IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRICAL BATTERIES
Year: 1885

page_text: HENRY CLOID BRADLEY SHALDERS and ARTHUR JAMES THORMAN both of
number Six Saint Benet Place, Gracechurch Street within the City of London,
Ship Brokers do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN ELECTRICAL BATTERIES to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of improvements in electrical batteries both primary and
secondry by means of which construction and the material or substance we use they
are made to constitute what is commonly known as a "Dry Battery" and which
is of a superior constant character and portability.
Our mode of constructing such batteries consists as follows. We take plates or
sheets of copper zinc or any of the other metals or carbons which we place
alternately or in any other known or usual position so that they do not come
into immediate contact these have the usual connections to convey the currents.
The exciting agent which we use and which forms the basis of this invention is.
"Sea Weed" or "Sea Wrack" or any other marine vegetation such as is commonly
cast on the sea shore or taken from the deep sea, this we make use of either in its
natural state or the same may be cut up into flat pieces and laid between the metal
or other plates or it may be disentegrated or ground or made into sheets or blocks or
other convenient shapes by compression or other means and surround the metal
or other plates-We have found it desirable in some cases to amalgamate the sea
weed or sea wrack with some of its minor analytical constituents of which it
is composed and may be deficient for our purpose or to use the same in combination
with chemicals or liquids such as are usually employed in batteries but for all
practical purposes the sea weed or sea wrack in its natural or compressed or
disentegrated state will be found to be all that is required.
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page_text: We HENRY CLOID BRADLEY SHALDERS and ARTHUR JAMES THORMAN of
Number 6 Saint Benet Place Gracechurch Street in the City of London do hereby
declare the nature of our invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRICAL BATTERIES
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
Our invention consists of improvements in Electrical Batteries both primary and
secondary or storage batteries by means of which construction combined with the
material or substance we use they are made to constitute what is commonly known
as a dry battery and is of a superior constant character and portability.
Our mode of constructing such batteries consists as follows: We take plates or
sheets of copper zinc or any of the other metals or carbons or any combination of
metals say of any form or shape which we place alternately or in any other known
or usual position so that they do not come into immediate contact-These batteries
have the usual connections to carry the currents as may be requisite--The exciting
agent or material which we use and which forms the basis of this invention is Sea
Wrack Sea Weed or any other marine vegetation such as is commonly cast on the
sea shore or taken from the deep sea This we make use of either in its natural
state or the same may be cut or chopped up into pieces and laid between the metal
or other plates or it may be disintegrated or ground or made into sheets or blocks or
other convenient shapes by compression or other means and be filled in or packed
between the metal or other plates.
We have found it desirable in some cases to amalgamate the Sea Wrack or Sea
Weed with some of the minor analytical constituents of which it is composed and
may be deficient for our purpose or we use the same in combination with chemicals
or liquids such as are usually employed in batteries but for all practical purposes
the Sea Weed or Sea Wrack in its natural or compressed or disentegrated state
will be found to be all that is required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed-We declare that what
we claim is:
The use of Sea Weed Sea Wrack or any other marine vegetation such as is
commonly cast on the sea shore or taken from the deep sea for use as the developing
or exciting agent or material in primary or secondry or storage batteries or their
equivalents for producing Electricity by itself or in combination with Chemicals
and or Metals or Carbon or other substances.
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