IMPROVEMENTS IN CARPET LININGS AND STAIR PADS, AND IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Year: 1870

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Haseltine at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
November 1870.-A communication from abroad by John Robinson
Harrington, of Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.
I, GEORGE HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," South-
ampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARPET LININGS AND STAIR PADS, AND IN
MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME," a communication, to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in making a carpet lining or stair pad out of
paper, and a suitable filling in any of the several modifications herein-
after described, and in the construction and operation of the machinery
used in their manufacture.
I will first describe the simplest and for some purposes the best kind
of lining. This lining, whether. used for carpets or stair pads, is made
of a cotton or other suitable wadding in long sheets about two inches
narrower than the enfolding sheets of paper, and is well glazed with
moth-proof vegetable mucilage, not only upon both sides of the wadding,.
but also upon its edges, so as to form a selvage. This wadding is then

page_text: placed between two sheets of suitable paper, and baled up as desired
without being secured fast to the paper. When laid down the edges of
the two adjoining breadths lap over each other about an inch,
Another lining, which I call the "double lap binding," which consists
of three or more sheets of paper, the inner sheet or sheets being soft, and
bound at the edges by a turned over strip of paper or cloth.
Another form of my Invention, which I call a "welt binding,"
consists of two sheets of paper of equal width having a filling of wadding
or other substance, a strip of paper being pasted in between the edges of
the two sheets of paper and one strip down the centre.
In making what I call a "turned in binding," the under sheet of
paper is about two inches wider than the upper sheet and the filling,
and its edges are turned in and pasted to the upper sheet,
To form what I term the "strip binding," I use four or six narrow
strips of paper or cloth disposed in pairs and pasted between the paper
and the filling.
I make another kind of lining by uniting a lap of any suitable fibrous
material to a sheet of paper by mucilage; the upper or fibrous surface
of this lining may or may not be protected by a thin flexible paper
or cloth.
The machine for making these linings carries upon a suitable frame
two paper feed rollers and a filling or wadding feed raller; feed bobbins
are provided for the "double lap binding. There are brushes for
applying the paste to the outer edges of the two sheets of paper when
the double binding is used, and a paste trough is employed in connection
with these brushes. The brush at each end of the trough is really a
triple brush, one revolves vertically in the paste for the purpose of
feeding the other brushes, which revolve horizontally, and have their
faces touching, so that when the paper passes between them it will be
pasted on both sides; these brushes, may be used together, or one brush
may be unshipped. Both of the horizontal brushes mesh with the
vertical, brush, and are revolved by it.
The machine is provided with "folders," some of which fold the
binding over the edges of the paper, while others turn in the edges of
the under sheet of paper in making the "turned in binding." There are
also bobbins which carry the strips of paper or cloth used in the "welt
binding," or the "strip binding;" there is a paste trough for pasting the

page_text: strips, and a large roller revolving in and nearly filling the said trough.
The machine also has presser rollers, and there are three large drying
rollers heated by steam or otherwise at the delivery end of the machine,
and a discharge roller. The various rollers and brushes are revolved by
suitable belts.