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IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOXES OR CHARMS, FOR APPENDING TO WATCH CHAINS FOR HOLDING POSTAGE STAMPS VISITING CARDS OR SIMILAR THINGS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Halford at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 19th April 1883.
CHARLES HALFORD, Goldsmith and Jeweller of 7 Ashby Street, Clerkenwell, in
the County of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOXES OR
CHARMS, FOR APPENDING TO WATCH CHAINS FOR HOLDING POSTAGE STAMPS
VISITING CARDS OR SIMILAR THINGS."
This Invention relates to a new or improved Charm or Box for Postage Stamps,
which may readily be attached to the Watchguard.
My improved Charm or Stamp box consists of a small receptacle, capable of being
opened by a secret spring working through the pendent of the box, by releasing
which the lid of the box is set free and opened by means of a fly spring as in the
cases of ordinary Watches.
In
The box is provided with a grooved frame for the reception of the stamps,
order to keep the stamps up to this frame as they are withdrawn, I use a plate
working on a spring of convex form flattened at the ends secured at its centre,
and highest part to the plate. By means of this spring the plate, after being
pressed down by the thumb or finger in order to fill the grooved frame with
stamps, will on the pressure being removed, rise and hold the stamps in position,
substantially as described.
IMPROVEMENTS IN VOLUMETRIC AND DECANTING APPARATUS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Howard St. Ruth at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th December 1883.
WALTER HOWARD ST RUTH of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
"IMPROVEMENTS IN VOLUMETRIC AND DECANTING APPARATUS "
This invention has for its object a volumetric measure that shall also act as a
funnel. It consists in an ordinary quart or other measure, with or without handle
and spout, but with a slightly conical bottom having a hole at the bottom fitted
with a valve and armed with a tube projecting below to form a funnel. The valve
is attached to a bent spring which rises to a push-knob or its equivalent near the
handle, if as I prefer, there be a handle, or near the rim if there be no handle.
This spring is arranged in bearings so as to form a sort of compound or bell-crank
lever composed of a bent flat spring and straight and curved rods; by pressing on
the push-knob or its equivalent the valve is raised. The mode of action is as
follows: the vessel is filled from a tank, tap, spigot, or otherwise, and holding
exactly a given measure; the liquor is measured, by it. The end of the funnel
tube being inserted in the bottle neck or other receptacle, the knob is pressed,
the valve rises and allows the liquor to escape. The three or more bearings of the
spring and rod force the valve and its connections to work truly.
A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Evans, of Trumpet Street, Gaythorne in the
County of Lancaster, and Samuel Mason, of Watling Street, Leicester, in the
County of Leicester for an Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Evans at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th February 1883.
JAMES EVANS, of, Trumpet Street Gaythorne, in the County of Lancaster, and
SAMUEL MASON of Watling Street, Leicester, in the County of Leicester, "A NEW
OR IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR BREAKING PIG IRON OR OTHER
SIMILAR SUBSTANCES
"
A strong hook made of iron, steel, or other suitable, material, has a reciprocating
motion given to it by means of a crank, cam, or other suitable machinery. This
hook is made to draw the pig iron or any similar material against two jaws of cast
iron or other suitable material until it is broken into pieces as required. By this
means the breaking of pig iron or other similar material is performed with greater
facility and with less cost than has heretofore ordinarily been the case.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Evans in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th August
1883.
JAMES EVANS of Gaythorn in the County of Lancaster and SAMUEL MASON of
Leicester in the County of Leicester A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD
APPARATUS FOR BREAKING PIG IRON, OR OTHER SIMILAR SUBSTANCES
AND
1st. A strong Hook made of Iron, Steel, or other suitable material, as a reciprocating
motion given
2 to it, by means of a Crank, Cam, or other suitable machinery
3 This Hook is made to draw the Pig Iron, or any similar material, against two
Jaws, or teeth, made of Cast Iron, steel, or any other suitable material, until
it is broken into Pieces as required
4 By this means the breaking of Pig Iron or other similar material, is performed
with greater facility and with less cost, than has heretofore ordinarily been the
case.
In witness whereof I the said Samuel Mason have hereunto set my hand
and seal this thirteenth day of August, one thousand Eight hundred and
aight throa
IMPROVE- MENTS IN AND IN CONNECTION WITH SMELTING AND MELTING FURNACES FOR TREATING ORES AND METALS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Josiah Swain at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st January 1883.
JOSIAH SWAIN of Oldham in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND IN CONNECTION WITH SMELTING AND MELTING FURNACES FOR
TREATING ORES AND METALS
??
My Invention relates principally to the blast furnaces and cupolas used in the
smelting of iron ore and in the melting of iron but is also applicable to some other
furnaces employed in the smelting of ores or in the melting or treatment of
metals. The principal object of my Invention is to obtain increased economy in
fuel. When applying my Invention to a cupola for melting iron I superheat steam
by carrying it through pipes or chambers arranged in the flues of the generator or
exposed to the waste hent from the cupola or by other suitable means and I
discharge a blast or two or more blasts of such superheated steam into passages or
chambers in which the steam mingles with highly heated gases from the furnace
whereby decomposition is effected or promoted and the blast of gases or of steam
and gases passes into the furnace to aid in the generation of heat. The heated
gases may be taken off above the contents of the furnace or at a point inter-
mediate between the top and the ordinary tuyere level. The jet of steam or each
jet may be delivered in a horizontal, inclined or vertical position into the current
of heated gases. The gases from the furnace may pass out through horizontal or
inclined openings into descending passages formed behind the lining or in parts
exterior to the furnace and communicating with horizontal or inclined passages
which deliver the products arising from the mingling of the heated gases with
the superheated steam into the furnace the jet or jets of steam inducing the flow
of the currents. The intention is that the steam shall be decomposed and that
the furnace shall be fed with highly heated gases which are partly inflammable.
I may or may not use the ordinary air \blast in addition or may use induced
currents of cold or heated air and 1 may admit air at the bottom of the furnace or
at suitable points. When the cupola is provided with a receiver I cause some of
the heated gases to flow through the receiver on their way to the chamber in
which they mingle with the steam.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE HANDLES OF FISH AND OTHER TABLE KNIVES AND FORKS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Edwin Sawtell of N° 87 Boden Street Sheffield
in the County of York, Saw piercer. for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF THE HANDLES OF FISH AND OTHER TABLE KNIVES
AND FORKS"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Edwin Sawtell at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th March 1883.
ROBERT EDWIN SAWTELL of N° 87 Boden Street Sheffield in the County of
York, Saw piercer "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE HANDLES OF
FISH AND OTHER TABLE KNIVES AND FORKS."
The object of the invention is to obtain simplicity in manufacture with facilities
for various ornamentation.
In carrying out my improvements I form the handle by first casting or forming
two opposite sides or edges or wings thereof with the bolster and a cross or end
piece. I then apply scales to the other surfaces or sides to complete the form of
the handle. These scales may be formed of ivory or other suitable material
rivetted or otherwise applied to the other parts or they may be formed of metal
pierced by being cut or otherwise formed to various designs the edges thereof
being soldered or otherwise applied to the other parts. The open work thus
obtained may be left open for various ornamental effects, or wood, ivory, porcelain,
papier-maché, xylonite or other work may be introduced to be seen through the
openwork of the shell for various ornamental effects.
By these means increased durability with lightness and adaptation to ornament
may be obtained.

page_text: Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in carrying the
same into effect I would have it understood that what I claim is the manufacture
of the handles of fish and other table knives and forks whereby such handles are
made up of frames a, a, a¹, a³, adapted to receive suitable scales or plates
substantially as described.
In witness whereof I the said Robert Edwin Sawtell have hereunto set my
hand and seal this 29th day of August One thousand eight hundred and eighty
three.
ROBERT EDWIN SAWTELL (L.S.)
AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF RESERVOIR PEN-HOLDER
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leopold Beral Bertram of 5 Colville Mansions (1 Flat)
Bayswater in the county of Middlesex for an Invention of AN IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION OF RESERVOIR PEN-HOLDER
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by the said Leopold Beral Bertram at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd July 1883.
LEOPOLD BERAL BERTRAM of 5 Colville Mansions (1 Flat) Bayswater in the
County of Middlesex AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF RESERVOIR PEN-HOLDER.
The object of this invention is a special construction of reservoir pen holder
which by the rotation of an internal tube closed at its lower end and fitted to
serve as a valve the ink can be caused to flow and be stopped flowing at pleasure.
For the purpose of my invention I have a tube open throughout but provided
with threaded ends one for the reception of the socket piece in which the pen (an
ordinary nib) is inserted and the other for a ferrule, forming part of an internal
tube through two small apertures in which the ink from the first or outer tube
(as the reservoir) is permitted to flow when the end of it is removed from its
seating in the socket in which it acts as a valve to open or to close the passage.
At the other end of the internal tube is another aperture for vent purposes.
The socket which receives the nib or writing pen has a hollow cone shaped end
whose tip just touches the nib at the slot to lead the ink to the point a shield
being fitted on the opposite side to serve also as part of the seating on or into
which the end of the internal tube can rest when the passage has to be closed
I purpose terminating the internal tube with a wire or a hair to lead the ink
to the nib.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim:-
First, The construction of a reservoir pen holder with an air tubo admitting
tho necessary supply of air to the reservoir and carrying a valve at its lower end
serving to close and open the passage by which the ink is supplied to the pen,
substantially as described.
Second. My improved reservoir pen holder in which a valvular air tube and
open ink passage are both employed substantially as described and represented by
the annexed drawings.
