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A NEW COMPOUND FOR RENDERING TEXTILE FABRICS, WOOD AND OTHER MATERIALS FIREPROOF
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th May 1883. A communication to
him from abroad by Léon Gimenez and José Yrigoyen, persons resident at
Pamplona, in the kingdom of Spain.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "A NEW COMPOUND FOR
RENDERING TEXTILE FABRICS, WOOD AND OTHER MATERIALS FIREPROOF," & com-
munication to me from abroad by Léon Gimenez and José Yrigoyen, persons
resident at Pamplona in the kingdom of Spain,
•
This invention has for its object to render woven fabrics, wood, paper and other
materials fire-proof by coating them with a liquid prepared in the following way:
31 grammes of the bark of iron wood and 2 grammes of sea-salt are added to
1 litre of pure water and left to macerate for an hour. The mixture is then
decanted for the purpose of eliminating the bark of iron wood.
To one litre of water thus treated are added 140 grammes of sulphate of zinc,
125 grammes of alum, 125 grammes of sal-ammoniac, and 2 grammes of fish glue.
This mixture is then heated during 4 hours, but care should be taken to keep it
below the boiling point, while it is stirred in any suitable manner until the whole
of the substances added are dissolved.
- After this the mixture is left to cool and passed through a sieve, and is then
ready for use.
The fabric or other material to be rendered fire-proof is coated or impregnated
with this liquid once or twice with a brush or other suitable means, and left to
dry.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF 'BATTING GLOVES' USED BY CRICKETERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Grimshaw Heap at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th February 1883.
JOSEPH GRIMSHAW HEAP, of Manchester in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF 'BATTING GLOVES' USED BY CRICKETERS
"
The object of this invention is to allow the cricketer to obtain a firm grip of the
bat handle, at the same time that the backs of the fingers are safely protected from
injury.
The body of the glove is made of buck or other suitable skin, somewhat in the
ordinary form, with the exception that the ends of the fingers and thumb and the
inner parts of the top joints of the fingers and thumb are left uncovered so that
the player can get a perfectly firm hold of the bat with the inner tip of the thumb
and all the fingers as well as the palm of the band.
The outside of the glove is protected with india-rubber tubing of a D-formed
section cut partially through at the joints, and cemented on as usual.
The upper part of the tube of each finger, however, I do not cut at the top joint,
and instead of its lying flat as usual, I so form it as to be curved or bent to an angle
inwards, so as to follow the form of the fingers when the hand is closed, and not to
project straight out, as it would do if left flat in the usual manner.
In order to allow the straightening of the ends of the fingers when required,
notwithstanding the inward curving or bending of the ends of the rubber tube as
above described, instead of cutting a simple notch opposite the second joint of the *
fingers, I remove a wedge-shaped piece which will give the desired freedom.
Batting gloves constructed in this manner will give all the advantages of a
naked grip on the handle of the bat, at the same time that the hand is perfectly
protected, and there are no unnecessary protuberances on the outside of the
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FOR TILLING OR THE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frank Kinder at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 6th September 1883.
FRANK KINDER of Cottenham in the County of Cambridge
IN HOES FOR TILLING LAND OR THE LIKE"
"IMPROVEMENTS
My Invention has for its object to provide a hoe which can be used either for
the purposes of an ordinary hoe or for drilling and which can be set for different
widths and otherwise adjusted as hereinafter described. According to my Invention
I form the hoe of two blades or arms each of which is provided with a socket in
which is received and secured an arm or bar to which is attached a hoe blade in
such a manner that it can be adjusted in any required position.
The first mentioned blades or arms are provided with means by which they can
be adjusted farther from or nearer to each other to suit different widths of work.
This may be effected by means of a screw attached to the one arm passing
through a hole in the other blade or arm-and provided with a fly nut bearing
upon the said other blade or arm so that by turning the said fly nut in the one or
the other direction the said blades or arms are moved towards or allowed to
expand from each other they being made as, or provided with springs for this
purpose.
The arms or bars which carry the hoe blades may be formed with tapered
squared or other shaped ends which are inserted into correspondingly formed
sockets at the outer ends of the spring blades or arms and are fixed therein by
means of a screw or equivalent fastening.
By this connection the changing of the hoe blades for others can be effected
or the hoe blades can be set up on end for drilling or otherwise set as may be
desired.
The attachment of the hoe blades to the arms or bars directly carrying them
may be effected by a screw passing through a lug on the hoe blade and through a
hole or slot in the said arm or bar and be there provided with a fly nut-By this
attachment the angles of the blades of the hoes relatively with the handle can be
adjusted and fixed in any required position.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN GAS MOTOR ENGINE SLIDE APPARATUS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis William Crossley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th April 1883.
FRANCIS WILLIAM CROSSLEY of Great Marlborough Street Manchester in the
County of Lancaster "AN IMPROVEMENT IN GAS MOTOR ENGINE SLIDE
APPARATUS"
In gas motor engines in which the cylinder port is governed by a slide, if the
slide is fitted so as to work very freely throughout its stroke, it is apt, at the
moment when it is subjected to the considerable pressure resulting from ignition of
the gaseous charge, to leave the facing on which it works and thus to permit
leakage. My invention relates to means of rendering such a slide tight at the time
when it is subject to such pressure, whilst it remains free to be moved with very
little friction during other parts of its stroke. For this purpose, I keep the slide
up against its facing by a spring or springs giving only such moderate pressure as
allows of the slide working very freely, but I apply at the back of the slide or its
cover a sliding or revolving wedge which is so connected by a spring rod to the
slide or to the rod or other part which moves the slide, that it is kept from bearing
on the slide during the principal part of the stroke, but when the slide advances
towards the position which it has to occupy at the time of igniting the charge, the
wedge is left free and the spring causes it to bear against the slide or slide cover
and so tighten the slide against the cylinder facing.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO COOKING STOVES OR RANGES FOR GAS AND SOLID FUELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Fletcher at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd February 1883.
" IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO COOKING STOVES OR RANGES FOR GAS AND SOLID
FUELS,"
THOMAS FLETCHER, of Warrington, in the County of Lancaster
This Invention relates to Cooking stoves or ranges and has for its object to
adapt the ovens of such stoves or ranges for cooking by the simultaneous use of
gas and the ordinary fuel or by the independent use either of gas or of the
ordinary fuel.
In carrying out my invention I make an opening near the top of the oven into
the flue in the usual manner-This opening may be fitted with a slide to close it
when gas is not employed. In the lower part of the oven I place one or more
suitable gas-burners for heating, and in the door or lower part of the oven I form
openings for the passage of the gas supply pipes or pipes and for the inlet of the
air required for the combustion of gas-The bottom of the oven may be entirely
open as in the usual gas-heated ovens and the flues for heating by coal or solid
fuel be carried round the sides and top or the flue may be carried underneath
the bottom of the oven provided the necessary openings are left to supply the gas-
burners with air.
In an oven to which my improvements have been applied the heated gases
arising from the combustion of the gas raise the interior of the oven within a very
short space of time to the temperature required for cooking-If the gas is used in
conjunction with the ordinary fire it is therefore possible to commence cooking as
soon as the fire is lighted when the gas may be turned down as soon as the fire
has acquired the required intensity-It is also possible by regulating the supply of
gas or the number of burners in operation to employ the gas continuously in
conjunction with a moderate fire, or to cook with the gas-burners alone-This
combination ensures a considerable economy of fuel and enables the advantages of
an ordinary gas-heated oven to be secured for existing ranges or stoves at a
small cost.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODES OF PRODUCING ELECTRIC LIGHT
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Alfred Briggs at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th January 1883.
JAMES ALFRED BRIGGS of Parliament Street in the City of Westminster .
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODES OF PRODUCING ELECTRIC LIGHT
(1.) It is known that the focus of the cathodic rays formed by electric discharge
in high vacuo is a source of intense heat, this source of heat I employ to render
refractory bodies (i: e: bodies which do not fuse except at very high temperatures)
incandescent. In this manner such bodies as lime calcium and other electrically
non-conducting bodies can be employed to develope the light I also employ
carbon, or other electrical conducting bodies, mixed with various other material or
matters in the same manner in or at the focus of the cathodic rays in high vacuo
I do not claim the use of simple metals or their alloys in the manner indicated, as
metals of the most refractory nature are melted at or in the focus mentioned.
(2). I also claim the employment of very highly condensed gases, through which
an electrical current or discharge is to be made to pass, as a means of obtaining
light; the electrodes of this arrangement may be of carbon or any other conducting
matter.
(3) More than one piece of refractory substance and more than one kind of
refractory body may at one and the same time be enclosed in the vacuum chamber
as described in paragraph N° 1-I also employ a moveable permanent or electro
magnet outside the said vacuum chamber for the purpose of deflecting the focus of
the cathodic rays thus enabling me to throw the focus on to or off any particular
point or body included in the vacuum chamber.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPERTAINING TO SCISSORS AND SHEARS,
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alexander Wheeler at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd May 1883.
ALEXANDER WHEELER of Darlington in the County of Durham IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR APPERTAINING TO SCISSORS AND SHEARS,
As heretofore constructed scissors and shears have been liable to work loose at
the joint in consequence of the insufficient bearing surface afforded by the ordinary
rivet or screw bolt and as is well known their cutting action has thereby become
seriously impaired.
The object of the present Invention is to obviate these defects and to produce a
firm durable and readily adjustable joint.
.
For this purpose I drill a plain hole through the blades at the joint and I place
therein a closely fitting cylindrical stud formed with an enlarged or flanged head
to bear upon the outer surface of one of the blades.
This stud is bored to a considerable depth and a small hole is formed through
the head' thereof and tapped to receive a screw. Into this hollow stud I introduce
a closely fitting cylindrical solid stud provided with an enlarged nicked head to
bear upon the outer surface of the other blade and a smaller screwed portion to
screw into the tapped hole in the head of the hollow stud.
Or as a modification I form a plain hole in the. head of the hollow stud and
prolong the smaller screwed portion of the solid stud to enable a nut to be screwed
thereon and take its bearing upon the head of the hollow stud.
The solid and hollow studs are so arranged that when screwed up they obtain a
firm bearing upon each other thereby preventing the possibility of unduly forcing
the blades of the scissors together.
By these means the parts are solidly connected together and the cutting action
of scissors and shears is much improved as all tendency for the joints to work
loose is obviated.
IMPROVEMENTS IN RECEPTACLES FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF VARIOUS SUBSTANCES AND FLUIDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis Marsden at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 25th July 1883.
FRANCIS MARSDEN of Sheffield in the County of York
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
RECEPTACLES FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF VARIOUS SUBSTANCES AND FLUIDS "
My invention relates to improvements in receptacles or vessels for containing
various substances such as butter, seeds or any other articles that can be
conveniently placed therein, or fluids, and in which they may be safely transmitted
from one place to another, such improved receptacles being especially convenient
for the transmission of the said substances or fluids by the parcels post for which
purpose I primarily designed them
My improved receptacle or vessel which I make of any suitable material (such
as compressed pulp) may be of various designs in its outward configuration, but
preferably of a spherical shape or thereabouts, and consisting of two principal
parts or halves, somewhat resembling two ordinary bowls joined together at the
edges of the rims-Each half or bowl has a flat base upon which it can stand
when the parts are separated. Round the edge of one half of the receptacle is
a V shaped groove, the edge of the other half being correspondingly tapered, so
that when held together they make a tightfitting joint. To secure the before
described parts together I form a hole through the centre of the base of each half
or bowl, to admit of a screw which may be solid or tubular, the square head of
the screw fits into a recess in the base of one half, and the nut which I make of a
circular shape fits into a circular recess in the base of the other half of the
receptacle, and is provided with two holes so as to be turned round by means of a
fork turnscrew. It is intended that when the receptacle is forwarded by the
parcels post, the postage stamp shall be placed over the holes in the nut, to
indicate if any attempt has been made to tamper with the contents.
In the case of the transmission of fluids the tubular screw is used-which is
provided with openings communicating with the interior of the receptacle-the
parts are screwed together, and the receptacle filled through the open end of the
tubular screw, which is finally closed by a screw cap fitting into the recess before
mentioned. India rubber washers or rings may be used to any of the joints if
found desirable.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF SUGAR AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st February 1883. A communication
to him from Jean Paul Porry a person residing at Fort de France, Martinique
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of the Agency for Foreign Patent Solicitors, of 323 High
Holborn, in the county of Middlesex, Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF SUGAR AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR [a communication to him
from Jean Paul Porry a person residing at Fort de France, Martinique]
"
This invention relates to methods and means for facilitating the use of sulphurous
gas in the manufacture of sugar.
In carrying this invention into practice a casing or furnace is provided in which
there is a suitable plate or vessel on or in which sulphur is burnt so as to produce
the necessary sulfurous gas wherewith the juice or syrup is to be impregnated. A
suitable opening leads the gas from this chamber to another chamber which con-
tains the juice or syrup to be treated, in a state of fine division as it flows upon a
series of plates or boards. A draft is created in the second chamber by
connecting it with a chimney by means of any suitable channel or pipe which
is fitted with a suitable damper or register and may have a kind of conical valve
to enable its capacity or power to be regulated.
The plates or boards upon which the juice or syrup falls may be perforated, so as
to provide for further subdivision of the stream. Suitable sliding doors or sluices
may regulate the flow of the juice or syrup, or other suitable means may be
provided therefor
One of the chief characteristics of this invention is that the sulphurous gas is
drawn into the chamber in which it is to act by the draft of a chimney.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING AND DECORATING, AND IN " APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES THEREFOR "
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Eugene Charles Beaumont and
Alexander Doig at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
17th October 1883.
