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IMPROVEMENTS" IN CENTRE-BOARDS FOR SAILING VESSELS, YACHTS AND BOATS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Blakely at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 6th March 1883.
WILLIAM BLAKELY of Bournemouth in the County of Hants IMPROVEMENTS"
IN CENTRE-BOARDS FOR SAILING VESSELS, YACHTS AND BOATS
.
This Invention relates to improvements in centre boards or sliding keels for
sailing boats, yachts, and larger vessels, and in the means of working the same.
The centre board or sliding keel is placed amidships in a well which extends
longitudinally and vertically through the keel and is adapted to be lowered as
much as desired to give a deeper draught in order to avoid the dead weight of
ballast and to give the vessel great stability under a large spread of canvas.
The Invention consists in making the centre board or sliding keel work in and
out of its well or casing with a perpendicular or vertical motion, that is to say, to
an equal extent at its two ends at same time by a screw or lever parallèl motion
so that it projects to the same distance throughout its length and is consequently
more efficient than centre boards which are pivoted at the fore end and are of
triangular form or deeper towards the aft end.
According to my Invention the centre iron keel is rectangular in form and.is
fitted to work between friction rollers at the ends mounted in the well or casing
which guide the centre keel in its ascent and descent and ensure the parallelism of
its motion. Other friction rollers or strips of brass or other. metal are provided
on each face to guide the centre board laterally and prevent contact with the sides
of the well so that it slips easily up or down. The well is open at bottom to the
sea and closed watertight at top and the centre keel may be worked up and down
by one or more quick threaded screw shafts provided with hand wheels and
working through screw bosses at the top of the well, and through bosses on the
iron keel which permit the screws to turn round but not to come out, water tight
packings being also provided if desired. These screws may be so hinged or
connected to the centre board as to be capable of being turned down horizontally
out of the way when the centre keel is drawn up, or in the case of larger craft
they may pass up in tubular casings to the main deck.
By means of my Invention the centre board may be worked with ease and of
any size or weight and can be made in one or more keels for large craft, and may
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page_text: be of any shape desired which is a very great advantage. In any case it should
be of such depth that when lowered to its full extent, there shall be a sufficient
portion of it remaining inside the well to enable it to withstand the outside
pressure or resistance exercised or opposed by the water acting on the keel part
which projects below the vessels bottom.
The centre board when in shoal waters or passing over bars can be instantly
drawn up by one or more screws or by a lever with a perfect vertical motion of the
centre board iron keel. The edges of the keel. are rounded off to any desired
extent to prevent it or them being fouled by weeds, &c.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COMPOUNDS OF ALUMINA
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Lesslie Gregson Bell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th July 1883.
THOMAS LESSLIE GREGSON BELL, of Abbey Mills, Stratford, in the County of
Essex, Chemist, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COMPOUNDS OF
ALUMINA."
My invention relates to the direct utilization of the minerals known as Carnalite
and Kainit in the manufacture of Potash alum.
It is designed to employ these minerals direct, containing as they do a low
percentage of potash, in place of extracting the potash therefrom.
My invention is carried out as follows:-
To a quantity of Alumina (preferably in the form of Bauxite or furnaced Chino
clay) I add the necessary quantity of Sulphuric Acid to combine with it. This
operation I conduct in a vat fitted with an agitator and a steam pipe. As soon as
the Alumina is dissolved in the Sulphuric Acid, I add a sufficiency of the Kainit
or Carnalite in a state of powder or in a hot solution. After settling, the clear
liquor is run off into suitable vessels, when the sulphate of alumina and potash
that is formed crystallize out.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH THE COVERING OF LATHS SPRINGS OR BUSKS SUITABLE FOR CORSETS, DRESSES AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Manning Knight at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th September 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Henri Grellou of Paris France.
HENRY MANNING KNIGHT of Highgate in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH THE COVERING OF LATHS SPRINGS OR
BUSKS SUITABLE FOR CORSETS, DRESSES AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
(A communication to me from abroad by Henri Grellou of Paris France)
"
According to this invention a busk, spring or lath of metal or other suitable
material is covered in a novel manner as hereafter described with any suitable
fabric or material which on one side is folded on the busk or lath or the other side
is also afterwards folded so that it may come on the first fold. Between the
metallic blade and the folds of the material a space or selvage is left according to
circumstances for sewing the spring or busk on to the body of the dress. Then
the whole length of the two sides of the busk spring or lath is sewn up by
machine or otherwise; it may be of any colour or shade and the object is to keep
the strip or band fixed and to prevent it from shifting or moving in the middle of
the material which may also be obtained without the stitching by previously
gumming or glueing the material. Then at the two ends of this busk or lath the
fabric is folded and stitched and one or several holes with or without eyelets are
formed for fixing the spring. The eyelets thereby securely holding the folded back
portion of the material.
