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IN DECORATING GLASS, WOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Markham at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th August 1882.
THOMAS MARKHAM of Manchester in the County of Lancaster.
IN DECORATING GLASS, WOOD AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."
" IMPROVEMENTS
In performing my invention I take ferns, flowers or leaves of plants and cement
or secure them on glass, wood, stone or other substance and cover the ferns,
flowers or leaves with transparent waterproof varnish. If desired I cover the
ferns, flowers or leaves with colour or with gold or silver previous to varnishing.
Picture frames, glass ornaments or other articles may be thus decorated and they
may be washed or left in water without injury to the decoration.
The glass or other substance may be coloured as desired to form a background
to the decoration.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SPOOLING MACHINES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Hand and John Thomas
Wibberley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th
December 1882.
THOMAS HAND, Machinist, and JOHN THOMAS WIBBERLEY, Machinist, both of
Blackburn in the County of Lancaster IMPROVEMENTS IN SPOOLING MACHINES
<<
"
Our improvements relate to spooling machines for winding sewing thread.
In carrying out our invention we mount the driving shaft or spindle in bearings
in a suitable frame and from this shaft we transmit a longitudinal motion to the
slide by a train of wheels, one of which wheels is a change wheel so that any
count of thread may be wound and other of the wheels are reversing wheels on a
movable bracket so that the direction of the slide may be reversed. The boss of
one wheel forms a nut which fits on a screw formed on one end of the slide: on
the other end of the slide is the guide stock which is connected to a lever which
acts upon adjustable stop pieces secured on a travelling lever fitted on a traversing
bracket or carriage connected to the slide. On this travelling lever are fitted two
spring catches which retain or release a reversing lever connected to the slide and
to a bracket carrying the wheels which cause the wheel which forms the nut on
the end of the slide to turn in one direction or the other to traverse and to reverse
the direction of the slide: the reversing lever moves with the slide and comes in
contact alternately with two cam levers which cause it to vibrate and move the
bracket and reversing wheels and thus reverse the motion of the slide. The stop
pieces on the travelling lever may be adjusted to suit a spool of any bevel and of
any length.
We make a stop motion by fitting a wire so that one end will rest on the thread
being wound and when the thread breaks the wire will fall and the other end will
move a lever connected to the shipping rod so as to allow a weight connected to
the rod to move the strap from the fast to the loose pulley.
We mount an index wheel on the travelling bracket so that it will act upon the
shipping rod and stop the machine when a given number of yards have been
wound.

page_text: We secure to the guide stock a weighted lever that rests on an inclined plane
that is drawn forward by a weight and cord so that when the stock is lifted the
inclined plane will keep it from falling again thus securing a uniform surface of
the thread on the bobbin.
By the use of our invention yarn of any count may be wound on spools of any
length or bevel and the necessary adjustment may be effected easily and quickly.
AN IMPROVEMENT OR
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Henry Griffiths at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th April 1882.
ALFRED HENRY GRIFFITHS of Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Manufacturer AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN TRICYCLES AND OTHER
VELOCIPEDES.
My invention has reference to tricycles and such other velocipedes as are propelled
in a manner similar to that in which tricycles are propelled and consists in
constructing and combining the parts of the propelling mechanism in the following
manner.
I dispense with the ordinary cranked axle on which the rider operates with his
feet and in place of driving the vehicle by a cranked axle, I substitute two pedals
which are capable of sliding in a vertical or nearly vertical direction. These pedals
are carried in slides on the fixed frame of the vehicle and at a convenient distance
from the seat
In the shaft to which the principal or driving wheels of the vehicle are fixed two
cranks are formed to which cranks the two pedals are geared respectively. I prefer
to effect the gearing of the pedals to the said cranks by means of rigid connecting
rods jointed to the lower ends of the pedals, but the gearing of the pedals to the
cranks may be effected by means of chains.
In propelling a tricycle or other velocipede made according to my invention, the
rider's feet always press directly upon the pedals, the rectilinear motion of the pedals
being more agreeable than the curvilinear motions of the cranks on which the rider
operates in an ordinary tricycle
The chain and wheels by which the motion of the cranked shaft of an ordinary
tricycle is transmitted to the driving wheels are dispensed with and the construction
of the tricycle or velocipede simplified.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD. OF AND APPARATUS FOR FINISHING THE SURFACE OF CONCRETE FLOORS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Abraham Cordingley at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th January 1882.
ABRAHAM CORDINGLEY, of the firm of Thomas Cordingley and Sons, of Bradford
in the County of York, Concrete floor layer IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD. OF
AND APPARATUS FOR FINISHING THE SURFACE OF CONCRETE FLOORS
Hitherto there has been an objection to the use of concrete for finishing such
surfaces as railway platforms, floors, landings and steps in consequence of the
surface of the same being slippery rendering it dangerous for people to walk upon.