EUGENE CHARLES BEAUMONT, and ALEXANDER DOIG, both of Ludgate Circus in
the City of London IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING AND DECORATING, AND IN
"
APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES THEREFOR
"
Our invention is particularly applicable to the decorating or printing of the
margins or borders of printed surfaces such as the margins or borders of periodicals,
books and newspapers.
According to our invention we provide a frame or frames of a size or sizes to
correspond with the size of the publication, the width of the frame must be made
in accordance with the width of the available margin space whatever that may be,
and sometimes provision is made for making the frame wider on one side or end
than the other. This frame or frames may be made of metal, wood or of other
suitable material of gutter form and type depth to contain the engraved blocks or
type or both to be printed from. The aforesaid frame is fitted with set screws,
wedges or other suitable appliances for adjusting and securing the positions of the
blocks and type. A frame thus made up with blocks and type may be stereotyped
and transferred to stone if desired.
In some cases we employ two or more frames plain in section one fitting within
the other leaving sufficient space for the blocks or type between the said frames.
Set screws and fitting up strips are provided.
Frames constructed according to our invention are applicable to many useful
purposes in the printing art, and by means of this invention the spare margins of
periodicals, journals, books and newspapers may be utilized in a tasteful and
artistic manner.
Publications of the kinds mentioned are now printed with a spare margin which
with the usual size of paper at present used and with the machines and forms at
present employed is necessary, but in carrying out our invention we arrange a
series of blocks and type in a frame or frames as before described in such a manner

page_text: as to form a frame in a marginal form from which the margins of the publications
may be printed or from which stereotype plates may be taken and arranged on
cylinder printing machines so that printing appliances of any kind may be used.
To the marginal engravings we give an artistic ornamental frame-like character,
which while improving the appearance of the publication imprinted there with, also
forms an attractive and effective finish to the margins of publications.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward William Lee at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th January 1882.
EDWARD WILLIAM LEE of Wigston Magna in the county of Leicester Hosiery
Manufacturer "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES
"
•
My improvements apply more particularly to sewing machines used in the
hosiery trade but are also applicable to other machines.
The object of my invention is to remove the raw edges left by the machine after
the fabric has been sewn hitherto when removed at all this has been done either
by hand by an ordinary pair of scissors or else by knife blades resembling scissors
attached to the machine, my improvement consists in performing the same
operation by means of a revolving circular knife blade working against a fixed
blade both attached to the machine. To carry out my invention 1 proceed as
follows:-
--
In a hosiery sewing machine the fabric to be sewn is attached to a revolving
cylinder furnished with a row of points on its rim which support the said fabric,
the cylinder revolves horizontally upon a circular_bed called the cylinder bearer
which is of the same diameter as the cylinder. To attach the above mentioned
fixed blade, I cut a groove in the upper surface of this bed in which I fix the blade
so that when in position it is between the cylinder and the cylinder bearer, being
horizontal or nearly so with its cutting edge outward, I then fix the circular blade
also horizontally or nearly so in such a position with regard to the fixed one that
their cutting edges overlap and bear slightly against one another so that as the
circular knife revolves the fabric is cut when presented to it.
The knives are placed at such a point on the circumference of the cylinder that
the work is presented to them after passing the needle of the machine and being
sewn; they are immediately under the said row of points and as the raw edge is
cut off by the revolution of the circular knife it is left on the points the fabric
falling away, the part left upon the points is afterwards removed from them
automatically by suitable means.
Rotary motion is conveyed to the revolving knife from the driving shaft of the
machine by any suitable means but its rate of revolution must be much more rapid
than that of the cylinder.

page_text: I attach a plate to the above mentioned cylinder bearer for the purpose of
supporting the work as it comes from the knives and keeping it up to the
knives.
In applying the above described circular knife to sewing machines of other
construction I vary the mode of attaching it according to the construction of
the machine.
AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OR CONSTRUCTION OF ARMATURES FOR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Banting Rogers and Harry
O'Connor at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd March
1883.
JOHN BANTING ROGERS of Richmond House Holloway Road, and HARRY
O'CONNOR, of Berwick Street Soho Square, both in the County of Middlesex,
Engineers "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OR CONSTRUCTION OF ARMATURES FOR
DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES"
The object of this Invention is an improved manufacture or construction of
armatures for Dynamo-electric machines. It consists in manufacturing or con-
structing armatures of small pieces of iron (as filings, chippings, borings, wire
lengths, or other forms in small particles) these being mixed or laid up in plaster of
paris or other suitable substance as to make a solid mass instead of the existing
means of using solid or hollow metal in the formation of such armatures.
By our Invention the magnetic force is increased and kept constant at all points
instead of the magnetic field being merely contained in one pair of poles.
