IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PRODUCING MOTIVE POWER AND LIGHT BY MEANS OF ELECTRICITY
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Graddon at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 28th February 1880.
JAMES GRADDON, of Forest Hill, in the County of Kent.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR PRODUCING MOTIVE POWER AND LIGHT BY MEANS OF
ELECTRICITY."
The object of my Invention is to produce motive power by means of electricity
alono or in combination with gas, nir, or other fluid or fluids employed to assist the
arrangements when used for producing light or heat therefrom, or not at the time
of giving motion for any other purpose, and this I propose offecting by means of a
wheel or wheels or a roller or rollers composed of magnets or magnetic producing
material, and having a channel or channels cut or otherwise parallel with cach
other, and extending from end to end for the purpose of containing wire or other
electric conducter inside a conducter or otherwise, and the roller or rollers or wheels
or wheel which are to be magnets, or become so at the moment required for action,
and supported in bearings, or to be otherwise fixed to revolve within, and by means
of one or more pieces of metal or magnetic producing material, concaved to partly
or otherwiso cover the roller or rollers or wheel or wheels, and to the convexed
part of the concave pieces I propose having one or more projections, or a piece or
pieces otherwise fixed at right angles thereto, for the purpose of containing wire
or any other conductor of electricity to cause the concave pieces or piece to become
magnetized when required, and thereby cause the wheel or wheels or roller to
revolve therein through the concaved parts becoming also magnetized, or any
cylinder or cylinders in which the roller or wheel is placed to revolve, simple or
otherwise, and when the wire is coiled round the part or parts projecting from the
concaved plate or parts, I propose to support such wire or other material in the
required position by having a piece or more in one therewith, or otherwise fixed at
right angles with the projections; and on the exterior of the wire employed to
conduct the electricity and to those outside plates or plato I propose connecting a
magnetized piece of metal, or pieces magnetized or to be magnetized, and in the
form of a half circle, or otherwise, for the purpose of giving the concaved plates or
cylinder or cylinders power to cause the roller or revolving magnets to revolve by
the means of the wires or wire thereof being connected with an electric battery or
any contrivanco employed for the purpose of creating electricity; and I also propose
placing the arrangements of magnets in a glass cylinder or otherwise fixed
horizontal, or when vertical I propose employing an ornamental base representing

page_text: a pillar, & in the base in which is mounted a shaft, which I propose connecting
with a large cog or other wheels or wheel worked by a small one or more, connected
with the magnetic roller or wheel employed for that purpose, and to give a fast or
slow speed to the shaft or shafts, with the ends thereof projecting through the
bearings to the outside, and there to contain a wheel or wheels employed for driving
purposes, and the same shaft may be employed to give motion to slides & valves.
I also propose constructing of metal a flat piece or pieces with a part or parts
thereof coiled with wire, or otherwise causing it to become magnetized & thereby
giving motion to a piston or pistons, the ends of which are connected direct or
otherwise with a catch caused to act on a ratchet wheels or wheel connected with
a shaft, & this arrangement I also propose fixing or placing in the form of a
pillar, or otherwise worked, combined with the other arrangement herein proposed
or alone, as may be required to assist in any way, & I also propose connecting
therewith a piece of metal as a magnet, or to be magnetized when required to
assist in creating power, and I propose connecting pumps with the driving shaft or
shafts by means of cranks, eccentrics, or otherwise, for the purpose of compressing
air, gas, or other fluid or fluids to create or assist in creating power in a cylinder
or cylinders arranged to represent a pillar with a base, and I also propose arranging
the magnets so as to. force fluids by means of rotary motion, or otherwise, &
I propose arranging any of the cylinders or cylinder otherwise to that of a pillar.