CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN BRICKS OR TILES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Blackett Beaumont, of Woodhall,
Barnsley, in the County of York, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN BRICKS OR TILES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Blackett
Beaumont at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 4th June 1853.
I, EDWARD BLACKETT BEAUMONT, of Woodhall, in the County of York,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN BRICKS OR TILES " to be as follows:-
The Drawing annexed hereto shews two modifications of my Inven-
tion. The plan views, Fig. 2, and Fig. 2, shew each a number of
indentations; and Fig. 1, and Fig. 1, and Fig. 3, and Fig. 3º, are
respectively sections through the lines A, to B, and C, to D.
The object of my Invention is to obtain lightness combined with
strength, and the capability of being pressed when moulded together,
with the advantage of keying when they are formed into a wall with
cement.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Blackett Beaumont in the Great Seal
Patent Office, on the 2nd December 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
EDWARD BLACKETT BEAUMONT, of Woodhall, Barnsley, in the County of
York, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Blackett Beaumont,
Her special licence that I, the said Edward Blackett Beaumont, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Blackett Beaumont, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN BRICKS OR TILES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Blackett
Beaumont, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Blackett Beaumont, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement (that is to say):
My Improvements in bricks or tiles consist in forming then with

page_text: indentations or hollows on one or both of the beds or broad sides,
the object of the Invention being a form of brick combining strength,
lightness, and firmness on bed, together with the advantage of keying
when formed in a wall with cement, and which in its manufacture will
give facility for compression to any degree of density which can be
given to the material employed. The Drawing annexed hereto
shews several forms of bricks combining the advantages referred to;
Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, representing plan views, and Figs. 1, 2, 3, and
4, sectional views through the lines A, B, on the plan views. Figs. 1,
and 1, represent a brick having a number of indentations on both
sides, and Figs. 2, 2, and 3, 3, bricks having a number of indenta-
tions or hollows on one side, the only difference between them being
that the one has a greater number of and smaller indentations or
hollows than the other. Fig. 4, 4, represent bricks having square
hollows on one side, peculiarly suitable for partition walls. The inden-
tations or hollows, whether on one or both sides, may be of any form
or shape, keeping in view those which will be most conveniently made,
and which will give to the bricks the greatest strength and lightness.
The form of bricks represented in the drawings at Figs. 2, 2", 3, 3ª,
and 4, 4, being pannelled and flat on one side, require no more mortar
or cement to bed them than is required to bed common bricks, while,
as the holes or indentations on the under side permit the mortar to rise
in them, a keying is effected which will resist force, pressing them hori-
zontally off their beds; at the same time walls built with such bricks
may be taken down with as little damage to the bricks as common
bricks would sustain. By varying the size or number of indentations
or hollows, bricks may be made of a solidity proportionable to the
weights they are required to sustain; those of the greatest solidity
being employed for the lower parts of walls or buildings, and others,
diminishing in solidity, at certain stages upwards to the highest parts of
the walls or buildings.
Having now particularly described my Invention, I wish it to be
understood that I claim as my Invention,―

page_text: Bricks having indentations, holes, or hollows on one or both of the
eds or broad sides, as shewn in the Drawings annexed hereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Blackett Beaumont, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three.
E. B. BEAUMONT. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being duly stamped) by the within-
named Edward Blackett Beaumont, in the presence of
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Cheetwood Lodge, Manchester.