An Improved Fabric Composed of India Rubber and Felted Fibrous Materials Combined, Applicable to Various Useful Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: An Improved Fabric Composed of India Rubber and Felted Fibrous
Materials Combined, Applicable to Various Useful Purposes.
I THOMAS STOWARD of 12 Grays Inn Road in the County of Middlesex Manu-
facturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention has for its object the manufacture of an improved fabric composed of
vulcanized sheet rabber (or compounds of india rubber) and felted fibrous materials
known as Carpet under felt." Sheets of these materials are united together by
means of solution of india rubber applied to the surfaces of the sheets which are
placed and pressed together.
This improved combined fabric may be employed as a covering for floors mats pads
and other like purposes as padding for deadening sound socks for boots and shoes and
other purposes to which the same may be found applicable.
Dated this 20th day of NO ISSS
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Materials Combined, Applicable to Various Useful Purposes.
I THOMAS STOWARD of 12 Grays Inn Road in the County of Middlesex Manu-
facturer 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 :-
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My invention has for its object the manufacture of an improved fabric composed of
vulcanized sheet rubber (or compounds of india rubber) and felt-such felt being
composed of any suitable felted fibrous material of a more or less yielding nature such
as of the character of what is known as carpet under felt" and such felt
may be of any degree of thickness according to the purposes to which it is to be
applied. Sheets of these materials are united together by means of solution of india
rubber applied to the surface of the sheets which are placed and pressed together.
This improved combined fabric (which improved material I have termed
binare") may be employed as a covering for Hoors mats pads and other like purposes
such as padding for deadening sound linings for horse boxes and stables also for
padded rooms of lunatic asylums socks for boots and shoes knee pads for military
domestic or other purposes pads for brooms and brushes and in fact to any other
purpose or purposes to which the same can or may be found applicable.
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The sheets of rubber and of felt as above may be varied in thickness to suit
the particular purposes to which the "combinare" is to be applied and if desired
several of such compound sheets may be combined together in layers or several sheets of
felt alone may be solutioned together and then an outer sheet of rubber applied as
before.
The sheets of rubber may be smooth on their outer surface or may be ribbed
corrugated or otherwise roughened as desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The improved fabric composed of vulcanized sheet rubber (or compounds of
india rubber) and felt sheets of these materials being united together to make a
compound fabric substantially as and for the purposes herein before described.
2. The combination of sheet rubber (or compounds of india rubber) with felt
substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this 28th day of February 1889
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Patentee.