Improvements in or connected with the Manufacture of Floor Cloth, Linoleum, and the like Coated Fabrics.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 9th July, 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Manufacture of Floor Cloth,
Linoleum, and the like Coated Fabrics.
I, EDWARD OSTLERE, of the Firm of John Barry, Ostlere, and Company
Limited, Forth Works, Kirkcaldy, Floor Cloth and Linoleum Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, to be as follows:
In the manufacture of floor cloth, linoleum, or the like coated fabrics, the goods
are hung over battens in racks in stoves for drying, and when being taken out of
said stoves to receive another coating of material, or when finished, they are apt to
cockle, or crinkle up in the process, and so get damaged and broken.
The object of my invention is to obviate or prevent this.
In carrying out my said object I employ in the fold of the cloth a roller
attached to another roller, (working in the next bite or fold,) by means of rope,
belt, or apron of linen, calico, or other suitable material. As one roller is brought
up, the other roller descends to the bottom of the fold, and vice versa.
The rollers are changed in the required spaces by hand or automatically as
required.
The said rollers are worked until all the cloth is taken out, and so creasing, or
folding up the cloth is prevented, on being taken out.
Dated this 27th day of November 1895.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.
Improvements in or connected with the Manufacture of Floor Cloth,
Linoleum, and the like Coated Fabrics.
I, EDWARD OSTLERE, of the Firm of John Barry, Ostlere, and Company
Limited, of Forth Works, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, Linoleum Manufacturers, 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 :-
In the manufacture of floorcloth, linoleum, or the like coated fabrics the goods
are hung over battens in racks in stoves for drying, and when being taken out of
said stoves to receive another coating of material, or when finished, they are apt to
cockle, or crinkle up in the process, and so get damaged or broken.
The object of my invention is to obviate or prevent this.

page_text: In carrying out my said object I employ in the fold of the cloth A a roller B
attached to another roller C, working in the next bight or fold, by means of
rope D, belt, or apron of linen, calico, or other suitable material.
The ropes D pass over pulleys E fixed on an axle or shaft F, carried by
bearings G, and studs H which fit in the rack J. Similar pulleys K are likewise
carried, for keeping the ropes D in their grooves on the pulley É.
As one roller is brought up, the other roller descends to the bottom of the fold,
and vice versa.
The rollers are changed in the required spaces as required, by partially inverting
or tilting the pulleys E, K and moving the studs H on the rack J by hand or
otherwise.
The said rollers are worked until all the cloth is taken out, and so creasing or
folding up of the cloth is prevented on being taken out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. In the manufacture of floorcloth, linoleum, and the like coated fabrics,
preventing the cockling or crinkling of such fabrics, in the manner substantially as
set forth.
2. In the manufacture of floorcloth, linoleum, and the like coated fabrics, the
use of rollers capable of working in the folds or bights of the cloth, substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
3. In the manufacture of floorcloth, linoleum, and the like coated fabrics, the
combination of the rollers B and C, ropes D or their equivalents, pulleys E, axle
or shaft F, bearings G, studs H, and racks J, arranged and operating substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated
LOIS
2nd day of July 1890.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.