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AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MOISTENING POSTAGE STAMPS, LABELS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th October 1883. Communicated to
him from abroad by Sachs and Howorka, of Berlin, in the German empire
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR MOISTENING POSTAGE STAMPS, LABELS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES a commu-
nication to me from abroad by Sachs and Howorka, of Berlin, in the German
Empire,
"
This invention relates to an apparatus for moistening postage stamps labels and
similar articles.
The apparatus chiefly comprises a metal casing of any suitable size having a
perforated cover held by the turned down edges of the longitudinal sides of the
casing.
In the centre of the casing is situated a bridge one end of which is tapered at
the under aide so as to permit two small sponges placed along side between the
sides of the casing and the bridge, to extend into the space under the bridge so as
to be capable of absorbing the water contained therein.
On the bridge is placed a third sponge fed with water from the two sponges
between the bridge and the casing, and which is of such a size as to press against
the perforated cover.
The short sides of the casing are lower than the long sides so as to permit the
cover held by the long sides only, to be depressed down against the sponge when
the article to be moistened is passed over the same.
The bridge is provided with suitable means for pouring in the water.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR IMPRESSING BISCUITS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES OF FOOD, WHEREBY THE SAME IN ADDITION TO THEIR ORDINARY USAGE, ARE RENDERED USEFUL FOR THE PURPOSES OF ADVERTISING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Bailey at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 4th April 1883.
JAMES BAILEY, of Bolton in the County of Lancaster, Biscuit Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR IMPRESSING BISCUITS, AND OTHER LIKE
ARTICLES OF FOOD, WHEREBY THE SAME IN ADDITION TO THEIR ORDINARY USAGE,
ARE RENDERED USEFUL FOR THE PURPOSES OF ADVERTISING
"
These improvements relate to the manufacturing of Biscuits, and other like
articles of food, and consists in printing or impressing letters, figures, devices,
inscriptions or designs, as is desired upon the surface, by the means of inter-
changable metallic plates or other equivalents; the same being a useful medium
for advertising.
Under the present system of making Biscuits, it is usual for the maker to
impress his own name upon them by means of permanent dies fixed to the cutting
apparatus; by my improvements it is so constructed that any kind of die or
metallic plate or other equivalents can be fixed, so as to impress the advertisement,
inscription, device or other designs, either before the Biscuits are cut, while they
are being cut, or after they have been cut; and consists in the event of the Biscuits
being cut before or after, in placing on the rotating or vertical sliding cutter cross-
head, brackets on which is placed a suitable fixing or otherwise, for the purpose of
receiving one or more of the stems or spindles for carrying the metallic plate or
plates or other equivalents, which are provided with adjustable screws to admit
of adjustment, either laterally or vertically according to the stroke of the cutter-
crosshead. In the event of the Biscuits being stamped or impressed at the time of
cutting, the said stems and metallic plates or other equivalents are fixed inside the
said cutters, and are equally changable or adjustable.
The bottom end of the stem or stems for carrying the impression plates, are made
of suitable lengths to carry one or more plates as desired.
The letters, figures, devices, inscriptions or designs can be impressed in raised or
sunk type; and made with any convenient border as desired.
The engraved or otherwise interchangable metallic impression plates, are so
constructed and connected too the upper plate carrying it, that it may be readily.

page_text: removed from the said stem or spindle, when it is required to be replaced by
another having a different inscription, device or design upon it.
The advantages secured by these improvements aro, that of being able to chango
the name plates or devices, without interfering with the machine, at the same time
allowing the number of Biscuits being cut, to be impressed differently at one and
the same time; thus producing a novel way of advertising the Seller or Grocer's
Name, or any other article such as Tea or other Groceries, instead of the name of
the maker of the biscuit as heretofore.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MOTORS APPLICABLE ALSO AS PUMPS AND THE LIKE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd August 1883. A communication
from Pierre Emanuel Gauderique Jacomy of Tarbes, in the Republic of
France
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOTORS APPLICABLE ALSO AS PUMPS AND THE
LIKE," [a communication from Pierre Emanuel Gauderique Jacomy of Tarbes, in
the Republic of France]
This invention relates to a special construction applicable to motors, pumps and
similar machines, especially for high speeds.
The machine consists of two parts each forming a distinct engine, which parts
are symmetrically placed and act on the crankshaft, the crankpins of which are
diametrically opposite to one another. The operation of these engines resembles
that of the so called "Root" engines from which however they differ in so much
that the steam is supplied in a different manner and that a double crank shaft is
used instead of a solid excentric.
With each crankpin a piston is connected by suitable bearings which may be
made in two pieces and screwed together, suitable stops prevent the pistons
following the rotation of the crankpins, but they follow the movement of the latter
by moving up and down in suitable movable frames having borizontal motion in
cages formed by the partition separating the spaces wherein the two pistons move,
and by suitable castings.
