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IMPROVEMENTS IN DRILLS FOR GRAIN AND OTHER SEED (
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Gerard Wonzeslaus von Nawrocki at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th April 1883. A com-
munication from Carl Gindler of Salzgitter in Hanover German Empire
GERARD WENZESLAUS VON NAWROCKI, Proprietor of the firm of J. Brandt &
G. Wv Nawrocki, Patent Solicitor and Civil Engineer of 124 Leipzigerstrasse
Berlin Germany "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRILLS FOR GRAIN AND OTHER SEED (A
Communication from Carl Gindler of Salzgitter in Hanover German Empire)
"
These improvements are applicable to drills having the usual discs provided
with cups and made to revolve and which supply the seed to receiving hoppers in
connection with funnels that convey it to the ground. The object of this invention
is to construct the parts so that each of the receiving hoppers can be put out of
action in a simple, suro and direct manner, and so that the spindle provided with
the feed cups can be removed and exchanged for another as required, without the
removal of the receiving hoppers and without the use of slides or plates for
shutting off the feed supply to the funnels, as heretoforo usual.
The lower part of each receiving hopper is fixed; the bottom opening of this
lower part or tube is over a hole which leads down to the funnel and coulter and is
provided with a steel "centre" or pivot which serves to receive the upper part or
hopper proper which has a corresponding hole and is movable thereon. In order
to give the movable hopper its required position relatively to the lower or fixed
part or tube, the hopper has a steel spring which is fixed to one end thereof by a
screw and is guided in a recess therein. The pivot has two notches or flats filed
on it in either of which the spring can be held so that the hopper cannot be pulled
off its pivot. These flats correspond with two positions of the hopper. But if the
hopper is turned so far back on its pivot that the spring is out of contact with the
flats on the pivot then the hopper can be pulled off its pivot and thus be detached
from the lower tube.
The back wall of the lower tube is about two thirds lower than the front wall,
in order to give the back wall of the hopper a corresponding lower prolongation
which when the hopper is turned back or away from the feed cups at an angle
serves to close the lower opening in the tube so that the grain instead of going
down to the funnel will be carried back to the supply vessel. In order to effect an
entire closure of this opening the back wall of the upper hopper is provided with a
triangular flap.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSETS OR STAYS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Thomas Hellier at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th May 1883.
JOHN THOMAS HELLIER, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSETS OR STAYS
"
This Invention has for its object to improve and render more convenient and
comfortable the parts by which corsets or stays are fastened and adjusted to the
busts or figures of those wearing them.
In carrying out the Invention according to one modification the corset is made
with a lacing at the back, and with the busk opening at the front like corsets in
common use; but in addition there is on each side of the front or busk opening, a
division in the body of the corset extending about half way up from the bottom,
and situated about half way between the busk and the side or part directly below
the arm.
A lacing is arranged for drawing together more or less the sides of each
of these lateral divisions, and at each division a lappet is attached to the under-
side of one edge to cover the space between the edges when not laced closely
together. At the top of each lateral division the lace is threaded through one or
two ordinary eyelets, but the remainders of the sides of each division have hook
studs fixed to them to receive the lace so that it does not require to be passed
through the material of the corset but placed round the studs alternately on
each side of the division. With this arrangement and by drawing the laces of the
lateral divisions more or less tightly the lower part of the corset can be made to fit
the figure more easily and satisfactorily than with existing arrangements. Instead
of stud hooks on which the laces may be engaged by simply hooking on, studs
may be used having holes through which the laces have to be threaded but
without passing through the material of the corset.
In a second modification the corset is made in a single piece without the
ordinary laced division at the back; and instead of the ordinary front or busk
opening fastened by metal eyes and studs, an adjustable lace fastening is provided
for the front opening. For holding the laces hook studs are by preference fixed to
the sides of the opening, or studs made with holes through which the laces have
to be threaded may be used.
MENTS IN PENCIL CASES OR HOLDERS WHICH ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PENS, CRAYONS OR SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Haeffner at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st July 1883. Communicated to him
from abroad by Emil Mahla, of Nürnberg, Germany,
FREDERICK HAEFFNER, of Jewin Street, in the City of London,
"IMPROVE
MENTS IN PENCIL CASES OR HOLDERS WHICH ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PENS,
CRAYONS OR SIMILAR ARTICLES" [A communication to him from abroad by Emil
Mahla, of Nürnberg, Germany.]
This invention relates to cases or holders for lead-pencils, pens, crayons or similar
articles.
The chief object of the said invention is to provide an improved pencil-case or
pen-holder suitable for carrying in the pocket and in which the pen or pencil can
be readily propelled from the enclosing case into position for use and will be
automatically returned to the case when pressure is applied to a knob or the like
provided for the purpose.