This mode of securing busks is also applicable to those covered in other ways.
to that described for example where the steel is secured in a woven tube.
This invention possesses the following advantages.
1°. To form the sheath without the assistance of a tape fabric.
2° To maintain it in position by means of sewing the busk or lath fixed in the
middle of the band.
3º. By the way in which the fabric is folded it affords the sewing great strength
which springs which are gummed between two strips or bands do not possess the
fabric being liable to fray out or unravel when so applied and cannot be kept
secure on the dress.
AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BRICKS, TILES OR SLABS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Caldwell Bloomfield and John
McGurn at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th February
1883.
JOHN CALDWELL BLOOMFIELD of Blen-y-lung County of Fermanagh Ireland
and JOHN MCGURN of Bally-Magharan also in the County of Fermanagh Ireland
AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BRICKS, TILES OR SLABS
Our invention relates to the manufacture of bricks, tiles or slabs in such a manner
as to render them impervious to liquid, so that they can be used for drains, sewers,
watercourses, roofs or other structures that require to be watertight. For this
purpose we prepare a mixture of gas tar with powdered chalk or siliceous matter,
taking care to stir the powder gradually into the tar while it is heated, and to
keep the mixture hot and agitated while it is being applied. We coat an ordinary
brick tile or slab with this mixture, or we apply it to a slab of wood or other
backing and allow it to set thereon, the mixture setting so as to form a solid dark
glaze or enamel which is impervious to moisture.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO RUDDERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th August 1883. A communication
from Orrin D. Levis a citizen of the United States residing at Pittsburg in
the county of Alleghany and state of Pennsylvania.
"
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the county of Middlesex
Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO RUDDERS [a communication
from Orrin D. Levis a citizen of the United States residing at Pittsburg in the
county of Alleghany and state of Pennsylvania]
This invention consists in the application to and combination with a boat rudder
of a broad flange or cleat arranged and projecting horizontally from each side
thereof at or near its bottom so that in a change of the rudder to either side or
direction the water will be concentrated or gathered upon and made to operate
against the vertical blade of the rudder with a greater degree of force than it
would if such flange or cleat were not used, and in this respect it is particularly
advantageous and useful in every class of boats that require turning within narrow
limits, and especially in vessels navigating contracted rivers bayons and similar
places diminished with respect to breadth
The flange may form part of or be attached to the rudder in any convenient
manner; say for instance consist of angle iron or the like bolted to the blade.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC RAILWAYS AND LOCOMOTIVES OR ENGINES USED WITH THE SAME
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sydney Pitt of Sutton in the County of Surrey for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC RAILWAYS AND LOCOMOTIVES OR
ENGINES USED WITH THE SAME" communicated to him from abroad by Leo
Daft of Greenville State of New Jersey United States of America
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Sydney Pitt at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 28th August 1883.
SYDNEY PITT of Sutton in the County of Surrey “IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC
RAILWAYS AND LOCOMOTIVES OR ENGINES USED WITH THE SAME " communicated
to me from abroad by Leo Daft of Greenville State of New Jersey United States
of America
The invention relates to an improved construction of the track and to an
improved means of driving electric locomotive engines at high speeds and is
especially adapted to elevated electric railroads in cities and air lines between
cities but in certain cases may be used for ordinary land lines.
The invention consists in the combination of a dynamo having an armature of
large diameter with a driving wheel of smaller diameter whereby an increased
traction is obtained without the use of gearing or similar contrivances for reducing
the motion of the armature in proportion to the motion of the wheel and it consists
likewise in combining with an armature so constructed a track having a depression
between the rails allowing of the passage of said armature between them This
construction is necessary because the armature being of greater diameter than the
wheels must project below the upper surface of the track.
The invention will be readily understood from the accompanying drawings in
which Figure 1 represents a general elevation of the locomotive engine; Figure 2
a sectional view of the armature and driving wheel; Figure 3 a plan view of the
electric motor and Figure 4 a car adapted to run upon the rails which are likewise
shown in section beneath it. A represents generally the frame of the locomotive upon
which the moving parts are supported. B represents the armature which is made
of larger diameter than the driving wheel C. D represents the usual running
wheels upon which the engine is supported. As shown in Figure 2 the armature

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traverses the space E between the elevated rails F. F. The currents operating
through the motor may be controlled in any well known way. It is obvious that
by this improvement two results are accomplished. In the first place that the
traction power is multiplied upon the driving wheels and in the second place the
centro of gravity of the locomotive is brought much lower than can be true of the
ordinary construction.
What I claim as the invention and desire to secure by Lotters Patent is :-
The combination of the smaller driving wheel O the armature B greater in
diameter than the driving wheel C and the tracks F having an open space between
them allowing of the traverse of said armature substantially as described.
