Improvements in Mats or similar Floor Coverings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 30th. Sept., 1893-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mats or similar Floor Coverings.
We JAMES WETHERILT of 179 Maida Vale in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, and WILLIAM JOSEPH ARMITAGE of 81 Bramley Road West,
Notting Hill, in the same County, Bicycle and Perambulator Manufacturer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to produce a new and useful form of mat or
similar floor covering from a waste or comparatively waste material and a holding.
material of small cost and great strength.
In carrying out our invention we employ ordinary wire work or analogous open
or trellis work of metal and into some of the apertures in the wire or metal trellis
work we secure or force small lengths or cylindrical portions of india rubber; such
as short sections of a disused cycle or perambulator tyre of uniform length and
these sections are held about their middle by the wire, or metal; either by simple
compression or by means of a groove, or recess in the rubber, forming a locking
between the two materials.
When arranged in this manner in close series a level surface may be obtained,
reversible as may be desired to render the wear uniform, or to facilitate removal of
mud, or accumulations of dirt. The omission of sections of india rubber at intervals
from the netting or holding metal will facilitate passage of dirt, or mud to the floor
below.
The pattern, or order of arrangement of the pieces of rubber of the section
selected may be varied, as well as the form of section, according to circumstances.
The wire work, or metal holding material may also be varied to the use required,
or the material to be held.
Dated the 21st day of December 1800
WM.. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mats or similar Floor Coverings.
We JAMES WETHERILT of 179 Maida Vale in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, and WILLIAM JOSEPH ARMITAGE of 81 Bramley Road West,
Notting Hill, in the same County, Bicycle and Perambulator Manufacturer 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:-
This invention is designed to produce a new and useful form of mat or similar
floor covering from a waste or comparatively waste material when such is available
and a holding material of small cost and great strength; but new or specially made
material may be employed.
In carrying out our invention we either employ ordinary wire work for very
cheap constructions or we use analogous open or trellis work of metal and into some
of the apertures in the wire or metal trellis work (preferably using sheet zinc strips)
we secure or force small lengths or cylindrical portions of india rubber, or analogous
compounds such as short sections of a disused cycle, carriage, or perambulator tyre
of uniform length and these sections are beld about their iniddle by the wire, or
metal laths or holding means; either by simple compression, or by means of a
shallow cut or slit in the rubber in which the metal lath or wire becomes slightly
embedded thereby forming a locking between the rubber plugs and the metal
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page_text: connections and the metal laths work on the rubber plugs as on hinges or centres
when so required.
When arranged in this manner in close series a level surface may be obtained,
reversible as may be desired to render the wear uniform or to facilitate removal of
mud or accumulations of dirt. The omission of sections of india rubber at intervals
from the netting or holding metal laths or the like, or the leaving of holes or
passages in or between the sections will facilitate passage of dirt, or mud to the
floor below.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a side view of a portion of a mat A here shewn as of sections a
of rubber, circular in cross section; such as might be produced by cutting up a
waste, or disused tyre of a perambulator and these are locked by compression or
otherwise fixing into wire netting, here shown as of the ordinary hexagon twisted
mesh b, but this may be varied.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 shews one of the pieces of rubber in side view and plan view separately
as in Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 shews a side view of a section with a recess a¹ to take wire.
Fig. 5 shews a plan view and Fig. 6 a side view of a similar india rubber mat
the plugs or pieces of rubber a being held in relative position by means of crossed
laths of metal preferably zinc each lath being formed as a strip c with a series of
holes c-here shown as oval holes-so that when two series of crossed laths are
arranged one set side by side interwoven with the other set similarly arranged, but
with the sets at a different angle to one another as shewn by Fig. 7 so as to
bring the oval holes comparatively coincident thereby to present a large set of
openings to facilitate insertion of the plugs and then when these are in place the
frame of laths now hinged on the plugs is pulled into a position in which the laths
are at right angles, (see Fig. 5). One of these laths is shewn separately in
Fig. 8.
Fig. 9 shews a plan view and Fig. 10 an edge view of another modification in
which the plugs or sections of rubber or analogous material are made of square
shape with grooves or holes a³ to facilitate passage of dirt and Figs. 11 & 12 shew
like views of another and very simple form of plugs and strips.
Fig. 13 shews one strip separately as being holes to let dirt pass through and
Fig. 14 shews one of these square plugs.
The pattern, or order of arrangement of the pieces of rubber of the section
selected may be varied, as well as the form of section, according to circumstances.
The wire work, or metal lath or holding material may also be varied to the use
required.
In case of wear or loss of any of the plugs or sections it or their places can be
filled by other pieces at once.
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: :―
1. The arrangement or combination of sections, plugs or short pieces of india
rubber or similar compounds and wire netting or metal laths or equivalent holding
means as a mat or floor covering substantially in manner and for the purpose
described and illustrated in the drawings.
2. The manufacture and use of a combined india rubber and metal laths or
equivalent lath mat or similar floor covering substantially as set forth and shewn
by the drawings.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.