Improvements in Veneers.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1889
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Complete Specification Left, 2nd Aug., 1890-Accepted, 20th Sept, 1890
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Veneers.
I, ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES, of the firm of Win. Brookes & Son of 55 & 56
Chancery Lane in County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, (a communication from abroad
by Elliott H. Balmforth, of Wakefield Junction, in the State of Massachusetts
one of the United States of America, Mechanic,) do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-.
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This invention has for its object to provide a novel and cheap yet durable veneer
especially adapted to be used for dadoing, wainscoting, boxes and like purposes.
In accordance with my invention, my improved veneer is made of bamboo or other
analogous ligneous material, such as pepper cane and Japanese cane.
Bamboo possesses a rich and variegated appearance and when employed as
veneering for dadoing, wainscoting, boxes and like purposes produces a very pretty
effect, but prior to my invention bamboo has not been employed for veneering
purposes on account of its peculiar oily nature, which precludes the employment of
glue and like adhesive material to secure the veneer of bamboo to the body or surface
to be veneered.
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The bamboo untreated or in its natural state, owing to its oily nature referred to,
does not present a surface to which the glue can adhere with sufficient force to retain
the said bamboo against the surface to be veneered.
I have discovered by experiments that the bamboo and canes of the classes referred
to, may be adhered to the body to be veneered by means of glue or like adhesive
substance, by scoring or otherwise providing the surface of the bamboo, and preferably
of the body to which it is to be attached, with corrugations, saw cuts or grooves,
preferably extended in the direction of the grain or fibre of the wood, the said corru
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gations etcetera, presenting increased surface to be acted upon by the glue.

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does not present a surface to which the glue can adhere with sufficient force to retain
the said bamboo against the surface to be veneered.
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I have discovered by experiments that the bamboo and canes of the classes referred
to, may be made to adhere to the body to be veneered by means of glue or like
adhesive substance, by scoring or otherwise providing the surface of the bamboo, and
preferably of the body to which it is to be attached, with corrugations, saw cuts or
grooves, preferably extended in the direction of the grain or fibre of the wood, the
said corrugations etcetera, presenting increased surface to be acted upon by the
_. glue. .
My invention therefore consists, essentially, in an improved article of manu-
facture a veneered body consisting of a body or surface and a veneer of cane
provided with corrugations and secured to said body by adhesive material, sub-
stantially as will be described.
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Fig. 1 shows a sufficient portion of a bamboo veneered body to enable my invention
to be understood; Fig. 2, an end view of the same, Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a detail to be
referred to.
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The body a, preferably of white, but which may be of any other desired wood, is
provided with a veneer a' of bamboo or other analogous ligneous material such as
pepper and Japanese canes-secured thereto by an intervening layer a. (see Fig. 2)
of glue or other like adhesive material.
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To enable the veneer of bamboo to be secured to the body a by glue, I have
preferably provided one surface of the body a with corrugations,"saw-cuts," or
scorings a², and have provided the surface of the veneer 'a' with similar corru-
gations or saw-cuts a³, the said corrugations being preferably extended in the
direction of the fibre or grain of the wood. The corrugations a present increased
holding-surface for the glue to act upon and enable glue to be used to secure the
veneer a² to the body a.
I have herein described the body a as made of wood; but I do not desire to limit
my invention to the use of wood, as canvas or other woven or textile fabric' may be
used as a backing for the veneer.
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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 As an improved article of manufacture, a veneered body consisting of a body
or surface and a veneer a¹ of cane substantially as described, provided with corru-
gations and secured to the said body by adhesive material, substantially as described.
2: As an improved article of manufacture, à veneered 'body consisting of a body a,
provided with corrugations ², and a veneer a¹ of bamboo provided with corrugations a³
and secured to the body a by glue substantially as described. F
Dated the 1st d., of A.
11000
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.