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AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL VASES OR COAL BOXES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Thomas Beston at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st December 1882.
JOSEPH THOMAS BESTON of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manu-
facturer "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN COAL VASES OR COAL BOXES
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My invention has reference to coal vases or coal boxes in which the opening to
the box is at the front of the body of the box; and my said invention consists in
constructing and arranging the door or cover of the coal vase or box and the
parts of the body in which the said door or cover works in the manner hereinafter
described.
Instead of opening and closing the coal vase or box by means of a hinged door
or cover as usual, I use a door or cover capable of sliding in the body of the said
coal vase or box. This sliding door or cover has in cross section a circular curved
figure and the sides of the front of the body at which the opening is made for
gaining access to the body have a similar curved figure. At the edges of the
opening in the body hollow beadings or guide grooves are made for the edges of
the curved sliding door or cover to work in. These hollow beadings or guide
grooves extend into the interior of the body forming a continuation of the circular
grooves at the edges of the opening, the said extended hollow beadings or grooves
having about the same length as the sliding door or cover. When the curved
sliding door or cover is drawn down and is situated in its lowest position it covers
the opening in the front of the coal vase or box and closes the said vase or box.
By sliding the door or cover upwards it uncovers the opening in the coal vase or
box the said sliding door passing under and being concealed by the closed upper
part of the coal vase or box
The sliding door may be made to engage with the edge of the opening instead of
with the hollow beadings or guide grooves described.
The sliding door or cover is moved by means of a knob or handle near its lower
end. This knob or handle also serves as a stop to limit the upward motion of the
sliding door or cover
IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS OR COVERS FOR BOTTLES, CANS AND SIMILAR RECEPTACLES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd August 1882. A communication
to him from abroad by G. Adolf Hardt, of Cologne, Germany.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, IMPROVEMENTS IN
STOPPERS OR COVERS FOR BOTTLES, CANS AND SIMILAR RECEPTACLES," a commu-
nication to me from abroad by G. Adolf Hardt, of Cologne, Germany,
"
This invention consists in making the stoppers from cardboard, paper or similar
material and dish-shaped by pressing these materials in hot moulds, and if
desirable impregnating or coating them with water proofing or chemically inert
substances.
The flanges of the dish-shaped stoppers are made conical, so as to fit different
diameters of bottles or other receptacles, when the stopper is pressed into the mouth
of the bottle with the flat or convex side downward. Instead of using a simple
dish-shaped stopper, a double stopper may be produced by applying an inverted
dish-shaped stopper to the first one, so that the bottom of the inverted stopper is
turned upward and the edge of the flange touches the inside of the conical Hange
of the lower stopper.
A. NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOUND TO BE APPLIED TO ROPE, YARNS, CANVAS AND OTHER VEGETABLE FIBROUS MATERIALS IN A MANUFACTURED OR.RAW CONDITION IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THEM FROM A communication DECAY AND TO INCREASE THEIR SOLIDITY AND FLEXIBILITY to us
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Harry Evens and Heinz
Lowenfeld at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th October
1882. Communicated to us from abroad by F. de P. Weber of Hainburg
on the Danube in the Empire of Austria
JOHN HARRY EVENS and HEINZ LOWENFELD both of the Wool Exchange
Coleman Street in the City of London "A. NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOUND TO BE
APPLIED TO ROPE, YARNS, CANVAS AND OTHER VEGETABLE FIBROUS MATERIALS
IN A MANUFACTURED OR.RAW CONDITION IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THEM FROM
A communication
DECAY AND TO INCREASE THEIR SOLIDITY AND FLEXIBILITY
to us from abroad by F. de P. Weber of Hainburg on the Danube in the Empire
of Austria.
"
The Invention has for its object the production of a new or improved compound
to be applied to rope, yarns, canvas, and other vegetable fibrous materials in a
manufactured or raw condition in order to preserve them from decay and to
increase their solidity and flexibility.
For this purpose we employ the following ingredients in about the proportions
stated and combined in the manner specified.
Odourless Petroleum
Olive Oil
Clear French Colophony
Solid Paraffine
80 parts by weight
1 part
1 part
part
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"
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Soft Water 240 to 300 parts
The four first named ingredients are to be heated to about 75 degrees Celsius
until the solids are all dissolved and then the water is to be added. This turbid
mixture is then to be heated until it becomes nearly clear.
The compound is to be cooled down to about 60 degrees Celsius when it is
ready for use.
The hemp or other filaments or materials to be treated should be steeped in the
compound until foam ceases to rise to the surface.
Yarns, tissues in general, sails, bags, tent covers and finished ropes and cords
should be passed slowly through the compound until the said foam ceases to rise.
The material so treated should now be operated upon by a centrifugal machine
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page_text: or passed through rollers or otherwise treated in order to remove the excess of
compound therefrom which may be collected and used again.
The said material is then to be steeped in water for about one hour or until the
compound is nearly removed from the outside of such material, and the material
is then dried.
Rope and other materials treated with this compound are rendered more
solid and are preserved against the destructive influences of salt or fresh water
and consequently against putrefaction; they also retain their flexibility in any
condition of the atmosphere and do not soil other objects with which they may
come in contact.
Further the quantity of compound used is much less than when employing
ordinary tar.
IMPROVED MEANS AND LIGHTERS." APPLIANCES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CUBE FIRE
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Vernon Trew at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th August 1882.
"
THOMAS VERNON TREW of Plaistow in the County of Essex Naval Architect
IMPROVED MEANS AND
LIGHTERS."
APPLIANCES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CUBE FIRE
The invention consists in boring and cutting off in one operation from lengths of
wood certain blocks called cube fire lighters.
In carrying out my invention I proceed mainly as follows:-
The machine consists of a trough through which the lengths of wood are fed.
Through the wood a drill passes vertically and another drill passes horizontally
through the wood across its length. A third drill pierces the wood to a certain
distance horizontally in a line with its length, and a swinging circular saw cuts off
the blocks after they have been pierced by the drills.
The drills and saw are turned by means of belts or cog wheels and the drills are
moved in and out by means of levers and weights which are raised and lowered
by cams.
The circular saw frame is also swung by means of a cam acting in the same
manuer.
The wood is fed through the trough by means of an endless pitched chain or
chains lying on the bottom along its length and passing back again underneath. —
The chain feed is actuated by a cam and lever.
The chain has a spike in each link upon which the wood is pressed by means of
heavy rollers.
The special point or feature of my Invention is drilling the wood in length and
cutting or sawing same to the size required.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CASING AND MARKING OF CASING FOR MEAL TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MILK FOR REARING CALVES, FOALS AND YOUNG ANIMALS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Bowick and Thomas Gilbert
Bowick at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th December
1882,
THOMAS BOWICK, and THOMAS GILBERT BOWICK, both of Bedford in the County
of Bedford AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CASING AND MARKING OF CASING FOR MEAL
TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MILK FOR REARING CALVES, FOALS AND YOUNG
ANIMALS
The object of our Invention is to provide a casing for Meal to be used as a
substitute for Milk for rearing Calves, foals, and young animals, which shall render
the said meal capable of being kept a much longer period than usual, and to
improve the marking of the cases to be so used, by which the printing and design
on said cases may be more easily read.
We propose to enclose in the outside casing-preferably a jute bag-an inner
casing or bag, preferably of Waterproof paper, or parchment-and on the outside
casing we propose to print, or paint a design, such design to be printed or painted
on a groundwork of one or more colours, or the said design and groundwork may
be printed or painted on a label or sewn, pasted, or otherwise attached to the said
outer casing.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TRICYCLES AND OTHER WHEELED CARRIAGES PROPELLED BY MANUAL POWER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Neal at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 17th June 1882.
RICHARD NEAL of New Benwell in the County of Northumberland, Joiner,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TRICYCLES AND OTHER WHEELED CARRIAGES PROPELLED BY
MANUAL POWER
"
My invention relates to certain appliances by which the muscular power of arms
or legs in tricycles and similar wheeled carriages can be advantageously employed
and consists in fixing to the framework of the carriage a pair of small hydraulic
cylinders fitted with rams, one on each side of a vertical arm or lever having its
fulcrum in the lower part of the carriage, against which lever the ends of the rams
abut. The upper end of the lever is formed with a groove or slot, in which works
a block upon the crank of the shaft which carries the driving wheels. Each of the
bydraulic cylinders has fitted to it the ordinary pump, so proportioned to the ram
as to give it an outward movement at each stroke sufficient to drive over the lever
to such an extent that its upper end, in which the crank block works, shall give
half a revolution to the crank the same action forcing back the ram in the opposite
cylinder. The pumps on the cylinders are worked simultaneously by the hand of
the rider or driver from a handle or treadle conveniently arranged for applying his
muscular power (either by arms or legs) and connected by rods and levers so that
while the pump of one cylinder is forcing out the ram, the pump of the other
cylinder is allowing the ram to return; the operating liquid (oil or water) being
alternately forced into and allowed to escape from each cylinder.
The action is as follows:-The handles or treadles being put into operation
alternately force out of their cylinders the respective rams which cause the lever to
vibrate to each side of its fulcrum a distance corresponding to the stroke of the
rams, and this vibration at the long end of the lever in which the crank block
works is sufficient to cause the crank to make half a revolution with the stroke of
one ram the return stroke of the other ram completing the revolution of the crank
and of the driving wheels, which may however in some cases be made to make
more or fewer revolutions than the cranks by suitable gearing.