In witness whereof I the said Sydney Pitt have hereunto set my hand and seal
this twentyfirst day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and eighty three.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF SOFTENING WATER AND IN APPARATUS FOR USE THEREIN
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Wyatt at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd September 1883.
WILLIAM WYATT of Ellesmere in the County of Shropshire-Civil Engineer
-IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF SOFTENING WATER AND IN APPARATUS FOR
USE THEREIN
I make use of an apparatus by means of which the water to be acted upon and
the lime water or other reacting liquid are each measured in suitable "chambers,"
One of the "chambers" being made to contain any given quantity of the water to
be acted upon and the other to contain the proper or any given quantity of lime
water or other reacting liquid-Both "chambers" are filled by means of pumps
or by pressure from the mains or by other suitable means and are emptied
simultaneously or nearly so both into the same pipe, vessel or receiver where further
nixing may if necessary be carried on by any known process and the mixture may
then be filtered by any known means or deposition of the carbonates or other
matters may be allowed to take place without filtering, in an open tank or in a
closed vessel under pressure-The "chambers" may or may not have pistons and
may be connected with each other by connecting rods or other contrivances and
may be worked either by the pressure of the water flowing through them or one
of them or by any other suitable motive power
The object of the invention is to insure by absolute or positive measurement the
delivery of the exact quantities required by means of a suitable apparatus capable
of being worked under pressure either separately or combined with the use of a
receiver of sufficient capacity in which the carbonates or other matters may be
deposited under pressure
The action of the said apparatus shall be a positive action that is to say it shall
not (in the matter of its power of measuring quantities) depend in any way upon
the relative capacities of any pipes (proper for the purpose) through which the
liquids may flow in their passage to or from the "chambers" nor upon the velocity
of flow of the liquids through such pipes.
TAPS FOR LIQUIDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Cullabine at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th April 1883.
HENRY CULLABINE of Sheffield in the County of York
TAPS FOR LIQUIDS"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My Invention relates to improvements in the construction of Taps for liquids,
and is especially applicable to ball taps, the object being to construct a more
endurable and reliable tap than those at present in the market, and that can be
readily repaired without the aid of skilled labour.
It consists in the substitution of removeable faces of indiarubber or of other
suitable material, for the usual permanent metal faces of the valve, and in the
general construction of the said parts. In applying my invention to a ball tap
(for example), I make the body by preference in two parts; one part to be attached
to the water supply pipe and the other detachable, or loose part, (which carries the
ball lever and valve), is secured to the fixed part by means of a screw thread. A
plain circular washer of rubber or similar suitable material provided with a central
water way is gripped between the two parts of the tap as before described, and is
thus held firmly in the desired position.
Underneath the said washer, which constitutes the valve face, is a valve, having
a vertical movement, the face of which is a coneshaped piece of rubber or other
suitable material-the valve is actuated directly by the ball and lover.
When the coneshaped valve is forced by the action of the ball lever, against the
periphery of the waterway in the elastic valvo face, the two parts bed closely
together and fill up any little irregularities there may chance to be in the two
surfaces, thus making a perfectly watertight joint, that would otherwise have
proved leaky. The valve is provided with ribbed or grooved sides, which while
guiding the valve in the barrel of the tap, will allow sufficient room for a free flow
of the liquid round it.
In ordinary arrangements such as screw-down taps, I preferably reverse the
positions of the valve face, and the valve; and instead of a cone as before described,
I may use a flat faced valve to close the water way.
IMPROVE. MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF INSTRUMENTS TO BE EMPLOYED AS WORKMEN'S TALLIES AND FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Henry Northcott at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th October 1883.
JOHN HENRY NORTHCOTT, of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF INSTRUMENTS TO BE EMPLOYED AS WORKMEN'S
TALLIES AND FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES,”
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of instruments to be
employed for registering or recording.
A worm wheel is mounted on a suitable spindle or shaft and a worm on a spindle
is arranged to gear into the periphery of the said wheel. On one end of the spindle
or shaft of the said wheel is fixed a hand which is arranged in front of a graduated
disc so that as the said hand is caused to revolve with the spindle or shaft it will
record or register on the disc the movements of the said wheel. On the spindle or
shaft of the said wheel is also a worm which gears into the periphery of a worm
wheel arranged in connection with a spindle and recording hand, in a similar
manner to that hereinbefore described.
The said wheels and spindles may be of any desired diameter and the worms on
the same may be of any required pitch.
The instrument is actuated by the rotation of the spindle gearing into the first
mentioned worm wheel.
IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER-SPINN- MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Friedrich Carl Glaser at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th July 1883. Communicated to
him by the firm N Schlumberger & Co residing at Gebweiler in the German
Empire.
