IMPROVEMENTS IN STREET PAVING
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Arthur Howard Lillie, of the Junior
United Service Club, Saint James's, in the County of Middlesex,
late of the Indian Army, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STREET PAVING."
Sealed the 27th November 1868, and dated the 2nd June 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Arthur Howard
Lillie at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 2nd June 1868.
I, GEORGE ARTHUR HOWARD LILLIE, of the Junior United Service
Club, Saint James's, in the County of Middlesex, late of the Indian
Army, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STREET PAVING," to be as follows, that is to say:―
This Invention consists of improvements in the method of paving
streets and roads whereby a diminution of cost and noise is effected.
To carry out the Invention, instead of placing the paving stones close
together I place them in lines from three to four or more inches apart,
filling up the intervals with small stones, granite, or other suitable

page_text: material cemented together and consolidated by bituminous or other
cement.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said George Arthur Howard Lillie in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 2nd December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
ARTHUR HOWARD LILLIE, of the Junior United Service Club, Saint
James's, in the County of Middlesex, late of the Indian Army, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said George Arthur Howard Lillie, Her special
licence that I, the said George Arthur Howard Lillie, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Arthur
Howard Lillie, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STREET PAVING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George Arthur Howard Lillie, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Arthur Howard Lillie, do
hereby declare the nature of my said 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 consists of improvements in the method of paving
streets and roads, whereby a diminution of cost and noise is effected.

page_text: To carry out the Invention, instead of placing the lines of granite
blocks (which may be from one to four inches in width) close together
across the line of traffic I place them from one to five inches apart,
filling up the intervals with small stones, broken granite, or other
suitable material cemented together and consolidated by bituminous or
other cement.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I wish it to be understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein laid down; but what I
claim is, the mode or method of paving streets, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Arthur Howard Lillie,
have hereto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight,