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IMPROVEMENTS IN BARBED FENCING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Claude Johnson and Samuel
Edmund Phillips at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
31st July 1883.
WALTER CLAUDE JOHNSON and SAMUEL EDMUND PHILLIPS, both of N° 14 Union
Court Old Broad Street in the City of London "IMPROVEMENTS IN BARBED
FENCING
"
According to our invention we construct barbed fencing of thin strips or bands
of iron or steel, such as are commonly known as hoop-iron, in which wo form
holes to receive the spikes of nails, these being passed through the band until the
head of the nail bears against its surface, whereupon this is subjected to the
ordinary process of galvanising or coating with zinc or other metals, by which
means the nails will be securely fixed in the band and serve as barbes. The nails
have by preference flat heads so as not to project to any appreciable extent beyond
the band or hoop-iron, and if required, the metal of the latter may be recessed
somewhat round the hole by stamping, so that the head of the nail, being
contained in the recess, will be quite flush with the band, and will also be more
securely attached thereto. The metal band or hoop iron so prepared may either
be used by itself in lieu of barbed wire strands, for fencing or it may be attached
by nails or screws to wood fencing, being either laid straight thereon or coiled
helically round the bars or posts. In this application the hoop iron may either
have holes punched in it for the reception of the nails for fixing, or these may be
fixed therein in the same manner as the nails serving as barbs, being made to
project on the opposite side to the latter.
When the barbed hoop-iron is used by itself, the nails serving as barbes are also
made to project on both sides thereof, and the metal band may either be used
straight, or it may be helically twisted either on itself or on an iron or steel wire
or strand.
IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Layfield and Humphrey
Layfield at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th September
1883.
JAMES LAYFIELD and HUMPHREY LAYFIELD both of Burnley in the County of
Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILERS
"
This invention relates to improvements in three flued boilers, and is intended to
make them more economical and more efficient as steam producers than any of that
type of boiler at present in use.
The bottom or third flue after passing inside the shell of the boiler in the usual
way for the distance of the fire box, dips down and the flame and products of
combustion are thrown under the boiler bottom and pass along that for the
remainder of its length. The products of combustion from the three flues meet in
a chamber at the back end of boiler and from thence pass along two flues under
the boiler to the front and back again along two side flues after which they escape
up the chimney.
By this arrangement of the flues of the boiler and especially by passing the
main bottom flue under the shell of the boiler, there is secured a displacement of
the large body of water in the boiler bottom which is not the case in the usual
construction of boiler. It is estimated that the wear and tear will be less with an
equivalent evaporation power and that greater facility for cleaning out and for
access for repairs and inspection is afforded.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SEATS DESIGNED TO SERVE ALSO FOR SUPPORTING PERSONS ON OR IN WATER
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Alfred Boxer at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st May 1883.
JAMES ALFRED BOXER, of Folkestone, in the County of Kent, Commander in
the Royal Navy, "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEATS DESIGNED TO SERVE ALSO FOR
SUPPORTING PERSONS ON OR IN WATER'
This invention has reference to seats furnished with tanks or vessels to make
them buoyant in water and is designed to render such appliances readily available
for sudden emergencies and likewise to provide greater supporting capacity within
a given space than is afforded by such appliances as heretofore usually constructed.
For this purpose to the buoyant tank or vessel I so hinge folding seats or flaps that
they can be opened out and retained in the extended position by suitable means
such as rods or bars which according to one arrangement are hook shaped at one
end and are jointed at the other end to the back of the seat so that they can be
turned across the top of the tank or vessel and flaps which are provided with eyes
or staples to receive the hooks; hooks or staples are also provided to receive the
rods or bars near the edge of the top of the tank or vessel of the seat thus affording
additional stability. It will be understood that in the extended position of the
parts above described the rods or bars act as battens serving to withstand the
tendency of the flaps or folding seats to turn up on their hinges or joints. Eyes or
equivalent means are provided at the edges of the folding seats or flaps to receive
hand cords or ropes that may be grasped by persons in the water to save them
from drowning. The buoyant body of the seat which is constructed in water tight
compartments is arranged so that it can float off the legs (which can be fixed to
the deck of a vessel or other structure such as a pier) and in one arrangement I
provide at the bottom of the tank or vessel of the seat three parallel keels to
render the appliance additionally stable when afloat and also to facilitate its
launching.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE RECOVERY OF SULPHUR FROM ALKALI WASTE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Weldon at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 8th January 1883.
WALTER WELDON, of Rede Hall, Burstow, Surrey, IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
RECOVERY OF SULPHUR FROM ALKALI WASTE,
This invention consists in recovering sulphur from alkali-waste by means of the
solution of magnesium chloride which is the residual product which is obtained in
the manufacture of potassium chlorate and sodium chlorate and other chlorates
when these are manufactured, instead of, as at present, by means of the solution
obtained by treating milk of lime with chlorine gas, by means of the solution
obtained by treating milk of magnesia by chlorine gas.