"
FRIEDRICH CARL GLASER of Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of
Germany, Engineer and Patent-Solicitor IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER-SPINN-
MACHINES" [communicated to him by the firm N Schlumberger & C° residing at
Gebweiler in the German Empire]
With Throstle spinning machines and Water-twist frames as at present in use
for cotton spinning there is always a risk that in the breakage of a thread the
broken ends will be thrown in among the contiguous threads, and thus interfere
with the action of the machine. According to the present invention this difficulty
is obviated by providing below the last set of drawing rollers, at a slight distance
from the thread passing down to the spool, a rod or bar of metal or other material
to which rotary motion is given, so that when the thread breaks, the loose end
falls on to the said bar and is directly wound up thereon, and is thus prevented
from being thrown on one side. In the accompanying drawing S S are the
drawing rollers of the before mentioned machines from which the thread F passes
down through the loop R on its way to the spool. Below the lowest drawing
rollers and immediately behind the thread F is arranged the bar T which may be
either cylindrical as shewn or of any other section, and which receives rotary
motion in one direction or the other either by gearing from the driving rollers as
shewn or otherwise.
MENT IN CIGARETTES AND CIGARS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Ivan Aurel Anderssohn at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th August 1883.
IVAN AUREL ANDERSSOHN, of Breslau, in the German Empire,
MENT IN CIGARETTES AND CIGARS."
"AN IMPROVE-
My invention has for its principal object to avoid the disagreeable smell and taste
produced by the paper envelope of ordinary cigarettes.
For this purpose I wrap the tobacco with thin tinfoil preferably cut in the shape
of a rectangle or rhombus and placed with one of its edges foremost, so as to bo
wound diagonally, the outer edge being caused to adhere to the smooth metallic
surface by simple pressure. If the foil is wound parallel, the edges are preferably
folded one over the other. A convenient mode of cutting the wrappers is to cut
two edges at the same time by means of a moveable block carrying two vertical
cutting tools made adjustable, so as to cut wrappers of various sizes.
Cigars may be wrapped with thin tin-foil in the same manner as cigarettes, and
without using any gum or other binding substance, hitherto employed for securing
paper-wrappers, the pressure of the fingers being sufficient to cause the smooth
surfaces of the tinfoil to adhere to each other.
AN IMPROVED TANNING MATERIAL AND METHOD OF OBTAINING THE SAME FROM THE ASPHODEL PLANT
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Robert Lake at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th April 1883. Communicated to
him from abroad by Antoine Badoil of Paris, France
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co, Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, "AN IMPROVED TANNING MATERIAL AND
METHOD OF OBTAINING THE SAME FROM THE ASPHODEL PLANT"-[A commu-
nication to him from abroad by Antoine Badoil of Paris, France]
This invention is based upon the discovery that the asphodel plant contains
tannin which does not dissolve under the influence of acids and fermentation, but
which is not assimilable, being diffused or mixed with a large proportion of water,
saccharine matter and other substances.
To render the tannin contained in the said plant adaptable for leather dressing,
like the best sumachs, it is necessary to eliminate the main portion of the water
and saccharine matter. For this purpose according to the said invention the
asphodel is washed to free it from the earth which may adhere to it, it is then
grated or crushed to break up its cells; and the pulp thus obtained is then pressed.
The juice coming from it is subjected to a complete fermentation to extract from it
the alcohol
The pressed pulp, which contains nearly all the tanning material is dried,
preferably by exposure to the sun, and is finally reduced to powder or extract.
It can be used in this state for leather dressing purposes
AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR HOLDING IN POSITION SCARVES AND TIES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by David Appleton at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 17th January 1883. Communicated to
him from abroad by Nathan H. Baldwin of Laconia in the County of
Belknap, State of New Hampshire, United States of America
DAVID APPLETON of Cheetham Hill, Manchester in the County of Lancaster,
Metal Plater AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR HOLDING IN POSITION
SCARVES AND TIES Communicated to me [from abroad] by Nathan H. Baldwin
of Laconia in the County of Belknap, State of New Hampshire, United States of
America
"
1
This Invention relates to the method of securing in position scarves and ties.
Scarves of the class termed "made-up scarves are provided with a band which
passes round the neck and is fastened behind the scarf. Theso bands are trouble-
some to adjust and interfere with the comfort of the wearer. Made up ties are
generally secured by means of an elastic loop which is troublesome to fix upon
the collar button and soon breaks. To remedy these defects is the object of the
said Invention.
To the back of the scarf or tie is secured a fastener which is formed with two
limbs which are curved outwards and downwards, and by preference have an
amount of resilience. When the scarf or tie is placed in position the ends of the
said limbs are passed over the collar band of the shirt so as to pass to some extent
behind the same whereby the scarf or tie is securely held in position. In one form
of fastener the article is made of brass wire having the ends of the aforesaid limbs
curled or looped so that they will not irritate the skin and being formed with a
central loop for attachment to the scarf or tie.
