US927370A - Manufacture of tiled linoleum. - Google Patents

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G. v. MIOHALKOWSKI.

MANUFACTURE 01E TILED LINOLEUM.

. APPLIC ATION FILED OGT. 21, 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GURT V. MIGHALKOWSKI, OF RIXDORF, NEAR BERLIN, GERMANY.

MANUFACTURE OF TILED LINOLEUM.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OURT VON MICHA KOWSKI, director, a subject of the German Emperor, and resident of Bergstrasse 102, in the city of RiXdorf, near Berlin, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improved Manufacture of Tiled Linoleum, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a process for manufacturing tiled linoleum, or single linoleum tiles or linoleum of the kind which imitates a tiled appearance. The manufacture of such linoleum has hitherto been effected by stamping out single tiles from a strip of linoleum, or the tiled attern was first put together from single b ocks from which the single tiled linoleum strips or bands were cut by means of a knife or of a plane-like veneering tool. These single blocks themselves had, however, to be prepared by compressing them together from slngle linoleum plates, so that in any case it has hitherto been necessary to prepare a linoleum plate first.

According to this invention, the manufacture of rolled linoleum plates may be entirely avoided.

It has been found that the blocks from which the tile pattern is produced, could be produced consecutively by means of gaged rolls or by means of strip presses or by both of these machines. For instance, the well known linoleum substance consisting of grains, is taken, and the single blocks are pressed direct from the same. If a press is used, the said linoleum substance is brought into the supply or feed hopper from which it is seized by the transport and. kneading conveyer and forced into the mouth-piece of the press, so that it comes out directly in the form of a strip. By so shaping the mouthpiece the strip can at once be given the desired cross-sectional shape. It may be square when a square pattern is desired, or triangular, star-shaped or the like. If it is desired to produce the said blocks by rolling, the same kind of rolls are used as in iron rolling, preferably in such manner that gaged rolls of a continually decreasing gage are In this case also a linoleum strip of suitable cross-section is obtained from which the tiles are either cut off directly or can be combined together to form patterns, and then tiled linoleum is cut from them.

The annexed drawing explains the combination of the linoleum strips to form blocks Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 21, 1908.

Patented July 6, 1909.

Serial No. 458,880.

if for instance tiles of a chess-board pattern are desired. ith one and the same strip press strips a are made of one color and strips 1) of another color. These strips are cut up into single prisms of the height D and combined to form a block as shown in the figure. The half squares remaining at the edges can be filled in by special prisms a b of triangular cross-section. If the linoleum strips are fresh, no special binding medium is required; otherwise the known binding medium consisting of crushed linoxid soaked in benzin is used. The single strips forming the block are simply dipped into the binding medium and the whole combined to the desired pattern. Thereupon the block is cut in the manner shown by the dotted line 0 and finished tiled linoleum is at once obtained which if desired can be secured to a foundation.

I claim as my invention 1. The process of manufacturing tiled linoleum, which consists in forming a plurality of long strips, each substantially of the crosssection of the tile, in cutting these strips into sections of predetermined length, in assembling these separate sections with their major axes vertical, in compressing these sections so assembled into a homogeneous block, and in slicing this block horizontally into sheets of tiled linoleum, substantially as described.

2. The process of manufacturing tiled linoleum, which consists in forming a plurality of long strips, each substantially of the crosssection of the tile, in. cutting these strips into sections of predetermined length, in treating these sections with a suitable binding me dium, in assembling these separate sections with their major axes vertical, in compressing these sections so assembled into a homogeneous block, and in slicing this block horizontally into sheets of tiled linoleum, sub stantially as described.

8. The process of manufacturing tiled linoleum, which consists in forming a plurality of long strips, each substantially of the crossseetion of the tile, in cutting these strips into sections of predetermined. length, in assembling these separate sections with their major axes vertical, in compressing these sections so assembled into a homogeneous block, in slicing this block horizontally into sheets of tiled linoleum, and in. finally applying a suitable backing to said sheets, substantially as described.

4. The process of manufacturing tiled linoleum, which consists in forming a plurality of applying a suitable backing to said sheets, long strips, each substantially of the cross substantially as described. section of the tile, in cutting these strips into i In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as sections of predetermined length, in treating my invention, I have signed my name in 5 these sections with a suitable binding mepresence of two witnesses, this 10th day of 15 dium, in assembling these separate sections October1908. with their major axes Vertical, in compressing I CURT V. MICHALKOWVSKI. these sections so assembled into a homogel WVitnesses: neous block, in slicing this block horizontally HENRY HAsPER,

10 into sheets of tiled linoleum, and in finally WOLDERMAR HAUPT.

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