Improvements in Boarded and Parquette Flooring.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1895-Accepted, 5th Oct.. 1895
[Communicated from abroad by OTTO HETZER, of 24 Ettersburger Strasse,
Weimar, Germany, Master Carpenter.]
Improvements in Boarded and Parquette Flooring.
1, OLIVER IMRAY, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:
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This invention has mainly reference to a construction of boarded or parquette
flooring described in the Specification to Patent No. 11299 of 1892, in which
longitudinal timbers or battens, laid upon suitable supports, had longitudinal grooves
formed on each side thereof, into which were slid tongues formed on the ends of
transverse boards or slabs, that were thus secured to the timbers or battens to form
a panelled or parquette floor.
By this construction a space was made to intervene between the underside of the
boards or slabs and the foundation floor on which the battens were lair.
The present invention has for its object to utilise the said longitudinal timbers or
battens for effecting the ventilation of the said space between the transverse boards
or slabs, and the foundation of the floor (which may be either of rough boarding,
concrete, or other material). For this purpose the said longitudinal timbers or
battens are made of an inverted trough shape, so that when laid on the foundation a
longitudinal channel is formed beneath them, which channel has side openings
communicating with the said spaces below the transverse board's or slabs. The said
longitudinal' channels are made to communicate at their ends either with openings
or channels in the walls leading to the outer air or with chimney flues so as to
produce a current of air through them, the channels being made also to communicate
by their side openings with air spaces formed in the skirting, such as were described
in the before mentioned Specification, which air spaces open into the room or other
locality, so that either the air of the room can pass down through the skirting into
the channels of the longitudinal timbers or battens and also into the spaces below
the transverse boards or slabs, or air from the outside can pass through the said
spaces and channels and up through the air spaces in the skirting, as may
be desired.
By this means an effective ventilation of the underside of the floor will be
produced, which will prevent all warping and the formation of fungus or dry rot.
The said side openings of the longitudinal timbers or battens can be covered with
wire gauze or perforated metal for preventing the entrance of mice and other vermin
into the said channels and spaces; these channels and spaces may also be more or
less filled in with any suitable light or porous material that will not prevent the
passage of air through them.
The longitudinal timbers or battens may be made of the required trough shape
of any desired depth, by fixing longitudinal pieces to each edge of their underside.
Dated this 4th day of December 1894.
ABEL & IMKAI,
Agents for the Applicant.

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I, OLIVER IMRAY, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in
the County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 :-
This invention has mainly reference to a construction of boarded or parquette
flooring described in the Specification to Patent No. 11299 of 1892, in which
longitudinal timbers or battens, laid upon suitable supports, had longitudinal grooves
formed on each side thereof, into which were slid tongues formed on the ends of
transverse boards or slabs, that were thus secured to the timbers or båttens to form
a panelled or parquette floor.
By this construction a space was made to intervene between the underside of the
boards or slabs and the foundation floor on which the battens were laid.
The present invention has for its object to utilise the said longitudinal timbers or
battens for effecting the ventilation of the said space between the transverse boards or
slabs, and the foundation of the floor (which may be either of rough boarding, concrete,
or other material). For this purpose the said longitudinal tumbers or battens are
made of an inverted trough shape, so that when laid on the foundation a longitudinal
channel is formed beneath them, which channel has side openings communicating
with the said spaces below the transverse boards or slabs. The said longitudinal
channels are made to communicate at their ends either with openings or channels
in the walls leading to the outer air or with chimney flues so as to produce a current
of air through them, the channels being made also to communicate by their side
openings with air spaces formed in the skirting, such as were described in the
before mentioned Specification, which air spaces open into the room or other
locality, so that either the air of the room can pass down through the skirting into
the channels of the longitudinal timbers or battens and also into the spaces below
the transverse boards or slabs, or air from the outside can pass through the
said spaces and channels and up through the air spaces in the skirting, as may be
desired.
By this means an effective ventilation of the underside of the floor will be
produced, which will prevent all warping and the formation of fungus or dry rot.
The said side openings of the longitudinal timbers or battens can be covered with
wire gauze or perforated metal for preventing the entrance of mice and other vermin
into the said channels and spaces; these channels and spaces may also be more or
less filled in with any suitable light or porous material that will not prevent the
passage of air through them.
The longitudinal timbers or battens may be made of the required trough
shape of any desired depth, by fixing longitudinal pieces to each edge of their
underside.
Fig. 1 sl ews a perspective view of part of a floor constructed according to my
above described invention. The longitudinal grooved battens A, into which the
boards B are fitted, are formed with longitudinal channels C with which the spaces D
beneath the boards B are made to communicate by means of side openings E, which
may be covered with wire gauze.
At the skirting a space G is left between the batten A and the wall H, as
shewn more clearly at the enlarged section at Fig. 2, which space communicates on
the one hand with the channel C through the side opening E and on the other
hand with a channel F' formed in the skirting and opening into the room, so that
the air from the latter can be drawn down through the said channel F and
space G into the channel C, which can either be put in communication with the

page_text: outer air or with a chimney flue. By this means an effectual ventilation of the
room as well as of the space under the flooring can be insured.
The air currents might also be made to flow in the reverse direction to that
described.
As before stated, the spaces beneath the floor boards and the channel C may be
partly filled in with suitable light or porous material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In flooring of the kind herein referred to, constructing the longitudinal battens
or timbers that carry the flooring boards or slabs, with longitudinal channels on
their undersides, which channels are made to communicate by means of lateral
openings with the spaces under the flooring boards or slabs and with air spaces at
the skirting, substantially as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.