Improvements in the Manufacture of Floorcloth and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Floorcloth and the like.
I, HENRY WILLIAM GODFREY, of Staines in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In the Specification of a Patent No. 247 of 1894 granted to me and others a method
is described in which the pattern is produced on floorcloth by successively putting on
patches of the material in a granular or powdered condition through holes in stencil
plates, one plate being used for each colour. By this means no great thickness of the
coloured material can be employed because the heaps of the material will not stand
at a steep angle and the sides of the patches become sloping. For this reason it is
generally necessary in order to get a sufficiently thick covering to first cover the
backing all over with a layer of uncoloured material or material of the same colour
with the result that the coloured patches of the pattern do not extend through to the
backing.
I obviate this objection by employing two or more exactly similar stencil plates for
each colour. The patches of the various colours are first put on successively (but it
may be directly onto the backing) exactly as was described in the former specification
and then the process is repeated until a sufficient thickness is obtained.
Improvements in the manufacture
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I, HENRY WILLIAM GODFREY, of Staines, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, 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:—
In the Specification of a Patent No. 247 of 1894 granted to me and others, a method
is described in which the pattern is produced on floorcloth by successively putting on
patches of the material in a granular or powdered condition through holes in stencil
plates, one plate being used for each colour or mixture. By this means no great.
thickness of the coloured material can be employed because the heaps of the material
will not stand at a steep angle and the sides of the patches become sloping. For this
reason it is generally necessary in order to get a sufficiently thick covering to first
cover the backing ali over with a layer of uncoloured material or material of the same
colour or a mixture with the result that the coloured patches of the pattern do not
extend through to the backing.

page_text: I obviate this objection by employing two or more exactly similar stencil plates for
each colour. The patches of the various colours are first put on successively (but it
may be directly onto the backing) exactly as was described in the former specification
and then the process is repeated until a sufficient thickness is obtained.
The material is then pressed in the ordinary way to consolidate it.
Although I prefer to use the machine described in the former specification the process
may be carried out by hand.
The stencil plates may be strengthened by fixing pieces of wood or metal to them
to prevent bending.
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 manufacture of floorcloth and the like by successively putting on patches
of the material in a granular or powdered condition through holes in stencil plates
one plate being used for each colour or mixture and then repeating the process with
the same colours.
2. A machine for the manufacture of floorcloth and the like similar to that
described in the Specification No. 247 of 1894 but having two or more similar sets of
stencil plates.
3. The manufacture of floorcloth and the like substantially as described.