The whole is supported by
Each cage comprises a platform secured by screws.
an outer casing which may be made in two parts. The top part may be provided
with the valve for starting and stopping, the bottom part forms a part of, or is
secured to the bed or base of the motor and accomodates the supply and exhaust
pipes. The portions or sections of the outer casing are bolted together. The
whole motor is so arranged that none of its essential parts appear on the outside.
Suitable lubricating devices are provided.
The platform hereinabove referred to has suitable orifices for the passage of
steam through which the same passes to an annular space in the outer part of the

page_text: machine, which through a suitable valve and ports carries it to one or the other
face of each piston as required, whilst the steam is exhausted from the other face.
The steam distributing devices are connected with the main shaft and springs
serve to compensate for wear. The valve gear is controlled by levers.
The construction above described is that for a steam-engine, but the same is 5
applicable with slight modifications to motors operated by air, gas water or other
fluid or to pumps and the like as will be readily understood
IMPROVE- MENTS IN PACKING PISTON RODS AND OTHER RODS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Nelson Foley at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 5th September 1883.
NELSON FOLEY Manager of The Engineering Department of Mess" Oswald
Mordaunt & Co Ship building and Engineering Works, Southampton "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PACKING PISTON RODS AND OTHER RODS
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in packing piston rods and other
rods.
For packing piston rods and other rods I employ a divided ring which is
compressed around the rod by another ring abutting upon it endwise. The surfaces
of the rings where they come into contact are inclined so that the tendency of the
pressure is to reduce the diameter of the divided ring and close the gap or division
which is formed in it in order to admit of its being thus compressed. The two
rings are held between surfaces which are pressed together by coiled springs and
the rings are capable of movement between these surfaces to accomodate themselves
to any uneven working of the rod. The opening in the divided ring is made good
with a tongue as in piston rings; or a recess is formed in the inain ring into which
a smaller divided ring is fitted and this has the gap in a different position.
This packing can be adapted to glands now in use, the rings being applied to the
face of the neck bush underneath the gland or on the outside of the gland. The
packing will be found inexpensive and durable; it will be steam tight whilst the
friction upon the rod is small; it is not liable to seize or wear the rod, and is easily
accessible.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FLATTENING, CRUSHING OR REDUCING BEANS, PEAS, MAIZE, RICE OR OTHER GRAIN, CEREALS, OR SEEDS, FOR OBTAINING IMPROVED PRODUCTS THEREFROM
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Addey Fawcett at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th October 1883.
JOSEPH ADDEY FAWCETT of Wakefield in the county of York Corn Miller
and Maltster "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FLATTENING, CRUSHING OR
REDUCING BEANS, PEAS, MAIZE, RICE OR OTHER GRAIN, CEREALS, OR SEEDS,
FOR OBTAINING IMPROVED PRODUCTS THEREFROM."
This invention has reference to that class of machinery in which vibrating
crushing jaws are employed and my improvements therein consist in the
employment of spiral or other form of springs cushions or buffers which may be
made of metal or other suitable material placed cither in connection with the
vibrating or working parts of the crusher or in a groove or slot in connection with
the stationary jaw whereby the parts which are now rigid are made elastic and
will give way or yield to any irregularities of feed or size of the cereals or seeds or
other foreign substances mingled therewith which are passing between the crushing
surfaces. By this means the machine works much sweeter and with less stiffness
thus avoiding heating of the journals or bearings and liability to become choked
than it does without the springs cushions or buffers.
My improvements also consist in combining two or more of such machines together
(by preference) placed one above the other and each of such machines may be
connected together by a sieve or sieves so that any cereals or seeds introduced into
the upper machino will pass through the jaws and thence between the jaws of the
second machine and from the second into the third the sieves between the several
machines assisting in the removal of fine floury mealy semolina and gritty portions
which may be produced by the crushing or flattening of the cereals or sceds.
I may also employ (when necessary) in combination with one or more of theso
machines one or more pairs of rollers Millstones or other reducing surfaces for
further flattening squeezing or reducing.
Beans, Peas, Maize or other like cereals or seeds crushed or flattened by this
Machine are not disintegrated nor split up, but are squeezed in such manner that
they contain all the germ, Bran or Husk and farinaceous parts except the fine
mealy, floury, semolina or Gritty portions herein referred to which may or may not be
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page_text: separated by seiving or otherwise and are therefore much better for some purposes,
especially in this the case in regard to Beans Peas Maize and the larger sized
cereals prepared for horses and cattle food.
