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IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING MILLS FOR ROLLING METAL
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Ellis of Leods in the County of York
Mechanical Engineer for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING MILLS
FOR ROLLING METAL"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Ellis at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th June 1883.
WILLIAM HENRY ELLIS of Leeds in the County of York Mechanical Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ROLLING MILLS FOR ROLLING METAL
The object of this Invention is to enable the man in charge of a rolling mill to
readily relieve the pressure on the setting down screws immediately a stoppage of
the rolls occurs through the breakage of any of the machinery or the stoppage of
the engine while a plate or bar is in the rolls and thus avoid the risk of the rolls
becoming overheated.
In rolling mills especially in armour plate mills, great expense is caused by the
breakage of rolls which in the majority of cases is due to such stoppage having
occurred and the attendant not being able readily to release the rolls. The rolls
are thus damaged and on resuming rolling, after cooling, cracks appear on their
surfaces and soon the rolls break.
To overcome this difficulty I make the chocks for the top roll in two pieces and
interpose wedges.
These wedge pieces whilst the mill is at work are retained in their places by
screws but when a stoppage takes place they are readily released and withdrawn
sufficiently to relieve the pressure.

page_text: The stem K on its outer end has a screw thread cut upon it, and this receives a
nut L, which by bearing against the end of the stem E' upon the wedge E prevents
the wedge from starting back whilst the mill is in ordinary work.
But as before described should a stoppage or stall occur the wedge can be
withdrawn by turning the nut G, the other nut L having been first removed.
The arrangement of mechanism for operating the wedge pieces may be varied,
but it is necessary that powerful means should be employed to withdraw them
when a stall or stoppage occurs, as the pressure to which the parts are exposed at
such times is very severe.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the manner of
performing the same I would have it understood that what I claim is the
provision of the wedge piece in the chock or block, between the setting down
screw and the neck of the roll, such wedge pieco being securely held in place
whilst the mill is in ordinary use, and capable of being withdrawn to release the
rolls when a stall or stoppage occurs.
I also claim my improvements in rolling mills for rolling metal, substantially as
described and illustrated by the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof I the said William Henry Ellis have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
WILLIAM HENKY ELLIS.
(L.S.)
IMPROVE- MENTS IN HAIR COMBS AND IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF THE SAME
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Paul Borck at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 4th September 1883.
PAUL BORCK of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Engraver, " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HAIR COMBS AND IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
THE SAME
"
The object of my invention is to provide combs so fashioned as to more effectually
remove dandriff and other matter from hair, and also to provide means and
apparatus for economically producing the said combs.
For these purposes I make combs the whole or some, but by preference the whole
of the teeth of which are grooved channelled or lined in their length. One modi-
tication which I have found to answer well has the teeth of any ordinary or
convenient shape on the edges and on the sides with curved grooves. The scope of
my invention however extends to all depressions in comb teeth when they extend
lengthwise of the teeth.
My said combs may be made of hardened gum, horn, bone, celluloid, metal or of
any other suitable material.
.
When moulded the moulds have the suitable projections to form the grooves
channels or lines
When to be cut hand tools may be used or planing or other machines with
multiple cutters.
When to be stamped the dies have the requisite projections.
In the drawings appended hereto,
Fig 1 is a plan view of the bottom and fig 2 of the top of a mould for making
combs under my invention, fig 3 is a longitudinal, and fig 4 a transverse section of
the mould. a are the spaces for the teeth of the comb, 6 the spaces for the back
and ends, and c the projections on the moulds to form the grooves.
Fig 5 is an elevation of a rotary cutter adapted to form combs in accordance
with my invention, the cutters d make the spaces between the teeth, and the
cutters & make the grooves in the teeth of the comb.
Fig 6 is a transverse section of a die for making combs under my invention, f top
die, g bottom die. The material is placed on the lower die and the top die is
brought down on it so as to cut out the spaces between the teeth, h are projections
on the dies to form the grooves in the teeth of the comb,
IMPROVEMENTS IN
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Lee at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 7th September 1883.
CHARLES LEE of Tottenham in the County of Middlesex,
TRICYCLES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My Invention relates to improvements in tricycles, and has for its principal
object to enable the propelling power to be applied more continuously and
therefore more advantageously than hitherto to combine manual and pedal power
at will, to combine the steerage with the manual levers and to provide an improved
brake.
The Invention consist first in combining with each treadle two cranks on the
driving shaft set at right angles to one another, those of the one treadle being
diametrically opposite to those of the other treadle, and in mounting the treadles to
oscillate upon centres carried by the free ends of treadle levers which are themselves
pivoted to rise and fall, and applying this latter motion of the treadle levers to act
on one of the two cranks and the independent oscillation of the treadles over on
their own centres to act on the other of the two cranks, each treadle being
combined with the two cranks by two connecting rods or links applied at different
points, whereby power may be applied first to the one crank by a direct pressure
of the leg and then to the other crank by a pressure of the toe obtained by rocking
the foot on the ankle joint. As there are four cranks all at 90° the application of
power is continuous and there are no dead points.
Manual levers are pivoted to the frame and applied to act on the pedal levers,
and one of these manual levers is so mounted and combined with the steering
lever so as at all points of the to and fro motion of the former it is free to impart
lateral motion to the latter for steering the vehicle the steering lever being
furnished with a spring to hold it in position.
