IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF KAMPTULICON, LINOLEUM AND FLOOR CLOTH ALSO COVERINGS FOR ROOFS AND VARIOUS USEFUL PURPOSES to be as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: I ALEXANDER WILKINSON of 126 Peckham Park Road in the Parish of
Camberwell, County of Surrey, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of
my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF KAMPTULICON,
LINOLEUM AND FLOOR CLOTH ALSO COVERINGS FOR ROOFS AND VARIOUS USEFUL
PURPOSES to be as follows:-
"
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of kamptulicon
linoleum and Floor Cloth also coverings for roofs and various useful purposes.
According to the first part of my invention I take a suitable proportion of dried
peat or moss or any suitable vegetable fibrous material and grind it into a coarse
or a fine powder in a disintegrating machine. I then amalgamate it with a solution
of india rubber or gutta percha about five pounds in weight with twenty pounds in
weight of bisulphide of Carbon together with forty pounds in weight of benzoline
or rectified petroleum. I then use five pounds in weight of coal tar naptha to assist
the bisulphide of carbon and benzoline to render the india rubber and gutta percha
into a liquid or semi-liquid condition. These ingredients-en mass-are put into
an air tight box or tank and allowed to remain for about sixty hours and kept well
stirred and agitated.
After being removed from the box or tank the mass is filtered to take out the
lumps of gum which are not broken down by the action of the chemicals.
The mass in a plastic condition can be rolled on to the back of canvas or any
other fibrous material by the ordinary and well known machinery and for any
desired purpose.
When light floor cloth is to be produced in any shade of colour I take one
hundred weight of peat powder as herebefore described and place it into a box or
tank and well wash it so as to take the dirt or earthy substance away from it, it is
then passed through a wringing machine to separate the water from the peat.
I then take one pound in weight of potash together with three pounds of
sulphuric acid and add six pounds in weight of acetic acid these ingredients are
well mixed together in warm or cold water say about six gallons and then placed
into a tank containing the peat or moss in order to bleach the peat.

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If the liquid be too strong it can be broken down with a suitable quantity of
warm or cold water. The peat, moss or wood fibre is allowed to remain in the box
or tank for about twenty-four hours till all the coloring matter is drawn out of it.
After this process it is then taken back to the wringing machine and the liquid
separated from the fibre and then well rinsed in warm or cold water containing a
suitable proportion of soda as to form an alkali.
I then take a suitable proportion of grey lime commonly called quick lime and
break it down in a well known manner by the action of cold water to any given
strength, the liquid is then filtered to render it perfectly clean. I employ this liquid
as a rotting agent in order to reduce the fibre into a pulpy condition.
I then bleach it white or any particular shade that may be required by making
a liquid composed of sulphuric acid, and chloride of lime, ground sulphur (brimstone)
to which a small portion of soda may be added.
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After this process which takes about thirty six hours it is removed and taken
back to the machine to be washed, wrung and dried in the ordinary manner.
then amalgamate the peat or fibre with a sufficient quantity of glue or size such
glue or size that may be colorless by being boiled together with. starch and then it
may be taken and mixed with this or any other adhesive substance and readily
'rolled on to calico, canvas or the like. I in some cases employ a set of cut rollers
to emboss any ordinary pattern into the material or design in preference to putting
the pattern above the surface which is so liable to wear off by the constant traffic
of the feet.
It may if desired be readily printed by figured rollers in colored designs or by
sprinkling or dusting on powdered colors which will adhere by the action of japan,
gold size, varnishes or any other adhesive substance.
The floor cloth when thus made can have one, two or three coatings of the
waterproofing material mentioned in the first part of my specification as to render
the article perfectly waterproof and impervious to damp.

page_text: I ALEXANDER WILKINSON of 126 Peckham Park Road in the Parish of
Camberwell, County of Surrey, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF KAMPTULICON,
LINOLEUM AND FLOOR CLOTH ALSO COVERINGS FOR ROOFS AND VARIOUS USEFUL
PURPOSES," and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of Kamptulicon,
Linoleum, and floor cloth also coverings for roofs and various useful purposes.
According to the first part of my invention I take a suitable proportion of dried
peat or moss or any suitable vegetable fibrous material and grind it into a coarse or
a fine powder in a disintegrating machine. I then amalgamate it with a solution of
India rubber or gutta percha about five pounds in weight with twenty pounds in
weight of bisulphide of carbon together with forty pounds in weight of benzoline
or rectified petroleum I then use five pounds in weight of coal tar naptha to
assist the bisulphide of carbon and benzoline to render the India rubber and gutta
percha into a liquid or semi liquid condition. These ingredients en mass are put
into an airtight box or tank and allowed to remain for about sixty hours and kept
well stirred and agitated.
After being removed from the box or tank the mass is filtered to take out the
lumps of gum which are not broke down by the action of the chemicals.
The mass in a plastic condition can be rolled on to the back of canvas or any
other fibrous material by the ordinary and well known machinery and for any
desired purpose.
When light floor cloth is to be produced in any shade of color I take one
hundred weight of peat powder as here before described and place it into a box or
tank and well wash it so as to take the dirt or earthy substance away from it, it is
then passed through a wringing machine to separate the water from the peat I
then take one pound in weight of potash together with three pounds of sulphuric
acid and add six pounds in weight of acetic acid, these ingredients are well mixed
together in warm or cold water say about six gallons and placed into a tank
containing the peat or moss in order to bleach the peat. If the liquid be too strong
it can be broken down with a suitable quantity of warm or cold water.
The peat moss or wood fibre is allowed to remain in the box or tank for about
twenty four hours till all the coloring matter is drawn out of it.
After this process it is taken back to the wringing machine and the liquid
separated from the fibre and then well rinced in warm or cold water containing a
proportion of soda so as to form an alkali.
I then take a suitable proportion of grey lime commonly called quick lime and
break it down in a well known manner by the action of cold water to any given
strength the liquid is then filtered to render it perfectly clean. I employ this
liquid as a rotting agent in order to reduce the fibre into a pulpy condition, I then
bleach it white or any particular shade that may be required by making a liquid
composed of sulphuric acid and chloride of lime ground sulphur (brimstone) to
which a small portion of soda may be added.
After this process which takes about thirty six hours it is removed and taken back
to the machine to be washed wrung and dried in the ordinary manner I then
amalgamate the peat or fibre with a sufficient quantity of glue or size such glue or
size that may be colorless by being boiled together with starch and then it may be
taken and mixed with this or any other adhesive substance and readily rolled

page_text: on to calico, canvas or the like. I in some cases employ a set of cut rollers to
emboss any ordinary pattern into the material or design in preference to putting
the pattern above the surface which is so liable to wear off by the constant traffic
of the feet.
It may if desired be readily printed by figured rollers in colored designs or by
sprinkling or dusting on powdered colors which will adhere by the action of Japan,
gold size, varnishes, or any other adhesive substance.
The floor cloth when thus made can have one, two, or three coatings of the
water proofing material' mentioned' in the first part of my specification as to render
the article perfectly waterproof and impervious to damp.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The particular treatment of ingredients herein set forth for producing compounds
suitable for the manufacture of Kamptulicon, Linoleum and floor cloth also
coverings for roofs and various useful purposes as described.
Ine 24th day of October 1884.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the Applicant.