IM- PROVEMENTS IN ANGLE BRICKS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Ebenezer Billings, resident at Boston, in
the County of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, one of the
United States of America, Architect, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN ANGLE BRICKS."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Joseph Ebenezer Billings
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 11th September 1874, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
EBENEZER BILLINGS, resident at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, and
State of Massachusetts, one of the United States of America, Architect,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN ANGLE BRICKS," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent-
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first Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Ebenezer Billings, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing:-
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This Invention relates to improvements on the bricks in common use,
and consists of bricks, as herein-after more fully described, particularly
adapted to building up the angles of walls.
It is well known that when the angle of a wall varies from ninety
degrees (90°) it is necessary, in order to make a good bond and finish, to
cut and grind the angle bricks so that they will fit the angle, or to have
bricks manufactured for each especial case. Both of these operations
are expensive and tedious, but my Invention provides a remedy for
them by substituting bricks so formed that they can be used in the con-
struction of any angle, right, acute, or obtuse, and make a perfect bond
and a perfect finish in either case.
Figure 1 shows a brick A adapted for use with the common form of
bricks. It is shown as employed on an obtuse angle in connection with
the bricks a, a, a, in Figures 6 and 7.
In Figures 8 and 9 the same brick is shown as applied to an acute
angle, in which case the ordinary brick is clipped on the inside, as shown
at a¹.
Figures 2 and 3 represent bricks B and C which are laid together, as
shown in Figures 10 and 11, the brick C in this case taking the place of
the bricks a and a' in the previous Figures.
Figures 4 and 5 represent bricks D and E which are laid together, as
shown in Figures 12 and 13.
I have shown in the Drawings a single brick in cach course, made
with one end in the form of a segment of a circle, and the other end
rectangular. The segmental ends are laid over each other, and the
rectangular ends are laid alternately on one wall and the other. This
gives the finished angle the form of a bead with a quirk or fillet on each
side, one quirk or fillet being formed on the beaded brick, and the other

page_text: I claim as my Invention, as a new article of manufacture, bricks for
angles of walls constructed and operating substantially as described, and
for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty-sixth day of August, Anno Domini, Ono thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four.
In presence of
CHAB. F. SLEEPER.
JOSEPH EBENEZER BILLINGS. (L.S.)