either to walls, floors or roofs, either inside or out,
in any suitable manner, thus doing away with plugging, wall battening and lathing.
When my improved Brick, Tile or Slab, is applied to floors, the surface of the said
Brick, Tile or Slab can be made smooth, or left rough for the application of fancy
tiling or cementing thereon, or as desirable or convenient, in any case making a
perfectly dry floor, under which a current of pure air passes up the side of the wall
to roof, thereby carrying away the cold, damp, offensive and unhealthy vapours, which
are generally to be found in the basements of buildings.
My improved Brick, Tile or Slab can be applied to walls by means of a galvanized
or other nail, driven through a hole in the said Brick, Tile, or Slab into the joints of
the brickwork, or in any other suitable manner, leaving a plain but rough surface, thus
forming a good key for the plaster, the whole being then the same as an ordinary
hollow wall, possessing the advantages of being perfectly dry, even when the most
porous and common bricks are used, and at the same time being perfectly fire-proof.
My improved Brick, Tile, or Slab may also be fixed in any suitable manner on the
outside of wood buildings, such as small Railway stations, Sheds, Farm buildings and
the like places, forming when cemented over, a perfectly substantial, dry, and draught
proof building, offering greater resistance in case of fire than hitherto.
The floors can if desirable be heated by steam or any other suitable means in any
suitable manner as convenient or desirable.

page_text: And in order that the said invention may be more fully understood, I have shewn
the same in the accompanying drawing, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a section of Paving Brick shown according to my invention, and Fig. 2 a
like section of Paving Tile; these can also be made in the form to suit Wall Battening,
Damp Course Tiling and the like; as above stated.
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The parts marked B. B in the drawing, represent the upper or surface parts of
my improved Brick, Tile, or Slab, made smooth or rough as convenient or desirable.
The parts A. A. are the ribs, or projections, which rest on the floor or wall,
thereby forming cavities or hollows C. C... between the said ribs or projections
B. Band by which means a current of pure air is enabled to traverse beneath
the wall or floor as hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved Brick, Tile or Slab, having ribs, raised ledges or projections on the
under surface, as herein described and shown, and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 12th day of July 1889.
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.