Improvements in Bricks.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1893-Accepted, 12th Aug., 1899
Improvements in Bricks.
NEHEMIAH JAMES LEWIS, 20, Station Road, Great Harwood, Builder,
CARACTACUS LEWIS, 48, Palmer Street, Blackburn, Builder, HENRY DENT, 2,
Railway View, Great Harwood, Brickmaker, do hereby declare the nature of
This invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists in the formation of indents, on the side or sides, and
the end or ends, forming the face or faces of building bricks.
These indents are designed to form keys for the better holding of plaster or
cement in position on the face of a brick wall, and also for the better bonding
together of bricks in the same course, or same horizontal plane, by means of the
mortar or cement filling up the indents formed in the side or sides of the
improved brick, thereby tieing and bonding the whole together.
The horizontal section or plan of the indents, may be either dovetailed, square
oblong, circular, or any other suitable shape that may be desired
The length of these indents can be either the full depth of the brick, or a
portion only of the depth of the brick, as may be desired-and any suitable number
of indents may be formed on the side or sides of a brick.
Dated this Eighth day of March 1899.
NEHEMIAH JAMES LEWIS,
CARACTACUS LEWIS,
HENRY DENT.
Improvements in Bricks.
We, NEHEMIAH JAMES LEWIS, of 20, Station Road, Great Harwood, Builder,
CARACTACUS LEWIS, of 48, Palmer Street, Blackburn, Builder, and HENRY
DENT, of 2, Railway View, Great Harwood, Brickmaker, 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 consists in the formation of indents on the side, or sides,
and the end, or ends forming the meeting face or faces of building bricks.
These indents are designed principally for the better bonding together of
bricks in the same course, or the same horizontal plane by means of the mortar
or cement or other suitable substance filling up the indents formed in the side
or sides and end or ends of the improved brick thereby ticing and bonding the
whole firmly together. We also sometimes make indents in the outer faces of
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page_text: the bricks which are designed for the better holding of plaster or cement on
the face of a brick wall.
Fig. 1 on the annexed drawing is a plan view, and Fig. 2 and 24 side views
and Fig. 3 an end view of an improved building brick made according to our
invention.
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Fig. 4 is a ground plan showing how the improved bricks may be bonded
together but they may also be bonded in any other suitable manner.
The indents a are preferably made vertically as shown but in some cases
they may be made horizontally.
The transverse section or plan of the indents may be either dovetailed as shown,
square, oblong, semi-circular, or of other suitable shape as may be desired.
The length of these indents can be either the full depth of the brick as
shown at Figs. 2 and 3, or a portion only of the depth of the brick as preferred,
and if required one end and face of some of the bricks may be left plain without
any indents as shown so as to leave a plain surface of the wall either inside or
outside, cr both as may be desired, but one or both sides of the wall may be
indented also if required so as to hold the plaster, as shown at a Fig. 2
Any suitable number of indents also may be made on each brick, but for
ordinary purposes we prefer to make two at the side or sides, and one at the end
or ends as the most convenient for bonding together as shown at Fig. 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
The formation of indents on the side or sides, and on the end or ends forming
the vertical faces of building bricks for the better bonding together of bricks
in the same course or horizontal plane, as hereinbefore more particularly described
and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
1000
GEO DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicants, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,