AN APPARATUS FOR SOLDERING JOINTS OF WIRE OF ALL SIZES AND OF DIFFERENT LETTERS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Thomas Neighbour of 36 Lismore Road Kentish
Town in the County of Middlesex Mechanic for an Invention of AN
APPARATUS FOR SOLDERING JOINTS OF WIRE OF ALL SIZES AND OF DIFFERENT
LETTERS PATENT to John Thomas Neighbour of 36 Lismore Road Kentish
Town in the County of Middlesex Mechanic for an Invention of AN
APPARATUS FOR SOLDERING JOINTS OF WIRE OF ALL SIZES AND OF DIFFERENT
DESCRIPTIONS PARTICULARLY TELEPHONIC OR ELECTRICAL, AND COPPER AND
BRASS TUBES WHETHER.EXPOSED TO THE AIR OR NOT AND FOR MELTING
LEAD AND OTHER METAL FOR SOLDERING AND OTHER PURPOSES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Thomas Neighbour
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th July 1883.
JOHN THOMAS NEIGHBOUR of 36 Lismore Road Kentish Town in the County of
Middlesex Mechanic AN APPARATUS FOR SOLDERING JOINTS OF WIRE OF ALL SIZES
AND OF DIFFERENT DESCRIPTION PARTICULARLY TELEPHONIC AND TELEGRAPHIC
AND COPPER AND BRASS TUBES WHETHER EXPOSED TO THE AIR OR NOT AND
FOR MELTING LEAD AND OTHER METALS FOR SOLDERING AND OTHER PURPOSES
This invention is for the purpose of soldering joints of wire &c. of all sizes and
of different description particularly Telephonic and electrical wires Copper and
Brass tubes whether exposed to the air or not by means of a portable apparatus
containing a Spirit lamp which cannot be put out by the wind (in lieu of the
present method in use of melting the solder on the joints with a hot iron) and for
melting lead and other metal. for solder and other purposes and also on the same
principal for soldering joints of iron on a larger scale by fixed apparatus heated in
a similar manner. For the portable apparatus a Spirit Lamp with one or more
burners the reservoir of Lamp having a sufficient number of perforations in the
base. This apparatus has a metal covering holding a trough across the top the
length of the joint required and with sufficient width to take such joint the rest of
the top being perforated with small apertures giving a perfect draught to the lamp
or other heat without rendering it liable to be blown out by the wind
:

page_text: The metal used for soldering is to be placed in the trough and melted in a few
seconds. The joint of wire or other similar article required to be soldered can
then be placed in the trough and soldered ready for use in a few moments thus
avoiding the necessity of a hot iron which has frequently to be taken up a ladder
and brought down again at intervals to be reheated till the job is finished. The
advantage of the new invention is cleanliness handiness saving time and
avoidance of risk against fire
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
:
by the said John Thomas. Neighbour in the Patent Office on the 15th January
1884.
JOHN THOMAS NEIGHBOUR of No 36 Lismore Road Kentish Town in the County
of Middlesex Mechanic AN APPARATUS FOR SOLDERING JOINTS OF WIRE OF ALL
SIZES AND OF DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS PARTICULARLY TELEPHONIC OR ELECTRICAL
WIRES AND COPPER AND BRASS TUBES WHETHER EXPOSED. TO THE AIR OR NOT
AND FOR MELTING LEAD AND OTHER METAL, FOR SOLDERING AND OTHER PURPOSES
This is an improved apparatus for the purpose of soldering joints of wire &c of
all sizes and of different descriptions particularly Telephonic and Electrical wires
Copper and brass tubes whether exposed to the air or not by means of a portable
apparatus containing a Spirit Lamp which cannot be put out by the wind (in lieu
of the present method in use of melting the solder on the joints with a hot iron)
and for melting lead a other metal for solder and other purposes and also on the
same principle for soldering joints of iron on a larger scale by fixed apparatus
heated in a similar manner For the Portable apparatus a spirit lamp with one or
more burners the reservoir of lamp having a sufficient. number of perforations in
the base. This apparatus has a metal covering holding a trough across the top
the length of the joint required. and with sufficient width to take a horizontal
joint and having at either or both ends of such trough a small well for the purpose
of soldering vertical joints the rest of the top being perforated with small apertures
giving a perfect draught to the lamp without rendering it liable to be blown out
by the wind a special feature of the said Invention being the mode of heating the
said apparatus by means of a lamp. The metal used for soldering is placed in
the trough and is melted in a few seconds. The joint of wire or other similar
article required to be soldered can then be placed in the trough or well and
soldered ready for use in a few moments thus avoiding the necessity of a hot iron
which has frequently to be taken up a ladder and brought down again at intervals
to be reheated till the job is finished. The advantage of the new invention is

page_text: cleanliness handiness saving time and avoidance of risk against fire In witness
whereof I the said John Thomas Neighbour have hereunto set my hand and seal
this twelfth day of January in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and eighty four
Witness
WILL LOUGH
JOHN THOMAS NEIGHBOUR (L.S.)
Clerk to Mr Howard Rumney
Sol 18 Walbrook EC