US812531A - Figured covering. - Google Patents

Description

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LED-71G 'ILHELM SEESER, OF RAGUHN, GERMANY.

FIGURED COVERING.

Ks; 812.531; Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 13, 1906.

Application fil'ed September l8,-1905. Serial No. 27-? 058;

" the essentialfeature of which combination is that the figured tissue is united with the other stutfin amanrier that their figured or ornamented sides form the oiltsides and the covering is used wit-h the figured-tissue forming 'the top suflace. By this inventionthere is attained that a figured. or diapered covering can be produced in a more simple and lessexpensive way than hitherto.

Until now; figur'ed'tissues were produced.

either by pointing or printing the pattern upon the'covering when it was ready. There arealso'other more or less troublesome and expensive processes known for producing coverings fi 'u red through and through For producing t rsInew figured covering either a tissue of threads of various colors is used or a tissue on which the pattern is printed. In

both cases the figured tissue can he produced at a proportionately small cost and much cheaper than the figuring of already-finished coverings, as the" figured tissuecan either at once be. woven out of colored threads on the loom or also tissue of one color can be printed on after the manner of cloth-printing, which is much cheaper than printing or painting on theready-made covers. The thus-prepared figured tissue is then united on its back with the other stufl by pressing or other means, or eventually it is embedded in the same, for

i which there are some very simple continuous rocesses, so that also this part of the manuihcturing process is not expensive. The figured covering is then completely ready and does not require any further process, so that in consequence of this it becomes a considerably cheaper article.

As a base or bottom material linoleum, paper, or any other suitable mass-for instance, wood-pulp, cellulose, or the hke may be used, or two or several layers of the tissue may be used and the same be united by paste, putty, cement, or the like, or between the different layers an intermediate layer of a sticky, fclty, or other material-tor inst ance,

papermay be placedadapted to fill any open spaces or meshes of the tissue, so that no dust or dirt can penetrate into the covermg. the bottom material, the tissue may be irregularly cross-weavedas, for instance, tweed or the like or also of threads of difierent thicknesses. Thereby is attained an unevenness of the contact-surface of the tissue with the bottom material adapted to bring about a good and reliable union of the two.

) If the bottom material on pressing the covering passes through .the meslles of the tissue,

it mayday its own color aid in the figuring of the tissue, so that if, for instance, a tissue of only two colors is used. a three-colored figuring of the covering will (if the bottom mate rial isrone-colored) be produced'if the same penetrates through the meshes of the tissue. If more than one layer ofltissue' isused for forming the covering, th patternsof. the

diflerent layers may either exactly cover each other, so that the COVGflIIgLYVllLQhOMLOLL bothvsid es the same patterii, or the single 8 o layers of the tissue may show various patterns, and these different patterns when they are visible through the openfmeshes of the other layers of tissue or enter into the same may work together to form one Whole as a pattern. A covering consisting only of layers of tissue may then be used as desired on both sides, as it will show either on both sides the same or different patterns. Under the main layer of the figured tissue pieces of tis- 0 sue of various colors cut to form different figures orfp'atterns may be placed and united with the same by pressing, so that a further figuring of the covering will take place according to the shapes of the said pieces.

By means ofthis invention carpets, rugs, and the like, and in general coverings for floors, walls, ceilings, and so on can be produced which arejsimilar to textile fabrics, so that figured tissues or fabrics will find an increased use. It is evident that in the production of such coverings also light and interior materials may be used, which for them selves alone could not be used for coverings.

The tissue may before or after being united 1o 5 withthe other material be suitably impreg nated. If the figured tissue is produced by printing, the printing is preferably done with oil colors in a manner that the color soaks through the Whole thread, so that the thread, I 10 though it had originally a color different from that of the pattern, will retain the color In order to firmly unite the tissue with 60 quite as long as if it had been given to it originally and until thelast fiber is used up.-

It would of cdurse be no deviation from theprinciple of this invention if first a tissue of one color only were united with the base or bottom material and thereupon the tissue figured by printing or other means, asthe' product wouldin both cases be the same; but

the latter mode of manufacture would be far less advantageous than the above described, What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, 1sa r 1. A composite covering for floors, Walls,

ceilingsand the like consisting of a colored or vfigured base layer, and'a colored or figured covering-tissue of fabric or textile material ceilings, and the'like, consistingof a colored or .figuredbase layer, and an open-mesh textile colored or figured covering tissue: or fabric united to the base layer and arranged" to ex;' 1

gurmg o pose therethrough the colorin glor. the base layer. a

covering for fioors, Walls,-

In Witness whereof'l have hereunto set my hand in presence of tWo Witnesses. I

LUDWIG WILHELM SEESER, Witnesses: i

HENRY HAsPER, p

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