When required this Machine may be adjusted and adapted for working upon the
component parts or grain or seeds and for the production of semolina, hominy, or
grits and in the easy separation by sieves or other operations therefrom of the bran
husk germ and germ sac parts from the Endosperm or faranaceous parts of the
grain cereal or seed,
IMPROVEMENTS IN VALVES AND TAPS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Henry Bateman at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th January 1883.
ARTHUR HENRY BATEMAN, of East Greenwich in the County of Kent.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN VALVES AND TAPS"
The invention relates to that class of valves and taps in which a conical, a disc,
or other spindle valve is adapted to close or open at pleasure a passage through a
diaphragm or partition in the body or case of the valvo or tap. In valves and taps
of this kind the spindle for actuating the conical, the disc, or other valve is usually
passed through a stuffing box containing packing in order to make a steam, gas or
liquid tight joint round such spindle, or in some cases a flexible diaphragm is
employed. This packing or the flexible diaphragm requires to be renewed
occasionally, and the seat and valve face sometimes requiro regrinding or refitting,
but in valves and taps of the ordinary construction these operations cannot be
performed while the pressure is still on the receiving side thereof. The chief object
of the present invention is to provide means for enabling the packing to be renewed,
or the valves and seats to be reground or refitted, notwithstanding the presence of
the pressure on the receiving side of the valves or taps. For this purpose I adapt
to the opening in the diaphragm or partition in the body or case of the valve or
tap, and at the side thereof opposite to that to which the usual conical or other
valve is applied, a second or supplementary conical, disc or other suitable spindle
valve, in such manner that the said second valve can be applied when required to
cover the opening in the diaphragm, so that when it is required to renew the
packing of the main valvo spindle, or to regrind or refit the said valve, it is only
necessary to apply the second or supplementary valve to close the opposite side of
the opening in the diaphragm, whereby the pressure is cut off froin the working
valve, and the fresh packing can then be applied; after which the supplementary
valve can be withdrawn from the opening in the diaphragm, and the valve or tap
can be again used in the ordinary way. The spindle of the second or supple-
mentary valve may pass through a stuffing box, or be provided with a flexible
diaphragm, in order to prevent leakage, in the same way as that of the main valve;
or the back of the second or supplementary valve may be adapted to fit on to a
valve seat in the body or case, for the same purpose, when it is drawn back from
the diaphragm.

page_text: This arrangement of supplementary valve closing against the opening in the
diaphragm at the side thereof opposite to that against which the main valve closes,
is also applicable as a means of producing a lock-up valve or tap, and for this
purpose the spindle of the supplementary valve may be adapted to receive a key of
peculiar form by which alone it can be opened or closed.
It is obvious that the main and supplementary valves can be so arranged that
either can be used as the working valve, each being provided with a hand wheel,
lever, key, or other suitable device for operating it.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CALENDARS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Carrington Sellars at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th March 1883.
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JOHN CARRINGTON SELLARS of Birkenhead in the County of Chester,
Manufacturing Chemist, IMPROVEMENTS IN CALENDARS
"
The invention relates to so called perpetual calendars or calendars which may be
altered so as to indicate at any time the day of the week and month.
The main objects are to cheapen the manufacture of such calendars and to so
construct them that they may be used as paper weights, boxes, inkstands, and for
other useful purposes
First. A calendar under my invention consists essentially of a stem or pillar
acting as a date carrier, a projection or foot for showing the month and a base or
stand for indicating the day of the week made solid or hollow of artificial stone,
concrete, metal, wood, papier maché, or other suitable substance. The stem or
pillar is cylindrical or prismatic and has the days of the months embossed, painted,
stamped, or otherwise attached thereto, or is provided with an envelope marked
with the said days of the month. The projection or foot carries a series of rings or
cards marked or otherwise made to show the month and the base or stand has the
days of the week displayed thereon in any suitable manner either permanently or
by means of a fixed or movable envelope. The rings or cards or equivalent for
indicating the month are twelve in number, interchangeable and fit loosely on the
projection or foot. The days of the month and of the week may be as above stated
permanently attached to the stem or pillar and to the base or stand in which case
the stem or pillar and the base or stand must be capable of having independent
motion imparted to them around their vertical axes. When the two pieces above
mentioned are permanently attached to each other the days of the month or of the
week or both must be on a movable envelope.
Second. In combination with calendars constructed as above described I employ
a movable or adjustable cap or indicator to fit on or about the stem or pillar and
indicate or point out the date for each day.
Third. I construct a perpetual calendar with a stem and base substantially as
above set forth and combine with the said stem three movable indicators one for
the date, one for the day, and one for the month. Two only of the indicators may
be movable.

page_text: Fourth. I construct calendars under my invention either solid to serve as paper
weights, hollow to serve as boxes, or with an ink pot, match tray or other receptacle
at the top of the pillar or stem or I extend the base or stand to form a writing
tablet or I combine any of these constructions above mentioned in the same
calendar.
