Improvements in Woodblock Parquetry and like Flooring.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 14th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 18th Sept., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Woodblock Parquetry and like Flooring.
I, BENJAMIN BERRY, of 93, Victoria Park Road, in the County of London,
Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention relates to improvements in woodblock parquetry and like
flooring, the invention having chiefly for object to provide simple means for
holding or connecting the wood blocks together.
For this purpose my blocks are grooved at the sides as hitherto but not at the
ends and on one side and at each end of each block I apply a metal tongue
which is advantageously in the form of a staple made from wire preferably
somewhat elliptical in cross section; these tongues are simply driven into the
blocks and it will be obvious that when the blocks are laid they will be connected
together not only at the sides but at the ends. By this arrangement when the
blocks are laid to form the flooring each block is held by six tongues so that no
single block can become loose nor can a block be removed without being cut
out.
My tongues are preferably made of the shape described so that they may
wedge themselves into the grooves.
Dated this 15th day of November 1898.
Improvements in Woodblock Parquetry and like Flooring.
I, BENJAMIN BERRY, of 93, Victoria Park Road, in the County of London,
Commercial Traveller, 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 improvements in wood block, parquetry and like
flooring, the invention having chiefly for object to provide simple means for
holding or connecting the wood blocks together.
For this purpose my blocks are grooved at the sides as hitherto but not at the
ends, and on one side and at each end of each block I apply a metal tongue
which is advantageously in the form of a staple made from wire preferably
somewhat elliptical in cross section; these tongues are simply driven into the
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page_text: blocks and it will be obvious that when the blocks are laid they will be connected
together not only at the sides but at the ends.
My tongues are preferably made of the shape described so that they may
wedge themselves into the grooves.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:-
Figure 1 is a sectional plan view of a number of blocks provided with means
for holding them together in accordance with my invention; and
Figure 2 is a central transverse section of one of the said blocks drawn to a
larger scale.
Figure 3 is a section of one of the staples drawn to an exaggerated scale.
a, a are the staples which are driven into the ends of the block and 6, 6 are
the grooves or recesses into which the staples of adjacent blocks are designed
to enter. As shewn a series of recesses b, 6 is formed in each block into which
the staples of adjacent blocks will enter, but, if desired, instead of forming
a series of grooves on each side, a continuous groove may be formed along each
side.
In practice, as hereinbefore stated, the staples are made of wire elliptical in
transverse section as shewn in Figure 3 and the grooves are made of slightly
less height than the thickness of the staples so that the thin edges of the staples
can be readily entered into the grooves but that slight pressure must be applied
in order to cause the thick parts of the said staples to enter the grooves. It will
be understood that the wedging action thus produced has the effect of tightly
keying the blocks together.
c is a staple which I sometimes place at the side of each block, the said staple
being preferably placed at the centre of the length of the block as shewn in the
drawing.
With this arrangement hereinbefore described it will be understood that when
the blocks are laid to form the flooring, each block is held by six tongues so that
no single block can become loose nor can a block be removed without being out
out.
d, d are the usual grooves formed at the bottom edges of the blocks and serving
to afford a good hold for the mastic or cement in which the flooring is laid.
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 improvements in wood block, parquetry and like flooring, consisting
in forming the said blocks with plain ends and grooved sides and inserting into
the said blocks staples designed to form keys or tongues for engaging with the
grooves of adjacent blocks, the said staples being preferably shaped so that as they
enter the grooves they will become wedged therein, substantially as described.
2. The improvements in wood block, parquetry and like flooring consisting in
providing each block with longitudinal grooves on the lateral edges and with
staples formed of wire elliptical in transverse section, the said staples forming
keys designed when a floor is being laid to engage with the grooves of adjacent
blocks, substantially as described.
3. Wood block, parquetry and like flooring constructed substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London.
Agents for the Applicant.