Studded Covering for Floors, Stairs, and for other purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1891-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Studded Covering for Floors, Stairs, and for other purposes.
We JOHN BILBIE of 80 Queen Victoria Street London E.C. Engineer and
WILLIAM DAVID GOOCH of 2 Victoria Mansions London S.W. Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
We cause studs of steel, iron brass or other suitable material to be inserted into
leather, linoleum, india-rubber or any material suitable for the covering of Hoors
or stairs or for similar purposes in such a manner that they should be either flush
with or slightly elevated above the surface of such material for the purpose of
rendering the same more durable. These studs can be inserted in any pattern,
form or device, and advertisements designs or notices can be displayed by means
thereof.
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Dated this 25th day of April 1800
JOHN BILBIE.
WILL. D. GOOCH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Studded Covering for Floors, Stairs, and for other purposes.
We, JOHN BILBIE of 80 Queen Victoria Street London E.C. Engineer, and
WILLIAM DAVID GOOCH of 26 University Street London E.C. 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 :—
Our invention has reference to the production of an improved covering for floors,
stairs and other surfaces of building vehicles and the like which are or may be
subjected to considerable wear and tear-and which, while being cheap to make, shall
combine clasticity with durability. Among the various materials hitherto employed
as protective mediums may be mentioned hard stone, wood blocks, sheet lead, lead
strengthened with studs or nails of harder metal and india-rubber, each of which
have doubtless its distinctive advantages.
The desideratum however in regard to such protective materials is to ensure
therein a combination of elasticity, durability, even wear and tear and cheapness,
and this we are able to obtain in the manner hereinafter described.
In carrying out our invention we employ a substance formed of leather, leather
waste or scrap, linoleum, artificial leather, cork shavings, wood shavings, paper,
paper pulp, india-rubber or other suitable material or materials or a combination
of any two or more of them, reduced to a fibrous or pulverulent condition and
treated or not, as desired, with a suitable binding substance or material so as to
form a homogeneous mass, such incorporated substance being rolled or otherwise
formed into sheets of suitable size and dimensions. When the sheets thus prepared
are ready, studs or rivets are forced thereinto in such patterns or devices as may be
deemed desirable. These studs may be of metal or of other substance, suitable to
the special studding treatment, above referred to whereby the studs become flat
headed rivets flush with the two surfaces of the sheets of protective material.
The wear of the upper surfaces is, by means of the studs considerably reduced, at
the same time, both the material and studs wear together evenly, and being of an
elastic or semi-elastic nature the material yields freely to the pressure of a foot
thereupon.
In the case of mats formed in the manner above described for use in railway
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page_text: carriages and other vehicles which are sometimes fastened down, we protect the
under side of such mats by cementing thereto a sheet of the material free of studs,
thus preventing the studs drawing on the wrong side after the mat has been in usc
a sufficient length of time to render one end of the rivet or stud practically useless.
Referring further to the matrix or material forming the protective medium, it is
evidently desirable that the material or substance of which the studs are formed
should conform generally with the yielding properties of such protective medium,
for instance, in the event of the employment of hard wood, the studs might con-
veniently be of soft iron or brass, on the other hand, in the employment of a very
soft and yielding substance, such for instance as india rubber, the studs might be of
lead, softened horn or other soft substances.
From the foregoing it will be obvious the instead of arranging the studs only in
ornamental designs, they may be beneficially disposed in the protective covering
for purposes of advertisement or for the two purposes combined, and in passages,
and staircases of fair proportions a considerable advertising space could be made
available.
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 :-
First The employment of rivets or studs in combination with protective
coverings for mats and the like for staircases, passages and vehicles substantially as
and for the purposes herein described.
Second-The employment of an elastic or semi-elastic material for the formation
of sheets to serve as a protective medium for stairs, passages, the flooring of
vehicles and the like in which material has been embedded rivets or studs substan-
tially as and for the purposes herein described and set forth.
Third The utilisation and arrangement of the studs or rivets for advertising
purposes substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1891.
W. A. BYRON,
12, Coleman Street, E.C., Agent for Applicants.