Each
and every particle of iron mixed as above mentioned will exert its influence, thus
the aggregate will be greater.
Any form or size of armature could be so made or more than one such armature
could be used in the same machine.
IMPROVED DESCRIPTION OF DINNER PLATE AND COVER
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Jordan at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 31st January 1883.
" AN
RICHARD JORDAN of Barton under Needwood in the County of Stafford.
IMPROVED DESCRIPTION OF DINNER PLATE AND COVER,"
The first part of this invention consists of constructing a dinner plate suitable
more particularly for Hotel and Restaurant use, and consists in dividing a portion
of the plate into two or more compartments by forming deep flanges or ridges upon
the face of the plate, each compartment being intended to receive a separate
vegetable; smaller compartments may be formed in the same way to receive the
condiments. The second part of the invention consists in an improved flat top
metal cover made slightly larger than the circumference of the plate, so as to
entirely fit over it, a flange or projection upon the inside of the cover being made to
rest upon the edge of the plate. By this means the plate is entirely covered without
any danger of the cover falling off, and enabling the waiter to carry with safety
one plate above another.
A NEW OR IMPROVED ROLLER MILL AND MIXING APPARATUS APPLICABLE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF STARCH AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th September 1883. communicated
to him from abroad by Wilhelm Heinrich Ubland, Civil-Engineer, of Leipzig,
in the kingdom of Saxony,
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "A NEW OR IMPROVED
ROLLER MILL AND MIXING APPARATUS APPLICABLE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
STARCH AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," a communication to me from abroad by
Wilhelm Heinrich Uhland, Civil-Engineer, of Leipzig, in the kingdom of Saxony,
This invention has for its object to convert washed starch-material, such as rice,
maize and wheat, into a homogeneous starch liquid and to effect an intimate mixture
of the latter with lyes or diluted acids. .
For this purpose I use a combination of crushing or grinding rollers" with mixing
apparatus arranged and operating as follows:
A pair of adjustable crushing rollers receive the raw material from a hopper, and
allow the product to fall into a mixing chamber provided with a pair of revolving
beaters, each of which has several radial arms and is mounted on a separate axle.
From the mixing chamber the product is delivered to two pairs of grinding rollers
situated side by side, from which the product falls into another mixing chamber
which also contains a pair of revolving beaters and is provided with a cock for
drawing off the mixture.
Acidulated water or diluted lye is admitted between the upper pair of rollers
simultaneously with the grain falling from the hopper. The base of the first
mixing chamber has two outlet-openings which lead to a specially constructed
valve or cock, adapted to allow the liquid to fall over either of two diverging
shoots, which deliver the mixture to the above mentioned grinding rollers mounted
in the base of the machine.
The said distributing valve or cock is slightly conical, cut out on one side and
having a liquid passage.
At the narrow end the valve rests on a point formed by a set screw, and at the
wide end it is held in position by a spiral spring and controlled by an ale nessing

page_text: through the cover of the valve casing and provided with a handle. and pointer, the
correct position of which may be ascertained by means of a graduated scale.
One of every pair of rollers is mounted in moveable bearings acted upon by a
moveable cross beam a pair of springs interposed between the bearings and the
beam and a screw spindle, the bearings and the cross beam belonging to the same 5
roller, being guided in a pair of slides and the beain acted upon in the centre by a
screw spindle passing through a fixed nut and provided with a hand wheel;
IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE RAILWAYS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Woods at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 16th January 1883. Communicated to
him from abroad by Benjanin George Chapman of Lima, Peru.
HENRY WOODS of Turner Road, Lec, in the County of Kent, Surveyor
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE RAILWAYS."-[Communicated to him from abroad
by Benjamin George Chapman of Lima, Peru]
The object of this invention is to facilitate the removal of cut crops from estates
and plantations, and more especially from those in which the growing crops in planted
in parallel rows situate so close together as to prevent the laying down of a line of
rails, or the running of cars, between the said rows.
According to this invention a portable railway is constructed in strong and rigid
but light sections, and in such a manner as to allow, after one or more rows of
the crop have been cut, of the several sections of the line being rapidly laid
longitudinally across and in line with one of the ridges, and above the stumps of
the cut crop projecting from the said ridge.
To this end the railway consists of two steel rails rigidly secured to a cross bar or
raised sleeper, by means of a novel construction of metal chair provided with broad
downwardly extending flanges or lugs, which are bolted to the raised cross bar or
sleeper; and having a deep channel formed in its upper surface for the reception of
the web of the rail which is secured within the chair by nuts and bolts of any
approved construction. The cross bar above named is mounted at a suitable
distance above the ground on supports consisting essentially of short vertical
standards each secured to the centre of a horizontal base plate or foot running
parallel to and beneath the steel rail and the several parts of these supports are
braced together and also to the transverse bar or raised sleeper, by iron stays
and bolts.
