Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 4th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895
We GRAHAM SARJEANT CORY, Manufacturer, and JAMES ROBERT CASBAY
Tar Distiller, both of Swansea in the County of Glamorgan, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of the present invention is to provide a non-slipping durable paving
for streets and roads.
In carrying out our invention, we incorporate with the plastic material, such as
asphalte, asphaltum, or cement, which forms, when set, the body of the pavement, a
quantity of waste fibrous materials, such as wood chips, shavings, blocks of odd or
irregular shape, sawdust, bark, or cork refuse.
This fibrous material not only makes the pavement slightly elastic, but gives it
an unequally wearing surface, as the fibrous material is softer than the asphalt or
cement and stone or gravel, slag or clinker, which may be incorporated therewith.
Thus, a non-slipping surface is assured. The composition of the pavement,
however, is such, that the unequal wearing of the materials will not cause large
depressions or holes to appear, for the hard materials will protect the softer, when
the latter have worn to a slight extent, and prevent further wear until the harder
materials themselves have become somewhat worn.
Dated this 5th day of April 1894.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.
We GRAHAM SARJEANT CORY, Manufacturer, and JAMES ROBERT CASBAY,
Tar Distiller, both of 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 :-
Our invention consists in an improved composition for paving streets and roads,
which is both durable and non-slippery.
For this purpose, with the usual plastic material, asphalt, asphaltum, or cement,
or similar material, which, when it sets, forms the body of the pavement, we
incorporate a quantity of waste fibrous materials, such as wood chips, shavings,
small blocks of wood of regular or irregular shape, sawdust, bark, or cork refuse.
The composition may then be used in the ordinary way by spreading and rolling
or compressing into blocks, or it may first be mixed with stone or gravel, or slag or
cinder, or similar materials.
The fibrous material not only renders the pavement slightly elastic, but being
softer than the asphalt, asphaltum, or cement, and softer than the stone, gravel,
slag or cinder, if such be present, produces an unequally wearing surface. The
inequalities produced are, however, comparatively fine grained, thus rendering the
pavement non-slippery, but are not in the nature of large holes or depressions, for
the hard materials will protect the softer where the latter have worn to a slight
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page_text: extent, and so prevent further wear, until the harder materials have themselves
become somewhat worn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we hereby declare that
we do not claim the general use of asphalt, asphaltum, or cement, or similar
materials, either with or without stone, gravel, slag, cinder, or similar materials,
nor the method of making such or any materials into a pavement by spreading or
rolling or compressing into blocks, but what we do claim is :-
In paving roads and streets, the use of a composition consisting of asphalt,
asphaltum, or cement, or similar material, either with or without stone, gravel, slag,
cinder, or similar material, together with a quantity of waste fibrous materials, such
as small blocks of wood of regular or irregular shape, wood chips, shavings,
sawdust, bark, or cork refuse, substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 4th day of January 1895.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.