In order to the performance of this invention, a mixed solution of magnesium
chlorate and magnesium chloride must first be produced, by treating milk of
magnesin by chlorine gas as will be well understood. After the crystallization
from this mixed solution of as much as possible of any chlorate formed therein by
double decomposition or otherwise, the mother-liquor remaining must be treated
with solution of calcium sulphydrate, obtained preferably by heating alkali-waste
with water under pressure, though it may also be obtained by treating a mixture
of alkali-waste and water by carbonic acid gas. The said mother-liquor will
consist essentially of solution of magnesium chloride, which will react on the
solution of calcium sulphydrate to give sulphuretted hydrogen (which will go off
as gas), solution of calcium chloride, and magnesium hydrate, which two last will
remain behind in the vessel in which the treatment of the solution of calcium
sulphydrate by the said mother-iiquor is performed. The magnesium hydrate must
then be separated from the solution of calcium chloride and again be treated, in
admixture with water, by chlorine gas, for the formation of more chlorate liquor,
froin which any crystallizable chlorate may then be obtained as will be well under-
stood, leaving a mother-liquor to be employed as before for decomposing more
calcium sulphydrate. In this way sulphur may be recovered from alkali-waste by
means of a residue of the manufacture of chlorates, and chlorates be inanufactured
by means of a residue of the operation of recovering sulphur from alkali-waste,
and so a considerable proportion of the present expense of both manufactures bo
avoided.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO SPRING MATTRESSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th December 1883. A commu-
nication from Léon Leyx of St Florentin in the Republic of France.
25
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex
Engineer, 'IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO SPRING MATTRESSES" [a com-
munication from Léon Leyx of St Florentin in the Republic of France]
This improved spring mattress is Constructed as follows
A wooden rectangular box is provided, it has its angles strengthened by iron
corner pieces. In the frame are fixed a suitable number of cross bars on which are
placed, at suitable distances apart coiled metal springs.
The springs are held in place by leather straps with metal eyelets which form a
kind of network at the top of the mattress.
To prevent the metal.from rusting the springs may be coated with a mixture of
coal-tar, flowers of sulphur, tallow and rosin all in equal parts.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN POLO STICKS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Campbell Rogers at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th April 1883.
JAMES CAMPBELL ROGERS of Paignton in the County of Devon "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN POLO STICKS "
This Invention relates to the construction of improved Sticks for playing the
game of Polo and has for its object to render the said Sticks less liable to fracture
than hitherto and to obtain lightness with great driving power and also to so
construct the handle that the player may by touch know in which direction the
head of the stick lies
According to this Invention the head or cross piece is preferably formed of
Willow and barrel shaped whilst the stick itself is made of solid Whalebone or of
Cane Elm or Hickory the upper portion of this stick extending to the handle is
made oval in cross section with preferably the longer axis of the Oval in line with
the head or cross piece-The said oval form may be obtained by means of strips
or pieces of Cedar or other wood or material fixed or fastened onto the main body
of the stick which may be squared for their reception whilst the lower portion of
the stick near the head or cross piece is protected by a tube or enveloping piece of
India Rubber stretched or fastened over that portion of the stick whereby the
breaking of sticks when they come into collision in the act of striking the ball is
to a great extent obviated The Willow head has the merit of being not only light
but exceedingly tough whilst it is not liable to break or splinter-The handle being
constructed or formed as before described gives rest to the hand, and the player
using it can always tell by the feel whether he is striking fairly with the side of
his Stick or not this being a great advantage in playing especially in a Melee
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND LAYING DOWN THE SHAPE OF ARTICLES OF CLOTHING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Edwards at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th February 1883. A communication
to him from abroad by Pierre Guiyonnet, of Paris in the Republic of France.
EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co:-Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 40, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND LAYING DOWN
THE SHAPE OF ARTICLES OF CLOTHING [A communication to him from abroad
by Pierre Guiyonnet, of Paris in the Republic of France]
"
This invention relates to apparatus used for the purpose of taking the measure
of persons of either sex, for articles of clothing, and in laying down the measures so
taken upon cloth or other material to be cut out.
The apparatus consists of a sufficient number of horizontal and more or less
vertical strips of flexible steel, divided into inches and fractions of inches, or other
convenient divisions.
These strips cross each other and at the points where they so cross they pass
through slides provided with thumb screws by which the strips can be readily
fixed in any desired positions relative to each other. The horizontal strips are
bent and fitted round the person to be measured at different parts of the body,
as for instance round the neck and shoulders, the chest, and the waist.
