Improvements in Stair-pads or Coverings for the Treads of Stairs or Landings and other similar Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: The decision of the Comptroller-General, of the 7th day of November 1893, allowed.
under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883, an Amendment of this
Specification.
Date of Application, 20th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 26th Apr. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stair-pads or Coverings for the Treads of Stairs
or Landings and other similar Purposes.
I THOMAS GRIFFITH of Vernon Lodge 39 Clyde Road Didsbury in the county
of Lancaster Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to stair-pads or coverings for the treads of stairs or landings
and other similar purposes where a soft material such as felt or other material is
required to support a mat or carpet in order to render the tread quieter and cause the
carpet or mat to wear a greater length of time and my invention consists in improve-
ments by which each stair-pad is enabled to be readily placed in the required position
and is prevented from being displaced by the tread of persons using the stair-tread
or landing to which such stair-pad is applied.
According to one part of my invention I stiffen in any suitable manner that edge
or portion of each stair-pad which is to rest or bear upon the edge of the stair-tread
or landing to which the stair-pad is to be applied and either at the same time or
previously or subsequently bend or form such edge so that it may. be, as it were,
hooked upon the edge of the stair-tread or landing. In one method of stiffening the
said edge of the stair-pad I attach to such edge of the stair-pad by means of stitches,
rivets, glue or cement or other suitable means or combination of means a piece of
stiff or stiffened woven or other fabric or a piece of wire-gauze or wire-netting or
wire-threads or sheet metal, perforated or otherwise or a piece of paper or cardboard
or a combination of two or more or all of such materials. The required form may
be imparted to the said edge of the stair-pad before when or after the stiffening
material is applied to such edge of the stair-pad. In another method of stiffening
the said edge of the stair-pad I apply in any suitable manner size or glue or other
suitable cement or stiffening material to the material of which such edge is
composed and so bend or form the said edge that when the size, glue or other
suitable cement or stiffening material has dried or "set" the said edge of the stair
pad will retain the form required.
Stair-pads made according to my invention may be stitched around the edges or
other parts or bound or covered with cloth or other material or may be stitched or
bound after the manner of a blanket edge or may be left unstitched or may be
stitched or ornamented in any suitable manner.
By so stiffening that edge or portion of each stair-pad which is to rest or bear
upon the edge of the stair-tread or landing to which the stair-pad is to be applied
that it may be, as it were, hooked upon the edge of the stair-tread or landing to
which the stair-pad is to be applied I enable such stair-pad to be readily placed in
position upon the stair-tread or landing and prevent such stair-pad from becoming
displaced by the tread of persons making use of the stair tread or landing- to which
such stair paid is applied.
Dated this Nineteenth day of J me 1889.
me 1889.
W. T. CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Stair-pads or Coverings for the Treads of Stairs
or Landings and other similar Purposes.
I, THOMAS GRIFFITH of Vernon Lodge, 39 Clyde Road Didsbury in the county
of Lancaster, Manager, 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 :-
My invention relates to stair-pads or coverings for the treads of stairs or landings
and other similar purposes where a soft-material such as felt or other material is
required to support a carpet or mat in order to render the tread quieter and
cause the carpet or mat to wear a greater length of time and my invention
consists in improvements by which each stair-pad is enabled to be readily placed
in the required position and is prevented from being displaced by the tread of
persons using the stair-tread or landing to which such stair-pad is applied.
According to one-part of my invention I stiffen in any suitable manner that edge
or portion of each stair-pad which is to rest or bear upon the edge of the stair-tread
or landing to which the stair-pad is to be applied and either at the same time or
previously or subsequently bend or form such edge so that it may be as it were looked
upon the edge of the stair-tread or landing. In one-method-of-stiffening the said
edge of the stair-pad I attach to such edge of the stair pad by means of stitches, rivets,
glue or cement or indiarubber or other suitable-means or combination of moans &
piece of stiff or stiffened woven or other fabric or-a-piece of wire-gauze or wire-netting
or wire threads or sheet metal, perforated or otherwise or a piece of paper or card-
board-or-a-combination of two or more or all-of-such materials. The required form
may be imparted to the said edge of the stair pad before, when or after the stiffening
material is applied to such edge of the stair-pad. In another method of stiffening
the said edge of the stair-pad I apply in any suitable manner size or glue or india-
rubber or other suitable cement or stiffening material to the material felt of which
such edge is composed and so bend or form the said edge that when the size, glue
or other suitable cement or stiffening material has dried or "set" the said edge of
the stair-pad will retain the form required.