The fastener may be made of steel or of nickel or gold or silver plated metal
or of vulcanite or of any suitable material.
A NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED GROOVING-PLANE AND PLOUGH
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Ebenezer Charles Bourne at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th April 1883.
EBENEZER CHARLES BOURNE of Percy Square, Middlesex, "A NEW OR IMPROVED
COMBINED GROOVING-PLANE AND PLOUGH
"
This Invention has for its object a new or improved combined grooving plane
and plough which both facilitates the labour of the workman and greatly
reduces the number, and consequently the cost of the tools hitherto necessary.
My invention consists in fitting a grooving plane with an adjustable expanding
Cutter which can be regulated to produce any sized groove:-thus instead of the
workman being compelled as hitherto to have a separate plane for each different
sized groove he has simply to put in an iron corresponding to the size of the
groove required while owing to the Cutters being separate they are much more
easily sharpened than heretofore
The expanders wherein the cutter is mounted are put in obliquely so that
whether the groove be small or large the iron will be at the same angle an
advantage which makes the plane work more freely and prevents its jumping
The left side of the plane is detachable and is secured by means of thumb
screws -When it is desired to use the plane as a plough it is only necessary to
unscrew and remove such left hand side and to substitute therefor a plough
guide which is secured by the same thumb screws when the Grooving plane is at
once converted into a plough and when being so used the cutter can at the same
time be employed an advantage which no other plough possesses.
The cost of my improved combination tool will not exceed that of an ordinary
plough-It is obvious therefore that my invention combines great practical utility
and convenience with immense economy.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE METHOD OF SECURING SCARF AND SHAWL PINS, BROOCHES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Nash at the Office of the
Cominissioners of Patents on the 5th April 1883.
HENRY NASHI of Moss Side, Manchester in the County of Lancaster, " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE METHOD OF SECURING SCARF AND SHAWL PINS, BROOCHES AND
SIMILAR ARTICLES
"
My Invention relates principally to scarf pins, shawl pins and brooches and has
for its object to provide additional means for securing them to the dress in order to
lessen the risk of such articles being lost or stolen. At a short distance from the
point of the pin I make a perforation or slot and through this I pass a split or snap
ring after the pin has been passed through the scarf or other part of the dress.
The pin cannot then be drawn out of the scarf or dress. In the case of a scarf pin
the ring may hang down below the point and protect the same. In any case the
ring may be formed to serve as a guard or point protector. In the cases of shawl
pins the ring may or may not be secured to the pin by means of a chain. In the
cases of brooches I fix a snap ring to the back of the brooch the ring engaging
with the perforation or slot in the pin to secure the brooch. In any case I may
flatten or widen the pin at the place where the perforation or slot is made in order
to maintain the necessary strength of the pin.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TILTING APPARATUS FOR BARRELS CASKS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Greenwood, Thomas Delamere
and Sidney Greenwood at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
7th February 1883.
WILLIAM GREENWOOD, THOMAS DELAMERE and SIDNEY GREENWOOD all of
Liverpool in the County of Lancaster. " IMPROVEMENTS IN TILTING APPARATUS
FOR BARRELS CASKS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES"
In tilting apparatus hitherto constructed a Stillage or crane or other framework
is necessary and it is therefore comparatively unportable. Now our invention is
designed to act as a portable tilter to be placed as desired under any cask or other
receptacle and automatically raise it as the cask empties.
It consists first of a tripod or other base stand
2nd of a tube or stem pivoted to this base in any convenient manner so as to be
free to rotate in one plane
3rd in a steel spring placed in or around this tube or stem sufficiently strong when
near its maximum compression to carry the weight of the filled barrel end and
gradually rise as it empties.
4th A tube or stem fitting in or round the other tube or stem and resting on the
spring.
5th a step stirrup or loop to support the barrel end attached to the last mentioned
stem or tube This can be provided with a guard to keep the barrel from the
stem.
6th a handle also attached to the same to compress the spring when a fresh barrel
is to be inserted.
7th a catch apparatus to hold the spring down when required at its maximum or
minimum tension or at other required points.
This arrangement can be varied if desired by forming the pivot on the tripod or
stand adjustable and this is very desirable when different sizes of barrels are used.
Also the handle can be made to screw into the upper tube or stem and thus regulate
the tension of the spring, or other regulator can be used.
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITII SCREW PROPELLERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Ferdinand Bosshardt at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd June 1883. Communicated to
him from abroad by Anton Zednicèk Engineer of Hohenmanth Bohemia
Austria
FERDINAND BOSSHARDT of the firm of Bosshardt & Grant Patent Agents, of
Bull's Head Chambers Market Place. Manchester in the County of Lancaster
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITII SCREW PROPELLERS communicated to
me from abroad by Anton Zednicèk. Engineer of Hohenmanth. Bohemia. Austria.
