An Improved Brick for the Better Binding Together and Strengthening of Buildings.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st June, 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Brick for the Better Binding Together and
Strengthening of Buildings.
HENRY HOLLOWAY Builder & Contractor High Street East Ham Essex do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
:-
My invention consists of forming cavities in suitable parts of the bricks for the
purpose of receiving the nibs of wall tie plates usually laid between the bricks for
strengthening purposes.
of Santambor 1801
HENRY HOLLOWAY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Brick for the Better Binding Together and
Strengthening of Buildings.
I, HENRY HOLLOWAY, of High Street, East Ham, in the County of Essex,
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:-
My invention relates to improvements in and connected with building bricks, and
its object is to adapt them for being bound together in a more efficient and
permanent way than heretofore. It consists in forming slots in or through the
bricks before they are burnt, into which the ends of cramps or ties engage and so
bind the bricks together. These ties may be laid in any direction so as to bind in
the desired direction.
In order that my invention and the means by which it is to be carried into
practical effect may be thoroughly understood, I will describe it and them in detail,
referring in so doing to the accompanying drawing which is to be taken as part of
this Specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is a plan of two walls built with my improved bricks and meeting at a
right angle.
Fig. 2 is a section of a brick taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a cramp or tie.
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of a wall further illustrating my invention.
a, a are the bricks.
b, bare the slots. These are preferably made through the brick, crossing each
other at right angles. The advantage of crossed slots is that they will receive the
ties either longitudinally or transversely according to the direction in which they
are required to bind. There may be as many crossed slots in a brick as
required. Fig. 1 shews the use of bricks with one, two or three slots.
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c, c are the ties or cramps. They are shewn as made of flat strips, e.g., of hoop
iron or steel. Their length is proportioned to the distance between the two slots
which their nibs c¹ are intended to enter.
The slots are filled up, as shewn in Fig. 4, by spreading the mortar for the next
course.
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
1. A building brick having slots formed in it adapted to respectively receive the
nib of cramps or ties.

page_text: 2. A building brick having one or more crossed slots formed in it adapted to
respectively receive the nibs of cramps or ties according to the direction in which
the latter are required to bind.
3. The use of bricks having single or crossed slots in them adapted to receive the
nibs of cramps or ties.
4. Binding the bricks of a wall together, or the adjacent bricks of two meeting
walls together, by means of slots in the bricks and cramps or ties the nibs of which
enter said respective slots.
Dated this 1st day of June 1892.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.