IMPROVED SYSTEM OR MEANS OF EFFECTING AND MAINTAINING THE CONTINUITY OF DIVIDED AND SUBDIVIDED ELECTRIC CURRENTS FOR LIGHTING PURPOSES WITHOUT POSSIBLE DISRUPTION BETWEEN STATIONS HOWEVER NUMEROUS OR DISTANT APART
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jolin Banting Rogers of 47 Holborn Viaduct and
49A Farringdon Street both in the City of London Engineer for an Invention
of IMPROVED SYSTEM OR MEANS OF EFFECTING AND MAINTAINING THE
CONTINUITY OF DIVIDED AND SUBDIVIDED ELECTRIC CURRENTS FOR LIGHTING
PURPOSES WITHOUT POSSIBLE DISRUPTION BETWEEN STATIONS HOWEVER
NUMEROUS OR DISTANT APART
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Banting Rogers at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the Sth February 1882.
JOHN BANTING ROGERS of 47 Holborn Viaduct and 40a Farringdon Street
both in the City of London Engincer " IMPROVED SYSTEM OR MEANS OF
EFFECTING AND MAINTAINING THE CONTINUITY OF DIVIDED AND SUBDIVIDED
ELECTRIC CURRENTS FOR LIGHTING PURPOSES WITHOUT POSSIBLE DISRUPTION
BETWEEN STATIONS HOWEVER NUMEROUS OR DISTANT APART
"
The object of my Invention is an improved system or means of effecting and
maintaining the continuity of divided and subdivided electric currents for lighting
purposes without possible disruption between stations however numerous or distant
apart.
For the purposes of my Invention I carry a series of negative and positive
conducting wires radii from one central power generating station, and put their
terminals in connection with other stations which are also in connection with the
several stations of that series and also by other or subsidiary conducting wires to
more distant stations which are themselves in connection with each of the distant
stations and with the intermediate stations and the main station or stations. Any
or all of these stations may be provided with dividing and subdividing apparatus
referred to in the Specification of my previous Patent No. 3809 of 1880, or
otherwise.
Any of the subsidiary stations may form a central station of a district and be in
communication with the distant districts either for use as generating stations or as
storage stations in or from which the lighting may be established, the several wires
and stations being so arranged and connected that any disruption of any con-
ducting wire between any two or more stations would not affect the circuit or
destroy the continuity of the current between the several lamps within the
system.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Banting Rogers in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th August 1882.
JOHN BANTING ROGERS of 47 Holborn Viaduct and 49* Farringdon Street both
in the City of London Engineer IMPROVED SYSTEM OR MEANS OF EFFECTING
AND MAINTAINING THE CONTINUITY OF DIVIDED AND SUBDIVIDED ELECTRIC
CURRENTS FOR LIGHTING PURPOSES WITHOUT POSSIBLE DISRUPTION BETWEEN
STATIONS HOWEVER NUMEROUS OR DISTANT APART
The object of my Invention is an Improved System or Means of Effecting and
Maintaining the Continuity of Divided and Subdivided Electric Currents for
Lighting Purposes without Possible Disruption between Stations however Numerous
or Distant Apart.
For the purposes of my Invention, I carry a series of negative and positive
conducting wires radii from one central power generating and storage station and
put their terminals in connection with other stations which are also in connection
with the several stations of that series and also by other or subsiduary conducting
wires to more distant stations which are themselves in connection with each of the
distant stations and with the intermediate stations and the main station or stations.
Any or all of these stations may be provided with dividing and subdividing
apparatus referred to in the Specification of my previous Patent No. 3809 in the
year 1880, or otherwise.--Any of the subsidiary stations may form a central
station of a district and be in communication with the distant districts either for
use as generating and storage stations en route in or from which the lighting may
be established the several wires and stations being so arranged and connected that
any disruption of any conducting wire between any two or more stations would
not affect the circuit or destroy the continuity of the current between the several
lamps within the system. Any pair of subsidiary wires may be connected to
storage cells in buildings, houses and the like, from which cells wires may lead
to lamp sockets and lamps for lighting up any part thereof.
On the annexed Sheet of Drawings I show a diagram of my arrangement of
conducting wires from a central power station to various districts of a town
whereby the whole of the several districts are in conductible connection with each
other and with the several subsiduary conducting wires of itself.
The central power station A has a series of main wires BC, KL, W X, (negative
and positive) leading in all directions to accumulating dividing and subdividing
stations D M T. From these stations other branch wires NP, U V put these
stations into conductible connection with each other.
Other branch wires EF, IH, SR, Y Z lead from the stations D M T to other
stations G JQ, which are also by branch wires J H, RS, put into connection.
More distant stations may be arranged from G JQ as at a by other branch
wires I J.
In this diagram I have lettered one section only and it will be understood that
it is only given as an example of my plan of distributing the current to, from and
through the several stations, and also keeping the several stations in conductible
connection with each other. The current would pass through say B C to all the
outlying stations by the connection D supposing there be a disruption of the
wires KL and WX and supposing 1 H, and S R to be broken, the current would
flow to JQ through Y Z or J H or should that route also be broken the current
would reach the station JQ through EF, G, JH, RS, or through the branch
wires bc, de, from the station Q which is in conductible connection with T, by

page_text: the branch wires fg and also through M¹ by the branch wires K¹ L¹ which forın a
part of the second section.
The same may be said of the other sections of the plan which sections are so
interlocked with each other and with the first section that each first series of
stations are not only in connection with the main station or stations direct but are
also in connection through the several branch wires of the next outlying stations
and also with the farther and still farther stations through one pair at least of the
wires connecting one or other of the stations.
The stations D M T and GJ Q Q'a, are not only for conductible connection
to convey the current to and from each other but as other stations or minor
stations they may be generating and storing stations and also lighting stations,
subsiduary wires being connected therefrom to lamps or some of such subsiduary
wires only may be connected to lamps the others being used as branch wires to
convey the current to other apparatus from which again all of the wires may be
used for lighting purposes or some of them only the others being for branch wires
to other apparatus and so on. hh are the storage cells of houses for houso
lighting.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed,
I declare that I claim ;
The distribution of currents (negative and positive) from a main station to inter-
mediate stations each of which may be generating and storage stations if necessary
and from those to distant stations, and so on putting all the intermediate and
distant stations either as current generating-storage conducting stations or as
lighting stations or as both into conductible connection with each other for
maintaining the continuity throughout the system without possible disruption as
described with reference to the diagram.
Secondly I claim;-The utilization ofthe intermediate or the distant stations or
of both or some of them, only as current producing or storage stations and lighting
stations and for the distribution division and subdivision to the central station
which may be a lighting station as set forth.
In witness whereof I the said John Banting Rogers have hereunto set
my hand and seal this Third day of August in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Witness
H. GARDNER
Patent Agent
166 Fleet Street
London
JOHN BANTING ROGERS. (L.S.)