According to the present invention I construct the pencil-case or pen-holder as
hereinafter set forth, that is to say, I make the case or holder in such a manner
that the pencil or pen is propelled therefrom by pressure applied to one end thereof,
and I provide a knob acted upon by a spring, which knob enters a hole in the case
when the pen or pencil is in the proper position for use; I also insert a spring in
the said case or holder so that when sufficient pressure is applied to the said knob
to disengage it from the aperture in the case, this spring will immediately draw
back the pen or pencil into the case or holder.
In carrying the said invention into practice, according to one method, I make
the case or holder of a tube of the desired length, into one end of which is fitted
a smaller tube closed at one end; within these tubes I so arrange a spiral spring
that, when pressure is applied to the closed end of the smaller tube, the spring
will be compressed and the sinaller tube will be thrust into the main tube. The
said spiral spring is arranged upon a rod or spindle extending longitudinally
within the said tubes and having fixed to it, at the end opposite the smaller tube,
the device for holding the pen, pencil or the like, which device is constructed in
any well known manner. Another spring is fixed to this device and is provided

page_text: with a knob adapted to enter an aperture in the main tube when the pen or pencil
is in position for use. The aforesaid rod is provided with a rib or projection which
enters a slot in the main tube, or other suitable means are provided for preventing
the turning of the said rod within the tube.
The form and dimensions of the said case or holder may be varied according to 5
whether it is designed to contain a pencil, a pen, or other article.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MATCHES AND OTHER LIGHTING OR KINDLING MEDIA
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Lorentz Albert Groth at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th January 1883. Communi-
cated to him from abroad by H. R. Paul Hosemann, a person resident at Berlin
in the Empire of Germany
LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH K.G.V, Civil Engineer and Managing Director of
The Universal Inventors and Patentees Financial Company Limited, 30 Finsbury
Pavement London E.C. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MATCHES AND OTHER LIGHTING OR
KINDLING MEDIA " A communication to me from abroad by H. R. Paul Hosemann
a person resident at Berlin in the Empire of Germany
According to this invention matches of all kinds (especially the so called
impregnated ones) furnished as heretofore with lighting or kindling matter at
one end, are so impregnated or covered at the other end with fire proof material
that a kind of handle is thereby produced of about five to thirty millimetres
length at the end of the match opposite to the igniting end which handle does
not ignite as the match burns down, the flame going out of itself when it reaches
that part.
This arrangement not only offers a means of avoiding the burning of the fingers
but also prevents or limits the smouldering of matches when thrown away partly
burnt, which as is well known often occassions conflagrations. It likewise prevents
the taking fire of whole packets and boxes (schachteln) of matches which stand
with those ends uppermost which are not furnished with igniting matter.
For most kinds of matches a simple impregnation of the end above indicated
with a fire proof material is sufficient
In cases where a coating is desired or necessary the fire proof material is put on
mixed with thickening and adhesive substances
The latter means are specially suited for wax tapers. This preparation is
important for matches (Sunten) fuzes (Zundschnuren) firework bodies, and is so
employed therein as an impregnation or as a coating that the inflammable ends
furnished with it are rendered uninflammable so that the spontaneous ignition of
the object is prevented.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRO MAGNETIC MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Nestor Rolland and Henry Benjamin
Ford at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd November
1883.
NESTOR ROLLAND, of Lorrimore Street, in the County of Surrey, Electrician,
and HENRY BENJAMIN FORD, of Lambeth Palace Road, in the County of Surrey,
Surgeon dentist, "IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRO MAGNETIC MACHINES
"
Our invention relates to apparatus for the conversion of electrical and magnetic
force into rotary motion, or vice versa as an electrical generator, and is designed
to more fully utilize the force of permanent magnets and the secondary electrical
currents consequent upon the rotation of the apparatus.
A convenient form of our motor consists of a series of compound permanent
magnets arranged radially and concentrically around a central axis, with their
poles presented thereto. Upon the central axis, which is suspended on suitable
bearings or centres, so as to freely revolve, is fixed an inner ring of radial electro
magnets with their poles presented outwards, so as to pass, when the axis revolves,
in front of the poles of the permanent fixed magnets.
The fixed magnets present alternately North and South poles to the electro
magnets. A regulating current of electricity is introduced from suitable batteries
or other source, through brushes and a commutator upon the central axis, to the
coils around the electro magnets, so that they become polarised when the current
is moving.
By means of the commutator above referred to, the polarity of the electro
magnet is reversed each time that they pass the centre of action of the fixed
magnets, so that they are always attracted and repelled successively so as to
produce rotation.
▲ secondary current is induced in coils surrounding the fixed magnets at the
moment of the changing of the poles. This secondary current is carried to a
commutator upon the central axis, and thence by brushes to an accumulator. The
current thus stored can be utilized for all purposes to which the electric current is
applicable, such as electric lighting, driving domestic machinery, or to reinforce or
perhaps to replace the regulating current, if the recovered current is sufficiently
powerful The induced current however may be utilized directly, or be directly

page_text: led through suitable commutators and connections to the exciting coils to reinforce
and augment the primary current from the batteries.
