US82236A

US82236A - Improved carpet-lining

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Publication number: US82236A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1868-09-15
Anticipated expiration: 1885-09-15

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M. MAYALL. CARPET LINING.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILES MAYALL, OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOILBY MESNE ASSIGNMENT, TO GEORGE W. MAYALL.

-IMPROVED CARPET-LINING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 82,236, dated September 15, 1868; antedated Jun 27, 1868.

To all whom it may concern.- terposed between the surfaces, and at the Be it known that I, MILES MAYALL, of same time, by permitting ythe dust passing Roxbury, in the county of Suffolk and State through the carpet tok pass below the surface, vof Massachusetts, have invented a new and relieving the carpet from the wear by friction useful Improvement in Under Lining for Caragainst the gritty particles. pets; and I do hereby declare that the follow- I am aware that linings have been coning is a full, clear, and exact description of structed by interposing a fibrous material bethe same, reference being had to the annexed tween paper surfaces, and I do not claim this drawings, making part of this specification, mode of construction independently; nor do in which- I claim, broadly, perforating an under lining,

Figure l is a top view, and Fig. 2 a transfor I am aware that this has been done withM verse section. paper and felt linings; b'ut in no case has an The same letters in all the figures indicate elastic lining of paper and a fibrous material the same parts. men employed v`ithmperforations passing In constructing my improved under lining through the entire material. The parties have for carpets, I use one surface of paper and anrelied on the dust passing through the fibrous 1 other of a thin gauze-like woven fabric, and material without requiring perforations, which fill between them with cotton,wool, hair, moss, it is found it will not do when the fibrous ma- \or other suitable fibrous material, turning one terialhas become packed by use; but

of the surfaces over the edges, and fastening -What I do claim as my invention, and deit with mucilage to form a binding. sire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lining, when completed, I prefer to have As' an article of manufacture, an under linabout one-half of an inch in thickness, in oring for a carpet constructed from an 'elastic der to give the requisite softness to the carfibrous material, placed between the surfaces, pet. v one of paper and the other of a thin open- The use of a wooden fabric in combination woven fabric, and having perforations through with the paper gives greater strength and the whole, substantially as described. durability tothe lining, and it avoids' the noise In testimony that I claim the foregoing I or rattling of the paper. When the lining has have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of been thus prepared, I perforate it through and May, 1867.

through with holes of 'about a quarter of an MILES MAYALL. i-uch in diameter, and about an inch apart, Witnesses:

which answer the double purpose of giving JOHN SKILTON,

greater elasticity to the fibrous material in- HENRY DAWES.