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AN IMPROVED FLOATING BASIN OR STAGE FOR OYSTER CULTURE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th January 1883. [Communicated to
him from abroad by Louis Auschitzky a person residing at Arcachon in the
Republic of France.]
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of the Agency for Foreign Patent Solicitors, 323 High
Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Engineer. "AN IMPROVED FLOATING BASIN
OR STAGE FOR OYSTER CULTURE" [Communicated to him from abroad by Louis
Auschitzky a person residing at Arcachon in the Republic of France.]
This invention relates to a new or improved form of floating stage or basin for
use in the rearing and sorting of oysters and in otherwise dealing with them. The
essential feature of this invention being that the floor or bottom of the said basin
or stage is so fitted as to be capable of being raised and lowered.
The said basin consists of a suitable floating framework surrounding a central
stage or floor which is arranged to be raised or lowered within the framework.
The raising and lowering may be accomplished in the following manner: Vertical
screws are arranged at each corner of the framework and a suitable frame or
superstructure is preferably erected upon the floating framework and carries a nut
provided with arms or their equivalent to turn it by. By turning these nuts upon
their screws the floor may be forced down into the water or raised up out of it as
will be well understood.
IMPROVEMENTS IN. MACHINERY FOR PRODUCING RIBBED WIRE OF VARIOUS SHAPES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Carmi Alexander Thomas Rollason
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th May 1883.
CARMI ALEXANDER THOMAS ROLLASON, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, IMPROVEMENTS IN. MACHINERY FOR PRODUCING RIBBED
WIRE OF VARIOUS SHAPES
This machinery consists of a thick block of cast iron or steel attached to the
wire drawer's bench as an ordinary wire drawer's tool. This block is hollowed
out to receive two or more wheels fixed in position with set screws to suit the size
of the wire to be drawn, These wheels are cut upon their face so that the wire
being passed through between them receives upon its surface ribs corresponding
with the cuts upon the wheels, and the shape of the wire is dependant upon the
position and number of the whee's, a three sided wire being formed by three
wheels. This machine is particularly adapted for the production of wire required
in the manufacture of three sided ribbed wire nails,
AN IMPROVED WATER HEATER USED IN CONNECTION WITH CIRCULATING HOT WATER PIPES FOR WARMING GREENHOUSES AND ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF BUILDINGS AND PLACES TO WHICH IT CAN BE USEFULLY APPLIED PRO
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Carrington of Openshaw near Manchester in
the County of Lancaster Engineer and William Hadfield Bowers of Gorton
also near Manchester in the County of Lancaster Manufacturing Chemist
for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED WATER HEATER USED IN CONNECTION
WITH CIRCULATING HOT WATER PIPES FOR WARMING GREENHOUSES AND ALL
DESCRIPTIONS OF BUILDINGS AND PLACES TO WHICH IT CAN BE USEFULLY
APPLIED
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Carrington &
William Hadfield Bowers at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents
on the 19th February 1883.
WILLIAM CARRINGTON of Openshaw, near Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, and WILLIAM HADFIELD BOWERS, of Gorton, also near
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturing Chemist, "AN IMPROVED
WATER HEATER USED IN CONNECTION WITH CIRCULATING HOT WATER PIPES FOB
WARMING GREENHOUSES, AND ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF BUILDINGS AND PLACES TO
WHICH IT CAN BE USEFULLY APPLIED,"
This Invention consists in an improved arrangement and construction of Water
Heater or low pressure boiler, in which the water is surrounded by a large area of
heating surface, and the combustion of the fuel so efficiently effected that emission
of smoke is nearly or entirely prevented, and the parts of the heater are so few and
simple that they can be readily put together or taken to pieces.
We employ a bottom casting, having an ash box, a grate, a furnace or fire box,
and also the lower part of an outer casing, having at the bottom an opening or
draught pipe communicating with the chimney, there being at one side of the
furnace an aperture which can be closed or opened as required, and the other part
of the furnace is encased in fire brick. On this bottom casting is placed an annular
water chamber, having near the top and bottom flanged nozzles, or short pipes
Price 6d1

page_text: communicating with the circulating water pipes, and on the before-mentioned lower
part of an outer casing is placed another outer casing carrying a cover with a
central hole, through which is passed inside the water chamber a central vertical
cylinder extending to the furnace, the top of the cylinder being widened, and
provided when desired with a loose cover, and it is through this central cylinder
that the fuel is passed down to the furnace, and at the top of the side aperture
there are indentations supporting a portable grid for holding up the fuel when clinkers
and refuse have to be removed from the furnace. When the heater is in use, the
heat from the furnace passes upwards through the annular space between the
_ central cylinder and the interior of the water chamber, and over the top to the space
between the exterior of the water chamber and the interior of the outer casing, and
as the draught pipe is at the bottom of the outer casing there is sufficient time for
the water to absorb all the heat given off from the fuel.
AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING CLOTH OR OTHER FABRIC
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Julius Boult of 323 High Holborn in the county
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of Middlesex for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING
CLOTH OR OTHER FABRIC a communication from G. Hoyer & C³ of
Schönebeck in the German Empire
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Julius Boult at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th April 1883.
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ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the county of Middlesex
"AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING CLOTH OR OTHER FABRIC [a communi-
cation from G. Hoyer & C¹ of Schönebeck in the German Empire]
This invention relates to an apparatus whereby fabrics can readily and rapidly
be cut into even lengths as is required for instance in manufacturing sacks,
kerchiefs, and other articles.
The machine embodying this invention consists of a suitable framing in which is
mounted a shaft carrying a suitable number of arms, say in four sets, along the
outer ends of which arms extend bars or strips for a purpose hereinafter set forth.
The inner ends of the arms are fitted with toothed racks so that by turning a
pinion mounted on the central shaft, the arms (and with them the bars or strips)
may be drawn nearer to or pushed further from the centre. All the strips or bars
except one are fitted with pins projecting therefrom so that the cloth or fabric will
be retained on the same. One of the said bars carries a suitable blade and when
this blade passes by another blade fixed in the frame work by the side of the drum
or cross formed by the shaft and arms, the fabric is cut by the joint action of the
two blades.
The blade on the framework is preferably so fitted that by throwing into or out
of gear a suitable excentric device, it will be in readiness to cut the cloth either at
each revolution or otherwise.
The fabric passes into the apparatus from below over suitable tightening rollers
which keep it taut whilst a revolving wing serves to remove the cut lengths from
the drum
The length of the pieces cut off is regulated by the distance of the arms from
the centre, by the excentric-motion above referred to and by the capacity of the
apparatus as a whole

page_text: Having 'thus described the nature of the said invention and the manner of
performing the same as communicated to me by my 'foreign correspondents I wish
it to be understood
That I claim
The machine for cutting fabrics into predetermined lengths the whole substan-
tially as described and shown in the annexed drawings
In witness whereof I the said Alfred Julius Boult have hereunto set my hand
and seal the seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three
ALFRED J. BOULT (L.S.)
IMPROVEMENTS IN CAPS FOR UNSTOPPING AERATED WATER BOTTLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Alfred Benson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st September 1883.
RICHARD ALFRED BENSON of Lichfield in the County of Stafford Printer
and Stationer "IMPROVEMENTS IN CAPS FOR UNSTOPPING AERATED WATER
BOTTLES."
To effect my Improvements I take an ordinary cap such as is commonly used for
unstopping or pushing down the stoppers of aerated water bottles and having
pierced it through from the top down through the centre peg I insert a tube down
through this aperture, this tube rising up above the top of the cap and being curved
or bent over downwards.-A further improvement is to form the upper portion of
the cap elongated so as to act as a handle to be gripped when pressing the cap on to
the stopper. I then place round the pierced peg and tube a washer of india rubber
or other elastic material which washer I by preference form hemispherical.
The effect of these arrangements when unstopping a bottle with this cap is that
the gas in attempting to escape rises up through this tube and escapes instead of
bursting out in all directions and scattering the fluid as is the case with the
ordinary cap. By having the tube curved or bent over, any of the liquid which
may have been carried up the tube by the force of the gas will empty itself into
any vessel placed for its reception.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PIRN AND SPOOL WINDING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Percy Henry Marriott and James
Hall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th February 1883.
PERCY HENRY MARRIOTT and JAMES HALL, of Stockport, in the County of
Chester IMPROVEMENTS IN PIRN AND SPOOL WINDING MACHINES
This Invention relates to Pirn and Spool winding Machines and has for its object
to secure a more evenly wound pirn or spool and to reduce the friction caused by
the rubbing of the yarn against the interior surface of the slotted cup at present
generally employed.
In carrying out this Invention we dispense with the slotted cup or its equivalent
now generally employed and substitute therefor three or more conical rollers which
are free to rotate upon vertical pins. These pins are fixed at the ends of equal
radii from the centre of the pirn on the upper surface of the plate which at present
carries the slotted cup and at equal distances from each other so as to present an
equal angle on each side to the pirn. The cones are placed on the pins loosely with
their bases downward.
By this arrangement the moving contact of the yarn sets up a rotary motion in
the conical rollers and the yarn is therefore subjected to a rolling motion and is
wound on without rubbing more evenly and firmly than is possible with the slotted
cup or any equivalent arrangement.
AN IMPROVED FERTILIZING MANURE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Edwards at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th October 1883. A communication
to him from abroad by Auguste Chénard, of Paris, in the Republic of France.
EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co-Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex "AN IMPROVED FERTILIZING MANURE [a communication to him
from abroad by Auguste Chénard, of Paris, in the Republic of France]
This invention has for its object a novel method of treating coal-tar, and
combining it with lime and phosphate of lime, so that it can be used as a manure
in a state of powder without affecting its natural qualities.
For this purpose a sufficient quantity of coal-tar is placed in a vessel under which
is maintained a gentle fire by which the tar can be warmed until it becomes liquid,
the bottom of the vessel being shut off from the fire before the slightest escape of
smoke from the tar, by means of a strong iron plate or damper sliding in a grooved
framo between the bottom of the heating vessel and the fire.
The heat having been thus shut off from the liquid tar twice the quantity of
hydraulic lime mixed with half its weight of phosphate of lime is added to the tar,
and the mixture is stirred well together by an iron stirrer until the whole of the
lime is absorbed by the tar, the resulting product being in the form of a dry
powder.
The powder thus composed is when cold removed from the heating vessel and is
in this state a good manure and insecticide, and I add to it sulphate of iron, soda,
sulphate of ammonia, and muriate of potash, the quantities of these fertilizing
ingredients varying with the circumstances under which the manuro is to be used,
and the price at which it is to be sold.
When the desired mixture has been made, the whole is passed through sieves of
suitable mesh in order to equalize and render it uniform, and it is then ready for usc
and forms a cheap and effective fertilizing manure possessing also disinfecting and
insect-destroying properties.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SEAMS FOR UNITING THE COVERS OF LAWN TENNIS, CRICKET AND OTHER BALLS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Neville at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 5th January 1883.
JOHN NEVILLE of London Lane, Hackney, London E in the County of
Middlesex IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SEAMS FOR UNITING THE COVERS OF LAWN
TENNIS, CRICKET AND OTHER BALLS
The improvement consists in first sewing round on the edges of the covers of
the balls, this is done to prevent the edges from fraying, the covers are then
fastened to the ball in the usual way, after which the Seam is finished by passing a
thread of any flexible material through the edges of the cloth bringing it to the
back of, and round the stitch previously mado, by this means the stitch which
unites the edges is locked, adding greatly to the strength of the Seam
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR EFFECTING IGNITION OF ELECTRIC CANDLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William David Gooch at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st September 1883.
WILLIAM DAVID GOOCH of South Kensington in the County of Middlesex
Electrical Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR EFFECTING IGNITION OF
ELECTRIC CANDLES
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in means for effecting the ignition
of electric candles in arc lamps and which improvements are specially applicable
for adaptation to "Jablochkoff" candles for bridging the two poles forming the
candle and at such time when no current is passing through them and serving to
conduct the current for lighting the candles and establishing the voltaic arc.
I propose to attach to the points of the carbons after partial use, or before being
consumed at all. A small piece of carbonized fibre or fibrous material either woven
in the form of a flat or twisted cord. Or it may be of a carbonized parchment
paper or other similar material and of such form as may be designed and of such
size as may be found most advantageous for the purpose of most perfect and
convenient attachment to the said carbons at their points whether in combination
or in conjunction with other mechanism or not.
The process of carbonization is preferably that patented by C F. Varley on
13th June 1882-(N° 2776) but I would have it understood that I do not limit
myself to its adaptation.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FACTORY CHIMNEY SHAFTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Solomon Hart at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 18th January 1883.
SOLOMON HART, of Hull, in the county of York, Builder, “IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF FACTORY CHIMNEY SHAFTS
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This invention relates to improvements in factory chimney shafts whereby their
cost of construction is diminished, their safety increased, their weight lessened,
and less time is required in their erection than hitherto.
In carrying out my invention I construct the base of the shaft of iron girders
bolted together and on these girders aro bolted upright stanchions of wrought iron
on the top of which is bolted an iron frame; the skeleton base thus formed is filled
in with either brick or stone work, and the outside iron of the base is covered or
enclosed with brick or stonework.
"
On the said iron frame I erect the shaft which I construct of sheet iron
consisting of a number of plates bolted together in the form of cylinders forming
when bolted together one on the other a tube of circular, octagonal or other suitable
section; the said cylinders have inclined sides diminishing in diameter as they
approach the top so as to give the required dimensions to the shaft; the bottom
or first cylinder has an enlarged base which is bolted to the said iron frame.
Each cylinder is preferably formed of one plate having internal vertical ribs, and
the cylinders aro connected together one on the other by means of interior rings
bolted to the cylinders so as to form a strong horizontal joint. As each cylinder
is fixed in position it is lined with brick or stone work to the required thickness.
Near the bottom of the shaft I propose to provide a number of tubes passing from
the outside to the inside of the chimney and placed obliquely. These tubes aro to
serve the purpose of admitting the external air and also to allow some of the hot
air from the shaft to pass into the atmosphere.
At suitable distances apart around the outside of the shaft preferably where the
cylinders are connected together I provide eyes which may be on the ends of a
suitable number of the bolts connecting the cylinders or otherwise. . These eyes
are for the purpose of allowing either staging or ladders to be fastened thereto
when the shaft requires painting or repairing.
This latter part of my invention is applicable to ordinary brick or stone shafts,
the said eyes being built into the brick or stone work as it is constructed.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR PROPELLERS FOR PROPELLING SHIPS, VESSELS OR BOATS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Isaac Watt Boulton at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th September 1883.
ISAAC WATT BOULTON, of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, "IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR PROPELLERS FOR PROPELLING SHIPS,
VESSELS OR BOATS,"
My invention consists in securing one two or more thin sheets or blades of elastic
steel, or other suitable elastic material, to a cross arm or boss, on a shaft arranged
to rotate; one end of each blade is secured to the cross arm or boss, and each blade
extends in its lengthway in the line of the axis of the shaft, with which it remains
parallel, when the shaft is at rest, but when the shaft is rotated and the blades
begin to act on the water, they bend to a curve and press against the water and
propel the boat or vessel-This class of propeller is especially applicable as an
auxiliary for sailing vessels or boats, as when sailing and the propeller is not in use,
it does not retard the sailing of the vessel or boat.
The propeller shaft is rotated by steam or other motive power, and is or may be
arranged, when used in boats having Engines for other purposes besides propelling,
Bo as to be readily connected or disconnected with the Engine by a clutch or other
suitable arrangement of mechanism This improved propeller is or may be placed
at the centre or on one side of the boat or vessel, at the stern, or two of them are
or may be used, one on each side of the vessel as "twin propellers."
When made as described the propeller will propel forward which ever way the
shaft is rotated, and by reversing the rotation of the shaft as required the vessel
or boat is or may be steered wholly or more or less independently of the rudder.
As above described, the propeller will not propel backwards but by arranging
the blades in a boss, according to another part of my invention, so as to be able to
change or reverse their positions by suitable connected mechanism, the propeller is
made either to propel forward or backward.
Or by making the propeller double with two sets of blades one for forward and
the other for backward motion and arranging the shaft so that it will gear with

page_text: one propeller when rotated one way, and with the other when rotated the reverse
way, the propeller is made either to propel forward or backward;-Or clutch
mechanism is or may be applied to bring the shaft in connection with one or the
other propeller, as desired, while the shaft is rotated in the same direction.
The elastic propeller blades are or may be when desired formed or divided into
sections longitudinally, so that each section will act independently.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING AMMONIA SALTS FROM GASES GENERATED BY THE COMBUSTION OR DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION OF COAL OR OTHER BITUMINOUS SUBSTANCES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Gavin Chapman at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st May 1883.
GAVIN CHAPMAN Manufacturing Chemist Glasgow, County of Lanark, North
Britain IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING AMMONIA SALTS FROM GASES GENERATED
BY THE COMBUSTION OR DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION OF COAL OR OTHER BITUMINOUS
SUBSTANCES.
In carrying out this invention the gases, while hot, are made to pass through a
chamber or series of chambers in the bottom of which is a stratum of dilute acid.
The ammonia in the gas descends to the surface of the acid, is combined with it,
and of course retained
In one simple and convenient method, a chamber or covered tank is separated
into three divisions by partitions placed across the current of the gas. The acid in
the first division comes into contact with the gas when it is strongest in Ammonia,
that in the second when it is partially exhausted, and that in the third when in its
weakest state. When the acid in the first division is sufficiently saturated with
Aminonia, it is drawn off and boiled down into salts, the acid in the second
division is then run into the first, that in the third is run into the second and fresh
acid is put into the third. In this way the operation proceeds regularly and
economically.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING VEGETABLE IMPURITIES FROM WOOL AND SIMILAR FIBROUS MATERIAL AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of Kensington, Middlesex, for an
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING VEGETABLE
IMPURITIES FROM WOOL AND SIMILAR FIBROUS MATERIAL AND IN APPARATUS
THEREFOR communicated to him from abroad by G. Fernau and Company,
of Bruges, Belgium
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd January 1883.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PROCESS OF REMOVING VEGETABLE IMPURITIES FROM WOOL AND SIMILAR FIBROUS
MATERIAL AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR," a communication to me from abroad by
G. Fernau and Company, of Bruges, Belgium,
This invention consists in the application of apparatus fitted with saw teeth or
with carding sheets for the purpose of removing vegetable impurities from fibrous
material while the latter is in locks, or in the shape of a sliver or fleece, and after
having been treated with acid.
This invention further consists in coating the metallic points of the card clothing
of said apparatus with magnetic oxide, so as to prevent said points from being
attacked by moisture or acid.
