Improvements in Methods or Means of Insulating Electric Wires.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1990-Accepted, 24th Nov., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Methods or Means of Insulating Electric Wires.
We, BENJAMIN GEORGE HODGES, of 19, l'ittar Street, HENRY SMITH, of 41,
Ward Street, and WILLIAM ARTHUR AGER BURROWS, of 32, Talbot Street, all
in the County Borough of Derby, Engineers and Machinists, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows;
The object of our invention is to effect more perfect insulation of electric
wires and prevent what is technically known as a short circuit."
As now generally insulated electric wires are provided with a covering or
coat of some non-conducting material, such as cotton, rubber, or the like and
in placing a number of such wires together an outer cover is simply wrapped
round the whole, the insulated surfaces of the wires touching each other within
the final outer covering; it is to this final outer covering that our invention
relates and in carrying the same into effect instead of simply causing the said
outer covering to be wrapped round the body of the wires, we interlace the
covering material so that it not only passes round the outsides of the wires but
in between them and so more perfectly insulating and keeping apart each wire.
This method of insulating will be found particularly useful in the case of fuses
where they have to be packed very tightly.
Our invention may be applied as the outer covering to two or more wires and
the said covering may be placed thereon by means of any suitable loom or other
machine.
Improvements in Methods or Means of Insulating Electric Wires.
We, BENJAMIN GEORGE HODGES, of 19, Pittar Street, HENRY SMITH, of 41,
Ward Street, and WILLIAM ARTHUR AGER BURROWS, of 32, Talbot Street, all
in the County Borough of Derby, Engineers and Machinists, 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:-
The object of our invention is to effect more perfect insulation of electric
wires and prevent what is technically known as a "short circuit."
In describing our invention reference will be had to the accompanying sheet
of drawings upon which Figures 1, 2 and are cross sections shewing our
Pris 8d

page_text: improved method of insulating groups of two, three and four wires respectively.
Figure 4 is an elevation shewing the application of our invention.
As now generally insulated electric wires are provided with a covering or
coat of some non-conducting material, such as cotton, rubber, or the like and
in placing a number of such wires together an outer cover is simply wrapped
round the whole, the insulated surfaces of the wires touching each other within
the final outer covering; it is to this final outer covering that our invention
relates and in carrying the same into effect instead of simply causing the said
outer covering to be wrapped round the outside of the body of the wires, we
interlace the covering material A so that it not only passes round the outsides
of the wires B but in between them as illustrated and so more perfectly
insulating and keeping apart each wire.
This method of insulating will be found particularly useful in the case of fuses
where they have to be packed very tightly.
It will be evident that our invention may be applied to the covering of two
or more wires although we have only illustrated it as applied to two, three and
four, and that the said covering may be placed thereon by means of any suitable
loom or other machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
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The improved method or means of insulating electric wires substantially as
described and illustrated.