Our invention may assume other forms than that specified, but it is always
essential that two sets of magnets be used, one set permanent, surrounded by
inductor coils (the electricity of which may be utilized) and one set excited by
electricity from generators which may be augmented or reinforced from the
inductor coils round the permanent magnets.
IMPROVEMENTS APPARATUS FOR OPERATING THE HARNESS-FRAMES OF LOOMS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th September 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Louise Mercier, of Louviers, France,
IMPROVEMENTS IN
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex,
APPARATUS FOR OPERATING THE HARNESS-FRAMES OF LOOMS," a communication
to me from abroad by Louise Mercier, of Louviers, France,
"
This invention relates to harness-operating mechanisms in which the up motion
only is produced by the direct action of the machine.
It consists in producing the down motion of each harness-frame by means of
a horizontal spring acting on the short arms of a pair of double-armed levers, the
longer arms of which are connected with the lower part of the harness-frame.
The lower part or rail of each harness-frame is connected with the longer arm
of a bell-crank lever of variable length, the shorter or upright arm of which is
attached to a helical spring connected with its opposite end to another bell crank
lever placed symmetrically to the first and connected with the same harness-frame.
The length or tension of each spring is made adjustable by means of a screw and
nut, and the springs belonging to two contiguous frames are placed at different
heights, in order to economise space. The springs may be supported or guided by
a platform or boards.
AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR COATING THE SURFACE OF IRON OR OTHER METAL WITH METALLIC COPPER, LEAD, ZINC, ALUMINIUM, OR NICKEL
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adolf Gutensohn at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1883.
ADOLF GUTENSOHN, of 35, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex
"AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR COATING THE SURFACE OF IRON OR OTHER METAL
WITH METALLIC COPPER, LEAD, ZINC, ALUMINIUM, OR NICKEL
"
This invention has for its object a novel process for coating the surface whether
curved or flat, of iron or other metal with metallic copper, lead, zinc, aluminium, or
nickel.
I take a chhoride of copper or other metal a coating of which it is desired to
obtain, and from a solution of such chloride I precipitate the metal in the form of
a phosphate by the addition of pyrophosphate of soda.
I then thoroughly wash the precipitated phosphate until all traces of chloride of
soda have been removed, and I dissolve the clean phosphate in a solution of caustic
soda.
And in cases where the phosphate does not readily dissolve in such solution of
caustic soda I add a small quantity of liquid ammonia by which the solution is
facilitated and the coating of the metal subsequently obtained is brighter and
more solid.
The solution obtained in the manner described is used for the purpose of
electro-plating the surface of iron or other metal with the metal which it contains
in the ordinary well-known way by means of a current of electricity generated in
any convenient method.
The strength of the solution used as described should be proportioned to the
strength of the electric current available, the solution being stronger in proportion
as the electric current is weaker.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH PERAMBULATORS AND THE LIKE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Leon L'Hollier at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 10th November 1883.
LEON L'HOLLIER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer of
Perambulators, “IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH PERAMBULATORS AND THE
LIKE"
This Invention relates to certain improvements in or applicable to the
construction of perambulators and other like vehicles, and it principally consists
in the use and application of bamboo-cane in substitute for or in combination with
wire gauze wood or wicker work either wholly or in part for the bodies of
perambulators; the especial advantage in the use thereof either by itself or in
combination with such materials as are at present used, being that it enables a very
strong body being made of very light weight, and of an ornamental effect being
produced quite absent from such structures as made in the ordinary way and from
such materials as are at present used.
•
The strips or hollow pieces of bamboo can be united to form the perambulator
body or the frame thereof by various means and in various ways.
AN IMPROVED SIPHON-BOTTLE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Harris Lake at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th November 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by La Société J. Vidie et fils, of Pantin (Seine) France
HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, "AN IMPROVED SIPHON-BOTTLE" A communi-
cation to me from abroad by La Société J. Vidie et fils, of Pantin (Seine) France
This Invention relates to an improved siphon-bottle
Heretofore, all the siphon bottles or receptacles designed to retail gaseous
liquids, such as seltzer water and the like, have been made of smooth or plain
white or colored glass. In these receptacles the liquid is only affected by the
transparency of the glass and has neither brilliancy nor any particularly luminous
effect imparted to it by the same.
In order to obtain luminous effects in the said liquid and to increase its limpidity
and brilliancy I make siphon-bottles from the vessels or receptacles of glass or
crystal termed "à côtes vénitiennes." These receptacles, whatever shape they
may assume, are characterized by the fact that their outer surface is smooth and
presents neither angles, projections nor grooves whilst internally they have a
polygonal transverse section.
