Year: 1885

page_text: I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of 67 Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication to
me from abroad by Herbert Joseph Harwood, of Boston, Massachusetts, United
States of America, Manufacturer, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention consists of two veneers of wood arranged flatwise on one another
and cemented or glued together with the grain of one crossing that of the other at
or about at right angles or obliquely thereto, combined with two coverings, one
thereof being of leather board or paper capable of being pebbled or embossed, and
the other being a finishing and water proof covering the first named covering
being applied and cemented on one of the outer surfaces of the two combined
veneers and being subsequently pebbled or embossed and colored when necessary,
and having applied to it the other or water-proof covering, which may be of any
textile fabric such as cotton, hemp or canvass.
In the drawings A and B denote the two sheets of wood veneering, and C the
pebbled covering, and D the water proof finishing or covering.
I am aware that chair seats have been made of two sheets of veneer arranged
one upon and cemented to the other, with the grain of one crossing that of the
other. I am also aware that the flat surface of a single veneer has been covered
with paper. Therefore I do not claim such.
When two sheets of veneer are glued together face to face, with the grain of one
crossing that of the other, and to the outer surface of one of them an embossed
covering of paper or leather board is applied and fixed, such covering is protected
from being split or cracked in any direction-which it would not be were it fixed
to one veneer without having to such veneer another one as described.
Heretofore in applying cloth or paper to a veneer, it has been to prevent the
latter from cracking or splitting, but in the present invention such is not the
purpose, the object being to support the embossed covering in a manner to enable

page_text: it to withstand a force tending to crack or split it and its water proof finishing
covering in any direction.
The said manufacture when finished has the appearance of being stiff pebbled
leather and for use as a chair seat or back is far preferable to and much more
durable than embossed or pebbled leather or leather board.
In making the article constituting this invention, one of the two veneers is first
to be covered on its two opposite faces with glue-after which it is to be placed
between the other veneer and the covering to be embossed. The whole is next to
be introduced between the bed or platen of a powerful press, and to be pressed
thereby, and held until dry or nearly so. The connected and pressed veneers and
covering are next to be run between the pebbling or embossing rolls of a pebbling
or embossing machine, so as to pebble or emboss the covering, as morocco leather
is pebbled or embossed, after which the covering is usually to be colored and
shellaced and varnished, in the ordinary way of finishing leather board for chair
seats or backs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The new article of manufacture, substantially as described, consisting of two
veneers of wood laid one upon the other and cemented together, and having the
grain of one crossing that of the other, a covering embossed or pebbled and colored
and cemented upon the outer surface of one of such veneers--all being essentially
as set forth.
2. A new article of manufacture, consisting of two veneers of wood laid flatwise
one upon the other and glued or cemented together with the grain of one crossing
that of the other, a covering embossed or pebbled and glued or cemented on the
outer surface of one of such veneers and a water proof finishing covering made of
paper or textile fabric applied to the pebbled surface, all being essentially as set
forth.