IMPROVEMENTS STORAGE OF ELECTRICITY IN BATTERIES FOR THE
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Mori of Leeds in the County of York
Electrician for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS
STORAGE OF ELECTRICITY
IN BATTERIES FOR THE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Mori at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th August 1882.
FREDERICK MORI of Leeds in the County of York Electrician
IN BATTERIES FOR THE STORAGE OF ELECTRICITY "
"IMPROVEMENTS
"
This Invention has reference to what are commonly termed "storage batteries
that is to batteries in which are stored a quantity of electricity sufficient to meet
the consumption required for electric lighting and similar purposes of electricity
for a considerable length of time.
The battery is constructed in two forms the first one of which consists of a series
of lead plates connected in the ordinary manner.
These plates may be cast in lead solely or in a mixture or amalgam of lead
binoxide of manganese and antimony the object being to obtain the substance in a
spongy or porous form.
The plates are cellular or honey combed so as to afford the greatest number of
points of attachment for the substance with which they are painted namely
peroxide or acetate of lead
They are then coated with lead foil the exterior of which is painted with
binoxide of manganese or acetate of lead.
The space between the plates is packed with asbestos and the battery is then
filled with sulphuric acid.
The second form of the battery consists of a series of plates of the above form
divided by porous cells containing sulphate of copper, acetate of lead or lead foil or
lead in a state of division also carbon in a minutely divided or plate form
In either form of battery the plates may be arranged either horizontally or
vertically.
The lead plates may also be used alternately with copper plates

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Frederick Mori in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th February 1883.
FREDERICK MORI of Leeds in the County of York, Electrician
IN BATTERIES FOR THE STORAGE OF ELECTRICITY
"
"IMPROVEMENTS
This Invention has reference to what are commonly termed storage batteries,
that is to batteries in which is stored a quantity of electricity sufficient to meet
the consumption required for electric lighting and similar purposes for a
considerable length of time.
The battery is constructed in two forms, the first one of which consists of a
series of lead plates connected in the ordinary manner and placed within a glass
or ebonite cell which is filled with dilute sulphuric acid. These plates may be cast
in pure lead solely or composed of a mixture or amalgam of lead, spelter from lead
ore, or oxide of lead or binoxide of manganese and antimony the object being to
obtain the substance in a spongy or porous form. The surface of the plates is
cellular, or honey-combed so as to afford as many points of attachment as possible
for the peroxide of manganese with which they are to be painted. The plates are
then wrapped loosely with leadfoil, the surfaces of which are coated with binoxide
of manganese or acetate of lead either in the form of paint or deposit. Asbestos
packing is employed for the purpose of insulating the plates.
The second form of the battery consists of a series of plates of the kind herein-
before described separated from each other by porous cells or plates.
The lead plates may be wrapped in lead foil coated as above described, or the
'surfaces may be placed in contact with plates of carbon or sheets of carbonized
material. The vat or outer cell is charged with dilute sulphuric acid or caustic
soda,
In witness whereof I the said Frederick Mori have hereunto set my hand and
seal this eighth day of February in the year One thousand eight hundred
and eighty three.