My object is to so finish such surfaces with concrete that the feet will have a
firmor grip upon the same and still retain a smooth surface which I accomplish in
the following manner.
The platforms, floors, landings and steps are laid with concrete in the usual
manner and when the surface has been worked up smooth and straight, I impress
the same with a roller which may be slightly grooved, indented or havo projections
on the same, thereby grooving, raising projections on, or indenting the surface
according to the roller used, thus giving the surface a smooth and finished
appearance and a firmer grip to the feet when walking upon the same.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING AND DIRECTING LIGHT." ELECTRIC
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Wilde at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 13th May 1882.
HENRY WILDE of the City of Manchester in the County of Lancaster Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING AND DIRECTING
LIGHT."
ELECTRIC
My invention consists of an improvement in the regulator described in the
Specification of Letters Patent granted to me on the 19th day of February A.D.
1873 No. 618 which improvement is also applicable to other electric light
regulators.
When the electric light produced by alternating currents is employed in a
projector with the carbou points in the same straight line, the arc travels round
the points of the carbons, and a portion only of the light is utilized in the
projector.
In the present improvement the arc is directed to the front of the carbon points
and is also prevented from travelling round them by means of one or more electro-
magnetic coils placed in proximity to the arc, and in the circuit through which the
light producing current is transmitted. These coils may be of the helical or convolute
form either with or without iron cores and they may be applied to other forms of
regulator besides that described in the above mentioned specification. The electro-
magnetic coils may also be used with or without soft iron, for directing the arc to
the front of the carbons when continuous or direct currents are used for producing
the light.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN AND RELATING TO APPARATUS FOR GIVING ALARM IN CASE OF ACCIDENTS, BURGLARIOUS ATTEMPTS, FIRES OR OTHER LIKE MATTERS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Barker Wood at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th March 1882.
CHARLES BARKER WOOD of Liverpool in the county of Lancaster "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND RELATING TO APPARATUS FOR GIVING ALARM IN CASE OF ACCIDENTS,
BURGLARIOUS ATTEMPTS, FIRES OR OTHER LIKE MATTERS."
This invention consists first in so arranging a non-conducting peg wedge or
other piece of mechanism between two conductors as to interrupt the current-but
the apparatus so arranged that by withdrawing the non-conducting piece a complete
circuit is immediately started
2nd. In applying this or equivalent mechanism to the purpose of giving
alarm
The simplest form of apparatus is a mere peg placed between two springs so as
to prevent their coming in contact but it is obvious that the actual design can be
indefinitely varied. In any case it is well to have one or more sharp points on
one of the springs to come in contact with the other If desirable one spring could
be replaced by a rigid plate and if placed vertically the other could be replaced by
a weight or a metallic wheel or a weighted bell crank lever could be used."
Some of the modes of application are as follows. As a burglar alarm. The peg
could be arranged so that the door or window could not possibly be opened without
withdrawing the peg. The withdrawing the peg establishes a current that rings a
bell and if desirable ignites an explosive mixture. As a fire alarm. The peg
could be of wax or still better a sufficiently heavy weight supported by wax; the
wax melting with the heat causes the peg or its equivalent to fall and thereby
establishes the current which gives an alarm. Similarly if two wires be brought
along a train or even one insulated wire and the two wires or the single wire and
earth contact be brought close together and only separated by a pin; by with-
drawing that pin the circuit is completed and bells kept ringing in the van and on
the engine or either. A simple bell pull at the top of each carriage is sufficient, a
tell-tale attached thereto above so that no handle could be pulled without liberating
& spring semaphore on the top of the carriage-would at once indicate the com-
partment the alarm came from, or in place of a tell-tale the handle could be boxed
in with glass and could only be reached by breaking the glass. These are three
examples of how my alarm could be used and from them it is obvious that in
almost any instance where the occurrence of any action is to be announced my
alarm apparatus could be set up so as to give the necessary notice.
IMPROVED METHOD OF PREPARING THE INTERIOR OF LEAD PIPES, IN COATING THE SAME, AND IN APPARATUS FOR THE PURPOSE
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by David Walker and William Speirs
Simpson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th March
1882.
DAVID WALKER of Riversdale Road Highbury in the County of Middlesex and
WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON of Battersea Park Road in the County of Surrey
IMPROVED METHOD OF PREPARING THE INTERIOR OF LEAD PIPES, IN COATING THE
SAME, AND IN APPARATUS FOR THE PURPOSE
The object of this Invention is cleansing the interior of lead pipes to prepare
them for a coating of paint, varnish, lacquer, or enamel and apparatus by which
such coating can be applied the coating being afterwards dried by time or
artificially by heated air, gas, or vapour if expedition be desired.
