Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 14th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 14th Oct., 1887
1 LUDWIG OPPENHEIMER of Mulberry Street Hulme near Manchester in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer of Mosaic and Parquet Flooring do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :—
My invention relates to what is commonly known as wood-block-flooring and
consists in a method of securing each of the blocks forming such flooring to the block
or blocks adjoining it.
In carrying my invention into effect I form a hole or holes through each of such
blocks through which hole or holes I pass as I will hereinafter describe a nail peg
spike or screw or nails pegs spikes or screws by means of which each of the said
blocks may be secured to the block or blocks adjoining it.
In employing the blocks above mentioned to form a flooring each block is secured
to the foundation to which the before mentioned blocks are to be secured, by means
of pitch or any other cement ordinarily employed for such purpose and after each
block is secured to the said foundation I secure such block to the block or blocks
adjoining it by means of a nail, peg, spike or screw or nails pegs spikes or screws
which nail, peg, spike or screw or nails pegs, spikes or screws is or are passed
through the hole or holes formed through the said block and is or are driven into the
block or blocks adjoining the said block.
In some cases in carrying my invention into effect I dispense with the hole or holes
previously mentioned and secure each block to the block or blocks adjoining it by
means of a nail, peg, spike or screw or nails, pegs spikes or screws driven through
the said block into the block or blocks adjoining it.
By securing each of the wood-blocks forming the flooring to the block or blocks
adjoining it I prevent such blocks from being as readily displaced as they have
hitherto been.
Dated this Thintaouth dove of Desember 190
W. T. CHEETHAM,
Carlton Chambers,
18, Saint Ann's Street, Manchester,
Agent to the Applicant.

page_text: LUDWIG OPPENHEIMER of Mulberry Street, Hulme near Manchester in the County
of Lancaster, Manufacturer of Mosaic and Parquet Flooring, 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:-
My invention relates to what is commonly known as
« wood-block-flooring" and
consists in a method of securing each of the blocks forming such flooring to the block
or blocks adjoining it.
In carrying my invention into effect I form a hole or holes through each of such
blocks, through which hole or holes I pass as I will hereinafter describe a nail, peg,
spike or screw or nails, pegs, spikes or screws by means of which each of the said
blocks may be secured to the block or blocks adjoining it.
In employing the blocks above mentioned to form a flooring each block is secured
to the foundation to which the before mentioned blocks are to be secured by means
of pitch or any other cement ordinarily employed for such purpose and after each
block is secured to the said foundation I secure such block to the block or blocks
adjoining it by means of a nail, peg, spike or screw or nails, pegs, spikes or screws
which nail, peg, spike or screw or nails, pegs, spikes or screws is or are passed
through the hole or holes formed through the said block and is or are driven into the
block or blocks adjoining the said block.
In order that my invention may be better understood and carried into effect I have
hereunto annexed a drawing in which Fig. I is a plan and Fig. 2 a side view of one
of the blocks a of which the portion of wood-block-flooring shown by Fig. 3 is
composed Through each of the blocks a of which the wood-block-flooring is to be
formed I form a hole or holes b-In employing the blocks above mentioned to form
a flooring I proceed as I will now describe or in some such manner :-
The blocks a are secured by means of pitch or any other cement ordinarily
employed for such purpose to the foundation c to which they are to be secured―
Adjoining the blocks a' I place the blocks a² which I also secure to the foundation c
by means of pitch or other cement ordinarily employed for such purpose-I then
pass a nail, peg, spike or screw through each of the holes formed through each of the
blocks a² and drive the points of the nails, pegs, spikes or screws into the block or
blocks a¹ adjoining each of these blocks a-To secure the remaining blocks I proceed
in a similar manner. The nails, pegs, spikes or screws are indicated by dotted lines.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 show my invention as applied in securing together blocks arranged
in a pattern different from that illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3--the nails, pegs spikes
or screws being indicated by dotted lines.
In some cases in carrying my invention into effect I dispense with the hole or holes
previously mentioned and secure each block to the block or blocks adjoining it by

page_text: means of a nail, peg, spike or screw or nails, pegs spikes or screws driven through
the said block into the block or blocks adjoining it-By securing each of the wood
blocks forming flooring to the block or blocks adjoining it I prevent such blocks from
being as readily displaced as they have hitherto been.
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 herein before described mode of securing each of the blocks forming "wood-
block-flooring" to the block or blocks adjoining it by means of a nail, peg, spike or
screw or nails, pegs, spikes or screws passed through or through a hole or holes
formed in the block to be secured and driven into the previously secured block or
blocks adjoining the block to be secured.
Dated thin Thistanuth day of Santambar 1887
W. T. CHEETHAM,
Agent to the Applicant.