US294838A

US294838A - Panel

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Publication number: US294838A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-03-11
Anticipated expiration: 1901-03-11

Description

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R. A. ADAMS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT ADAMS, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,838, dated March 11, 1884.

Application tiled July 2, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it mag/f concern.-

Be it. known that I, ROBERT A. ADAMS, a citizen of the United States, residingin the city of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan,.have invented a new and useful Improvement in Panels, of which the following is a specification.

It has already become difficult to procure clear stuff77 boards of requisite width for panels to be usedin building and manufacture, andV resort has "to be made to the jointing of several pieces to make clear board panels of required widths. Panels of one or more boards are also extremelyliable to checking and splitting from the effect of changing weather, and no means have been found to prevent board Lumber clear enough to make first-class panels is, from its scarcity, very costly. Numerous substitutes for lumber in the manufacture of panels have been proposed and their use attempted; but none has yet been found to combine the qualities of lightness, strength, stability, the capacity to receive and hold paint, oil, or finish without injury, with cheapness.

The object of 'my invention 4is to provide panels vand a material for panels that possess at once the qualities of cheapness, lightness, strength, stability, and the capacity to receive and hold paint or other iinish without softening or injuring the panel, and all without danger of checking, splitting, or warping.

The following is a description of my invention and its manufacture: I take two or' more sheets of woodpboard? by wood board meaning wood pulp 'mixed withany suitable size. and pressed orl rolled into sheets anddred). These sheets of wood board are of thesizeandJ shape I wishtogive my panel. Betweenthe sheets of woodboard, or between thetwo inpanel to be made. All the several sheets of wood board and the cloth are then securely cemented together with any suitable elastic waterproof glue or cement, the glue or cement being applied to the entire surfaces in Contact, and the layers are then subjected to pressure sufficient to make all the surfaces cohere; Vhen dry the panel is complete and can be worked and used like and as a board panel.

By the employment of wood board or wood pulp in sheets I secure a panel-surface that will hold and retain oil, paint, varnish, or other fing ish without in any manner becoming softened or injured by such application, and which can be decorated and polished like board. Veneer ture, or climate, never cracking, splitting, or

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Having described and explained myinvention and its purposes, what I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

rlhe combination, in a panel, of sheets of wood board or wood pulp with the sheet of cloth inserted, asdescribed, and all cemented with any suitable elastic glue or cement, substantially as described.

ROBERT A. ADAMS.

Vitncsses:

BIRNEY HoYT, MoGEoRGE BUNDY.