The acid may or may not have been removed before the fibrous material is
subjected to the said apparatus.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Herbert John Haddan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd July 1883.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PROCESS OF REMOVING VEGETABLE IMPURITIES FROM WOOL AND SIMILAR FIBROUS
MATERIAL, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR, a communication to me from abroad by
G. Fernau and Company, of Bruges, Belgium
This invention consists in coating with magnetic oxide the metallic parts of the
card-clothing carding sheets, or analogous fittings of carding machines, in case such
fittings are used for the purpose of removing vegetable impurities from useful
fibrous materials.
.
The coating of magnetic oxide has for its object to increase the hardness of the
metallic parts of the said fittings and to prevent them from rusting through contact
with water or acids.
This coating may be produced by various methods by exposing said metallic
parts in a well-closed chamber to the action of superheated steam.
CLAIM
The use of a coating of magnetic oxide on the metallic parts of card-clothing,
_carding sheets, or analogous fittings of carding machines, in case the said fittings
serve to remove vegetable impurities from useful fibrous materials.
In witness whereof I the said Herbert John Haddan have hereunto set my
hand and seal this 23rd day of July A.D. 1883.
H. J. HADDAN (L.S.)
A NEW OR IMPROVED PROCESS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF SMOKED FISH
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of Kensington, Middlesex, for an
Invention of A NEW OR IMPROVED PROCESS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF
SMOKED FISH Communicated to him from abroad by Otto Syllwasschy, of
Leipzig, in the kingdom of Saxony
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th February 1883.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "A NEW OR IMPROVED
PROCESS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF SMOKED FISH," a communication to me from
abroad by Otto Syllwasschy, of Leipzig, in the Kingdom of Saxony,
This invention relates to a process for rendering smoked fish palatable and for
preserving the same for a long period; it is carried out in the following way.
Well pickled and smoked fish is fried in good butter, after which the butter is
let to run off and the fish allowed to cool; when this is done the fish is canned
and completely covered with a decoction made of good taragon vinegar, apples,
onions, rum, papprica, grains of white and black pepper, cloves and laurel leaves,
with or without the addition of other spice; this decoction must be hot when-
poured over the fish, after which the vessels are closed airtight..
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Herbert John Haddan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th August 1883.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "A NEW OR IMPROVED.
PROCESS FOR. THE PRESERVATION OF SMOKED FISH," a communication to me from
abroad by Otto Syllwasschy, of Leipzig, in the Kingdom of Saxony,
This invention has for its object to render smoked fish more palatable and
capable of being kept in a good condition for a long period.
For this purpose well pickled and smoked fish is fried in good butter, after
which the butter is drained off and the fish allowed to cool. When this is done
the fish is packed in cans or other suitable vessels and completely covered with a
decoction of taragon, apples, onions, rum, papprica, grains of white and black.
-pepper, cloves and laurel leavca, in good strong vinegar; which decoction must be
hot when poured over the fish, after which the vessels are closed airtight. Applied
for the preservation of salmon, eel, sprats, flounders, haddocks and herrings, the
described process has given excellent results.
IMPROVED BOTTLE STOPPERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Nicolay Fritzner at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th September 1883.
NICOLAY FRITZNER of Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of Germany,
manufacturer. IMPROVED BOTTLE STOPPERS
This invention relates to a new mechanical bottle stoppering device which is
applicable to bottles with narrow or wide openings used for wine, champagne, beer,
soda-water, milk or other fluids, or to jars, cans or other vessels used for perfumery,
fruits or the like.
The new stopper belongs to that class of stoppering devices in which the required
air tight joint is produced by an india rubber washer or disc pressed by a clamping
device and an interposed stopper or plug to the mouth of the bottle; but it differs
entirely from all devices hitherto known or used for this purpose by its simple
construction, its applicability to almost any form of neck and its absolute efficiency
and durability.
The stopper or plug is provided on its underside with a washer, disc or ring of
soft india rubber or other suitable elastic material and may be constructed in other
respects according to circumstances and requirements. The upper side of the plug
is shaped with a recess to receive a hollow thimble shaped metal cap. The clamp
intended to fasten the stopper and its appendages to the vessel, consists of a simple
wire of halfround, flat or other cross-section, bent to a shaped form with a
short hook on both ends, and of dimensions to suit the case.
To apply the stoppering device to bottles or other vessels a stoppering machine
is made use of, the peculiar construction of which forms no part of the present
Invention, but which performs the stoppering in the following manner.
The mouth of the bottle inserted in the machine is covered with the plug so that
the rubber occupies its proper place. If the metal cap is not united to the plug
beforehand, (which arrangement is preferable in some cases,) it is now placed on
top of the plug into the recess provided for its reception. The clamp is held by
the machine at a place and in a direction suitably arranged. All parts having been
properly adjusted, the bottle is forced upward until the machine is able to bring
the hooks of the clamp under the projecting reinforce or flange on the bottle neck,
at which moment the bottle, properly stoppered, is lowered and removed from the

page_text: machine. During the upward pressing of the bottle against the clamp the latter is
forced to a certain distance into the top part of the cap, which, being hollow and of
metal, can yield sufficiently without breaking.