This polygonal section may assume the shape of a convex regular or irregular
polygon or of a star or polygon having angles alternately projecting inward and
outward with equal or irregular sides. The improved receptacles (recipients à
côtes vénitiennes) produce when empty the same illusion as glass or crystal cut
outwardly and having plane, convex, concave, or alternately plane and concave, or
plane and convex, or convex and concave faces, these faces, whatever shape they
may have being capable of presenting all the combinations which their number
may permit and appearing in all cases separated by sharp edges or connecting
lines more or less rounded, inwardly projecting or outwardly projecting. When
receptacles of this kind are filled with liquid they impart to the same, besides the
quality of transparency inherent to glass or crystal, a peculiar brilliancy due to
the refraction of each cut face. The said faces acting like lenses having different
foci. The liquid seems then to scintillate and emit luminous rays.

page_text: The accompanying drawing shows in Figure 1 an elevation of a siphon-bottle
constructed according to this Invention and in Figure 2 a transverse section of the
same representing the internal polygonal surface of the bottle or vessel and its
external surface which is a continuous curve more or less regular.
The glass or crystal used for the said vessels or receptacles may be colored if
desired.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES " APPARATUS FOR THE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frank Hipgrave at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 12th July 1883.
FRANK HIPGRAVE of 127 The Strand, London in the County of Middlesex
Tobacconist. " IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND
MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES
"
APPARATUS FOR
THE
The object of this invention is to produce cigarettes, by a machine which
automatically draws in its supply of paper encloses tobacco therein and sticks the
edges leaving only for other machinery or manual labour the feeding in of the
tobacco and the cutting level of the ends.
I accomplish my object in the following manner.―
To a roller the plane periphery of which is equal to the width of a cigarette
paper I fix a handle by turning which with suitable gearing the whole of the
inacbine is set in motion. This roller has a groove or recess cut in its periphery
which stops the forward movement of the paper long enough to allow of its being
cut to the right width. I fix below this roller another friction roller in order to
ensure the certain forward motion of the paper. The paper is drawn from
another roller on which it is rolled-placed behind the above mentioned rollers.
It is cut off at the proper time by a knife whose accurate action is determined
by a hinge at one end and an eccentric connection at the other. Alongside the
knife I fix a receptacle holding gum or paste and fitted with an internal roller
under which is passed an endless band which in turn passes over end roller and
stamps with glutinous material the edge of the paper as it passes beneath. I can
also adopt other means for applying to the edge of the paper the necessary
adhesiveness.
The tobacco is placed by an attendant upon an endless band and formed into a
circular section by a shifting roller the axis of which works in the segmental slot
of a quadrant with a reciprocating motion so that at the forward motion of the
shifting roller a slack place is formed in the upper surface of the endless band into
which the tobacco is placed. The shifting roller is fixed to the end of a radial
crank actuated by gearing connected in the ordinary way direct with the first
motion. I employ two long rollers to form a circular recess and hold the paper in
position and shape, and two short rollers not impinging nearer to one another than
Die 21

page_text: the length of the Cigarette to be formed
The tobacco is carried by the endless
band into the hollow formed between the two short rollers and covered by the
shifting roller. I give to all the rollers a rotating motion simultaneously and by
this means the tobacco is firmly rolled in the paper-the paper is stuck at the edge
and the cigarette completed with the exception of the cutting off of the tobacco
projecting from the ends of the paper, which is accomplished by hand or other
means, afterwards.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PUMPING OR FORCING GASEOUS FLUIDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles John Galloway and John
Henry Beckwith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th
March 1883.
CHARLES JOHN GALLOWAY and JOHN HENRY BECKWITH both of Knott Mill
Manchester in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
PUMPING OR FORCING GASEOUS FLUIDS'
"
Our invention relates to apparatus for pumping or forcing gaseous fluids, Bo
arranged as to admit of a supply of cooling liquid during compression, and to
provide for filling all clearance spaces, while the valves are disposed externally
giving convenience of access.
For this purpose, we place vertically a cylinder the cover and bottom of which
are both curved downwards towards the middle, and we fit this cylinder with a
packed piston which is made on its upper and lower sides of form corresponding
to the forms of the cover and bottom respectively. From the upper and lower
ends of the cylinder lateral passages lead to valve boxes in each of which is a
suction and also a discharge valve, lying on a grating, these valves in each case
being accessible by openings fitted with suitable covers. When the pump is in
action, we admit a little water or other cooling liquid along with the suction, and
this liquid gathers in the hollow at the bottom of the cylinder and also in the
hollow on the upper side of the piston, so that as the piston approaches the extreme
of its stroke in each direction, the liquid is caused to fill the lateral passages and
valve boxes, thus displacing the gaseous fluid contained in the clearance spaces.
The pump may be worked by any convenient motor.
When steam power is
employed, we prefer to place the steam cylinder on a platform above the pump,
connecting the rod of the steam piston to a guided crosshead to which is also
connected the rod of the pump piston. From the crosshead two side rods are
connected to cranks on a fly wheel shaft mounted in bearings below the pump.