In witness whereof I the said Leopold Beral Bertram have hereunto set my
hand and seal this sixth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN AUTOMATIC COUPLINGS FOR USE ON RAIL OR TRAMWAYS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Samuel Gilbert at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th March 1883.
SAMUEL GILBERT. Jun" of Wansford in the County of Northampton. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AUTOMATIC COUPLINGS FOR USE ON RAIL OR TRAMWAYS
"
In this invention two links or clutches are employed one on each vehicle these
are pivotted vertically upon a plate fixed to the end of the vehicle so as to move
horizontally and are kept approximately in the longitudinal direction of the
vehicle by a weighted angle lover, spring, or equivalent device. Each link ter-
minates in a bevelled head which forms the hook or clutch, and when two vehicles
are run together the bevelled faces of the clutches meet and force each other aside
until the heads have passed, when the weights bring both back to their original
position so that the heads overlap and the hooks become interlocked.
To uncouple the vehicles I prefer to employ a cross shaft upon each vehicle and
provided with a handle upon each end. At the centre of this is secured a a worm
and a pin or projection upon a suitable bent lever gears with the worm so that
when the shaft is turned by the handles the bent lever is moved sideways and
takes the link or clutch with it thus releasing the coupling.
In a modified form I make a jaw in the link which fits between a larger jaw
upon the end of the draw bar or between two draw bars of the vehicle, the space
between the jaws of the link being occupied with a hook for the ordinary chain to
be hooked on to as at present commonly used; one pin passing through and securing
together the hook, the special link and the draw bars. Projections are provided
upon the jaw of the draw bar so as to prevent the link passing its farthest position
in one direction, whilst it is free to turn to the other side-when not held up to
the catch by the weight or spring and can be folded back out of the way and 'held
by a suitable catch when not required for use.
In this case, and also generally if preferred, a spring of the following construction
may be used.
•
Å block of metal has a recess in which is a spring of rubber or equivalent the

page_text: block is pivotted at one end and a slot is provided so that the block can be pushed
backwards or forwards in such manner that a projection or nose upon its other end
can be hooked upon, or released from a fixed pin or projection. When this is
booked the rubber spring presses against the link and keeps it in position whilst
allowing sufficient play for coupling and uncoupling; when the block is withdrawn
it can be folded back out of the way
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON OR LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, SCARVES AND THE LIKE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Edelston at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 9th June 1883.
"
JAMES EDELSTON of the firm of Messieurs H. C. Owtram and Company, Manu-
facturers, of Preston in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF COTTON OR LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, SCARVES AND THE LIKE,'
My invention relates to a new combination of known effects in the manufacture
of woven cotton or linen handkerchiefs or scarves and the like whereby entirely
new and novel effects are produced.
The object of my Invention being to produce several distinct effects of which
the first is produced by a combination of a brocaded or figured white or coloured
border with an edging of another colour on the inside or outside of the border, or
both, and a white ground or body either plain or twilled.
When a twilled or "satin border is used the ground or body must be woven
plain and divided from the border by an edging of a different colour or colours.
The borders and edgings may be of cotton, silk or other fibre; the ground or
body being cotton or linen in all cases.
In weaving a handkerchief with a plain or twilled ground and a brocaded or
figured border I employ an ordinary loom with two or more shuttles and a jacquard
apparatus.
In weaving handkerchiefs with a plain ground and a twilled or "satin" border
it is not necessary to employ a jacquard apparatus as an ordinary dobby or
shedding motion is all that is required.
IMPROVED METHOD FOR THE ADAPTION OF THE INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMP TO STAGE & OTHER PURPOSES WHERE SUCH LAMP IS REQUIRED TO BE PORTABLE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William James Saward and Adam
Koerber at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th February
1883.
AN
WILLIAM JAMES SAWARD, and ADAM KOERBER both of 44 Frith Street in the
County of Middlesex.
IMPROVED METHOD FOR THE ADAPTION OF THE
INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMP TO STAGE & OTHER PURPOSES WHERE SUCH
LAMP IS REQUIRED TO BE PORTABLE
This Invention relates to a means & method of adapting a primary Battery in
conection with an incandescent Electric Lamp, for portable purposes, such as the
stage, table Lamp, locomotion etc etc for this purpose a band of chamois leather or
other suitable material is used; and made to receive a required number of small
primary Batteries (so modified; and improved, as to be casely portable) the said
band being fastened by means of a buckle in front, or made up as a ladies
dress improver, the cells theu being placed in the folds, they are then joined up;
and a small silk cord, containing the conductors, is then attached to the respective
poles of the battery; and conveyed beneath the dress to the point at which the
light is required.
We then attach the end of the said silk cord containing the conductors; to
the two small terminals fixed on a plate of ebonite, or other suitable material; and
to which is also attached the Lamp.
The small Headdress to receive the Electric Lamp thus made is then secured to
the wearers Head by means of a light Elastic Band.