If the stopper is to be removed the hooks of the clamp are pushed from under
the reinforce or flange of the neck; then the clamp and the plug can be taken off.
The cap presents now the form of a thimble the crown of which shows two rises or
projections separated by a narrow diametrical recess or groove corresponding to the
centre part of the clamp.
For vessels with very wide openings, two clamps, crosswise one above the other,
may be applied.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TESSERCE FOR USE IN MOSAIC WORK, APPLICABLE ALSO TO SLABS, TILES OR BLOCKS FOR OTHER INLAID WORK
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Pellatt Rickman and Arthur
Browne Wood at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st August
1883.
JAMES PELLATT RICKMAN, and ARTHUR BROWNE WOOD, both of Saint Bride
Street, in the City of London, IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TESSERCE
FOR USE IN MOSAIC WORK, APPLICABLE ALSO TO SLABS, TILES OR BLOCKS FOR
OTHER INLAID WORK,
Our Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of tesserce, specially
for use in mosaic work, but is applicable also to slabs, tiles or blocks for other
inlaid work.
Our improvements consist in manufacturing tesseroe, blocks, slabs, tiles or other
pieces, with fangs, studs, projections or protuberances, in order to cause the tesserce
or pieces when embedden or laid in the matrix, by which they are retained in
place to adhere more firmly therein, than heretofore. By preference, we manufac-
ture our tesserce slabs, tiles, blocks or pieces from the material known in commerce
as Crystal Porcelain, on account of its hardness and non porosity, and without
glazing the same although in soine cases it may be found advantageous to glaze
them. The said slabs, tiles, blocks or pieces may likewise be made in glass,
ceranic ware, mortars, cements (coloured or not) artificial marbles, clays, or other
powdered or plastic or semi-plastic materials suitable for the purpose, and capable
of being pressed or moulded in dies, or the like.
In manufacturing tessere, for use in mosaic work, we first produce fanged or
studded slabs, tiles or blocks, and after these slabs, tiles or blocks have been
allowed to dry, and have become extremely hard, we then, by means of a hammer,
or other suitable tool; break the said slabs, tiles or blocks into pieces which, on
breaking, assume irregular forms, and which pieces constitute the tessera. These
pieces, although of irregular form, when broken, will each be found to retain a fang
or stud, by means of which they can be more effectually secured in the matrix or
bed than heretofore.
If desired, grooves, channels, indentations, or notches may be formed in the

page_text: portions of the slab, tile or block existing between the fangs, studs or projections,
so that when such slabs, tiles or blocks are broken up to form the tesserce for
mosaic work, the grooves, channels, indentations or notches will aid in directing
the separation of the tessero into the desired directions.
When the fanged or studded slabs, tiles or blocks are used for inlaid work, other
than mosaic, they are not broken into pieces, but are laid together in the usual
manner in the matrix, the fangs or studs being retained for the purpose of ensuring
a firmer hold therein than heretofore.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND TREATMENT PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Imray at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 18th May 1883. Communicated to him
from abroad by Charles Cros and Auguste Vergeraud both of Paris in the
Republic of France
OF
JOHN IMRAY of N° 28 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the County
of Middlesex " IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND TREATMENT
PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER [communicated to him from abroad by Charles Cros and
Auguste Vergeraud both of Paris in the Republic of France]
This invention relates to the manufacture and treatment of photographic paper
for the purpose of reproducing by the action of light. the dark lines of designs
drawn on transparent surfaces such as tracing paper, glass and the like, or the
images of flat objects that can be applied to the prepared paper. The paper can
be prepared either during its manufacture by mingling with the pulp the sensitive
materials, or these can be applied to the paper at some stage of its manufacture,
when it can be moistened, or after its manufacture, whether the paper be sized or
not. Thus, there may be added to the pulp which is to be converted into paper, a
sensitising solution of about 11 parts bichromate of potassa and 120 parts of dry
glucose in 1000 parts water, the quantity of the solution being such that the
sensitising ingredients constitute an addition of about 16 per cent to the weight of
the dry paper. For sized paper the proportion of sensitising material may be
considerably less. Or, again, manufactured paper may be gelatinised in the usual
way, impregnating it with a solution of about 10 parts bichromate of potassa,
100 parts dry glucose and 25 parts gelatine in 1000 parts water. Paper thus
prepared is particularly applicable for obtaining designs in organic colouring
matters.
For developing, a solution of about 10 parts nitrate of silver, 20 parts acetic
acid and 50 parts alcohol in 1000 parts water gives a ruddly colour, which after
washing and drying in the light becomes dark brown. Hydrosulphuric acid gas,
reducing salts of copper or iron such as oxalates or ammoniaco-sulphites, carbonates
of soda and potassa may be then applied. By the action of the latter substances,
carbonate of silver is produced which becomes blackened by exposure to light.
