IMPROVEMENTS IN FLOORCLOTHS OR COVERINGS FOR FLOORS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lewis Zimmer, of Manx's House, Saint Lawrence
Road, Notting Hill, and Charles Ambrose McEvoy, of No. 4,
Piccadilly, both in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lewis Zimmer and
Charles Ambrose McEvoy at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 21st March 1871.
WO, LEWIS ZIMMER, of Manx's House, Saint Lawrence Road,
Notting Hill, and CHARLES AMBROSE MCEVOY, of No. 4, Piccadilly,
both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLOORCLOTHS OR COVERINGS FOR FLOORS,"
to be as follows:-
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This Invention has for its object improvements in floorcloths. or
coverings for floors, and relates to the manufacturing or preparing a.
new and more durable floorcloth than the floorcloths now in use. For
this purpose we attach to the surface of strips or sheets of a flexiblo

page_text: material, such as ordinary oilcloth, linoleum, kamptulien, woollen or
cotton carpets, or any other suitable flexible material, small discs or
plates of metal, which may be stamped or moulded to any desired shape
or pattern, or discs or plates of wood, rubber, bone, or other suitable
hard material of any desired shape, for ornamentation, and at such
distances apart as to secure a smooth and steady bearing for the feet
when walking over them.
The discs or plates may be attached to the flexible material in various
ways. We prefer to attach them either by riveting or screwing, or by
forming the discs or plates with prongs or flanges, which may be forced
through the flexible material and clinched on the opposite side, or the
discs or plates may be attached by means of strong thread or wire, or
otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Lewis Zimmer and Charles Ambrose McEvoy in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, LEWIS
ZIMMER, of Manx's House, St. Lawrence Road, Notting Hill, and
CHARLES AMBROSE MCEVOY, of No. 4, Piccadilly, both in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
year
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of March, in the
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Lewis Zimmer and Charles Ambrose
McEvoy, Her special license, that we, the said Lewis Zimmer and
Charles Ambrose McEvoy, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Lewis Zimmer and Charles Ambrose M°Evoy,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FLOORCLOTHS OR COVERINGS FOR FLOORS," upón the con-
⚫dition (amongst others) that we, the said. Lewis Zimmer and Charles

page_text: Ambrose M°Evoy, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and scal
of one of us, or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to bo
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Ambrose M°Evoy, on behalf
of myself and the said Lewis Zimmer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in floorcloths or
coverings for floors, and relates to the manufacturing or preparing a
new and more durable floorcloth than the floorcloths now in use. For
this purpose we attach to the surface of strips or sheets of a flexible
material, such as ordinary oilcloth, linoleum, kamptulicon, woollen or
cotton carpets, or any other suitable flexible material, small discs or
plates of metal, which may be stamped or moulded to any desired shape
or pattern, or discs or plates of wood, hardened rubber, or vulcanite,
bone, or other suitable hard material of any desired shape for orna-
mentation, and at such distances apart as to secure a smooth and steady
bearing for the feet when walking over them.
The discs or plates may be attached to the flexible material in various
ways. We prefer to attach them either by rivetting or screwing, or by
forming the discs or plates with prongs or flanges, which may be forced
through the flexible material and clinched on the opposite side, or the
discs or plates may be attached by means of strong thread or wire, or
otherwise.
In carrying out, our Invention we prefer to use discs or plates of
metal with a pattern stamped or moulded upon them to give them an
ornamental appearance, and also to give a roughened surface sufficient
to afford the requisite foothold. We prefer to employ discs or plates
of zinc or brass, but they may be of other metal. The discs are by
preference formed with a central hole to enable them to be fixed to the
oilcloth, kamptulicon, linoleum, or other like flexible material by a
rivet, or if square or other plates be used they may have holes formed
at the corners or outer edges for the rivets to be passed through, or as

page_text: before stated, other means may be adopted for securing the embossed
plates or discs to the oilcloth, kamptulicon, or like material, and also
the discs or plates may be of wood, rubber, bone, or suitable hard
material.
What we claim as our improvements in floorcloths or coverings for 5
floors is, the combining discs or plates of metal having a pattern
embossed upon them with strips or sheets of flexible material, such
as oilcloth, kamptulicon, linoleum, or woollen or cotton carpeting,
substantially as herein described.
We also claim combining discs or plates of wood, vulcanite, bone, or 1
liko suitable hard material, with strips or sheets of flexible material,
such as oilcloth, kamptulicon, linoleum, or woollen or cotton carpeting,
substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Ambrose M°Evoy, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Twentieth day of September,. 1
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy..
onc.