:
The Battery used for the purpose being primary and in which Oliphant & Burrs
Patent Zincplate coating is used and employed
Having now described the nature of our invention; what we claim as new; and
orriginal is
The use of a primary battery as herein before described for the purpose of a
portable Electric Light; and substantially herein before described; and preferably
an adaptation of Oliphant, and Burrs patent coated Zinc.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN BUTTONS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Frank Lulham at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th September 1883.
EDWIN FRANK LULHAM, of Eastbourne in the County of Sussex. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BUTTONS."
My Invention relates to metal buttons of the kind known as shell buttons,
whether covered or not and it has for its object to provide an improved means of
readily attaching the buttons to garments without sewing.
This essential means of attachment constitutes an integral portion of the button
itself, and consists of three or more pointed tangs punched out of the metal of the
back but remaining united by their root ends to the central portion thereof, and
turned backwards until they stand about parallel to one another, and to the axis
of the button. These pointed tangs which may be readily driven through the
fabric of the garment are secured thereto by their points being passed through and
turned down or clenched over a perforated disc or washer at the back of the
garment.
The tangs are formed by punching radial slits in the blank, at the same time
that the latter is stamped up to a convex form by means of suitable dies and
punches which also bend the tangs in the desired direction.
IMPROVEMENTS IN BEDSTEADS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Brown Evered at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th June 1883.
RICHARD BROWN EVERED, of Holborn Viaduct in the City of London, Brass
Founder "IMPROVEMENTS IN BEDSTEADS
"
My invention relates to bedsteads and consists in a novel manner of constructing
n bedstead to contain two separate beds placed side by side with a space between
them for ventilation.
Bedsteads of this class as heretofore constructed have been objectionable in
respect of their unsightly appearance and of the difficulty of access to the bedding
and bed clothes on the inner or adjacent sides of the two beds.
In many instances they have been formed by putting together, and rigidly
connecting, two separate bedsteads under a single canopy, in other cases they have
had frames especially constructed to avoid the appearance of the union of two
bedsteads but have provided no convenient means of access to the inner sides of
the two beds.
My invention is designed to provide a bedstead which shall be free from these
objections.
The said invention is carried into practice as follows, that is to say, I construct
a frame with suitable posts or feet at the four corners and with a canopy or head
of any desired form or style. The frame upon which the beds rest is made in two
parts arranged side by side; one part is made rigid with the head and the other
part is hinged or pivotted to a fixed part of the frame so that it may be adjusted
or turned away from the fixed part; that is to say the two parts of the bedstead
are so arranged and connected with each other that they may be separated
sufficiently to permit convenient access to their inner or adjacent sides for making
the beds and can then be re-adjusted to their normal parallel position. I also
provide the bedstead with a foot-rail which extends across the two beds so as to
present the ordinary appearance of a single undivided bedstead but which foot
rail is binged or pivotted to the post at one side so that it will turn like a gate
thereon and is provided with a suitable lock or catch to fasten it to the post at
the other side. When the bed is to be made the said foot rail is unlocked or
unfastened and turned outward upon the post to which it is hinged or pivotted;
the movable part of the frame is turned outward or away from the other part to

page_text: separate the two beds; when the beds are made the frame is re-adjusted so that
the two parts are parallel to each other; the foot rail is closed and fastened to the
post and the bed then presents no unsightly appearance of division or separation.
If desired, both parts of the bed-frame may be hinged or pivotted so that they
will move outward from a central point at the head of the bedstead. I prefer that
each of the two parts of the frame should have four posts; but the post at the
inner corners will not extend up beyond the bed-bottom and will therefore not
impair the appearance of the bedstead.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FASTENINGS FOR BOOTS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Crowther at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 16th February 1883. Communicated to
him from abroad by Emil A. Quincke of Ludenscheid, Westphalia in the
Empire of Germany.
CHARLES CROWTHER of Manchester in the County of Lancaster.
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IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FASTENINGS FOR BOOTS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
DRESS (a communication to me from abroad by Emil A. Quincke of Ludenscheid,
Westphalia in the Empire of Germany)
"
This invention relates to the construction of a simple fastening for boots shoes
gloves garters, and such other articles of dress as require only loosening to a certain
extent in order to be removed.
The fastening consists of two parts only one portion consists of a narrow strip
of metal bent into a form somewhat like the outside portion of an ordinary buckle
forming as it were two side pieces and a bar connecting them together at one end.
The other part is a frame closed at each end and made also of a narrow strip of
metal; this frame is rather narrower and longer than the former so that it can
swing between the two side pieces of the first part, to which it is attached by two
rivets near the end of the side pieces.
