AN. IMPROVED METHOD OF INCORPORATING METAL AND CEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TANKS, BOXES, VASES, OR POTS FOR HORTICULTURAL AND OTHER PURPOSES, WATER AND OTHER PIPES AND CONDUITS, ARTIFICIAL PONDS, RESERVOIRS, BASINS, AND RIVULETS, EMBANKMENTS OF WATERCOURSES, AND ANALOGOUS WORKS
Year: 1870

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th July 1870. A communication from abroad by Joseph Monier,
of No. 21, Boulevard du Prince Eugène, Paris, France.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of
No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN.
IMPROVED METHOD OF INCORPORATING METAL AND CEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
TANKS, BOXES, VASES, OR POTS FOR HORTICULTURAL AND OTHER PURPOSES, WATER
AND OTHER PIPES AND CONDUITS, ARTIFICIAL PONDS, RESERVOIRS, BASINS, AND
RIVULETS, EMBANKMENTS OF WATERCOURSES, AND ANALOGOUS WORKS," a com-
munication to me from abroad by Joseph, Monier, of No. 21, Boulevard
du Prince Eugène, Paris, France, to be as follows:-
ה
Tanks, vases, and other articles or works constructed according to this
Invention may be of any size & shape, round, square, oval, long, or
broad, with shifting or fixed pieces or panels, and be built up on the spot
or portable as may be desired.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Sheet of Drawing represents a reservoir
or square tank; Figure 2, an oval basin; Figure 3, a circular tank;

page_text: Figure 4, a bath; Figure 5, an artificial lake or reservoir, the shape of
which may vary; Figure 6, pipes which may be made of any dimensions ;
Figure 7, square box for plants; Figures 8 and 9, round vases or flower
pots of different sizes.
To construct, manufacture, or establish the above enumerated objects
or any other analogous works based upon the incorporation of iron and
cement, the Inventor first makes frames of round or square bar iron and
iron wire, forming lattice work as shown, Figures 3 and 5, and then
covers them with cement; in short, the iron is the skeleton and the
cement its covering. The coating may be effected with Portland or any
kind of cement, and even with hydraulic lime, its thickness being
regulated by the size of the object and other considerations.
Vats or reservoirs constructed on this system will advantageously
replace wooden ones, and vases thus made will be found preferable to
those made of zinc, stone, or other material in use in gardens and parks,
and while much stronger will be less costly.
Flower boxes or pots made on this system are specially adapted for
vegetation and the developement of plants, the cement always preserving
a suitable dampness and temperate heat.
Pipes made of this combination offer the great advantage of not
oxydizing, and that the interior is not subject as in cast-iron pipes to
agglomerations of rust and other matters.
I would finally draw attention to the important feature that ponds,
large reservoirs, and artificial rivulets constructed by the means above
described are not injured by frost, heat, or the settlement of the soil,
and that this system may also be applied with great advantage to the
channeling of rivers and streams.