Improvements in Paving Bricks.
Year: 1894

page_text: Cate of Application, 23rd May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1894-Accepted, 4th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Paving Bricks.
I JOHN HOWARD Fox of Wellington, Somerset, Bank Inspector, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to paving bricks suitable for stable and other floors which
have channelled or grooved surfaces, the bricks being laid so that the grooves or
channels are continuous, and in same direction.
The ordinary channelled bricks have their grooves extending lengthwise, and
these bricks it is customary, when paving a stall, to lay diagonally, so as to drain
the stall to a central channel in a backward direction.
To lay these longitudinally grooved bricks diagonally in this manner, entails
greater labor than the mere laying of bricks lengthwise, because of the cutting and
fitting of the bricks which is necessary.
The object of the present invention is to get the effect of a diagonally laid floor
without being at the trouble and expense of laying and fitting longitudinally
grooved bricks in a diagonal direction.
To this end I provide the bricks themselves with diagonal grooves, so that when
they are laid lengthwise in the stable, breaking joint in the manner usually adopted
in laying smooth bricks, the diagonal grooves meet, and extend continuously in line
across the stall to the central channel or gutter.
The bricks have the grooves (of which there may be one or more) on both sides,
so as to be reversible.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1894.
NEWTON & SON, -
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Paving Bricks.
I JOHN HOWARD Fox of Wellington, Somerset, Bank Inspector, 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 :-
This invention relates to paving bricks suitable for stable and other floors, which
have channelled or grooved surfaces, the bricks being laid so that the grooves or
channels are continuous, and in the same direction.
The ordinary channelled bricks have their grooves extending lengthwise, and
these bricks it is customary, when paving a stable, to lay diagonally, so as to drain
the stall to a central channel in a backward direction.
To lay these longitudinally grooved bricks diagonally in this manner, entails
greater labor than the mere laying of bricks lengthwise, because of the cutting and
fitting of the bricks which is necessary.
The object of the present invention is to get the effect of a diagonally-laid floor
without being at the trouble and expense of laying and fitting longitudinally-
grooved bricks in a diagonal direction.
To this end I provide the bricks themselves with diagonal grooves, so that when
they are laid lengthwise in the stable, breaking joint in the manner usually adopted

page_text: in laying smooth bricks, the diagonal grooves meet, and extend continuously in line
across the stall to the central channel or gutter.
In the accompanying drawing,―
Figs. 1 and 2 show, respectively, a side and an edge view of a reversible brick
provided with diagonal grooves (both sides being correspondingly grooved for
convenience of laying).
Fig. 3 shews the side of a brick having three diagonal grooves.
Fig. 4 shows a stall of a stable partly paved with bricks according to my present
.invention.
A are the bricks, and a are the grooves, which grooves, when the bricks are
laid together longitudinally in the manner shown in Fig. 4, so as to break joint,
extend continuously and diagonally across the floor to the channel B. This
channel B. as shown in the drawing, lies centrally between two surfaces of
diagonally grooved bricks, and receives the drainage of the stall in a backward
direction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
Providing paving bricks for stable and other floors with diagonal grooves as
.shown and described, for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 26th day of June 1894.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.