Improvements in the Mode of Drying or Hardening Floor Coverings commonly known under the titles Floor Cloth, Linoleum, Corticine, Kamptulicon, and the like, and Oiled and Japanned Cloth, including Linen, Cotton, and Silk, commonly known.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 30th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 6th Sept., 1887.
Improvements in the Mode of Drying or Hardening Floor Coverings
commonly known under the titles Floor Cloth, Linoleum,
Corticine, Kamptulicon, and the like, and Oiled and Japanned
Cloth, including Linen, Cotton, and Silk, commonly known
under the titles American Cloth, American Leather Cloth, and
the like.
I, GEORGE SEAGRAVE of Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea, Middlesex, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention, is to hasten and more effectually carry out the proces
of drying or in other words hardening Floor Coverings commonly known under the
titles Floor Cloth, Linoleum, Corticine, Kamptulicon &c, and oiled varnished and
Japanned cloth on Linen, Cotton, or Silk commonly known under the titles American
Cloth, American Leather Cloth Japanned cloth oil silk &c.
The drying or hardening of these substances has up to the present time been
effected by exposing them to the action of atmospheric air raised by mechanical
means to various degrees of temperature in rooms provided with various ventilating
arrangements, the rapidity or slowness of the drying or hardening process being
influenced by the provisions of the degree of heat and ventilation which have been
found most effective; under the most perfect conditions of heating and ventilation
now in general practice the process of effectually drying or hardening is found to be
slow and tedious.
I contend that the process of drying or hardening is mainly, if not wholly, one of
oxydation of the substances with which the herein named articles are coated in the
process of manufacture.
In order to carry out this view and to hasten and facilitate the drying or hardening
process I cause a given proportion of Oxygen Gas to be mixed (before or after
entering the drying rooms) with atmospheric air of the desired temperature, the effect
of which I have found by experience, to produce a rapid drying or hardening result.
The 1st day of November 1886.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said G. Seagrave.

page_text: Improvements in the Mode of Drying or Hardening Floor Coverings
commonly known under the titles Floor Cloth, Linoleum,
Corticine, Kamptulicon, and the like, and Oiled and Japanned
Cloth, including Linen, Cotton, and Silk, commonly known
under the titles American Cloth, American Leather Cloth, and
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I, GEORGE SEAGRAVE, of Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea, Middlesex, Engineer, 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:
The object of this invention, is to hasten and more effectually carry out the process
of drying or in other words hardening floor coverings commonly known under the
titles Floor Cloth, Linoleum, Corticine, Kamptulicon, and oiled, varnished and
Japanned cloth on Linen, Cotton, or Silk commonly known under the titles American
Cloth, American Leather cloth, Japanned cloth oil, silk &c.
The drying or hardening of these substances has up to the present time been
effected by exposing them to the action of atmospheric air raised by mechanical
means to various degrees of temperature in rooms provided with various ventilating
arrangements, the rigidity or slowness of the drying or hardening process being
influenced by the provisions of the degree of heat and ventilation which have been
found most effective; under the most perfect conditions of heating and ventilation
now in general practice the process of effectually drying or hardening is found to be
slow and tedious.
I contend that this process of drying or hardening is mainly, if not wholly one of
oxydation of the substances with which the herein named articles are coated in the
process of manufacture.
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In order to carry out this view and to hasten and facilitate the "drying"
hardening process I cause a given proportion of Oxygen Gas to be mixed (before or
after entering the drying rooms) with the atmospheric air of the desired temperature,
the effect of which I have found by experience to produce a rapid or hardening result.
The proportion of Oxygen Gas to be mixed with atmospheric air may vary to suit
the requirement of the materials to be dried or hardened, some of the materials
specified requiring a larger proportion of Oxygen than others in order to effect the
desired object, the thinly coated materials requiring less than the thickly coated.
Various plans of providing the chamber or appartment containing the materials to
be dried or hardened with the Oxygenated air may be practiced by preference a
system of continuous circuit of the Oxygenated air through the chamber or apartment

page_text: may be effected, this can be accomplished by any well known means, and will enable
the Oxygenated air on leaving the chamber and during the circuit to be replenished
with a quantity of Oxygen gas equal to the quantity absorbed by the materials in the
chamber on its passage through, this plan will also produce an active circulation and
thus quicken the realization of the desired object.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
The herein before described method or process of drying or hardening floor
coverings and like substances hereinbefore mentioned, the use, employment, or
application of Oxygen gas mixed with temperated atmospheric air as set forth.
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H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said George Seagrave.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said George Seagrave.