In applying this fastening to a garter for instance, the two ends of the strap or
band of which it is formed are made fast, one to the bar of the first or outer piece,
and the other to the inner bar of the inner or swing frame and so long as the two
frames, both lie in the same plane the two ends are held close together and the garter
is held perfectly fast; but by turning the swing frame on its pivots so as to bring
the two ends farther apart, the garter is slackened and can then be readily
removed.
For boots, and shoes or gloves leather, or kid tabs are used for attaching to the
bars of the fastening. The whole fastening may be flat or bent to the curve of
the part to which it is to be applied. The inner or swing frame may be covered in
with a metal plate and ornamented in any desired manner.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO THE FOLDING HOODS OF DOUBLE PERAMBULATORS OR BASSINETTES AND OTHER SIMILAR VEHICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Thomas Shaw at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th July 1883.
JAMES THOMAS SHAW of Manchester in the County of Lancaster
" IMPROVE-
MENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO THE FOLDING HOODS OF DOUBLE PERAMBULATORS OR
BASSINETTES AND OTHER SIMILAR VEHICLES
"
The object of this invention is so to mount the hood that the same can be used
for either end of the Prambulator or. other vehicle and this notwithstanding that
the hood does not extend halfway across the vehicle.
In carrying out my invention I connect the hinge or joint of the folding hood at
each side to a ferrule which is capable of sliding along a guide rod secured to the
sides of the vehicle and thus I am enabled to fold back the hood at either end of
the carriage and without employing the double hinge or links which have hitherto
been so liable to get out of order. In another arrangement I connect the hood at
each side to a connecting rod which is continued to the bottom of the carriage and
which rod being hinged to the hood so yields sufficiently to allow the hood to be
placed at either end of the carriage.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STAYS OR CORSETS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter William Brown at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th April 1883.
WALTER WILLIAM BROWN of Kingston, Portsmouth in the County of Hants,
Manager and Traveller to Leethem Reynolds of the same place, Corset Manu-
facturer IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STAYS OR CORSETS
The Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of Stays or
Corsets.
Heretofore the bones, steels and busks or other stiffeners have been usually
enclosed in and protected by woven material of a similar character to that of
which the body of the stay or corset is manufactured and sometimes such material
has been strengthened at parts by stitching to prevent the said stiffeners wearing
or breaking through.
This. method of manufacture however has the disadvantage of affording very
insecure protection as the busks, bones, steels or other stiffeners frequently break
and pierce through the covering material and thereby injure the appearance and
set of the stays or corsets.
Now my Invention consists in employing strips of leather to form a protection to
the busks, bones, steels or other stiffeners.
These strips of leather I stitch on the exterior surface of the stays or corsets and
form the spaces for the bones, steels, busks or other stiffeners between such strips
of leather and the material forming the body of the stay or corset and I by
preference turn in the edges of the strips of leather and stitch through the double
thickness so as to obtain increased strength at such parts and produce a neat finish.
By these means I afford greater protection to the bones, steels, busks and other
stiffeners, greatly increase the durability of the stay or corset and at the saine time
give an effective appearance thereto.
If desired instead of employing merely strips of leather sufficient to form the
covering of the spaces for the bones, steels busks or other stiffeners the entire outer
surface of the stay or corset may be formed of leather or alternate strips of leather
and other material may be employed for such purpose.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING LEATHER USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING BELTS, LEATHER HOSE PIPES, HYDRAULIC LEATHERS AND LEATHER USED FOR HARNESS AND SADDLERY
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Paterson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th December 1883.
JAMES PATERSON of Glasgow in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING LEATHER USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRIVING
BELTS, LEATHER HOSE PIPES, HYDRAULIC LEATHERS AND LEATHER USED FOR
HARNESS AND SADDLERY"
This Invention, which relates to Improvements in treating leather used in the
manufacture of driving belts, leather hose pipes, hydraulic leathers and leather used
for the manufacture of harness and saddlery, has for its object to render such
leather more durable, and at the same time overcoming the tendency of leather to
stretch when strained.
Leather treated according to this Invention is used in the state in which it leaves
the tanners.
The Invention consists in melting together unwrought wood resin and gumthus
which is otherwise known as frankincense. To give an example of practising the
invention there is melted together 42 lbs. weight of resin and 70 lbs. of gumthus
and when heated these substances are stirred together until they are thoroughly
commingled. These melted and commingled substances are then removed from the
melting vessel and are placed in any other suitable vessel wherein is mixed with
them about one gallon of boiled or Linseed oil and there is also added about
two lbs. weight of the India Rubber Solution of Commerce which is previously
diluted in a quantity of Petroleum Benzoline or Bi-sulphide of carbon sufficient to
render the same liquid.
When all the foregoing substances are thoroughly commingled, there is added
thereto a further quantity of Petroleum Benzoline, sufficient to prevent the mixture
of substances from setting into a hard mass. It is preferred to add the Petroleum
Benzoline in quantity sufficient to reduce the mixture to about the degree of
fluidity of molasses at the ordinary temperature of the atmosphere, and there is
added to it a further quantity of Petroleum Benzoline to render the mixture
sufficiently liquid to penetrate the pores of the leather.
