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IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Isaac Bailey at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd September 1882.
ISAAC BAILEY of Keighley in the County of York, Wool Comber,
" IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES
"
This Invention has reference to machinery for preparing wool or other fibrous
substances for combing and spinning, and my Improvements may be carried out in
two forms, that is to say, Firstly. I may construct a machine in which I employ a
series of gill combs operated by screws in the usual manner. For feeding the wool
to the gill combs I employ a porcupine roller under which the slivers pass and from
which the wool is taken by a series of combs mounted between two circular
plates. Each comb detaches a tuft from the first porcupine and transfers it to a
second roller of the same description underneath which is an endless travelling
apron. As the porcupine revolves the loose end of the tuft is carried forward by
the endless apron and reaches the gill combs first. The gill combs draw the tuft
through the teeth of the porcupine and in this process the tuft is combed in both
directions firstly by the combs in the circular plates and secondly by the gill
combs. An important feature in my invention is the manner in which the
detaching combs are caused to oscillate so as to project and recede when seizing
and releasing the tufts. To the end of each comb is connected a small crank
carrying a friction runner which works in a circular groove formed in a cam plate,
the said cam plates being fixed eccentric to the plates carrying the combs. By this
arrangement I obtain the requisite motion of the combs with the least possible
expenditure of power. To assist in detaching the fibres from the first porcupine
roller I mount a series of rods in slots formed in the end plates and as the roller
revolves the rods gravitate to the outer edge of the plates and by their weight
force the wool or other fibres off the pins.
In the second form of carrying out my Invention, I dispense with the "gill
combs" entirely and substitute a series of combs mounted as above described
between two circular plates the number of combs being greatly increased. In this

page_text: case the wool is not fed in tufts but the slivers are fed through a pair of fluted
rollers so as to come under the action of the series of revolving combs which by
travelling at a greater speed carry the wool forward and comb it exactly as in the
ordinary gill box.
From the manner in which the combs are mounted and operated I am enabled
to work them at a greatly increased speed whereby I can perform the same amount
of work in less time and with reduced expenditure of power.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN REVERSIBLE FOG AND DANGER SIGNALS ON RAILWAYS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Henry Sullivan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th July.1882.
JOHN HENRY SULLIVAN of 26 Hill Street Walworth in the County of Surrey
Brush Manufacturer "AN IMPROVEMENT IN REVERSIBLE FOG AND DANGER SIGNALS
ON RAILWAYS,"
This invention is an improvement upon the present system of railway signalling
especially fog signalling for the protection of plate layers and level crossings.
This system is as perfect in its working and effects in the most dense fog as it
is in broad daylight and there need be no alteration in the present arrangement of
signalling apparatus for carrying out this invention.
In the case of approaching fogs an enormous expense is incurred by the necessity
of having to put on an extra force of men' and the use of fog signals the report
from which is momentary whereas the warning furnished by this system is
continuous and can be prolonged or shortened in accordance with the drivers will.
The system is one of hearing and seeing combined.
I carry out my invention in the following manner.
The striking bar on the signal post takes the place of the weight at present
used at the bottom of the post. This bar regulates the position of the signal arm
above with which it is in connection projecting the required distance over the lines
in order to come into contact with the whistle lever while the train is in motion
in order to put on the whistle and thus attract the attention of the driver who will
thereby be able to judge of his position on the line where to stop.
The whistle lever consists of a metal bar pivoted centrally in a chair made for
the purpose which is fixed to the cab or weather board. The lower end of the
whistle lever is connected by a chain to an additional handle either inside or
outside the cab as may be necessary or advisable.
Figure 1 is a front view of the apparatus as it would appear when about to pass
the striking bar-a is the whistle lever which consists of a metal bar having two
projections at the lower end pivoted centrally to allow it to move either way (right
or left) in a chair made for the purpose which is fixed to the cab on the engine.-
b is the chair holding the lever,―c the striking bar.-ɗ is a crank on the whistle bar
connected by a chain with the whistle lever ae is the cab.

page_text: Figure 2 is a side view of the apparatus reading for action.
Figure 3 shews the position of the whistle lever in action.
Figure 4 is a signal with the striking bar at danger, is the post. 9 the
striking bar. h a signal arm.-i is a chain which connects the striking bar with the
signal arm, when the signal arm is to be put at line clear the chair is pulled from 5
the signal box thus pulling up the striking bar which action lets down the signal
arm.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CLIPS FOR SECURING TYRES ON THE WHEELS OF BICYCLES TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES AND CARRIAGES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by Francis Robert Baker at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th September 1882.
FRANCIS ROBERT BAKER of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Engineer
IMPROVEMENTS IN CLIPS FOR SECURING TYRES ON THE WHEELS OF BICYCLES
TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES AND CARRIAGES
This Invention consists in forming a clip of steel or other suitable metal in the
form of an open jointed ring the ends of which are turned over inwards; the clip is
passed over the felloe from the inside, the open joint coming to the front and
allowing the rubber tyre to present a free running surface. In case of the tyre being
cut, these clips keep it from coming away.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND STORING ELECTRIC CURRENTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Isac Louis Pulvermacher at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st February 1882.
ISAC LOUIS PULVERMACHER of 194 Regent Street in the County of Middlesex
Electrician IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND STORING ELECTRIC
CURRENTS
According to my invention I recess by a stamping or cutting process thin
platinum or other suitable metal in strip, sheet, plate or other form and coat or fill
them with platinum sponge or platinum black or it may be oxide of lead those are
arranged in a vessel capable of withstanding great atmospheric pressure; it is
charged with a conducting liquid and the lid is hermetically closed.
Electrodes receive the current set in conduction with the liquid. The electro-
lytical charge in a nascent state will be retained in large quantities by the platinum
sponge or platinum black or it may be oxide of lead favoured by the atmospheric
pressure artificially produced which greatly increases the storage of the charge.
Instead of having recessed metallic bodies I use loose helices of platinum or
other wire spirally wound upon a cylinder the cavities thus formed between the
coils of the loose helices are filled or smeared with platinum sponge or platinum
black or oxide of lead each layer of which 1 envelope with an insulating porous
material such as asbestos paper or other like body to receive another layer of the
loose helices of platinum or other wire likewise filled or smeared with platinum
sponge or platinum black or oxide of lead.
The end of the first layer of platinum or other wire is in conductible connection
with one pole of the electro generator and the end of the second layer with the
other pole of the generator.
If more than one pair of layers of platinum or other wires are intended on the
same cylinder I connect the layers in alternate order with the respective poles of
the primary battery or electro generator.
A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT, OR TOOL FOR OPENING AERATED WATER BOTTLES AND THE LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joshua Parton and Daniel George
Stansbie at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th July 1882.
JOSHUA PARTON, and DANIEL GEORGE STANSBIE, both of Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturers. "A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT, OR TOOL
FOR OPENING AERATED WATER BOTTLES AND THE LIKE PURPOSES."
This invention relates to a new or improved instrument for opening aërated
water bottles, the same being also applicable to other similar purposes, the special
purpose of utility for which the improved tool has been designed being to regulate
and control the flow of aërated beverages and the like from bottles when inward
pressure is exerted upon the stopper tending to force it from within the neck to
within the bottle in order to release its liquid contents, and to avoid the free
escape and waste of the contents attendant upon the use of an ordinary peg such
as is ordinarily used for the purpose.
The improved instrument or tool is of a very simple construction it is made in
the form of an ordinary cup with a central projecting tubular peg, and with a
communicating laterally projecting elbow tube.
In the use of this improved instrument, the central peg is inserted within the
neck of the bottle for the inward removal of the stopper, and the rim of the cup
surrounds the bottle neck thus the escape of the contents of the bottle can only
take place through the passage formed by the tubular peg and communicating
ebbow tube and hence it is under the desired control,
IMPROVE- MENTS IN BICYCLES AND TRICYCLES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Singer and William Ross.
Davies at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd November
1882.
GEORGE SINGER of Coventry in the County of Warwick and WILLIAM ROSS
DAVIES of Abergavenny in the County of Monmouth, Railway Clerk " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BICYCLES AND TRICYCLES
"
The first part of our Invention relates to an improvement in the means of
transmitting power to tricycles or other velocipedes, having a rotary pedal shaft,―
in such a nanner as to obviate and compensate for the constantly decreasing
leverage at certain points of revolution of the pedal shaft.
To effect this we make the wheels-upon which the driving chain runs-of an
oval or other suitably irregular shape.
The greater diameters of the two chain wheels are placed relatively at right
angles and the two wheels being of precisely similar shape and size, the chain will
run as accurately as in the case of circular wheels. The two "throws" on pedal
shaft are fixed nearly in a line with the greater diameter of chain wheel; the effect
of the whole arrangement thus making the force necessary to propel the velocipede
proportionate to the power of the rider at any point during the whole of the
effective part of the stroke.
The second part of our Invention refers to an arrangement of the driving crank
of a tricycle, or other velocipede-in such a manner as to diminish the distance,
through which the feet of the rider travel during the revolution of the crank
without reducing the throw of the crank and without loss of power
For this purpose we provide two eccentrics or cams one of which is firmly fixed
to each throw of, and revolves with, the crank.
The most eccentric point of these cams is fixed nearly in a line with throw of
crank so as practically to increase the length of throw.
Two rods carrying the pedals are hinged to some convenient part of the frame,
and have each at their foremost end, a slot, fitting over the eccentric on the crank.
Thus during portions of the revolution of the crank, the pedal is scarcely
moved ie whilst the eccentric is moving in either direction-almost horizontally.
in the slot.

page_text: The space moved through by the foot is thus an arc of a circle having for its
radius the length of pedal lever, and is considerably less than the space moved
through by extreme throw of crank during one revolution.
The third part of our Invention relates to an improved method of steering
tricycles or other velocipedes and is designed to obviate the vibration transmitted
to steering arm of rider, by the steering gear as now commonly used
For this purpose we fix to steering handle a "sleeve" or "bush" which is
cut an endless screw.
upon
In gear with this screw is a segment to which at right angles is fixed a short
lever. This lever is then connected by a rod to the arm actuating steering wheel.
We thus secure a very sensitive steering, whilst at the same time it is quite
impossible for any vibration of the wheel to be transmitted to the steering handle.
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VELOCIPEDES IMPROVEMENTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Harrington at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th May 1882.
JOHN HARRINGTON of Coventry in the County of Warwick
IN VELOCIPEDES
IMPROVEMENTS
The Invention has for its object improvements in velocipedes and relates to
improved means whereby each driving wheel is rendered independent of the other
and of its driving shaft thereby facilitating steering whilst a power is obtained of
readily driving either backwards or forwards and of holding the crank or driving
axle still and allowing the machine to run forward or backward for a certain
distance by the momentum previously given to it.
For this purpose I key or otherwise fix on the crank or other driving shaft a
toothed pinion and I mount loosely on such shaft an arm disc or plate on which
are loosely mounted on suitable axles two intermediate toothed pinions gearing
together and one of them gearing with the toothed pinion fixed on the crank or
driving axis whilst the other gears with a ring of internal teeth formed on the
inner periphery of the chain wheel which is also mounted loosely on the crank or
driving axle.
The two intermediate toothed pinions are preferably mounted between two arms
discs or plates and the entire gearing is completely enclosed so as to exclude dust
and dirt.
In applying my improved apparatus to bicycles and some classes of tricycles
I mount the crank or driving axle independently of the driving wheel and I
provide each or both sides of the hub of the driving wheel or the hub of each of
two wheels with gearing arranged as above described thereby enabling the rider by
retaining his feet on the treadles to hold the crank axle fast when running down
hill and thereby to rest himself when desired without removing his feet from the
treadles.
AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF DOOR MAT AND SCRAPER COMBINED
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Sweet Willway of 17 St. Augustines Parade
in the City and County of Bristol, Gas Engineer for an Invention of
18
'AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF DOOR MAT AND SCRAPER COMBINED,"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Sweet Willway at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th August 1882.
JOHN SWEET WILLWAY of 17 St Augustine's Parade in the City and County
of Bristol Gas Engineer " AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF DOOR MAT AND
SCRAPER COMBINED
This Invention relates to.-An improved construction of door mat and scraper
combined and consists essentially of arranging a series of parallel flat or other
shaped bars on edge tied at suitable distances apart by intermediate distancing
pieces of tubular form or otherwise and by transverse rods which bind the whole
together.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Sweet Willway in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th February 1883.
JOHN SWEET WILLWAY of 17 St Augustines Parade in the City and County
of Bristol Gas Engineer
"AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF DOOR MAT AND
SCRAPER COMBINED.'
"
This Invention relates to an improved construction of door mat and scraper
combined and consists essentially in arranging a series of parallel flat or other
shaped bars. AA on edge and tied at suitable distances apart by intermediate
distancing pieces B B of tubular form or otherwise and by transverse rods C C
which bind the whole together. Nuts or other means of fastening being on the
outer ends.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
The improved construction of door mat and scraper combined as set forth and
shown.
In witness whereof I the said John Sweet Willway, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this sixth day of February in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
Witness
ARTHUR J. HARRIS
31 Regent St
Clifton.
Bristol
JOHN SWEET WILLWAY (L.S.)
IMPROVEMENTS IN TURRET CLOCKS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Bailey at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th July 1882.
WILLIAM HENRY BAILEY of Salford in the County of Lancaster Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TURRET CLOCKS
"
The improvements relate to the construction of turret clocks, and partly consists
of an arrangement of the various parts, whereby the frame which carries the several
shafts may be made much narrower than at present obtains and also made capable
of being cast in one piece of metal.
This arrangement is obtained by fixing the drums upon which are wound the
weight ropes, on the ends of the shaft, outside the framing, which method allows of
much greater range in the angle at which the ropes may be adjusted, as well
as giving greater facility for arrangement and attention; and also for winding
purposes.
The frame cast in one piece as before mentioned is fitted to strong cast iron legs
in manner similar to that of a lathe bed, whereby greater stability and security is
obtained, than by the usual method of mounting.
The improvements also further consist in a novel arrangement of the fly or flyer
governing the striking mechanism. This is accomplished by means of brass or
other metal rings surrounding the thin discs of the fly, to which rings the discs are
attached to suitable points for adjustment.
The improvements also further consist in constructing the principal wheels of
cast steel, whereby greater durability under wear and tear is obtained.
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Mark Staveley and Thomas Staveley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th May 1882.
MARK STAVELEY of Mirfield in the county of York, Blacksmith, and THOMAS
STAVELEY of Milnsbridge near Huddersfield in the county of York, Blacksmith
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINES
"
"}
The object of our Invention is to cover washing and wringing machines with a
wood or metallic box or casing so as to conceal them from view. To effect our
object we make the machine frame in two parts, and hinge them together, so that
the upper part containing the rollers and springs may be let down or turned over
on hinges or it may be lowered by rack and pinion or other equivalent, in such
manner as to reduce the height of machine, in which case the cover surrounding
the machine would be no higher than an ordinary table or stand.
The ordinary inclined board employed for conveying away the waste water from
the rollers is connected to the machine by hinges so that it can be folded up, and
it is made sufficiently broad that when the box is open and the machine in use the
waste water will escape outside the box. Or instead of the waste water escaping
outside the box, the inclined board may be fixed and made narrower so that the
waste water may run inside the box in which case a trough or pipe is employed to
catch it and convey it away. By this means such machines which have hitherto
been unsightly articles in cottage houses may not only be concealed from view, but
the box or casing may be utilized for a table or stand and serve as a piece of
furniture.
OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE TAPPING OF BEER AND OTHER BARRELS AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Drew English at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th October 1882.
HENRY DREW ENGLISH of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Wholesale
Stationer "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE TAPPING OF
BEER AND OTHER BARRELS AND OTHER VESSELS
"
My invention consists of apparatus constructed as hereinafter described which
said apparatus being applied to the tap hole of the barrel or vessel and used in the
manner hereinafter described makes the tapping of the barrel or vessel easy and
prevents the escape of liquid which generally occurs when tapping a barrel or
vessel in the ordinary way..
The said apparatus is constructed in the following manner. I make preferably
of vulcanised india rubber a short tube of a length and diameter suitable to fit the
tap hole of the barrel or vessel. The said tube is provided at each end with a flange
the said flanged tube of vulcanised.indiarubber having a figure resembling a reel
or spool.
The internal diameter of the said flanged tube is contracted at each end by
means of internal flanges which reduce the opening at each end of the tube to one
half or one third the diameter of the other portion of the tube This flanged tube
is forced into the tap hole of the barrel or vessel by compressing the flange at one
end and forcing that end through the tap hole of the barrel or vessel. When the
compressed flange reaches the inside of the barrel or vessel it expands and the tube
is retained in its place in the tap hole by its two flanges one in the interior and the
other at the exterior of the barrel or vessel. Before charging the barrel or vessel
with liquid a taper plug preferably of glass earthenware cork or wood is forced its
smaller end foremost into the india rubber tube forming a lining to the tap hole.
This plug in taking its place in the tap hole expands the internal flanges at the
ends of the tube which flanges grip it tightly and prevent the escape of liquid
When it is wished to tap the barrel or vessel the leg of the tap or the part which
is passed into the barrel or vessel is placed against the plug and the tap pushed or
driven by a mallet into the tap hole. The advancing tap drives the plug before it

page_text: forcing it out of the india rubber tube into the barrel. The leg of the tap firmly
seats itself in the said tube being tightly gripped by the two internal flanges of the
said tube. The tapping of the barrel or vessel is thus effected without the escape
of any of the contents.
The introduction of the plug into the indiarubber tube is facilitated by
wetting it.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GLASS SURFACE TESTING PLATES AND STRAIGHT EDGES.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Richards at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 6th January 1882.
GEORGE RICHARDS of No. 12 City Road Manchester in the County of
Lancashire. IMPROVEMENTS IN GLASS SURFACE TESTING PLATES AND STRAIGHT
EDGES.
The difficulties heretofore experienced with surface plates and straight edges is to
get a suitable substance sufficiently hard to retain the plane or truth of its surface
a reasonable time in the meantime make the plate light enough to handle with case.
These objects are obtained by the use of hard glass.
My improvement consists in the application or use of suitable size pieces of hard
plate glass provided with true surfaces or edges as may be required to be used as surface
plates and straight edges. The plate glass for surface purposes is usually attached
to suitable skeleton metal frames this may be done by any known mode of
cementing the glass to the frame by bevelling the edges of the glass and filling it
into a suitable recess around the inside edges of the metal frame.
The sides and ends of the metal frame for holding the glass are stayed or
connected together by transverse longitudinal and diagonal ribs or connecting
pieces at its back and are made to form part of the frame.
The frame is provided with suitable holders at its ends or sides for handling it,
when the glass is properly cemented to the frame it is ground or dressed to a true
surface which makes it ready for use, Glass surface plates constructed according to
my improvement may be made of any required size and shape either circular
square or parallelogram forms may be used.
When strips of hard glass of any required length are used according to iny
improvement for straight edge purposes it may be attached to any kind of skeleton
or solid metal frame by cementing it thereto, and then ground or dressed to a true
edge by any known suitable means, or the glass strip may be made sufficient wide
to prevent springing out of shape so as to retain a true edge.
In some cases the glass surface plate inay be used independent of the holding
frame, and yet retain all the advantages of my improvement.

page_text: The advantages claimed for this improvement are, owing to the hardness of the
glass it is less likely to wear, receive scratches, and become untrue constructed
cheaper, lighter and more readily handled in applying it to use.
Other structural forms of metal frames may be used for holding the glass plates
for instance a thin metal plate provided with raised edges to form a frame for
receiving the edges of the glass would answer the purpose. I do not confine
myself to any structural form of frame or material therefore as a holder for
attaching or cementing the glass surface plates or straight edge thereto.
IMPROVEMENTS IN FILLET CARD SETTING MACHINES AND IN FILLET CARDS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Blackburn and Edwin
Blackburn at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th July
1882.
WILLIAM BLACKBURN and EDWIN BLACKBURN of the Firm of Messrs John
Blackburn and Sons of Cleckheaton in the County of York Card Manufacturers.
IMPROVEMENTS IN FILLET CARD SETTING MACHINES AND IN FILLET CARDS"
This invention relates to machines for setting Cards known as "fillet setting
machines "the cards or teeth when set in narrow strip or "fillet" of clothing were
inserted in lines at right angles to the length clothing or strip-so that when
the fillet or strip was afterwards wound round its roller spirally the cards or teeth
were of necessity at an angle to the axis of the roller on which they were used
and consequently worked in part across the teeth or cards on the other card rollers,
or card cylinders in connection with which cards so set worked.
According to this our said invention we mount the clothing feed rollers, in
adjustable bearings so constructed as to admit the said rollers being placed at such
an angle as to present the clothing to the setting motion of the machine at an
angle-The cards or teeth when set are thus inserted not in right lines but in
angle lines to the width of the fillet so that when spirally wound upon their roller
the teeth or cards are all parallel to the axis of the said roller and do not work
across the teeth or cards of the adjoining rollers or cylinders.
The feed rollers are adjusted as described at such angle as will ensure the teeth
being parallel to the roller as described-the angle of the clothing feed rollers being
varied according to the diameter or circumference of the roller on which the fillet
is to be used.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Picton Evans at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th September 1882.
CHARLES PICTON EVANS of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Gentleman
IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES
This Invention refers to Improvements in Sewing Machines by which they may
be made to work two or more rows of stitching simultaneously, and it consists in
mounting upon one needle bar or carrier two or more needles. The needle bar is so
arranged that the distances apart of the needles may be varied and adjusted, and
this is done by a sliding or telescopic system of double bar. The needles may be
either attached separately to the needle bar, or two or more needles may be formed
on one head or stem.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF APPLYING TO THE SOLES OF BOOTS AND SHOES RETICULATED WORK TO PREVENT SLIPPING IN PLAYING GAMES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Harry Craston at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 9th December 1882.
HARRY CRASTON [of Playhouse Yard Golden Lane London.]
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE METHOD OF APPLYING TO THE SOLES OF BOOTS AND SHOES RETICULATED
WORK TO PREVENT SLIPPING IN PLAYING GAMES."
This Invention of improvements in boots and shoes relates to that class of boots
and shoes used in playing out door games or matches such as running, jumping,
cricket, lawn tennis etc..
It consists in the method of applying to the sole of the shoe reticulated work in
cat gut string, wire, leather or any suitable fibrous material and either made to go
over the sole and fastened by cords or loops or laces or other suitable means so as
to be capable of being put on or off the boot or shoe analagous to a glove in which
case I make a frame of metal or very hard leather to fit closely round the edge of
the sole and across this frame I weave and interlace the reticulated work the frame
itself being attached and fastened by buckles and straps or other means to the sole
or sewn or laced through the edges of the sole and permanently attached thereto.
In one method of carrying out the invention I perforate the edges of the welt and
sole or sole only at about half an inch or other suitable distance and from these,
lace and interlace the net work of fibre or wire, into any suitable reticulation
covering the under side of the boot or shoe sole; the net may be formed in the
interlaced or woven net manner or knotted at the intersections like a fishing net or
in any other suitable way, the object being to give to the sole of the shoe for the
wearer a firm foot hold on the ground and to prevent the foot slipping.
MENTS IN BOOTS SHOES AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE FEET
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Thomas Haynes at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st January 1882.
WILLIAM THOMAS HAYNES of Leicester in the County of Leicester.
MENTS IN BOOTS SHOES AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE FEET."
"IMPROVE-
This invention relates to the ventilating of Boots Shoes and other coverings for
the feet.
I form a channel or channels between the inner and outer soles, and the inner
sole I form with perforations therein communicating with the aforesaid channel
or channels. The said channels communicate with the external atmosphere by
means of a hole or holes in the heel or soles, (the heel for preference.) In order
that the said channels may not be closed by the pressure of the foot, I form and
arrange them substantially as follows.
I prefer to form a channel round the sole of the boots, shoes or other coverings
for the feet and in order to effect this I fit the bottom, filling middle sole and
shank so that they shall not cover the perforations in the inner sole the middle sole
being divided into two parts or not divided but grooved, (for preference the
former,) I may also groove the outsole.
I also in some cases place on the top of middle sole and round each side of waist
a piece of thin zinc or other suitable material covering the air channel or channels
and I also place at the heel part one or, more block pieces by this arrangement
when the outsole is fastened on there is an air space all round (or nearly so)
between the soles which cannot be closed by the pressure of the foot. The com-
munication with the air channel and external atmosphere is effected through the
outsole this is done by having a hole in the heel part thereof corresponding with
another hole in the lift this latter hole communicates with a slit extending to the
edge of the lift (by preference the straight edge thereof) so that when the heel is
built up a hole will be formed therein which causes a circulation of air through
the boot or other coverings for the feet by the action of walking-I may have
more than one hole communicating with the external air if desired or I may have
the external air holes formed through the waist of outsole instead of heel or in
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page_text: both I may also have a plate capable of being opened and shut over the external
air hole or holes in order to close them when required. Further according to this
invention I form the sock of a porous material in order that the air may circulate
freely through same without which the whole of this ventilating arrangement
would be useless as ordinary "socks" would not allow the air to pass through 5
them,
1MPROVEMENTS IN DENTAL INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Poulson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 30th May 1882. A communication from
Johann Wilhelm Zeuch a person resident at Hamburg in the German
Empire.
GEORGE POULSON of the firm Geo. Poulson in Hamburg, German Empire
"1MPROVEMENTS IN DENTAL INSTRUMENTS" [A communication from Johann
Wilhelm Zeuch a person.resident at Hamburg in the German Empire.]
This Invention relates to improvements in dental instruments, which are used
during the operation to hold the coffer dam rubber in the month of the patient, and
the object of the improvements are to keep the rubber in its right position inside
the mouth of the patient, to facilitate the opening of the mouth by preventing it
tiring the patient and to introduce into the mouth a reflector which is fixed to the
instrument, thus leaving the dentist with both hands free for operation.
I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying Drawing
in which
Figure 1 is a back view partly in section Figure 2 a sectional side elevation and
Figure 3 a side elevation, Figure 4 is a front view, Figure 5 a top view partly in
section, and Figure 6 a top view of the instrument entirely fitted with coffer dam
rubber ready for use, Figure 7 is a top view and Figure 8 a sectional side elevation
of a modification, in which the reflector is fixed to the coffer dam clamp.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
The coffer dam clamp a is provided with an elastic bow b at the four pointed
ends of which b' the perforated part of the coffer dam rubber is attached. d is the
tongue for setting the clamp a; the screw c serves to regulate the width of the
tongue d. At the part d two pieces f of sheet metal are attached, which form
together a funnel shaped pipe, the buttons i at this funnel serve to hold the four
corners of the coffer dam rubber (Figure 6). The reflector e may be attached to
one of the metal pieces f by means of the rod g or may be fastened directly to
the clamp a as shown in Figures 7 and 8. The funnel also may be provided with
a broad slit as shown in the same figures in order to allow the manipulation with
an instrument of larger size inside the bay formed by the coffer dam rubber.
AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND LOWERING HEAVY BOXES OR OTHER WEIGHTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Clayton Mewburn at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th February 1882. A communi-
cation from abroad by Auguste Ballier of Dondeville, France.
JOHN CLAYTON MEWBURN of 169 Fleet Street in the City of London, Patent
Agent and Consulting Engineer. "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND
LOWERING HEAVY BOXES OR OTHER WEIGHTS." [A communication from abroad
by Auguste Ballier of Dondeville, France.]
Tho object of this Invention is to facilitate the raising and lowering of heavy
packages such as boxes and trunks. At present in loading a coach or other vehicle
with heavy packages the usual practice is for a man to take a package on his
shoulder and carry it up a short ladder; this is laborious, slow and to some extent
dangerous. The improved apparatus allows of heavy packages being lifted with
great facility and without danger.
The apparatus consists of a sort of ladder composed of two uprights with pins at
their lower ends to prevent them slipping. These uprights have hooks at the top
to enable them to be attached to a rail or other part on the roof of a couch or other
vehicle. Between the two uprights and in grooves formed for the purpose is a
small carriage provided with rollers at the sides. To this carriage is connected a
board or plate which can be moved on a hinge into a horizontal position in front
of the carriage. The package or article to be lifted is placed on the board when in
this horizontal position. To a cross piece at the top of the uprights is connected a
lifting tackle the lower end of which is attached to the small carriage. When this
carriage has received its load it is lifted by means of the tackle until it reaches the
top of the uprights where it is held by an automatic bolt or catch. The package
can then be transferred to the roof of the coach by being pulled over a roller
provided for the purpose at the top of the apparatus.
To unload the coach the operation is of course the reverse.
Apparatus constructed according to this Invention may also be employed to raise
or lower furniture to or from the floors of houses, or goods in a warehouse, or
materials for building.
When the small carriage is unhooked from the tackle it can be withdrawn from
the grooves of the uprights and used as a sort of barrow or trolly to convey the
packages or goods to or from the coach or vehicle.
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH PULLEYS FOR WINDOW-BLIND AND OTHER ROLLERS.
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Augustus Williams of The Avenue, Lincoln in
the County of Lincoln for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN AND
CONNECTED WITH PULLEYS FOR WINDOW-BLIND AND OTHER ROLLERS.
e
(Void by reason of the Patentes having neglected to file a Specification in
pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Augustus Williams
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th July 1882.
HENRY AUGUSTUS WILLIAMS of the Avenue, Lincoln in the County of Lincoln
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH PULLEYS FOR WINDOW-BLIND AND
OTHER ROLLERS
The object of this Invention is certain detail improvements in and connected
with pulleys for window-blind and other rollers, whereby said rollers are the more
readily fitted in position and removed therefrom without disturbing the blind cord
or chain from the pulley or of disturbing the pulley itself.
For the purposes of my Invention I screw thread a hole in the bracket which carries
the pulley and I mount a collar or ferrule on the screw pin which fits the hole.
The collar or ferrule has a shoulder at one end to fit loosely in a corresponding
groove formed in the pulley proper so that the pulley may be fitted and may
rotate a distance thereon, a stud or pin on the collar fitting in a segmental slot of
the pulley to limit the independent rotation of one with the other.
The pulley has a radial slot in one face corresponding to a slot cut across the
face of the collar, which slots can be put in line for the insertion of a plate
projecting from the roller, the plate being of the same width as the collar is in
diameter so that it can be turned partially round to be held therein and then locked
in that position by a screw pin passed through the edge of the pulley into the
collar or ferrule in order that the pulley and collar may rotate as one article.
The opposite end of the roller has a plate with an aperture to fit over a stud or
projection of the opposite bracket.
If the first mentioned screw pin projects beyond the pulley bracket it serves
to support the off end of an adjoining roller.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WORKING MACHINERY BY MANUMOTIVE POWER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Thomas Millson Hircock at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd August 1882.
JOHN THOMAS MILLSON HIRCOCK of Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Machinist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WORKING MACHINERY BY
MANUMOTIVE POWER
This Invention consists of certain arrangements and combinations of machanical
appliances by which tricycles or any suitable description of machinery may be
worked by hand power alone.
The apparatus consists of a lever arm to which is connected a quadrant rack
driving two pinions on ratchet boxes. On the spindle of one of the pinions is fixed
a second pinion and a cogwheel. On the spindle of the other pinion is a driving
wheel and a sinall toothed wheel gearing into another small toothed wheel upon
the opposite spindle. The action upon the pinions from the lever is by springs and
clutches in the ratchet boxes alternately in and out of gear so that one of the
spindles is always travelling in the right direction. Power is communicated by the
action of the arm upon the lever.
'
IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESERVING MILK AND CREAM
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Heinrich Wilhelm Ludwig Otto von
Roden at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd August
1882.
HEINRICH WILHELM LUDWIG OTTO VON RODEN of Hamburg German Empire
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESERVING MILK AND CREAM
"
The expulsion of air mechanically mixed with milk or cream and the preventing
of its reentry after killing the germs of fermentation by heat is the main condition
for preserving milk or cream in an unmixed state and without adding antiseptic
chemicals. The manner by which I attain these results, I have described in a prior
application Letters Patent N° 5453"; the object of my present Invention is to
simplify the said described process.
To this effect I combine the expulsion of air and the killing of the germs of
fermentation in one act by pouring the edible oil or any other such indifferent or
inert liquid on the top of the stopper (instead of covering the surface of the milk
or cream by a film of such material, as described in the prior application).
I therefore fill the milk or cream to be preserved in bottles or jars and close the
latter either by cork stoppers or by stoppers of glass, china or other material, with
a rubber ring between the mouth of the bottle and the head of the glass or other
suitable stopper, which stoppers are fastened to the bottle or jar by means of a
string or wire, or any other suitable device.
Then I draw a piece of rubber hose or a casing with a rubber ring inside over
the bottle's or jar's head in such a manner as to form a cup over it, the bottom of
which is replaced by the stopper. After pouring some oil or other such indifferent
liquid in such cups I place the bottles or jars in an apparatus, wherein the milk or
cream is heated either by steam or hot water or by any convenient means to 210 to
220 degrees of Fahrenheit during an hour, thus expelling all air and killing the
germs of fermentation at once. Then the heating apparatus with the vessels
containing the milk or cream is cooled slowly down to the ordinary temperature.
IMPROVEMENTS IN Engineer bothster LUBRICATING CERTAIN PARTS OF MACHINERY
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Burford Petrie and William
Austin Entwistle at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
23rd December 1882.
EDWARD BURFORD PETRIE, Iron Merchant, and WILLIAM AUSTIN ENTWISTLE,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
Engineer both of Rochdale in the County of Lancaster
LUBRICATING CERTAIN PARTS OF MACHINERY."
"
"
Our invention relates firstly to lubricating such bearings of machinery as
embrace or surround rods or bars and in which bearings such rods or bars slide in
a longitudinal direction or to bearings which slide in a longitudinal direction upon
rods or bars which they surround or embrace and consists in applying to such
or "oilless
bearings aforesaid that material or substance known as " metalline
oilless carbonate" within the
carbonate." We place the aforesaid "metalline" or
said bearings and secure it therein by means of bushes screwed into the said
" or
bearings or by any other convenient means, or we combine the "metalline
"oilless carbonate" with vegetable or other fibre, or with metallic wires or threads,
or with a combination of metallic wires or threads and vegetable or other fibre by
weaving or otherwise so as to form it into sheets, bands, or cords; such sheets,
bands, or cords being inserted within the previously mentioned bearings, and
retained therein by bushes screwed into or upon the said bearings, or we attach
such sheets, bands, or cords aforesaid to the previously named bearings in any
other convenient manner.
The second part of our invention relates to lubricating the collars and footsteps
of spindles used for spinning and doubling cotton, wool and other fibrous materials,
and consists in forming grooves or slots within such collars and footsteps aforesaid,
in which grooves or slots we place metalline or oilless carbonate above referred to.
We also propose in some cases to insert in the above mentioned footsteps and
collars the metalliue or oilless carbonate formed into sheets, bands, or cords as
described under the first part of our invention, and we retain it in such collars and
footsteps by any convenient means. The said grooves or slots formed in the
collars and footsteps may be formed so as to be concentric with or inclined to the
axis of the spindle rotating therein, or the said grooves or slots may be formed
parallel to the axis of the said spindle.