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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
JOHN F. SHELTON, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
FLEXIBLE WIRE MAT.Specification of letters Patent. Patented Nov. 28, 1911.
Application filed September 18, 1911. Serial No. 649,885.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN F. SHELTON, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Fort
Worth, in the county of Tarrant and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and.
useful Improvements in Flexible Wire Mats,
of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to mats and more
particularly to flexible mats, and the object
10 is to produce mats which may be rolled up
for convenience in transportation or moving
from place to place in an office or other
place.
One advantage of the mats is that they"
15 are made of coils which are loosely woven
together and loosely connected to a flexible
border at the sides of the mat. The coils
being loosely woven together, dirt and mud
will be easily shaken out of the mat.
20 The ends of the mats are provided with
means to prevent the mats from cupping up
and causing people to stumble.
Other objects and advantages will be fully
explained in the following description and
25 the invention will be more particularly
pointed out in the claim.
Reference is had to the accompanying
drawings which form a part of this appli-
cation.
3o Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of a
mat. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the
link bars of the border.
Similar characters of reference are used
to indicate the same parts throughout the
35 several views.
A mat is made of a series of coils of wire
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc., loosely woven into
each other in series. At the sides of the
mats, being the ends of the coils, the ends
40 of the coils are secured in link bars 10 by
making holes in the ends of the link bars
large enough to pass the ends of two coils
therethrough and bending the ends of the
wires against the outside of the link bars.
45 The two coils are hooked into each other as
they pass through the link bars and both
coils pass through two link bars, as shown.The means for preventing the mat from
turning up at the ends consists of a flat bar
11 which is run through the last coil flat- 50
wise and on which are formed L's at the
ends. The L's 13 are turned a quarter turn
at 12 so that the L's stand up edgewise and
the L's are made long enough for attaching
two or more coils thereto. - The ends of the 55
wire coils are run through the L's and bent
against the outside thereof. This bar 11
and the L's 13 will prevent the first two or
three coils from rolling on each other and
will make a portion of the mat flat and the 60
weight of the flat portion will prevent the
mat from turning up at the ends. It will
be seen that the bars 10 are lapped on each
other and that the bars stand up edgewise
so that they will fold on each other. 65
It is preferable to make the mats of spring
wire so that. the mats will yield to the pres-
sure of the feet and be resilient so that they
will retain their form.
Having fully described my invention, 70
what I claim as new and desire to secure by
Letters Patent, is,-
As a new article of manufacture, a flexi-
ble mat comprising a plurality of coils of
spring wire loosely woven together in se- 75
ries, side borders consisting of flat link bars
standing edgewise and lapped on each other
in series, and end borders consisting of flat
bars, one for each end of the mat run flat-
wise through the last coil and having the 80
ends thereof twisted a quarter turn and bent
to extend edgewise on portions of the sides
of the mat to be engaged by two or more of
said coils, the ends of said coils being passed
loosely through the bent portions of said 85
end bars and through said link bars and
bent against the outsides thereof.
In testimony whereof, I set my hand in
the presence of two witnesses.
JOHN F. SHELTON.
Witnesses:
A. L. JACKSON,
B. M. OSSUNT.Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the " Commissioner of Patents,
Washington, D. C."1,010,192.
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Shelton, John F. Flexible Wire Mat., patent, November 28, 1911; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512693/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.