An Improved Composition for Roads, Pavements, and Floors.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1895-Accepted, 6th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for Roads, Pavements, and Floors.
I GRAHAM SARJEANT CORY, Manufacturer, of Port Tennant Chemical
Company's Works, Swansea in the County of Glamorgau, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The chief object of the present invention is to provide a non-slipping durable
pavement for streets and roads; the paving is, however, also suitable for floors.
In carrying out my invention, I incorporate with the plastic material, such as
asphalte, asphaltum, or cement, which, together with added gravel, sand, stone
chips, clinker, and such-like material, forms, when set, the body of the pavement a
quantity of waste india rubber or gutta percha.
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The mixture produced by incorporating these materials makes a slightly elastic,
non-slipping pavement..
For pavements for heavy traffic, three per cent. or more of the above materials is
found to answer satisfactorily.
For floors or places where there is less traffic, a larger percentage, say, six or
more per cent. of the before described material, may be employed.
In preparing the pavement for use the waste india rubber and gutta percha is
cut into small or very small pieces, and mixed with the asphalte or cement while
the latter is in a plastic condition, any suitable mixing apparatus being employed.
The mixture, with or without the addition of gravel or other substance above
indicated, may be spread on the roadway or floor, and allowed to set, to form a
pavement; or the mixture may be moulded into blocks or slabs, which, when hard,
can be laid like ordinary stone or wood pavements.
Or I may mix the india rubber or gutta percha cut in pieces to the size required,
and in the quantities above mentioned, with saw-dust or other waste fibrous
material, and press the whole into hard blocks by the addition of rosin or other
suitable agglomerating substance.
Dated this 25th day of September 1894.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Composition for Roaus, Favements, a
I GRAHAM SARJEANT CORY, Manufacturer, of Port Tennant Chemical
Company's Works, Swansea in the County of Glamorgan, 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 :-
The object of the present invention is to provide a non-slipping durable pavement
for streets and roads; the paving is, however, also suitable for floors.
In carrying out my invention, I incorporate with the material, such as asphalte,
asphaltum, or cement, which, together with added gravel, sand, stone chips,
clinker, and such like material, forms, when set, the body of the pavement, a
quantity of waste india rubber or gutta percha.

page_text: The mixture produced by incorporating these materials makes a slightly elastic
non-slipping pavement.
For pavements for heavy traffic, about three per cent. of india rubber or guita
percha is found to answer satisfactorily.
For floors or places where there is less traffic, a larger percentage, say, six or
more per cent. of the before mentioned elastic material, may be employed.
In preparing the composition for use, the waste india rubber and gutta percha is
cut into small or very small pieces, and mixed with the asphalte or cement while
the latter is in a plastic or soft condition, any suitable mixing apparatus being
employed.
The mixture, with or without the addition of gravel or other substance above
indicated, may be spread on the roadway or floor, and allowed to set, to form a
pavement, or the mixture may be moulded into blocks or slabs, which, when hard,
can be laid like ordinary stone or wood pavements.
Or I may mix the india rubber or gutta percha cut in pieces to the size required,
and in the quantities above mentioned, with saw dust or other waste fibrous
material, and press the whole into hard blocks, by the addition of any suitable
agglomerating substance.
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 :-
The improved paving composition hereinbefore described, consisting of asphalte,
asphaltum, or cement, with or without added gravel, sand, stone chips, and such-
like material, and a small percentage of india rubber or gutta percha, or both, in a
divided state, such rubber or gutta percha being incorporated with the other
substance or substances in any suitable machine, while the latter are in a plastic
or soft state, substantially as set forth.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.