For the purpose of our Invention we use a revolving brush driven by a crank
and wheel arrangement, with a roller for coiling the necessary length of brush
handle which is primarily for cleansing the pipe with prepared solution; Secondly
sponge and drying cloths for drying and preparing for the coating process. The
coating material is carried into the pipe and laid on by a flexible vessel containing
the material drawn through the pipe by proper attachments. A piston fitted in
this vessel is attached by rod and wire to a line following the vessel by which the
necessary pressure is exerted to force the coating material through a series of
orifices prepared in the vessel for this purpose.
A modification of the revolving brush is used for spreading and thoroughly
laying the coating material in the pipe and the coating is finished by the application
of a flexible brush drawn through the pipe.
A drying apparatus is then attached to the pipe by which hot, or dry air, or
prepared gas is passed through the pipe for rapidly drying and rendering it fit for
immediate use.
AN IMPROVED ADJUSTABLE FIRE SCREEN MOUNT
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry John Davis at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th February 1882.
HENRY JOHN DAVIS of 86/40 Newgate Street in the City of London Accountant.
AN IMPROVED ADJUSTABLE FIRE SCREEN MOUNT
The object of this Invention is an arrangement of a fire screen mount that it
can by a socket provided with lips and a sliding piece be readily affixed to the bars
of a fire grate and easily removed therefrom, the vertical bar being provided with a
sliding ferrule which carry a horizontal bar within which side extension rods can
be slid in or drawn out at pleasure
A NEW OR IMPROVED COLLAPSIBLE PACKING CASE
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Ridpath Blandy at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th December 1882.
RICHARD RIDPATH BLANDY of Shepherd's Bush in the County of Middlesex "A
NEW OR IMPROVED COLLAPSIBLE PACKING CASE
"
The object of this invention is to enable wooden packing cases in which goods
are transported from place to place to be folded up into a comparatively small
compass in order to save cost in freight or carriage when it is desired to transport
them empty.
This object is effected according to the present invention by hinging together at
the four corners the two sides and ends of the packing case, by metallic or other
suitable hinges, in such manner that each side with one end can be opened out so
as to stand in line with each other, or nearly so, and in so doing folds up close to
the other side and end which are opened out in like manner.
The bottom is hinged
to one of the sides in such manner that it can be opened outwards and folded so as
to lie against the outside of the side to which it is hinged. The lid is in like
manner hinged to the other side and can be opened outwards and folded against
the outside of the side to which it is hinged. When the packing case is opened
out for use the bottom is secured to the sides and ends by angle irons and bolts and
nuts arranged for that purpose preferably inside the case; and the lid is in like
manner secured to the sides and ends by suitable angle pieces and bolts and nuts
preferably applied outside the case. The battens which serve to hold together the
boards composing the sides and end being placed inside, and left somewhat short,
form stops or fillets to prevent the bottom and lid from passing too far into the
interior of the case. As the bottom and lid enter between the sides and ends of
the case, they serve to maintain the same in the desired shape.
required to fold up the case it is only necessary to remove the bolts and nuts
holding it together, to fold the top and bottom against the sides, and the sides and
ends against one another, in the manner of a parallel ruler, and a flat comparatively
thin package is obtained which occupies little space and can be easily transported
from place to place.
When it is
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VASES TO CONTAIN FLOWERS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Barford at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 20th September 1882.
FREDERICK BARFORD of Hemel Hempstead in the County of Hertford,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VASES TO CONTAIN FLOWERS."
My Invention relates to the manufacture of vases to contain flowers in pots or
otherwise for chamber decoration, and it has for its object to render these articles
practically unbreakable and at the same time combine ornament of design with
utility of purpose.
My Invention consists in manufacturing such vases of straw plait, sennett plait,
or panama straw in the manner hereafter described, and in combining there with a
flanged metal cup or pot to contain the flowers.
In carrying out my Invention I take straw plait, sennett plait, or panama straw
made in the ordinary manner of plaiting straw for bonnets and interweave it upon
a mandrel or block of the proper form by encircling the mandrel or block from end
to end with a spiral coil of plait with the various convolutions of which separate
longitudinal strips of plait are interlaced or decussated so as to form a fabric
analogous to a woven fabric. This fabric is brought to the proper shape by
blocking and stiffening the straw plait in the ordinary way of straw hat making.
A bottom made like the crown of a straw hat is secured by sewing or otherwise
to the fabric made as above described, and chains or loosely intertwined festoons
or other work made by plaiting together straw plaits, may be applied to the vase
by sewing. In the upper part of the vase a cup of tin plate is fitted and rests
by its external flange upon a straw plait ring at the mouth of the vase.
AN IMPROVED INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMP
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Floyd and Isaac Probert at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th May 1882.
THOMAS FLOYD, [Civil Engineer] of 3, Victoria Mansions, in the city of West-
minster, Civil Engineer, and ISAAC PROBERT, of 151 Penton Place, Walworth Road,
in the county of Surrey, Electrical Engineer, "AN IMPROVED INCANDESCENT
ELECTRIC LAMP,"
The improved incandescent electric lamp which forms the subject of this.
application for Letters Patent is constructed as follows:-
We take a glass globe, either spherical or not, and provided at both top and
bottom with a stem or prolongation, and, having exhausted the air from the globe,
we place inside it one or more carbonaceous fibres at approximately equal distances
from each other, and from the centre of the globe,
These fibres are attached at each end to the opposite conducting wires of the
electric source. The said conducting wires passing through the stem or pro-
longation of the globe,
We do not limit ourselves to any particular kind of carbonaceous fibre, but may
use Cocoa nut fibre, Briza minima, Esparto, or any other suitable carbonized
filament,
We may also, if found advisable, enclose within the fibres (when more than one
are used) a reflecting ball,
IMPROVEMENTS IN SMELTING THE MATERIAL KNOWN AS 'PURPLE ORE AND OTHER ORES OF IRON AND OTHER METALS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Parry at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 8th July 1882.
ROBERT PARRY of Westcote, Hoole in the County of Cheshire, Colliery
Proprietor "IMPROVEMENTS IN SMELTING THE MATERIAL KNOWN AS 'PURPLE
ORE AND OTHER ORES OF IRON AND OTHER METALS
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in smelting the material known
as purple ore and other ores of iron and other metals.
For this purpose the purple ore or other ore is reduced by. grinding or otherwise
to a fine powder and is in this state injected by means of a blast of air into a bath
of metal already molten. Together with the ore dust I also introduce fuel and the
requisite flux both also reduced to fine dust.
The ore and materials having been reduced to fine dust would be instantaneously
reduced when subjected to the heat of the molten metal and consequently the whole
Smelting operation would be effected below the surface of the metal; whilst the
gaseous products of combustion would pass off from it.
The operation is preferably carried on in a vessel similar to a Bessemer Converter
but other forms of vessel may be used for the purpose. The powdered materials
may be fed into the blast by a screw revolving within a tube that opens into the
blast pipe or by other means such as have been before suggested for feeding
powdered fuel to an air blast.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH FIRE-ESCAPES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Jasper Wetter at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th October 1882. A communication to
him from abroad by C. H. Höhmann, of Cassel in the German Empire.
JASPER WETTER, of New Wandsworth, Surrey "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR
CONNECTED WITH FIRE-ESCAPES," a communication to ne from abroad by
C. H. Höhmann of Cassel, in the German Empire
This invention has for its object to lower persons or goods from burning houses
by means of a band or rope and without loss of time, also to enable persons to lift
themselves up to the windows or other parts of buildings by winding up the
rope or band from which they are suspended.
The apparatus for this purpose comprises a cylindrical casing containing a
spring and ratchet mechanisms, the spring mechanism consisting of a spiral
spring attached at one end to the axle of the casing and at the other to the
movable spring casing which carries an excentric bracket or bearing movable
around the axle of the casing and holding a short axle for a tooth wheel
provided with a click gearing into a ratchet wheel mounted on the same
axle and driving a toothed pinion which gears into a larger tooth wheel mounted
on the central shaft. The tooth wheel carrying the click gears into a pinion
mounted on the central axle and cast in one piece with a brake disc, which is slightly
movable along its axle and can be pressed against the face of the large tooth wheel
mounted on the same axle, the necessary pressure being produced when required,
by turning a crank provided with a wart or projection. In the hollowed face of
the tooth wheel covered by the brake disc are lodged three segments provided with
radial slots into which project pins rivetted to the brake disc. The main axle of
the casing is supported at its ends by an iron strap which may be hooked to any
convenient part of a building, but preferably to a small portable crane cumble of being
secured to the posts and sills of windows by means of a bar capable of sliding along
the top side of the crane, a row of pins and holes, an anchor plate and a key for
fixing the bar in various positions, so as to suit various thicknesses of walls, the
sliding bar being bent round at its inner end and provided with a screw spindle for
clamping the wall, while the lower end of the crane post rests against the window sill.
The mechanism which enables a man to lift himself along the wall of a building to
which the upper end of a band is secured, consists of a cylindrical casing containing

page_text: a spiral spring and forming a drum for winding up the band, in combination with
a toothed pinion mounted on the axle of the drum, a toothed wheel gearing on one
side into the said pinion and on the opposite side into an internally toothed ring
cast to the face of the drum.
On one end of the axle are mounted two cranks placed at right angles: and on
the other end a ratchet wheel, into which gears a pawl pivotted to the back of the
drum.
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LAWN TENNISRACQUETS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Albert Joseph Altman at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th July 1882.
ALBERT JOSEPH ALTMAN of St Botolph's in the City of London
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LAWN TENNIS RACQUETS
"
" IMPROVE
This Invention has for its object to prevent lawn tennis racquets fracturing and
breaking off at the neck as is now frequently the case
This I effect by lining the racquet frame with cane, india rubber, or any other
suitable equivalent combining lightness and strength with a certain degree of
flexibility which renders it capable of sustaining tension without injury. I thus
considerably increase the strength and durability of the racquet without materially
increasing its weight or the cost of manufacture
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MOWING AND REAPING MACHINES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Davison and Francis
Henry Hallard at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
29th November 1882.
ROBERT DAVISON of Manchester and FRANCIS HENRY HALLARD of Leigh both
in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO MOWING AND
REAPING MACHINES"
The object of the first part of this invention is the application to the land wheels
of mowing and reaping machines of an arrangement of mechanism for obtaining
an instantaneous grip when the machine starts in the forward direction or in other
words to ensure that the knife starts instantaneously and simultaneously with the
machine And also to avoid the objectionable clicking noise when backing.
In carrying out our invention we dispence with the ordinary pawl and in place
of the ordinary ratchet wheel we substitute a wheel with a series of curved inclines
upon its periphery and which wheel is keyed fast upon the driving shaft and is
arranged to work inside a suitable cylindrical box or casting attached to or forming
part of the land wheel. In each of these inclines we insert a loose roller which
when the machine is going in the forward direction instantly runs up its incline
and becomes wedged fast between such incline and the inside of the enclosing box
or casing and thus compels the land wheel to revolve with it, whilst in going in the
contrary direction such roller simply runs down its respective incline and thus
permits the land wheel to turn independantly in that direction.
The second part of this invention relates to improvements in mowing and
reaping machines whereby a right or left hand cutter bar may be used with one
and the same machine and which is effected by arranging the crank-shaft midway
or thereabouts between the land wheels and in having the platform arranged with
sockets to receive the pole on either side of the crank shaft instead of such crank
shaft being near to one side or the other as heretofore. This arrangement permits
the cutter bar to be fixed on either side of the crank shaft and the pole to be placed
accordingly.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF COATING WITH NICKEL THE SURFACE OF IRON PLATES OR ARTICLES MANUFACTURED OF IRON A
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Edwards at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th September 1882. A communi-
cation to him from abroad by Ferdinand Blanda and Auguste Dumas, both of
Bordeaux in the Republic of France.
EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co-Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 40, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF COATING WITH NICKEL THE
SURFACE OF IRON PLATES OR ARTICLES MANUFACTURED OF IRON A communi-
cation to him from abroad by Ferdinand Blanda and Auguste Dumas, both of
Bordeaux in the Republic of France.
This invention has for its object the coating of iron plates or articles manufactured
of iron with nickel without the necessity for first coating such iron with copper, an
operation which tends to oxidize the iron and tarnish the nickel, the latter allowing
a greater or less quantity of verdigris to escape. By this invention such incou-
venience is avoided, the following process taking place:-The iron is always
magnetic and the nickel positive, and accordingly there arises between the two
metals a magnetic disturbance producing heat and cold, and the variation of the
temperature gives the requisite adherence between them. The older the article is
and the greater its adherence, the less susceptible it becomes of oxidation. The
effectual application of the nickel prevents all subsequent oxidation.
In order to apply the nickel directly to the surface of the iron as and for the
purpose described, we thoroughly clean and polish the surface of the iron and we
deposit upon it electro-chemically a coating of pure nickel, directly and without
the intervention of copper.
Iron coated directly with nickel in this way is especially applicable to the
manufacture of domestic utensils and boxes or cases for preserving food.
AN IMPROVED SHAPING MACHINE
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Timothy Graham and Aaron
Frost at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th August
1882.
ALFRED TIMOTHY GRAHAM of Stafford in the County of Stafford, Machinist
and AARON FROST of the same place Pattern Maker "AN IMPROVED SHAPING
MACHINE"
This machine is for shaping or planing metal nuts bolts or other articles
requiring more than one face shaping or planing and the Improvement consists in
arranging the several parts of the machine in such a way as to enable the several
sides of the article to be acted upon simultaneously To effect this we construct
the body or frame of the machine of a similar shape to that formed by the sides
of the article to be produced and upon the top or face of this body or frame we
place slide rests carrying tools one for each face of the article The article is then
placed in a chuck connected with a crank of the machine and caused to travel
downwards and upwards in a vertical position past the tools which are each
simultaneously working in a horizontal direction from right to left or the reverse
as required.
OR IMPROVED FASTENINGS FOR PREVENTING THE REMOVAL OF CORKS FROM BOTTLES AND STOPPERS OR COVERS FROM OTHER STOPPERS AND VESSELS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Shaw at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 5th August 1882.
HENRY SHAW of Aston near Birmingham in the County of Warwick Mechanical
Engineer "NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENINGS FOR PREVENTING THE REMOVAL OF
CORKS FROM BOTTLES AND STOPPERS OR COVERS FROM OTHER
STOPPERS AND
VESSELS"
My invention has reference principally to decanters and spirit bottles; and has for
its object to fasten or prevent the removal of the stoppers of the same excepting by
the person having possession of the key of the fastening. My invention is however
applicable to wine and other bottles having corks as well as to other vessels having
stoppers or covers such for example as pickle jars.
