Improvements in or connected with Electric Batteries.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 13th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Electric Batteries.
We, CHARLES PERCY SHREWSBURY, of No. 35, Queen Victoria Street, in
the City of London, Engineer, and JOHN LASKEY DOBELL, of Traine, Modbury,
in the County of Devon, Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of electric batteries in which one electrode
is formed by plates, cylinders or blocks of carbon or coke, or the carbon or coke,
in some cases employed in other forms, and the other electrode is formed of plates
or surfaces of iron, or other metal, the exciting liquid being nitrate of potash,
nitrate of soda, or any other suitable nitrate maintained in a fused state by the
aid of heat; air, nitric acid vapour, steam, oxygen, ozone, nitrogen pent-oxide and
other suitable vapours or gases, either alone or in combination, being, in some
cases, introduced into the fused nitrate in order to recuperate the same.
The object of the present invention is to render this class, of battery more
efficient than heretofore.
For this purpose, we employ sheets, cylinders, plates or blocks of carbon. or
coke, as the dissolving electrode, but, in lieu of employing plates or surfaces of
iron as the non-dissolving electrode, we substitute therefor a hollow and perforated
or porous plate, cell or chamber, which we pack with any suitable metallic oxide,
such as, the oxides of the following metals:-
Manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, barium, lead or copper.
And we use these oxides either singly or in combination with each other.
most cases, we prefer to employ the higher oxides.
In
In lieu of employing the oxides in a granular form we may sometimes reduce
them to powder, and form them into vessels, plates or slabs either perforated or
unperforated.
Dated this 13th day of May 1892.
VAUGHAN & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Electric Batteries.
We, CHARLES PERCY SHREWSBURY, formerly of No. 33, Queen Victoria
Street, in the City of London, but at present of No. 8, Furnivals Inn, Holborn,
in the said City, Engineer, and JOHN LASKEY DOBELL, of Traine, Modbury,
in the County of Devon, Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our said invention relates to that class of electric batteries in which one electrode
is formed by plates or cylinders or blocks of carbon or coke, or the carbon or coke
is in some cases employed in other forms, and the other electrode is formed of
plates or surfaces of iron or other suitable metal, such as platinum, silver or
copper, the exciting liquid being nitrate of potash, nitrate of soda, or any other
suitable nitrate maintained in a fused state by the aid of heat; air, nitric acid
vapour, steam, oxygen, ozone, nitrogen pent-oxide, and other suitable vapours or
gases, either alone or in combination being, in some cases, introduced into the fused
nitrate in order to recuperate the same.

page_text: The object of the present invention is to render this class of battery more
efficient than heretofore.
For this purpose, we employ sheets, cylinders, plates or blocks, of carbon or
coke as the dissolving electrodes, but in lieu of employing plates or surfaces of iron
or other suitable metal as the non-dissolving electrodes, we substitute therefor a
hollow and perforated, or porous plate, cell or chamber of iron or other suitable
metal which we pack with any suitable metallic oxide in a granular form such as,
the oxides of one of the following metals :-
Manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, barium, lead, or copper, and we employ these
oxides either singly or in combination with each other. In most cases, we prefer
to employ the higher oxides.
In lieu of employing the oxides in a granular form, we may sometimes reduce
them to powder and form them into vessels, plates or slabs, either perforated or
unperforated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we'
claim is :-
1. In combination with an electric battery of the character hereinbefore referred
to, a non-dissolving electrode formed of suitable metallic oxides, substantially as
herein described.
2. In combination with an electric battery of the character hereinbefore referred
to, a perforated or porous plate, cell or chamber packed with a suitable metallic
oxide constituting the non-dissolving electrode, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 13th day of March 1893.
VAUGHAN & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.