Another developing solution consists of about 20 parts acetate of lead, 20 parts

page_text: acetic acid, and 50 parts alcohol in 1000 parts water. This gives a yellow which
is blackened by hydrosulphuric acid gas. Development in dark violet colour may
be effected by applying a mixture of about 20 parts extract of logwood, 50 parts
alcohol, and 5 parts carbonate of potassa, with 1000 parts water, and then washing
with water acidulated with oxalic acid to remove the colour from the ground. In
all these operations, alcoholic liquids are preferable to pure water as they dissolve
less the bichromate. For the glucose employed in the sensitizing mixtures, dextrine,
sugar or gelatine may be substituted.
OLLERS FOR CALICO AND OTHER PRINTING PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Earle at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 5th April 1883.
EDWIN EARLE of Manchester in the County of Lancaster
ROLLERS FOR CALICO AND OTHER PRINTING PURPOSES »
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
This Invention relates to improvements in the rollers used for calico printing
and other analogous printing purposes whereby the pattern or detail of one or more
parts of the design engraved upon the roller can be altered and changed at will—
for instance-if the design has a border, such border can be changed for one of
another pattern or the central or any other part of the design may be similarly
changed in whole or in part.
In carrying out my Invention instead of having the roller all in one length as
heretofore I construct the same in sections which are all keyed side by side upon
the same mandril or otherwise secured together and which may be further pegged
together by having projections on one section fitting accurately into corresponding
notes in the adjoining sections. By this means I am enabled to build up a pattern
or design in various details upon the roller and thus I produce and can print a large
number of designs with one and the same roller and without necessarily having a
separate roller for each design as heretofore
Although only described as applied to rollers for calico printing, it will be obvious
that these improvements are applicable to other rollers used for printing purposes
such as paper hangings &
IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIELDS FOR ARTILLERY AND OTHER PURPOSES, AS WELL AS IN " THE MEANS OF TRANSPORTING THE SAME
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Raphael Hunter Brandon at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th December 1883. Commu-
nicated to him by Captain William de Rohan of 1, Rue Laffitte, Paris,
France
RAPHAEL HUNTER BRANDON, of N° 1, Rue Laffitte, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Engineer and Patent Agent, "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIELDS FOR ARTILLERY
AND OTHER PURPOSES, AS WELL AS IN
"
THE MEANS
OF TRANSPORTING
THE
SAME (A communication to me by Captain William de Rohan of 1, Rue Laffitte
Paris, France)
The main object of this Invention is to protect the men serving field artillery
from rifle bullets and other small projectiles, and for this purpose there is employed
one or more sheets or plates of suitable metal preferably steel of say about of an
inch thick which are erected either in a perpendicular or in a slanting position in
front of the gun, when several of such plates or sheets are used they are united
edge to edge by ordinary joints or hinges in such a manner as that they may be
more or less extended to cover and protect more or less surface.
The plates are also made use of to form an encampment serving to protect a
relatively large number of men in the open field, in such case the plates would be
formed into an entire circle or polygon the said circle or other figure being covered
if desired by a tarpaulin attached to a central post and fixed circumferentially to
the plates.
For transportation these plates are folded one on the other and fixed to uprights
fitted on the gun carriages.
IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOUND MARINE ENGINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Bruce Thompson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th November 1883.
WILLIAM BRUCE THOMPSON of Dundee in the County of Forfar, North Britain,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOUND MARINE ENGINES"
This Invention which relates to Improvements in that class of marine steam
engines known as triple compound engines has for its object to enable a balance of
stress or driving power to be applied to both the fore and aft cranks of the Engines
of Steam Ships.
The Improvements consist in placing over each of the cylinders which correspond
to the two respective high and low pressure cylinders of an ordinary compound
engine a high pressure cylinder. These high pressure cylinders may be of equal or
different bores so that the balance of stress or driving power is capable of being
adjusted to exactitude. Both the high pressure cylinders receive steam direct
from the boiler and alternately exhaust the same into the casing of the second
cylinder whence the steam passes to the largest or lowest pressure cylinder.
In lieu of placing the two high pressure cylinders above the cylinders of an
ordinary compound engine as hereinbefore described they may be placed below the
same their position being determined according to the general arrangement of the
engines.
IMPROVED FASTENINGS FOR LACING BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Paton at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 29th October 1883.
JAMES PATON, of Johnstone, in the County of Renfrew, Manufacturer,
"IMPROVED FASTENINGS FOR LACING BOOTS AND SHOES;"
This invention relates to improved fastening devices for lacing boots and shoes
to be used in lieu of the usual eyelets or open hooks through or round which the
laces are passed, and the object of the Invention is to facilitate the tightening up
and unfastening of the laces in putting on and removing boots or shoes.
