An Improved Composition or Concrete Pavement, applicable for Sporting Tracks, Footpaths, Garden Walks, and like purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1895-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition or Concrete Pavement, applicable for
Sporting Tracks, Footpaths, Garden Walks, and like purposes.
I, JOHN OWEN MCQUONE of 73 Trafalgar Square, Scarborough, Landscape
Gardener and Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention has reference to an improved composition or concrete pavement
applicable for sporting tracks, footpaths garden walks and like purposes.
The object of this invention is to construct a pavement which shall possess a
certain degree of resiliency or elasticity so as to give or yield to the weight or
load passing over it and to regain its normal smooth appearance after the weight
or load is removed.
A pavement composed of the concrete or composition hereinafter mentioned is
specially applicable to cycling purposes on account of its elastic properties and
also because of the decreased tendency of cycles to side slip thereon.
The composition or concrete consists of red shale, ashes, (engine ashes and blue
ashes from chemical works being preferred) flue dust, gravel or granite chips, blue
lias lime, (ground) in suitable proportions, and mixed together with water in the
same well known manner as other concretes are mixed.
To form a track or pavement the above composition is laid by preference over
a bed or foundation of stone, brick ends and the like and smoothed over in the
usual way.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Composition or Concrete Pavement, applicable for
Sporting Tracks, Footpaths, Garden Walks, and like purposes.
I, JOHN OWEN MCQUONE of 73 Trafalgar Square, Scarborough, Landscape
Gardener 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 ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has reference to an improved composition or concrete pavement
applicable for sporting tracks, footpaths, garden walks and like purposes.
The object of this invention is to construct a pavement which shall possess a
certain degree of resiliency or elasticity so as to yield to the weight or load passing
over it and regain its normal smooth appearance after the weight or load is
removed.
A pavement composed of the concrete or composition hereinafter specified is
specially applicable to cycling purposes on account of its elastic properties and
also because of the decreased tendency of cycles to side-slip thereon.

page_text: The concrete or composition of which the pavement is composed consists of red
shale, ashes, (engine ashes and blue ashes from chemical works being preferable)
flue dust, gravel or granite chips, ground blue lias lime, in equal proportions or
thereabouts and mixed together with water in the same well known manner as other
concretes are mixed.
The composition as specified has been tried and found to possess the resiliency
desired, but such composition may be varied under certain conditions according to
locality without in any way altering the result.
To form a track or pavement the composition is laid over a bed or foundation of
stone, brick ends and the like and smoothed over in the usual way.
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 ;-
A pavement for sporting tracks, footpaths, garden walks and like purposes,
constructed of the materials and in the manner substantially as described.
DL: NOLL
+100K
JOHN OWEN MCQUONE.
W. P. Thompson & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
JOHN OWEN MCQUONE.
W. P. Thompson & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.