Improvements in the Manufacture of Floor Cloth.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 1st Aug., 1896-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Floor Cloth.
I, FREDERICK WALTON of No. 114 Holborn in the City of London,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to the manufacture of striped and figured floor cloth,
the stripes and figures being in colours which are not merely superficial but extend
throughout the thickness of the floor cloth material to the backing fabric which
carries it.
For this purpose, I cut from variously colored sheets of floor cloth material a
number of equal circular discs having central holes. I string these side by side
on a shaft, placing the colors in any order desired for the pattern, and I press the
discs firmly together so as to form them into a compact cylinder. I cause this to
revolve while a knife parallel to the axis rapidly reciprocates or travels and it and
the cylinder gradually approach each other, a continuous sheet being thus cut
from the cylinder, having parallel stripes corresponding with the colored discs
from which it is cut. The sheet as it leaves the cylinder is received on backing
fabric and led away to be pressed against a heated cylinder by which the stripes
are caused to cohere and to adhere to the backing.
When it is desired to form a pattern in which the stripes or some of them are
interrupted by parts of other colors instead of some of the complete discs, I place
on the shaft parts of discs in the form of circular sectors of the desired colors, the
sectors in any layer being such as to make up the complete circle.
When the pattern has to have stripes of considerable width, I roll strips of the
required width of the different colors each on a core like tape rolled on a bobbin,
and having arranged a number of these rolls according to the desired pattern,
I unwind from them simultaneously strips which pass together side by side along
with backing fabric, to be acted on by pressing rollers causing them to cohere and
to adhere to the backing.
A sheet consisting of coliering parallel colored strips may be cut transversely
into strips, which may be wound on bobbins to be made up with other strips into
sheets which are thus diversified by rows of variously colored rectangles resulting
from the cross cutting of the striped sheets.
Dated this 1st day of November 1895.
ABEL & IMKAI,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in the manufacture of
1, FREDERICK WALTON, of No. 114 Holborn, in the City of London,.
Manufacturer, 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 relates to the manufacture of striped and figured floor cloth, the

page_text: stripes and figures being in colours which are not merely superficial but extend
throughout the thickness of the floor cloth material to the backing fabric which
carries it.
For this purpose I cut from variously coloured sheets of plastic floor cloth
material a number of equal circular discs having central holes. I string these
side by side on a shaft, placing the colours in any order desired for the pattern,
and I press the discs firmly together so as to form them into a compact cylinder.
By means of apparatus, like that used for cutting a continuous veneer from a
cylindrical log, I cause this composite cylinder to revolve while a knife parallel to
the axis rapidly reciprocates or travels, and it and the cylinder gradually approach
each other, a continuous sheet being thus cut from the cylinder, having parallel
stripes corresponding with the coloured discs from which it is cut. The sheet as
it leaves the cylinder is received on backing fabric and led away by suitable guide
rollers to be pressed against a heated cylinder by which the stripes are caused to
cohere and to adhere to the backing.
For producing comparatively short pieces of striped floor cloth, instead of cutting
them from a cylinder as described, successive sheets may be cut from the side of a
pile of the coloured sheets superposed.
When the pattern has to have stripes of considerable width I roll strips of the
required width of the different colours each on a core like tape rolled on a bobbin,
and having arranged a number of these rolls, according to the desired patterns, side
by side I unwind from them simultaneously the strips which pass together side by
side along with backing fabric to be acted on by heated pressing rollers causing
them to cohere and to adhere to the backing.
A sheet consisting of cobering parallel coloured strips may be cut transversely
into strips which may be wound on bobbins to be made up with other strips into
sheets which are thus diversified by rows of variously coloured rectangles resulting
from the cross cutting of the striped sheets.
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 :-
..
1. The herein described manufacture of striped mosaic floor cloth by cutting a
continuous sheet from a cylinder made up of discs of variously coloured floor cloth
material, and fixing the sheet on backing fabric.
2. The modified process of manufacture according to which successive sheets are
cut from the side of a pile of variously coloured sheets superposed and fixed on
backing fabric.
3. The herein described manufacture of mosaic floor cloth having variously
coloured wide stripes by cutting these strips from variously coloured sheets winding
them on bobbins, then from the bobbins placed side by side unwinding the stripes
simultaneously and fixing them on backing fabric.
1000
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.