In treating leather by the mixture or compound hereinbefore described and for
the purposes hereinbefore described, the leather is simply immersed in a tank
containing the said mixture or compound, and it is kept immersed therein for

page_text: about one quarter of an hour, when it is taken out and washed in a bath of
Petroleum Benzoline, after which the pieces of leather so treated are spread out on
racks or their equivalent to dry.
It is to be understood that the foregoing example which is given of the
proportions of the several substances is one wherein the Invention may be
advantageously used for treating Leather for the purposes herein before mentioned.
in the state in which it comes from the tannery. The object in so treating the
leather is to render it more durable for the purposes to which it is applied and to
prevent stretching.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OIL BURNERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Charles Morrison and Robert
Smith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd June 1883.
JAMES CHARLES MORRISON of West Ham in the County of Essex, and ROBERT
SMITH of Bromley in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OIL
BURNERS
"
This Invention consists of improvements in burners for oil or other hydro-
carbons.
According to our Invention we proceed mainly as follows
We use a burner with two or more cylindrical wicks, which are fitted to the
lamp in the ordinary way-mechanical or other appliances being adopted to turn
up the wicks as required
According to this our Invention the construction of burners of two or more
wicks is simplified and the improvements can be applied to any suitable reservoir
or receptacle provided the aperture is of suitable diameter or width
The improvements are applicable to any oil burner of two or more wicks and to
the burners secured by Letters Patent to Sir James Douglass dated January 7th
1881.
The points or features of our Invention consist in
(1): An extension to existing burners of two or more wicks on the principle of
turning a flat wick into a round wick.
(2) The mechanical appliances for working the additional wicks such appliances
being in the form of toothed wheels carried round the wick case.
(3) The distribution of air to the wicks so as to ensure perfect combustion such
distribution being more effectually accomplished by attaching to the outer sheel
carrying the inner wick, two or more spiral pieces which rise a certain height so
that the air is evenly distributed to the wicks.
By the adoption of these arrangements simplicity, economy and greatly increased
intensity are ensured.
AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING SHIPS WHEN LEAKY
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Friedrich Hermann Felix Engel at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd April 1883. A
communication to me by Adolph Tuchtfeldt of Hamburg in the German
Empire
ADOLPH TUCHTFELDT of Hamburg [FRIEDRICH HERMANN FELIX ENGEL Civil
Engineer and Patent Agent in the city of Hamburg Germany] "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING SHIPS WHEN LEAKY" [a communication to me by
Adolph Tuchtfeldt of Hamburg in the German Empire]
This invention relates to an improved apparatus for protecting Ships when
leaky and has for its object to prevent ships sinking when leaky from a collision
or other cause. The apparatus consists in its main parts of a peculiarly constructed
shield of flexible material as waterproof canvas india rubber or other convenient
substance which can by the arrangement set forth in the following description be
applied to stop the leaks of a ship in a few minutes. The shield of waterproof and
flexible material is at its top end furnished with hooks by means of which it can
be attached to the railing or other part on the deck of a vessel. The outer surface
of the Shield is furnished with one or more steel or other metal springs and
supporting brackets through which chains or ropes are carried down to the bottom
end of the shield which part carries metal eyes or any other convenient mechanical
arrangement applicable for attaching the free ends of chains to the shield by which
the latter can be hauled round the ship's side or ships bottom at any place where
a leak has sprung or been caused by collision or otherwise.
The two chains or ropes used for hauling the shield to the ship's side or wall.
are whilst the apparatus is out of use placed lengthwise around the ship in such
manner that one chain or rope is carried round the stern of the vessel with its end
fastened to the ships side whilst the other chain or rope is placed round the stem
of the vessel and fastened in a similar manner. By loosening the ends of the ropes
and by carrying the same further to the stem or stern of the ship the corresponding
chain or rope is slackened and slides underneath the bottom of the vessel after
which the same is ready for use as before described.
The spring or springs preferably attached to the bottom end of the shield is or

page_text: are in connection with the metal eyes before described to which the hauling chains
or ropes are fastened and this spring or springs presses or press the shield close to
the hull of the vessel so that only little or hardly any water will be able to come
underneath this side of the shield whilst the upward sides of the shield are pressed
tightly against the ship's wall by the upright brackets and chains or ropes passing i
from top to bottom of the shield.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING MULES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Newton and John Leech at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th May 1883.
•
JAMES NEWTON of the Waterhead Mill, Oldham, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturer, and JOHN LEECH of Upper Mill, near Oldham, aforesaid, Manager,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SPINNING MULES'
Our Invention relates in the first place to apparatus for controlling the move-
ments of the faller in the formation of the cops. We employ a variable cam which
receives motion from the drum shaft to controll the movements of the faller. The
said cam vibrates upon an axis and is lowered as the formation of the cop proceeds.