Stair-pads made according to my invention may be stitched around the edges or
other parts or bound or covered with cloth or other material or may be stitched
or bound after the manner of a blanket edge or may be left unstitched or may be
stitched or ornamented in any suitable manner.
By so stiffening that edge or portion of each stair-pad which is to rest or bear
upon the edge of the stair-tread or landing to which the stair-pad is to be
applied that it may be, as it were, hooked upon the edge of the stair tread or
landing to which the stair-pad is to be applied, I enable such stair-pad to be
readily placed in position upon the stair-tread or landing and prevent such stair-
pad from becoming displaced by the tread of persons making use of the stair-tread
or landing to which such stair-pad is applied.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective view and Fig. 2 a cross
section illustrating one form of stair-pad made according to my invention. The said
stuir-pad is formed of a sheet a of felt or other suitable material, and has applied at
the edge-a-which rests upon the edge of the stair trend or landing to which such
stair-pad is applied a piece or strip- of stiff or stiffened woven or other fabric, wire-
gauze or wire netting or wire threads or sheet metal perforated or otherwise or paper
or-cardboard or a combination of two or more or all-of-such materials-which-piece
er strip-b has the required-form imparted to it before, when or after such-piece or
strip bis applied to the edge of the stair pad. To further protect and stiffen the
edge of the stair pad shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and protect the piece or strip ba
piece or strip c-of calico-or linen cloth or other suitable material may be applied
over the said piece or-strip 6-and secured to the piece or strip band to the-felt-or

page_text: other material a of which the stair-pad is formed by glue-or-indiarubber-or-cement
and stitching or in any other suitable-manner.-The-stair-pad is shown as being
stitched-around-the edges as described in the specification filed in pursuance of the
conditions-of-Letters--Patent granted-unto-me-dated August 1st 1883-and
numbered-3731, to-prevent-ravelling but such-stair-pad-may be stitched or bound,
covered with cloth or other material or ornamented in any suitable manner or left
unstitched.
Figs. 31 and 4 2 of the accompanying drawing illustrate another form of a stair-
pad made according to my invention, Fig. 31 being a perspective view and Fig. 42
a cross section. The felt or other material d of which the stair-pad illustrated in
Figs. 31 and 42 is made has applied to it in any suitable manner at the edge d¹
size or glue or indiarubber or other suitable cement or stiffening material and has
such edge so bent and formed that when the size or glue or indiarubber or other
suitable cement or stiffening material has dried or "set" the said edge will retain
the form required. The stair-pad illustrated in Figs. 3 1 and 4 2 is also shown as
being stitched around the edges as described in the specification filed in pursuance
of the conditions of the above-mentioned Letters Patent dated August 1st 1883 and
numbered 3761, to prevent ravelling but such stair-pad may be stitched or bound
or covered with cloth or other material or ornamented in any suitable manner or
left unstitched.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood
that I do not claim generally stair-pads stiffened so that they may retain a hooked form
but I declare that what I claim is :-
A felt stair-pad or covering for the tread of a stair or landing and provided with
an-edge-or-part-stiffened and either previously, simultaneously-or-subsequently bent
or formed for the purposes and substantially as hereinbefore described and so that
it may be, as it were, hooked upon the edge of the stair-tread or landing to which
it is applied and stiffened on the inside of the bend but not elsewhere by applying size
glue or other suitable cement or stiffening material to the surface of the felt.
Dated this Nineteenth day of March 1890.
W. T. CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicant.