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In. PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SCORING AT WHIST AND OTHER GAKES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Matthias Boyce at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
January 1869.
'I, MATTHIAS BOYCE, of Abchurch Lane, in the Oity of London,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "In.
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SCORING AT WHIST AND OTHER GAKES," to be
as follows:-
My Invention relates to apparatus for scoring at whist and other
games.
The improvements have for their object the arrangement and con-
struction of apparatus in such manner that by drawing out a sliding
cover there may be exposed to view one set of markers, symbols, or
contrivances for scoring or indicating a score, and that by drawing out
one or more other sliding covers there may be exposed to view. one
or more other sets of markers, symbols, or contrivances for scoring or
indicating a score, and that the score indicated by such markers, symbols,
or contrivances at any time shall depend upon how far the cover con-

page_text: cealing them is drawn out, they being entirely concealed when such
cover is closed.
My apparatus, constructed according to this Invention, consists of a
box, case, or frame holding or wherein is affixed or delineated one set
of markers, symbols, or contrivances for scoring, this box, case, or frame
being provided with a-sliding cover which when drawn out to a suitable
extent exposes to view a marker, symbol, or contrivance indicating a
score of one, then when farther drawn out exposes to view another
marker, symbol, or contrivance thereby indicating a score of two,
and so on, until that particular set of markers, symbols, or contrivances
is exhausted. In the sliding cover of this box, case, or frame there is
a recess formed in which is placed or fixed another set of markers,
symbols, or contrivances, and this recess is provided with a sliding cover
which operates in a manner similar to the cover first described. The
drawing out and closing of each cover for its required object can be
effected independently of the position of the other. I prefer so to form
this recess that its cover may be drawn out at right angles to the
direction of motion of the first cover.
If desirable there may be formed more than one recess in the first
cover, each such recess to contain a separate set of markers, symbols,
or contrivances, and to be provided with a separate cover acting as
aforesaid. The different sets of markers, symbols, or contrivances
may be of the same shape, kind, or description, or of different shapes,
kinds, or descriptions. Stops or contrivances may be applied in order
to stop or retain the sliding covers in any desired position and thereby
prevent them from being drawn entirely out or from being shifted in
either direction inadvertently.
IMPROVEMENTS IN HATS
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Higgins at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st
April 1869.-A communication from abroad by Henry Herbert, of
Jersey City, New Jersey, in the United States of America.
I, THOMAS HIGGINS, of No. 5, Warrington Gardens, Maida Hill, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HATS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in constructing hats with a clip or holder on
their interior to carry a small hat brush. For this purpose I employ a
small spring clip of metal secured to a card which is glued or fastened
in the crown of the hat. The jaws of the clip are formed to embrace the
brush and nip against the sides of its back or handle. The brush is
composed of velvet cemented on to a light back of wood or suitable
material, and this back is made with grooves or indentations along its
sides so that it can readily be held in the hand. The metal clip is
formed from a strip of metal turned up at its two ends to form jaws,

page_text: and it is secured to the card by short strips or projections standing out
from the side of the main strip and bent down at right angles to it,.
which side strips are passed through slits in the card and doubled over
at the back, thus fixing the clip to the card.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SIGNALING ON RAILWAY TRAINS
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Edwards at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
March 1869.
I, JOHN EDWARDS, of 157, Richmond Road, Hackney, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SIGNALING ON RAILWAY TRAINS," to be as follows:-
My improvements in signaling on railway trains consist in applying a
tube to railway trains, into this tube I insert whistles to be blown by
passengers; the tube being open throughout the current of air passing
through the tube carries the sound of the whistles with it into the guard
Also in the application of a rope (or its equivalent) to railway
trains with elastic connections suspending weights; this rope is coupled
when necessary, and in order to give the signal it is only necessary to
uncouple the rope and set the weights at liberty, which then fall and
in their fall ring a bell. Also in application of a rope to railway trains

page_text: working over suitable pullies, and carrying a weight working either per-
pindicularly or on an incline to take in the slack of the rope. The
weight is made to ring a bell in the guard's van when the rope is
pulled.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES, AND FOR MAKING SAUSAGES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Carter Stafford Percy
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 27th November 1869.
I, WILLIAM CARTER STAFFORD PERCY, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR CUTTING
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES, AND FOR MAKING SAUSAGES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of certain improvements in machinery for
cutting meat and other substances into small lumps for making pies,
or into fine particles for making sausages, or for other purposes;
also
for filling the meat and other substances into the skins or other casings,
and for shaping or blocking the paste for making pies.
My improved machinery for cutting meat and other substances into
small lumps consists of a square or other shaped trunk into which the
meat and other substances are put. A piston or ram fits in this trunk and
pushes the contents by means of a screw or other equivalent against two
or more sets of knives working to and fro at right angles to cach other,

page_text: or at any other suitable angle; in front of these knives is a revolving or
other knife which crosscuts the meat and other substances. When the
above machinery is used for cutting meat and other substances for
making sausages, or for stuffing or other purposes, I make the cutters
with bent saw teeth and place them much closer to each other, thereby
reducing the meat and other substances into, small particles.. The
machinery for filling the meat and other substances into skins and other
cases to make sausages is particularly suitable for making black puddings
and other similar articles in which the ingredients are separated during
the filling, and it consists of a double trunk; the inner portion contains
the fat or other ingredients, and the other portion contains the groats.
and blood or other ingredients; the inner trunk has a plain piston to
force the contents through a hole into the centre of the case to be filled,,
and the outer trunk has an annular piston to force the contents through
an annular passage around the centre hole, thus filling the case with the
different ingredients simultaneously. In some cases it may be desirable:
to use more than one internal trunk.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DRAWING OR RAISING AND FORCING LIQUIDS
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis George Fleury at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th July 1869.
I, FRANCIS GEORGE FLEURY, of Merrick Square, Southwark, in the
County of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DRAWING OR RAISING AND
FORCING LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
This Invention, which has for its object improvements in apparatus
for drawing or raising and forcing liquids, relates to apparatus of that
class in which the liquid is set in motion by the action of jets of steam,.
and consists in the employment of involute or other chambers,, cach
provided with a number of small tangential or inclined slits or passages,
through which jets of steam are projected into the chambers, so as to
draw or raise the liquid into the same, and by the successive action of
the jets of steam upon the passing liquid to force or propel it at a con-
siderable velocity from the chambers, which for these purposes are to be
provided with suitable suction and delivery pipes or tubes, as is well
understood.

page_text: Apparatus constructed according to my Invention will possess the
advantages of centrifugal pumps, and besides being cheaper to construct
and more durable, owing to the absence of working parts, will also,
dispense with the employment of engines for driving.
AN IMPROVED PHOTOGRAPHING PRINTING PROCESS
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Fischer at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th February 1869.
WILLIAM HENRY FISCHER, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Photographer, do hereby declare the nature of the
shid Invention for "AN IMPROVED PHOTOGRAPHING PRINTING PROCESS," to be
s follows:-
I dissolve gelatine and gum arabic in the proportions of about thirty
grains of gelatine and ten grains of gum arabic in one ounce of
water and add thereto about five grains of lump sugar. After filtering
I add one drachm of a saturated solution of bi-chrome of potass or
bichrome of ammonia. The mixture is then ready to pour on the glass,
slate or metal which is to form the positive picture. After drying the
plate so prepared is placed under the negative so that the film side of the
negative shall be in contact with the gelatine film. After a proper
exposure the picture on glass, slate, or metal is ready for the printer,
and is printed in an ordinary lithographic press in the usual way
employed by lithographic printers, and with their usual inks.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR PROTECTING OR SHIELDING WOUNDS, CUTANEOUS INJURIES, AND SORES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Hamilton Gilmore at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th September 1869.
I, ARTHUR HAMILTON GILMORE, of Edinburgh, in the County of Mid
Lothian, Commander, Royal Navy, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR PROTECTING OR SHIELDING
WOUNDS, CUTANEOUS INJURIES, AND SORES," to be as follows: -
My Invention relates to improved means for the protection of wounds,
bruises, boils, bed and other sores from irritation caused by the friction,
contact, or pressure of bed clothes or wearing apparel or otherwise.
The means I employ consists of one or more inflated bladders, of a form
suited to the position of the part to be protected, to be applied near the
same and retained by the aid of elastic or other straps, strings, or
bandages attached to either end of the bladder, but so as not to impede
the circulation. Instead of bladders india-rubber or other suitable air-
tight and flexible material may be employed. A mouth piece may also
be provided for inflating the protector when the same is required for use,
the air being afterwards discharged to enable the protector to be packed
in a small compass. In applying two or more bladders or other protectors

page_text: to a wound or sore they may be kept at the required distance apart
(one on either side) by means of a spreader or spreaders of whalebone,
wood, or other light and suitable material, the ends of which spreaders
fit into or are connected with straps attached to the bladder or other
protector.
By the use of the above means wounds or sores on any part of the
body may be shielded, and the irritation consequent on the contact of
the clothes with the injured or sore part prevented, thereby facilitating
the healing or cure of the same.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TABLETS POR ADVERTIZING AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Spray Angel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th May 1869.-A communication from abroad by Rudolph
Schomburg, of Brussels.
I, FREDERICK SPRAY ANGEL, of 13, Hatton Garden, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TABLETS POR ADVERTIZING AND OTHER
PURPOSES," (a communication,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in embossing metal sheets for advertising and
other purposes, and is more particularly described in the following:-
A sheet of metal is painted or colored for forming the ground for
the design or lettering that may be required, the sheet thus prepared
is then placed on lead with the colored side downwards, it is then
stamped or embossed with letters or designs (prepared in hard and
suitable metal) which are put together and placed in a frame after the
manner of type. The pressure may be by hydraulic press or other
adequate means. The sheet of metal is thus embossed with the
letters or designs in relief, such raised or embossed portions may be

page_text: readily colored or rendered distinct by a roller or brush prepared with
the necessary color passed over the same, or the color of the raised
portions may be cleaned off and the letters or designs presented in the
metal, which might then be polished. The letters to be placed together
singly in the block for stamping (type fashion) so as to be applicable
to all the varied requirements of advertising. By this method prepared
sheets of metal can be readily stamped or embossed as described, the
raised portions colored or cleaned off as desired, and a handsome and
effective metal tablet of raised letters or designs produced, combining
durability and cheapness with great rapidity of manufacture.
IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Coote and Frederick
Winch Cranch at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 21st August 1869.
We, FREDERICK COOTE, of Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, and
FREDERICK WINCH CRANCH, of 130, Drummond Street, Euston Square,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN VELOCIPEDES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in velocipedes.
In constructing velocipedes according to this Invention they may be
formed with either two, three, or more wheels.
In Figure 1 of the Drawing hereunto annexed is shown a velocipede
with two wheels constructed according to this Invention.
The fore wheel a is the steering wheel, whilst the hinder wheel b is
the driving wheel; a forked rod c embraces the driving wheel b, and the
axle of the wheel turns in bearings at the end of the fork. At the
forward end of the rod c is a bearing for the vertical spindle of a fork
embracing the steering wheel and carrying its axle. On this vertical:
spindle is a hand levor d which is jointed at e, so that the handle can

page_text: at the end of the lever be set either higher or lower as desired, and can
be fixed by a quadrant f and set screw, or by other suitable device.
On the axle of the driving wheel 6 are two sets of cranks g and h, seen
more clearly at Figure 2. The crank pins g' are received in slots in
levers k, which turn on a pin or fulcrum at 1; the crank pins are
received in slots in levers m, also turning on the pin 1; the levers k carry
the seat of the velocipede, whilst the levers m carry a foot rest n. By
this arrangement the velocipede is propelled by the person working the
velocipede alternately shifting his weight from the seat to the foot rest,
and vice versa. The pins of the cranks 9 and h may be provided with
friction wheels to run in the slots in the levers to reduce friction.
A break may also be applied either to the front or back wheel as
desired. The seat and the foot rest may also be carried in such manner
that they may be raised or lowered at pleasure. Rings or balls of
india-rubber or other springs may be placed beneath the seat to strike
against the fixed bar c where the seat descends so as to cause it to
rebound. Springs may also be similarly applied to the levers m carrying
the foot rest to cause them also to rebound. The cranks g may either be
fixed to the axle, as shown, or may be pin fixed to the wheel; the crank
pins may also be fixed in slots, so that they may be moved towards or
away from the axle at pleasure.
IMPROVEMENTS IN REAPING AND MOWING MACHINES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Beckwith at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th
August 1869.
I, THOMAS BECKWITH, of Stockton-on-Tees, in the County of Durham,
Agricultural Implement Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REAPING AND MOWING MACHINES,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to improved means for actuating the recipro-
cating cutters in reaping and mowing machines.
I dispense with the toothed or other cog wheel gear and with the
crank or eccentric now used for imparting a reciprocating movement
to the cutters, and I effect such reciprocating movement in the following
manner: I provide a cam or wheel, in which I form a groove, such
groove following a serpentine or zig-zag course. This grooved cam or
wheel I so mount or attach to the travelling wheel of the reaping
machine that when the travelling wheel revolves the cam revolves at
the same time. In a convenient situation I mount a lever upon a stud,

page_text: and upon this lever I provide a stud, truck, or roller, which acts within
the serpentine groove of the cam, so that when the reaping machine
is moved over the ground the revolution of the cam eauses the lever
to have a reciprocating movement, which is communicated to the cutters
of the machine. In place of a serpentine groove being formed in the
cam such cam may have a serpentine or zig-zag edge acting upon
suitable projections or rollers carried by the reciprocating lever.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH CABLES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Fleeming Jenkin, of Fittis Row, Edinburgh,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH CABLES."
Scaled the 18th January 1870, and dated the 10th November 1869.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Fleeming Jenkin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 10th November 1869, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FLEEMING
JENKIN, of Fittis Row, Edinburgh, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH CABLES," and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to
say:
The object of my Invention is to diminish the cost of long submarine
telegraph cables, and I attain this object by constructing my deep sea
cable with a continual alternation of strong and weak sections, so that

page_text: while the entire length is fit to be laid without risk, only comparatively
short portions are fit to be recovered by grappling or hauling back, but
at the same time by placing these at regular and comparatively short
intervals no considerable portion of a long cable can be wholly lost,
whereas any attempt to lay a long weak cable would necessarily fail
should a single accident occur. The length of each alternate weak and
strong section would be regulated by the length of the whole line and
the depth of water, thus in a line of about 2,000 miles long and two miles
deep, a good proportion would be to make the strong sections 20 miles
long, separated by weak sections about 200 miles long; these weak
sections might advantageously consist of simple gutta percha covered
wire, whilst the strong sections may be such as are now usually-employed
for deep sea telegraph cables, and may be conveniently tapered to the
point where it meets the light cable.
If when laying a submarine cable such as is above described an
accident should happen whilst one of the weak sections of the cable is
being paid out it would be only necessary to go back and grapple and
raise the last strong section of cable already laid, and the laying of the
cable would then be proceeded with. I am well aware that cables of
various strengths are frequently joined in one circuit, but so far as I am
aware no cable has irrespective of alterations in the depth and nature of
the bottom been constructed alternately with weak sections which it
would be impracticable to raise by grappling, and with strong sections
which can be thus raised should an accident happen in laying the
cable.
In witness whereof, I, the said Fleeming Jenkins, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
FLEEMING JENKIN.
(L.S.)
IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING VESSELS BY MEANS OF WATER
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander John Dudgeon, of Millwall, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PROPELLING VESSELS BY MEANS OF WATER."
Sealed the 27th July 1869, and dated the 19th May 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander John
Dudgeon at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 19th May 1869.
I, ALEXANDER JOHN DUDGEON, of Millwall, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPELLING VESSELS BY MEANS OF WATER," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in propelling vessels
by means of water. I employ for this purpose turbines mounted on
horizontal axes and driven by steam engines or other suitable motive

page_text: power. The turbines draw in water by passages through the bottom or
sides of the ship and discharge it horizontally through curved passages
terminating in orifices projecting from the side of the ship. There are
two delivery passages on each side of the ship, one directed towards the
stem the other towards the stern of the vessel, and at or near the point of
junction of these passages two flap valves are arranged to direct the water
into one or other of the passages. These valves are jointed to opposite
sides of the main water passage from the turbine, and they are linked
together so that the pressure on one flap to some extent counterpoises
that on the other. The valves can however be disconnected at will and
closed separately so as to shut out the water from the outside of the
ship in case of necessity. The flap valves are worked by means of any
hydraulic cylinder or cylinders worked by water under pressure from
an accumulator kept charged by pumps worked by the main engines,
or by a donkey engine provided for the purpose, or by any other suitable
means.
In armour plated ships the discharge orifices are intended to be
situated immediately below the lower line of the armour plating, and to
protect the orifices from injury the armour plating is fixed so as to
overhang them. The arrangement is also applicable in case the dis-
charge pipes should be placed higher up on the ship's side and passed
through the armour plating. The working of the valves will be regulated
by suitable apparatus or hand gear capable of being worked from the
conning house or steering deck of a ship of war, the decks of an ordinary
vessel, or the engine room of either.
IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES OR HOLDERS FOR MATCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Raoul Paul Faucheux at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th July 1869.
I, RAOUL PAUL FAUCHEUX, of the Poultry, in the City of London,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOXES OR HOLDERS FOR MATCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object improvements in boxes or holders for
matches and other articles.
For this purpose according to the first part of the Invention I so
arrange and construct the box or holder that the bottom thereof is made
(by preference) in two parts, the one part being rigidly fixed as usual,
and the other part being hinged or jointed thereto in such manner that
upon pressing it upwards from its under side it may be caused to enter
and pass up between the sides of the box or holder, and in so doing shall
carry with it the matches or other articles resting thereon a suitable
distance to allow of their being readily taken hold of and withdrawn
therefrom, after which the hinged part of the box or holder is caused to
retire into its original or closed position by means of an india-rubber or

page_text: other spring. The moveable part of the bottom of the box or holder
has sides or upward projections, which, when it is pressed upwards, open
the lid of the box or holder.
In some cases the box or holder already described is arranged to fit
and work in a suitable recess or chamber, such recess or chamber may
be hung upon a hook or nail, as is sometimes the case with match and
other similar boxes already in use, and in this case it is preferred that
the box already described shall be drawn out like an ordinary drawer
and be so held, and when released it shall be caused to move back again
into its recess by means of an india-rubber or any other suitable spring.
And in order that the box or holder shall not be drawn out beyond
a given distance from the case or recess in which it slides, a fixed rod,
bar, or piece extending across from one side to the other of the recess or
chamber is employed, which acting upon a hook or projection from the
lid or cover of the box or holder serves the purpose of preventing. its
entire withdrawl therefrom, as well as to lift up the lid of the box or
holder, and upon the release of the front end of the box or holder,
which is then caused to re-enter its recess, the lid will again become
closed.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CLIPPING HORSES AND SHEEP, ALSO APPLICABLE TO REAPING GRAIN, REAPISO SUGAR CANE, FOR CUTTING DOWN, TREES, CUTTING CLOTH, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Smith at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st January
1869.
I, GEORGE SMITH, of No. 151, Strand, in the County of Middlesex,,
Saddle and Harness Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CLIPPING HORSES AND SHEEP,
ALSO APPLICABLE TO REAPING GRAIN, REAPISO SUGAR CANE, FOR CUTTING DOWN,
TREES, CUTTING CLOTH, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a band saw or a band knife, and arranged
or fixed for use somewhat differently so as to be applicable to the
various uses indicated and more particularly described in the following:-
For the purpose of clipping horses and sheep I form a small case of
iron, and by a barrel spring turn a centre spindle on which is also fixed
a pinion wheel that drives two pinions right and left of the first pinion;
on the spindles of these outside pinions I fix pullies for a band knife
which is to pass between a double comb; the double comb is roughed or
barbed on the inside so as to detain the hair or wool when the knife is
brought by forward pressure into contact with the hair or wool, and is

page_text: thus cut. The knife band will be brass, copper, or leather with steel
face or cutting part.
For the purpose of reaping cereals the arrangement would be similar
to the above, but larger, on a wheeled carriage, and driven by horse
power, in front of the horse or horses giving a machine that would work t
equally on the right and left hand, not one sided as reaping machines
generally are.
For the purpose of reaping sugar cane the machine to be as the
first in principle, but large, and on wheeled carriage, and to be driven
by animal or steam power, and propelled forward by ropes and pullies or 1
otherwise.
For the purpose of cutting down trees the machine to be as the first
in principle, but larger, and on wheel carriage or not, worked by hand,
animal, or steam power, having such grapnells and holdfasts as will
adapt the machine to work round a tree, and from being capable of 1
taking an upper as well as under cut it will take a section out of a tree.
For the purpose of cutting fabrics the machine to be as band saws,
but a band knife to be used in the place of the saw, thus adapting it
to textile fabrics, cutting up sacking, and smaller requirements, as in
manufacturing shirts and collars, and such like articles.
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IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY POR DOUBLING YARNS OR THREADS
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Renny Watson and
Richard Murray at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 1st November 1869.
We, WILLIAM RENNY WATSON and RICHARD MURRAY, both of
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY POR
DOUBLING YARNS OR THREADS," to be as follows, that is to say:—
This Invention, which relates to the adaptation to machines for
doubling or twisting woollen, worsted, or other yarns or threads of
mechanism for the purpose of diminishing waste and the provention of
what are known as "singles," consists in the employment of a fine comb
carried on an axis or its equivalent situated at the back of, and parallel
with that of the doubling rollers. The comb is so arranged that when
the doubling action is proceeding with all the threads or yarns (either
two or more) unbroken it does not act upon any of the yarns or threads,
but immediately that one or more of the yarns or threads breaks or
break one or more drop fingers, each of which is held up by the yarns or
threads whilst whole or unbroken, falls, and its weight or leverage acting

page_text: upon the rear of the comb throws it up in such position that the
remaining yarns or threads catch into the teeth of it and become broken
or severed or held from passing forward by the resistance thus offered
to their passage onwards to the doubling rollers.
IMPROVEMENTS IN COUPLINGS FOR RAILWAY ENGINES, CARRIAGES, AND WAGGONS
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Lockwood at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd
May 1869.
I, JOHN LOCKWOOD, of Leeds, in the County of York, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN COUPLINGS FOR RAILWAY ENGINES, CARRIAGES, AND WAGGONS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to self-acting means of coupling or connecting
together railway engines, carriages, or waggons, and the improvements
consist in applying to the draw bars or in constructing them with
catches or hooks capable of taking into each other in a lateral or sidewise
direction, the slot holes in the framework of the engine, carriage, or
waggon being made so as to allow for lateral deflection or motion of the
said draw bars. These catches or hooks are made of sufficient breadth or
depth to provide for the difference in height of the draw bars of different
carriages from the rails. A tumbler or weighted lever is also hinged to

page_text: the framework above cach draw bar, having a projection (by preference
a spring) on each side, which lever can be turned over to act against
either side of the said draw bars so as to hold them either in or out of
gear or position for or clear of contact.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING OR SHAPING METALS
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Winn at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 18th
September 1869.
I, CHARLES WINN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING OR SHAPING METALS," to be as
follows:---
My Invention consists of the combination or arrangement herein-after
described of the parts of machinery for cutting or shaping: metals,
whereby a cutting or shaping machine is made capable of performing
the work of two ordinary machines.
My Invention consists in combining in the same machine two cutters
made to act alternately, so as to produce at cach rotation of the driving
shaft of the machine two cuts upon the article under operation.
In constructing a machine according to my Invention I combine two
reciprocating slides or sliding arms side by side, each slide or sliding
arm carrying a cutting tool. Each slide or sliding arm is provided with
a tool holder in which the cutting tool is held. The bed or saddle of

page_text: the machine is made of a size proper to support the double slide
described. The slides or sliding arms work in dovetails in the bed or
saddle of the machine, and a reciprocating rectilinear motion is given
to each slide or sliding bar and to the cutting tool carried by it by
means of a connecting rod jointed to the outer side of the slide or bar.
Each connecting rod is jointed at one end to the said slide or bar, and
at the other end to a crank pin on a face plate. The said slides or
sliding bars carrying the cutting tools are so connected with their
respective face plates that when one sliding bar has completed its stroke
the other sliding bar is about to commence its stroke. The two face
plates to which the connecting rods of the slides or sliding arms are
jointed are situated on the same shaft. Rotary motion is communicated
to the shaft of the face plates by toothed gearing in the ordinary way.
The article is moved after each cut by mechanism essentially of the
ordinary kind. One of the cutting tools of the machine may be the
roughing tool, and the other cutting tool the finishing tool, or both of
the said cutting tools may act as roughing tools as may be required.
Either of the slides or sliding arms of the machine carrying the cutting
tools may rest at pleasure when it is wished to use only one cutting
tool.
By arranging or combining the parts of machinery for cutting or
shaping metals in the manner described two cutters are situated side by
side in the machine and acting alternately produce two cuts parallel to
one another upon the article under operation.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MACHINERY FOR RAISING, LOWERING, AND SUSPENDING VENETIAN OR OTHER BLINDS AND SHUTTERS
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Patrick Benignus O'Neill and
William Hanse Hammilton McNeight at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 13th March
1869.
We, PATRICK BENIGNUS O'NEILL, of the Rue du Faubourg St.
Honoré, Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, and WILLIAM
HANSE HAMMILTON MCNEIGHT, of the City of Dublin, Ireland, Window
Blind Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MACHINERY FOR RAISING, LOWERING, AND
SUSPENDING VENETIAN OR OTHER BLINDS AND SHUTTERS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in the employment of apparatus or machinery
as hereafter described for raising, lowering, and suspending venetian
or other blinds and shutters. A roller supported at each end in bear-
ings is placed above the blind, one end of which is provided with a
ratchet wheel; into the teeth of this ratchet a spring paul takes, and it
always has a tendency to do so, but sometimes we dispense with the ratchet
and paul. Outside the ratchet a groove is formed on the roller, round
which a cord is wound, so that by pulling the cord a rotary motion is
communicated to the roller. The laths composing the blind are united
by tapes secured to the laths in the ordinary way, but at top they pass

page_text: over the roller, and are there supported on rollers or guides. Tapes or cords
are passed through apertures formed in each lath, and which are united
to the bottom lath and to the roller, thus by communicating motion to
the roller by pulling the cord the roller while revolving causes the tapes
or cords to become wound thereon, and at the same time the laths are
raised. On ceasing to pull the cord the laths remain suspended at any
desired position or height. To lower the blind the paul is raised from
the ratchet by a cord, and the blind descends by its own weight to its
utmost extent, or to any other desired position that may be required, its
descent being arrested by allowing the paul to fall into the teeth of the
ratchet. When the Invention is applied to linen or other blinds the
arrangement is similar, but the lath at the bottom or lower part of the
blind must be slightly weighted. In the case of shutters the laths are
by preference caused to revolve round the roller, but they may be
gathered up as for blinds if preferred. In some cases the shutters are
made in two or more parts.
AN IMPROVED CINDER SIPTER
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph King at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st May
1869.
I, JOSEPH KING, of The Walk, Norwich, in the County of Norfolk,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
CINDER SIPTER," to be as follows:-
I
This Invention relates to portable cinder sifters, and consists in
forming it somewhat like an ordinary dust pan, such as is used by house-
maids, with this difference, instead of making the bottom thereof solid
I propose to form it as a sieve, bencath which I fit a sliding drawer
to catch the dust, or I form a chamber beneath with a small door at
one side to discharge the dust therefrom after it has been separated from
the cinders. The front is formed inclined or sloping and of a piece of
solid sheet metal up which the cinders and ashes are to be swept on
to the open bottom. By means of a handle at the back of the pan
the pan may be moved briskly to and fro, by which the cinders will
be separated from the dust which falls into the drawer or chamber
beneath, which can be emptied as required.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH DOORS FOR REGULATING THE ADMISSION OF AIR TO FURNACES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Parkinson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 18th
August 1869.
I, THOMAS PARKINSON, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH DOORS FOR REGULATING THE ADMISSION
OF AIR TO FURNACES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to that class of doors for regulating the admission
of air to furnaces in which a water tank is formed on or attached to
the outside of the door, and a regulating air vessel is fitted to work
therein, the said regulating air vessel being connected by a cross head
to the twisted stems of controlling valves, and consists in combining
with doors so constructed means whereby the opening and closing of
such doors for the purpose of adding fresh fuel shall automatically
raise the regulating air vessel and leave it at liberty to fall at any
required or adjusted speed. For this purpose I connect one end of a
chain or flexible metallic communicator to a fixed point, preferably
outside the furnace, and the other end to the regulating air vessel, the
said chain being led over guide pullies supported on the door or other-

page_text: wise. When the door is opened there is less chain on or over the door,
hence the regulating air vessel is at once raised; afterwards when the
door is closed the regulating air vessel falls, and as it falls the con-
trolling valves are closed. Or instead of the above chain I employ a
curved stationary wedge fixed outside the furnace. During the opening
of the door the said wedge meets the under side of the cross head or
other portion adapted for the purpose, and thereby raises the regulating
air vessel and opens the valves.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ROCKING CHAIRS AND ELASTIC SEATS APPLICABLE TO OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Critchley and Howard
Busby Fox at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 9th February 1869.
We, GEORGE CRITOHLEY, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Jeweller, and HOWARD BUSBY FOX, of Oxton, in the County of Chester,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ROCKING CHAIRS AND ELASTIC SEATS APPLICABLE TO OTHER
SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in applying to the bottom or feet of any
ordinary chair or similar article a spiral or other spring or any elastic
material, preferably made with a broad flat surface at the bottom, and
attached to the chair or other article by a piece similar in form to a
castor socket or castor plate, to which the spring or other elastic material
is made fast.
NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DIFFUSING THE HEAT AND PROMOTING THE GENERATION OF STEAM IN STEAM BOLLERS
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Arena Martin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th March 1869.
I, WILLIAM ARENA MARTIN, of No. 62, Union Street, Southwark,
in the County of Surrey, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature
of my said Invention for "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR DIFFUSING THE
HEAT AND PROMOTING THE GENERATION OF STEAM IN STEAM BOLLERS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object to equalize as much as possible
throughout the steam boiler the temperature of the water contained
therein, so as to promote its circulation, to assist in the rapid production
of steam, and to prevent priming.
This Invention consists in causing the highly heated steam from the
upper part of the boiler to pass downwards nearly to the bottom of the
boiler, where the water is comparatively cold and sluggish, for the
purpose of assisting to heat and thereby to promote the circulation of the
water. This is done by providing near to the boiler bottom a steam space
or steam spaces having a communication or communications extending

page_text: upwards into the upper part of the steam space above the water level,
or nearly to the crown of the boiler. The form of the steam spaces may
vary according to the particular kind of boiler in which they are used,
for example, in a cylindrical boiler a hollow cylinder may be used,
communicating by tubes or pipes with the steam space above the water
level. A series of hollow drum or other shaped chambers may be used
in substitution for the above arrangement in that or other kinds of
boilers, or a series of tubes, or a worm or coil of pipes; in all cases the
arrangement adopted communicating with the upper steam space or
extending into the same, with openings or inlets for the purpose of
allowing the free passage of the steam.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ELECTRO-MAGNETISM AS A MOTIVE POWER TO CARRIAGES, BOATS, AND MACHINERY IN GENERAL
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Jones at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th August
1869.
I, JOHN JONES, of Walton Terrace, South Lambeth Road, in the
County of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ELECTRO-MAGNETISM
AS A MOTIVE POWER TO CARRIAGES, BOATS, AND MACHINERY IN GENERAL,'
to be as follows:-
The nature of my Invention consists in equally distributing an uneven
number of magnets in a circle round a central spindle, and so arranged
that both ends of said magnets will be acted upon by the keepers, which
are of a corresponding even number and also equally distributed at each
end of said magnets. The pole changes are by preference effected by a
cam wheel fixed on the said spindle carrying the magnets and keepers,
there being one cam for each keeper and one disconnecting spring for
each magnet, the purpose of which is to break and to establish the
connection in rotation. Each series of keepers is arranged radially on
a central boss which is keyed on to the spindle, while the magnets are
carried on one or more discs or wheels which are loose on the spindle
but rigidly attached or connected to the frame or frames carrying the

page_text: bearings of the spindle. Motion may be derived from the spindle by
cranks or other convenient means. The battery for charging said magnets
The power or
may conveniently be arranged in or about the frame.
speed may be varied or stopped entirely by lowering or raising more or
less the plates of the battery, so as to cause them to be less or more
immersed in the liquid. The direction of motion may if desired be made
reversible by a suitable modification of the pole change arrangement.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHAFTS AND OTHER PARTS OF CARRIAGES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Tomlinson Bousfield, of Loughborough
Park, Brixton, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHAFTS AND OTHER PARTS OF
CARRIAGES." A communication from abroad by Edward Fievet, of
Roubaix, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 14th September 1869, and dated the 6th April 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Tomlinson
Bousfield at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 6th April 1869.
I, GEORGE TOMLINSON BOUSFIELD, of Loughborough Park, Brixton,
in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHAFTS AND OTHER
PARTS OF CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to construct shafts, poles, perches,
and other parts of carriages both lighter and stronger than can be the
case where they are constructed of wood, as heretofore.

page_text: According to this Invention, tubes of metal, either rolled, drawn, or
cast, are employed in the construction of shafts, poles, perches, and
similar parts of carriages, and such shafts and other parts may be curved.
or made to any shape desired. The interior of the tubular shafts or other
such like parts of carriages may be filled in with resin or with other
light material, which may be run in a liquid state into the shaft, and
which will afterwards solidify by cooling; or the tubular shafts or other
parts may be of iron or steel tubes drawn down on to a core of wood.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PERCOLATORS FOR INFUSING TEA, COFFEE, AND OTHER SIMILAR BEVERAGES
Year: 1869

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Jean Baptiste Kroll and
Antoine Froment at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 28th April 1869.
We, JEAN BAPTISTE KROLL and ANTOINE FROMENT, Merchants, both
of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, in the Empire of France,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PERCOLATORS FOR INFUSING TEA, COFFEE, AND OTHER SIMILAR BEVERAGES," to
be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the ordinary two chambered percolators, and
consists, first, in having the bottom of the upper cylinder solid, with a
central aperture or valve worked by a key from the outside; secondly,
in adapting a tap thereto; thirdly, in the employment of an inner
recipient or smaller cylinder (which is placed in the interior of the first-
named one), at the bottom of which the filter is fixed, and below and
round it a number of circular openings are made for the passage of the
filtered liquid.
The two parts being united in the usual manner the smaller cylinder
or recipient for the tea or coffee is placed inside the upper chamber, and

page_text: the hot water being poured in the lid is closed, and the liquid per-
colating through the filter and passing out through the circular openings
rises up round the sides of the recipient and inside the upper chamber,
from whence it may either be allowed to pass into the bottom of the
percolator by turning the key alluded to which opens the valve, or it
may be drawn off direct from the upper chamber by means of the tap.
By removing the lower part and mounting the upper on a tripod, and
placing a spirit lamp beneath, it is serviceable for sick chambers.