Improvements in Treads for Steps or Wearing Surfaces for Floors and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 29th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Treads for Steps or Wearing Surfaces for Floors
and the like.
We, JOSEPH WHITELEY, of Clowes Street, Chapel Street, Salford Pattern-
maker, and RICHARD HENRY TURNER, of 25, Victoria Road, Fallowfield,
Manager, both in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of treads for steps or wearing surfaces for
floors and the like which are formed of a number of wood blocks fitted into a
suitable frame, the cross grain forming the wearing surface.
Although the said blocks form on the whole a good wearing surface they do not
afford sufficient grip for the feet and thus the persons stepping or walking thereon
are liable to slip.
The object of our invention is to obviate the said defects and consists in casting
or otherwise securing into the face of each block a piece or pieces of lead, rubber,
leather, or other suitable non-slipping material.
The said non-slipping material may be of any suitable design or pattern and cast
or otherwise secured into the block to be level with its surface or slightly project
therefrom.
Dated this 28th day of January 1895.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicants.
Improvements in Treads for Steps or Wearing Surfaces for Floors
and the like.
We, JOSEPH WHITELEY, of Clowes Street, Chapel Street, Salford, Pattern-
maker, and RICHARD HENRY TURNER, of 25, Victoria Road, Fallowfield,
Manager, both in the County of Lancaster, 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 invention relates to that class of treads for steps or wearing surfaces for
floors and the like which are formed of a number of wood blocks fitted into a
suitable frame.
Although the said blocks form on the whole a good wearing surface they do not
afford sufficient grip for the feet and thus the persons stepping or walking thereon
are liable to slip.
The object of our invention is to obviate the said defects and consists in casting
or otherwise securing into the face of each block a piece or pieces of lead, rubber,
leather or other suitable non-slipping material.
The said non-slipping material may be of any suitable design or pattern and cast
or otherwise secured into the block to be level with its surface or slightly project
therefrom

page_text: And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1, 3, 6 & 8 are vertical sections, Fig. a side view and Figs. 2, 4 & 7 plans
of Figs. 1, 3 & 5 respectively of wood blocks rendered non-slipping in accordance
with our invention.
a is the wood block, 6 the piece of non-slipping material secured into a recess,
groove or grooves thereof, which piece may be of any suitable shape, for instance,
dise shaped as shown in Figs. 1, 2 & 8, rim shaped as shown in Figs. 3 & 4, or cross
shaped as shown in Figs. 5, 6 & 7, with bevelled edge or edges.
When forming the said pieces of lead we drill a hole a' through the block a to
communicate with the said recess, groove or grooves as shown in Figs. 1-8, through
which hole the lead is poured into the said recess, groove or grooves, the block a
with its face being held upon a plate. The back end of the said hole we
countersink so as to cause the gate bi to hold the piece securely in the block a.
When forming the piece b of rubber we preferably form the same disc like, as
shown in Fig. 8, with a spiked plate e cast in the rubber as described in Letters
Patent No. 14339, dated Aug. 25th, 1891, granted to H. D. Whiteley, the said
rubber disc being secured into the respective recess in the block b by pressure.
In a like manner blocks of wood for street paving can be furnished with a non-
slipping surface, consisting of one or more inlaid pieces of lead, or formed of concrete
or other suitable material annular or otherwise in shape.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is―
In treads for steps or wearing surfaces for floors and the like, consisting of wood
blocks, the application to the wearing surface of the said blocks of a piece or pieces
of lead, rubber, leather or other suitable non-slipping material, substantially as
and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 28th day of October 1895.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.