IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC SECONDARY OR STORAGE BATTERIES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Samuel Beeman, William Taylor and Frank
King, all of Cannon Street in the County of Middlesex for an Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC SECONDARY OR STORAGE BATTERIES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Samuel Beeman,
William Taylor and Frank King at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents
on the 10th August 1882.
JOSEPH SAMUEL BEEMAN, WILLIAM TAYLOR, and FRANK KING, all of Cannon
Street, in the County of Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC SECONDARY
OR STORAGE BATTERIES
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Our invention consists in the formation of electrodes by means of ribbons, tapes,
strips or such like of convenient metals or of insulating material covered with
metal, combined with lead salts. Also ribbons tapes or such like of convenient
metal combined with ribbons or tapes of lead and lead salts. And in combination
with the above improvements or otherwise, the use of an insulating ribbon, tape or
strip, alone or to form a carrier or vehicle for salts of lead, or lead in a finely
divided condition, such insulating carrier being sandwiched so to speak, between
the improved metal ribbons, or their substitutes. The ribbon tape or strips of
metal including lead as also the insulating carrier or either of them may be made in
any convenient manner and they may be corrugated longitudinally and transversely
or either, and the metal ribbons tapes or strips may be perforated or formed of or
out of guaze or of plaited wires. Also of powdered carbon, graphite or other similar
and inert materials for covering the insulating strips alone or in combination with
salts of lead. And the coating of said strips with the powdered inert material on
one side and with salts of lead on the other.
Also of an improved cell made of wood soaked or coated with parafine, lined with
a cell of paper equally treated with parafine, and having a layer of parafine
interposed between the wood and paper cell.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Samuel Beeman, William Taylor and Frank King in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th February 1883.
JOSEPH SAMUEL BEEMAN, WILLIAM TAYLOR and FRANK KING, all of Cannon
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC SECONDARY
Street, in the County of Middlesex
OR STORAGE BATTERIES
"
Our invention relates to the formation of plates for electrodes, made of insulating
tape like materials in combination with suitable metal ribbons; also of insulating
tapes covered with metal, in combination with an insulating ribbon, tape, or strip
alone, or so used as to form a carrier or vehicle for salts of lead, or lead in a finely
divided condition such insulating carrier being sandwiched so to speak, between
the metallised ribbons, or their substitutes; the insulating carrier and metal ribbons
or either may be made in any convenient manner and may be corrugated longitu-
dinally and transversely, or either way, and of any convenient shape. The said
insulating strips are coated with the powdered and inert material on one side and
with salts of lead on the other. Part of the invention also refers to plates formed
as above, and used in combination with an improved cell made of wood soaked or
coated with paraffine, lined with a cell of paper equally treated with paraffine, and
having a layer of paraffine interposed between the wood and paper cell. Some-
times we use an extra partial casing of sheet iron outside of the wooden one with
an interposed layer of paraffine wax, and we sometimes creosote the wood casing
before soaking it in the paraffine wax. Part of the invention further relates in
combination with above improvements, or some of them, to a mode of connecting
the different sets of plates together so that any one plate may be easily removed;
and the formation of a hook attachment for connecting the cells together, together
with an improved valve for ventilating the cells; also in combination with our
improved plates part of our invention relates to an improved mode of applying
studs, rods, tubes or equivalents (either alone or in combination with rings), to
support and keep in position together and apart the plates-the studs, rods, tubes
and rings being made of any convenient non-conducting material such as glass,
porcelain, vulcanite, or of metal or wood covered with non-conducting material.
The invention refers in combination with our improved cell, to the use of an insu-
lated tray or stand supporting said cell, and for holding oil to prevent return
current by earth. The accompanying drawings will serve further to show how
the invention may be performed, but we do not limit ourselves to the exact modes
therein shown as they may be varied in detail and otherwise, without departing
from the nature of our invention. In all the figures like letters indicate like or
corresponding parts.
Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 show elevations of various forms of combined insulating
strips and metal ribbons, the dotted lines representing the insulated strips, the
other lines represent metal or metallised strips, these strips may be in themselves
made up in corrugated or other suitable forms. Said strips and ribbons being
formed into a plate or plates by rolling them on mandrels having adjustable and
plain-faced or curved-shaped cheeks, the corners or other parts being secured by
stamping or otherwise to secure stability and rigidity. Fig. 7 is a section. Fig. 8
an elevation and cross section of cell, showing the mode of hanging the plate B by
a hanger or yoke piece A with shoulders serving to keep the plate from the sides.
top, and bottom of the cell, the piece A is preferably made of lead and is covered
We solder on
with suitable varnish to prevent the electrolyte from acting on it.
to the end of the lead yoke a a tip or piece of brass or copper a', and gild same,

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together with the connecting-rods and hooks H to prevent oxidation.
distance-studs incorporated with the plate B, and serving to keep said plate off its
neighbouring plate, these studs may be of the form shown in Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12 and 13, or rings D may be used in combination with rods, as shown in Figs. 14,
15, 11 and 13.
The cell E is made of wood, soaked in liquid paraffine wax, the wood may be
previously creosoted, a paper cell F (serving as a lining) is soaked in liquid paraffine
wax, and then forced into the cell E, which previously is supplied with liquid
paraffine wax also, and by such forcing a layer of wax is interposed between E
and F. G is a metal envelope or partial outer casing, which is also lined internally
with liquid paraffine. Figs. 7 and 8 show the mode of connecting the several
terminals of the two sets of plates to their respective common-metal electrical
communicator, and so arranged that any one plate can be removed without
materially interfering with the action of the battery. The hook H is for con-
necting one cell to its neighbouring cell. J is the ventilator for letting out gases
generated in the cell, and also serves for a ready means of inspection of the interior
of the cell.
Fig. 16 shows a method of supporting the plates by means of glass rods or
equivalents L, held in position by cross-rods K (serving as distance pieces) or, as in
Figs. 14 and 15, with a support fastened to the cell in lieu of the cross-rods K. In
Figs. 7 and 8, b is a stand or tray having supports b¹ for carrying the cell, said tray
is filled with oil or glycerine and serves to prevent return currents by earth.. We
claim:-
1. The formation of secondary or storage batteries of ribbons or tapes of insu-
lating material covered with metal combined with lead or lead salts, or of
ribbons or tapes of metal in combination with an insulating ribbon or tape alone,
or used to form a carrier for lead or lead salts, substantially as illustrated and
described.
2. The use, in combination with our improved plates, of powdered and inert
material for covering the insulating ribbons for batteries, alone, or in combination
with lead or lead salts, and the use of such ribbons when coated with inert material
on one side and lead or lead salts on the other, substantially as described.
3. The use, in combination with our improved plates, of the mode of connecting
the plates, the hook attachment connection, the ventilating valve, the distance
studs and supporting rods or their respective equivalents, and the insulated tray
stand or support for cell, all substantially as and for the purposes described and
illustrated.
In Witness whereof we the said Joseph Samuel Beeman, William Taylor and
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J. S. BEEMAN
(L.S.)
W. TAYLOR
(L.S.)
FRANK KING
(L.S.)