CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OR FORMATION OF ARCHES AND OTHER ERECTIONS AND BUILDINGS, WHICH, IN RESPECT TO THE PATRON OF THE SAID INVENTION, TREY DENOMINATE MOORE'S MODERN ARCHI- TECTURE
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JASPER
AUGUSTUS KELLY, of Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
and ROBERT VAZIE, of Highgate, in the said County of Middlesex, Engineer
and Architect, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom,
bearing date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of January, in the fifty-
second year of IIis reign, give and grant unto us, the said Jasper Augustus
Kelly and Robert Vazie, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said Jasper Augustus
Kelly and Robert Vazie, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and
lawfully might, during the term of years therein mentioned, make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, our Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OR
FORMATION OF ARCHES AND OTHER ERECTIONS AND BUILDINGS, WHICH, IN RESPECT TO
THE PATRON OF THE SAID INVENTION, TREY DENOMINATE MOORE'S MODERN ARCHI-
TECTURE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if
we, the said Jasper Augustus Kelly and Robert Vazie, or one of us, shall not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of
us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next, and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Jasper Augustus Kelly and Robert Vazie, do hereby declare that the nature
of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
we describe and delineate by the following distinct processes, and by the
Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say :—
1st. In forming the first horizontal course of bricks in the foundation of
a wall of the breadth of fourteen inches or upwards there is placed in the
inside thereof an hard brick in a vertical or perpendicular position, with its edge
toward the front or end of the wall at the distance of four and an half inches
from the left-hand end of the same; there are also placed vertical bricks at
the distance of six feet from the centre of each other in succession throughout
the whole length of the wall. In forming the second course there is placed
in succession a vertical brick at the distance of two feet from the centre
thereof to the centre of the vertical brick built in the first course. In forming
the third there is placed a like vertical brick at the like distance of two feet
from the vertical brick built in the second course; and in forming the fourth
course there is placed a like vertical brick immediately above each vertical
brick situate in the first course; and against the side of each of these columns
as they ascend there is placed other vertical bricks, the middle of one brick
being opposite to the end of the other. This process is continued to the top of
the wall, as in the annexed Drawing No. 1.
Or this improvement may be obtained in the following manner, videlicet:-
2d. In forming the first horizontal course of bricks in the foundation of a
wall of the breadth of fourteen inches or upwards, there is placed in the
inside thereof an hard brick in a vertical position, with its edge toward the
front or end of the wall at the distance of four and an half inches from the
left-hand end of the same; there are also placed in succession vertical bricks
at the distance of three feet from the centre of each other throughout the
whole length of the wall. In forming the second course there is placed in
succession a like vertical brick on the right-hand side of the vertical bricks
built in the first course. A vertical brick continues to be placed in like

page_text: manner each course, until the wall is raised ten courses, when the vertical
bricks begin to be placed on the left of the former, and continue for ten courses:
more, and so to the right and left, in succession, until the wall is raised to its
due heighth, as per the annexed Drawing No. 2. In building a wall up a
bill, the column of vertical bricks continue pointing in one direction up the
hill, without changing the course to the right and left.
Or this improvement may be obtained by the method following, videlicet :—
3d. In forming the first horizontal course of bricks in the foundation of a
wall of the breadth of fourteen inches or upwards, there is placed in the inside
thereof an hard brick in a vertical position, with its edge toward the front or
end of the wall, at the distance of four and an half inches from the end of the
same. There are also placed like vertical bricks at the distance of six feet
from the centre of each other in succession throughout the whole length of the
wall. In forming the second course there is placed a like vertical brick in
succession on the right-hand side at the distance of eighteen inches from the
centre thereof to the centre of the vertical brick built in the first course. In
forming the third course there is placed a like vertical brick in succession at
the like distance of eighteen inches from the vertical brick built in the second
course. In forming the fourth course there is placed in succession a like ver-
tical brick at the like distance of eighteen inches from the vertical brick built in
the third course; and in forming the fifth course there is placed in succession
a like vertical brick above each of the vertical bricks situate in the first course,
being seperate therefrom by one horizontal course of bricks; and against the
side of each of these divided columns as they ascend there is placed other
vertical bricks which unite the columns, as is delineated by the annexed
Drawing No. 8. Double calcined bricks are advantageously applied as
vertical bricks, particularly in the cases No. 1 and No. 3.
The horizontal courses may be formed in any usual bond or method, due
care being taken that the vertical bricks or other hard substance are firmly
fixed with mortar or cement, as the case may be. It is here necessary to
explain, that altho' the distance between the vertical bricks are expressly
stated above, yet various deviations or alterations may be made therein, and
also in the figure or inclination of the vertical bricks, as circumstances may
appear to require; and that in proportion to the addition or reduction of
the pressure the distance between the vertical bricks may be decreased or
increased, which latter may be extended to forming each column of a single
row of vertical bricks, or even to the application of the like vertical bricks
apart from cach other.

page_text: Inrolled the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One 1
thousand eight hundred and twelve.