An Improved Block, Tile, or Slab for Building and other Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Block, Tile, or Slab for Building and other Purposes.
I GEORGE ALEXANDER WRIGHT of Merton House New Malden in the county of
Surrey Surveyor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to produce a block tile or slab for walls floors pave-
ments streets and other purposes that shall have the advantages of being comparatively
if not entirely noiseless that shall be capable of being easily cleansed that shall have
a non absorbent surface and that can easily and quickly be placed in position and as
easily and quickly be replaced when necessary.
To carry out this object I form a flat block tile or slab of any desired shape and size
and made of burnt olay terra cotta concrete or other suitable substance with
roughened surfaces and I treat the same in and with tar bitumen asphalte or other
waterproofing material. To this block tile or slab I attach on one or both sides a face
of the desired thickness and made of such materials as are used in the manufacture of
linoleum cortioine woodite and the like containing india rubber or the vulcanized
form thereof cork glue gutta percha or similar spongy or elastic materials and it may
be to stiffen and harden the same with a certain desired admixture of metal filings or
slag flint granite or stone in a powdered condition which face while in a plastic state
is pressed on and firmly secured to the surface of the block tile or slab in any con-
venient manner and allowed or caused to harden.
These blocks tiles or slabs so made are placed on the flat surface of the wall floor
pavement street or other place where they are required and are there secured prefer-
ably by dipping the lower or inner faces thereof in melted tar bitumen asphalte or
other suitable substance and then applying the same to this surface which can have
been previously created by a layer of concrete cement brick stone or otherwise.
As a general rule when a number of theso blocks tiles or slabs have been so placed
in juxtaposition to each other the whole surface will be sufficiently tight but when
desired or when necessary I can fill the narrow interstices between each block tile or
slab if any with tar bitumen asphalte or any other suitable material as may be
desired.
Any suitable colours or patterns can be produced on or in the faces of these blocks
tiles or slabs in the usual or other manner.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Block, Tile, or Slab for Building and other Purposes.
I GEORGE ALEXANDER WRIGHT of Merton House New Malden in the county of
Surrey Surveyor 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 this my invention is to produce a block tile or slab for use on and
with walls floors pavements streets roadways and other places or purposes that shall
have the advantage of being comparatively if not entirely noiseless that shall be
capable of being easily cleansed that shall have a non-absorbent surface and that can
easily and quickly be placed in position and there be very firmly securely and rigidly
fixed and as easily and quickly when desired be removed and be replaced when
necessary.
To carry out this object I form a flat block tile or slab of any desired shape and
size and made of burnt clay terra cotta concrete or other suitable material it may be

page_text: for example of metal with roughened or undercut surfnoos and having first if desired
warmed or heated the same I dip this blook tile or slab in or treat the same in and
with india rubber solution mastie marine or other glue tar bitumen asphalte or other
preferably waterproofing substance that will create and leave a sticky surface. To
this block tile or slab I attach on one or both sides a fnce of the desired thickness and
made of such materials as are used in the manufacture of linoloum corticine woodite
and the like containing or comprising india rubber or the vulcanized form thereof
cork glue gutta percha or similar spongy or clastic material and it may be to harden
and stiffen the same with a certain desired admixture of metal filings or slag flint
granite or other stone in a powdered condition which face preferably while in a
plastic state is pressed on or into the surface of the block tile or slab in any con-
venient manner and is allowed or caused to harden thereon whereby the face is very
firmly scoured to the block tile or slab by reason of the roughened or underout surface
thereof and the treatment the same has undergone.
A suitable manner of so securing the face on the block tile or slab consists in
making a mould exactly to fit the block tile or slah which having been made and
treated as hereinbefore described is placed therein when the face is placed above the
same and a plunger actuated by any convenient power forces this face down and
secures the same on the block tile or slab as is desired.
It is advisable that the block tile or slab be perfectly dry and have or contain no
moisture before the face is secured thereon as hereinbefore described and in some
cases or when the blook tile or slab is made of some materials I may find it possible
and preferable to secure the face thereon without the preliminary treatment herein.
before described and the face may be made when desired of india rubber or the
vulcanized form thereof alone without any admixture of other materials.
These blocks tiles or slabs so made and created as hereinbefore described are placed
in juxtaposition or otherwise on the flat surface of the wall floor pavement street
roadway or other place where they are required and are there secured preferably
by dipping the lower or inner faces thereof in or hy treating the same with melted
tar bitumen asphalte or other suitable substance or in any other convenient manner
applying the same to this flat surface which can have been previously created by a
layer of concrete cement brick stone or otherwise.
As a general rule when a number of these blocks tiles or slabs have been so placed
as aforesaid in juxtaposition to each other the whole surface will be sufficiently tight
but when it is desired so to do or when necessary I can fill the narrow interstices if
any between the adjacent blocks tiles or slabs with india rubber solution mastic
marine or other glue or it may be with tar bitumen asphalte or any other suitable
material na may be desired whereby the entire surface will be rendered non absorbent
as is desired.
It is sufficiently obvious that any desirable and suitable colours or patterns can be
produced on or in or by the faces of these blocks tiles or slabs either by creating the
face of the one block tile or slab of pieces of differently coloured materials or by
areating the face of the one block of one colour of another block of another colour
and so on and then placing these blooks in the required order to produce the
pattern.
As is hereinbefore stated the face may be secured not only on the upper or outer
side of the block tile or slab but also if desired on the under or inner side thereof as
well and this arrangement may be desirable in some cases as for example where an
heavy traffic is to be provided for as in streets or roadways or elsewhere.
It is obvious also that the face can he made of any desired thickness from such
thickness as would be necessary for the walls and floors of padded rooms in asylums
or elsewhero to a mero very thin shoot as would suffice in houses whether for tho
walls or for the floors where there is not much traffic and thus in all cases the cost of
these blocks tiles or slabs could be reduced to a minimum consistent with the duty
they are to perform and the face also having regard to the same duty can be made of
the desired material or materials from the softest india rubber to any desired hard
admixture as hereinbefore described.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The improved block tile or slab for building and other purposes substantially as
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