IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MATS, FLOOR- CLOTHS, OR COVERINGS FOR FLOORS, STRAPS, BANDS, ROPES, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS ARTICLES WHICH ARE USUALLY MADE OF TEXTILE OR FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MATS, FLOOR-
CLOTHS, OR COVERINGS FOR FLOORS, STRAPS, BANDS, ROPES, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS
ARTICLES WHICH ARE USUALLY MADE OF TEXTILE OR FIBROUS MATERIALS."-A
communication from abroad by Placide Peltereau, of 45, Rue St.
Sebastien, Paris, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 15th January 1864, and dated the 21st July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st July 1863.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, G6, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
MATS, FLOORCLOTHS, OR COVERINGS FOR FLOORS, STRAPS, BANDS. ROPES, AND OTHER
ANALOGOUS ARTICLES WHICH ARE USUALLY MADE OF TEXTILE OR FIBROUS MATERIALS'
to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in substituting for the textile materials usually
employed in the manufacture of mats, carpets, floorcloths, or coverings for
Hoors, straps, bands, ropes, and other analogous articles, strips of leather or
skins, especially waste strips.
In carrying out the Invention I divide or cut up the leather into bands or

page_text: strips of greater or less length, and of various widths, thickness, or form, such
ns round, square, flat, or half-round. In order to obtain strips of the requisite
ength I join the pieces end to end by means of some suitable cement, or by
pinning or otherwise connecting them together. The strips or lengths are
then arranged in the form of a warp and are woven into a fabric of the
required width, according to whether a narrow fabric, such as a strap, band,
or rope, is required, or it is intended to make a mat, carpet, floorcloth, or
other wide fabric. When it is proposed to make the latter kind of article,
the leather strips may be stained or dyed of various colours before being woven,
or the fabric, when made, may be ornamented by printing or staining.
If desired, strands of textile or fibrous materials may be used in combi-
nation with the leather strands, but the latter will constitute the principal
substance employed in the manufacture.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Newton, in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 20th January 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, T, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William Edward Newton, Her special license that I,
the said William Edward Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
MATS, FLOORCLOTHS, OR COVERINGS FOR FLOORS, STRAPS, BANDS, ROPES. AND OTHER
ANALOGOUS ARTICLES WHICH ARE USUALLY MADE OF TEXTILE OR FIBROUS MATERIALS,"
being a communication from Placide Peltereau, of Rue St. Sebastien, Paris,
in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said William Edward Newton, by an instrument in writing under my hand

page_text: and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement (that is to say) :-
This Iuvention consists in substituting for the textile materials usually
employed in the manufacture of mats, carpets, floorcloths or coverings for
floors, straps, bands, ropes, and other analogous articles, strips of leather or
skins, especially waste strips.
In carrying out the Invention I divide or cut up the leather into bands or
strips of greater or less length, and of auy convenient width or thickness, and
of various forins, such as round, square, flat, or half-round, according to the
purposes for which the article intended to be produced is to be employed.
In order to obtain strips of the requisite length I join the pieces end to end
by ineaus of some suitablecement, or by pinning or otherwise connecting them
together, and in order to present an uniformity of appearance when the article
is made, the strips of leather must be reduced to an uniform width. When the
strips are cut from a wide skin they may, of course, be cut up with accuracy
and without waste; but if the strips used for the purposes of this Invention
are to be obtained from waste pieces of unequal widths and thickness, then
such pieces should be passed under fixed cutting instruments for the purpose
of removing any extraneous or waste substance, and reducing the strips to the
desired dimensions. The strips or lengths are then arranged in the form of a
warp, and are woven into a fabric of the required width according to whether
a narrow fabric, such a strap, band, or rope is required, or it is intended to
make a mat, carpet, floorcloth, or other wide fabric. When it is proposed
to make the latter kind of article, the leather strips may be stained or dyed
of various colours before being woven, or the fabric, when made, may be
ornamented by printing or staining.
If desired, strands of textile or fibrous materials may be used in combination
with the leather strands, but the latter will constitute the principal substance
employed in the manufacture.
Having now described the Invention of "improvements in the manufacture
of mats, floorcloths or coverings for floors, straps, bands, ropes, and other
analogous articles which are usually made of textile or fibrous materials, and
having explained the manner of carrying the same into effect as communicated

page_text: to me by my foreign correspondent, I claim as the Invention secured to me by
Letters Patent as aforesaid, "the manufacture of the articles above nained or
referred to from strips or bands of waste or other leather, either alone or in
combination with textile or fibrous substances."
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton,have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of January, in the year
cf our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
W. E. NEWTON. (L.E)