I will describe my invention in connection with a liquor bottle. I form an annular
clip preferably of metal, the said clip having such a size and shape that when applied
to the mouth or top of the neck of the bottle it fits closely thereon. The said clip
is made in two halves jointed together after the manner of a bracelet the free or
unjointed ends being provided with a spring or snap fastening. The upper face of
the clip is broader than the under face and covers not only the mouth of the bottle
but also extends over the plug of the stopper, the central opening in the closed clip
being too small to permit of the plug of of the stopper rising through it. When the
open clip is placed upon the mouth of the bottle and closed around it, the snap
fastening prevents the opening of the clip and the stopper is consequently locked
in its place in the mouth of the neck of the bottle. In order to unlock the clip
and set the stopper free, a key is passed into a key hole near the junction of the
two parts of the clip. By turning this key the spring snap fastening is thrown out
of action and the clip can be opened and removed and the stopper of the bottle
withdrawn. The joint of the clip may be provided with a spring which throws the
clip open when the fastening is thrown out of action by the key. Or a spring on the
interior of one of the parts of the clip may be employed with the same effect.
In making a fastening for the corks of wine bottles, the clip is made to fit the

page_text: mouth of the bottle but is extended upwards so as to surround part of the cork.
Those portions of the clip which close upon the cork have small spikes or pointed
pins which on the closing of the clip enter the cork and prevent its withdrawal.
The application of my invention to pickle jars and other vessels having stoppers
or covers differs in no essential respect from its application to spirit and wine bottles
as herein described.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CENTRIFUGAL MACHINES FOR SEPARATING THE CREAM FROM THE MILK
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Anthon Steenberg at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd October 1882. A communication to
him from Lawrids Baḍstue Nielsen, a person residing at Quottrup Minde,
Denmark.
ANTHON STEENBERG Patent Agent at Copenhagen, Denmark, Editor of Industri
Tidende "IMPROVEMENTS IN CENTRIFUGAL MACHINES FOR SEPARATING THE CREAM
FROM THE MILK A communication to him from Lawrids Badstue Nielsen, a
person residing at Quottrup Minde, Denmark.
"
This machine constructed to separate the cream from the milk differs in several
essential points from other known separators for cream.
It consists of a fixed vessel standing on a suitable pedestal or table and contains
a rotating vessel which is mounted on a vertical spindle. This vessel is of a
cylindrical form as is usual in such machines and has a central opening on the top.
Above this vessel and around the central opening is a small cylinder which may be
formed with the cylindrical vessel or securely attached thereto.
The central opening of the cylindrical vessel is closed by a cover with which the
supplying tube is connected. The milk enters into the vessel through a small tube
in connection with the supply tube. The milk when separated by the centrifugal
action passes by a small tube to a channel on the inside of the small cylinder from
which it passes through an opening in the small cylinder onto a suitably placed
conical shaped plate or tray surrounding the cylinder. From this plate or tray the
milk is allowed to run into any suitable receiver. The cream which forms a
vertical layer inside the milk and nearer the middle of the vessel rises to a second
opening in the cylinder through a second channel and flows out onto a second conical
plate or tray placed above the milk tray. The two channels may be formed by
means of projecting partition walls which descend to the layer of cream. When the
milk fills the first channel the cream has no other way out than through the second
channel. Suitable means for lubricating the axle are provided.
In most of the separators hitherto known partition walls have been placed in the
rotating vessel to cause the milk to follow the rotation. In the present instance
partition walls are employed These partition walls the length of which is somewhat
less than the depth of the vessel are fixed to the inside of the rotating vessel
alternately to the bottom and to the top of the same, so as to leave a space alternately
above and below the partition. The milk while being treated in this vessel will
receive a motion differing widely from that given to it in other separators, as it will
be caused to pass in a zigzag direction and at the same time will be influenced by
the centrifugal force, by means of which double influence in the separation of the
cream will be accelerated to a considerable extent.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GOVERNORS FOR STEAM ENGINES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edmund Truman of Grantham in the County of Lincoln,
for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GOVERNORS FOR STEAM ENGINES."
pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Truman at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st March 1882.
EDMUND TRUMAN, of Grantham, in the county of Lincoln,
GOVERNORS FOR STEAM ENGINES,"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
Upon the governor spindle, I place a tube carrying a sleeve, having a grooved
boss at its lower end which receives either the forked end of a lever and connecting
rod for operating the throttle valve, or for a small truck carried by the end of a
lever operating the throttle valve, the upper end of the sleeve terminates in a
T piece, or cross bar, to the outer ends of which are secured the lower ends of two
flat spring plates, the upper ends of the spring plates are secured to the outer ends
of a second cross bar carrying a boss on its top through which is passed a set screw,
which when adjusted is kept in position by a lock nut, the lower end of the set
screw is recessed to receive the upper rounded or pointed end of the governor
spindle, the spindle is slotted vertically, in this slot a cotter slides, the cotter being
passed through and secured in the T piece first mentioned, below the cross piece is
either a toothed wheel or a pulley for a cord in the usual way.. Each of the spring
plates before named, has a spherical weight secured to it, the adjacent sides of
each of which are recessed to clear the tube before named, and also to receive a
slotted clip terminating outwards in a screwed bolt which is passed through the
weight and secured by a threaded nut. Thus by constructing a governor as above
described I obtain an effective governor without knuckle joints, and without axle
pins liable to work loose, and one which exhibits great sensitiveness, being quicker
in action upon the speed of the engine varying, also being much cheaper in cost and
much lighter.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES FOR WASHING STRAINING OR SIFTING, AND FOR DRYING CHINA CLAY AND OTHER SUBSTANCES.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Frederick Lackersteen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th September 1882.
JAMES FREDERICK LACKERSTEEN of New Cross in the County of Kent Civil
Engineer IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS AND APPLIANCES FOR WASHING STRAINING
OR SIFTING, AND FOR DRYING CHINA CLAY AND OTHER SUBSTANCES.
My invention consists of two parts, the first being for washing straining or
sifting, and for this purpose I employ a hollow vessel or sifter (by preference of a
cylindrical shape) composed of a frame work on which is spread wire or other
gauze of a certain fineness according to the nature of the substance to be operated
upon A pipe or tube is attached to the upper surface of this sifter and leads to an
air-pump, and to the lower surface of this sifter is also attached a pipe or tube
which opens downwards. This sifter is completely immersed in water containing
the china clay or other substance to be operated upon. The air in the sifter being
exhausted by the pump when the lower pipe is closed a vacuum is formed causing
the water which is kept in a state of agitation to flow into the sifter carrying with
it the china clay or other substance in finely divided particles. The sifter being
placed at a certain height say for instance 35 to 36 feet, assuming the atmosphere
will only support a column of water 34 feet in a perfect vacuum, the water with
the sifted clay will on the lower pipe being opened flow continually so long as the
vacuum is maintained by the air pump.
The second part of my invention consists of an apparatus and appliances for the
drying of the china clay after it has passed through the sifter as described in a
wet state, for which purpose I employ a hollow cylinder of metal smooth on the
outer surface of any given dimensions and revolving on its axis. Heat is applied
to the interior of the cylinder either by jet of gas or by hot air, and in some cases
by steain the heat being regulated according to the requirements. The clay to be
dried is placed in a semi-liquid state in a tray or trough underneath the cylinder,
and the cylinder revolving is made to take up by contact a certain portion of the
wet clay, and carrying it over its surface dries it and by certain arrangements it is
scraped off by a fixed scraper or scrapers and so the operation is continued, the
trough being replenished from time to time. This system of drying by heated
cylinders is applicable to other substances such as solution of salts &c.
SPRING SLIDES FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECURING ANY DESCRIPTION Of PAPER OR LIKE SUBSTANCE DURING THE PROCESS OF MACHINE PRINTING
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Mark Millington and Richard
Burton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th July 1882.
MARK MILLINGTON of N° 9 Laurel Street Nottingham Engineer and RICHARD
BURTON of 14 St John Street Road Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex
Engineer SPRING SLIDES FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECURING ANY DESCRIPTION Of
PAPER OR LIKE SUBSTANCE DURING THE PROCESS OF MACHINE PRINTING
Two bottom lay-to's each consisting of a grooved metal block with two brass
plate-springs opposite to one another or with one steel clip-spring holding down
into the groove a sliding arm carrying beneath the projecting end thereof a
circular lay-to block. Beneath the said grooved metal block is a clip to fasten
the lay-to on to the platen iron in such a manner that it may be moved along
the said platen iron. One side lay-to consisting of a grooved metal block with
two brass plate springs opposite to one another or with one steel clip-spring
holding down into the groove a sliding arm carrying at the projecting end thereof
a circular lay-to block. At the end of the said grooved metal block opposite to the
end from which the said arm projects is a metal arm projecting from one side to
which and to the grooved block itself is attached a metal clip to fasten the
lay-to on to the platen iron in such a manner that it may be moved along the said
platen iron.
IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Dixon Aria and John Davies
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th March 1882.