Each section is very strong and rigid, and so light as to be easily shifted or laid
in position by two labourers.
By this improved construction of portable rail the roots of the cut crop and the
ridges and furrows around and between the said roots, are not injured in any way,
and the ground requires no previous preparation by levelling or otherwise.
By the use of such a portable railway the line may be laid quite close to where
the men are at work, and there is no necessity to employ horses and carts for
conveying the cut crop to the railway, for the cars may be run from the mill to
the cutting ground, and when loaded be run back direct to the mill.
Weigh Machine Manufacturers
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Stillwell and Arthur
Still well at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th August
1883.
EDWARD STILLWELL and ARTHUR STILLWELL both of Old Street in the County
of Middlesex Weighing Machine Manufacturers, "IMPROVEMENTS IN POSTAL AND
OTHER WEIGHING MACHINES."
This invention has for its object improvements in weighing machines the
arrangement and construction of which is particularly adapted for use for parcel
post purposes at the same time being applicable for general use.
For this purpose we mount the weight scale and the lower end of the goods scale
upon knife edges carried by and above the balance beam.
The weight scale has an arm balanced at the top end by a connecting lever
carried by a pin joint on a central upright the goods scale is supported by a column
also balanced by a connecting rod to the central post. The parts of the connecting
rods act in unison with one another and with the balance beam below.
The upright which carries the goods scale is extended above the connecting rod
so that a scale pan of any suitable form can be mounted thereon and so that when
a parcel or article is placed in the scale to be weighed it cannot interfere with or
impede the action of the balance
The weight scale is also so arranged that a set of weights can be arranged
thereon suited to the capacity of the machine and so as to be readily adjusted to
the weight required within their limit.
By this improved arrangement of weighing machine the weight of a parcel or
article of any shape or weight within the prescribed limit and intended for transit
by parcel post or otherwise can be readily ascertained.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FORKS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Vaughan and James Ball at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st October 1883.
HENRY VAUGHAN and JAMES BALL, both of Sheffield in the County of York,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FORKS "
Our invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of Table Forks, the
object being to produce forks in which durability, lightness, clasticity and strength
are combined, and we attain these results in the following manner.
We punch or cut out of sheet steel or from strips of steel of the desired thickness,
the blank of the fork, that is, a flat piece of steel the shape of the fork but
without prongs, the spaces between the prongs are then cut out by the aid of
suitable tools, and the required curves may then be given to the fork by bossing it
between suitable top and bottom tools; the tapered points, or any other parts that
vary in thickness may be produced by rolling the strips in suitably shaped rolls
before the blanks are punched out, or the blanks may be passed through eccentric
rolls in the usual well known way.
When the fork is finished it may be hardened and tempered, and either glazed,
polished, or electroplated.
IMPROVED MEANS OF ATTACHING AND FASTENING HANDLES.TO TEA AND COFFEE POTS, URNS, HOT-WATER JUGS, AND SIMILAR VESSELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Winter at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th June 1883.
WILLIAM HENRY WINTER, of Sheffield in the County of York, Brass and Ivory
Turner, "IMPROVED MEANS OF ATTACHING AND FASTENING HANDLES.TO TEA AND
COFFEE POTS, URNS, HOT-WATER JUGS, AND SIMILAR VESSELS."
This Invention relates to certain improved means of more efficaciously and moro
durably attaching and fastening handles to Tea and Coffee Pots, Urns, Hot water
jugs and such like vessels, than as heretofore accomplished.
According to the existing system of manufacturing and attaching handles to the
above named vessels, the usual nonconductor (or nonconductors) placed between
the handle and the sockets into which each end of the handle is fitted, is fixed
therein or secured thereto with or by one or more pins or rivets; but according to
this Invention the nonconductors are made to fit securely into the sockets without
the use of either pin or rivet, and my Invention further consists in attaching and
fastening the handles in the following manner and by the following means:-
A conveniently sized and shaped metal or other projection, or what is known in
the trade as a "member," is soldered onto each of the top and bottom sockets, or
the "member" or projection is cast or made in one piece with the socket, in which
sockets the handle is fitted, and there are similar "members" or projections
soldered onto or cast or made in one piece with the handle itself.
In order to fasten the handle to the Tea or Coffee Pot or other vessel, a metal
screw is passed through a nonconductor made of ivory or other suitable non-
conducting material and through or into the "member" or projection portion of
the socket, and the "member" or projection portion of the handle, and by means
of this screw the handle is tightened up or loosened as required, thero being
one screw applied and used to tighten up or loosen the top portion of the handle
and another similar screw to tighten or loosen the lower portion of the handle.