BOXES APPLICABLE FOR PARCEL POST OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Steadman Sykes at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th November 1883.
"IMPROVE-
THOMAS STEADMAN SYKES of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
MENTS IN BOXES APPLICABLE FOR PARCEL POST OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES"
This invention consists in a folding box, in which the four sides are hinged at
their corners, either with regular hinges, or with flexible joints, so as to be capable
of lying flat on each other when the top and bottom are not in position. The top
and bottom are in like manner hinged to the sides, and can be secured in divers
ways. My favourite plan of fixing the bottom of a paper box is to have it on a
hinge opening inward, and fix one or more light springs and a stop to the opposite
side of the box, so that when the lid is pressed down against the stop the springs fly
out and hold it from going back, the stop can be a ledge partially or entirely round
the box. The lid I prefer to hinge and to fall down on a similar ledge, two paper,
linen, or other tough flexible adhesive flaps attached to the sides then fold over the
lid and are wetted so as to cause them to adhere and seal the box. Staples and
locks, or sheet iron bending, can be used with wooden boxes. The box can be
made of paper, pasteboard, tin, wood or almost any other material used for box-
making, and the hinges can be of paper, linen, leather, metal or any other suitable
material. In wooden boxes I sometimes attach to two of the sides a strip of sheet
iron or tin, so that when the box is opened out into a normal shape these two strips
will cover over the two edges where the sides meet, that would otherwise gape, and
can be nailed down. A loop, handle, knob, or other projecting piece can be attached
to the lid to open it by.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR ADDITIONS TO PENCILS, PENCIL-CASES, PENHOLDERS, LEAD OR CRAYON HOLDERS, PENKNIVES, AND LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Hickisson and William Lee
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st July 1883.
JAMES HICKISSON, of Bond's Crystal Palace Ink Factory, Southgate Road,
Hackney, in the County of Middlesex, Marking Ink Manufacturer, and WILLIAM
LEE, of 68 Fleet Street, in the City of London, Mechanical Draughtsinan,
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR ADDITIONS TO PENCILS, PENCIL-CASES, PENHOLDERS, LEAD OR
CRAYON HOLDERS, PENKNIVES, AND LIKE ARTICLES.
Our Invention relates to the addition of or combination with a pencil, pencil
case, penholder, lead or crayon holder, penknife, or the like of a cigar cutter or
nipper and a tape measure or receptacle for postage stamps, the whole forming a
compact and useful article which may be readily carried in the waistcoat pocket.
In carrying out our Invention we construct a tube by preference of metal or
ebonite, and divide it into two portions, one of which is tapped or screw threaded
inwardly so as to be readily screwed on to the end of a pencil or like article with
which it is to be combined.
The lower portion or portion immediately next to the pencil is provided with a
cutter formed with a shank, which is operated by a ring embracing the tube and
secured to the opposite ends of a cross bar sliding in slots formed in the tube or by
studs sliding in slots. Beneath the cutter is a block on which the end of the cigar
rests when inserted and this end is introduced through an aperture or hole formed
in the tube. A spring actuates the cutter, and restores it to position after it has
performed its function.
In the other portion or portion above the cutter or nipper the tape measure or
postage stamp receptacle is contrived. This consists of an axis or rod on which
the measure is wound, the outer or uppermost end of the axis or rod is provided
with a head or knob for the purpose of winding up the tape. A slot is formed in
the tube through which the measuring tape can be drawn out.
When this receptacle is used for postage stamps a number of stamps in a strip is
inserted in a slit in the axis or rod, it being intended to withdraw the strip in like
manner as the tape measure, and to tear off one or more stamps as required. The
head or knob above mentioned is operated to withdraw the remaining stamps of
the strip.
IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH PRESERVING STORING AND AERATING LAGER AND LIKE BEERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Aubert Junior at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd December 1883.
WILLIAM AUBERT Junior of Crossgates House Balham in the county of Surrey
Engineer IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH PRESERVING STORING AND AERATING
LAGER AND LIKE BEERS.
This invention relates to improvements connected with preserving storing and
aerating Lager and like beers the object being to render Lager and like beer
acceptable to the palate without having recourse to pumps to aerate it at the time
of withdrawal from the vessel containing it.
For the purpose of my invention I make drums or other shaped vessels in iron or
other material and arrange a pipe or pipes within the same either at the heads or
from the sides to near the bottoms. By means of this pipe or pipes I force in
carbonic acid or other gas or air under pressure so as to charge the liquid. I also
arrange an agitator within the vessel to thoroughly impregnate the liquid or I force
charged liquid into a vessel from which it can be drawn
J
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF DECORATION BY ENAMEL UPON METAL ARTICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Reeves at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 12th September 1883.
