A NEW AND IMPROVED MODE OF COVERING SURFACES WITH WOOD
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France,
and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for
the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED MODE OF COVERING SURFACES
WITH WOOD." -A communication from Edouard Maitre residing
at Veuxaulles, in the Republic of France, Gentleman.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 5th June 1873, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "A NEW AND
IMPROVED MODE OF COVERING SURFACES WITH WOOD," communicated to me by

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of France, Gentleman, and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant
unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters
Patent for the same, and made solemn declaration that it is a
communication.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, reference being had
to the accompanying Drawings and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to a new and improved mode of manufacturing
wooden floors or contabulations and wainscots of inlaid wooden work or
wooden marquetry, and consists in employing for this purpose the most
part of pieces of waste wood and even pieces of wood of a very much
smaller size by inserting them between entire friezes or little boards
designed for making the floors and wainscots, in making mechanically by
machines well known for working wood, and in finishing entirely in the
workshop each frieze or friezes jointed together for manufacturing the
aera of a floor or contabulation. For this purpose the wood or the little
boards are cut by half or by the third part of the ordinary width of the
friezes, that is to say, about from one inch and half to one inch and
three-quarters, and to ten inches about long, but these dimensions may
be modified. Having been worked in ordinary manner on the side,
the little boards or friezes are jointed together by means of the tongues
and grooves in such a manner to form panels of about twelve or sixteen
inches long and about ten inches broad (the length of the friezes). The
ends of the said panels are then worked at right angles or obliquely by
means of winding or other machines, then each frieze or panel has about
a dimension of a mathematical exactness. In that state the friezes may
be set in position separately or jointed together in panels as squares of
enamel brick without any further planing or finishing off.
The manner of manufacturing the said panels is illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents a panel consisting
of ten friezes or little boards adjusted together by means of their tongues
and grooves.
a, a, are entire friezes of a single piece, and b, b, friezes
consisting of several pieces of wood. The said friezes and panels thus

page_text: settled may be cut and worked obliquely to form the contabulation called
point of Hungary.
Fig. 2 represents a side view of a panel the friezes or little boards
of which are jointed together by means of tongues and grooves as usual,
and by means of two pegs or spindles c, c, which pass through each
little board from one end to the other of the panel. Fig. 3 is a side
view of a panel the friezes of which are jointed and maintained close
together by means of cross pieces d, d, instead of pegs. When the
friezes or little boards will be put in position very much obliquely, and to
not increase the number of joists, the ends of the friezes are put together
by little cross pieces having the same thickness than that of the con-
tabulation or floor instead of joists or false joists.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the precise details herein indicated, as these may
obviously be modified without departing from the principle of the said
Invention, but what I claim and desire to secure by the said Royal
Letter Patent is, the manufacture of friezes (contabulation friezes)
smaller than the ordinary friezes, the joining in panels of the said friezes,
the inserting between the said friczes of the smallest pieces of wood, the
working on the ends of the said friezes and panels in such a manner that
they will be entirely finished in workshop and fit for the construction of
floorings, contabulations, or wainscots, substantially as before described
and illustrated in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereto set my hand and seal, this Second day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.