An Improved Leather Mat.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1896
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Leather Mat.
We, CHARLES HOPKINS, ARTHUR HOPKINS and GEORGE ODLUM, trading
together as "Hopkins Brothers and Odlum," at Mersey Street, North Fitzroy,
near Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Machine Belt Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention has been devised in order that waste pieces of leather may be
utilised in the construction of leather mats.
It consists of a number of strips of leather through which wires are passed at
intervals, some of the strips extending across the mat in a straight line from one
side to the other whilst every alternate strip is arranged in a waved line. Leather
washers are threaded upon the wires above referred to between said strips
so as to keep the waved line as well as the straight strips in their proper relative
form and positions and at the same time enable the wires to clamp the whole firmly
together.
Dated this Fourteenth day of May One thousand eight hundred and
We, CHARLES HOPKINS, ARTHUR HOPKINS and GEORGE ODLUM, trading-
together as Hopkins Brothers and Odlum at Mersey Street, North Fitzroy,.
near Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Machine Belt Manufacturers, do.
bereby 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 has been devised in order that waste pieces of leather may be
utilized in the construction of leather mats.
It consists of a number of strips of leather through which wires are passed at.
intervals some of the strips extending across the mat in a straight line either from
side to side or end to end whilst every alternate strip is arranged in a waved line..
Leather washers are threaded upon the wires above referred to between said
strips so as to keep the waved line as well as the straight strips in their proper
relative form and positions and at the same time enable the wires to clamp the
whole firmly together as illustrated in the accompanying drawing which represents.
a plan of part of a leather mat constructed according to this invention.
AB represent the strips of leather of which those marked A extend straight.
across the mat either from end to end or from side to side as the case may be,
whilst the other strips B are arranged in a waved line so that they contact first.
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with one straight strip and then with the one on the opposite side of them as
shown.
CC represent the leather washers which are threaded upon the wires D between
the leather strips A and B in order to keep said strips in position.
Said wires are rivetted at each end so as to clamp the mat tightly together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The herein described leather mat consisting of a number of strips of leather
(such as A and B) some extending straight across the mat and others in a waved
line, wires being threaded through said strips with leather washers upon them
between the strips so as to keep them in position, the whole clamped together
substantially as and for the purpose specified and as illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 07th dow of Ton 1806
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.