In the arrangement which we have devised the said cam is in the form of a curved
rail which is mounted to swivel upon a stud which is fixed to a wheel. The said
wheel is carried by a lever arm which is mounted to turn upon the axis of the
drum shaft and the said wheel is connected with the drum shaft by means of spur
or bevel gearing so that at each draw the said wheel makes an incomplete
revolution to and fro. A bowl or a wheel upon an arm which is fixed to the faller
shaft or upon a part connected with such arm rests upon the said cam. Both ends
of the said cam are acted upon to vary the action of the cam during the building
up of the cop bottom in order that the proper binding of the cop may commence
with the first few draws so that the use of starch or paste or cop tubes will not be
necessary. The ends of the cam are regulated by means of curves which are
lowered during the building of the cop bottom, bowls or parts upon the said cam
running upon the said curves or the regulation of the cam may be effected by
means of a second vibrating cam. The lever arm carrying the cam wheel is
supported by an incline which is mounted to slide or move a short distance at each
draw. A screw provided with a ratchet wheel which is acted upon by a pawl.
upon a lever which is moved by a fixed incline at each draw or other suitable
means may be used to move the said sliding incline. A curved incline carried by
the main incline lowers the said curves during the building of the cop bottom.
the same time as the said curves are lowered they or one of them may be moved
outwards. After the completion of the cop bottom the said cam continues to have
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page_text: an unvarying action until the completion of the cop being lowered by the move-
ment of the incline in order to raise the faller as the building of the cop proceeds.
In the second place we unlock the faller by means of a rising pusher or part
which is curved at its upper end to suit the curved path of the faller locking parts
and is raised by means of a fixed incline which acts upon a bowl upon the said
pusher or part. The faller rod passes through a slot in the upper end of the said
pusher and guides the same in its movements.
AN IMPROVED CHEQUE AND APPARATUS FOR COUNTING AND INDICATING THE VALUE OF CHECKS GIVEN OUT."
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Auty at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 31st August 1883.
JOSEPH AUTY of Albert Terrace Liversedge in the County of York.
" AN
IMPROVED CHEQUE AND APPARATUS FOR COUNTING AND INDICATING THE VALUE OF
CHECKS GIVEN OUT."
The object of my invention is to construct a check and machine for counting and
correctly indicating the value of the checks given out in all places where checks
representing money, are used, thus doing away with the necessity of check clerks,
and enabling a comparison to be made at any moment between the checks and
money, the working of the machine cannot be tampered with by the operator.
I construct my improved checks with a hole through their centres preferably
each hole varying in the different values, a series of different sized tubes, are placed
preferably in a vertical position a spindle passes down the centre of the tubes and
through the holes in the checks to guide and keep them in proper position, the
sizes of tubes corresponding to the sizes of the checks used the checks are extracted
singly by an arrangement of levers, the levers are fixed at the bottoin of each tube,
and have recesses into which a check drops, on pulling forwards the lever, it brings
forward the check, a spring returning the lever, each lever acting singly and can
only be drawn out one at once, an arrangement of dials acted upon by ratchets or
other mechanical means, indicate the value of the checks as they are extracted, there
is a separate dial used for each value of checks, or to each tube a catch connected
to each of the levers acts upon the teeth on the edge of the dials and moves
them forwards, the dials being numbered, it indicates the number of checks drawn
out, a second series of toothed wheels indicating the value of the checks in pounds,
shillings, and pence, the whole is enclosed, so that the working cannot be interfered
with.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PLEATING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Phineas Hayman and Henry Solomon
Benjamin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th December
1883. A communication from Herman Rose, of the firm of Heiman and Rose,
of Berlin in the Empire of Germany
PHINEAS HAYMAN, and HENRY SOLOMON BENJAMIN, trading as Hayman &
Benjamin, of Camomile Street, in the City of London, Commission Merchants
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PLEATING MACHINES" [a communication from Herman Rose,
of the firm of Heiman and Rose, of Berlin in the Empire of Germany]
The invention communicated to us relates to improvements in pleating machines
whereby the material is pleated in a better and quicker manner than hitherto and
the necessity of stitching is avoided, the material leaving the machine ready for the
purpose for which it is to be used.
The improved machine consists of a special combination with longitudinally
fluted and transversely grooved rollers of metal rods; guide rollers are provided
and suitable means for heating the rollers and for regulating the pressure. The
machine is driven by gearing operated by a treadle or otherwise.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CARD RAISING MACHINES, EMPLOYED IN FINISHING BLANKETS AND RUGS OR ANY OTHER WOOLLEN GOODS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Morton at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1883.
HENRY MORTON, of the firm of Morton, Son & Co of Heckmondwike, in the
County of York, Ironfounders and Machine Makers "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARD
RAISING MACHINES, EMPLOYED IN FINISHING BLANKETS AND RUGS OR ANY OTHER
WOOLLEN GOODS."
