A NEW OR IMPROVED CABINET FOR VOLTAIC OR GALVANIC BATTERIES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Theophilus Coad, of 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the
County of Middlesex, Electrician, for an Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
CABINET FOR VOLTAIC OR GALVANIC BATTERIES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Theophilus Coad at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th November 1881.
THEOPHILUS COAD, of 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex,
Electrician. "A NEW OR IMPROVED CABINET FOR VOLTAIC OR GALVANIC
BATTERIES."
Hitherto in the management of voltaic or galvanic batteries much inconvenience
has been experienced in manipulating the same, such as for example in charging
the same with the fluids or discharging the fluids therefrom; also in moving the
cells from place to place when such has been necessary.
Now the object of this Invention is to provide a cabinet for holding and
containing the cells of batteries whereby the said inconveniences are obviated.
In carrying out my Invention I construct the cabinet of a case of suitable
material such as wood, and with doors at the front, back, and ends, by preference.
The case is furnished with a number of slides working in grooves or runners and
on the slides are hinged frames constructed to receive and hold the cells forming
the batteries. The cells to be used with my improved cabinet should be provided
with means of allowing the fluids to be discharged from the top.
By the employment of a cabinet of this construction to discharge the fluids from
the cells it will be merely necessary to pull out the herein before described slides
and tilt or turn the frames on their hinges, whereupon the fluids can be
discharged without it being necessary to disconnect the cells from one another.
The fluids may be discharged into a suitable trough arranged so that it may be
adapted to different heights to suit the several series or rows of cells.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Theophilus Coad in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th May
1882.
THEOPHILUS COAD, of 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex,
Electrician. "A NEW OR IMPROVED CABINET FOR VOLTAIC OR GALVANIC
BATTERIES."
Hitherto in the management of voltaic or galvanic batteries much inconvenience
has been experienced in manipulating the same, such as for example in charging
the same with the fluids or discharging the fluids therefrom; also in moving the
cells from place to place when such has been necessary.
Now the object of this Invention is to provide a cabinet for holding and
containing the cells of batteries whereby the said inconveniences are obviated.
In carrying out my Invention I construct the cabinet of a case of suitable
material such as wood, and with doors at the front, back, and ends by preference.
The case is furnished with a number of slides working in grooves or runners, and
on the slides are hinged frames constructed to receive and bold the cells forming
the batteries. The cells to be used with my improved cabinet should be provided
-with-means-of-allowing-the-fluids-to-be-discharged-from-the-top-
But to make my Invention better understood I will proceed to describe the
same by reference to the accompanying Drawing in which Figure 1 is a front
elevation of my improved cabinet for voltaic or galvanic batteries; Figure 2 is a
similar view with the doors thrown open to show the interior construction;
Figure 3 is a plan with the top removed; and Figures 4 and 5 sectional end
elevations of the same. Similar letters in all the Figures represent similar parts.
a is the case of the cabinet and b are the front doors, similar doors being also
provided at the back (and also at the ends by preference); c, c, are the slides in
the case a, and d, d, are the grooves or runners for the same; e, e, are the frames
hinged at a to the slides c, and f, f, are the cells therein forming the batteries, the
Baid cells being provided with the suitable means such as openings or spouts g, as
shewn for allowing the fluids to be discharged from the top; h, h, are handles
by which the slides c may be moved along their grooves or runners d; i, i, are
stops for preventing the frames e, containing the cells f, from being tilted too
far forward.
In employing a cabinet of this construction the cells f, of the batteries are
placed in the hinged frames e as shewn, and when it is required to discharge the
fluids from the cells f of any row, it will be merely necessary to pull out the
slides c from the front or back (according to whether it is desired to discharge the
fluids from the cells of the front or back batteries) by means of the handles h. In
Figure 5 the lower slide is drawn out to discharge the fluid from the front lower
row of cells, as shewn at B, while the upper slide, as shewn at A, is drawn out at
the back to discharge the fluid from the back upper row of cells; the frame being
drawn out can then be tilted, as shewn at B, Figure 5, so as to discharge the fluid
without it being necessary to disconnect the cells from one another. The fluids
may be discharged into any suitable trough, which may be arranged so that it can
be adjusted to different heights to suit the several series or rows of cells; the
fluids having been discharged, the frames e are turned back on their hinges into
their previous vertical position and may then be re-charged or not as required,
and the slides are pushed back into the cabinet and will occupy the position shewn
in Figures 2, 3, and 4.
Having thus described my said Invention and the best means with which I am
acquainted for carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that what

page_text: is claimed and intended to be protected by the herein in part recited Letters
Patent is,-
Firstly. The construction and employment of a cabinet for voltaic or galvanic
batteries, the said cabinet being arranged and operating, substantially in the
manner and for the purposes herein before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawing or any mere modification thereof.
Secondly. In a cabinet for containing voltaic or galvanic batteries I claim the
hinged sliding frames e, constructed and operating substantially as and for the
purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Theophilus Coad, have hereto set my hand
and seal, this Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.
T. COAD. (L.S.)