Improvements in the Insulation of Electric Conductors.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Insulation of Electric Conductors.
I, HENRY EDMUNDS of 39 Victoria Street in the City of Westminster,
Electrical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object to effect the insulation of electrical conductors
such more especially as are in exposed situation subjected to rain or in like cases
where it is desirable to protect the conductors from wet or moisture the insulation
according to my invention also rendering the conductors generally better adapted
to or more efficient in conducting electrical currents for traction or lighting or
telephonic or other purposes than hitherto. According to my invention I take
raw wool or wool which has not been treated for the removal of the natural fatty
matter peculiar thereto and 1 wrap, weave, plait or otherwise apply the said wool
containing its natural fatty matter around or to the conductor with or without
the intervention or addition of other insulating or protective material inside or
outside the said wool covering or both.
Dated this 20th day of February 1895
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
improvements in the insulation of Electric Conductors.
HENRY EDMUNDS of 39 Victoria Street in the City of Westminster
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 :-
My invention has for its object to effect the insulation of electrical conductors
such more especially as are in exposed situation subjected to rain or in like cases
where it is desirable to protect the conductors from wet or moisture or the action
of injurious chemicals, the insulation acording to my invention also rendering
the conductors generally better adapted to or more efficient in, conducting
electrical currents for traction, or lighting, or telephonic, or other purposes, than
hitherto.
According to my invention I take raw wool or wool which has not been treated for
the removal of the natural fatty matter peculiar thereto and I wrap weave plait or
otherwise apply the said wool containing its natural fatty matter around or to the
conductor with or without the intervention or addition of other insulating or
protective material inside or outside the said wool covering or both.
The said raw wool or wool still retaining its natural fatty matter may be applied
by means of the machinery or according to the methods used for applying other
fibrous materials to conductors or the like.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
An electrical conductor having applied to it a protective covering of raw
wool or wool still retaining its natural fatty matter substantially as hereinbefore
explained.
Dated this 20th day of November 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.