Improvements in the Manufacture of Tombstones, Memorial Stones, and other like Appliances.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 7th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Tombstones, Memorial Stones,
and other like Appliances.
I, JOHN CANNADINE, of 353 & 355 New Cross Road, Deptford, in the County
of Kent, Brass Founder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method in the manufacture of tombstones,
memorial stones, and other like appliances, and has for its object the production of
such articles or appliances, of greater durability, improved appearance, and less
cost than the ordinary method of manufacture.
In order to effect these objects, instead of the usual material, that is to say, stone,
granite, or iron, I construct the tombstones, memorial stones, and other like
appliances, either of clay, baked, enamelled, and glazed, or of parian, or other
similar kind of cement, baked in the usual way, such may be of any design, shape
or colour required, the object being to produce designs, shapes or figures, that may
be moulded from patterns or moulds, instead of being cut or carved as in stonework
or granite, at the same time providing a material which shall be much more durable
and of less cost.
I also construct the lettering or any device required, of the same material, either
in raised characters, or recessed in the material of which the tombstone or memorial
stone is composed, so that the said lettering or device may be formed solid with the
rest of the structure.
Dated thin and dow of Mou 1002
JOHN CANNADINE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Tombstones, Memorial Stones,
and other like Appliances.
1, JOHN CANNADINE, of 353 and 355 New Cross Road, Deptford, in the County
of Kent, Brass Founder 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved method in the manufacture of tomb or
gravestones, memorial stones, and other like appliances and has for its object the
production of such articles or appliances, of greater durability, improved appearance,
and less cost than the ordinary method of manufacture.
In order to effect these objects, instead of the usual material, that is to say, stone,
granite or iron, I construct the tombstones, gravestones, memorial stones, and
other like appliances, either of clay, baked, enamelled and glazed, or of parian or
other similar kind of cement, baked in the usual way, such may be of any design
shape or colour required, the object being to produce designs, shapes or figures
that may be moulded from patterns or moulds instead of being cut or carved as in
stonework or granite, at the same time providing a material which shall be much
more durable and of less cost.
I also construct the lettering or any device required, of the same material, either
in raised characters, or recessed in the material of which the tombstone or memorial
stone is composed, so that the said lettering or device may be formed solid with the
rest of the structure.
In the construction of these tombstones and like appliances, the design may be
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page_text: varied and arranged so as to permit of the adaptation of encaustic, mosaic, or
glazed tiles, or any other convenient material and device which may be embodied
in the general structure composed of the material herein before mentioned and
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. The construction of tombstones, gravestones, memorial stones and other like
appliances, of clay, baked, enamelled and glazed, or of parian or other similar kind
of cement baked in the usual way, and which may be of any design or shape,
substantially as set forth and herein described.
2. The provision and application of lettering or other device, composed of the
same material as the body of the structure, either in raised characters or recessed
in the material, and either solid with the structure, or cemented in as may be
convenient, substantially as set forth and herein described.
3. The application and adaptation of glazed tiles or other devices to the
structure, to complete or improve the design of the tombstone or appliance
substantially as set forth and herein described.
Dated this 4th day of September 1893.
JOHN CANNADINE.