Improvements in Floor-cloth and in the Method of Manufacturing the same.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left; 6th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1899
Improvements in Floor-cloth and in the Method of Manufacturing
the same.
A communication to me from FRANZ GATZSCHE, of Freiberg, Saxony, in the
Empire of Germany, Manager.
P
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Chartered Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention has for its object a new or improved floor-cloth which
is cheaper than linoleum, whilst equally serviceable.
The improved floor-cloth consists of suitable felted webbing which is placed
in a mixture of wax, tungstic acid, glue, linseed oil, ochre and plumbic ochre (the
proportions of which may be varied) at a temperature of about 80° Centigrade,
and is left therein, until it is entirely impregnated with the mixture.
pressed by passing it between rollers, and is finally printed in printing machines.
Dated this 6th day of December 1898.
It is then
Improvements in Floor-cloth and in the Method of Manufacturing
the same.
A communication to me from FRANZ GATZSCHE, of Freiberg, Saxony, in the
Empire of Germany, Manager.
1, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Chartered Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, 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 follow-
ing statement, that is to say:-
The present invention has for its object a new or improved floor-cloth, which
makes an excellent substitute for linoleum, but is cheaper, whilst equally service-
able.
The improved floor-cloth consists of suitable felted webbing or fabric which is

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easily manufactured, durable, and of good appearance.
The following proportions of the ingredients named give good results, viz.:-
Water,
Glue,
Wax,
Plumbic ochre,
Linseed oil,
Tungstic acid,
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7 gallons,
1 pound,
pound,
pound,
pound,
1
ounce,
These ingredients are to be thoroughly mixed at a temperature of about 80°
Centigrade.. A small quantity of ordinary ochre may be added as a colouring
material.
A suitable felted webbing, or fabric, is immersed in the composition and is left
therein until it is entirely impregnated with the mixture. It is then taken out
and pressed by passing it through rollers to bring it to the desired thickness,
and when cold is printed with any desired design in printing machines.
I am aware that some of the ingredients named have been used for a similar
purpose by laying them upon the surface of a suitable flexible fabric; but I
am not aware that all the ingredients of my composition, in the proportions stated,
have been used together for the purpose of thoroughly saturating and impregna-
ting the substance of such a fabric.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1.The composition to be used in making the improved floorcloth, consisting
of water, glue, wax, plumbic ochre, linseed oil, and tungstic acid, in the pro-
portions specified, and substantially as described.
2.The method of manufacturing floorcloth from the ingredients named in
Claim 1 by placing a suitable felted webbing or fabric in the composition at a
temperature of about 80° Centigrade until it is entirely impregnated, then
removing it and passing it between rollers to reduce it to the thickness required
for the floorcloth, substantially as described.
Dated this 24th day of August 1899
EDWARDS AND Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.