A NEW PAVEMENT OR COVERING FOR OR A METHOD OF PAVING, PITCHING, OR COVERING STREETS, ROADS,
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN JAMES
ALEXANDER MACCARTHY, late of Arlington Street, Piccadilly, in the Parish
of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex, but now of
Saint George's Row, in the Parish of Paddington, in the same County,
Sculptor, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eleventh day of May last, for Himself, His heirs, and successors,
did give and grant unto me, the said John James Alexander Maccarthy,
His special licence, full power, lole privilege, and authority, that I, the said
John James Alexander Maccarthy, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John James
Alexander Maccarthy, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term of years therein unexpired, should and would and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW PAVEMENT OR
COVERING FOR OR A METHOD OF PAVING, PITCHING, OR COVERING STREETS, ROADS,
[Price 8d.1

page_text: my
AND WAYS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said John James Alexander Maccarthy, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature
of said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and
to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John James Alexander Maccarthy, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by the plan or Drawing in the margin of these presents, and the
following description thereof (that is to say) :-'
Streets, roads, or ways may be paved or covered, or the paving, pitching, or
covering of streets, roads, or,ways may be made of or with a plate or plates,
or mass or masses, a piece or pieces, a portion or portions of iron or other
metal or material, formed so as that the same shall present on the superficies
thereof one or more or a series of convex rising or risings or projection or
projections upwards, more or less elevated, and with spaces between and
surrounding each rising or projection upwards, more or less broad as occasion
may require, or as may be suitable to the shape or limits of the street, road,
or way paved or intended to be paved with the new pavement, such plate or
plates, mass or masses, piece or pieces, portion or portions, when laid down
adjoining or contiguous or fitted into each other, are or may be retained and
kept so joined or contiguous or fitted into and with each other by means of
a mortoise or mortoises, a.socket or sockets, a tenon or tenons, projection or
projections, tongue or tongues, as may be deemed expedient. The figures
drawn in the margin of these presents will more particularly explain and
illustrate the general description herein-before given and made.
:
Figure 1*t is intended to represent the superficies of a plate, mass, piece, or
portion, or iron or other metal or material, cast, wrought, or manufactured
in the usual manner, to be usedin the paving, pitching, or covering of
streets, roads, or ways.
Figure 2 is intended to represent the reverse or downward side of the said
plate,mass, piece, or portion of iron, or other metal or material, cast, wrought,
or manufactured in the usual manner, to be used in the paving, pitching, or
covering of streets, road, and ways; but the form or forms of such plate,
mass, piece, or portion of iron, or other metal or material, may be made

page_text: suitable to the space intended to be paved, pitched, or covered, but such shape
or shapes, form or forms of such plate, mass, piece, or portion of iron or other
metal or material, may be varied at pleasure, as, for example, agreeably to
the Figures marked No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6, drawn:
in the margin of those presents.
Figure 3 is intended to represent the outline of a central plate, mass,
piece, or portion of iron or other metal or material, to be first laid down.
and used in paying, pitching, or covering, as aforesaid, with the place or,
situation of the several mortoises, sockets, tenons, projections, or tongues,,
therein and thereto put and placed, that is to say, such tenons, projections,.
or tongues being distinguished by the letters A, A, and such mortoises or
sockets being distinguished by the letters B; B.
Figure 4th is intended to represent the manner in which, by means of the.
mortoises, or sockets, and tenons, projections, or tongues, therein, therefrom,
and thereto, the several plates, masses, pieces, or portions of iron or other,
metal or material, are joined, or made, or rendered centrically, or others,,
wise, to bear, upon and remain contiguous to each other,
Figure 5th is intended to represent the outline of a plate, mass, piece, or
portion of iron or other metal or material, without either mortoise or tenon,
on one or more side or sides, to be next and immediately adjoining the latteral
or other boundary line of any street, road, or way, intended to be paved,,
pitched, or covered as aforesaid. The shape or form of the several plates,
masses, pieces, or portions of iron or other metal or material, together with,
the place or situation of the several mortoises, sockets, tenons, projection or
projections, tongue or tongues, therein and thereto, will of course vary with
the shape or form of or peculiar to the street, road, or way, and to the part of
any street, road, or way intended to be paved, pitched, or covered with such
plate or plates, mass or masses, piece or pieces, or portion or portions of iron.
or other metal or material.. The mode and manner in which the several.
plates, masses, pieces, or portions aforesaid are to be applied to paving,,
pitching, or covering streets, roads, or ways, is or may be as follows, that is to
sayFirst, a general plan of the street, road, or way intended to be paved,
pitched, or covered, is to be drawn or sketched, together with the dimensions
thereof, for the purpose of more conveniently ascertaining the form or forms,
shape or shapes, of the several plates, masses, pieces or portions aforesaid,
and which are or may be cast, manufactured, or otherwise made agreeably to
the plan, so to be drawn or sketched as aforesaid. Secondly, the ground,
earth, or base of the street, road, or way intended to be paved, pitched, or

