An Improved Tread for Stairs and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: iate of Application, 25th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left. 6th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
An Improved Tread for Stairs and the like.
I, ARTHUR BURGESS SOAR Wireworker, 8 Phipp Street London E.C. do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved tread for stairs &c. consisting of woven wire or wire netting into
the meshes of which lead or other softer material is inserted by pressure or other-
wise, so as to form a surface of two different metals, or a metal and a softer material.
The interlaced wires serve to hold the lead or other soft material together and
prevent it from spreading, at same time giving a better and more durable tread.
Dated this 25th day of January 1894.
An Improved Tread for Stairs and the like.
1, ARTHUR BURGESS SOAR, of 8 Phipp Street, in the County of London,
Wireworker, 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 :-
This improved tread for stairs and the like consists of woven wire or wire netting
into the meshes of which lead or other softer material is inserted by pressure or
otherwise, so as to form a surface of two different metals or a metal and a softer
material. The interlaced wires serve to hold the lead or other softer material
together and prevent it from spreading, at the same time giving a better and more
durable tread.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawing
which represents in perspective a piece of the material constructed according to
this invention a portion of the view showing the material as complete and another
portion showing the wire gauze without the leaden or other filling.
A is the woven wire, wire netting and B the leaden or other comparatively soft
filling which may be incorporated with it by any convenient means so as to fill up
the interstices of A, and, as it were, build it up to form generally-smooth surfaces
at the two sides. The material may be formed with A nearer one face of B than
the other as shown in the drawing so as at one side to present a surface say partly
of wire and partly of lead and at the other side wholly of lead or equivalent;
these two surfaces may be used alternatively.
The before described material provides a very tough and durable non-slipping
tread surface, the woven wire or wire netting serving to bind the lead or
equivalent B and prevent it from spreading, as it generally does when used in sheet
form and without any such binding agent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The use of woven wire or wire netting in stair or other treads as a basis in
which to embed lead or other comparatively soft material for the purpose of
holding or binding the latter together and preventing it from spreading.

page_text: 2. A tread for stairs and other surfaces composed of a comparatively soft material
such as lead or equivalent and a harder material such as woven wire or wire
netting the latter serving to bind together and hold the former substantially as
described.
3. In a tread for stairs and other surfaces the combination with woven wire or
wire netting of a softer material such as lead embedded in or incorporated with it
and filling up its interstices substantially as described.
4. A tread for stairs and other surfaces consisting partly of woven wire or wire
netting and partly of a softer material such as lead or equivalent embedded in or
incorporated with it both the lead and wire appearing at one side of the tread and
only the lead or equivalent at the other substantially as described.
5. The improved tread for stairs and the like substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of October 180A
A. BURGESS SOAR.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.