Improvements in or relating to Building-blocks, Tiles, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Building-blocks, Tiles, and the like.
I, CHARLES GREEN, of Wellgate House, Rotherham, in the County of York,
Builder and Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is the construction of a building-block or tile so made
or moulded as to have male and female tips or suitable grooves on one or more of its
sides so that the blocks engage and fit one another when placed in position thus
forming a perfect joint.
Any of the sides can be square or set at any desired angle as may be convenient.
These tiles or blocks can be laid horizontally in the case of flooring, paving, or like
surfaces or vertically in the case of facings for walls or buildings or construction of
any kind to which they can be adapted, so as to form when cemented together a
continuous fireproof or waterproof layer or surface.
The uses of the aforesaid blocks and tiles are numerous and are of great advantage
in public and private buildings or places, for instance, in reservoirs, sewage work,
tunnelling, passages and conduits ainong other constructions.
The blocks are also useful in outside or inside walling, graves or vaults, furnaces or
kilns of all kinds, sanitary work chimneys and pitshafts.
Dated this 17th day of March 1898.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Building-blocks, Tiles, and the like.
I, CHARLES GREEN, of Wellgate House, Rotherham, in the County of York, Builder
and Contractor, 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 invention is the construction of a building-block or tile so made
or moulded as to have male and female lips or suitable grooves on one or more of its
sides so that the blocks engage and fit one another when placed in position thus
forming a perfect joint.
Any of the sides can be square or set at any desired angle as may be convenient.
These tiles or blocks can be laid horizontally in the case of flooring, paving, or like
surfaces or vertically in the case of facings for walls or buildings or construction of
any kind to which they can be adapted, so as to form when cemented or otherwise
fastened together a continuous layer or surface.

page_text: The uses of the aforesaid blocks and tiles are numerous and are of great advantage
in public and private buildings or places, for instance, in reservoirs, sewage work,
tunnelling, passages and conduits among other construction.
The blocks are also useful in outside or inside walling graves or vaults, furnaces or
kilns of all kinds, sanitary work chimneys and pitshafts.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a plan, and
Figure 2 is an end elevation of a tile constructed in accordance with this inven-
tion.
Figure 3 is a plan, and
Figure 4 is an end elevation of several tiles such as shown in Figures 1 and 2
arranged together.
Figure 5 is a plan, and
Figure 6 is an end elevation of another arrangement of the tiles.
Figure 7 is a plan and
Figure 8 is an elevation of a modification.
Figure 9 is a plan, and
Figure 10 is an elevation of another arrangement of the modification.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
A tile A is constructed with projecting lips B B₁ along its edges. The lips are
bevelled as at B2 and the edges of the main part of the tile are undercut as at A¹.
The bevel of the lips and the undercutting of the edges correspond so that when the
tiles are placed edge to edge as shown in Figures 3 and 4, the lips B B₁ of one tile
engage with the undercut edges A¹ of the adjacent tiles so that the tiles interlock
with one another forming in effect an interlocking scarfed joint. Figures 3 to 6
illustrate the manner in which the tiles may be arranged together.
If desired the bevelling of the lips and the undercutting of the edges may be
dispensed with, the edges of the lips and of the tiles being formed square as shown in
Figures 7 to 10. In this case a simple scarfed joint is formed.
It is obvious that the shape of the tiles may vary in accordance with require-
ments.
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
1. A block or tile having at its edges projecting lips such as B B' substantially as
and for the purpose described.
2. A block or tile having undercut edges and lips such as B B¹ with bevelled edges
projecting therefrom substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. The complete tile substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 6
or Figures 7 to 10 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1898.
HARLES
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.