THOMAS REEVES of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Enameller
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF DECORATION BY ENAMEL UPON METAL
ARTICLES
"
This invention consists in producing articles of the class usually decorated with
Enamel, such as articles of jewellery and gold or silver ware, so as to present as
good an appearance to the eye, and at a much less cost. Hitherto it has been
found impossible to enamel satisfactorily upon german silver or other metal
commonly in use for electro plated goods, whether the enamel be applied before the
goods have been coated or afterwards, but my process consists in forming the
article of the metal known as Webster's Patent metal or Bismuth Bronze, that is
to say, an alloy composed of about one part of Bismuth and six parts of tin mixed
with copper, spelter, and nickel, in about the following proportions, namely, one part
of the alloy, nineteen parts of copper, twenty one parts of spelter, and nine parts
of nickel, and coating the articles formed of this amalgam upon that part of them
which is to be enamelled with an electro deposit of gold, silver, or other suitable
metal, after which process the enamel is applied to the plated surface, and the
articles subjected to a red heat, when the enamel will be found to have securely
adhered to the surface of the articles.-The use of the electro-plate deposit gives to
transparent colors in the enamel a brilliant effect.
Thus, by this process, articles decorated with enamel are produced, having all the
appearance of more costly articles hitherto produced in gold, silver, or copper.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR ADDITIONS TO REAPING MACHINES TO FACILITATE THE TYING OR BINDING OF THE SHEAVES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION, left by Michael Jenkinson at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th May 1883.
"
MICHAEL JENKINSON of Rycroft Street, Grantham, in the County of Lincoln
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR ADDITIONS TO REAPING MACHINES TO FACILITATE THE TYING
OR BINDING OF THE SHEAVES
The invention has for its object improvements in or additions to reaping
machines to facilitate the tying or binding of the sheaves.
For this purpose I construct an extension platform with capability of attachment
to the rear of the platform of an ordinary reaping machine and I support it where
required upon a wheel or wheels.
I mount upon the extension platform adjustable guides set in an inclined position
in order to guide the sheaf into the position where the tying is effected.
These guides are capable of being set at any desired angle in relation to one
another and may be placed nearer to or farther from the edge of the extension
platform as may be required.
Upon the outer side of one of the guides I mount a string box and at the
upper part of such guide I fix a string feeder or eye through which the string is
passed.
From this string feeder the string passes down to the extension platform and
under an inclined undercut tension bar to the other guide; it then passes up to a
string retainer or attachment embodying a wedge formed open ended slot to hold
the free end of the string and a knife for cutting the same when desired. This
string retainer or attachment is capable of being adjusted at any desired height.
The action of the apparatus is as follows
The sheaf is swept off the platform of the reaper on to the extension platform
where it is conducted by the guides to a suitable position upon the tension bar;
the loop of the string is then brought by the attendant from the string feeder or
eye across the top of the sheaf to the string retainer when it is released from the
tension bar and retainer and cut and tied by hand.
The attendant then pushes the tied or bound sheaf over the edge of the extension

page_text: platform and re-adjusts the string in position under the tension bar and fixes it in
the retainer in readiness for the next sheaf.
Instead however of tying by hand an automatic knotter may in some cases be
employed for that purpose.
When constructing new machines it may be preferable to form the extension
platform in one with the ordinary platform.
A NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOUND OR MATERIAL TO BE EMPLOYED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR STONES MARBLE TORTOISE-SHELL IVORY CORAL AND OTHER SUBSTANCES; ALSO SUITABLE FOR INSULATING AND For other puRPOSES AND METHOD OR PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alexander Ritchie Leask and
Emmanuel Torrini at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 12th June 1883.
ALEXANDER RITCHIE LEASK and EMMANUEL TORRINI, both of 15 Holborn
Viaduct in the City of London, "A NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOUND OR MATERIAL
TO BE EMPLOYED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR STONES MARBLE TORTOISE-SHELL IVORY CORAL
AND OTHER SUBSTANCES; ALSO SUITABLE FOR INSULATING AND For other puRPOSES
AND METHOD OR PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
The invention may be described as follows viz:
"
We mix together bone-dust, Asbestos in powder, Farina, Albumen, coal ash,
Horn cuttings or waste and slate in powder, in suitable proportions which may be
varied to suit the purpose for which the articles to be made of this compound or
material are to be used.
We boil the horn and bone until they are sufficiently soft and fit to be mixed
with the other ingredients which we can then do in the same vessel.
The compound after being thoroughly stirred and mixed is placed in moulds
made according to the shape of the articles desired and the filled moulds are then
subjected to pressure in a suitable press which may be actuated by either lever,
screw, hydraulic, or other suitable means.
By the addition of emery we can produce emery wheels and other articles of
a like character By the addition of suitable coloring agents we can produce
imitations of stones, marbles, tortoise-shell, ivory, coral and other substances.
IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILER TUBES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Riley at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th July 1883.
THOMAS RILEY of Bermondsey in the County of Surrey, Engineer and Boiler
Maker "IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILER TUBES."