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AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BLOCKS OR BRICKS TO BE USED AS FITEL AND INGREDIENTS FOR TAX PURPOSE PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leonard Blackburn of 48 Clifton Road, Peckham in the
County of Surrey and John Garrett Elliott of 66 Fore Street in the City of
London for an Invention of AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BLOCKS OR
BRICKS TO BE USED AS FITEL AND INGREDIENTS FOR TAX PURPOSE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leonard Blackburn and
John Garrett Elliott at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
10th March 1883.
LEONARD BLACKBURN of 48 Clifton Road Peckham, in the County of Surrey,
and JOHN GARRETT ELLIOTT of 66 Fore Street in the City of London "AN
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BLOCKS OR BRICKS TO BE USED AS FUEL, AND
INGREDIENTS FOR THE PURPOSE
"
The object of this Invention is to employ animal shale in combination with coal,
preferably anthracite, in powder or small pieces compounded with oil, Chloride of
Sodium, lime, chalk, common soda, acetic acid, tar, and an adhesive body to give
cohesion.
The ingredients are mixed in suitable proportions and moulded into block or
brick form by pressure and then used as fuel.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Leonard Blackburn and John Garrett Elliott in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 10th September 1883.
LEONARD BLACKBURN of 48 Clifton Road Peckham in the county of Surrey and
JOHN GARRETT ELLIOTT of 66 Fore Street in the city of London AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF BLOCKS OR BRICKS TO BE USED AS FUEL AND INGREDIENTS
FOR THE PURPOSE
The object of this invention is to employ animal shale in combination with coal
(preferably anthracite) in powder or small pieces compounded with oil, chloride of
sodium, lime, chalk, common soda, acetic acid, tar, and an adhesive body to give
cohesion. The ingredients are mixed in suitable proportions and moulded into
block or brick form by pressure and then used as fuel.
As an example of our invention we mix
6 lbs
86
2
1
رز
"
"
1/7
Animal shale
Coal (In powder
Oil (Refuse or Crude)
Chloride of Sodium
Lime
Chalk
1½" Common Soda
1/2 "
"
Acetic Acid
Tar
2 Acid pitch as a glutinous or adhesive body
"
100 lbs.
We do not confine ourselves to the exact proportions of the several ingredients
above given nor to any method of compounding them to make blocks, briques, or
slabs suitable for use as fuel as in some cases, say, where the coal is more rich in
LEONARD, BLACKBURN (L.S.)
J. GARRETT ELLIOTT
(L.S.)
AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR COLOR-PRINTING ON PORCELAIN AND OTHER EARTHENWARE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Beyermann and August Kürth
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th September 1883.
ROBERT BEYERMANN, of Gross-Breitenbach and AuGUST KÜRTH of Leipzig,
Germany, "AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR COLOR-PRINTING ON PORCELAIN AND
OTHER EARTHENWARE,"
Coloured designs and patterns on porcelain and earthenware are generally
manufactured by the application of designs on paper and in this way also hand
painted china is imitated. But it is known that designs so produced lose all
sharpness of outline and gradation by the different rate of shrinking of the various
mineral colours in the process of burning so that such designs appear as washed out
faint shades. We have found that painting on china can be replaced by treating
the objects to be adorned in the saine way as in chromo-lithography and by
burning in separately the different mineral colours.
Our invention consists essentially in making of the design to be printed, ns
many impressions as there are colours in it, by the lithographic or typographic
press, and from each impression printing one colour only. If fresh from the press
the impressions are transferred one after the other, in a succession corresponding
to the shades on the china, by means of a brush, but in such manner that every
colour as put on is burned in separately; but two or more homogeneous colours
can be printed one after the other and burned in together providing they possess
equal shrinkage capacity and the harmony of the colours requires it.
In this manner coloured designs can be produced on china and earthenware in
any size and in an unlimited composition of colour.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN RAMS AND VALVE SEATINGS FOR POTTER'S SLIP PUMPS AND THE LIKE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Teggin at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st March 1883.
JAMES TEGGIN of Longton in the County of Stafford Machinist. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN RAMS AND VALVE SEATINGS FOR POTTER'S SLIP PUMPS AND THE
LIKE.
This invention relates to Improvements in rams and valve seatings for potters
slip pumps and the like. It consists in the first place in the use of glass in the
construction of the rain, plunger or piston of a pump, I make such glass ran,
plunger or piston hollow at the centre and insert therein a spindle of any suitable
material such as iron or other inetal. The spindle has at one end a jaw or eye
which serves to connect the ram or plunger with the connecting rod by means of
which the pump is worked
According to another part of this invention I use glass for the valve seatings of
a pump. The valve seating is in the form of a ring of glass fixed in its place say
at the bottom of the pump barrel or clack piece, by means of an India rubber ring
or by cement. Pumps embodying this invention may conveniently and advan-
tageously be used in pumping slip in potteries, in pumping acids, and for other
purposes.
