Improvements in the Manufacture of Inlaid Fabrics for Covering Floors and other Surfaces, and in Apparatus used for this Purpose.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1893-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Inlaid Fabrics for Covering
Floors and other Surfaces, and in Apparatus used for this
Purpose.
We THE PATENT INLAID LINOLEUM COMPANY LIMITED of 60 Ludgate
Hill in the City of London and ARTHUR SIDNEY OETZMANN of 67 to 79 Hamp-
stead Road in the County of Middlesex Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
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The invention relates to the manufacture of coverings for floors and other surfaces
by consolidating together measured quantities of the composition of which the
upper surface of the fabric is to be composed, the colors of the said measured
quantities being such that the desired pattern is obtained.
We employ a number of measures conforming to the shape of the desired pattern
a separate set of measures being used for each color in the desired pattern; these
measures are open at one end and have the other end closed by a sliding rod or
plunger.
Each set of measures has pressed into it at the mouths or open ends of the
measures the proper quantity of material of its own particular color and the
measures are then brought down onto a backing and the material is ejected from
the measures onto the backing in position where it is required to form the finished
fabric.
The whole is then consolidated by heat and pressure.
We sometimes prefer to place one of the colors upon the backing by means of
an embossing roller, the remaining colors being filled in by means of the measures.
Dated this Fourteenth day of October 1892.
THE PATENT INLAID LINOLEUM COY., LTD.,
F. Wilson, Secretary.
ARTHUR SIDNEY OETZMANN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Inlaid Fabrics for Covering
Floors and other Surfaces, and in Apparatus used for this
Purpose.
We, THE PATENT INLAID LINOLEUM COMPANY LIMITED of 60 Ludgate
Hill in the City of London, and ARTHUR SIDNEY OETZMANN of 67 to 79 Hamp-
stead Road in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, 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 :-
The invention relates to the manufacture of coverings for floors and other surfaces
by consolidating together measured quantities of the composition of which the
upper surface of the fabric is to be composed the colors of the said measured
quantities being such that the desired pattern is obtained.
We employ a number of measures conforming to the shape of the desired pattern
a separate set of measures being used for each colour in the desired pattern; these
measures are open at one end and having the other end closed by a sliding rod or
plunger.
Each set of measures has pressed into it at the mouths or open ends of the
measures the proper quantity of material of its own particular colour and the

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is an end elevation. Figure 2 a side elevation and Figure 3 a plan of
a machine constructed according to this invention.
Figure 4 is a vertical section to a larger scale of one of the measures with its
plunger and
Figure 5 is a transverse section of the machine on the line X X Figures 2 and 3
to a larger scale.
a is the main shaft of the machine driven by a belt passing over the pulley a¹
upon it.
upon
This shaft has at each end a bevelled pinion a² gearing with bevelled pinions b
upon the cross shafts b to which are also fixed cams c.
One of the shafts b also
has fixed to it a spur wheel 62 gearing with a spur wheel on the shaft d to
which is fixed a cam d² giving an up and down motion to the rod e at whose
lower end is fixed the rack e gearing with the pinion f¹ upon the quadrant f
which in its turn gears with the pinion g¹ upon the axis of the wheels g the
latter gearing with the racks on the underside of the table /
which are
three trays 23 (which trays may have raised portions exactly corresponding in
contour to the inside of the measures and engaging with them during part of
the operation of the machine) containing linoleum material or other compositions
of different colours. jjare two sliding tables the table j being suspended by the
plungers from the table j. The table j is supported by rods k¹ from the levers
and counterbalance weights which tend to raise it. It is however periodically
depressed by the cams c which act on rollers k² on rods k³ fixed to the upper side
of the table. This table carries on its underside the plungers of the measures
the latter being fixed to the underside of the table j' as shewn in Figure 4.
The measures are arranged in three sets corresponding to the three trays i¹³ ³
and their forms are such that the measures of each set correspond to spaces between
the measures of the other sets in such manner that when the three sets. have
successively delivered their contents onto the backing its whole surface will be
covered. There may of course be two four or any other number of trays and sets
of measures in place of three. mm are rollers carrying an endless band upon
which the backing is supported.
The action of the machine is as follows:-The trays are first (by the
operation of the cam d² rod e rack e quadrant f and wheels g) caused to travel
forward under the measures (and rest upon a guard plate (not shewn) having
perforations exactly corresponding to and in register with the outside of the
measures) which then descend on to the material in the tray. When the edges of
the measures reach the bottom of the tray, or when the tray has raised portions,
after they have passed the top edges of the raised portions and before they touch
the bottom of the tray they are arrested but the plungers continue to descend
which they are free to do by compressing the spring *.
In this way the material in the measures is compressed into cakes which remain
in the measures when the latter rise which is the next step. The trays ¹³ then
retire again and the measures descend this time through the guard plate which
arrests the measures at the right distance above the backing and prevents any
waste material from falling onto the adjacent colour the plungers continue to
descend by the compression of the spring 2 and eject the material onto the backing.
The plungers and measures then again rise to their original position leaving the

page_text: cakes of material attached to the backing. The latter is then advanced by the
width of one set of measures so that a fresh portion of the backing immediately
behind the portion that has already received the material from the trays ¹ comes
into position to receive the material from the tray and a like portion which has
already received the material from tray ¹ comes into position to receive the
material from tray and a like portion which has already received the material
from trays comes into position to receive the material from tray 3 whilst the
portion which has already received the material from trays is complete as to
its pattern and is passed towards pressing apparatus not shewn in the drawings
and the manufacture is complete.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. Manufacturing coverings for floors and other surfaces by introducing linoleum
or like material of two or more colours into two or more sets of measures, the
measures of each set corresponding to spaces between the measures of the other set
or sets, compressing the material in the measures, then presenting a backing to the
mouths of the measures of each set in succession each time again compressing
the material onto and making it adhere to the backing and finally consolidating
the whole together substantially as described.
2. Manufacturing coverings for floors and other surfaces by causing a number of
measures each having a plunger in it and arranged in sets (one set for each colour)
to descend into the same number of trays containing linoleum or like material of
different colours which are first moved beneath the measures the plungers com-
pressing the material into cakes in the measures which with their plungers then
rise the trays afterwards retiring the plungers and measures again descending and
compressing the cakes onto a backing the said backing advancing step by step
beneath the various measures in succession substantially as described.
3. Apparatus for manufacturing coverings for floors and other surfaces substan-
tially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 11th day of July 1802
THE PATENT INLAID LINOLEUM CO., LTD.,
J. Pollington-Stone, Secretary.
ARTHUR SIDNEY OETZMANN.