Year: 1898

page_text: I, WALTER LACY ALLCROFT, of Stokesay Court, in the County of Salop, Gentle-
man, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a floor covering composed of a double layer of wood
such as veneer built up or not to a thickness with an intervening lining of canvas
or other material and made up in any desired manner to patterns or otherwise for
laying down on ordinary floors or as mats for baths or other rooms in lieu of
cork, linoleum, and the like.
For the purposes of this invention, strips or pieces of veneer or thin wood are
glued or cemented to canvas to given sizes or shapes and upon the opposite face
of the canvas are also cemented other pieces of thin wood or veneer built up to
thickness or otherwise, preferably of hard woods of various kinds or colours or
of coloured or stained woods arranged to pattern as the tread surface.
The grain of the wood either as built up pieces or as layers can be crossed as
desired to produce the necessary stiffness in themselves the edges being free
so that when made up in squares or other shapes they possess a certain amount
of flexibility for rolling and being readily handled for conveyance or the like.
The surfacing wood can be cemented or glued to the canvas after the preparation
and laying of the base of canvas and strips of wood or a series of complete portions
of a covering can be prepared to pattern and each complete portion can be glued
or cemented to a floor until the whole of the floor or the desired part of it be
covered.
Further both sides of the canvas having pieces of wood secured to it would be
reversible so that if different patterns or different colours of woods or of coloured
woods be employed for the two faces respectively, such as light and dark, the
sides could be varied to the seasons of the year and to produce different wearing
surfaces.
For distinct mats the edges could be bound with leather or other material for
further ornamental effect and this would be particularly available where plain
woods are used for the purposes of this invention.
The patterns could follow the parquet or mosaic kind of flooring.

page_text: I, WALTER LACY ALLCROFT, of Stokesay Court, in the County of Salop, Gentle-
man, 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; 15
This invention relates to a floor covering composed of a double layer of wood,
such as veneer built up or not to a thickness with an intervening lining of canvas
or other material and made up in any desired manner to patterns or otherwise for
laying down on ordinary floors, or as mats for bath and other rooms in lieu of
cork, linoleum, and the like.
For the purposes of this mvention, strips or pieces of veneer or thin wood plain
or stamped out to pattern are glued or cemented to canvas felt or the like to
given sizes or shapes, and upon the opposite face of the canvas are also cemented
other pieces of thin wood or veneer built up to thickness or otherwise preferably
of hard woods of various kinds, or colours, or of coloured or stained woods
arranged to pattern as the tread surface, such as to imitate patterns of carpets,
floor cloth, and the like.
The grain of the wood either as built up pieces or as layers, can be crossed as
desired to produce the necessary stiffness in themselves, the edges being free
so that when made up in squares or other shapes they possess a certain amount
of flexibility at the adjoining edges for rolling the wood faced carpet up and of
being readily handled for conveyance or the like.
The surfacing wood can be cemented or glued to the canvas after the preparation
and laying of the base of canvas and strips of wood, or a series of complete portions
of a covering can be prepared to pattern, and each complete portion can be glued
or cemented to a floor until the whole of the floor, or the desired part of it be
covered.
Further, both sides of the canvas having pieces of woods secured to it would
be reversible, so that if different patterns or two different colours of wood or of
many coloured woods be employed for the two faces respectively, such as light
and dark, the sides could be varied to the seasons of the year and to produce
different wearing surfaces.
For distinct mats, the edges could be bound with leather or other material for
further ornamental effect, and this would be particularly available where plain
woods are used for the purpose of this invention.
The patterns could follow the parquet or mosaic kind of flooring.
The tread surfaces could be further enhanced by bright metal buttons or studs
with raised or with flush heads, and if the wood pieces be bored for the inlaying
these studs could serve as rivets in addition to the glue or other adhesive as a
means of bonding the several layers of wood and canvas together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. As an improved floor covering, the combination of built up veneers of wood
or woods glued together and stamped out to pattern, these being arranged and
glued or cemented on or to both sides of a fabric, as described.
2. The manufacture of floor like carpets of veneer wood or woods and inter-
mediate canvas, of a flexible character and capable of being rolled and be laid

page_text: like ordinary carpets and used in lieu thereof with either face available,
forth.
as set
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Walter Lacy Allcroft.