Methods for producing pavement-like sites

Claim 1

A method of producing a pavement-like site comprising areas of a first character generally surrounded by interconnected areas of another character, said method comprising: providing said site with a continuous covering comprising an initially laterally displaceable, generally formable first material; shaping said covering with a former comprising a generally planar base sheet having a pair of surfaces and a plurality of hollow peaks extending laterally outwardly from one surface of the base sheet, said peaks all being approximately of the same height and opening outwardly of the other surface of the base sheet, each of the peaks being substantially closed at the extremity thereof remote from the base sheet whereby the walls of the peaks and the base sheet present a generally continuous barrier disposed between and separating a first space comprising the internal hollow spaces of the peaks and a second space generally surrounding the peaks, said shaping comprising laying the former on said covering at the site with the base sheet disposed in substantial parallelism to the upper surface of the covering and with the peaks extending upwardly, and forcing the former downwardly to impress it into the first material until substantially the entirety of the former is at or beneath a level predetermined for the surface of the site and the first space has been substantially filled by said first material displaced into the hollow spaces of the peaks during said impressing of the former into the first material; and filling the spaces formed between the spaced peaks of the displaced first material with an initially displaceable, generally formable second material, said first and second materials each having a different character.

Claim 2

A method of producing a pavement-like site comprising areas of a first character generally surrounded by interconnected areas of another character, said method comprising: providing said site with a continuous covering comprising an initially laterally displaceable, generally formable first material; shaping said covering with a former comprising a generally planar base sheet having a pair of surfaces and a plurality of hollow peaks extending laterally outwardly from one surface of the base sheet, said peaks all being approximately of the same height and opening outwardly of the other surface of the base sheet, each of the peaks being substantially closed at the extremity thereof remote from the base sheet whereby the walls of the peaks and the base sheet present a generally continuous barrier disposed between and separating a first space comprising the internal hollow spaces of the peaks and a second space generally surrounding the peaks, said shaping comprising laying the former on said covering at the site with the base sheet disposed in substantial parallelism to the upper surface of the covering and with the peaks extending upwardly, and forcing the former downwardly to impress it into the first material until substantially the entirety of the former is at or beneath a level predetermined for the surface of the site and the first space has been substantially filled by said first material displaced into the hollow spaces of the peaks during said impressing of the former into the first material; and filling the spaces formed between the spaced peaks of the displaced first material with an initially displaceable, generally formable second material, said first and second materials each having a different character.