AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF BLOCKS OR FRAMES, BY MOULDING
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Lee and Daniel Frederick Beale, both of Brewer
Street Maidstone in the County of Kent for an Invention of AN IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF BLOCKS OR FRAMES, BY A MOULDING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Lee and Daniel
Frederick Beale at the Office of the Cominissioners of Patents on the
20th February 1883.
WILLIAM LEE and DANIEL FREDERICK BEALE both of Brewer Street Maidstone,
in the County of Kent "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF
BLOCKS OR FRAMES BY A MOULDING PROCESS SUITABLE FOR WALLS AND BUILDING
STRUCTURES GENERALLY"
The object of this Invention is to construct or arrange right angled or other
shaped blocks or frames with top and bottom grooves that they when fitted above
or alongside each other become bonded and held firmly in position by the aid of
a cement or other plastic body. The blocks or frames are moulded preferably
under pressure in any material such as concrete, cement or like body or a mixture
or compound according to the uses for which the blocks are intended.
The walls or structures made by our blocks are preferably hollow but the spaces
between the front back, side or surfaces may be filled in for greater solidity or
some of said hollows may be left where desired for ventilation or other purposes
Our blocks or frames may be of any dimensions and so shaped or formed at the
edges or on the exposed surfaces as to give the appearance of brick, string, rustic
and other courses either plain or ornamental.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Lee and Daniel Frederick Beale in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 20th August 1883.
WILLIAM LEE and DANIEL FREDERICK BEALE both of Brewer Street Maidstone
in the county of Kent AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF BLOCKS
FRAMES BY A. MOULDING PROCESS SUITABLE FOR WALLS AND BUILDING
OR
STRUCTURES GENERALLY
The object of this invention is to construct or arrange right angled or other
shaped blocks or frames with top and bottom grooves that they when fitted above
or alongside each other become bonded and held firmly in position by the aid of a
cement or other plastic body. The blocks or frames are moulded preferably under
pressure in any material such as concrete, cement or like body or a mixture or
compound according to the uses for which the blocks are intended.
The walls or structures made by our blocks are preferably hollow but the spaces
between the front, back, side or surfaces may be filled in for greater solidity or
some of said hollows may be left where desired for ventilation or other purposes.
Our blocks or frames may be of any dimensions and so shaped or formed at the
edges or on the exposed surfaces as to give the appearance of brick, string, rustic
and other courses either plain or ornamental.
Our particular construction form or shape of block is clearly represented at
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings composed of a moulded body in cement or plastic
material having one side A. longer than the other B and at right angles to enable
them to be arranged in alternate order for outside and inside surfacing as at
Figure 2
Each block A B has a groove or channel C in its top and bottom edges corre-
sponding in distance from the front to enable the channel of one block to meet the
channel of the next block for amalgamation of the mortar or other binding agent
in erecting a wall or other structure said mortar or agent filling the groove or
channel of both the lower and the upper blocks.
In the elevation Figure 3 we show the exterior of a wall with a regular or usual
brick course composed of our blocks but the exterior appearance will depend very
much upon the length of the side A and the thickness of the wall by the length
of the side B.
Walls built of our improved blocks are hollow but the hollow or vertical recesses
or some of them only may be filled in with loose wet material such as concrete as
desired..
Having now described the nature of our said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed We declare that We claim.
The construction of building blocks having two sides at right angles to each
other the top and bottom ends or surfaces having grooves or channels shown in the
annexed drawings as and for the purpose or purposes set forth.
In witness whereof we the said William Lee and Daniel Frederick Beale
have hereunto set our hands and seals this twentieth day of August in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty three.