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UNTTmi STATES PATENT Ottica.

DUDLEY J. MARSTON, OF SALISBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO ALBERT W. TODD, OF SAME PLAGE.

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.JZIFICATIQN fczming part of Letters Paten'cNo. 308,18i, dated November 18,1884.

Application lled July 2l, i884. (No model.)

To all whom it' may concer/t:

Be it known that I, DUDLEY J. MaRsToN, of Salisbury, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Wood Flooring, which will, in connection with the -accompanying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, and specifically defined in the appended claims.

This invention has for its object an improve- 1 to ment in Wood iiooring; and it will, in connection with the accompanying drawings, be hereinafter more particularly and fully described and claimed.

In said drawings, Figure l is a plan view showing the method of arranging the constituent bars of wood from which I produce my iiooring, portions thereof being broken away for want of space. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation of one of the iiooring-strips as cut from theparts shown in Fig. l, and shown as resting on the under iiooring. Fig. 3 is a plan view of my iiooring, the same being shown as .partly broken away. Fig. 4 is avertical section taken as on line A A, Fig. 3, and showing my flooring as resting upon the under ooring.

' In said Fig. l, a a represent strips or bars of wood which are of a thickness, as measured transverselyto lines b, to give the desired area, when cut obliquely to said lines, as will be described, and whose width, measured vertically, as in Fig. l, is equal to the length of the oblique faces cut on each strip, as Will be described. These strips are, for economizing material, arranged in a stair-step position, as shown in Fig.1,and, being all of equal length, will be thus stairstepped at each end, but With sides which are parallel, such stairstep arrangement ot' bars a being so proportioned or adjusted that lines 0, when cut coincident with said steps,'will be at an angle of about thirty degrees to lines b.' Vhen said strips a are so arranged, they are, by aid of suitable clamping and compressing devices and the application of glue at the meeting faces at b, solidly united together, and after being thoroughly dried the body is sawed into strips, subdivided on lines c, as stated. In Fig. 2 one of these strips is shown in edge view, the lines b being oblique to the upper and 5o lower plane of the strip. After these strips are thus sawed from the united body, and are duly smoothed, they are at their respective edges tongued and grooved, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, and may then, when cut in suitable lengths, be glued together, forming squares, or may be laid the entire length of floors.

It will be obvious that by employing light and dark'woods alternately as vstrips a, as in-v dicated in Figs. l, 2, and then arranging t-he same alternately when assembled, as indicated 6o in Fig. 3, (where lines f indicate the intersection of lines b c, Fig. 1,) a contrasting checked pattern may without increased expense be produced.

I am Well aware that it is old, common, and 6 5 Well known to arrange wood in alternating colors or kinds, either in strips, squares,vor other figures, and hence I make no claimthereto 5 my invention consisting in4 a iiooring material of wood wherein the line ot' fiber is 7o oblique to the plane of the ioor, andthe meeting faces ot' the glued joints of the assembled strips are also oplique to the plane of the floor, as shown in Fig. 2, as by such arrangement otl the parts the wearing endurance of the wood is much greater than if the direction of the ber of the wood was coincident with the plane of the iioor, and the strength .of the glue joints is much greater than could be obtained if the fiber or" the wood was at right So angles to the plane of the iioor, and besides each square or block of mytlooring is held in place by the overhang ofthe adjacent square, and each is supported by the underlying portion of the adjacent block upon the other side, thereby interlocking cach block with those adjacent to it, as well as affording a greater area or extent of glue joint at lines b than if the same were vertical; and by having strips a of the proper width they will,when tongued, 9o as shown in Figs. 3, 4, have a width equal to the distance between lines b, when measured on lines c, thus rendering squares It equalsided, as` lines f, Fig. 3, represent the in`v tersection of lines b, while lines g represent 95 the joint at the edges of strips a after the same are tongued and grooved.

I claim as my invention- V l. The herein-described improvement in wood iiooring, the saine consisting in squares roo or sheets of Wood so cut that the ber thereof is at an oblique angle relatively t0 the plane of the floor, substantially as specified.

2. food loorng` constructed in squares or sections, each one of which is upon one side partly underlaid and supported by the adjacent square or section, While upon the opposite side it is overlaid and interloclzed by the square or section adjacent upon that side, substantially as specified.

` 3. The herein-described method of forming ilooring, the saine consisting` in gluing together at the Wider faces thereof strips of wood, then cutting` the saine into strips upon lines oblique to the line of such glue joints, whereby when such latter strips are laid as a i ioor the direction ofthe line ofber and oi' the 1 glue joints are oblique to the plane of the iloor, substantially as specified.

4. The herein-described method of forming flooring in alternating squares of Woods of different colors, the same consisting in gluing together at the Wider face's thereof strips of wood of different colors, then cutting the saine into strips upon lines oblique to the line of such glue joints, and then arranging such strips in the i'loor with contrastingcolored squares opposite each other, substantially as specified.

DUDLEY J. MARSTON.

Vitnesses: A

GEORGE H. BRIGGs, FRANK R. WHITCHER.

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