Thus slip for instance will not cut the glass as readily as it will cut a metal face.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOBES FOR GAS BURNERS LAMPS, OR OTHER ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Edward Edwards at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th March 1883.
ALFRED EDWARD EDWARDS, of Walworth Road, in the County of Surrey.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOBES FOR GAS BURNERS LAMPS, OR OTHER ARTIFICIAL
LIGHTS"
The object of this Invention is to so construct glass globes used to surround gas
burners, lamps, or other sources of artificial light, that the globes themselves, shall
form reflectors to concentrate and throw the rays of light in any desired direction.
It consists essentially in silvering the surface of the globe at such part as will
determine the concentration of the rays of light from the burner, and their direction
on the object or in the path desired.
In the case where it is desired to throw the light in two or more directions, each
portion of the globe behind the burner in each line of direction in which it is
intended to throw the light, will be silvered so that its inner surface will form
reflectors to effect the concentration of the rays of light and their distribution only
in the directions desired.
In some cases the reflecting or silvered surface or surfaces of the globe may
consist of two straight or curved sides joining each other at a suitable angle,
according to the requirements of the concentration and direction of the rays of
light it is desired to effect.
Further, instead of forming the globe in one piece, the same may, if found more
convenient, be made in sections suitably mounted in a frame, or connected together
so as to form a globe surrounding the burner, and the surface of which will be
silvered at certain parts and form a reflector or reflectors distributing the light
from the burner in any desired direction.
The silvering of the desired portions of the globe may be effected in any suitable
manner, but will preferably be accomplished by any of the processes now employed
for silvering glass. If, however, found more convenient, a thin sheet of any desired
metal which will form an efficient reflecting surface may be secured to the glass by
any suitable means.
Where it is found necessary to employ two or more burners, the rays of light

page_text: from each of which it is required to throw in a different direction, the space enclosed
by the globe may be divided by partitions, so as to form a number of compartments
each containing a burner, the surfaces of the partitions behind the whole of the
burners forming the reflectors, so that the whole will in fact form a number of
distinct reflecting globes as above described, connected together and forming one 5
object.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR HOLDING AND ADJUSTING ROLLER-BLIND CORDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Cameron William Harrison Brock
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th June 1883.
CAMERON WILLIAM HARRISON BROCK of Bishops Waltham in the County of
Hants. IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR HOLDING AND ADJUSTING ROLLER-BLIND
CORDS
The Invention has for its object improvements in means for holding and
adjusting roller-blind cords.
For this purpose I employ a rod or bar of round or other suitable section
provided with flattened cranked ends drilled to receive screws for securing the rod
or bar to the window frame.
Upon this rod or bar I place with capability of sliding freely thereon a disc
provided with a cranked off-set at one side upon which I mount a pulley to receive
the cord and I employ a guard in connection therewith to prevent the cord
running off such pulley. The back of the disc I form flat when employing a rod
or bar of round section to prevent it and the pulley turning sideways.
The action of the apparatus is as follows; upon the disc being slidden down the
rod or bar and then released the strain or tension of the cord will give a cant to
such disc and cause the opposite upper and lower edges of the holo therein to nip
the bar or rod and thus securely retain the pulley in position
MENTS IN VELOCIPEDES OF THE BICYCLE TYPE, THAT IS WITH DRIVING WHEEL BETWEEN THE CRANKS, AND IN WHEELS APPLICABLE TO SUCH VELOCIPEDES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Samuel Joseph Tucker at the Office
"IMPROVE-
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st September 1883.
SAMUEL JOSEPH TUCKER of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
MENTS IN VELOCIPEDES OF THE BICYCLE TYPE, THAT IS WITH DRIVING WHEEL
BETWEEN THE CRANKS, AND IN WHEELS APPLICABLE TO SUCH VELOCIPEDES
"
These improvements are designed so as to make a safety bicycle, one which shall
be proof against the present danger of the rider taking a "header" over the
handle, whenever his front wheel meets a comparatively small obstruction, and
one which will stand still and have more stability than the ordinary kind, so
that one can drive it straight at a very slow speed with comparatively little
balancing skill.
