An Improved Method of Decorating with Mosaic Patterns Linoleum, Felt, Cloth, Paper, Cardboard, Asbestos-board, and similar materials or combinations thereof.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th May, 1893-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Decorating with Mosaic Patterns Linoleum,
Felt, Cloth, Paper, Cardboard, Asbestos-board, and similar
materials or combinations thereof.
I, RICHARD COCHRANE of No. 5 Oldfield Terrace, Acton Vale in the County
of Middlesex Carpet and Upholstery Designer 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 :-
I take sheets of linoleum, felt, cloth, paper, cardboard, asbestos-board, or sheets
of similar materials and of varying colours and cut them into strips which I arrange
in accordance with a prepared design. I next place side by side upon a plane
surface strips of the proper colour size and material to form one section of the
design and I coat this layer of strips with a suitable adhesive cement. Upon this
first layer of strips I place side by side strips of the proper colour size and material
for the second section of the design carefully pressing, working, & rubbing them into
the adhesive cement or I pass the two layers between a pair of rollers to cause
them to adhere. 1 then coat the second layer with cement, and continue layer by
layer to build up section after section of the design until I have formed a block of
strips comented together in accordance with the design. I then place the block in
a press, box or frame of suitable form in which it can be retained in proper shape
by any mechanical contrivance such as levers, screws, wedges, cramps, or by
hydraulic power until the strips are well and firmly attached to one another by the
cement.
The blocks thus prepared are cut transversely to the length of the strips into
suitable slices of such thickness as may be desired. A number of such blocks of
different patterns may be cemented together in a larger frame or press than is
required for cementing the strips into blocks, and in this way a mass of consider-
able thickness width and length may be prepared from which a slice may be cut
by a band-knife or other suitable mechanical contrivance, and such a slice might be
of sufficient size to form a roll of linoleum floorcloth having a mosaic pattern
formed throughout its whole thickness, supposing linoleum to be the material
employed.
A number of slices or sections cut from blocks may be cemented to a suitable
backing; or may be cemented to one another back to back so that one part of the
thickness of the floor cloth or other object of manufacture be of one pattern mosaic
while the other part is of another pattern.
Sometimes I prepare a series of blocks of single strips of a sufficient width and
of suitable material and colours cemented together and I cut these blocks into party
coloured strips; the cut being made at about a right angle to the cemented surfaces
and in the direction of the length of the strips and I cement these party coloured
strips, cut from different blocks, to one another to form a block which will be in
accord with the design to be followed, Blocks thus prepared I use as before
described; either cutting single blocks transversely into slices and building up the
slices edge to edge (and back to back also if desired) into a complete pattern, and
cutting slices from the mass so built up.
Sometimes along with slices of the aforesaid mosaic blocks I use pieces of
linoleum, felt, cloth, paper, card-board, asbestos-board or other similar material cut
to a shape to suit the pattern, and I insert them with the slices of mosaic to follow
a pattern or patterns part of which are mosaic and part not so, and which may be
that of an article formed upon a backing as before described or be that of one
surface of an article having the two surfaces different as before described,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The use of linoleum, felt, cloth paper, card-board, asbestos-board and other
like fabrics in making articles with a mosaic pattern substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. The combination of linoleum and felt, linoleum and paper or any two or more
fabries similar to those mentioned in Claim One in the manufacture of articles with
a mosaic pattern substantially as herein before described.
3. The manufacture of articles in linoleum, felt, cloth, paper, card-board asbestos-
board and other like fabrics or combinations of any two or more thereof; with a
mosaic pattern of one design through one part of their thickness and with a mosaic
pattern of a different design through the other part of their thickness substantially
in the way herein before described.
4. The use of a backing of any suitable form and material in combination with
mosaic surfaces prepared substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 15th day of May 1893.
THOS. WILKINS,
Agent for Applicant.