The improved fastenings consist of circular or oval eyes or loops of metal wire or
other material, which are so fitted and secured by shanks or strips passed through and
rivetted or otherwise fixed to the leather, that the loops or eyes project out from
the leather at right angles thereto, instead of being formed as usual in the leather.
These projecting eyes are fitted near the edge of the leather on each side, in the
place of the ordinary eyelets or hooks, and the laces are threaded through the eyes,
passing alternately from side to side, and are secured in any of the usual ways at
the top. Such projecting eyes oppose very little frictional resistance to the tighten-
ing up of the laces passed through them, owing to the laces being made to cross
outside the leather. In fastening the boot or shoe it is only necessary to draw up
the laces tight and secure them, and in taking off the bout or shoe, the laces have
simply to be untied without withdrawing them from the eyes.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE USE OF INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMPS FOR ARTISTIC ILLUMINATION
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Bassett Keeling and John Davies
Mucklow at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd May
1883.
BASSETT KEELING of Kings Arms Yard in the City of London, Architect and
Fellow of The Surveyors Institution, and JOHN DAVIES MUCKLOW F.C.S F.I.C.
of Arundel Square Highbury London IMPROVEMENTS IN THE USE OF INCANDESCENT
ELECTRIC LAMPS FOR ARTISTIC ILLUMINATION
Our Invention consists of a novel application and combination whereby
Incandescent Electric Lamps are made to produce the soft light of a sperm, wax or
other composition candle. We use semi transparent glass. cylinders of the same
tint as the ordinary wax candle or any other colour it may be desired to imitate
and on the top of such cylinder which may be shaped to represent a candle, or
otherwise is fixed a small Incandescent lamp, provided with suitable wire con-
nections, and in the inside of the cylinder are fixed one or more incandescent
lamps with proper wire connections so arranged that any one or all of them may
be lighted at will according to the amount of light required or the said cylinder
may itself form the enclosure or vessel to hold the filiament or filiaments in a
vacuum the same as the ordinary glass globes now used in which case the cylinder
would be appropriately closed at each end to secure a vacuum
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRILLS AND OF BAR OR ROD STEEL TO BE USED FOR THE SAME, AND OF HOLDERS THEREFOR.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Harrington at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 15th November 1883.
JOHN HARRINGTON of "The Enamel and Cradle Spring Works," Coventry in the
County of Warwick IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DRILLS AND OF
BAR OR ROD STEEL TO BE USED FOR THE SAME, AND OF HOLDERS THEREFOR.
The Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of drills and
of bar or rod steel to be used for the same, and of holders therefor.
For this purpose I manufacture bar or rod steel of a section of circular form
with two longitudinal V shaped or curved grooves or hollows on opposite sides
thereof such grooves or hollows being parallel with the axis of the bar or rod and
not twisted around the same.
In the manufacture of drills I employ bar or rod steel of the form above
described and I cut off the required length from such bar or rod and grind the end
or ends to the required angles.
In some cases I employ in connection with the drill a holder shaped to receive
the drill and cylindrical on its exterior to facilitate the centering of the drill in a
chuck or clutch.
By these means I greatly simplify the manufacture of drills and reduce the cost
of the same whilst I produce a more efficient tool than heretofore the grooves
running along the entire length of the drill facilitating a more thorough clearance
of the metal cut
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WALLS, PARTITIONS AND CEILINGS OF BUILDINGS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Napier at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 7th March 1883.
GEORGE NAPIER of Manchester in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF WALLS, PARTITIONS AND CEILINGS OF BUILDINGS
The object of this invention is the construction of a cheap wall or partition for
building purposes capable of being readily erected and as readily removed and
which shall not require to be plastered on either side and which shall be perfectly
fire and damp-proof.
In carrying out my invention I form slabs of concrete cement or other suitable
material by preference rectangular in shape and having V edges to fit one into the
other the vertical joints being arranged alternately to over-lap each other after the
manner of brickwork. In order to strengthen and support these slabs when placed
together to form the wall or partition I affix a series of vertical bars by preference
of square bar iron between the floor and ceiling of the apartment and set cross
ways so that they shall come into and form the vertical V joints of each alternate
set of slabs which are correspondingly grooved and which rods pass completely
through corresponding holes formed in the other alternate slabs or these last
mentioned slabs can be arranged in halves and be cemented together.
Instead of square iron, round or other iron bars of any other suitable cross
section might be substituted-and although only described as applied in the
construction of walls it will be apparent that these improved slabs may be equally
used for ceilings. It will also be obvious that these improved slabs may be of any
desired thickness and also formed hollow either for ventilating or other
purposes or to be filled in with saw-dust or other suitable material capable of
deadening sound.