US1101972A - Article covered with sheet-celluloid. - Google Patents

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G. H. SWEZEY. ARTICLE COVERED WITH SHEET GELLULOID.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30 1911.

- Patented June 30, 1914.

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Be it knownthat-L-Gnoaon H. Swnznr, a citizen of the United States, :residi-n at Newark, in the countym'f Essex and tate of New Jersey', have invented certain Improvements in Articles Covered with Sheetfication'.

This. invention relates to'the covering with l The objects of the invention are to obtain scale being enlarged sharp edges of the articles;

like. It will be understood astrong and secure joining of the adjacent edges of sheets of celluloid or the like at such sharp edges of articles to be covered; to secure durability and. strength atsuch to thus produce a practical and salable covering, and to obtam other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accom an ing drawings, in which like numerals 0 re erence indicate the same parts throughout the several figures, Figure l is a perspective view-0f a closet seat covered with celluloid according to the present invention; Fig. 2 is a partial section of thesame on line A, Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow, the and the different parts of the covering exaggerated to illustrate the invention, and Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view illustrating a slightly modified construction.

In said drawings I have shown my invention embodied in a covered closet seat, but have selected a closet seat only as a convenient article for illustrating the invention; I could just as well have selected any other article having a somewhat sharp edge, such as a bath stool top,.a medicine cabinet door,

a mirror frame, shelf, bath-tub seat, or the that my invention applies to the covering of any article having a somewhat sharp edge at which sheets of the covering are to be joined.

The closet seat 1 which I have shown has a core of wood, designated by reference numeral 2, and the outer ed e of said core adjacent to the plane of its ase or under side is somewhat sharp, as at 3. There is also a similar sharp edge around the opening of the seaty as at also adjacent to tne hottein plane of 'Both-sai sharp edges,

or all sharp edges on any given article,

are treated alike and therefore a description of one, as the edge 3, Willi sufiice, I Y

My improved covering is applied as follows. Astrip of celluloid tudinally to the edge 3, and bent down over is applied longithe seat, but both the inner and outer upgeredges are rounded, as shown. a

the same, to bring its marginal portions flat 7 against the adjacent port-ions of the upper and lower surfaces of the core 2, as shown. This strip is cemented to the core by any suitable adhesive, and, after drying, is beveled at its edges by rasping or sand-papering, so as to produce the reinforcing strip 5 illustrated. The thickest portion of there inforcing strip is directly over the edge 3, and it presents broad margins or wings of tapering thickness upon the top and bottom surfaces of the core adjacent to said edge.

Upper and lower sheets 6 and T, of celluloid are then applied to the upper and lower surfaces of the core 2, said sheets abut-t at their'meeting edges along the sharp t 3 of the core outside the middle thick portion of the reinforcing strip. Said upper and lower sheets 6, 7 are cemented to the core by any suitable adhesive, preferably one which slightly dissolves the surface of the covering to which it is applied, so that where two celluloid surfaces come together they mold integrally together, and after drying, the meeting margins of said sheets are rasped or sand-papered to form a smooth even edge for the completed seat. The inner edge 4: having been done like the outer edge described, it is evident that by my invention a construction is secured which not only strengthens the joint of the abutting edges of the upper and lower sheets, but also thickens or relnforces the covering at the sharp edges of the cbre where wear will naturally be greatest.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a reinforcing strip 8 applied to the outside of the joint of the edges of the upper and lower sheets 9, 10, where they abut along the edge 11 of the core 12. This reinforces the joint and gives increased strength against wear upon the edge of the article, a good job this way than withthe preferred arrangement of the reinforcing strip on the inside. The strip and sheets which are employed may be celluloid pyroxylim'or any but it is harder to make a suitably plastic material which is employed in the art for such coverings, and I do not wish to be understood as restricting myself by the use of the word celluloid.

Having thus described the inventi0n,what I claim is: j

In a celluloid covered article having an exposed edge which receives more Wear than the rest of the surface of the article, the

combination of a'core having an edge correto said edge of the art1cle,-sheets v of celluloid having tapered margins with sp ending their edges abutting each other upon said edge of the core and adhesively secured each otherg and a to A and the cover-'

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