Improvements in the Manufacture of Linoleum, Kamptulicon, and other similar Floor Cloths, and in the Means employed in such Manufacture.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Linoleum, Kamptulicon, and
other similar Floor Cloths, and in the Means employed in such
Manufacture.
We, JAMES SALTER FARMER, of the Firm of Sir James Farmer and Sons,
Adelphi Iron Works, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, and
HERBERT LUSHINGTON STOREY, and ISAAC HENRY STOREY, both of the Firm
of Storey Brothers and Company, White Cross Mills, Lancaster, in the said
County, Manufacturers of Oil Cloths, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows : :-
Our invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of what are known as
"Bolid colour" floor cloths, such as linoleum, kamptulicon, corticine and the like,
and our improvements relate chiefly to the filling in of fine lines or narrow spaces
in any portion of the pattern or design. In carrying our improvements into effect
we engrave or otherwise suitably prepare a roller, plate or other surface with
grooves corresponding to the lines required to be produced or filled in on the
finished design. These grooves are then filled in with the material or mixture of
materiale of which the linoleum or other floor cloth is to be made, and the material
in the grooves is then printed or discharged upon the textile or other fabric which
forms the foundation of the floor cloth. The solid colour blocks or pieces are then
placed in their proper positions upon the foundation fabric and by the application
of pressure the material discharged from the grooves is squeezed and forced upward
so as to fill up the interstices between the solid colour pieces.
Dated this 28th day of December 1892
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Linoleum, Kamptulicon, and
other similar Floor Cloths, and in the Means employed in such
Manufacture.
We, JAMES SALTER FARMER, of the Firm of Sir James Farmer and Sons,
Adelphi Iron Works, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, and
HERBERT LUSHINGTON STOREY and ISAAC HENRY STOREY, both of the Firm
of Storey Brothers and Company, White Cross Mills, Lancaster, in the said
County, Manufacturers of Oil Cloths, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of what are known as
"solid colour" floor cloths, such as linoleum, kamptulicon, corticine and the like,
and our improvements relate chiefly to the filling in of fine lines or narrow spaces
in any portion of the pattern or design.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect we will describe the accompanying two sheets of drawings reference being
had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of part of the machine for which Letters Patent
numbered 9222 were granted to us on 19th April 1892 and to which our present
improvements are applied. Fig. 2 is a part end elevation of the same and Fig. 3 is

page_text: a detail view of a grooved roller made and used according to our present improvements
for applying the material for the fine lines.
The textile or other fabric a, which forms the foundation of the floor cloth, is
led through the machine in the usual way, and has the solid colour blocks or
described
pieces 6 placed in their proper positions on it by means of the roller cas
in the Specification to our aforesaid Patent 9222 of 1892.
Previous to this however we place on the foundation fabric a the material or
mixture of materials d for the fine lines or narrow spaces between the blocks. or
pieces b, and this we effect by means of an engraved or otherwise suitably prepared
roller, plate or other surface.
In the drawings we show a roller e which is driven by a shaft fand bevel gears g
and has grooves on its surface corresponding to the lines required to be produced
or filled in on the finished design. The roller is supported at each end in an
open bearing in a slide block h fitted in a standard or frame i and adjustable
vertically by means of a slipper wedge ; and screw and locknuts k so as to raise
or lower the roller as required.
e
The material for the fine lines is furnished to the grooves of the roller e by a colour
box and an adjustable squeezing roller m which is supported at each end in a slide
block bearing fitted in the upper portion of the frame i and regulated up or down
by an adjusting screw n. The surplus material is removed from the surface of the
rollere by means of an adjustable doctor knife o which may either be stationary or
have a longitudinal reciprocating motion imparted to it by any suitable mechanism.
The material in the grooves of the roller è is conveyed to the foundation fabric a
by the rotation of the roller and printed or discharged upon the said fabric. A
convenient device for expressing the material is shown clearly in the detail view
Fig. 3 but any other suitable contrivance for the same purpose may be employed.
In the arrangement illustrated the grooves are formed in blocks or pistons p fitted
in recesses in the face of the roller e and each piston p is in turn by the rotation of
the roller brought into contact with a stationary but adjustable cam 9 by which it
is forced outward and the contents pressed down upon the travelling foundation
fabric a.
The cam 9 is supported on a stud r carried by a bracket sand:fixed in
position by a screw t.
After this has been done the fabric a moves forward to the roller c to receive
from it some of the blocks or pieces 6 and then to another roller c (not shown) to
receive the remaining or part of the remaining pieces 6 and so on according to the
number of rollers c employed. Then the foundation fabric a with the blocks or
pieces 6 thereon is led through a press and by the application of pressure the
material d discharged from the grooves is squeezed and forced upward so as 'to fill
up the interstices between the solid colour pieces b.
It will be readily understood that if found convenient or desirable from the nature
of the pattern or design or for other reason more than one grooved rollere or other
like prepared surface may be employed to apply the material d for the fine lines
to the foundation fabric.
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 combination with a roller or rollers for applying the solid colour blocks
or pieces to the foundation fabric of a floor cloth, of a grooved roller or like
prepared surface for applying the material for filling up the fine lines or interstices
between said blocks or pieces substantially as herein described with reference to
the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination and general arrangement of parts embodying our improvements
in machines employed in the manufacture of solid colour floor cloths substantially as
and for the purposes herein described with reference to the drawings annexed.
3. As an improved article of manufacture a floor, cloth in which the material or
mixture of materials for the fine lines or narrow spaces in the finished design is
1.
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page_text: first placed on the foundation fabric and after the solid colour blocks or pieces
have been placed in their proper positions the material is by the application of
pressure squeezed and forced upward to fill up the interstices between the said solid
colour pieces substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 26th day of October 1893.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.