A NEW AND IMPROVED ELECTRIC BATTERY, AND OBTAINING AN EXCITANT FOR WORKING THE SAME
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris,
France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED ELECTRIC BATTERY,
AND OBTAINING AN EXCITANT FOR WORKING THE SAME."-A communi-
'cation from Theophile Chutaux, residing at F. Poissonniere, Paris,
France, Engincer Electrician.
Scaled the 25th June 1875, and dated the 28th December 1874.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 28th December 1874, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Ruc
do la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "A NEW AND IM-
PROVED ELECTRIC BATTERY, AND OBTAINING AN EXCITANT FOR WORKING THE SAME,"
communicated to me by Theophile Chutaux, a person resident at F".

page_text: Poissonniére, Paris, France, Engineer Electrician, and have petitioned
Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and made solemn
Declaration that it is a communication.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Heuri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
scal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :—
The Invention relates to an improved electric pile which may replaco
Bunsen's pile with advantage and to a new exciting product. This
pile is illustrated in the accompanying Drawings in which Fig. 1 is an
clevation of the same of which a part is removed, and Fig. 2 is the same
view of the pile modified. Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.
This pile consists of a stoneware or china vessel or of any other
material that cannot be attacked by acids; of an inner similar shaped
vessel in which the exciting liquid is poured, and which has a greater
or less surface porous, according to the desired results, and owing to its
unaccustomed height it forms a constant feed tank; of a saucer or
turned up vessel c perforated, under which the sediment and waste pro-
ducts of the decomposition accumulate, so that the lower part of the
vessel b may not be obstructed; of a retort coal disc d on the bottom of
the vessel ; of a retort coal prism e, the lower end of which rests upon
the disc d, and the upper one is provided with a lead cap for any other
connection with a conductor g; of irregular retort coal fragments sur-
rounding the prism and lying on the disc d, so that the communications
may be multiplied, the surface of the positive pole increased, and the
polarisation rendered uniform and destroyed; of a discharge tube which
extends to the bottom of the vessel a in order that the waste liquid (which
always has a tendancy to descend into the said bottom part may run off,
according as the level of the liquid rises in the vessel a by oozing
through the porous vasc; of a zinc cylinder which has a greater or less
surface, according as a greater or less current of quantity is required,
and which can be connected by a bladej to another clement; lastly, of
a tube 2 of non-conducting material which cannot be attacked by acids,
and extending along the wall to the bottom of the porous vessel b. This
tube without stopping the working of the pile is used to extract the