Paper Flooring

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 22.

The first paper floor ever laid will be laid in Indianapolis within the next sixty days. This flooring is made by pasting and pressing straw boards together under a powerful hydraulic press, in the same way as the discs of the paper car-wheels are made. When these blocks are perfectly seasoned and dried, they are sawed into flooring boards and laid with the edge of the paper forming the surface of the floor. This surface is sandpapered perfectly smooth.