IMPROVEMENTS IN A COMPOSITION ADAPTED PAVEMENT AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN APPARATUS FOR TREATING THE SAME, AND ALSO OTHER ANALOGOUS PAVEMENT AND MATERIAL
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Clarence Tucker, of New York, in the
TO
State of New York, and United States of America, Physician, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN A COMPOSITION ADAPTED
PAVEMENT AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN APPARATUS FOR TREATING THE SAME,
AND ALSO OTHER ANALOGOUS PAVEMENT AND MATERIAL."
Sealed the 19th July 1872, and dated the 3rd June 1872.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Joseph Clarence Tucker
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 3rd June 1872, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
CLARENCE TUCKER, of New York, in the State of New York, and United
States of America, Physician, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN A COMPOSITION ADAPTED TO PAVEMENT AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN APPARATUS
FOR TREATING THE SAME, AND ALSO OTHER ANALOGOUS PAVEMENT AND MATERIAL,"

page_text: If desired also other ingredients such as broken stone, gravel, and the
like may be mixed with my compound, but it is not essential to use
them, and I generally omit them.
The third part of my Invention consists of a new manufacture of a
pavement having a corrugated, channeled,' figured, or ornamented
surface. Such a pavement or walk will present an extremely pleasing
appearance to the eye, and it will possess all the symmetry of new
wooden pavement without the expense and lack of durability of the
latter.
Views of different forms of this improved corrugated pavement or
walk are represented at Figures 4, 5, and 6 of the accompanying
Drawing. In putting this portion of my improvements into practice I
take either the pavement made of my herein above-described new
compound or any concrete cement, artificial stone, or other pavement,
and impress upon its upper surface any desired corrugations, channels,
figures or ornaments as seen in the Figures referred to, which may be
formed in parallel or divergent lines either straight or curved so as to
produce any desired impression or configuration. Whenever preferred
these corrugations or channels may be filled with any plastic material
such as crushed stone and asphaltum or any other suitable filling.
The last part of my Invention consists of certain apparatus for
imparting or producing in or upon the surface of a pavement or walk
the corrugations, channels, or figures which I have described. There
may be various forms of this apparatus, but some which I have found to
operate successfully are represented in Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the
Drawing. Figure 1 is a perspective view of a roller which may be
employed for this purpose; Figure 2 represents a die or stamp which
may also be used if desired, and Figure 3 is a transverse section of the
same on the line x, x, Figure 2.
When either the roller or the die or stamp is employed I form them
as represented at A and D in the Drawing with parallel or otherwise
shaped spines or raised figures a arranged upon their surfaces in such a
manner that as they are drawn over or applied or pressed upon the
surface of the pavement or other composition, corrugations, channels,
ornaments, or figures will be produced.
The roller is preferably made hollow, and is provided with a handle
or tongue B for pushing and pulling it over the surface of the material

page_text: treated. The roller is also so constructed as to be readily heated. This
may be effected in any desired manner either by rolling it directly
into a fire or by means of a movable heated centre piece C, which as
represented in the Drawing has a journal 6 which serves as an attach-
ment for the handle or tongue B, and also as a means for removing it
from its seat for reheating. But I do not confine myself to any
particular mode of heating the roller as various means may be adopted
for the purpose.
The die or stamp may also be heated in any convenient manner.
The spines are preferably made in the form of an inverted V, and are
arranged parallel to each other around the circumference of the roller
either transversely or longitudinally, and from two to six inches apart
more or less, their position relatively to each other being governed by the
distance apart of the corrugations, channels, or figures desired to be
produced.
When it is intended to produce or form the corrugations or channels
upon a concrete cement or other composition pavement while the same
is in a newly laid or soft state, it is not essential to heat the roller, as the
corrugations or channels may then be produced by drawing or passing
the roller over the surface of the warm or soft material. This will not
only compress the pavement more compactly, but will form depressed
lines or angles in the direction in which the roller moves, and in this
case the lines or angles thus formed may remain, and thus present a
friction surface which will form a secure footing both for man and
beast.
If the die or stamp be used instead of the roller a suitable handle or
attachment to operate the same should be provided.
I prefer in most instances to fill the corrugations or channels with any
known plastic composition, using by preference crushed stone and
asphaltum, which may be mixed together and reduced to a plastic
state..
Having thus described my Invention, what I claim as new and desire
to secure by Letters Patent is,—
First. The improved composition formed of asphaltum or its equi-
valent combined with the slag from blast or other furnaces substantially
as and for the purposes mentioned.

page_text: Second. The new manufacture constituting a block or artificial stone
for the purposes mentioned formed of asphaltum or its equivalent
combined with the slag from blast or other furnaces, and subjected to
pressure in a mould.
Third. The new manufacture of a pavement or other analogous
impressible composition having corrugated, channelled, figured, or
ornamented surfaces substantially as and for the purposes described.
Fourth. A roller, die, stamp, or equivaleut apparatus for producing
corrugations, channels, figures, or ornaments upon the surfaces of
pavement or other analogous impressible compositions constructed and
operating substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Clarence Tucker, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this 18th day of May, in the