Wainscoating, Flooring, or other Purpose.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 29th Jan., 1889
Wainscoating, Flooring, or other Purpose.
We CLEMENT LOCKE SMILES of 15 Bedford Row in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman and WILLIAM JOHN DAVIDSON of 6 Academy Buildings Fanshaw Street
Hoxton in the County of Middlesex Manager to the Patent Wood Decorating Company
Limited do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to provide match boarding or the like which is
readily and cheaply made and fixed together and which is stronger than is match
bearding as hitherto made and capable of use for partitioning wainscoating flooring
or other purpose to which such boards are or may be applicable.
According to this Invention the side edges of the boards which are opposed when
the boards are placed together are formed the one with a wedge like shape in cross-
section tapering at each side from the full thickness of the board and the other
with a groove wedge shape in cross section to correspond to the wedge shape of
the first named edge.
When the boards are placed together the wedge shaped part of the one engages
in the wedge shaped recess of the other. The joints may be made between the
boards directly or with the intervention of a strip which may fulfil the office of an
ornamental heading or the like it being preferably grooved on both edges and the
boards having wedge shaped projections on both edges.
The joint made according to this Invention presents the further advantage that it
is free from binding of the tongue and it can be easily fixed and the nails or other
means of fixing be covered by the joint so as to be concealed.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agents.

page_text: Wainscoating, Flooring, or other Purpose.
We, CLEMENT LOCKE SMILES of 1 Bedford Row in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman and WILLIAM JOHN DAVIDSON of 6 Academy Buildings, Fanshaw Street
Hoxton in the County of Middlesex, Manager to the Patent Wood Decorating Company
Limited 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:-
The object of, this Invention is to provide match boards which are readily and
cheaply made and fixed together and which are stronger than is match boarding as
hitherto made and is capable of use for partitioning wainscoating flooring (either in
long boards or in short boards constituting blocks) or for other purposes to which
such boards are or may be applicable.
According to this Invention the side edges of the boards which are opposed when
the boards are placed together are formed the one with a wedge like shape in cross
section tapering at each side of the board and the other with a groove wedge shape
in cross section to correspond to the wedge shape of the first named edge but each
with a portion at right angles to the top surface or an analogous strengthening part
which will prevent the upward warping of the edge of the board to above the general
level of the flooring or the like which would be liable to occur if the edge of the
_board at the upper surface terminated in an acute angle at the level of the upper
surface.
When the boards are placed together the wedge shaped part of the one engages
in the wedge shaped recess of the other. The joints may be made between the boards
directly or with the intervention of a strip which may fulfil the office of an orna-
mental beading or the like it being either grooved on both edges and the boards
having wedge shaped projections on both edges or vice versa or the strip having a
wedge shaped projection on one edge engaging with a corresponding groove on the
edge of the adjacent board and the other edge of the strip having a wedge shaped
groove with which a wedge shaped projection on the edge of the adjacent board
engages. Where short boards constituting in effect blocks are used and the ends as
well as the sides have to be engaged the ends will be formed similarly to the sides.
The joint made.according to this Invention presents the further advantage that it is
free from binding of the tongue and it can be easily fixed and the nails or other means
of fixing be covered by the joint so as to be concealed.
The accompanying drawings illustrate match boards or the like provided with a
joint according to this Invention."
Figure 1 shows a simple form the two boards shewn in transverse section being
marked A and B. They have each at one edge a wedge shaped longitudinal groove d
and at the other edge a wedge shaped projection and a right angled abutmen

page_text: at c². Figure 2 shews the same with the right angled abutment at c cut away so
as to form a V shaped channel at the face of the joint. Figure 3 is a view of
the same joint as that shewn at Figure 1 but drawn to a larger scale and Figure 4
shews a form of joint for reversible boards or blocks wherein engaging curved pro-
jections and recesses d are introduced into the joint with right angled abutments c
both at top and bottom so as to constitute a reversible joint enabling hoth sides of
the board to be used for top surface or face side. Figures 5, 6 and 7 shew at C in
various forms of outer surface the intermediate strip hereinbefore named with a
groove on one edge and a projection on the other edge although it is to be under-
stood that there may be a projection or a groove on both edges the edges of the
boards being correspondingly formed.
Figure 8 shews another form of the inter surface of the boards so that when they
are placed together they form a continuous wave surface.
In Figures 3, 4 and we have shewn a nail at fillustrating how the nails or
screws by which the boards are secured to the framing or the like to which they
are attached can be driven so that the edge of the adjacent board covers the nail or
screw heads. It will be observed that the groove formed at c Figures 2, 5, 6 and 7
and the raised part at x Figure 8 answer the purpose of the right angled abutment
at in Figures 1, 3 and 4 in preventing an acute angled edge (which is liable to
break) from warping and rising above the general level of the outer or top surface
of the wainscoating flooring or the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :
Match boards (whether in long boards or in short boards constituting in effect
blocks) with joints formed as described and illustrate with or without the intervening
strip for the purposes described.
1 1 10th day of December 1888.