In place of the ordinary wheel with a single tyre, I form a wheel with two tyres
or two wheels joining at the same hub. These two tyres are preferably two to
four inches from centre to centre and can have each a pair of tension spokes or a
single pair for the two. The metallic rim or rims upon which the india.-rubber
tyre is stretched can be in the form of two channels connected at intervals by
straight or arched struts, brazed or otherwise fastened to the said channels, or can
he two entirely independent rims, each held by its own spokes, or the spokes can
pass through both channels and have a stay tube threaded into each of them
between the two rims to stay them apart. The spokes, if on the tension principle,
run down to the hub either crossing each other or spreading out wider below to
their respective fastening points on the hub. The fork comes down on opposite
sides of the wheel in the usual manner, but instead of a crank, I place a wheel and
chain or equivalent carrier of motion to a similar wheel or its equivalent on au
axle having a crank and pedal running in a bearing behind supported in a
triangular or other bracket attached to the fork. The fork rakes back and the
saddle is placed lower down or further back on the back bone than usual.
rider is thus so far back as to require a tremendous shock to bring him over the
wheel with a "header" and there being two tyres in place of one, the stability is
vastly increased
The
IMPROVEMENTS IN TIP WAGONS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th March 1883. A
communication from A. Taeschner of Berlin German Empire
GERARD WENZESLAUS VON NAWROCKI, Proprietor of the firm of J. Brandt &
G. W. v Nawrocki, Patent Solicitor and Civil Engineer of 124 Leipzigerstrasse
Berlin Germany "IMPROVEMENTS IN TIP WAGONS (A Communication from
A. Taeschner of Berlin, German Empire)
"
This invention relates to improved arrangements of tip wagons whereby it is
possible to make all the advantages of tipping or tilting arrangements heretofore
used available, without the usual disadvantages or inconveniences.
In the tip wagons heretofore known the trough or wagon is tilted or tipped either
by allowing the same to swing on trunnions provided at its heads and resting in
bearings, or by allowing the trough or wagon to have a rolling motion on its
rounded bottom part, or by suitably reducing this large rolling motion and
transferring it to bearing plates of suitably curved form mounted on the head ends
of the trough or wagon and resting on correspondingly curved carriers. All these
arrangements as hitherto employed have the great drawback that the troughs,
when the tipping motion has been completed, still move to and fro like a pendulum
and therefore have to be provided with suitable stopping devices.
This difficulty is entirely obviated with the present invention, without in any
way increasing the difficulties of operating the wagon.
The standards are mounted on the lower framing of the wagon and carry at
their upper part a saddle shaped piece which towards both ends is segment shaped
and toothed whilst at the centre it is straight and forms a rectilinear surface; at
its extreme end between the last tooth and a suitably raised extension piece a
semi-circular socket is formed, which serves to support the trough when in its
extreme position. Upon the saddle piece a bearing surface is provided fixed on the
head end of the trough; it is formed analogous to or corresponding with the saddle
piece, only it is provided at its end with round projections which enter the said
sockets, when the trough reaches its extreme position in tilting or tipping.
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The trough, when in its central position is protected against the pendulous
motion above indicated, by the two straight surfaces of the saddle piece and
bearing surface centrally; likewise a rolling motion takes place on the teeth till the
projections enter the sockets and the tipping motion is completed..

page_text: The bearing surface may be fixed on the head end of the trough by another
piece, this may however be dispensed with if the bearing surface itself is made of
such form as will ensure its safety.
In tip wagons constructed according to this invention the momentum of motion
is exceedingly favorable as the centre of gravity of the trough deviates but slightly
from the axial line of the wagon and consequently not only admits of easy
manipulation but also affords sufficient.security against the wagon being altogether
upset.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UNFERMENTED DRINKS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Perrins at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 20th November 1883.
EDWARD PERRINS of Balsall Heath Birmingham in the County of Worcester.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF UNFERMENTED DRINKS
"2
My invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of unfermented
drinks from malt and hops in such a manner that fermentation shall not take place
and yet the liquid shall remain good and without apparent deterioration for a
considerable length of time.
Beer made from malt and hops which would not intoxicate has been a long felt
want and many attempts may have been made to produce such free from alcohol
but without perfect success. Now by my new compound and process I am able to
make a liquid which is free from any trace of alcohol as shown by analysis-I will
now explain how I make my unintoxicating malt and hop beer:-I will explain
the quantities used in making twenty eight gallons of beer: In making this
quantity I take one bushel of malt and mash it twice over in the ordinary manner.
I next use Twenty pounds of sugar also in the ordinary way of brewing. Next
the mash is run off into a copper and boiled together with three pounds of hops
for one hour and ten minutes. After boiling it is put into a cooler and then
run into a large open vessel. When cold I add to it three ounces of salicylic acid for
the purpose of destroying any germ of fermentation contained in the wort, and it
is then fined.
The next thing is the bottling which is as follows: I use seven ounces of the
liquid as produced by the hereinbefore mentioned quantities and process and seven
ounces of carbonic acid gas charged in the ordinary manner as aerated water.