. My Invention relates to Improvements in Steam Boiler Tubes, and has for its
object, the providing a greater heating surface than can be obtained with boilers
as at present constructed, together with a great saving in the consumption of fuél.
In carrying my Invention into effect I construct my improved boiler tubes of a
larger diameter at the base and upwards, nearly to the level of the water line,
where they assume a conical shape and thence extending with a lessened diameter
nearly to the boiler plate, when I again enlarge them in a conical form so that
their diameter at the top is similar to their diameter at the base.
By my improved construction of boiler tubes, a compensation action is produced
at the cones of the tubes, and thereby a great saving of the wear and tear at the.
top of the tubes, caused by expansion and contraction, is effected.
The advantages of my Invention are, that I obtain a larger heating surface, and
the heat being utilized, I am enabled to "get up steam" much more rapidly than
can be done with boiler tubes as ordinarily constructed, and this with a great
saving of fuel, and the tubes, having a similar diameter at the top as at the base,
can be readily and easily removed for cleansing, repair, and other purposes.
My Improved Boiler Tubes can be applied to existing boilers with but
trifling cost.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Cutlan at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th June 1883.
FREDERICK CUTLAN of Leicester in the County of Leicester, Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HEELS OF BOOTS AND SHOES
"
"
My improvements consist in adapting to the heels of boots and shoes, in the place
of the headed nails in common use, a thin metallic plate carrying on its outer edge
a thick rim shaped like a horseshoe. In the hollow formed by this rim I insert a
piece of leather forming the top piece" of the heel, the plate being armed with
points or spikes to secure the same. The rim is also furnished with a row of
similar spikes by which it is made fast to the leather heel both this operation and
the fixing of the top piece being performed by pressure instead of by the use of
nails.
The said points may be either cast in one piece with the plate and rim or other
otherwise attached
The rim is so shaped that it has the appearance of a row of nails driven in one
by one, but being in one piece it is secured by one operation and can be adapted to
any desired class of work and to serve the purpose of any description of nails.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BUFFERS OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES AND ROLLING STOCK
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John William Kelly at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th October 1883.
JOHN WILLIAM KELLY, of the city of Dublin, Ireland, Civil Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BUFFERS OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES AND ROLLING STOCK
"
This invention has for its object improvements in buffers for railway carriages
and other rolling stock and it is designed to prevent the jolting of the carriages
trucks or other rolling stock.
It consists in attaching to or forming on the face of the buffer or buffers at one
end of the carriage or other vehicle a pin or stud. The adjacent buffer (or buffers)
of the opposite carriage has an aperture in its face into which the pin of the
opposite buffer entera when the faces of the buffers come together and so this tends
to prevent the jolting of the carriages or other rolling stock by steadying the train
at points of great vibration.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARSENIATE OF SODA
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Charles Blythe of Accrington in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemist for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Charles Blythe
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd July 1883.
FREDERICK CHARLES BLYTHE of Accrington in the County of Lancaster Manu-'
facturing Chemist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARSENIATE OF
SODA
"3
My improvements relate to the manufacture of arseniate of soda and consists in
decomposing common salt with arsenic acid by means of heat.
In performing my Invention I take arsenic acid either in the solid or liquid
state and mix it with common salt in the proportion of eight parts (or more or
less) of salt to ten parts (or more or less) of Anhydrous Arsenic Acid or its equivalent
containing water. I heat this mixture in a furnace or in a crucible, retort or any
vessel of suitable form and material, sufficiently to carry on the decomposition.
The hydro-chloric acid which is disengaged during this operation may be
collected in the usual way in towers, scrubbers, or by any other convenient means
and arseniate of soda will remain as the residual product.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frederick, Charles Blythe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
31st December 1883.
FREDERICK CHARLES BLYTHE, of Accrington in the County of Lancaster, Manu-
facturing Chemist "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARSENIATE OF
SODA
"
My improvements relate to the manufacture of arseniate of soda and consist in
decomposing common salt with arsenic acid by means of heat.
In performing my Invention I take Arsenic Acid either in the solid or liquid
state and mix it with common salt in the proportion of one part (or more or less)
of salt to two parts. (or more or less) of Anhydrous Arsenic Acid or its equivalent
containing water. I heat this mixture in a furnace, or in a crucible, retort or any
vessel of suitable form and material, sufficiently to carry on the decomposition.
The Hydro-Chloric Acid which is disengaged during this operation may be
collected in the usual way in towers, scrubbers or by any other convenient means
and arseniate of soda will remain as the residual product.
Having stated the nature of my Invention and described the manner of per-
forming the same I would have it understood that I do not limit myself to the
exact proportions stated, as the same may be varied or modified without departing
from my Invention and
I declare that I claim
The improvements in the manufacture of Arseniate of soda, substantially as
herein described.
