Improvements in House Building.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1>90
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sent., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct.. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in House Building.
J. ROBERT MCALPINE, of Garscadden House, in the County of Dumbarton,
North Britain, Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of the invention is to form a granolithic face on a wall built of
rubble, brick, or any other rough material, or concrete. In carrying out this
invention I first build up the wall of any rough material, put in the window frames
and door frames, and then form a casing on the outside of the wall and the space
between this facing and the wall 1 pour liquid granolithic which seals up the rough
building and leaves a perfectly smooth face on the outside. The casing may be
shaped so as to produce any ornamental work on the outside.
Dated this 20th day of November 1890.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in House Building.
I, ROBERT MCALPINE, of Garscadden House, Bearsden, in the County of
Dumbarton, North Britain, 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 house building, and has for its object
to facilitate the construction and lessen the cost of such buildings, as well as to make
them damp-proof and vermin-proof.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I have hereunto appended one explanatory sheet of drawings, of which
Figure 1 shows a section of a wall constructed according to my improvements.
Figure 2 is a front elevation of a chimney complete.
Figure 3 is a section taken through the line a b Figure 2.
In carrying my invention into practice I erect a wooden framing or mould A to
suit the dimensions of the wall B of the house requiring to be built. I then set in
between the two sides of the framing A pieces of stone C, brick, rubble, slag, or
any other rough material, after which 1 pour in liquid granolithic front D which is
composed of Portland cement, crushed granite and oxide of iron, filling up the
interstices so that after it becomes set the whole forms a homogeneous wall of great
hardness and strength, and with a perfectly smooth surface. The framing is after-
wards removed. Of course in setting in the stones C, brick, rubble or other rough
material, care must be taken not to allow any of the edges to project out as far as
the wooden casing A, but to keep them in a little, so as to allow the liquid
granolithic D to interpose between the rough material C and framing A to form a
smooth surface.
The casing may be shaped so as to produce any ornamental work on the
outside.
The chimney E is constructed in a similar manner to that of the walls of the
house.

page_text: 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 :-
Constructing the walls of dwelling houses or other buildings substantially as and
for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn on the accompanying drawings. 5
Dated this 18th day of September 1891.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.