Improvements in Wood Block Flooring.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1890-Accepted, 9th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wood Block Flooring.
I CHARLES JOHN LONGLEY of Matlock House, Crawley in the County of Sussex,
Contractor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a Wood Block Flooring so constructed
that the blocks are securely held to each other and prevented from leaving the
substratum or bed upon which they are placed.
For this purpose I cut a tapered groove running along the sides of the blocks to
receive the tapered ends of the lower portion of the blocks, the upper portion of the
blocks are cut square, but the lower portions are a little longer at each end, the ends
being tapered to fit the grooves as above referred to, on the underside I make
two "AA" shaped grooves the whole length of the blocks.
In carrying out my invention the blocks are laid upon a specially prepared adhesive
composition in a heated condition and the composition is forced up into the grooves,
sets and hardens whereby they become firmly embedded and secured to the cement
or any other suitable foundation.
Among the advantages of my invention I may mention that a perfectly damp proof
floor is obtained, and a level flooring is ensured.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1890
THOMAS H. MELLOR,
110, St. James's Street, Brighton, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wood Block Flooring.
I CHARLES JOHN LONGLEY of Matlock House, Crawley, in the County of Sussex,
Contractor, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide a Wood Block Flooring so constructed
that the blocks are securely held to each other and prevented from leaving the
substratum or bed upon which they are placed.
In order that my invention may be more readily understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings on which letters of reference are
marked on corresponding parts of all the figures alike.
Fig. 1. is a perspective view of my improved wood block.
Fig. 2 is a view of the wood block inverted.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of a portion of laid flooring.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged section on line a. b. of Fig. 3.
In carrying out my invention I take a block of wood A which may be of a square
shape, or may be of an oblong shape as shewn in drawings, or any other shape, and
I cut the sides B of the upper portion of it square, the lower portion of the wood
block is a little longer at each end, the sides C being splayed or tapered in an
inward direction, and the ends D are splayed or tapered in a reversed manner,
and on the underside of the wood block I cut two parallel grooves d from end
to end.
In laying a wood block flooring as at Fig. 3 I place the splayed edge C in justa-
position with the reversed splay D of the adjacent block, the two splays which come
in contact exactly fitting each other in such a way that the blocks form a perfectly
secure and immovable floor and rendering it impossible for any blocks to work
loose.

page_text: The said blocks are laid upon a specially prepared adhesive composition in a heated
condition which being forced up into the grooves by a sliding motion, sots and hardens
whereby they become firmly embedded and secured to the cement or any other
suitable foundation, besides maintaining a perfectly damp proof and level flooring.
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 :-
First In wood block flooring; a wood block, having the sides of the lower
portion splayed or tapered in an inward direction, and the ends of the lower portion
splayed or tapered in the reversed way, substantially as and for the purposes
herein-
before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the drawings annoxed.
Second-The formation of parallel grooves on the underside of each block,
substantially as and for the purposes described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the
drawings annoxed.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1890
THOMAS H. MELLOR,
110, St. James's Street, Brighton, Agent for the Applicant.