SELF-FEEDING PENS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Fred Byron at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 28th June 1883.
FRED BYRON of Chesterfield in the County of Derby
SELF-FEEDING PENS"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My invention relates to improvements in self feeding Pens, the object being to
produce a pen with a self feeding action, of the most simple construction combined
with officiency.
In carrying out my invention I construct my improved pen of three essential
parts, namely the tubular body or holder, an elastic compressor, and an ordinary
writing.pen.
The tubular body or holder is permanently closed at the top, and terminates at
the opposite end in a slightly curved point through which the ink flows to supply
the pen; where the point of the forefinger rests upon the body or holder in writing
with the pen, I form a hole into the interior of the body, for the purpose of
introducing the ink, and also for the purpose of ejecting or impelling the ink into
the pen. The pen itself is held in a segmental aperture, or by any suitable device,
the slightly curved point of the holder touching, or nearly touching the concave or
under side of the pen. When the holder is provided with a supply of ink, which
is preferably done while the holder is in a horizontal position or nearly so, a cover
of rubber or other suitable elastic material is secured over the hole, in such a manner
as to prevent the ink from oozing out, or escaping.
In holding the pen for writing, the point of the forefinger will rest upon the
rubber, covering the hole into the body or holder, and by a very slight pressure of
the finger sufficient ink is impelled into the pen for writing purposes, which may
be again and again renewed, during the act of writing. When the pen is put
down, and the finger withdrawn from the rubber, the ink is drawn from the point
into the body or holder.
The body of the holder may be of glass, or any suitable noncorrosive material.
SLAYING KILLING, PARALYZING OR STUNNING OF FISH CRUSTACEA & OTHER LIVING THINGS IN THE OCEAN & UPON & IN THE WATERS & FOR ATTRACTING THEM.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Albert Barber at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th January 1883.
CHARLES ALBERT BARBER, of 5 Furnival's Inn, London. EC. & County of
Middlesex. SLAYING KILLING, PARALYZING OR STUNNING OF FISH CRUSTACEA &
OTHER LIVING THINGS IN THE OCEAN & UPON & IN THE WATERS & FOR
ATTRACTING THEM.
The Electrification by the application of Electricity or Lightning or Voltaic, or
Galvanic Electricity of Water and the Sea for the purpose of killing slaying,
paralyzing, stunning or catching of Fish or animals or crustacen aforesaid so as to
take away the control of themselves either temporary or permanently for the
purpose of catching or netting them or otherwise securing them. I also purpose &
propose to apply an electric lamp or lamp & lights which will attract the fish or
living animals in the sea or other waters & when attracted to the light to apply a
current of Electricity so as to shock or stun & if necessary kill the Fish or animals
so attracted.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTABLE REVETTING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Angleo Binns at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th February 1883.
RICHARD ANGLEO BINNS of Halifax, in the County of York, Engineer-
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTABLE REVETTING MACHINES"
The object of my Invention is to construct and arrange a portable revetting
machine, one that will be inexpensive, simple in construction and operated without
the aid of either steam, air or water.
The apparatus I propose to employ consists of two levers, hinged about the centre
aud connected together by a cross bearer. At one end of these levers are dies for
rounding or heading the revits, whilst at the other end of the said levers are
knuckle joints consisting of two short links or arms connected together by suitable
pin or bolt
At the part where these links are hinged together a stud or boss is formed for
receiving one end of a screw, the outer end thereof entering a nut projecting from
the cross bearer.
By means of a handle the screw can be operated in such manner as to cause the
knuckle joints or links to assume an inclined position whereby the jaws of the two
levers are opened, and when the screw is operated in an opposite direction, the links
are straightened, and the jaws close upon the revit.
IMPROVEMENTS IN HINGES, OR MOVABLE JOINTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Daniel Sprague at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th April 1883.
