US51830A - Improvement in the manufacture of floor-cloths - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES JAMES B. HODGSKIN,

PATENT OFFICE;

on NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 51,830, dated January 2, 1866.

as the ordinary floor oil-cloths, and made of paper of suitable thickness and sufficiently tough, (any ordinary thick paper will 010,) prepared by the process invented by J H. Green, and described in the Letters Patent granted to James .B. Hodgskin, June 30, 1863, for an improved water-proof varnish for paper, cloths, 850., and having suitable designs printed upon its surface in oil or other colors. Oil-colors are preferred, though others may be used. The designs may be printed or painted on the prepared paper by the machinery used in printing the oil-cloths for floors now in use, or it may bedone in any other way deemed best.

This will render the paper very'tough and v durable, so that it will be as well adapted to covering floors as the printed canvas com. monly used, and cost very much less. The pa" per being properlyprinted with a design, it

may be coated or varnished with the composition described in the above-named Letters Patent, in order to form a more durable surface, or it may be used without this subsequent coating, as may be preferred{ Having thus fully described my invention and the manner in which it' may be usefully employed, I do not claim, broadly, painted or printed paper for use on floors as a covering; but

I claim-- As a new article of manufacture, the paper described, when prepared as hereinbefore set forth.

JAS. B. HODGSKIN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM K. EVANS, THos. P. How.