IMPROVEMENTS IN CARPET LININGS OR PADS, AND IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Year: 1871

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Haseltine at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
May 1871. A communication from abroad by John Robinson
Harrington, of Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.
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I, GEORGE HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," South-
ampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARPET LININGS OR PADS, AND IN MACHINERY
FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME," a communication, to be as follows:
My Invention consists in making a carpet lining or pad out of paper,
and a suitable filling in any of the several modifications herein-after
described, and in the construction and operation of the machinery used
in their manufacture.
I will first describe the simplest and for some purposes the best kind
of lining. This lining, whether used for carpets or stair pads, is made
of a cotton or other suitable wadding, in long sheets about two inches
narrower than the enfolding sheets of paper, and is well glazed with
moth-proof vegetable mucilage, not only upon both sides of the wadding,
but also upon its edges so as to form a selvage. This wadding is then

page_text: placed between two sheets of suitable paper, and baled up as desired
without being secured fast to the paper. When laid down the edges of
the two adjoining breadths lap over each other about an inch.
Another lining which I call the "double lap binding" consists of
three or more sheets of paper, the inner sheet or sheets being soft and t
bound at the edges by a turned-over strip of paper or cloth.,
Another form of my Invention which I call a "welt binding" consists
of two sheets of paper of equal width, having a filling of wadding or
other substance, a strip of paper being pasted in between the edges
of the two sheets of paper, and one strip down the centre.
In making what I call a "turned-in binding," the under sheet of
paper is about two inches wider than the upper sheet, and the filling
and its edges are turned in and pasted to the upper sheet.
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To form what I term the "strip binding," I use four or six narrow
strips of paper or cloth, disposed in pairs and pasted between the paper 1
and the filling.
I make another kind of lining by uniting a lap of any suitable fibrous
material to a sheet of paper by mucilage, the upper or fibrous surface
of this lining may or may not be protected by thin flexible paper or
cloth.
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The machine for making these linings carries upon a suitable frame two
paper feed rollers, and a filling or wadding feed roller; feed bobbins are
provided for the "double lap" binding. There are brushes for applying
the paste to the outer edges of the two sheets of paper when the double
binding is used, and a paste trough is employed in connection with these 2
brushes. The brush at each end of the trough is really a triple brush;
one revolves vertically in the paste for the purposes of feeding the other
brushes, which revolve horizontally and have their faces touching, so
that when the paper passes between them it will be pasted on both sides;
these brushes may be used together, or one brush may be unshipped.
Both of the horizontal brushes mesh with the vertical brush and are
revolved by it.
The machine is provided with folders, some of which fold the binding
over the edges of the paper, while others turn in the edges of the under
sheet of paper in making the "turned-in binding," there are also bobbins
which carry the strips of paper or cloth used in the "welt binding" or

page_text: the "strip binding," there is a paste trough for pasting the strips,
and a large roller revolving in and nearly filling the said trough.
The machine also has presser rollers, and there are three large drying
rollers heated by steam or otherwise at the delivery end of the machine,
6 and a discharge roller. The various rollers and brushes are revolved by
suitable belts.