Improvements in Draught and Dust Excluders.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Draught and Dust Excluders.
We, WALTER THOMAS HALL, of 54 South Island Place, Stockwell, in the
County of Surrey, Salesman, and WILLIAM JOSEPH BAYLISS, of 5 Great
Quebec Street, Marylebone, in the County of Middlesex, Builders' Clerk, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to this invention we construct a draught or dust excluder of a narrow
strip of linoleum or corticine or like compound of about the same thickness as the
floor-cloths commonly formed of these materials and the strip we cover with an
outer covering of soft felt or baize or cloth secured either by stitching or
cementing. Draught or dust excluders formed in this way can be fixed in place by
pins or tacks or adhesive material as preferred and applied to doors, windows,
casements, skylights and the like and as they can readily be bent they can be
adapted to any form or shape of door or window or the like whether curved or
straight.
They can be made of any desired width and can be packed in small compass as
they can without injury be rolled up into coils of comparatively small dimensions-
which cannot be done with the ordinary draught or dust excluders formed of thin
wooden strips.
Dated this 27th love of Denombor 1805
WALTER T. HALL.
WILLIAM J. BAYLISS.
Improvements in Draught and Dust Excluders.
We, WALTER THOMAS HALL of 54 South Island Place Stockwell, in the
County of London, Salesman and WILLIAM JOSEPH BAYLISS of 5 Great Quebec
Street Marylebone Road in the said county, Builders' Clerk 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 relates to an improved draught excluder and is intended to provide
a very simple and inexpensive form which can be easily applied.
In carrying out our invention, we employ a strip of linoleum or substance of
similar composition, made to a suitable shape designed to fit the place in which it
is to be fixed to exclude draught, the said strip being covered with cloth, baize or
other suitable material.
The complete article is then fixed by pins, brads or adhesive material to the
door or window or the frames thereof.
To enable our invention to be more clearly understood, reference is had to the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Figures 1 and 2 shew the draught excluder fixed in place.

page_text: Figure is a side elevation of the article with a portion of the said strip
projecting. Figure 4 is a cross section.
A" is the said strip as above described enclosed in the cloth, baize or other
material, formed by attaching the cloth, baize, or other material, by means of
adhesive or stitching round the said strip.
"B" is the cloth, baize, or other material covering the said strip.
"C" is the joint of the cloth, baize, or other material used in covering.
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―
1. An improved draught excluder for windows, doors, and the like, formed from
a strip of linoleum, or substance of similar composition shaped to fit the surface to
which it is to be applied, enclosed by cloth, baize or other suitable material
substantially and for the purposes specified.
2. The improved draught excluder for windows, doors and the like, made and
fitted, substantially as herein before described and shewn in the accompanying
drawings and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 28th day of September 1896
WALTER THOMAS HALL.
WILLIAM J. BAYLISS.