Improvements in Wooden Flooring and Paving.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 30th July, 1898-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wooden Flooring and Paving.
We, MARK FAWCETT, BRETT AGATE ELPHICKE, and JOHN HOPE, trading as
Mark Fawcett & Co., all of 50, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, in the County
of London, Constructional Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:
Our invention relates to means of securing together, and to a base or foundation
the rectangular wooden blocks constituting a flooring or paving of known par-
quetry kind, as we shall describe referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a plan of part of the parquetry flooring or paving to which our
invention applies.
Fig. 2 is an elevation.
We form in the opposite corners of each of the rectangular blocks B, a
groove b, cut at an angle of 45° to the side or end of the block, and in putting the
blocks together, to form the floor or paving, we engage in these grooves continuous
hoop tongues H, which are sunk their whole width in the groove of each block.
The grooves may be cut half-way in the depth of the blocks, in which case the
blocks can be inverted; or the grooves may be nearer the under sides of the
blocks so as to leave more wood above for wear.
The hoops can be fastened down to the foundation or base by screws or nails S,
at intervals apart, the blocks which are engaged with those parts of the hoops
having notches to clear the screws or nails.
Instead of the hoops H, wooden tongues may obviously be employed.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
We, MARK FAWCETT, BRETT AGATE ELPHICKE, and JOHN HOPE, trading as
Mark Fawcett & Co., all of 50, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, in the County
of London, Constructional Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
Our invention relates to means of securing together, and to a base or foundation
the rectangular wooden blocks constituting a flooring or paving of known par-
quetry kind, as we shall describe referring to the drawings accompanying our
Dravisional Specification.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a plan of part of the parquetry flooring or paving to which our
invention applies.
Fig. 2 is an elevation.
We form in the opposite corners of each of the rectangular blocks B, a
groove b, cut at an angle of 45° to the side or end of the block, and in putting the
blocks together, to form the floor or paving, we engage in these grooves continuous
metal tongues laths or strips H, which are sunk their whole width in the groove
of each block.
The grooves may be cut half way in the depth of the blocks, in which case the
blocks can be inverted; or the grooves may be nearer the undersides of the
blocks so as to leave more wood above for wear.
The tongues laths or strips can be fastened down to the foundation or base
by screws or nails S, at intervals apart, the blocks which are engaged with those
parts of the tongues having notches to clear the screws or nails.
Instead of the metal tongues H, wooden tongues may obviously be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we would have it understood
that we make no general claim to securing together blocks or pieces of wood or
other material by strips laths or tongues engaged in grooves, but what we
claim is:
Wooden flooring or paving consisting of rectangular blocks or pieces held
together by tongues strips or laths at an angle of 45° to the length of the blocks,
or pieces engaged in grooves formed in the corners of these, substantially as
described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 30th day of July 1898
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.