The apparatus is applied to the right or left side of the body only, strings being
attached to the ends of the horizontal strips which can be passed round the other
side and fastened. At the upper part of the apparatus, shorter strips straight or
curved are used, jointed together and passing through slides in which they can be
fixed by thumbscrews, to pass round or under the neck-and-shoulders.
==
The flexible divided strips being moveable in any direction can therefore be
bent and fitted accurately round the body of the person to be measured, and when -
removed can be laid upon paper or upon the material to be cut, and the correct
shape can be laid down from them, and the material then cut out,
IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSH-CLEANING AND CUTTING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Wilhelm Walther-Vogel at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th September 1883.
WILHELM WALTHER-VOGEL of Ober Entfelden, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSH-CLEANING AND CUTTING MACHINES."
This invention consists in a brush cleaning and cutting machine of the
combination of a rotating cylinder provided with metal pins for cleaning and
carding any kind of brushes, the brushes being pushed along by guiding plates.
Also of a rotating roller with two or more spokes provided with knives standing
at a sharp angle to a counter knife all the knives being regulated at will.
A frame is made fast on two pedestals. The two side parts of the frame are
provided with slits for the purpose of adjusting the two guiding plates at certain
distances from each other or higher and lower by means of screws nuts above and
jam-nuts below the plates.
Each of the pedestals is provided with two movable pillow-blocks the first one
receives a roller with spokes on which knives are attached. The second ones
receive a cylinder provided with pins.
The accurate position can be given to the knives by outside and inside regulating
screws.
Motion can be given to the machine by belts cog-wheels or by hand by means of
a winch crank
IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR DECORATING PASTRY, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PRODUCING PATTERNS OR DRAWINGS ON OTHER MATERIAL д
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Raths at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 16th February 1883.
EDWARD RATHS, of Aarau, Switzerland "IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR
DECORATING PASTRY, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PRODUCING PATTERNS OR DRAWINGS
ON OTHER MATERIAL
д
My invention has for its object the decoration of pastry, but may also be applied
to other articles.
For this purpose I make pattern sheets or strips from a thin non-poisonous and
inelastic metal, preferably tin, and apply them to the surfaces to be decorated.
The pliability of the thin pattern sheets or strips allows them to follow great
inequalities of the surface, such as rapid curves, angles, hollows or projections, and
to adhere to such surfaces, so as to prevent any paint or liquid used for decoration,
to flow under the said sheets or strips.
After the latter have been applied to the surface, the required decoration may
be produced by means of a brush or atomiser, or by following the lines of the
pattern with a pencil or other suitable instrument,
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND TWISTING FIBRES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Morley at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 12th March 1883.
EDWIN MORLEY of the firm of John Morley and Sons of Halifax in the County
of York. Spinners. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR SPINNING AND TWISTING
FIBRES
"
This invention relates to improved apparatus for detecting and removing or
breaking the yarn or twist at the point where portions of extraneous fibre or bits
of yarn have become attached to the main thread. the said apparatus also serves
for the purpose of detecting "doubles."
Apparatus for purpose aforesaid consists of one or more carrying brackets having
affixed thereto two plates adjustable that the inner edges of each pair of plates
form a guage through which the yarn passes. Two or more of such brackets and
plates placed at an angle to each other are used in some cases. When floss or
extraneous fibre on the yarn reaches the slit formed by the two plates it is either
arrested by the plates or the yarn is broken thereby preventing faulty yarn passing
to the bobbins or spool and being afterwards woven producing faulty pieces-
which fault is afterwards removed by hand at considerable cost and trouble.
The ends of the plates referred to are V shaped so as to facilitate passage of the
"end" or yarn into the slit, and the latter is so regulated to the "count" of yarn
that in the event of two ends fouling and so forming a "double" the slit will not
permit the passage of the two threads, but will break the ends so detecting and
preventing continuation of the double.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF SOAP LIQUORS OR SUDS OR OTHER LIQUIDS AFTER USE IN THE WASHING OF RAW SILK PREPARATORY TO ITS MANUFACTURE OR DYEING AND IN THE RECOVERY OF USEFUL PRODUCTS THEREFROM
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Atkinson Crossley at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th July 1883.
ATKINSON CROSSLEY of Adwalton near Bradford in the County of York,
Chemical Manufacturer "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF SOAP LIQUORS
OR SUDS OR OTHER LIQUIDS AFTER USE IN THE WASHING OF RAW SILK
PREPARATORY TO ITS MANUFACTURE OR DYEING AND IN THE RECOVERY OF
USEFUL PRODUCTS THEREFROM,"
My invention relates to the treatment and utilizing of the soap liquors or suds
from the washing of raw silks at silk works and silk dye works and consists in
processes for recovering the fatty acids and the nitrogenous hydrocarbons contained
in such soap liquors or suds.
In order to recover the fatty acids from the said soap liquors or suds I treat
them when hot or cold with an acid or acids, hydrochloric acid being preferred
for this purpose. The fatty acids can then be separated by filtration or skimming.
After the fatty acids have been separated from the aforesaid soap liquors or
suds the residual liquors or suds are treated for the recovery of the nitrogenous
hydrocarbons contained therein by being evaporated with or without the addition
of an alkali. If an alkali is employed I prefer to use soda. After the evaporation
is completed the said nitrogenous hydro-carbons are ready for purification, or after
the removal of the fatty acids as above described instead of evaporating the before
named residual liquors or suds they may be treated with basic acetate of lead or
other metallic salt or salts which I prefer to be basic in order to precipitate the
nitrogenous hydro-carbons contained in the soap liquors or suds above referred to.
In cases where the liquid in which the raw or other silk has been washed
contains no fatty acids the first part of my process is omitted and the said liquid
is only treated for the recovery of the nitrogenous hydrocarbons contained therein.
IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR CIGARS AND CIGARETTES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Lamb Hancock at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th May 1883.
JAMES LAMB HANCOCK of 32 Montague Road Dalston in the County of
Middlesex Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR CIGARS AND CIGARETTES
"
The object of this Invention is certain improvements in or addition to holders
for cigars and cigarettes with a view of securing the cigar or cigarette firmly in
position within or to the holder according to the means, appliance, or addition I
employ for that purpose.
.
According to the first part of my Invention I fit a screw, a plain, or other form
of pin, or I hinge or swivel a pin to a holder in such a manner that the pin enters
the cigar or cigarette and holds it in position with its tip within the holder, or a
series of pins or projections, of levers or other appliances can be so arranged that
they can be caused to nip the cigar or cigarette by a gentle pressure or by being
forced into the outer leaf only.
According to the Second part I fit or arrange a ferrule on or within a tube or
holder to nip, pinch, or otherwise compress the tip of a cigar or cigarette in order
to hold in position, said ferrule may be plain. on the exterior or formed with a
screw thread or roughened to ensure a holding of the cigar or cigarette when
pressed, turned or otherwise inserted to be held therein or thereto, said ferrule to
bit the inside or the outside of the tube or holder, may be slit or formed in several
pieces capable of being closed to by a sliding ring or a screw ring.
According to the third part I fit a light spring plate or a number of spring plates
within or upon a tube so that the end or ends can yield to pressure and in
contracting to exert sufficient grip to hold the cigar or cigarette in position.
According to the fourth part of my Invention I fit a hollow or a solid pin
axially within a tube or holder said pin being plain roughened or screw threaded
on the exterior for securing the cigar or cigarette within the tube or holder.
MENTS IN ADJUSTABLE SADDLES FOR VELOCIPEDES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Burstow at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st May 1883.
EDWARD BURSTOW, of Horsham, in the County of Sussex, Architect,
MENTS IN ADJUSTABLE SADDLES FOR VELOCIPEDES
"
"IMPROVE-
My invention relates to Saddles intended more especially for use on the kind of
Velocipede known as the Centricycle, for which a Patent was granted to me dated
the 16th day of November 1880 N° 4707 and which saddles are applicable also to
any other Velocipede of which the mechanical arrangements are suitable, and
consists in an arrangement for giving both a horizontal and a vertical adjustment
to the Saddle, the former rendering the machine to which it is fixed convenient for
use either by a tall person or a short one, and the latter, by which the Saddle may
be moved backwards or forwards along the Saddle bar, rendering it adaptable to the
peculiarities of the rider and admitting of a proper adjustment of the balance of any
load to be carried.
To the under side of the Saddle I attach in the usual manner a plate from which
project two Vertical rods, on which slide two horizontal bars with screws and
nuts by which they may be clamped both to the vertical rods and to the saddle
bar or spring of the machine, which latter passes between the said horizontal bars.
The vertical rods work through short tubes attached to one of the horizontal bars,
on the exterior of each of which tubes a thread is cut and a nut placed for the
purpose of clamping the Saddle to any part of the Saddle bar, thus giving the
horizontal adjustment, and I also provide screws by which the horizontal bars are
clamped on the vertical rods, so as to fix the Saddle at a greater or less elevation as
may be desired.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BASSINETTE AND PERAMBULATOR BODIES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Mark Rendell Cook and Robert Fred
Cook at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd July 1883.
MARK RENDELL Cook and ROBERT FRED COOK of 42 Warwick Street
Blackfriars Road in the County of Surrey Perambulator Body Makers. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BASSINETTE AND PERAMBULATOR BODIES
"
This invention has for its object the improvements in the manufacture of
bassinette perambulator bodies hereinafter described and shewn in the drawings
accompanying this specification
That these bodies are manufactured on a new construction of our own invention
Figure A being a section shewing a double rail or moulding into which is inserted
pieces of Willow cane or metallic rods which pieces are fastened together so as to
form a fixture-Figure B shews the bottom of a body into which the pieces of
willow cane or metallic rods, fastened together as above described and shewn in
Figure A, are made to fit-Figure C is a side view of one design of a body
as fitted
The advantages of this invention are a great saving in time and labor and also
the quantity of material employed-Such materials may consist of wood, willow,
cane, or metallic castings and various combinations of such materials
IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL FUEL FOR DOMESTIC AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Goad and Thomas Chappell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th April 1883.
EDWARD GOAD, of No 59 Dashwood House, in the City of London, and THOMAS
" AN
CHAPPELL, of Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, in the County of Middlesex,
IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL FUEL FOR DOMESTIC AND OTHER PURPOSES "
Our invention relates to the production of an artificial compound fuel, whereby
comparatively cheap and waste materials are utilized by combination and
preparation, to form a valuable fuel of great cleanliness and heat giving power.
Our compounded fuel consists of a mixture in the following proportions:-
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One ton of Slack or small coal is mixed with half a ton of Breeze or cinder ashes,
one quarter of a ton of chalk, and one quarter of a ton of Clay.
The Slack or small coal, and the breeze, should be prepared, before mixing, in a
finely ground or powdered condition.
The clay and chalk may be first prepared, before being added to the small coal
or breeze, by admixture with a solution in about equal parts of alum and copperas
or soda, in the proportion of about twenty-eight pounds of the solution to every ton
of the mixed clay and chalk.
The whole admixture, is then to be thoroughly ground and kneaded together
in a suitable machine such as a pug-mill, and thereafter may be moulded or
worked into balls, bricks, or other useful shapes, by hand or known machines.
IMPROVED MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR FITTING AND HOLDING THE MOUTH PIECE TO THE STEM OF A PIPE USED FOR SMOKING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Adolph Strauss at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 9th February 1883.
ADOLPH STRAUSS of 42 Basinghall Street in the City of London, Importer and
Manufacturer of Pipes and Fancy Goods IMPROVED MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR
FITTING AND HOLDING THE MOUTH PIECE TO THE STEM OF A PIPE USED FOR
SMOKING
The object of this Invention is the employment of magnetic power discs or ends
of mounts capable of being affixed to the stem or to the inner end of a mouth
piece of a wood such as Briar root, Cherry, or other wood or it may be meerschaum
or other material provided with a mouthpiece of a separate body of the same or
other material.
I also fit or arrange a ferrule, cap, or edge piece of a metal capable of magnetic
attraction on, say, the mouthpiece for the purpose that it shall be held to the stem
by magnetic action alone or in combination with the touch of an overlapping edge
of the ferrule or otherwise.
By this Invention a clear and parallel passage through from the bowl can be
ensured
"
JMPROVEMENTS IN MAGNETO ELECTRIC MACHINES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Francis Joel at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th January 1883.
HENRY FRANCIS JOEL, of Dalston, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
'JMPROVEMENTS IN MAGNETO ELECTRIC MACHINES.'
My invention relates to a magneto electrical machine for the conversion of
dynamic energy into electricity by the rotation of a wheel or ring of inductors,
generally termed and hereinaftor described as armatures, through a series of
magnetic fields, and it is designed to effect this by a simple and economical
construction of machine.
My invention consists mainly in a novel construction of wheel armature which
depends for its action upon the passage across the magnetic fields of a series of
single section bars or one wire armatures.
These single section bar armatures are preferably flat, and are ranged radially
between two concentric supporting rings of different diameters.
This wheel is preferably of copper, and it is suitably mounted upon bearings so
ns to cause the radial portions or spokes of the armature to pass in rapid succession
through a series of magnetic fields. The magnetic fields are produced by a number
of permanent or electro-magnets, the poles or cores of which are concentrated to a
point or edge, and are paired immediately in front of one another in such close
proximity as only to allow of bare clearance of the revolving ring, thus giving a
series of intense and localized magnetic fields, alternated by spaces of little or no
magnetic excitation. I attach suitable collecting brushes and contact rings to
collect from the outer and inner supporting rings the electricity generated by the
passage of the series of radial bar armatures through the magnetic fields.
My ring or wheel armatures may be several, and mounted side by side, insulated
from one another, and coupled up in either series or multiple arc; or a ring or
rings of different diameters may be mounted inside one another and insulated, a
separate series of magnets controlling each set in this latter case.
The magnets may be all North poles on one side, and all South poles on the
opposite side of the ring, or they may be mounted alternately North and South,
according as I require a continuous or alternating current.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR CASTING INGOTS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR CIRCULAR SAWS, TYRE BLOCKS, AND SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Sydney William Wilkinson and
James Banham at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
4th May 1883.
SYDNEY WILLIAM WILKINSON and JAMES BANHAM both of Sheffield in the
County of York "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR CASTING
INGOTS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR CIRCULAR SAWS, TYRE BLOCKS, AND SIMILAR
PURPOSES
"
This Invention relates to improvements in the means and apparatus for casting
Ingots specially applicable for circular saws, tyre blocks, and similar purposes
This Invention consists in the construction of a mould mounted on and fixed or
fitted to a spindle or shaft rotated (by preference) by a set of vanes or blades fixed
to or fitted to or forming part of the said spindle the said vanes being formed like
the blades of a fan, inserted in a fixed case with inlet and outlet for the steam, and
being acted on by a jet of steam by which the spindle and mould are rotated.
The mould is in two parts bolted or cottered together so as to be readily removed
to release the ingot when cast. The top part or top half of the mould is fitted
with a runner box which is recessed to receive and retain a loose bush which can
be readily replaced
This invention consists secondly in the construction of a rotatory mould which
can be filled from the bottom so that the molten steel can rise up in the mould and
drive out the air-through an opening in the top-as it ascends, and the steel in
the mould be subjected to the pressure of the steel in the runner. By one arrange-
ment the runner tube of the revolving mould will be extended and enter the
stationary runner box and the steel being fed into the said stationary runner box
will rise up into the revolving mould through the revolving runner tube. By
another arrangement the runner box will be above the mould and rotate with it
and one or more runners will connect the said box with the under side of the
mould through which the steel will be fed into the mould
The moulds can be made so as to cast one or more ingots or blocks for circular
saws, tyres, and other similarly shaped articles

page_text: The mould will or can be made in segments secured together by bolts and
springs, so as to expand and contract easily, one segment being made to project or
lap over the next one or the segments can be fitted together with packings of metal
which is a good conductor of heat, or instead of being built up of segments the
moulds may be constructed of rings, one ring projecting over the next and being
partly or wholly slit through so as to expand and contract readily
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOILERS FOR HEATING WATER AND [FOR] GENERATING STEAM
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Michael Holroyd Smith at the Office.
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th January 1883.
MICHAEL HOLROYD SMITH of Halifax in the County of York Mechanical and
Consulting Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOILERS FOR
HEATING WATER AND [FOR] GENERATING STEAM."
The improved boilers herein after described are specially designed for securing
rapid generation of steam (or water heating) compactness and affording large heating
surface in proportion to size of boiler.
In the construction of vertical high pressure boilers according to this my said
invention the fire box top or crown is inclined and provided with fire tubes passing
through a water compartment or water way leading to a combustion chamber the
heated gases thence pass by way of other fire tubes (by preference inclined) through
the body of the boiler to the smoke box
Another construction comprises a central fire box having at each side thereof a
water tube horizontal. each of which by pipes comunicate with inclined water and
steam containing vessels or boilers having fire tubes the whole being enclosed within
brick work or an outer casing.
Another construction comprises a central horizontal water tube comunicating by
pipes with two water and steam containing vessels or boilers having fire tubes the
whole being enclosed within brick work or outer casing and having furnaces and
stoking holes at both sides of the central horizontal water tube.
IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES, TRICYCLES, AND OTHER MANUMOTORS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Frank Smith at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th August 1883.
JAMES FRANK SMITH of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Architect and
Civil Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES, TRICYCLES, AND OTHER
MANUMOTORS."
This invention has for its object the attachment of appliances whereby a greater
amount of the power exerted may be made available for producing locomotion, and
also for regulating the speed of the same.
The invention consists in constructing the frame of the machine with brackets
placed either under, in front, or at the rear of the seat, and rising sufficiently high
to carry a crank shaft, to which one or more fly wheels are attached, so that when
the power is applied, inclines or other obstacles may be surmounted with greater
ease to the traveller or operator. The impetus being once given, the momentum
acquired by the fly wheel or wheels materially assist the traveller when progressing
on irregular or ascending ground, without calling forth increased exertion at these
particular points. When the power is to be applied by the foot, it is preferred to
have the brackets so placed that the crank shaft and fly wheel or wheels are at the
rear of the seat, but when motion is to be given by the hands it is preferable that
the brackets should be so fixed that the fly wheel and shaft supported by them
should be in front of the operator. The size and weight of the fly wheels have
to be proportioned to the size and weight of the vehicle and the power to be
employed
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WINDING OR PREPARING SLIVERS FOR COMBING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Terry and John Scott at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd July 1883.
WILLIAM TERRY and JOHN SCOTT, of Dudley Hill near Bradford in the County
of York, Commission Wool Combers "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
WINDING OR PREPARING SLIVERS FOR COMBING MACHINES
"
This Invention relates to apparatus for winding the wool upon a cylindrical
coro so as to form the same into a ball or bobbin ready for feeding the combing
machine. According to our invention the wool after passing through a gill box is
wound upon a cylinder having a flange at each end secured thereto by means of a
central spindle and lock nuts, thus forming a solid bobbin. The central core rests
upon a friction roller of large diameter and slightly shorter in length than the
distance between the bobbin flanges, so as to avoid any frictional contact therewith.
The wool after leaving the gill combs or feed rollers passes over and around the
central core of the bobbin and the necessary tension is imparted by means of a
presser bar and weighted lever.
As the bobbin fills it rises in slotted guides and when full the bell crank lever,
to which the presser bar is attached knocks off the strap guide
The lock nuts which secure the ends or flanges of the bobbin are then removed,
the spindle withdrawn, and the central coro and wool wound thereon is taken
away and another core substituted. By our invention the fibres on the extreme
edges of the bobbin are not subjected to any rubbing or friction, as is the case in
machines in which the ball is formed between stationary end plates or flanges.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THRASHING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Ambrose Brydges at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th August 1883. Com-
municated to him by Messrs Vogel & Co. of Neusellershausen in the Kingdom
of Saxony and German Empire
EDWIN AMBROSE BRYDGES of Berlin in the German Empire
"
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN THRASHING MACHINES a communication to mo by Messrs Vogel & Co of
Neusellershausen in the Kingdom of Saxony and German Empire
This invention relates to improvements in thrashing machines
According to my said improvements in thrashing machines a special sieve is
inserted in order that the corn may pass direct from the lower hopper into the
chaff box so as to prevent the same being mixed with the short straw.
This said sieve is arranged directly beneath the thrashing drum is attached to
the upper receptacle or shaker with which it simultaneously moves.
The arrangement of this said sieve has the advantage that the loss on corn is
extremely small and the capacity of the machine increased.
A portable engine can be connected to the said thrashing machine so that the
power is transmitted from the fly wheel of the said engine by means of a tarred
hempen or other rope, to a suitable combined strap and cord drum arranged at the
rear part of the said thrashing machine from whence rotary motion is transmitted
to a suitable strap dium by means of an india rubber or other suitable strap for
driving the beating drum or cylinder.
The shaft to the combined cord and strap drum rests in metallic bearings in
cast iron brackets which said bearings are so arranged that the same can be
adjusted in the horizontal plane in order to give the india rubber strap the requisite
tension
Suitable adjusting screws are employed for holding the said shaft bearings in
correct position-The cast iron bearing brackets are screwed to wrought iron
bands which said bands are securely attached to the framework of the thrashing
machine.
The said combined cord and strap drum serves simultaneously to receive the
cord or cable from the engine and the strap for driving the druin of the machine
In consequence of the employment of the said combined cord & strap drum the
placing and starting of the machine for cord driving is considerably simplified it
only being necessary to employ a similar number of supporting rollers or cord
drums when the distance between engine and machine is considerable.
IMPROVEMENTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Hingston Lindon at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 8th September 1883.
HINGSTON LINDON of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
COTTON BALE FASTENINGS
"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
As nothing is stronger than its weakest part, so a bale-tie perforated for its
fastening in the manner customary in Egypt and many other places is as weak as
if made throughout, except near the perforated part, of the section left intact at the
point where the button or rivet hole has been cut out. As too, in punching the
ties, they are usually somewhat punished round the hole, in practice at least one
fifth of the entire width of the bale-tie is sacrificed to the button-hole. Now my
invention is designed to avoid this button-hole altogether and yet produce a hoop
available for use with the Egyptian cotton presses and for other applications, where
now the buttoned and rivetted ties are used, and thus avoid this loss of one fifth
part of the strength. I bend the ends of my ties over, so as to form at each end a
small loop nearly cylindrical or of flat oblong shape, preferably at the inside, of the
bale-tie. Over these two loops when in position on the bale, I place a simple
rectangular buckle with rectangular hole, just sufficient in size to admit the loops,
the loops projecting through it. A V, or U-shaped wire or bar having one leg
rather longer than the other and both considerably longer than the width of the
tie, is next inserted with one leg in each loop and its ends projecting out of each
end of each loop against the buckle. Instead of an U-forelock two forelock pins
might be used.
The buckle pressing against the slight hollows between the projecting part of
the loops and the two thicknesses of band is not itself sufficient to keep the tie
closed.
Except during the insertion of the forelock whether of U-shape or merely pins,
which are used to lock the loops after they have been put through the buckle, the
slightest strain would suffice to withdraw the band from the buckle except prevented
by the forelock. The joint can be undone by pulling the U-piece out by means of
a pointed instrument and knocking the buckle off.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TUBES OR HOLDERS FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Thomas Jones at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd July 1883.
GEORGE THOMAS JONES of Oxford in the County of Oxford IMPROVEMENTS
IN TUBES OR HOLDERS FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
The Invention has for its object improvements in tubes or holders for cigars or
cigarettes and relates to means whereby the end of the cigar or cigarette contained
within the socket of the tube or holder can, when the cigar or cigarette has been
consumed by smoking, be readilý discharged therefrom.
In carrying my Invention into effect I form the tube or holder with a plunger
or pusher which is retained in its retracted or normal position by a spring acting
thereon but which can when desired be pushed forward so as to discharge the end
of the cigar or cigarette from the tube or holder. If desired the spring may be
dispensed with in which case the pusher or plunger will be operated in both
directions by hand.
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL CLOTH
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Wolfendale at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 6th June 1883.
JAMES WOLFENDALE, of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster.
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL CLOTH
"
"IMPROVE-
This invention relates to the manufacture of floor, stair, and lobby oilcloth,
leather cloth, table baize and other kinds of oil cloth; and consists principally in
the use or employment of prepared gas tar or coal tar mixed with other materials
as hereinafter described for the preparation of the canvas or other fabric employed
for the manufacture of such oil clothis.
To prepare the gas tar or coal tar for this purpose I first boil or otherwise treat
it in a suitable vessel for a sufficient length of time to evaporate or otherwise get
rid of the naphtha, ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen, creosote, dead or light oil, or
other injurious or non-drying constituents and to deprive it of a great portion of
the coloring matter.
I then mix therewith china clay, whiting or other suitable earthy or calcareous
matter to give it the necessary consistency or body and I then apply this mixture
(either by itself or with the addition of a small proportion of linseed or other oil,
to the canvas or other fabric of which the oilcloth is to be made by means of any
suitable spreading machine.
When the oilcloth has been sufficiently coated with this mixture and dried I
afterwards proceed to print and finish the same in the ordinary manner.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN PUMPS FOR DRAWING AND FORCING LIQUIDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Imray at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 15th November 1883. Communicated to
him from abroad by Gustave Hanarte of Mons in the Kingdom of Belgium,
Engineer
"
JOHN IMRAY of N° 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex "AN IMPROVEMENT IN PUMPS FOR DRAWING AND FORCING LIQUIDS
[communicated to him from abroad by Gustave Hanarte of Mons in the Kingdom
of Belgium, Engineer
This invention relates to a special construction and arrangement of the passages
in pumps, particularly such as are employed for forcing water or other liquid to
great height or with great velocity, the object being to give a gradual increase of
speed to the liquid as it passes from its state of rest, retarding it as it passes
through the valves of the pump, so that it acts on them mostly by pressure. For
this purpose, the suction pipe is very much enlarged at the entering mouth and
becomes gradually reduced in diameter till its area becomes that which is properly
proportioned to the area of the pump itself according to the usual rules. Towards
the suction valves, the area again expands, the passage through the valves being
made so great that their lift is very small. Between the suction valves and the
pump barrel, the area again gradually contracts so that the liquid as it enters the
barrel of the pump has approximately the same velocity as that of the piston or
plunger. From the barrel the outlet is of corresponding area, the passage gradually
increasing to the discharge valves, which, like the suction valves, are of great area.
Beyond the discharge valves, the passage again gradually contracts till it attains
the proper area of discharge pipe. When an air vessel is employed, the inlet to
it, beginning with the same area as the discharge pipe, gradually expands, so that
the surface liquid in the air vessel is almost quiescent. The form of the passages
to give the necessary expansions and contractions of area may be considerably
varied, but generally a parabolic form is to be preferred
IMPROVEMENTS IN INSTRUMENTS FOR ASCERTAINING LEVELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th November 1883. A communication
from Christian Carl Goetze of Cöthen in Anhalt, German Empire, Builder..
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN INSTRUMENTS FOR ASCERTAINING LEVELS [a com-
munication from Christian Carl Goetze of Cöthen in Anhalt, German Empire,
Builder]
"
The apparatus hereinafter described can be easily folded up and placed in a case
or in the pocket whilst the waterlevels heretofore used are very cumbersome for
transport.
It consists of two level glasses or cylinders which, to allow communication of
the liquid contained in the same are connected by a pipe. The parts where the
ends of the level glasses join the ends of the pipe can be inserted and clamped or
fixed in two sleeves rigidly attached to rods or bars which can be folded up by
means of hinges. A centrepiece connecting the rods or bars is provided with an
aperture so as to allow the level properly so called to be rotated on a vertical pivot
forming the top of a rod supporting the level. A nut of suitable shape screws
upon the pivot and serves to fix the level in position.
The rod has at its lower end a screw thread and screws into a nut provided
either in the handle of a walking stick or in a stand.
A tripod to be used for this instrument may consist of a sleeve slipped onto the
end of the walking-stick above referred to and screwed fast. Legs (for which
lengthening bars may, if desired, be provided) have shoulders or projections at
their end by which they are attached to a projecting part of the sleeve and these
legs give sufficient firmness to the stand to prevent its being affected by vibrations