JOHN DANIEL SPRAGUE of Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, in the County of Surrey
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HINGES, OR MOVABLE JOINTS,"
This invention has for his object the construction of hinges or movable joints
adapted to a great number of uses, but specially to swing looking-glasses, swing
windows, shaving glasses, mussic stands, and similar articles which require to be
adjusted to a variety of angles, and by means of this invention may be retained
in such possition at pleasure without the trouble of screwing or otherwise fastening
them
The invention consists of two principal parts one part to be attached to the
pillar, frame or standard, and the other part to the frame of the glass, window or
other article requiring to be adjusted to any particular angle. The first part is
made with a brass sole plate, with holes to receive screws for fixing it, and having
a recess into which the tenoned ends of two peices of brass are fitted.--These peices
of brass have grooves in thein and are bound together with a strong steel clip, and
when so bound a circular hole is made through them at right angles to two of their
sides. This hole is enlarged so as to forn a globular cavity or socket in the centre
of the combined brasses.-The second part has also a sole plate with holes through
which it may be screwed to the frame to be swung. In the centre of this sole
plate is fixed an iron or other metal pivot whose extremity is formed into a ball
of suitable size for insertion in the globular cavity before mentioned. The spring
being slipped off, the ball is inserted in the cavity and on the two peices being
brought nearly together and the spring slid on again the brasses imbrace the ball
so tightly that while admitting of being turned in the required direction will not
allow the ball to slip or the angle to be altered by the weight of the article, but
needs some manual exertion for its adjustment. In the case of swing looking
glasses, windows and such articles the joints are used in pairs, but for shaving
glasses, music stands, and goods of a similar character they may be used singly,
the brasses being fitted into a tubular socket instead of a sole plate
A modification of the construction of the foregoing consists in making the steel

page_text: spring before mentioned with two cups at its extremities and bending it so as to
embrace the ball in the same manner as the as the brasses do in the arrangement
described. In this case however the ball is made preferably of brass or gun-metal.
The major part of these fittings are proposed to be made of brass but any other
suitable material may be employed according to the circumstances or conditions under 5
which they are used
IMPROVEMENTS IN GROOMING BRUSHES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Adam Harvey at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st August 1883. A communication from
Robert Wellington Thompson of East Rockport in the county of Cuyahoga
in the State of Ohio, United States of America.
ADAM HARVEY, of the City of Ottawa, in the county of Carleton in the
Province of Ontario, in the Dominion, of Canada, Civil Engineer IMPROVEMENTS
IN GROOMING BRUSHES, a com[m]unication from Robert Wellington Thompson, of
East Rockport, in the county. of Cuyahoga, in the State of Ohio, United States of
America,
My invention consists in the construction of an improved implement for
grooming purposes, being a flexible brush surface conforming to the outline of the
human hand and provided with means of attachment to the hand, to which means,
or to some of them, may be secured small curry-combs, and pickers may be secured
at the ends of the fingers.
My improved grooming brush may be either in the form of a glove, in which
case the curry-combs are attached to the back of the fingers, or it may be in the
form of a sandal, consisting of a piece of flexible material capable of holding or.
receiving bristles and having the outline of the human hand, with loops or straps
attached to the back of the fingers in which the fingers of the hand are inserted
and which form the means of holding the same to the hand when being used,
and supplemented by a strap below the wrist, the finger loops in this case carrying
the small curry-combs. Other suitable means of holding the brush when in use
may however be employed.
The brush is formed in the ordinary manner by inserting into the flexible
material constituting the brush back, such as rubber, leather or the like, bunches
of bristles, or by attaching to the said back sections having one or more bunches of
bristles inserted or secured in any convenient manner. If the brush is in glove
form, the back of the glove may be of lighter material than the brush back. The
tips of the fingers I provide sometimes, but not always, with pickers, consisting
preferably of wire loops, such being useful in cleaning crevices or parts which are
inaccessible to the brush.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE TUBES OF STEAM- BOILERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Geiler at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 20th October 1883. Communicated to him
from abroad by O. Wirth of Neuschönefeld.-Leipzig in the Empire of
Germany
FREDERICK GEILER of the Firm of H. Roth & C° of Manchester in the County of
Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE TUBES OF STEAM-
BOILERS "-communicated to me from abroad by O. Wirth of Neuschönefeld.-
Leipzig in the Empire of Germany
-
The object of this Invention is to effect a complete cleaning of tubes in tubular
boilers by means of points shaped like plough-shares by which the coat of soot is
not brushed or wiped off as heretofore but broken up in particles and removed
from the inside surface of the tubes.
To this end a suitable number of strips are formed cylindrically of one piece of
sheet steel or separately, one end thereof forming the head being connected to a
suitable handle; The other ends are furnished with sharp triangular points. When
the apparatus is placed inside a tube, these points, through the elasticity of the
strips are pressed continuously against the interior of the same and by turning
and pushing, the apparatus will effectually detach and remove the sediment or
scale. The breaking up or ploughing propensity of the points is owing solely to
the stiffness of the strips in a longtitudinal direction. In order to increase the
elasticity of the strips springs may be applied thereto. To keep the cleaner in a
proper position when working the head thereof is made to fit the boiler tube or a
number of guide-pieces may be fixed thereon. The tube-cleaner described will
not only perform its duty more effectually but can also be produced much cheaper
than any other apparatus known for this purpose heretofore.