Improvements in Machinery Used in the Manufacture of Linoleum and such like Floor Cloth.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sep'., 1896-Accepted, 12th Dec.. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery Used in the Manufacture of Linoleum
and such like Floor Cloth.
I, HENRY WILLIAM GODFREY, of Staines, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to improve the manufacture of floor cloth from
granulated linoleum or such like material.
The machinery used for the manufacture of the floor cloth I construct in such
manner that the cloth to be covered is made to travel with a step by step movement
over the surface of a flat horizontal bed or table.
Each time that the cloth comes to rest two three or more perforated platės
according to the number of colours in the design to be produced are brought above
the cloth at proper intervals apart-one plate for each colour.
Before the plates are brought above the cloth the perforations in them are filled
with more or less compressed cakes or blocks of linoleum or like material. When
they are brought to rest above the cloth punches corresponding with the perforations
are caused to descend and enter the perforations and expel from them the compressed
cakes they contain and deposit them on to the cloth.
The punches are then raised and the plates are moved away to one side and
brought into position for the perforations in them to be filled with granulated
linoleum or like material. When the plates are in position to be filled the perforations
in the plates have corresponding punches above and below them.
The punches below them are raised into position to come level with the bottom
of the plate or more or less enter the perforations.
The perforations are then caused to be filled with granulated material and
afterwards the upper punches are made to descend and compress the granulated
material contained in the perforations into cakes. Both sets of punches then
move away from the plate and the plate is again moved over the cloth to be
covered and the compressed cakes contained in its perforations are deposited on
to the cloth and so on continuously. The cloth being moved one step forward
after each time that a series of compressed cakes has been deposited on to it.
Dated this 12th day of December 1895.
HENRY WILLIAM GODFREY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery Used in the Manufacture of Linoleum
and such like Floor Cloth.
I, HENRY WILLIAM GODFREY, of Staines, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
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 my invention is to improve the manufacture of floor cloth from

page_text: The machinery used for the manufacture of the floor cloth I construct in such
manner that the cloth to be covered is made to travel with a step by step movement
over the surface of a flat horizontal bed or table.
Each time that the cloth comes to rest two three or more perforated plates
according to the number of colours in the design to be produced are brought above
the cloth at proper intervals apart-one plate for each colour.
Before the plates are brought above the cloth the perforations in them are filled
with more or less compressed cakes or blocks of linoleum or like material. When
they are brought to rest above the cloth punches corresponding with the perforation's
are caused to descend and enter the perforations and expe! from them the compressed
cakes they contain and deposit them on to the cloth.
The punches are then raised and the plates are moved away to one side and brought
into position for the perforations in them to be filled with granulated linoleum or like
material. When the plates are in position to be filled the perforations in the plates
have corresponding punches above and below them.
The punches below them are raised into position to come level with the bottom
of the plate or more or less enter the perforations.
The perforations are then caused to be filled with granulated material and after-
wards the upper punches are made to descend and compress the granulated material
contained in the perforations into cakes. Both sets of punches then move away from
the plate and the plate is again moved over the cloth to be covered and the
compressed cakes contained in its perforations are deposited on to the cloth and so on
continuously. The cloth being moved one step forward after each time that a series
of compressed cakes has been deposited on to it.
In order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into effect
I will proceed to describe the drawings annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan of a machine in accordance with my invention. Figure 2 is an
end elevation and Figure 3 a side elevation of the same.
In each of these figures
parts are omitted in order that others may be more clearly seen.
Figure 4 shows one of the perforated plates or grids in section together with the
top and bottom consolidating plates.
Figure 5 represents one of the cams.
The machine here shown produces a fabric with a two colour pattern.
a a are two grids, counterparts the one of the other, the openings in the one
corresponding to the closed parts of the other. bb are open bottomed troughs
containing the linoleum or like material in the form of crumbs or granules they
are moved simultaneously over the surface of the grids and fill the cavities in
them with material of the two colours. The openings in the grids being at this
time closed at the bottom by "punches" upon the bottom plates, c c.
The top
plates d d armed with similar punches then descend, the punches enter the grids
and compress into cakes the material they contain.
The plates c and d then separate and the grids are carried by sliding frames in
which they are held over the prepared fabric which is to serve as the backing to
the floor cloth.
When the grids are in this position the top plates e e descend and punches
which they also carry eject the cakes from the grids and they drop down on to
the backing fabric. The grids then return and are recharged and the backing
fabric is moved forward along the table on which it lies a distance equal to the
width of a grid.
The parts of the machine receive their movements as follows:- is the main
shaft which rotates continuously; the two cam shafts g g are geared with it as
shown. Each cam shaft carries two cams h which actuate the bottom plate c and
two other cams ii which give movement to cross bars d' d' with which the top
plates d are connected by rods at the four corners of the plate. Other cams kk

page_text: on each cam shaft similarly impart movement to the top plate e on which are the
ejecting punches. The transfer of the grids from the filling to the ejecting
position is brought about by the cam on the main shaft; this cam imparts.
end wise movement to the rack m which through intermediate wheels as shown
drives a shaft n carrying toothed wheels n' n' which gear into racks on the under
side of sliding frames into which the grids are fitted. The feeding troughs b are
caused to travel over the grids by a pair of cams oo on one of the cam shafts ;
the cams are connected with the frame in which the troughs are mounted through
the sliding bars o' o' and the rocking levers o* 03.
The selvages of the backing fabric are received on to pins on endless metal
bands pp which pass around discs at the two ends of the machine. The bands.
are connected by lats p' p' which are received into recesses in the peripheries of
the discs.
On the axis of one of the pairs of discs there is a ratchet wheel and a pawl on a
lever r engages with the ratchet. The lever being connected with a crank s on the
end of one of the cam shafts as the shaft revolvos the backing fabric is advanced
step by step.
.
The floor cloth after it leaves the machine is consolidated by heavy pressure-
between steam heated plates.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manuer the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. A machine having a grid or grids moving transversely to and fro across a
receiving or backing fabric and carrying cakes of linoleum to and depositing
them in due order upon the receiving or backing fabric and mechanism which
moves the receiving or backing fabric forward step by step, all substantially as
described.
2. A machine having a grid or grids moving transversely to and fro across a
receiving or backing fabric, means for filling the cavities of the said grid or grids and
for compressing the material in the said cavities, means for ejecting the cakes from.
the grid when over the receiving or backing fabric and depositing the cakes thereon
and means for imparting a step by step movement to the receiving or backing fabric,
all substantially as described.
3. A machine substantially as described and represented by the annexed drawings..
Dated this 7th day of Santambon 1906