In some cases I propose to use two pairs of hydraulic cylinders the rams of each
pair operating a lever working on to cranks at suitable angles or opposite to each
other on the driving shaft.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING THE SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY."
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Hayton Greenhill at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th September 1882.
JOHN HAYTON GREENHILL of Belfast in the County of Antrim Ireland.
" IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING THE SUPPLY OF
ELECTRICITY."
I by preference make use of clock-work to impart regular motion to a cylinder,
disc, or frame carrying a sheet or sheets, or roll of paper, which, for convenience of
calculations may be ruled into spaces representing divisions of time and strength,
or quantity of the Electric current.
A light lever which is furnished with a pen, pencil, or other medium for marking™
the paper is connected to the armature of a solenoid or other electro-magnet, or the
armature may be fixed and the electro-magnet attached to the lever, so that when
the main current of Electricity or portion thereof passes along the wire of the
Electro-magnet, the lever will be moved accordingly, and mark the paper in a
somewhat similar manner to the record of a Barometric or other indicating
instrument of a like purpose. A spring or weight which can be regulated to suit
the strength of current is attached to the lever to offer opposition to the action of
the magnet, and to bring the lever to its normal position when the current ceases.
If a weight is used, it must be so arranged that it will exert an increasing
resistance the further it is moved from its original situation, which can be effected
by allowing it to describe an arc of 90 degrees or less, between a vertical and
horizontal position, or the weight may consist of a chain which is raised by
the lever, each link as it becomes suspended alding its weight as additional
counterbalance,
In lieu of a magnet with armature a coil or coils of wire may be used in which
the current of electricity is conducted and acts upon a magnetised needle or bar, as
in a galvanometer or upon a frame or other coil of wire as in some forms of
Dynamometer, the movement thus produced causing the pen, pencil or other
instrument to leave the record upon the paper.
Instead of the clockwork, the movement of the paper may be effected by the
current of Electricity acting upon an Electro-motor or engine.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN AND IN CONNECTION WITH BURGLAR ALARMS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Blomerley at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 15th June 1882.
JAMES BLOMERLEY of Pendlebury in the County of Lancaster, " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND IN CONNECTION WITH BURGLAR ALARMS"
My Invention bas for it's object to provide means whereby warning may be given
when houses, shops or other buildings are entered by burglars. I employ an alarm
apparatus containing a bell or gong which is sounded when a door or window with
which the apparatus is in connection is opened. The said bell or gong is acted upon
by means of a hammer which receives motion from parts acted upon by means of a
spring or weight in a similar manner to ordinary alarums. The said hammer can be
held out of action by means of a wire, cord or chain which is acted upon by a spring.
In one method of applying the apparatus to a door a plate fixed to the door
disengages the said wire or cord from a pin when the door is opened whereby the
said hammer is released. I provide two pins so that during the ordinary use of the
door the wire can be looped upon the supplementary pin. In another method of
application the wire or cord is released by means of a cord which is attached to a
distant door or window or to a number of doors or windows or of both as for
example a cord is led through eyes on the doors or on the framing as the case may
be so that the doors cannot be opened by persons breaking into the house without
the cord being acted upon to release the hammer of the alarm. In one arrangement
the tension of the cord draws a slotted wedge piece which releases a ring upon the
wire or cord from the fixed pin. In another arrangement a drop piece can be
lowered into a recess in a door or be lowered into position to be acted upon or
released when the door is opened the said drop piece being attached to a wire or
cord which is in communication with a bed-room so that the drop piece can at
night be lowered for action and in the morning can be raised without the operator
leaving the bed-room or in some cases without getting out of bed. The apparatus
may also be used in a portable form being hung or placed in any convenient
situation and connected by means of a cord with the door.
A NEW OR IMPROVED PORTABLE ELECTRICAL APPARATUS FOR LIGHTING GAS FLAMES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Imray at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 26th September 1882. Communicated to
him from abroad by Ernest Arnould of Paris France.
JOHN IMRAY of N° 28 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex A NEW OR IMPROVED PORTABLE ELECTRICAL APPARATUS FOR
LIGHTING GAS FLAMES Communicated to him from abroad by Ernest Arnould
of Paris France.
"
This invention relates to a portable apparatus so constructed and arranged that
when desired a small piece of platinum foil or wire is rendered incandescent by
electricity for the purpose of lighting a gas flame. The apparatus consists of a
small vessel which may be of cylindrical form and which constitutes a voltaic cell,
having fixed in its cover a rod or plate of carbon extending to the bottom of the
vessel, and a rod or plate of zinc extending less than half way down containing also
a suitable exciting liquid occupying about half the depth of the vessel. The carbon
and zinc are respectively connected by conductors to the two ends of a piece of
platinum foil or wire at the end of a tube projecting from the vessel. When the
vessel stands on its bottom, in which position the zinc does not reach to the exciting
liquid, there is no voltaic action, but on turning the vessel upside down so that the
zinc becomes surrounded by the liquid an electric current passes through the
platinum rendering it incandescent so that it lights a gas jet to which it is applied.
According to a modified form of the apparatus the voltaic cell is mounted on lateral
trunnions within a casing so that the cell can be inverted without inverting the
whole apparatus by applying the fingers to a knob or button projecting outside the
casing. When the cell is so inverted the zinc projecting from the cover of the cell
and a conductor from the carbon also projecting from the cover are brought into
contact with two contact springs which are fixed at the bottom of the casing and
are connected electrically to the platinum. When the inverting knob or button is
let go, a spring causes the cell to return to its upright position in which condition
it becomes inert. The cell is charged with the exciting liquid through the hole in
the cover which is stoppered by introducing the zinc with a caoutchouc packing
ring.
IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILERS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th September 1882. A communi-
cation to him from abroad by Julius Bergmann, of Hattingen, in the German
Empire.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
STEAM BOILERS," a communication to me from abroad by Julius Bergmann, of
Hattingen, in the German Empire,
This invention has for its object to utilize the gases of combustion in a high
degree, without unnecessarily increasing the weight of the iron parts, and so cause
the deposition of mud at a place little exposed to the heat.
For this purpose I construct the boiler of a cylindrical main portion or shell
placed over the fire grate and a number of parallel tubes joined to the back end of
the main-portion, said tubes being either situated in the same fire-space as the
shell or arranged in two groups, one of which is situated in a separate flue under
the main flue. The feed-water is introduced into the back-end of the lowest tube
and gradually conducted into the upper tubes through short connecting-pipes, one
or more of which are placed in the back-wall of the boiler furnace, while others are
placed inside the main portion of the boiler. The floor of the flue or flues is
provided with several fire-bridges at suitable distances from each other, and the
tubes are entirely enclosed in the flues with the exception of their back ends which
are supported by the back-wall. Owing to the arrangement of the feed-water
supply, the mud collects in the lowest tube, where it is almost harmless, and from
where it can easily be removed.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO PAPER CUTTING MACHINES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Crosland at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd April 1882.
WILLIAM CROSLAND of Newton Heath in the County of Lancaster Engineer
and Machinist "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO PAPER CUTTING MACHINES."
The first part of this Invention relates to a novel mode of securing the knife in
position so that the same can be readily removed without the loss of time which
has hitherto been rendered necessary by having to unscrew the nuts off several
bolts.
In accordance with this invention I dispenso with all bolts and avoid the
consequent loss of time in unscrewing them by securing the knife in position in a
dovetail or angular groove formed in the knife stock or holder-a correspondingly
formed projection being secured along the whole length of the front face of the
knife for this purpose.
All that is necessary in removing the knife say for sharpening purposes is to
slide it sideways out of the groove-a set screw at one end serving to steady the
knife in position and prevent it working itself out.
The second part of my Invention relates to a novel arrangement of mechanism
for raising and lowering the pressure bar and for putting and retaining the
requisite nip upon the same whilst the cutting operation is being performed. I
mount this pressure bar in the usual guide grooves formed in the side frames of
the machine and so as to project through to the outside where toothed racks are
connected to the same. These toothed racks are in gear with pinions on each
extremity of a shaft running a cross underneath the table of the Machine. A pulley
is mounted upon this same shaft over which a strap passes connected at one
extremity to a treddle and having at its other end a heavy weight so that when
the foot of the operator is put upon the treddle the pressure bar is brought down
on to the work-and when the foot is removed the pressure bar rises again by the
action of the balance weight.
When the pressure bar is thus brought down by the foot-the Machine is at
once put in motion and a cam gives extra pressure to the work and continues such
pressure during the descent of the knife by means of a lever and pawl dropping
into a ratchet wheel on the same shaft herein before mentioned. This cam is caused
to revolve by being connected by bevil gearing to the centre shaft which brings
down the knife and is operated by a worm and worm-wheel.
AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF PURIFYING AND DISCOLOURING SACCHARINE LIQUIDS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th February 1882. A communi-
cation from abroad by Hermann Tietz, of Brunswick, Germany.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex. AN IMPROVED PROCESS
OF PURIFYING AND DISCOLOURING SACCHARINE LIQUIDS. A communication from
abroad by Hermann Tictz, of Brunswick, Germany.
This Invention relates to the purification and discolouring of saccharine liquids
of any kind, viz. juices, liquors, syrups and molasses from beet-root, sugar-cane,
sorghum and other sacchariferous vegetable substances, or impure solutions of
milk-sugar, glucose and saccharate of lime, strontia or baryta, by means of
binoxyde of hydrogen (oxygenized water).
The purification of the saccharine liquid is effected by mixing it well with a
solution of binoxyde of hydrogen, or with pure binoxyde of hydrogen, the quantity
being previously determined by trial. If necessary the liquid is heated.
A decomposition of the binoxyde of hydrogen takes place effecting a more or
less complete discolouring of the saccharine liquid which is mostly accomplished by
the formation of a precipitate.
The latter is removed by filtering the liquid or by allowing it to settle and
drawing off the liquid. Instead of employing solutions of prepared binoxydo of
hydrogen, the latter can be employed also in "statu nascendi " for instance by
decomposing binoxyde of barium, strontium or calcium in the liquid under
treatment by acids, preferably sulphuric or carbonic acid.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SIEVES WITH ADJUSTABLE PERFORATIONS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Johann Philipp Lipps at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th June 1882.
JOHANN PHILIPP LIPPS resident in Dresden, Saxony, German Empire, Engineer,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SIEVES WITH ADJUSTABLE PERFORATIONS,"
My invention relates to cylindrical Sieves provided with arrangements for
adjusting or varying the size of the slits or perforations thereof, and the improve-
ments consist in the particular construction and combination of the parts of the
sieve, and in the means for carrying out the adjustment while the sieve is in
operation.
The drum of the sieve consists of two cylinders of sheet metal inserted one into
the other, and so fitted together that, while being in close reciprocal contact, they
may be shifted in respect to each other longitudinally. Both cylinders are provided
in a like manner with holes forming, by preference, transverse slits and registering
together. When the movable one of these cylinders, for instance the outer one, is
so adjusted in respect to the other or inside cylinder, that the holes of the former
correspond with those of the latter, the entire width of the holes will be free for
materials to pass through; whereas, when the relative position of the cylinders is
altered, the bars or solid portions of one cylinder will more or less cover the holes
of the other one, whereby the free width of the holes is reduced.
The adjustment of the movable cylinder may be carried out by different means,
and the appliances used therefor may be such as to allow the adjustment to be
performed at all times, whether the sieve is operating or not, or only while it is at
rest. The adjusting-device may, for instance, consist of a sleeve placed on the
shaft of the sieve and fitted into a plumber-block in which it may be turned by
hand, while it is at the same time forced to screw itself forward or backward by
means of a fixed pin or stud, projecting into a helical or oblique slit with which
the sleeve is provided. This sleeve is coupled to the movable cylinder in such a
manner as not to interfere with the rotation of the sieve, but so, that the longi-
tudinal motion of the sleeve resulting from its being turned, will produce a like
displacement of the movable cylinder relatively to the one which is fixed on the
sieve-shaft.
IMPROVEMENTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frank Hoe at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 25th July 1882.
FRANK HOE, of Burton-on-Trent, in the county of Stafford
FIRE ESCAPES
"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
This invention relates to the construction of an improved fire escape.
In carrying out my invention I employ a number of concentric tubes of light
strong metal and constructed to open out like a telescope under a pressure of water
which is turned into the apparatus through suitable connections so that the tubes
will be forced up to a height varying according to the pressure of water applied;
the water may be supplied either from the street mains or by means of a hand
pump connected with the apparatus at the bottom; the apparatus is provided with
a hook at the top for the purpose of carrying up a rope and pulley for fixing in a
window to allow of lowering the inmates from the the house on fire in a suitable
basket which will be under the control of the persons outside in charge of the
apparatus.
An apparatus of this construction possesses many advantages the more so as it
can be taken up narrow passages into back yards and courts.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH CANS OR BOXES.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Frederick Stoy at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th September 1882.
JOHN FREDERICK STOY of Lime Street in the City of London IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR CONNECTED WITH CANS OR BOXES.
The object of this invention is to make cans such as are used for ready mixed
colours, oils or other liquids or solids or boxes such as are used for dry goods with
an adjustable handle and cover so that they may be conveniently opened and
carried.
According to this invention I fit a handle so that it may slide vertically in a
groove provided at the sides of the can or box outside same or it may be otherwise
suitably fitted to obtain the same end. The cover is provided with suitable packing
or luting so that it may be hermetically sealed when required without soldering.
By making cans or boxes as above they may be used any number of times and
not destroyed by the process of opening (when soldered) as heretofore.
The handle according to this invention is fitted so that when fully drawn up the
can or box may swing the same as if it was pivotted this may be done by
recessing the top of the box at that part where the cross piece comes for holding
the handle in the aforesaid groove.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PERMANENT WAY OR ROADWAY OF RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Terrell Garnett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th November 1882.
WILLIAM TERRELL GARNETT of Bradford in the County of York, Worsted
Spinner "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PERMANENT WAY OR ROADWAY OF RAILWAYS
AND TRAMWAYS
"
The said invention relates to an improved construction of metal sleepers and
chairs whereby the chairs are secured to the sleepers in such a manner that great
strength and sufficient elasticity are given to allow for the vibration of the passing
traffic, besides effecting a reduction in the costs incidental to maintenance.
For this purpose I employ sleepers made by preference of sheets of wrought iron
or steel (although cast iron sleepers may be employed); the plates are corrugated
and the bottom plates of the chairs are made to fit the grooves or corrugations of
the sleepers. The wrought iron or steel plates are cut to any required width and
length according to the gauge between the rails; the plates are made with two,
three, or more bent in and out parts or corrugations and the corrugated plates or
sleepers are secured on the top of a bed of concrete or on the top of wooden
sleepers; the underside grooves or corrugations, when the metal sleepers are secured
on the tops of wooden sleepers, are by preference filled with cement or concrete,
but it is obvious that I can secure my corrugated sleepers onto any practicable
foundations.
The bottom plates of the chairs are made on the underside of the foot plates with
wavy cut in and out parts and so constructed as to tightly fit in the grooves or
corrugations of the sleepers and when the chairs are placed at the correct distance
apart to suit the required gauge of the rails, they are securely fastened to the metal
corrugated sleepers by bolts and nuts, the bolts being passed through the foot
plates of the chairs, through the sleepers and through plates placed across the
undersides of the sleepers, or the chairs may if required be rivetted on to
the sleepers, the plates placed across the underside of the sleepers being
still employed.
I secure chairs or other rail fasteners of tramways on metal corrugated sleepers
constructed in a similar manner to that herein before described
By these means I construct sleepers and chairs for the permanent ways of Railways
and tramways of great strength and sufficient elasticity to allow for the vibration
of the passing traffic, and effect a reduction in the costs incidental to the
maintenance.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STOPPING OF BOTTLES OR VESSELS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by Alfred May Davis at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd November 1882.
ALFRED MAY DAVIS of Esher Street Westminster in the County of Middlesex
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STOPPING OF BOTTLES OR VESSELS
My Invention consists mainly as follows:-In the top of the neck of the bottle
or vessel, and within the substance of which it is composed, I form a groove, by
preference larger at the bottom than the top. In this groove is inserted an india-
rubber ring or other washer.
The stopper is formed with a screw thread a corresponding thread being on the
neck of the bottle.-On the underside of the top portion of the stopper and in
position corresponding to that of the groove in the neck of the bottle, a projection
is formed say semi-circular or of any other convenient shape.-On the stopper
being screwed into the bottle neck, this projection is driven onto the washer in the
neck of the bottle, thus forming an air-tight joint, and the flat underside of the
stopper coming upon the top of the neck of the bottle, forms a water joint.
An important point or feature of my Invention is the use of washers for closing
the mouths of vessels outside the mouth or neck of the vessel by which the
objection to washers as at present applied is removed.
It will be apparent that the same principle may be employed with the screw
outside the neck of the bottle, with a corresponding screw thread on the stopper,
which in this case would come down and cover the top of the neck of bottle.
IMPROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTRIC OURRENTS FOR GENERAL PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Karol Parzelski at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 5th May 1882.
KAROL PARZELSKI of Warsaw in the Empire of Russia but temporarilly at
166 Fleet Street in the City of London, "IMPROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING
ELECTRIC OURRENTS FOR GENERAL PURPOSES."
For the purposes of my Invention I dig a pit or hole so deep as to be at its bottom,
perpetually covered with water. Into it I put zinc in any quantity, large or small,
according to the force I want to produce. Then by the side of the zinc or at any
distance even though thousands of miles from it but also in a pit or hole like that
I have just described I place one or more pieces or plates of some other metal, or
still better some mineral containing large quantities of carbon for instance, coal,
coke or graphite.
After having then connected the zine with the other mineral, by means of a good
conductor, for instance an iron wire, I there obtain a vigorous galvanic current.
This current has moreover the property that its conductor does not require isolation
and can therefore be placed without any isolating envelope in the ground and even
in water.
I can also for the above described simple process, use minerals naturally existing
in the soil, such as layers, veins, seams and nests of calamite, coal and graphite,
instead of the zinc and the other minerals purposely dug in.
Minerals of the same kind in divers localities connected by a good conductor act
as if they were together on the same spot, and it is indifferent whether they exist
naturally in the soil or are purposely dug in.
I can even connect different minerals, for instance, coal with copper and iron.
But of course in order to produce a galvanic current there must be a connection
with zinc. Elements thus consisting of more than two minerals, may be called,
combined Elements.
By this Invention electricity is produced much more cheaply than by batteries,
steam engines etc; and as the conductors do not require isolation they can, without
any isolating envelope, be placed in the earth or in water.
IMPROVEMENTS IN STABLE FITTINGS KNOWN AS " BAILS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by David McGill at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th June 1882.
DAVID MOGILL, of Peckham, in the County of Surrey, Veterinary Surgeon.
IMPROVEMENTS IN STABLE FITTINGS KNOWN AS " BAILS."
My Invention relates to appliances for the division of stables into stalls by .
boards, and known as “bails.” It is designed to render the ordinary "bail” more
secure, and at the same time prevent injury to the horses or other occupants of
the stalls.
The usual bail consists of hanging boards suspended at one end from the
manger rail, and at the other end by a chain from a convenient beam overhead.
The usual method of attachment to this chain is by S or Q hooks.
A double danger may ensue to the horse or other animal occupying the stall
from this or similar attachments. The “bail” may be lifted by a kick and thus
released accidentally from its attachment, or the animal may, by getting his leg
over the fixed "bail," sustain severe injury before he is released.
My improvement consists in an attaching appliance, which cannot be released by
any jerking or lifting of the "bail," but which at the same time is automatically
released should the animal, occupying the stall, get his leg or body over the "bail."
To the top of the plank forming the upper part of the bail I attach a long
strip of elastic wood in the line of the plank, which is set up at a slight angle with
the top edge of the plank, so as to act as a spring.
To the projecting end of this wooden spring, at the outer end of the bail, I fix
a metal socket or sleeve, which slides over and embraces the end of the bail pin.
The end of the bail pin is indented with a recess, into which the head of a
corresponding pin, attached to the slinging chain, exactly fits; so that when the
two pins are brought together and fitted into one another, they form a continuous
bar of uniform exterior, over which fits the sleeve or socket at the end of the spring
bar. So long as the socket or sleeve covers the two jointed pins the bail is
securely suspended from the overhead beam, and cannot be detached by any jerking
or upward lifting of the bail.
Should however the animal in the stall get its leg or body over the bail, the
pressure on the spring bar suffices to draw down the socket or sleeve, and thus
immediately and automatically to release the "bail,"
AN IMPROVED COMBINATION FRAME FOR EXHIBITING SAMPLES AND PRINTED MATTER OR OTHER OBJECTS.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Whetstone at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th January 1882.
THOMAS WHETSTONE of Amwell Street in the County of Middlesex. AN
IMPROVED COMBINATION FRAME FOR EXHIBITING SAMPLES AND PRINTED MATTER
OR OTHER OBJECTS.
The object of my Invention is to produce a frame that will display and attract
attention to such samples or other material and such printed matter as I may
choose to place therein. With this object I construct a frame of any suitable
material and of any size and shape that is most convenient. This frame is divided
into as many compartments as I choose which compartments may be of any size
or dimensions and shape. In these compartments I place the samples of goods or
material of any kind or printed matter such as photographs lithographs or such
kind of advertisements or other objects as may require and these articles can be
secured in these compartments in any convenient manner.
The frame may be
made in such an ornamental or other shape and the compartments also may be so
ornamented and adorned as shall conduce to the attracting of attention to the
frame and the samples or other objects placed in the compartiments thereof. With
this end in view also I may place any object that will attract attention in the
centre of the frame. This frame so constructed and adorned if necessary may be
placed where most convenient for the purpose of courting observation.
AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF CAKE SUITABLE FOR CATTLE FOOD AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Earp at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 5th December 1882.
THOMAS EARP of Newark on Trent in the county of Nottingham. "AN
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF CAKE SUITABLE FOR CATTLE FOOD AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
"
Great difficulty has heretofore been experienced in making cakes with malt and
other materials and it has generally been found necessary to use water or some
adherent materials to make the particles of the cake stick together.
Now I overcome this difficulty by employing germinated or partially malted
grain in combination with malt and other products. I find that the grain when it
has germinated and possesses small sprouts is in a more or less moist condition and
has fibres which hold well together and to other materials when subjected to
pressure, and by this means a good firm cake may be produced. Various ingredients
such as different kinds of grain, beans, seeds, &c can be used to mix with the cake,
and when desired it may with suitable modifications be made into brewer's cake for
convenience as when sending abroad
SHAMPOOING, DOUCHE AND OTHER BATHS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Clarence Bailey at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st February 1882.
CLARENCE BAILEY of Leeds in the County of York.
SHAMPOOING, DOUCHE AND OTHER BATHS.”
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My invention consists in the application of elbow pipes or tubes to the ordinary
hot and cold water taps employed in baths or lavatories and connecting the two
elbows or bends together by a metal or other tube provided with union in the
centre. To this union can be readily attached apparatus of ordinary construction
for sperge, douche, shower and medical baths. These elbows are so constructed
that they may be readily applied to the ordinary taps of baths or lavatories, also
equally readily removed when the taps are required for other purposes.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PILLARS OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Jefferies at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 18th July 1882.
THOMAS JEFFERIES of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Japanner
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PILLARS OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS
"
My invention consists in constructing the pillars of metallic bedsteads by
combining or grouping together in the manner hereinafter described two or more
tubes and connecting the said tubes together and converting them into a bedstead
pillar by means of the appliances hereinafter described.
Pillars of metallic bedsteads made according to my invention are of a more
massive character and of greater rigidity than those made in the ordinary way and
although massive they have a light and elegant appearance and offer great facilities
for the production of ornamental effects.
In constructing a bedstead pillar according to my invention I take for example
three tubes of nearly the length of the complete pillar to be made and I place or
group the said tubes in contact with one another so that their axes are parallel
and in cross section are situated at the angles of an equilateral triangle. I cast
upon the grouped or combined tubes at the required place, the corner block or joint
of the pillar so as thereby to connect them to the said corner block or joint; or
the corner block or joint may be cast separately and the tubes be fitted and fixed
therein.
The ends of those portions of the grouped or combined tubes situated below the
corner block, and constituting the leg of the pillar, have cast upon them or fitted to
them a bottom mount wbich carries a peg to which the castor is adapted The
upper ends of the grouped or combined tubes, situated above the corner block or
joint have cast upon them or fitted to them, a top mount having a screwed peg or
pin to which the vase or terminal ornament of the bedstead pillar is connected
Instead of grouping or combining the series of tubes so that they are in contact
as described the said tubes may be arranged at equal distances apart, leaving a
greater or less space between them.
The tubes arranged in this way have cast upon them or fitted to them at the
proper places, the corner block and mounts as before described.
I do not limit myself to the use of any particular kind of metallic tubes in
carrying my invention into effect as plain or ornamental tubes, either parallel or
taper may be used; and the grouped tubes may either be loose or secured together
before the corner block and mounts are cast upon them or fitted to them.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RECORDING SPEECH
Year: 1882

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th January 1882.
munication from abroad by Jules Désirè Morel, of Roubaix, France.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR RECORDING SPEECH," A communication from abroad by Jules
Dèsirè Morel, of Roubaix, France.
This Invention relates to phonographs and consists chiefly in placing the
marking pin of the vibrating lever over a roller grooved in the centre and carrying
on its surface a travelling band of paper, tin, or other suitable material which is
pressed against the borders of the said roller by two narrow upper rollers. I prefer
to make the travelling band of blotting paper wound on a roller and passed'
through a gelatinous bath, for instance of starch and borax, before it arrives under
the marking pencil. Instead of carrying the paper directly through the bath it
may be passed between two rollers the lower of which dips into a gelatinous bath.
After the paper has been marked by the pencil it is dried and the indentation
made on it may be caused to reproduce the speech in a second instrument similar
to the former, but acting in an opposite sense, that is to say producing sound
instead of receiving it.
IMPROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Feldman at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 20th June 1882.
JOSEPH FELDMAN of 10, Hill Street, Finsbury, in the county of Middlesex,
Umbrella Stick-Manufacturer "IMPROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS."
This invention relates to improvements in umbrellas whereby the appearance
of the umbrella at the notch part is improved and the weight of the umbrella
diminished.
In carrying out my invention I form the stick in two parts, the joint occurring
where the notch is situated-The end of the stick to which the notch (of the
ordinary construction) is fixed is reduced in size with a countersink to receive the
notch whereby I am enabled to employ a notch of smaller dimensions than those
generally in use; the end of the stick to which the notch is fixed is formed with
a hole to receive a screw on the other part of the stick which screws into the said
hole the shorter part of the stick being preferably formed with a shoulder which
fits against the top of the notch.
By this construction I am enabled to employ a much smaller notch than hitherto
without weakening the stick of the umbrella whereby the umbrella when closed
presents a very neat appearance and is lighter to carry than when the ordinary
sized notch and usual stick are employed.
A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR SEPARATING YARN FROM PAPER-TUBES OR COPS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th December 1882. A com-
munication to him from abroad by E. Scheidecker and R. Kohl, of Thann,
in the German Empire
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "A NEW OR IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR SEPARATING YARN FROM PAPER-TUBES OR COPS," a communication
to me from abroad by E. Scheidecker and R. Kohl of Thann, in the German
Empire,
This invention has for its object the separation of thread from the cop-tubes
(waste cops) upon which it has been wound. For this purpose I apply two
concentrical discs provided on their contiguous sides with teeth and leaving.
a clearance between them, one of the discs being fixed, provided with an
inlet and a central outlet, while the other disc is made to rotate. The discs
are preferably made of cast-iron and the teeth of steel, arranged in sectors
which cover only a part of the disc, and arranged so that the teeth of one disc
pass through the interstices of the other disc, without coming in contact with the
latter. The threads unwound by the teeth are drawn out through the central
opening by means of an endless band provided with teeth and travelling
perpendicularly or at an angle to the faces of the two discs.