Hitherto in this class of machine, the ordinary raising cylinder and Brush have
been worked by an oscillating swing motion receiving motion from top shafts and
suspended by rods. The shafts are fitted and work in standards secured on the
tops of the side frames of the machine; the oscillating swing motion produces
vibration and an unsteady uneven action of the raising cylinder and brush and the
brush roller shaft being secured in fixed bearings does not allow for the wear and
tear of the brush bristles. My invention obviates these drawbacks, gives a steady
oscillating to and fro motion to the raising card cylinder and Brush, producing
better work and a more steady working machine.
For this purpose I fit the shaft of the card raising cylinder in bearings formed in
sliding carriages which work on slides cut or planed and fitted to the end frames of
the machine; to each sliding carriage I secure a strong stud on which works the
end of an eccentric rod and on the breast shaft of the machine and at each end I
secure eccentrics on which work the eccentric straps connected to the eccentric rods.
The eccentrics give a quick and steady to and fro motion to the sliding carriages
consequently to the raising cylinder and brush
At the back of the sliding carriages I cast or secure brackets having slides in
which are fitted and work brasses or blocks in which works the shaft of the brush
roller; the brasses or blocks are fitted with screws which screw in plates secured
on the tops of the slides and on the tops of the screws are secured small hand
wheels which allow of screwing in or out the screws lowering or lifting the brasses
or blocks and which allows of setting the brushes in working position on the card
raising cylinder as wear and tear takes place.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSING SECURING AND RELEASING RAILWAY OR OTHER CARRIAGE DOORS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Pontifex, William Joseph
Rosser, and Frederick Edwin Pontifex at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents on the 15th September 1883.
FREDERICK PONTIFEX of 34 Arundel Street Strand in the County of Middlesex
and WILLIAM JOSEPH ROSSER of 283 Kentish Town Road also in the County of
Middlesex and FREDERICK EDWIN PONTIFEX of 34 Arundel Street Strand aforesaid
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOSING SECURING AND RELEASING RAILWAY OR OTHER
CARRIAGE DOORS
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in closing securing and releasing
railway and other carriage doors.
For this purpose we attach to the under side of the floor of a railway carriage a
fixed guide in which a slide or bolt is capable of moving to and fro lengthwise of
the carriage, attached to and moving with this slide or bolt is a light rod which is
carried up through a slot in the foot board and is bent forwards in front of the
carriage door, the extremity of this light rod carries a small friction roller which
bears against a rubbing plate fixed on the door. Attached to and forming part of
the slide or bolt is a cam plate which hangs vertically down in position to be acted
on by a cam or wiper carried by the axle of the carriage.
On starting the carriage into motion the cam or wiper is caused to turn pushing
the cam plate and bolt thus bringing the friction roller carried by it in front of the
door and in a position to prevent the door being opened-on stopping the carriage
the cam or wiper falls-hanging vertically down from the axle and out of the path
of the cam plate-the door may then be opened--and in so doing the cam plate
will again be brought into a position to be acted on by the cam or wiper when the
carriage is again put in motion.
In order that the cam or wiper may drop on the stopping of the carriage it is
mounted loosely on the carriage axle but is caused to turn with it when the carriage
is put in motion by a projection on the axle engaging with a similar projection on
the interior of the boss of the cam or wiper.
Similar arrangements of mechanism may be applied to all wheeled carriages in
which it is desired to secure and release the doors automatically by the starting
and stopping of the carriage itself.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TILES FOR USE IN MALTING CISTERNS OR FLOORS OF MALT KILNS AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Lewis James Meakin at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th October 1883.
LEWIS JAMES MEAKIN, Maltster, of Burton-on-Trent in the county of Stafford,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TILES FOR USE IN MALTING CISTERNS
OR FLOORS OF MALT KILNS AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
"
This invention has for its object the production of an improved tile for use in the
bottoms of malting cisterns, malt kilns, dairy slabs or floors or other such like
purposes where a perforated tile is used for the purpose of admitting air or allowing
the same or water or other fluid to escape or drain off.
I form the tile with an upper surface having a series of perforations usually in a
longitudinal direction formed thereon and narrow enough (when used for malting
and like purposes) to prevent the grains or corn dropping through while freely
admitting air and allowing moisture to escape.
The inner side of the upper surface is formed by intersecting bevelled ribs, the
longitudinal perforation being made at the bottom of the meeting bevels, side plates
and an end supporting plate partly cut away are attached to the tile.
The end supporting plate projects before and below the face of the tile so that
the under edge of the next tile may abut on it and break joint, and thus prevent
corn or other substance falling between each. I may make my tiles of cast iron
and vitrify the surface or enamel it or I make them of earthenware, glass, or other
suitable material