Improvements in the Manufacture of Coverings for Floors and other Surfaces, and in Apparatus used for this Purpose.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1892-Accepted, 17th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Coverings for Floors and other
Surfaces, and in Apparatus used for this Purpose.
We, ARTHUR SIDNEY OETZMANN, of 67 to 79 Hampstead Road, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturer, and SAMUEL JOHN NARRACOTT, of 2 Pyrmont
Villas, Castle Hill, Ealing, in the said County of Middlesex, Manager, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to the manufacture of coverings for floors and other
surfaces by consolidating together a number of pellets of the composition of which
the upper surface of the fabric is to be composed, the colours of the pellets being
such that the desired pattern is obtained.
We employ a surface divided into compartments by raised ridges or partitions to
retain them in place there being one compartment or it may be more for each group
of pellets forming a patch of the same colour. These partitions thus prevent the
colours from intermingling.
After the pellets have been arranged we consolidate them together and preferably
also to a backing by heat and pressure whilst they are in contact with the surface
the height of the ridges being such as to allow of this being done. We then remove
them from the surface and further consolidate them by heat and pressure.
Preferably we arrange the pellets on the surface by hand or by any convenient
mechanism, such as the machines described in our Complete Specification No. 5487
of the year 1891.
Dated this 17th day of September 1891.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Coverings for Floors and other
Surfaces, and in Apparatus used for this Purpose
We, ARTHUR SIDNEY OETZMANN, of 67 to 79 Hampstead Road in the County
of Middlesex Manufacturer, and SAMUEL JOHN NARRACOTT, of 2 Pyrmont
Villas, Castle Hill, Ealing, in the said County of Middlesex, 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 :-
The invention relates to the manufacture of coverings for floors and other
surfaces by consolidating together a number of pellets of the composition of which
the upper surface of the fabric is to be composed, the colours of the pellets being
such that the desired pattern is obtained.
We employ a surface divided into compartments by raised ridges or partitions to
retain them in place there being one compartment or it may be more for each group
of pellets forming a patch of the same colour. These partitions thus prevent the
colours from intermingling.
After the pellets have been arranged we consolidate them together and also to
a backing by heat and pressure whilst they are in contact with the surface the
height of the ridges being such as to allow of this being done. We then remove
them from the surface and further consolidate them by heat and pressure.
Preferably we arrange the pellets on the surface by hand or by any convenient
mechanism, such as the machines described in our Complete Specification No. 5487
of the year 1891.

page_text: as the covering and be formed by passing the backing when covered with a layer or
material through embossed rollers and in this case of course it is not necessary to
remove the partitions after the compartments have been filled.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a machine constructed according to this
invention and
Figures 2 and 3 are sections on the lines x x and y y Figure 1 respectively.
Figures 4 and 5 shew a plan and section respectively of one of the surfaces.
A are the surfaces connected together in an endless chain passing over pulleys B B.
They may be heated by gas jets arranged beneath them. C is a table on which the
upper surfaces rest. D D are feeding hoppers and rolls such as are described in
the Specification of our above mentioned Patent. The ends of the rolls carry
pinions E E gearing with racks on the surfaces and the axis of one of these rolls ís
driven by a belt passing over a pulley F upon it. In this way the surfaces are
carried through the machine. G is a roll of canvas which is led over a guide roll H
onto the top of the pellets or material in the compartments of the surfaces. J is a
plate by which flat pressure is applied to the backing to attach it to the pellets.
K is a roll cut away on two sides which works on the top of the plate J pressing it
downwards and at the same time passing it forward with the surfaces. The plate J
may be hollow and supplied with steam through a flexible pipe. The roll K is
driven at a slightly slower speed than the pulley F so that the surfaces between K
and F are always pressed together. It will be observed that the pulley F is not
fixed to the roll D but drives it by the friction discs L L one of which is fixed to
it and the other to the roll the two being pressed together by the adjustable
spring L¹.
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When the roll K turns so that its cut away part comes over the plate J the
pressure is released and the plate is passed back either by hand or mechanically on
to the unpressed material ready to be again nipped and passed forward by the
roll K. M is a roll by which the backing with the half pressed material upon it
is led away from the chain of surfaces. The manufacture is completed as above
described by a second pressure between heated rollers in the usual way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I would state that I am
aware of the prior Specifications Nos. 2307, 16338 and 18749" and do not claim
anything described in them but what I claim is :-
1. The process of manufacturing coverings for floors and other surfaces consisting
in delivering measured quantities of different colored compositions in the form of
pellets or granules into compartments corresponding to the desired pattern formed
on a surface by ridges or partitions and then simultaneously consolidating the
various colored materials onto a backing whilst still in the compartments substan-
tially as described.
2. The process of manufacturing coverings for floors and other surfaces consisting
in delivering measured quantities of different colored compositions in the form of
pellets or granules into compartments corresponding to the desired pattern formed
on a surface by ridges or partitions simultaneously consolidating the various colored
materials onto a backing whilst still in the compartments then removing the surface
with the partitions and afterwards again consolidating the materials and backing
substantially as described.
3. The process of manufacturing coverings for floors and other surfaces consisting
in spreading a layer of material onto a backing, forming compartments in the

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material separated by ridges, filling such compartments with measured quantities
of different colored materials in the form of pellets or granules and then con-
solidating the whole together substantially as described.
4. Apparatus substantially as described and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 17th day of June 1800.
ARTHUR SIDNEY OETZMANN.
SAMUEL JOHN NARRACOTT.