improvements in bricks or tiles for flooring and pugging
Year: 1899

page_text: I, GABRIEL BADIN, Architect, of St. Etienne, Loire, in the Republic of France,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention for improvements in bricks or tiles for flooring and pugging has
for its object to provide bricks or tiles adapted to be connected together so as to
support one another between the floor girders.
According to this invention the bricks are made hollow or otherwise and
formed on opposite sides with ribs or tongues and corresponding grooves for
receiving the tongues, by which means the tiles are supported severally and rest
as a whole on iron girders or T pieces placed at variable distances, as may be
necessary, thus dispensing completely with wooden joists or the like in connection
with ordinary floorings.
The invention also includes the construction of flooring, with pugging beneath,
which is formed by supporting the bricks connected as described on the lower
flanges of the girders.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
I, GABRIEL BADIN, Architect, of St. Etienne, Loire, in the Republic of France,
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 for improvements in bricks or tiles for floors has for its object
to provide bricks or tiles adapted to be connected together so as to support one
another between the floor girders.
According to this invention the bricks are made hollow or otherwise and
formed on opposite sides with ribs or tongues and coresponding grooves for
receiving the tongues, by which means the tiles are supported severally and rest
as a whole on iron girders or Ṭ pieces placed at variable distances as may be
necessary, thus dispensing completely with wooden joists or the like in connection
with ordinary floorings.
The invention also includes the construction of flooring with pugging beneath,
which is formed by supporting the bricks connected as described on the lower
flanges of the girders.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of the improved
flooring and pugging. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4
are transverse sections of bricks or tiles constructed according to this invention.
The flooring bricks a are formed on opposite sides with tongues b and corre-
sponding grooves c also with abutment pieces d which take into recesses e, and
when interlocked are held firmly together in the same horizontal plane and
adapted to rest on girders f as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
of
Similar bricks or tiles of somewhat lighter construction, as shown in Fig. 3,
are adapted to be used for pugging, and are supported on the lower flanges
the girders.
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. Ribbed or tongued bricks, which can be "hooked" one on to the other, the
formation of the "hooks" being variable as may be desired, provided that the
principle be the same as described.
2. Flooring constructed by bricks joined together as described.
3. Pugged flooring also constructed by joining together of the bricks according
to the arrangement indicated in Figs. 1 and 2 and in every instance where the
employment of this kind of brick is possible.
Dated this 4th day of December 1899.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.