In witness whereof I the said Frederick Charles Blythe have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twenty eighth day of December, One thousand eight hundred
and eighty three.
FREDERICK CHARLES BLYTHE (L.S.)
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING BEER AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Birch and Peter James
Catterall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th
November 1883.
EDWARD BIRCH and PETER JAMES CATTERALL both of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING BEER AND
OTHER LIQUIDS
Our invention relates to apparatus for mulling or warming beer and other
liquids, and is applicable either to the apparatus for which we obtained Letters
Patent No. 3173 bearing date 21st July 1881 and No. 5611 bearing date 25th
November 1882, or to ordinary beer engines and pumps; and the object of our
invention is to enable hot or cold beer or other liquid to be drawn at will from the
same barrel or other vessel, by the use of one and the same pump or lift.
Our improved muller or apparatus for heating the beer or other liquid is formed
of an outer cylinder or jacket, which contains one or more smaller cylinders or
chambers, the space between the jacket and chamber or chambers being filled or
partially filled with water heated by gas or in other convenient manner; or steam.
may be employed to heat the inner chamber or chambers
In applying the muller to the apparatus described in the Specifications to our
Letters Patent above referred to, we connect the top and bottom of the inner
cylinder of the muller to the pipe which conducts liquid from the "chamber"
described therein, to the bar, and the pressure which raises the beer or other liquid
forces the liquid into the inner chamber or one of the inner chambers of the muller,
where it is surrounded by the hot water in the outer cylinder and heated, previous
to being forced out of the muller, up to the delivery tap in the bar.
When cold beer or liquid is required to be drawn the liquid does not pass through
the muller, but through a pipe leading from a point between the "chamber" and
the muller to a separate tap in the bar. An exhaust pipe or safety valve is
connected to the upper part of each inner cylinder or chamber to permit the escape
of steam.
0
In applying the muller to an ordinary beer engine or pump the pipe leading from
the pump to the bar, has another pipe connected to it, leading to the inner cylinder
or one of the inner chambers of the muller, and the liquid is forced through another

page_text: pipe leading from the inner chamber of the muller to the bar: in this way by the
use of a single pump and two discharge or delivery taps, either hot or cold liquid can
be drawn from the same barrel or other vessel.
In place of using an outer cylinder or jacket containing hot water or steam and
heating the muller in this way, gas or other heating agent may be applied directly
to the muller or vessel or vessels containing the beer or other liquid to be heated,
and the outer cylinder or jacket dispensed with.
IMPROVED TELEPHONE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Samuel Joseph Coxeter and Heinrich
Nehmer at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd June 1883.
SAMUEL JOSEPH COXETER of Grafton Street East in the County of Middlesex,
and HEINRICH NEHMER of the same place, "IMPROVED TELEPHONE
"
Our Invention consists mainly in employing the movements of the walls of one
or more tubes (these movements being effected by electrical undulatory currents in
conjunction with permanent or electro magnets) as a means to set into vibration
corresponding vibrations in a column of air within them, and thus reproduce
speech.
One mode we employ is as follows :-
We take a magnet or magnets, to which are fastened pins or pieces of soft
iron. These are surrounded by a helix or helices of wire, forming an electro
magnet or magnets. On the magnet or magnets we place a tube (preferably of
india rubber) lengthways, and over this a rigid cover, tho part or portion opposite
the helix or helices must be of iron, almost touching the soft iron cores of the helix
or helices. The parts are then bound together in such a way as to give the best
results. When we connect the ends of the helix or helices to the transmitter in
circuit with a battery, the vibrations from the transmitter are reproduced at the
helix or helices and the air is vibrated by the movement of the walls of the tube
or tubes in the manner aforesaid,
Suitable communication is fixed for the ear.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR RENDERING FABRICS, FIBROUS MATERIALS OF ALL KIND, AND LEATHER, IMPERMEABLE A Communication
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frank Wirth at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 16th October 1883. A communication from
Messr Gademann & Company of Schweinfurt on the Main, in the Empire of
Germany.
FRANK WIRTH, of the firm of Wirth and Company, Patent Solicitors, at
Frankfort on the Main, in the Empire of Germany, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR RENDERING FABRICS, FIBROUS MATERIALS OF ALL
KIND, AND LEATHER, IMPERMEABLE A Communication from Messrs Gademann
& Company of Schweinfurt on the Main, in the Empire of Germany
"
"
The said invention relates to a process designed to waterproof or render
impermeable to water articles or materials of vegetable fibre, wool, or leather, and
it is of the following nature.
The proportion varying according to the nature of the material or article to be
waterproofed, 30 to 50 grammes of oleate or palmitate of alumina are dissolved in
1 litre of petroleum ether, benzine, or equivalent liquid. In the solution the
articles or materials are placed to soak for several hours. On their withdrawal
the superfluous liquid is removed by pressure or other suitable means. and the
remaining petroleum ether or benzine is allowed to evaporate.