IMPROVE- MENTS IN AND RELATING TO TROUGHS OR BUCKETS FOR FREEING THE INTERIORS OF STEAM OR DRYING CYLINDERS FROM WATER
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Bramhall Fishwick, of the Firm of Holgate &
Fishwick, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND RELATING TO TROUGHS OR BUCKETS FOR FREEING THE
INTERIORS OF STEAM OR DRYING CYLINDERS FROM WATER."
Sealed the 26th November 1878, and dated the 7th June 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Bramhall Fishwick
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th June 1878.
THOMAS BRAMHALL FISHWICK, of the Firm of Holgate & Fishwick, of Bury,
in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO TROUGHS OR
BUCKETS FOR FREEING THE INTERIORS OF STEAM OR DRYING CYLINDERS FROM
WATER."
This Invention relates to the construction of troughs or buckets (and herein called
buckets) in steam drying cylinders, and the new plan, way, or method of fixing
them consists of a tin, copper, or other metal bucket made in such a way that it
can be fastened at one end under the cylinder end by means of a part of the bucket
being made long enough to go under the cylinder end; or by a separate piece of
tin or other metal being fixed by solder or other like suitable means to the bucket,
and to go under the cylinder end, and made secure by soldering or rivetting in with
the end; and the other end of the bucket also made long enough or lengthened by
a separate piece of tin or other metal being fixed by solder or other like suitable
means to the bucket that it can be put or fixed under or to a block or ring in the
cylinder.
A further improvement is made in this Invention by the midfeather of bucket being
made double or two-fold, instead of being single, as in the ordinary bucket now put
in cylinders, and also the base, which is fixed by solder or other suitable means to
the cylinder body, is made broader, and has a greater surface hold on the cylinder

page_text: body than the ordinary bucket. By these means there is less or no risk of the
buckets getting loose in the cylinder, which often occurs, more especially in copper
cylinders; and also by the midfeather being double the bucket is stronger where
there is most strain, and where ordinary buckets are the soonest out of order, and
become loose, rusty, and fall in pieces by the action of the water, dirt, and grease,
consequently are useless for emptying water out of cylinders.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Bramhall Fishwick in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
December 1878.
THOMAS BRAMHALL FISHWICK of the Firm of Holgate and Fishwick, of Bury,
in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO TROUGHS
OR BUCKETS FOR FREEING THE INTERIORS OF STEAM OR DRYING CYLINDERS
FROM WATER."
This Invention relates to the construction of troughs or buckets (and herein
called "buckets") in steam drying cylinders, and the new plan, way, or method of
fixing them consists of a tin, copper, or other metal bucket made in such a way
that it may be fastened at one end under the cylinder end by means of a part of
the bucket being made long enough, or by a separate piece of tin or other metal
being fixed by solder or other like suitable means to the bucket, and to go under
the cylinder end, and made secure by soldering or rivetting in with the end; and
the other end of the bucket also made long enough, or lengthened by a separate
piece of tin or other metal being fixed by solder or other like suitable means to the
bucket that it can be put, or fixed under, or to a block or ring.
A further improvement is made in this Invention by the midfeather of the
buckets being made double or two-fold, instead of single, as in the ordinary bucket
now put in cylinders, and also the base, which is fixed by solder or other like
suitable means to the cylinder body, is made broader, and has a greater surface hold.
on the cylinder body than the ordinary bucket. By these means there is less or
no risk of the buckets getting loose in the cylinder, which often occurs, more
especially in copper cylinders, and also by the midfeather being double the bucket
is stronger where there is the most strain, and where ordinary buckets are the
soonest out of order, and become loose, rusty, and fall in pieces by the action of the
water, dirt, and grease, consequently are useless for emptying water out of
cylinders.
And that the Invention may be more fully understood I will proceed to describe
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and forming part of the Specification.

page_text: Figure 2 represents a cross section of the steam cylinder through, and shows the
manner of making the midfeather A double, and also the base B for soldering
to cylinder body broader than the ordinary bucket.
Figure 3 represents an elevation of bucket, shewing the ends of bucket or piece
C of tin or other metal attached to the end of bucket, long enough to go under
and fasten to the block D, and at the contrary end of the bucket a similar piece
of tin or other metal, sufficiently long enough to go under and fasten to the end of
cylinder E.
Having now described my Invention, and the best mode known to me of carrying
it into effect, I wish it to be understood that what I believe to be new and desire
to claim under the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
First. The manufacture of troughs or buckets for freeing the interiors of steam
drying cylinders from water, with one of the ends of the bucket or trough, or a
piece of metal attached thereto of sufficient length to go under the cylinder end,
and at the other end similarly constructed, and fixed to the block or ring in the
cylinder, for the purposes described.
Second. The manufacture of troughs or buckets for freeing the interiors of steam
drying cylinders from water, with a double midfeather, such as A, and with a very
broad base B, for the purposes described.
Third. The general arrangement of trough or bucket, substantially as and for the
purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bramhall Fishwick, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
Witness,
EDWARD G. COLTON,
Patent Agent,
Of Wm. P. Thompson & Co.,
6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
And 323, Holborn,
London,
W.C.
T. B. FISHWICK. (L.S.)