CHARLES DIXON ARIA, trading as Smethurst and Company, Lamp Manu-
facturers, and JOHN DAVIES, Manager, both of New Bond Street, in the County
of Middlesex, IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS
Our improvements in lamps, relate more especially to pendant lamps, and consist
in substituting for the usual hemispherical cup or saucer, of glass, or china,
employed in such lamps, a cage, or netting of wire work, or the like, over and
around which we arrange, and secure, bunches or clusters of artificial flowers,
disposed in such manner as to produce novel and ornamental effects. The cage, or
netting, is held in place by an annular, or otherwise shaped, band or ring of metal,
to which arms or chains are are attached, by which the lamp is suspended. A
second, or additional cage or netting, may also be provided, and secured to the ring,
or band, but in an inverted position, so that when they are combined (should the
cages be hemispherical) they form a spherical or globular cage, and over this
additional cage, we also arrange bunches or clusters of flowers.
These bunches, or clusters of flowers thus arranged, may be contrived to envelop
and hold glass bulbs, or globes, provided with incandescent electric lights.
The chains, or arms, may also be covered, or entwined with flowers, some, or all
of which, may be provided with the electric lamps, in the manner above set forth.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING WAXES AND OILS FOR USE IN TREATING, LUBRICATING, OR FINISHING TEXTILE MATERIALS AND FABRICS, AND IN PART APPLICABLE IN PREPARING LUBRICANTS FOR MACHINERY
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Ballantyne Hannay at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th December 1882.
JAMES BALLANTYNE HANNAY, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Chemist, "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING WAXES AND OILS FOR USE IN
TREATING, LUBRICATING, OR FINISHING TEXTILE MATERIALS AND FABRICS, AND IN
PART APPLICABLE IN PREPARING LUBRICANTS FOR MACHINERY
"
This Invention has for its object to render various waxes and oils more suitable
than as hitherto prepared for being applied to or used in treating, lubricating, or
finishing textile materials or fabrics, and the Invention is in part applicable for
preparing certain oils for being used as lubricants for machinery.
In carrying out the Invention olive oil or other suitable vegetable or saponifiable
oil is employed as a vehicle or medium for applying a wax or non-saponifiable oil
to textile materials or fabrics, the wax such as earth-wax, ozokerite, paraffin wax,
spermacetti, or beeswax, or the oil being first dissolved in or mixed with the
saponifiable oil, and the mixture being subsequently saponified by means of an
alkali. By these means the wax or non-saponifiable oil is obtained in a state of
extremely fine division so that it can be applied satisfactorily in small or other
proportions in a very uniform manner. For lubricating textile materials in order
to facilitate the manufacturing processes to which they are subjected olive oil or
other suitable vegetable oil is saponified or partially saponified either alone or after
being mixed with a non-volatile oil. And the saponified or partially saponified
olive oil forms a very suitable lubricant for machinery used in manufacturing
textile materials on account of its being removable from such materials without
injury to them. For this purpose the olive oil is by preference partially saponified
by treating it with gaseous ammonia, a current of air being caused to pass first
through strong liquor ammonia and then to bubble through the oil. When treated
in this way the oil remains comparatively clear and is better suited for its intended
uses than when saponified in the ordinary way.
AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROPELLING VEHICLES BY HYDRAULIC POWER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Edwards at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st November 1882. A communi-
cation to him from abroad by Clément Laburthe of St Pierre Laudes, in the
Republic of France.
EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co:-, Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 40, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROPELLING VEHICLES
BY HYDRAULIC POWER [A communication to him from abroad by Clément
Laburthe of St Pierre, Laudes, in the Republic of France]
"
This invention relates to wheeled carriages or locomotives running upon ordinary
roads or upon railroads, and it has for its object a novel method of constructing
such carriages and of propelling them by means of hydraulic power.
The carriage is supported upon a sufficient number of wheels, preferably four or
six, of suitable diameter and size for the purpose to which the carriage is to be
applied, the axles of the wheels being carried in a frame, to which other waggons
or vehicles may be attached and drawn. Upon the frame of the carriage are fitted
two reservoirs of as large capacity as can be conveniently arranged and containing
water.
The two principal axles of the carriage pass through these reservoirs and each
bas fixed upon it a hydraulic wheel which can be set in revolution by the direction
of a current of water against its circumference, and in each of the reservoirs is
arranged and fixed a receiver, the capacity of which may be varied to suit the size
and character of the carriage to be used, and each receiver is provided with valves
by which the water can be drawn in and discharged in a continuous jet.
Each receiver is fitted with a pipe by which the jet of water so discharged is
directed against the hydraulic wheel which is thus set in revolution and propels
the carriage, and the two hydraulic wheels are arranged so that they revolve in
opposite directions in order that as one or other is used the carriage may be made
to travel either forward or backward, or stopped.
Between the reservoirs is fixed an air pump, worked by hand or other convenient
power, by which air can be compressed into vessels communicating by means of

page_text: suitable pipes and valves with the receivers already described, where by its pressure
upon the water the discharge of the latter in a continuous stream against the
bydraulic wheels is effected.
Where the carriage constructed and propelled in the manner described is used on
ordinary roads, a steering wheel of any of the well known kinds is arranged at the
end of the carriage where it can be conveniently operated by an attendant.