The above given quantities may be somewhat varied according to the taste of
the consumers for instance a less quantity of sugar and a larger quantity of hops
may be used which would produce a beverage more in taste like bitter beer. The
above given quantities are those suitable for producing a generally palatable and
popular drink. But in all cases the salicylic acid must be used as set forth in
combination with the bottling with the carbonic acid gas.
In making an aromatic beer I use about one pound of ginger or thereabouts to
the above given quantities.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR IN CONNECTION WITH FIRE-ARMS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Griffith Brewer at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th November 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Edmond Sèches of Paris France
"
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex
(A communication to
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OR IN CONNECTION WITH FIRE-ARMS
me from abroad by Edmond Sèches of Paris France)
Great rapidity of fire cannot be obtained except to the detriment of the accuracy
of the aim at long distances or ranges; as the fact is in this case that to be able to
take aim with the extreme bridge or sight piece the shooter or marksman does not
shoulder; the stock is placed below the shoulder and consequently is not placed in
the habitual position on the shoulder and from this great irregularity in the result
of the practice takes place.
To obviate this inconvenience according to this invention the butt end plate of
the stock is made double and is composed of two halves one of which is secured to
the butt end of the stock while the other which is connected to it by a hinge when
opened into the vertical position above becomes a prolongation of the other. There
is thus nothing to change from the ordinary mode of shooting at the average
distances but when the shooting is long distance the marksman unfolds the plate
and the stock being placed below the shoulder it is the second jointed plate which
will take the habitual place on the shoulder and which gives to the marksman the
same facility as when firing at a short distance. By this means there is not any
vacillation of the fire-arm to be feared since the point of abutment is the same as
that to which the marksman is accustomed.
The bedplate of the arm thus improved is composed of a fixed plate which is
screwed in the usual way on the butt end of the stock and of a movable extension
piece which is jointed to the first part by a hinge of any suitable construction.
The movable part when the marksman fires at a long range that is to say by
employing the extreme bridge or sight piece, is extended. It is then against this
prolongation that the marksman shoulders absolutely as if he shouldered directly
against the ordinary butt plate for shooting at an average distance.
It will be understood that the invention is not limited to the arrangements of
the detail of the prolongation bedplate before described, also it is immaterial what

page_text: mode of displacement for the prolongation piece is used, it may be jointed on a
hinge with or without a spring as before stated or fitted so as to slide into the
butt end or pivotted in any other direction or about a hinge arranged in any other
suitablo position on the stock of the fire-arm.
The forms, materials and dimensions may be varied as well as the arrangement 5
of the details of this bed prolongation plate according to the different constructions
of fire-arms to which it may be applied.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CASTING STEEL INGOTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Henry Poole at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th November 1883.
JOHN HENRY POOLE, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CASTING STEEL INGOTS."
This Invention has for its object the production of steel ingots having a core or
an inner layer of comparatively soft and ductile steel, and an external coating or
layer of a harder variety of steel, so that such ingots when rolled, hammered,
or forged, may be particularly adapted for forming armour plates possessing
ductility and strength in a high degree combined with an extremely hard and
impenetrable surface, or for forming railway axles, shafting, rails, and similar
articles which are commonly rolled from homogeneous iron or steel and chilled, or
imperfectly formed by rolling and welding together two or more thicknesses of
metal of different qualities.
.
This object I attain y filling a mould of somewhat smaller size than usual, in
cross section, with molten steel of a soft quality, and allowing it to set or solidify,
then placing the ingot thus formed, into a larger mould, and while the ingot is in
a bighly heated state pouring in a sufficient quantity of molten steel of a harder
quality to fill the empty space which is left between the smaller ingot and the
containing walls of the larger mould. The harder molten steel unites with the
softer steel of the smaller ingot, and forms a composite ingot of which the softer
steel forms either the core or a layer or thickness, according as the smaller ingot is
placed in the centre or at one side of the larger mould into which the harder steel
is poured. In forming composite ingots to be rolled into armour plates or into rails
for example, the harder quality of steel is made to form one side of the ingot, and
the softer quality the other, and it is immaterial whether the softer or harder
variety of steel be first cast, but in casting composite ingots for forming shafting,
axles or similar articles in which it is desirable that a hard surface should surround
a softer and more ductile core, it is preferred to cast first the softer core of the
composite ingot and afterwards pour in the harder molten steel into the mould.
The portion of the composite ingot which is first cast, may be allowed to soak
in the ordinary soaking pits before being placed within the mould in which the
second portion is united to it.
The composite ingots after setting may either be soaked and rolled at once, or be
reheated and rolled, hammered or forged into the desired shape.
IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMP BURNERS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Conrad Gustaf Klingberg of Cow Cross Street in
the City of London, Merchant for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMP
BURNERS" communicated to him from abroad by Mr. A. F. Lundeberg of
Stockholm in the Kingdom of Sweden
(Void by reason of the Patentee having neglected to file a Specification
in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Conrad Gustaf
Klingberg at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th June
1883.
PETER CONRAD GUSTAF KLINGBERG of Cow Cross Street in the City of London
Merchant "IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMP BURNERS." [communicated to him from
abroad by Mr. A. F. Lundeberg of Stockholm in the Kingdom of Sweden]
The object of this invention is to produce a lamp burner for oil lamps in which
the illuminating power is considerably greater in proportion to the quantity of oil
consumed than in any other burner heretofore in use.
In carrying out this invention any number of wicks from three upwards may be
employed.
The wick tubes which are intended to contain a smaller wick than usual are
arranged radially of the burner at equal distances apart and so as to leave a central
space. By thus arranging the wicks at acute angles one to the other the light
from both sides of the flames will be thrown outwards, the flames will mutually
assist each other and an intensely white light will thereby be obtained.
The cap or dome is formed with a central opening having radial openings
corresponding in position and number to the wick tubes."
At the base of the dome large horizontal air slits are made and the lower part of
the burner is perforated in the usual way to admit air.
By reason of the wick openings converging in the central opening, and the
horizontal slits at the base of the dome being larger than usual, a strong current of
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page_text: air is drawn in, which serves to keep the lower part of the burner comparatively
cool and the risk of explosion is avoided.
The raising and lowering of the wicks is effected by the usual notched wheels
which will all be actuated at the same time. One method of effecting this result
is as follows. On the outer end of each of the axles of these wheels is mounted a
pinion which gears with a horizontal toothed ring surrounding the burner. This
ring is actuated by turning a pinion on the end of the stem of a button.
means may however be readily devised for effecting this object.
Other
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLEANING LEAD AND OTHER METALLIC ORES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Archer junior at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th April 1883.
THOMAS ARCHER junior, of Dunston Engine Works, Dunston, in the County of
Durham, Engineer.-IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLEANING LEAD AND
OTHER METALLIC ORES.
I construct a tube or pipe of suitable diameter and length which I place in a
nearly horizontal but slightly inclined position and which I arrange so as that it
can be rocked or revolved.-I introduce a hopper spout at the high end of this
tube with any convenient arrangement for passing into the tube a regulated
quantity of the crushed ore intended to be separated and at the other end I
introduce a blast of air.-The revolution of the tube is so regulated as to cause a
continually new surface of its contained ore to be subjected to the blast of air, the
slight inclination of the tube is adjusted so as notwithstanding the blast of air, to
cause the gradual descent of the heavier portions of the ore to the lower end into
a receptacle provided for them, and the force of the blast of air is so regulated as
that acting upon the lighter particles of the crushed material it causes them to
pass out at the high end of the tube where suitable arrangements are provided for
receiving them.
A NEW OR IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF RIMS FOR THE WHEELS OF VELOCIPEDES AND OTHER LIGHT VEHICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arnold Beaumont Woakes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th October 1888.
ARNOLD BEAUMONT WOAKES of No: 57 Harley Street, Cavendish Square, in the
county of Middlesex, "A NEW OR IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF RIMS FOR THE
WHEELS OF VELOCIPEDES AND OTHER LIGHT VEHICLES
My invention relates to a construction of the rims of light suspension wheels,
such as are employed for Bicycles, Tricycles, and Velocipedes generally, and also for
other light vehicles. The object which I have in view is to produce, at moderate
cost, a rim, which, with a given weight of material, has great strength to resist
bending or buckling, both radially and laterally. For this purpose, I bend a strap
of thin metal, such as iron or steel plate, in such a form as to have in its middle
the nearly semicircular channel to receive the elastic tyre, and to have two sides
projecting inwards towards the centre of the wheel, these sides being slightly
inclined to the plane of the wheel. The inner edges of these sides are formed with
lips turned inwards towards each other. A second strap of thin metal is bent round
and fitted to these two lips, so as to form the inner periphery of the hollow rim,
through which there are holes to receive the spokes, which have their heads inside
the hollow of the rim. For the purpose of putting in the spokes, I make through
the semicircular outer channel holes large enough to allow the heads of the spokes
to pass through them, these holes being afterwards covered by the elastic tyre
Instead of employing a second metal strap to form the inner periphery of the hollow
rim, either or both of the sloping sides of the rim may have their inner lips made
of such breadth as to overlap each other. Or otherwise, the strap which forms the
inner periphery may have their lips bent outwards and attached to the sloping
sides, which, in that case, are made without lips.