US136332A - Improvement in prepared lumber for joiners use - Google Patents

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J. MULLAY.

Prepared Lumber for Joiners Use.

N0. 136,332 Patented Feb. 25, 373.

WITNESS ES- HYI/E/VTOR Unrrnn Srarns J OHN MULLAY, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARE D LUMBER FORJOINERS USE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,332, dated February 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN MULLAY, of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Mode of Preparing Lumber for the Finish of Houses and for other purposes, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification:

The high price of first-class lumber and the consequent great cost of building houses and many other articles that are now made of pine lumber and painted has led me to the present invention; which consists in covering moldings, casings, mop-boards, and other parts of the finish of a house or other structure with paper, cloth, or other thin flexible material, and uniting said covering thereto by means of paste, glue, or other suitable adhesive material, the various pieces of lumber being first dressed to the proper width and thickness for the purpose to which they are to be applied. It further consists in coati ng said pieces of lumber covered with paper, cloth, or other thin flexible size to protect the surface from becoming soiled or injured by handling.

Figure l of the drawing is a cross-section of a window or door casing or pilaster embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of a molding; and Fig. 3 is a cross-sec tion of a molding of a different pattern, each embodying my invention.

In the drawing, Arepresents a door or window pilaster, or a narrow mop-board, or any other plain square-edged strip of finish, having its face-side and its edges covered by the thin paper a, firmly secured thereto by paste, glue, or other suitable adhesive material, and coated with size to protect the surface from injury in handling, and also from beingaffected by the atmosphere. B and D represent two styles of wood moldings covered in the same manner. 1

By the use of this invention cheap lumber, such as heretofore it has been impracticable to use in the finish of good houses and for many other purposes, can be made available. For instance, knotty, pitchy, and shaky lummaterial with a the paper or cloth surface will be as good as 7 two on wood.

In cases where it is desirable to have the? wood-work in imitation of the grain of certaingg wood, I propose to use a paper having an i mi-g tation of such grain printed thereon and var nish the work after it is painting.

put up instead of I propose to prepare moldings, casings, pi-

lasters, and mop-boards, or strips of lumber of suitable widths and shapes to make such articles, by cutting them to the proper length and put them on the market as a new article of manufacture 5 but the covering may be put on the several pieces at the time the work is put up, though I prefer the former plan, for the reason that the paste or glue will have time to become hard and the covering dry, which will make it much easier to make good joints in cutting the material.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

As a new article of manufacture, a strip or strips of lumber dressed to the proper width, thickness, and shape, in cross-section, for house finish and various other purposes, having their face, sides, and edges covered with paper, cloth, or other suitable thin flexible material secured thereto by means of paste, glue, or other adhesive material, with or without a coating of size, varnish, paint, or other protective substances impervious to moisture, substantially as described.

Executed at Boston this 2d day of January, 1873.

. J 0l1l\ MULLAY.

Witnesses:

S. A. WOOD, N. O. LOMBARD.

and said articles when

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