The object of this Invention is to overcome the undue pressure which is exerted
by the water onto the blades of the screw propeller in order to obtain a greater
amount of propelling power, a less consumption of fuel, and to render the ship
more manoeuvreable than heretofore. To this end a strong cylindrical casing of
plate iron of suitable width and diameter is fixed into the opening where the
ordinary screw propeller is situated. The propeller shaft is provided near its end
with a suitable thread on which the propeller fits, being bushed with a corre-
sponding nut and arranged to revolve and travel within the said casing. The
propeller shaft is also provided with two rings and springs which give a limit to
the travel of the propeller and act as buffers, when the reversing of the engine
takes place.
When such reversing has taken place the propeller is caused, by the resistance
of the water, to travel to the respective end of the casing and, revolving in such
position will draw the water more freely without suffering any resistance, as
experienced when the propeller is situated in the middle of the casing. By these
means the undue pressure acting on the blades of the propeller is prevented and
the latter permitted to draw the water more freely without suffering any resistance
whatever.
The same results may be obtained when fixing the propeller onto the shaft and
arranging the casing to slide to and fro to each side of the screw bringing the
casing into direct connection with the reversing gear of the engine by means of
lever and rods.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CHURNING APParatus, the inVENTION BEING EQUALLY APPLICABLE FOR BEATING EGGS, MIXING LIQUIDS, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Buckland at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th January 1883.
EDWIN BUCKLAND of Buckingham Street, Strand "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CHURNING APParatus, the inVENTION BEING EQUALLY APPLICABLE FOR BEATING
EGGS, MIXING LIQUIDS, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
"
This Invention relates to apparatus employed for churning, for beating eggs for
mixing liquids and for analogous purposes
The invention consists of the apparatus hereinafter described, whereby the
substances operated upon, become thoroughly "whipped" or mixed and aërated
and owing to said perfect aëration, the time ordinarily employed in these processes
is much reduced
Within a suitable vessel or receptaclo provided or formed at its base with an
internally projecting stationary-cone or cones, slides a hollow perforated cone or
cones adapted and guided so as to fit over or upon the corresponding fixed cone
or cones Said sliding cone or cones form a comparatively close joint with the
sides of the vessel or receptacle and are operated by connected handles or rods or
through one or more cranks or cogs depending upon the size and rapidity at which
it is desired to work said sliding cones As the sliding cones descend the substances
confined between them and the fixed conical bottom are rapidly expressed in the
form of fine jets through the perforations in the hollow cones and in this manner a
thorough mixing and aeration of the substances is obtained
A NEW AND IMPROVED SELF COUPLING FOR RAILWAY TRUCKS AND WAGGONS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Fisher Belling at the O:lice
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th January 1883.
GEORGE FISHER BELLING of 2 Manor Park Road, Little Ilford in the County
of Essex A NEW AND IMPROVED SELF COUPLING FOR RAILWAY TRUCKS AND
WAGGONS
The object of this invention is to do away with the necessity of any one passing
under or between the trucks or waggons (thereby saving life and time) to couple
or uncouple the said Trucks or Waggons
The invention consists in the employment of a hook and link or loop the said
link or look having a straight piece projecting backwards, the said link or loop
working on a cross bolt held by two pieces attached to the end of the truck or
waggon on the truck or waggon coming in contact the loop or link slides up the
hook opposite and falling over the point of the said hook the trucks or waggons
become coupled
To uncouplo them I employ a rod running from the outside of the truck or
Waggon close to the Buffers from both sides of the truck or Waggon to the centro,
attached to the centre end of the rod is a piece of Iron or any other suitable
material, which on the rod being drawn out bears on the straight pieco of loop.or
link named above causing the loop or link to rise clear of the hook, when they
become uncoupled, which can be done from either side, to recouple them it is only
necasary to press the said rod in again and bring the Trucks or Waggons
together
IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIABLE EXPANSION GEAR FOR STEAM AND OTHER MOTOR ENGINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Thompson Marshall at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th October 1883.
JAMES THOMPSON MARSHALL of Gainsborough in the County of Lincoln
"IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIABLE EXPANSION GEAR FOR STEAM AND OTHER MOTOR
ENGINES
"
The chief object of this invention is to secure an arrangement and construction
specially adapted to meet the requirements of engines used for electric lighting and
other purposes, where great steadiness is indispensable, and a convenient disposition
of the driving arrangements desirable, but it is also applicable to steam and other
motors in general and to single and compound engines.
The expansion gear is automatic, the "cut off" being controlled directly by the
governor without the intervention of slot link, expansion eccentric, or gear wheels:
this is effected by providing the main slide valve with a lug, through which passes
the valve rod which is worked by eccentric, cam, or otherwise. Right and left
hand screw threads are cut on the rod and work into nuts which form or are fitted
in the cut off valves, I thus use only one eccentric instead of two as heretoforo
usual The valve rod is made with a swivel joint, so that it is capable of receiving
a circular as well as reciprocal motion, the circular or twisting motion being
controlled by the governor regulating the expansion nuts and cutting off the steam.
The governor is by preference made with a hollow headpiece which is keyed on to
the governor spindlo and supports two bell crank levers, one end of each of which is
connected to a sleeve on the governor spindle while the other ends hang down and
terminate in the balls. Outside the sleove is a strong helical spring which is com-
pressed as the balls rise outwards-On the sleeve is a hand wheel for lengthening or
compressing the spring, to suit the varying speeds of the engine. By this simple
contrivance the speed may be considerably altered and the inconvenience of having
recourse to fresh governor pullies avoided. As the sleeve desconds it serves to
support the governor spindlo, thereby materially stiffening it and so preventing
unsteadiness.
-
In order to vary the expansion by hand and independently of the governor and
while the engine is stationary or at work I make the connecting link or rod between
the governor sleeve lover and the lever on the valve spindlo adjustable in length.
This may be effected by a hand wheel nut and right and left hand screw threads or
otherwise.

page_text: Instead of the governor sleeve above referred to I may provide a sleeve on the
spindle which sleeve is provided with right and left hand screw threads and can bo
turned on the spindle as required. The sleeve may be in one with the expansion
valves.
Or the point of attachment of the connecting link or other intermediate gear
may be varied by slot or otherwisc.
The valve face may be flat or circular.
The above expansion gear may in conjunction with a simple or ordinary form of
governor be economically applied to ordinary portable or fixed horizontal or
vertical engines.
IMPROVEMENTS IN RESERVOIR OR FOUNTAIN PENS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Barnet Solomon Cohen at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th March 1883. Communicated to
me from abroad by George A. Ogle of Baltimore, Maryland; United States of
America.
BARNET SOLOMON COHEN, of Great Prescot Street, in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN RESERVOIR OR FOUNTAIN PENS" [a communication to me from
abroad by George A. Ogle of Baltimore, Maryland; United States of America.]
This invention relates to reservoir or fountain pens and comprises various
improvements and novel features hereinafter described.
In carrying the said invention into practice the handle or holder which is hollow
and forms a reservoir for the ink is provided at the open end, where the pen is
inserted, with a projection or tongue. This projection or tongue is of a similar
shape to the pen which is used and extends over the same and covers the slit or cut
therein nearly to the point. The ink is caused by capillary attraction to run
between the outer surface of the pen and the inner surface of the tongue or
projection whereby the pen is constantly supplied.
The plug or stopper which is inserted into the opening of the reservoir also serves
for feeding the ink to the pen. For this purpose it is provided through part of its
length with a hole or duct; a number of small holes are pierced from the outer side
of the said plug near the top of the pen, and communicate with the said longitudinal
hole, so that the ink when it leaves the reservoir will flow on to the pen and run
to its point in the manner hereinbefore described, and air will be admitted to
supply its place.
The outer end of the plug for part of its length is made of smaller diameter than
the internal diameter of the reservoir tube in order to leave room for the pen to be
inserted between the plug and the inner surface of the holder and the tongue or
projection. From near the point the said plug is bevelled or cut away for a short
distance to form an air chamber (to prevent the ink from running too near the
mouth of the holder and soiling the fingers) a head or button being left upon the
said point behind which a knife edge or the like can be placed when it is required
to withdraw the plug. The part of the plug through which the longitudinal hole
passes is slit for about half an inch to cause it to fit the tube accurately.

page_text: Under the shoulders of the writing pen notches are formed in which a knife edge
or the like can be inserted to withdraw the pen from the holder.
The edge of the reservoir tube is bevelled near the mouth to facilitate the
admission of air, and within the reservoir a shoulder or projection is formed to
prevent the plug from being pushed too far inwards.
The cap which covers the pen when not in use and is adapted to be placed upon
the opposite end of the pen holder when the same is in use, is provided with a
number of small holes for the purpose of ventilation.
MENTS IN STORING-VESSELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st December 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Louis Fritz, of Memphis, United States.
«
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of
Patents, of 67 Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer, IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STORING-VESSELS," a communication to me from abroad by Louis Fritz,
of Memphis, United States,
This invention relates to an improvement in jacketted-vessels, the object of the
same being first to provide a separable jacket adapted to protect the inner barrel
during transportation, and also adapted to be easily removed therefrom for return-
shipment when necessary. A further object is to provide the improved storing-
vessel with a pump which can be lengthened when it is desired to draw off the
contents f the barrel, or shortened, so as to rest within and be completely
protected by the barrel when necessary; and with these ends in view the invention
consists in the various parts and combinations of parts following.
The combination, with a metallic bilged barrel, of a sectional or two part bilged
jacket removably secured around the same.
The combination, with a vessel provided with a threaded standard and a screw-
cap, of the pump, of less length than the vessel, and having a lower threaded end,
and a spout adapted to be drawn up above the opening.
The sectional jacket, is made of wood, and provided at one end with an opening,
through the head, to enable the screw-cap of the vessel to be removed when
necessary. The jacket is made up of the sections, each of which is provided with
a head, the head and staves of each part being held securely together by hoops.
The outer hoops, are rigidly secured to the staves, so as to be immovable thereon,
while the inner ones, are secured to the staves by one or more screws, which latter
can be removed when it is desired to separate the sections.
The vessel is a complete barrel in itself, and one head is dished or made concave,
and provided with an opening, through which the pump-spout is drawn for the
purpose of drawing off the contents of the barrel. This head is dished or concaved,
so as to direct the drip back into the opening, and during transportation this
opening is closed in a water-tight manner by the screw-cap, the rim of which rests
against a rubber or other suitable gasket.
AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF TROUSER SUSPENDER OR BRACES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Joseph Bellman at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th November 1883.
HENRY JOSEPH BELLMAN of 6 Camberwell Grove in the County of Surrey.
AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF TROUSER SUSPENDER OR BRACES.
The object of this invention is a certain new arrangement or combination of
parts forming trouser suspenders or braces in order to obtain the required "give
or facilities of adjusting themselves to the various motions of the body without
strain upon the buttons as is usual.
The invention is based upon the suspenders known as the Argosy in which
running button loops are free to adjust themselves upon independent corda
connected to the ends of the main or shoulder straps and terminate in button loops
the running loops and the ends of the main straps having small rollers within
metallic clips, the cords of which there are two one for each side of the body and
the strain is taken up by the main straps particularly at the back cross over ends
where the back ends of the two cords terminate.
These suspenders are found impracticable and not capable of adapting themselves
to the varied motions of the body where side stretching or muscular exercise is
desired each half of the suspender being limited to the range of its own cord.
Now according to my invention I employ one cord only and carry it from the
front on one side round the back to the front at the other side. The two front
ends of my single cord have button loops and the cord carries two or four running
loops two, if four be used, being for the hips and two for the back buttons.
Instead of the cross over at the back of the main straps and the two extensions
therefrom I use one extension only and I affix a sheave thereto through which my
single cord is rove to give action from one side or half brace to the other side or
half brace and consequently perfect freedom to all parts to adjust themselves to
the motions of the body such as are provided by riding, rowing, shooting
gymnastics, or muscular exertions. To the front ends of my main straps I adapt
removable sheaves with rings to take over tongues forming part of the adjustable
clips so that the front straps can be detached and then thrown over the shoulders
to the back.
My runners are of the ordinary construction with button loops attached and
they are kept at the respective distance apart, by the buttons themselves. the
back button loops which are also runners are not formed from side cords as in the
Argosy suspenders.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKINGS FOR PISTONS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Tom Henry Taylor at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th August 1883.
TOM HENRY TAYLOR of Number 67 Shirley Road Freemantlo near Southampton
Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKINGS FOR PISTONS"
This invention has for its object improvements in packings for pistons.
For packing pistons I employ two split packing rings, they are approximately
L shape in section that is to say there is a flange on one side of the ring around
the interior. When the packing rings are in their places in the cavity of the
piston the flanges of the two rings face each other at a distance apart whilst the
unflanged sides of the two rings are nearly in contact. Around the interior of
the packing rings and between their flanges two other rings are placed, these are
not split or broken but solid and they are forced apart by coiled springs which are
confined between them. The solid rings are thus inade to press upon the flanges
of the packing rings. Now the surfaces upon the packing rings and the solid
rings which are thus pressed together by the springs are inclined, consequently
the pressure of the springs (although exerted in a direction parallel to the axis)
nevertheless tends to expand the packing rings and maintain them in steam tight
contact with the walls of the cylinder. One of the solid rings is cast with
projections upon it and the springs are lodged in the spaces. between these
projections.
Packings thus constructed are very elastic; they can be manufactured without
any special appliances and are applicable to existing pistons. They present large
frictional surfaces and tend to preserve the circular form of both cylinder and
piston.
They also have the advantage of great range for compression or pressure
exerted and which can be equalised top and bottom by alteration of angle.
The arrangement admits of variation and in some cases two rings only may be
employed.