Stilling the Waves.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th July, 1887
Complete Left, 14th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 8th June, 1888
Stilling the Waves.
I, SAMUEL PEARCE WILDING, of the firm of Fell and Wilding, of 1 Queen Victoria
Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention (a communication to me from abroad by Chresten Jörgensen Boye of
Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark, Retired Master Mariner) to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention relates to the construction of oil distributors which can be easily
operated and cleaned and permit of the regulation of the quantity of oil which it is
desired to distribute over the sea according to the condition of the same for the
purpose of stilling it.
The said invention consists of a bag of suitable material which may be stiffened by
any suitable band or bands and to which are attached loops or rings for convenience
The mouth of the bag
of handling the bag in any position or for suspending same.
is provided with a metal face provided with slots or perforations through which the
oil is intended to flow. Over the inner surface of these slots or perforations slides a
correspondingly slotted or perforated plate thus forming the outlet as a gridiron
valve. The travel of the plate is controlled from the outside by means of a suitable
bandle turning a worm engaging in a rack upon the plate, and the size of the orifices
may thus be determined to suit the quantity of oil required to flow. The opposite
end of the bag is formed with a lid which is removable to permit of the bag being
filled. Any accumulation of dirt or oil upon the gridiron valve may be easily
removed by means of a brush inserted through the said spout or aperture.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Distributing Oil over the Sea for
Stilling the Waves.
I, SAMUEL PEARCE WILDING,. of the firm of Fell and Wilding, of 1 Queen Victoria
Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention (a communication to me from abroad by Chresten Jörgensen Boye, of
Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark, Retired master mariner) and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to the construction of oil distributors, which can be easily
operated and cleaned, and permit of the regulation of the quantity of oil which it is
desired to distribute over the sea, according to the condition of the same, for the
purpose of stilling it.
The
The said invention consists of a bag of suitable material, which may be stiffened
by any suitable band or bands and to which are attached loops or rings for
convenience of handling the bag in any position, or for suspending same.
mouth of the bag is provided with a metal face provided with slots or perforations
through which the oil is intended to flow. Over the inner surface of these slots or
perforations slides a correspondingly slotted or perforated plate, thus forming the
outlet as a gridiron valve. The travel of the plate is controlled from the outside by
means of a suitable handle turning a worm engaging in a rack upon the plate, and
the size of the orifices may thus be determined to suit the quantity of oil required to
flow. The opposite end of the box is formed with a lid which is removable to permit
of the bag being filled. Any accumulation of dirt or oil upon the gridiron valve may
be easily removed by means of a brush inserted through the said spout or aperture.
In order that the said invention may be the better understood, I now proceed to
describe the same in relation to the drawings hereunto annexed reference being had
to the letters and figures marked thereon.
A is a bag of flexible material such as sail cloth, surrounded on its edge by a
band B, provided with rings or loops B. It is attached at the bottom to an oblong
box B₁ of thin metal open towards the bag. The body of this box has oblong
perforations C. On the inner side of the bottom of the box is a sliding plate. E
movable longitudinally and with perforations similar to those in the bottom of the
box. One end of this plate E is supplied with. a number of teeth f into which gears
the worm wheel H on the axis G. The other end of the axis G is supplied with a
knob screw head I, which serves as a handle operating the worm. The other end of
the box has a spout K which is closed with a cap or cover L.
This apparatus is used and operated as follows:
The cap L is unscrewed and the bag A filled with oil through the spout K when
the cap is replaced and the distributor ready for use.

page_text: The escape of oil is regulated by the sliding plate E, the perforations in which
enlarge or diminish the openings for the escape of oil by being brought more or less
in juxtaposition with the perforations in the bottom of the box. Movement of the
sliding plate is effected by turning the knob or milled nut I outside the apparatus.
Should dirt collect on the sliding plate in course of time, it can be easily removed
with a small brush inserted through the spout K.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The construction of an oil distributor, substantially as described and illustrated
herewith