An Improved Manufacture of Woven Fabric, suitable for Covering Floors or Walls and for other Purposes.
Year: 1885

page_text: An Improved Manufacture of Woven Fabric, suitable for
Covering Floors or Walls and for other Purposes.
I, FRANCIS BOLTON of N° 4 The Sanctuary, Westminster in the County of
Middlesex, Knight, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRIC SUITABLE FOR COVERING FLOORS OR
WALLS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows :-
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My invention has mainly for its object to produce a fabric for covering floors or
walls consisting principally of linoleum or compounds of a similar nature that shall
have a colored design thereon existing more or less entirely throughout the body
of the fabric, so as not to be worn off by use, as is the case with fabrics having
designs printed upon their surface.
For this purpose, I, in the first instance make linoleum or similar material alone
or combined with any suitable binding material into threads filaments or ribbons, or
I coat threads, filaments or ribbons of any suitable material, with the linoleum
or similar compound, to the body of which any desired color has been imparted
and I then weave threads so manufactured or coated in any suitable known
manner so as to produce a woven fabric having a pattern formed by the different
colored threads which pattern will consequently last until the whole of the
compound is worn off or worn through.
The said fabric may be produced either entirely from such threads, or the warps
or the weft may consist wholly or partly of uncovered threads, forming a ground
that is overlaid by the linoleum threads in a similar manner to some kinds of
ordinary woven fabrics.
Although the object of my invention is mainly to produce a fabric having colored
designs thereon, yet the said manufacture may also be carried out with linoleum
threads of uniform color.
The coating of the threads may be effected in a similar manner to that employed
for coating telegraph wires with insulating material, or by any other suitable
known means.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Covering Floors or Walls and for other Purposes.
I, FRANCIS BOLTON of N° 4 The Sanctuary, Westminster in the County of
Middlesex, Knight, 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 :—
My invention has mainly for its object to produce a fabric for covering floors or
walls consisting principally of linoleum or compounds of a similar nature that shall
have a colored design thereon existing more or less entirely throughout the body
of the fabric, so as not to be worn off by use, as is the case with fabrics having
designs printed upon their surface.
For this purpose, I, in the first instance, coat threads, filaments or ribbons of
any suitable material, with the linoleum or similar compound, to the body of
which any desired color has been imparted, and I then weave such coated threads
in any suitable known manner so as to produce a woven fabric having a pattern
formed by the different colored coated threads which pattern will consequently last
until the whole of the compound is worn off. The said fabric may be produced
either entirely from such coated threads, or the warp or the weft may consist
wholly or partly of uncovered threads, forming a ground that is overlaid by the
coated threads in a similar manner to some kinds of ordinary woven fabrics.
Although the object of my invention is mainly to produce a fabric having
colored designs thereon, yet the said manufacture may also be carried out with
coated threads of uniform color.
The coating of the threads may be effected in a similar manner to that employed
for coating telegraph wires with insulating material, or by any other suitable
known means.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. An improved manufacture of woven fabric consisting of threads, filaments or
ribbons, coated with linoleum or similar compounds and woven together either
with or without the use of uncoated threads or filaments substantially as herein
described.
2. An improved manufacture of woven fabric having colored designs that extend
through the fabric, such fabric consisting of threads, filaments or ribbons coated
with linoleum or similar compounds colored with any desired pigments and woven
into colored designs or patterns substantially as herein described.
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ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.