page_text: covered as aforesaid, is to be nearly levelled, allowing it to remain sufficiently
convex,'to facilitate the drawing off superfluous water. In many instances it
may not be unadvisable that the ground or earth, by means of remaining or
rolling, or by other means; be rendered firmer; denser, or less loose than
ordinary. Thirdly, the plan or ground plot being drawn or sketched, the
ground, earth, or base of the street, road, or way being prepared for receiving,
and the plates, masses, pieces, or portions aforesaid being ready for laying
down, the work of paving, pitching, or covering is to be commenced by placing
or laying a plate, mass, piece, or portion with the mortoises, sockets, tenons,
projections, or tongues therein and thereto, herein-before described under the
name of a centre plate, mass, piece, or portion, marked Figure 3d in the margin
of these presents, upon or near the centre of the ground or base of the road
or way prepared as aforesaid, and intended to be paved, pitched, or covered.
This being done, the next step is to fit into, adapt, adjoin, and lay contiguous
to, but with relation to the street, road, or way intended to be paved, pitched,
or covered lengthways with such plate, mass,piece, or portion directed to be
first laid down as aforesaid, another plate, mass, piece, or portion, and so on,
until the centre or central line of such street, road, or way intended to be
paved, pitched, or covered, shall be completely paved, pitched, and covered
with the said plates, masses, pieces, or portions aforesaid. The centre or
central line of such street, road, or way being paved, pitched, or covered as
aforesaid, the space between the same,and the extreme latteral boundaries of
such street, road, or way may be fully paved, pitched, or covered with the
plates, masses, pieces, or portions aforesaid. The workmen, of course having
regard to fitting and adapting the proper boundary plate so first directed to be
paved, pitched, or covered as aforesaid, proceeds to connect, fit, adapt, or
adjoin to the several plates, masses, pieces, or portions as aforesaid, so form-
ing such centre or central line as aforesaid, other plates, masses, pieces, or
portions as aforesaid, and so on until the spaces between such centre or
central linė shall be fully and completely paved, pitched, or covered as afore-
said. A variety of other forms to be cast, manufactured, wrought, or made
of iron, or other metal or materials, more or less convex and more or less
elevated, with spaces more or less broad between, and insulating or sur-
rounding such forms, may be cast, manufactured, wrought, or made, used,
and applied for the purpose of paving, paving, pitching, or covering streets,
roads, or ways, and a variety of modes or methods of using and applying,
connecting, fitting, and adapting the same, may be employed by means of
mortoises, sockets, tenons, projections, or tongues, but those' herein-before

page_text: escribed, and to which a reference or references hath or have been made,
re sufficiently and certainly descriptive of the nature of my said Invention
nd in what manner the same is to be performed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John James Alexander Maccarthy, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Eleventh day of November, in the
fifty-sixth year of the reign of His said most Excellent Majesty
George the Third, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &, and in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifteen.