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IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS TO FACILITATE THE IMPREGNATION OF AIR OR VAPOUR WITH ANTISEPTIC OR OTHER MATTERS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Mayer at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st September 1882.
JOSEPH MAYER of the firm of Mayer & Meltzer of Great Portland Street in
the County of Middlesex Surgical Instrument Manufacturer "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MEANS OR APPARATUS TO FACILITATE THE IMPREGNATION OF AIR OR VAPOUR WITH
ANTISEPTIC OR OTHER MATTERS
"
The object is to apply dry sprays as a means of neutralizing the evil effects of
noxious vapours or exhalations or the production of agreeable odours in Hospital
wards, sick chambers or other places and in surgical operations.
For this purpose I obtain a current of air by means of bellows operated by the
foot or by other suitable means and this air by a flexible or other tube I pass into
and so as to circulate through a series of chainbers containing pumice stone cotton
other suitable matters adapted to be impregnated with or hold the antiseptic or
other matter whilst the air in passing through the same becomes impregnated
therewith. The air having passed through the series of chambers and having
become impregnated is conducted away therefrom by a flexible or other tube into
another chamber provided with a series of holes or outlet tubes with nozzles which
may be adjustable so as thereby to obtain a series of jets therefrom and this
chamber with its jets is capable of being moved in various positions and held as
desired by set screw or otherwise.
In place of using air for purely dry sprays steam or other vapour may be
emploved.
IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILWAY WAGGON AND CARRIAGE COUPLINGS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Archer, junior, at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th September 1882.
THOMAS ARCHER junior of Dunston Engine Works, Dunston, in the County
of Durham, Engineer. IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILWAY WAGGON AND CARRIAGE
COUPLINGS
My improvements in Railway Waggon and Carriage couplings consist in the use
of many seperate strands of small wire combined into short ropes or fabrics with
interlaced thimble eye pieces or stoppers secured therein at the ends and adapted
to the hooks or other attachments on the waggons or carriages to be coupled; the
ropes or fabrics being so constructed as to secure an approximately equal pull upon
each wire and so to combine the extreme of lightness with adequate strength and
at the same time to afford such flexibility as to obviate risk of uncoupling from
the approach of the waggons or carriages to each other By this means I am
enabled to increase the facility of coupling two waggons or carriages without
requiring a man to pass between them and therefore to effect the coupling with
less risk of accident from this cause than with the use of heavy chains as in the
usual existing system.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE SUPPORTS FOR ROWLOCKS FOR OUTRIGGER BOATS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Hawks Clasper at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th February 1882.
JOHN HAWKS CLASPER of Oxford and Wandsworth Boat Builder "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE SUPPORTS FOR ROWLOCKS FOR OUTRIGGER BOATS
This Invention of improvements in the supports for rowlocks for out rigger boats
relates to the manner of supporting the rowlock and the pin on which it swivels.
As usually constructed the base of the pin on which the rowlock swivels is fixed
to the junction of the stays projecting from the boat; below the base line of the
rowlock on which the oar rests, the consequence is this, that the pressure of the oar
on the pin with at least half the depth of the pin acts with this length of leverage
to twist the base of the pin, the pin and the stays of the outrigger.
In this my Invention I place at the back of the pin or at the back of the rowlock
if fixed and nearly midway between the upper and lower portion on which the
rowlock swivels a supporting web or fin and this web or fin leads to the junction
of the stays so that the pressure of the oar acting through the rowlock is brought
more nearly in line of the points of junction of the stays whether three or four;
and much if not all of the twist on the pin is prevented, thus giving greater effect
to the stroke of the oar. The same will apply to the fixed rowlock supported as I
have indicated.
In my Invention I get the line of the junction of the stays between the upper
and lower portions of the pin on which the rowlock swivels or of the rowlock and
can thus use a lighter set of stays or using the same stays have greater strength to
stand against the pull of the oar or scull.
IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH GAS ENGINES TO PREVENT FLUCTUATION OF THE GAS IN THE MAINS OR SUPPLY PIPES OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Grantley Beechey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th November 1882.
CHARLES GRANTLEY BEECHEY of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
Engineer "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH GAS
ENGINES TO PREVENT FLUCTUATION OF THE GAS IN THE MAINS OR SUPPLY
PIPES OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES
"
It has been found that gas engines when at work produce an objectionable
fluctuation or unsteadiness of the gas in the mains or supply pipes; this is chiefly
due to the repeated inflation or expansion and recoil and contraction of the india
rubber bag or equivalent device which is employed as a sort of reservoir or gas
holder between the main or supply pipe and the gas inlet of the engine.
Now one object of my Invention is to prevent this fluctuation and my invention
consists in introducing a controlling or regulating apparatus between the said bag
or equivalent device and the gas main or supply pipe. This controlling or
regulating apparatus consists by preference of a cock, valve or other like con-
trivance actuated by a lever which is connected with or rests upon the bag or
equivalent device so that as the bag becomes more or less inflated the lever closes
the cock to a greater or less degree and consequently less or more gas is admitted
to the bag. The flow of gas thus becomes constant instead of intermittent as is
now the case and all fluctuation or unsteadiness in the gas main or supply pipe is
obviated.
My apparatus also enables me to dispense with a separate gas supply to the
master burner of the gas engine which has hitherto been necessary to give the.
requisite steadiness to the light.
My apparatus further obviates the necessity of turning off the supply to the bag
when starting because the pressure in the bag is never greater than when the
cock is closed.
The general working of the engine is also improved because the gas in the bag
is always of the same pressure and that pressure is almost the same as that of the
atmosphere.
MENTS IN METAL ROLLERS, USED IN COATING STEEL AND IRON PLATES WITH TIN AND OTHER METALS OR ALLOYS."
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by David Davies at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 24th April 1882.
DAVID DAVIES of Crumlin in the County of Monmouth, Engineer IMPROVE-
MENTS IN METAL ROLLERS, USED IN COATING STEEL AND IRON PLATES WITH TIN
AND OTHER METALS OR ALLOYS."
The object of this Invention is to reduce the weight, without reducing the
diameter of rollers used in manufacturing or coating metallic plates with tin or
other metals or alloys, and thereby to reduce the heat-absorbing capacity of such
rollers.
Hitherto, these rollers have, generally, been made in one piece of solid metal,
with bearings turned down to the requisite size at each end thereof; these solid
rollers require to be heated to the same temperature, or thereabouts, as that of
the grease wherein they work, before uniform coating can be attained, which
heating occupies much time, and causes great waste of grease by the continued
evaporation thereof. My improved rollers will save a large portion of such time
in beating, and consequently considerably reduce the loss of the grease by
evaporation.
In some cases the body of the roller consists of a plain steel or iron tube, filled
in at each end, for a certain distance, with solid metal plugs having the bearings of
the roller turned down at each end thereof. Although a portion of the rollers thus
made are hollow in the middle, the solid portions at each end have and retain the
same capacity for absorbing heat and evaporating grease as that of similar solid
rollers of equal lengths.
My improved rollers are constructed as follows:—
I make hollow rollers, or cylinders, with a uniform section of metal throughout
of, say, lap-welded wrought-iron tubing, reduced at each end thereof to form the
bearings, either by swaging, rolling, spinning, or in dies under a steam-hammer, or
hydraulic or other efficient presses. Or I may make hollow rollers with the ends
to form the bearings separate, and, by welding each end into or on the respective
ends of a plain tube, so form the rollers. Or I may make similar cylinders, and

page_text: tap the inside thereof at each end to receive reducing thimbles, having a suitable
thread on the outside thereof, to be screwed into the cylinder, and thus to form the
roller bearings. Or I may make the hollow rollers with one plain piece of weldless
steel, maleable or cast-iron tubing, and insert therein hollow ends, of equal
sectional area to the cylindrical portion, to form the bearings. Or I may make
similar hollow rollers with or without on end bearing cast therein, and having the
end or ends thereof recessed on the inside to receive the bearing pin or pins, which
may be made hollow.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BOLTING SIFTING AND CLEANING MEAL FLOUR AND OTHER PULVERULENT SUBSTANCES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Stuart Bruce at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 24th June 1882.
STUART BRUCE of No. 6 Batchelors Walk Dublin Ireland Seed Merchant.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BOLTING SIFTING AND CLEANING
MEAL FLOUR AND OTHER PULVERULENT SUBSTANCES."
This Invention relates to a peculiar combination and arrangement of parts
constituting a new or improved machine or apparatus specially devised and
adapted for "bolting" sifting purifying separating sizing dusting and cleaning
meal flour dry pigments or colors chemical powders ground ores coffee sugar and
other ground or pulverulent or finely divided or crystallized substances.
"
According to my said Invention I employ a holder or case by preference of
oblong form and having a suitable inlet or feed opening at one end which holder
or case is to be covered in or enclosed in such a manner as to prevent as far as
possible any escape of the meal flour or other finely divided substances operated
upon except by the proper discharge outlet or outlets. Inside this enclosed holder
4
or case I mount one or more or any desired number of more or less inclined
bolting" cloths or fine sieves suitable for effecting the above mentioned operations
which bolting" cloths may if desired be so made and fitted as that any one or
more of then can be withdrawn from and re-placed in the said covered holder or
case. Properly constructed brushes may also if desired be used in conjunction with
the said "bolting cloths to prevent them from becoming foul or clogged.
"
When
the "bolting" cloths are arranged in tiers of two or more they should by preference
increase in fineness towards the bottom of the series. The enclosed or covered
holder or case is guided by suitable fixed guides attached to the main framing of
the machine and so disposed as to permit of its receiving at both ends a reciprocating
or jigging motion in either a vertical or in a nearly vertical direction the said
motion being derived from cranks eccentrics levers or other suitable mechanical
appliance and connecting rods worked from a driving shaft or shafts in the main
standards actuated by hand or by power.
The weight of the enclosed or covered holder or case with its "bolting" cloths
inay be counterbalanced by springs or other suitable contrivance. The meal, flour

page_text: or other finely divided substance is fed into the bolter from a hopper provided with
an adjustable feed and whilst it passes in succession along and through the several
bolting" cloths it is subjected to the upward jigging motion which ensures the
passage through the said cloths or sieves of the heavier and finer portions of the
flour or other finely divided substance whilst the lighter and larger portions pass
along the inclined surfaces of the said "bolting" cloths into separate compartments
for collecting the different qualities of the flour or finely divided material.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GUIDES FOR SPINNING MACHINERY
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Peter Sharp at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 4th July 1882.
PETER SHARP, of Aberdeen, in the County of Aberdeen, North Britain.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GUIDES FOR SPINNING MACHINERY
"
This Invention is applicable to machinery for spinning various kinds of fibrous
materials, and its object is to diminish waste, and trouble or loss of time when a
thread breaks and requires piecing.
The waste and other inconveniences attending the breakage of a thread in
ordinary spinning machines are mainly due to the continuation of the feeding and
drawing action, and the Invention consists in providing a special movable or
adjustable guide which is to be shifted by hand when a thread breaks and then
holds the rove or sliver just to one side of or free from the nipping parts of the
retaining and drawing rollers, so that the rove or sliver ceases for a time to be fed
and drawn down. The constructive details of the laterally movable guide are
susceptible of variation to suit different machines but in one simple modification
adapted for what are known as "dry" or "cold water" spinning frames for flax,
tow, hemp, or jute, each guide consists of a small slide fitted so as to be movable
upon the guide rod or bar situated in the machine above the retaining rollers.
The slide is formed with a small handle or knob for moving it by, and with a spring
pressed point for keeping it steadily in either of its two positions, the extent of
its lateral movement being determined by a slot in the guide bar through which a
stud fixed to the slide passes. The slide is formed with a guide eye at the top
and also with a guide fork at its lower part; and the rove or sliver passes through
the guide eye at the top, through the slot in the guide rail and through the fork
at the bottom. In one position of the slide it guides the rove or sliver so as to
pass in the normal manner between the retaining and drawing rollers; but on
breakage occurring the worker moves the slide laterally and the slide then guides
the rove or sliver so as to be unacted upon by the retaining and drawing rollers,
and at the same time nips and holds it against the end of the slot in the guide
bar.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN ROVING SPINNING AND TWISTING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES BY CAP FRAMES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Illingworth at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th October 1882.
HENRY ILLINGWORTH of Bradford, in the County of York Worsted Spinner
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN ROVING SPINNING AND
TWISTING FIBROUS SUBSTANCES BY CAP FRAMES
In roving, spinning or twisting yarns on cap frames according to present
arrangements it is found, especially when spinning the coarser qualities of yarns,
that the yarn on the bobbin appears much rougher than corresponding yarn that
has been spun on the Flyer Frame.
The object of the invention is to remedy this evil and I find that this object is
attained by increasing the extent of the rubbing surface on the yarn as it passes
the edge of the cap to the bobbin.
For this purpose, according to one arrangement, I form the lower, or rubbing edge
of the cap with a projecting, but by preference rounded, ring of considerably
increased thickness particularly at that part, so as to obtain considerably increased
surface friction to the yarn as fed onto the bobbin.
By another arrangement I apply an extra ring to act with the cap, and with
the upper edge of that ring, or the part of it nearest the edge of the cap passing
slightly within that edge.
The parts are adjustable in relation one to the other.
Or, otherwise I arrange a secondary surface to act with the rubbing edge of the
cap so as to afford an extra rubbing surface, or an extended rubbing surface, to act
on the yarn as it is fed onto the bobbin.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF WASHING FABRICS AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Patterson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 30th October 1882.
"
JOHN PATTERSON of Belfast in the County of Antrim Ireland “Linen
Bleacher "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF WASHING FABRICS AND IN
APPARATUS THEREFOR
"
This Invention has for its object the thorough washing of fabrics when in the
rope state or form by causing each piece to cushion on an opposite piece while
being squeezed in a wet state between rollers and thereby kneading and cleansing
each other while being acted upon by the water. The invention further consists in
certain combinations of machinery or apparatus so arranged as to secure the above
object in the processes of cleansing all kinds of textile fabrics. For the purposes of
my invention I use a tank preferably of iron, wherein are placed two sparred
wooden carrying rollers parallel to each other and to the front of the tank, carried
by centres. Parallel to the said rollers I place wooden bowls of the usual diameter
The centres of the first bowl work in fixed bearings, and such bowl is driven in
the ordinary way The second bowl is of the like diameter and works on centres
resting in moveable bearings in bell cranked levers to which are attached
adjustable weights or springs whereby the pressure at the nip is regulated
according to the requirements of the fabrics being operated upon
When in
motion, the first bowl drives the second bowl by contact through the intermediate
pieces of cloth The second bowl is removed from contact by lifting the levers.
The cloth ropes are entered and so guided that the turns of the cloth ropes
round the first bowl come opposite to the turns of the cloth rope round the second
bowl and are controlled by guide rails When two cloth ropes are washed
simultaneously, they enter at one end, and go out at the other, and when four cloth
ropes are washed simultaneously, they enter at both ends and go out at the centre
or vice-versa. The clean water is spurted from an overhead perforated pipe
causing the water to fall on the cloth directly as it enters the nip of the two bowls.
The soiled water flows constantly out from the bottom of the tank and so keeps
the tank free to receive a constant supply of the clean water The height of the

page_text: water in the tank is regulated by sliding sluices which allow the soiled water to
flow away while retaining the water at whatever height is required In operation
the turns of the ropes swollen with water as they enter the nip, are pressed and
kneaded against each other and by this contact and parting they mutually loosen
the dirt and liquors from the cloth; enabling the water to take up the soiled
materials and carry them with it out of the tank.
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COLLARS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Baker Hayward at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th December 1882.
RICHARD BAKER HAYWARD, of Addle Street, in the City of London,
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COLLARS,"
"IMPROVE-
This invention consists in improvements in the manufacture of linen and other
collars, to be worn around the neck, by means of which improvements the strap,
band or other analogous part of the necktie which is usually passed round the neck
is maintained in its proper position.
At each side of the back button hole in the band or other analogous or suitable
part of the collar are formed two or more slits, slots or apertures at right angles, or
nearly so, to the length of the collar and such slits, slots or apertures are arranged
in pairs, and are, by preference, parallel to each other. The strap, band or other
analogous part of the necktie is passed through one slit, slot or aperture, to the
inside of the collar, that is to say, to that side which is next to the neck, and is
passed through the next aperture to the exposed side of the collar, and so on with
the remainder of the pairs of apertures, the bands existing between the said
apertures serving to retain the strap, band, or other analogous part of the necktie
in position.
It will be readily understood that this arrangement is also applicable to collars
attached to fronts and shirts.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOCKS DRIVEN BY WEIGHTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Ernest Wulff and Julius Moser at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd December 1882.
ERNEST WULFF and JULIUS MOSER, both at present residing at No. 51 Foley
Street, Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOCKS
DRIVEN BY WEIGHTS
1. The movements of the clocks driven by weight, are inclosed in air-tight cases
and are not required to be opened, and consequently no dust can get into the
movement, and change of temperature has no effect upon the time-keeping.
2. The hands are set by turning a button at the side of the case.
3. The clock is set in motion by pressing another button.
4. The winding up is performed by turning a button at the front of the case; by
this arrangement the unsightly holes in the dial are avoided.
5) The clocks are made with either one or two weights and if made with two
weights can be wound at any time without interfering with the striking.
6) The maintaining power usually found in clocks, is dispensed with, the
construction being such that the going is in no way interfered with by winding
that part being quite separate from the Great Wheel and therefore this newly
invented construction leaves nothing to be desired with respect to the exact time-
keeping and this clock may be justly called "Standard (Normal) Keyless
Regulator."
7) The winding of both striking and going parts being connected, both operations
are performed at the same time, by turning the button before mentioned.
8) The whole of these improvements can be adopted to any clock with weights
at a small expense.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF MATERIALS TO BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Octavius McAllum at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th August 1882.
CHARLES OCTAVIUS MCALLUM of the firm of C. O McAllum and Herbert of the
Town and County of Newcastle on Tyne "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF
MATERIALS TO BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER
"
My Invention has for its object to effect the bleaching or decolouring of Esparto
or other Vegetable fibre pulp or "half stuff" used by paper makers more
expeditiously and cheaply than hitherto This object is effected by the decom-
position of chlorine compounds by means of electricity The Invention may be
carried into effect by combining with the fibre when in the poaching engine or
elsewhere a chlorine compound such as Sodium Chloride or Calcium Chloride for
example or other suitable chlorine compound and then passing a current of
electricity into or through it which causes the decomposition of the chlorine com-
pound and effects the bleaching or decoloring of the fibre pulp or "half stuff"
or the Chlorine compound may be decomposed by a current of electricity and
thereafter be mixed with the fibre pulp or "half stuff"
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SULPHURIC ACID AND IN THE UTILIZATION OF PRODUCTS ARISING THEREIN."
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Windus at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 24th January 1882.
WILLIAM WINDUS of Bristol in the, County of Gloucester Alkali Works
Manager. " IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SULPHURIC ACID AND IN
THE UTILIZATION OF PRODUCTS ARISING THEREIN."
In the usual process of making sulphuric acid in chambers oxides of nitrogen
are used and are to a considerable extent absorbed by the sulphuric acid in tho
chainbers.
Various means of utilizing these oxides of nitrogen have been proposed and used
notably that invented by Robert Glover in which the chamber-acid is passed down
a tower and denitrated by heat.
My Invention consists in disengaging oxides of nitrogen from sulphuric acid
containing these oxides by means of agitation which agitation can be applied to
the acid either before leaving the sulphuric acid chambers or in the chambers
themselves and in utilizing such oxides so produced.
Varions means of agitation may be employed in connection with arrangements
for collecting the oxides of nitrogen evolved. The acid may be churned or shaken
in a close vessel or vat provided with a pipe for leading off the gaseous oxides of
nitrogen.
The agitation may be combined with an exhausting pump or injector which
will produce a partial vacuum and promote the disengagement of the gases but
the method which I prefer is to produce agitation in the acid before it leaves the
leaden chamber and while the process of acid making is going on.
To do this I cause a small stream of liquid preferably using the acid from the
chamber itself (but water will also answer the same purpose although less
advantageously) to fall in a small stream from the top of the chamber into the
liquid acid which is upon the floor of the chamber. This causes a disengagement
of oxides of nitrogen which at once enter into the production of further quantities
of sulphuric acid, or the desired vibration or agitation may be produced by means
of a mechanical agitator with arms or suitable appliances operating on the liquid
acid upon the floor of the leaden chamber.

page_text: According to another method I propose to draw a stream of the liquid acid from
the bottom of the leaden chamber or from a tank or other receptacle or a stream
of water or other suitable liquid by means of a pump or steam injector and throw
this into the chamber in such a manner as to cause a vibration or agitation in the
acid and thus to cause a disengagement of the oxides of nitrogen. The oxides 5
disengaged by my Invention may be applied to any of the purposes to which such
oxides of nitrogen are suitable.
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO MECHANICAL TELEGRAPHS FOR USE ON BOARD SHIP WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE ALSO TO VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES."
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Chadburn at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th April 1882.
WILLIAM CHADBURN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, "IMPROVEMENTS
IN AND RELATING TO MECHANICAL TELEGRAPHS FOR USE ON BOARD SHIP WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE ALSO TO VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES."
My Invention relates in the first place to a device to be used as a substitute for
chain connections used to join together the ends of wires, rods, or their equivalent,
being the communicating medium from the transmitting to the receiving instrument
of mechanical telegraphs, such as ship engine room and steering telegraphs.
The device consists of a pliable metallic ribbon, tape, or band with a clip, or
equivalent fastener at each end. These clips, or fasteners connect through the
metallic band the wires, rods, or their equivalent being the communicating medium
of the telegraph. The essential feature of the device is the pliable metallic band,
which is used as a substitute for chain in passing round bonds, or turns and over
pulleys. The pliable metallic ribbon, tape, or band may be of any suitable metal
such as bronze, or equivalent copper alloy, or copper, steel, or other metal. The
pliable metallic ribbon, tape, or band may be electro plated, or equivalently
covered.
The device according to my Invention can be used for purposes other than
mechanical telegraphs, namely it can be used as a substitute for a sash cord and
as a medium for connecting sliding windows with their counter weights, and for
many other purposes, where a flexible connection is requisite.
My Invention relates in the second place to a novel arrangement of sending and
receiving "Steering Telegraph" by which I utilize a single set of instruments as
an ordinary steering telegraph with reply and tell tale and as a "Docking"
telegraph with reply. The novelty consists in arranging on the dials of the
instruments concentric, or equivalently positioned series of orders for the steering
telegraph and a series of orders for the "docking" telegraph, also the attention
orders certifying the series to be used. For example the outer series of orders may
be hard, port, steady, course, steady, starboard, hard. The inner series of orders
may be slack, heave, steady for the port side and slack, heave, steady for the
starboard side, the words "steering" and "docking" being on either side of the
dial, the lower portion of the dial being set aside for the rudder tell tale. The
same gear and pointers serve to work both telegraphs.
IMPROVEMENTS APPARATUS FOR MAKING BRICKS FOR BUILDING AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th January 1882. A communi-
cation from abroad by Louis Jäger, of Ehrenfeld-Cöln, Germany.
IN
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS
APPARATUS FOR MAKING BRICKS FOR BUILDING AND OTHER PURPOSES." A
communication from abroad by Louis Jäger, of Ehrenfeld-Cöln. Gerinany.
This Invention relates to apparatus for forming by handpower bricks from clay,
coal, and other fuel, asphalte or chemicals, and for pressing bricks which have
already been formed.
It consists in the application of three revolving forms, by means of which the
filling of one form, the pressing of a brick in the second form and the emptying of
a third form are carried out at the same time. The three form boxes are made of
one piece and arranged radially around a vertical post. The bottom of every box
constitutes the lower matrix and is guided vertically by a guide placed under the
form. The motive power is derived from a long hand lever which by means of a
knee lever acts on the bottom of one of the three forms, thereby exerting a
powerful pressure on the material contained in it. By depressing the said hand
fever a double armed lever is set in motion by means of a chain, thereby pushing
the matrix of the second form upward and lifting the brick or stone contained in
the same, so that it can be easily taken off. As soon as a brick has been pressed,
the form is turned round by hand, one third of a circle, so as to present the next
form to the pressing mechanism. The whole apparatus may be mounted on three
wheels in order to transport it easily to any place where it is required.
AN IMPROVED ROTARY ENGINE
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Southwood at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th May 1882.
WILLIAM SOUTHWOOD of Blackheath in the County of Kent Civil Engineer
AN IMPROVED ROTARY ENGINE
The object of this invention is an improved rotary engine in which the piston
occupies rather more than one half the area of the cylinder is caused to rotate on an
axis arranged eccentrically but moving concentrically to the axis of the shaft which
it drives the steam space being always charged with live or operating steam
capable of expansion against the face of the moving piston: The steam may be
admitted at several points of the cylinders diameter to act direct upon the moving
piston with an accelerating action
IMPROVEMENTS IN BURNERS
Year: 1882

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Sir James Nicholas Douglass at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1882.
Sir JAMES NICHOLAS DOUGLASS,. of Dulwich in the County of Surrey
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BURNERS"
This Invention has for its object improvements in gas burners and obtaining a
high illuminating power from coal or other hydro-carbon gas..
The Invention consists of an Argand ring or circular Hame burner constructed
similarly to that described in my patent dated 7th January 1881 No. 84, but
preferably of not more than one ring or ring chamber for gas.
At the centre, the burner is provided with a hollow deflector of platinum or
other indestructible material, so formed as to cause gas and air to pass through it,
to be deflected laterally, and thus by contact with the surrounding shell of flame to
produce intense combustion and illumination.
Two or more rings or ring chambers may be employed for larger burners.
Outside the cylindrical gas chamber or chambers is or are deflectors and
deflecting glass chimney, constructed or arranged in manner described in the
specification of the Letters patent aforesaid.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC ENGRAVING
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis Joseph Emery at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th October 1882.
FRANCIS JOSEPH EMERY of Burslem Staffordshire Earthenware Manufacturer,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC ENGRAVING
"
My invention refers to an improvement on the Hieliographic method of engraving
of Niépce. This process of Niépce consists as is well known in coating a metallic
plate or surface with a thin film of bitumen, exposing this to light under a trans-
parency for a sufficient time, then dissolving away the protected parts (that is those
portions which have been screened by the opaque portions of the transparency) by
suitable solvents and etching by well known methods
My improvement consists in the use of a fatty or waxy image which I transfer to
the surface of the bitumenised metal, and I find that the fatty image not only
protects the bitumen film from light but also exercises a softening action on the
aforesaid bitumen film so that the development or dissolving away of the unaltered
bitumen can be effected with greater facility than when a chemically inactive
transparency is made use of-The practical result of this is to reduce the exposure
required.
The fatty image which serves to protect the bitumen film from the action of the
light and at the same time to soften those portions of the film on which it rests
may be either transferred to the bitumen surface just as a typographic lithographic
or plate impression is ordinarily transferred to a stone or it may have been originally
printed or written on a transparent substance such as tracing paper tale or sheet
gelatine-In these latter cases the image side should be laid next the bitumen film
so that the softening action already referred to may take place.
In some cases. I produce the fatty original direct on the bitumenised plate by
writing or drawing with a fatty ink or material. Any fatty material which contains
a tolerably opaque pigment may be used but I prefer to use the ordinary color as
used by potters in printing from their copper plates.
I ordinarily take impressions on the usual potters transfer or tissue paper and
transfer this to the bitumenised metal just as I would transfer it to a piece of
pottery, after which I remove the paper basis in either one of the usual ways well
known to potters so as to leave nothing but the dense fatty image on the bitumen
surface I then expose it to light for a sufficient time to render the bitumen insoluble

page_text: where not covered by the fatty image, after which I treat with oil of turpentine
benzole or other similar solvents until the fatty image and the underlying portions
of bitumen are removed, after which I etch till the required depth is attained.
Having now described the nature of my invention I would have it understood
that I claim as novel and original the use of a fatty image as a resist against the t
action of the light and as a simultaneous softner of the bitumen film substantially
as herein described.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONED BOOTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Chambers at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th September 1882.
CHARLES CHAMBERS of Beaconsfield Terrace, Avenue Road Highbury Vale in
the County of Middlesex "AN IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONED BOOTS."
My Invention relates to an improvement in the uppers of buttoned boots and it
has for its object to avoid all seam both at the back and front of the quarter
whereby greater durability is ensured. Instead of cutting out and sewing together
the several pieces of leather which form the quarters I take a single piece of leather
only of a proper size and block it on a block or shape to fit the foot and in this
way seamless quarter is produced of a form hitherto only obtained by making it in
several pieces. As heretofore made these boots are very liable to split at the seams
but by my Invention the boots are more durable owing to the absence of the seams
while they present at same time a neater appearance.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SMOKE-FLUES AND SMOKE-CHAMBERS OF METALLURGICAL WORKS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of Kensington, Middlesex for
an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN SMOKE-FLUES AND SMOKE-CHAMBERS
OF METALLURGICAL WORKS A communication to him from abroad by the
Mechernicher Bergwerks-Actien-Verein, of Mechernich, Rhenish Prussia.
pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th July 1883. [A communi-
cation to him from abroad by the Mechernicher Bergwerks-Actien-Verein, of
Mechernich, Rhenish Prussia.]
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, ." IMPROVEMENTS IN
SMOKE-FLUES AND SMOKE-CHAMBERS OF METALLURGICAL WORKS," a communication
to me from abroad by the Mechernicher Bergwerks-Actien-Verein, of Mechernich,
Rhenish, Prussia,
This invention has for its object to increase the quantity of volatile products
(for instance oxide of lead and sulphate of lead) condensed during their passage
through the smoke flues, which quantity depends on the length and superficial
area of the said flues. For this purpose I provide the flues with partitions laid
across the flue and preferably at right angles to the same, extending alternately
from the bottom towards the top and from the top towards the bottom, so as to
compel the smoke or gaseous products to follow a zig-zag course while passing
through the flue. The distance between successive partitions and the clearance
left alternately at the top and bottom of the partitions are such as to allow
sufficient room for the passage of the gaseous products without making the flue
unnecessarily long.
AN IMPROVED CALCULATING INSTRUMENT
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th May 1882. A communication from
abroad by G. Charpentier-Page, of Valdoie, in the Republic of France.
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of the firm of W. P. Thompson & Boult Agents for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, of 323 High Holborn, London in the County of
Middlesex and 6 Lord Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster Engineer.
"AN IMPROVED CALCULATING INSTRUMENT" a communication from abroad by
G. Charpentier-Page, of Valdoie, in the Republic of France.
This instrument is based on the same principles as the ordinary calculating or
"slide" rule.
The arrangement of scales of the same is circular and marked on various dials as
will be hereinafter explained.
The dimensions of the apparatus are small, its shape handy and it can easily be
carried in the pocket and one or several of the instruments used by engineers,
architects and surveyors and others may be combined therewith.
This calculating device consists of metal or other discs on which are marked
scales graduated on the same principles as those of the slide rule by means of
which the operations of arithmetic, trigonometry, &c can be carried out as with
the slide rule and by the same method.
The principal dial-plate is composed of an outer disc and a central dial between
which moves an annular disc whose operation is the same as that of the slide in
the slide rule.
The scales upon the principal dial and upon the annular disc serve for making
multiplications, divisions, proportions, &c. The central dial indicates the roots
which can be directly read by means of a runner or index placed on the large scale
of the dial.
At the back on a projecting part of the
tables and the tables of sines and tangents.
runner at the rear-side of which there is an
side might be marked on the rim.
circular disc there are the logarithmic
These are to be read by means of the
index. One of the scales of the reverse

page_text: Lastly various apparatus used by Engineers (such as a steel-tape-measure with a
spring placed in the projecting portion, or a compass, a stop-watch, a speed-
measurer or other suitable mathematical instrument for surveying levelling or the
like) may be mounted either between the two faces of the dial or in the central
part of the reverse side.
