Improvements in and relating to the Plastering of Walls, Ceilings, Partitions, and like parts of Buildings and Places.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1900-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1900
Improvements in and relating to the Plastering of Walls, Ceilings,
Partitions, and like parts of Buildings and Places.
I, JOHN BASSETT, Trading as Bassett's Plaster Company, of Sherbourne Street,
Ladywood, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:- -
This invention is a novel form and method of building up plastered walls,
ceilings, partitions, or their like, which will allow of the work being executed
whilst the actual building of the premises or place is in progress, so that by
the time a building is finished, and ready for the plasterers in the ordinary way,
the plastering is almost completed, which saves considerable time in this age of
speed. Furthermore, this invention obviates the necessity of "lathing" the walls
to be fitted with plaster, renders the same proof against fire, and also makes them
more solid and much stronger; in fact, they are almost unbreakable and in-
capable of being damaged. In carrying the invention into effect the part to be
plastered is fitted with a system of specially constructed slabs made of adamant
plaster or cement, the same being of any suitable size and arranged edge to edge
in the same manner as tiles are placed when being set. These slabs are attached
to their support by nails or similar devices. When the slabs are fixed in position
upon a surface the said surface may be in a finished state, or may be in the con-
dition known in the trade as rendered floated and set."
It will thus be evident that immediately the walls of any building are in any
condition of progress the plasterers can commence to fit the slabs, and can follow
up and keep pace with the raising of the building.
The slabs as aforesaid are made preferably in sizes of 3 feet by 2 feet 3 inches
and of a coarse adamant plaster, and these are constructed and moulded upon and
within a metal foundation, either of hoop iron, or other similar stout material,
but preferably of perforated scrap strip metal. This foundation is preferably of
a skeleton form, and comprehends practically, but not necessarily the full sur-
face area of the slab, and it is moulded within the centre of the slab so as to be
concealed.
This construction of the slabs is an important part of this invention as by it
they are strengthened fourfold and are rendered practically unbreakable. It is
to be understood that after the slab is moulded and set with its foundation, it is
as hard a structure as any properly set body of the same material can be, and
that I reserve the right to mould these slabs in any shape and form, and also
to paint, distemper, or otherwise embellish them."
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W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
11, Burlington Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in and relating to the Plastering of Walls, Ceilings,
Partitions, and like parts of Buildings and Places.
I, JOHN BASSETT, Trading as Bassett's Plaster Company, of Sherbourne Street,
Ladywood, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of this in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly de-
scribed and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention is a novel form and method of building up plaster, or plastered,
walls, ceilings. partitions, or their like, which will allow of the work being
executed whilst the actual building of the premises or place is in progress, so
that by the time a building is finished and ready for the plasterers in the
ordinary way the plastering is, according to this invention, almost completed,
which saves considerable time in this age of speed. Further, this invention
obviates the necessity of lathing the walls to be plastered, renders the same
proof against fire, and also makes them more solid and much stronger than by
the ordinary method, and almost unbreakable and incapable of being damaged.
"
In carrying the invention into effect the part or wall to be plastered is fitted
with a system of specially constructed slabs or blocks of adamant plaster or
cement, the said slabs or blocks being of any suitable size and arranged edge to
edge in the same manner as are tiles when being set, the attachment of the said
slabs to their support being made by nails or similar devices. When the slabs are
fixed in position upon a part or surface the said part or surface may be either in
a finished state or may be in the condition known in the trade as "rendered
floated and set."
The slabs according to this invention are made preferably in sizes of 3 feet
by 2 feet 3 inches and of a coarse adamant plaster, and are constructed and
moulded upon or with a metal foundation or core either of hoop iron or other
similar stout material, but preferably of perforated scrap strip metal. This
metal foundation or core is of a skeleton form, and comprehends practically,
but not necessarily, the full surface area of the slab, and it is moulded within the
centre of the slab so as to be concealed.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings a slab or block constructed according
to this invention, and from a number of which a wall or other part of a build-
ing is plastered, is shown in side and end section in Figs. 1 and 2, the metal
foundation of the said slab being built up of interlaced lengths a, 2, of mild
steel scrap strip. The scrap strip used in this instance is that from which blanks
of side links or plates for cycle drive chain have been cut, as such scrap can be
cheaply bought and readily adapts itself for the purpose, but it is obvious that
any perforated scrap metal may be used.
The lengths a, a, as before defined are put together and attached to form a
rigid open framework, which is subsequently laid in a mould and has an adamant
plaster moulded around it so as to embed it in the said framework and entirely
conceal it, the result after the plaster is set being a hardened slab or block with
an interlaced metal foundation.
In covering a wall or other part of a building, slabs constructed as in Figs. 1
and 2 are simply placed side by side and edge to edge upon the wall's surface and
are attached thereto by nails or other devices.
It will thus be evident that immediately the walls of any building are in any
reasonable condition of progress the plasterers can with the use of this invention
commence their work, and can follow up and keep pace with the progress of the
building.

page_text: It is to be understood that after the slab is moulded with its metal foundation,
as in Figs. 1 and 2, and has set, it is as hard a structure as any properly set body
of the same material can be.
Slabs constructed according to this invention can be made in various sizes and
of any shape, and can be painted, distempered or otherwise embellished prior to
their affixment upon a wall, or subsequent thereto; a wall plastered according
to this invention lending itself to decoration in the same manner as a wall
plastered in the ordinary way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. A slab or block for use in building up plastered walls, ceilings, and the
like, characterized by a metal or other similar openwork foundation and a body
part of coarse adamant plaster or cement, the said foundation being embedded
and moulded within the said body part so as to be entirely covered and surrounded
substantially as described.
Second. Å slab or block for use in building up plastered walls, ceilings, and
the like, consisting of a perforated strip metal openwork foundation and a body
part of coarse adamant plaster or cement, moulded together in combination
substantially as described and set forth.
Third. A slab or block for plastering purposes constructed in the manner
described and set forth in Figs. 1 and 2.
Fourth. Plastering a surface, or building up a plaster surface, by the use of
a system of slabs or blocks arranged and constructed substantially as described
and set forth.
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WP. THOMPSON & Co.,
11, Burlington Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Also at Liverpool, London and Manchester,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.