Improvements in Enamelled or Glazed Bricks and Tiles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Enamelled or Glazed Bricks and Tiles.
I ERNEST BÖнм of 5 Boxworth Grove, Richmond Road, Barnsbury, in the
County of London, Chemical and Experimental Glass Blower, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
With enamelled or glazed bricks and tiles as heretofore made the glaze or
enamel frequently scales off or is chipped or broken away necessitating the
reglazing and refiring of the brick or tile. The object of this invention is to
produce enamelled or glazed bricks or tiles from which the glaze or enamel will
not scale off and which can be reglazed when chipped or broken without the
necessity of refiring.
According to this invention 1 make the brick or tile in two parts, the base or
earthenware part I make in the ordinary way and provide it with a recess or
rebate all round the upper edges or sides. The glazed or enamelled part I make
in the shape of a lid or cover, corrugated or otherwise formed or ornamented if
desired, which fits into the recess or rebate in the earthenware part. When fitted
together the two parts may be secured by cement or other suitable means.
Dated this 26th day of March 1895.
F. W. GOLBY,
36 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Enamelled or Glazed Bricks and Tiles.
I, ERNEST BÖнм of 5, Boxworth Grove, Richmond Road, Barnsbury, in the
County of London, Chemical and Experimental Glass Blower, 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 :-
With enamelled or glazed bricks and tiles as heretofore made the glaze or
enamel frequently scales off or is chipped or broken away necessitating the
reglazing and refiring of the brick or tile. The object of this invention is to
produce enamelled or glazed bricks or tiles from which the glaze or enamel will
not scale off and which can be reglazed when chipped or broken without the
necessity of refiring.
According to this invention I make the brick or tile in two parts, the base or
earthenware part I make in the ordinary way and provide it with a recess or
rebate all round the upper edges or sides. The glazed or enamelled part I
make in the shape of a lid or cover, corrugated or otherwise formed or
ornamented, which fits into the
recess or rebate in the earthenware part.
When fitted together the two parts may be secured by cement or other suitable
means.
The glazed or enamelled lid or cover may be produced by stamping, or pressing,
casting or blowing the plastic material in a mould or by any other well known
method for forming or shaping vitreous materials. If desired it may be corrugated
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page_text: on the front or outside face, for the purpose of producing au increased reflecting
surface, and it is preferably also roughened or corrugated on the inside face and on
the inside of the turned back edges so as to afford an enlarged roughened surface
to which the cement will key and take a firm hold and thus secure the lid or cover
firmly to the earthenware part of the brick or tile.
The outer surface of the glazed or enamelled lid or cover may have a flange
along any or all of its edges, so that when in situ the faces of adjacent bricks or
tiles will touch each other and cover up the mortar, cement, or other pointing of
the earthenware brickwork underneath. These flanges may also be painted and
the paint burnt in in the ordinary way so as to produce an ornamental border or
edge to the brick or tile forming when built up an imitation pointing.
When the lid or cover for the brick or tile is made of clear glass, the inside
surface is preferably painted in any ornamental or other design and the paint burnt
in so that when fitted on the earthenware base of the brick or tile the paint
forming the ornamentation or colouring is not affected by the atmosphere.
Should the glazed lid or cover of a brick or tile become cracked or broken,
it will only be necessary to knock off the lid or cover and substitute another
and secure it with cement; the glazed lids or covers being of course made in
standard sizes.
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 ;-
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(1.) A brick or tile consisting of a recessed or rebated base made of earthen-
ware or like material, and an enamelled or glazed lid or cover fitting said recessed
or rebated base and secured thereto with cement substantially as described and for
the purpose stated.
(2.) A brick or tile having an enamelled or glazed lid or cover secured thereto
by means of cement substantially as described and for the purpose stated.
(3.) A brick or tile having an enamelled or glazed lid or cover with colours
burnt thereinto and secured to the brick or tile by means of cement substantially
as described and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 27th day of January 1896
F. W. GOLBY,
36 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.