AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF PARQUET FLOORING
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marie Firmin Charles Turpin, of 22, Queen's Road,
Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Joiner, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF PARQUET FLOORING."
Sealed the 23rd March 1877, and dated the 9th October 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marie Firmin Charles Turpin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1876.
MARIE FIRMIN CHARLES TURPIN, of 22, Queen's Road, Bayswater, in the County
of Middlesex, Joiner. "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF PARQUET FLOORING."
This Invention is designed to provide a strong and efficient thin floor covering
as a substitute for the thick parquet, where the laying of the latter is not
practicable.
"
My Invention consists of making use of the decorative portion of my ordinary
plated flooring, which is a little under inch thick, which is prepared in the usual
well-known manner, and then I inlay these decorative wood patterns on either one,
two, three, or more thicknesses of deal or any other kind of timber which I think
fit to adopt; each of these sundry thicknesses forming the backing are laid crossways
of the grain of the wood at right angles of each other, see Figure A, and are firmly
secured to each other by means of either glue or any strong adhesive substance, and
when so prepared are placed under a powerful hydraulic press which will remove
the surplus glue or other adhesive substance not wanted; the whole of this backing
thus made in either one, two, three, or more laminations will not exceed in
thickness of an inch or thereabouts.
The superiority of my Invention consists of rendering such parquet flooring,
although only about 19 of an inch thick altogether including ornamental pattern
and backing, as aforesaid described, equally as strong and equivalent in power of

page_text: resistance as any parquet flooring made one inch thick, and it would be capable of
resisting the strain of heavy bodies placed upon it without having power of dis-
turbing the decorative parts of such flooring, it will also resist the strain caused by
any badly laid under flooring upon which this thin ornamental inlaid parquet, is
destined to cover without disturbing the joints as is now the case with any other
thin flooring, which back is only held together by means of substances such as
paper, canvas, or any other fabric.
My Invention is of a permanent character, cheap in execution, and can be
removed at pleasure from the under flooring without being disturbed or damaged
in any way by the removal.
And in order that this my Invention may be properly understood I have annexed
a Drawing, wherein A represents ornamental parquet flooring; B represents first
lamination as backing to parquet laid longitudinally; C represents second lami-
nation as backing to parquet laid transversely; D represents third lamination as
backing to parquet laid longitudinally.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Maric Firmin Charles Turpin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th April 1877.
MARIE FIRMIN CHARLES TURPIN, of No. 22, Queen's Road, Bayswater, in
the County of Middesex, Joiner. "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF PARQUET
FLOORING."
This Invention is designed to provide a strong and efficient thin floor covering
as a substitute for the thick parquet, where the laying of the latter is not
practicable.
My Invention consists of making use of the decorative portion of my ordinary
plated flooring, which is a little under inch thick, which is prepared in the usual
well-known manner, and then I inlay these decorative wood patterns on either one,
two, three, or more thicknesses of deal or any other kind of timber which I think
fit to adopt; each of these sundry thicknesses forming the backing are laid cross-
ways of the grain of the wood at right angles of each other, see Figure A, and are
firmly secured to each other by means of either glue or any strong adhesive
substance, and when so prepared are placed under a powerful hydraulic press which
will remove the surplus glue or other adhesive substance not wanted, the whole of
this backing thus made in either one, two, three, or more laminations will not
exceed in thickness of an inch or thereabouts.
The superiority of my Invention consists of rendering such parquet flooring,
although only about of an inch thick altogether including ornamental pattern
and backing, as before described, equally as strong and equivalent in power of
resistance as any parquet flooring made one inch thick, and it would be capable of
resisting the strain of heavy bodies placed upon it without having power of dis-
turbing the decorative parts of such Hooring, it will also resist the strain caused by
any badly laid under flooring upon which this thin ornamental inlaid parquet is
destined to cover without disturbing the joints, as is now the case with any other
thin flooring, which back is only held together by means of substances such as
paper, canvas, or any other fabric.
My Invention can be removed at pleasure from the under flooring without being
disturbed or damaged in any way by the removal.
And in order that this my Invention may be properly understood I have annexed
a Drawing, wherein A represents ornamental parquet flooring; B represents first
lamination as backing to parquet laid longitudinally; C represents second lami-

page_text: nation as backing to parquet laid transversely; D represents third lamination as
backing to parquet laid longitudinally.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marie Firmin Charles Turpin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
Signed, scaled, and delivered,
by the above-named Marie
Firmin Charles Turpin in
the presence of
JOSEPH EARL,
Clerk to Messrs. Randall & Angier,
Solrs.,
Gray's Inn,
London.
M. F. C. TURPIN. (L.S.)