A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OF FLOORING
Year: 1884

page_text: I, SIMON BIVORT, of Jumet, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention for A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OF
FLOORING to be as follows:-
Hitherto, whenever rich floorings have been laid down, the small pieces of wood
composing the floors, have been so many separate and distinct elements which the
workmen put together on the spot, placing them one beside the other, without
there being any common element of union amongst the various parts.
My invention relates to a mode of ready formed panels, capable of being sold as
such, and consisting of a series of small boards placed side by side, glued, or not,
upon a wooden or other suitable bottom, and held firmly in position upon it, by a
frame, preferably of oak, but which may be of iron, constituted in such manner
that the small boards together with the bottom, may fit or dovetail into it.
The frame is provided with projections, so that when the whole is fitted
together, the panels may fit into each other.

page_text: I, SIMON BIVORT, Jument, Belgium, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of my said invention for A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OF FLOORING, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
Hitherto, whenever rich floorings have been laid down, the small pieces of wood
composing the floors have been so many separate and distinct elements which the
workmen put together on the spot, placing them one beside the other, without
there being any common element of union amongst the various parts.
My invention relates to a mode of ready formed pannels, capable of being sold as
such, and consisting of a series of small boards placed side by side, glued or not,
upon a wooden or other suitable bottom, and held firmly in position upon it by a
frame, preferably of oak, but which may be of iron, constituted in such manner
that the small boards, together with the bottom, may fit or dovetail into it.
The frame is provided with projections, so that when the whole is fitted
together, the pannels may fit into each other.
In order that my invention may be better understood, I have illustrated it in
the accompanying drawing, in which fig 1. is a plan view of four pannels fitted
into each other in the ordinary way, A being the frame, and fig 2 a vertical section
of two pannels, the parts B and B shewing how the frame on the one hand, and
the small boards and the bottom of the pannel, on the other hand, are fitted one
into the other.
The recess in the frame is shown to be of dovetail shape, this being the one
most suitable for assuring a firm and durable joint, but I do not limit myself to
this particular form of joint, as other shapes may be devised to attain the same end.
The small boards and the bottom supporting them may be glued together or not
as desired.
Pannels formed as above are much more simple, and therefore easier and less
costly to place than to form floorings by the old system. They make floorings
formed of them thoroughly firm by removing the danger of damage by the play of
the pieces of wood when the latter are not bound together, and so to speak
imprisoned as in my invention.
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
The construction or manufacture of pannels consisting in the combination in
larger or smaller number, of small boards juxtaposed, with a wooden or other
suitable bottom, and kept in position by a frame, for the construction of floorings
substantially as above described.