When the apparatus is made of metal it is advisable to use metals of different
colors for the movable slide and the large dial, so that the scales may be more
easily distinguished and the reading thereof facilitated.
Moreover the movable slide may be operated mechanically if desirable.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS PETROLEUM VAPOURS FOR GENERATING AND BURNING
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Hermann Swoboda at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st November 1882.
HERMANN SWOBODA of N° 1(A) Müller-Strasse, Berlin in the German Empire,
Tinsmith, IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
PETROLEUM VAPOURS
FOR GENERATING AND BURNING
My invention has for its object to obtain a great heating offect, by a simple and
convenient construction of petroleum vapour stoves. For this purpose I construct
the apparatus as follows:-
From the bottom of a petroleum receptacle rises a tube protruding from the
same, and to which a second tube is fastened steamtight.
The upper end of the secund tube carries a cup surrounded by a casing.
Fastened to this cup are two tubes of smaller size through which the petroleum is.
conducted.
After heating the cup with spirit the flame is lighted. The flame strikes at the
top against a lens and is thereby made bell shaped, which shape ensures a strong
heating effect. To regulate the flame, the petroleum receptacle is provided with a
valve which has a coarse screw thread and through which air is pressed into the
receptacle by means of an india rubber ball and an india rubber tube
To produce a stronger evaporation air is first introduced by the india rubber
ball and then the valve turned half round.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR BEVELLING CARDS, BOOK COVERS, AND THE LIKE
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Diedrich Weiste at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th November 1882. Communi-
cated to him from abroad by. August Fomm, of Leipsic, in the German
Empire.
JOHN DIEDRICH WEISTE, of Bartholomew Close, in the City of London,
Commission Merchant, IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR BEVELLING CARDS,
BOOK COVERS, AND THE LIKE Communicated to me from abroad by August
Fomm, of Leipsic, in the German Empire,
The object of this invention is to effect the bevelling of cards, book covers, and
the like, in as quick a manner as possible; the introduction of the cards into the
machine being effected very easily, and without requiring much experience.
In a machine constructed for the purpose above set forth, there is a presser
roller, behind which is a sliding platen capable of being worked forwards and
backwards, by a screw, and by this means cards of any size may be introduced
quickly and accurately. A moveable top is provided, and is placed on the cards
in such a manner as to prevent them from shifting when being operated upon.
After the cards have been placed in the machine, but little pressure is required to
keep or lay them exact, and they are firmly held in place by operating a wheel
which is located beneath the desk. On an iron table there is a wooden one,
consisting of several leaves or slabs which, according to the sizes of the articles to
be bevelled, can be fitted in or inserted. In machines for the smallest size work,
this wooden table is as long as the iron one, but in larger sizes, which admit
thicker packs of cards, for instance, as many of the wooden leaves or slabs are
removed as the thickness of the packs requires. For example, cards may be
inserted until they reach a height of 2 inches, which would give a slope of about
34 inches; this is the usual size of leaf metal, and allows of this material being
used with the best advantage.
To remove the step-like corners of the cards, and to bevel them, the machine is
provided with a suitable file, or like instrument, which is operated in such a
manner as to effect the bevelling quickly and effectively.
It is essential that the cards, or other articles to be bevelled, should be cut
perfectly square, previously to being bevelled by the machine.
IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis Weldon at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 13th November 1882.
FRANCIS WELDON of 54 Lancaster Gate in the County of Middlesex, Lieutenant
Colonel in the Madras Staff Corps, "IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES,"
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This Invention has for its object improvements in velocipedes, so that by coupling
together in suitable manner two or more driving wheels propelled as in the ordinary
bicycle with or without their trailing wheels, two or more persons may propel the
machine one rider only preferably being required for steering; and further my
improvements are adapted to existing bicycles.
In carrying out my Invention I adopt mainly the following arrangements taking
as example a velocipede for four riders. Four wheels, similar in type to the large
wheel of an ordinary bicycle are connected together by suitable means with
sufficient gauge between the wheels ;-seats and treadles being provided as in an
ordinary bicycle. The steering is controlled preferably by one of the front riders
by suitable cross lever or levers communicating with the other wheels. Or the
two front wheels only need be provided with the steering gear worked by one of
the riders. In adapting my improvements to machines for two seats, two bicycles
with trailing wheels may be coupled together, and can be made to uncouple and
become ordinary bicycles.-Or four bicycles may be made adaptable to a four-
wheel machine, by removing their trailing wheels or by having the frame carrying
the trailing wheel jointed, so that said trailing wheels with part of frame may be
removed. Three bicycles may in similar manner be adapted to a three-wheel
machine. In the space between the frame of the velocipede, suitable arrangements
may be adapted for carrying luggage, or seats may be provided to carry other
person or persons as required.