This steering lever is a horizontal lever extending fore and aft and connected
with the steering wheel fork, and it is so combined with the brake gear as to
constitute also one of the handles by which power may be applied to the brakes.
The improvement in the brakes consists in combining a trailing brake with the
tail or rear extension of the frame which prevents backward tilting of the vehicle,
or with each of them if more than one, and in providing means of applying the
.

page_text: said brake or brakes by manual power. To this end the said tail or extension, or
each of them is pivoted and provided with a brake shoe so that it may be brought
down onto the ground and is capable of limited movement upwards so as to prevent
back ward tilting of the vehicle and is attached to a frame capable of up and down
motion behind or beneath the riders' seat, said frame and brakes being held up by
a spring and applied when required by direct downward pressure upon the steering
lever at one side, and upon a suitable bar which may also serve to guide the
manual lever at the other side.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VALVES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Morgan Williams and Alfred
Schottler at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th October
1883.
MORGAN WILLIAMS and ALFRED SCHOTTLER both of Cardiff in the County of
Glamorgan, IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VALVES,"
"
This invention which relates to improvements in the manufacture of valves, and
has especial reference to the valves of air and circulating pumps, consists in
manufacturing the same of woven cotton, hemp, jute, manilla or other analogous
and suitably fibrous substance.
The valves may be made up of layers of the material to the desired thickness, and
the layers enclosed in an envelope of the same or similar material, which envelope
The layers
is turned after having been sewn to obviate fraying of the seam.
and envelope are then stitched together in a series of seams whereby the valve
is stiffened to the requisite degree. The valve is subsequently soaked in oils for
the purpose of being rendered water proof. A strong and durable valve is thus
produced.
Instead of being built up of layers as aforesaid, the valve may be made in one
piece of either of the aforesaid materials woven or plaited to the desired thickness
and shape.
Sawing under this modification, may be dispensed with.
AN IMPROVED ADJUSTABLE SPRING FOR LOCKS, LATCHES, OR BOLTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Edwards at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th June 1883. A communication to
him from abroad by Louis Bourrié, of Lyon, 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 ADJUSTABLE SPRING FOR LOCKS, LATCHES, OR BOLTS
[a communication to him from abroad by Louis Bourrié, of Lyon, in the Republic
of France]
"2
This invention relates to a novel form of spring, consisting of a flat plate or
band of suitable elastic material such as steel, wound spirally and having one of its
ends wider than the other, in such manner that the variable width in no way
hinders the action of the spring, its narrower and weaker end being attached
directly to a regulating cylinder upon the axis of the lock or latch, whilst its
wider and stronger end is fixed to the box of the lock and comes into operation
after the remainder.
Supposing the invention to be applied to an ordinary latch turning upon a
spindle or centre at one end, the regulating cylinder is fitted upon the spindle
which is provided with a projection or key fitting into one or other of a series of
corresponding recesses or notches in the interior of the cylinder.
The narrower end of the spring which is coiled round the cylinder is screwed or
otherwise fixed to the latter, whilst its outer and wider end is fixed to the box of
the latch, so that it tends constantly to turn the spindle and force the latch down
into its catch.
If it is desired to alter the strength of the spring, the cylinder is moved endways
until the key or projection is freed from it, and it is then turned round in either
direction until another of the notches oan be fitted over the key, the spring being
thus more or less coiled or uncoiled as desired.
Instead of the key and notches described the spindle may be made hexagonal,
the cylinder which fits upon it being of corresponding shape so that it can be
turned round and fitted in any desired position upon the spindle.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING FISII FOR CURE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Ross, Junior, at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th October 1883.
JOHN Ross Junior of Muchalls in the County of Kincardine, [North Britain]
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING FISII FOR CURE
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery or apparatus for preparing
fish for cure. The improved apparatus consists of an endless travelling band
furnished with teeth or spikes on which the fish after having the gut and heads
removed by hand are placed the spikes or teeth retaining them in position. By
the said band the fish are traversed along until they are brought under a series of
nozzles from which issue strong water jets whose source of supply may be simple
gravitation where such is available or the water may be ejected through the nozzles
by a force pump or equivalent apparatus. By the action of the water jets the
blood is thoroughly scoured out from the abdomen or interior of the fish which
being effected the fish are further travelled along and discharged or lifted off the
endless travelling band either on its return or otherwise as may be desired.
By this treatment the fish are better cleaned than by the ordinary methods and
a saving of time is also effected.
THE TREATMENT OF A VEGETABLE SUBSTANCE WHEREBY A NEW INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT, IS OBTAINED, TO REPLACE, OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL WOOL, IN THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF Manufacture, IN WHICH THE LATTER IS USED, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Frederick Phillips at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd October 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Jenn Léonidas Allagnou of Paris in the Republic of
France
JAMES FREDERICK PHILLIPS of the firm of Phillips & Leigh Engineers and
Patent Agents 22 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex "THE TREATMENT OF A VEGETABLE SUBSTANCE WHEREBY A NEW
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT, IS OBTAINED, TO REPLACE, OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL
WOOL, IN THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF Manufacture, IN WHICH THE LATTER IS
USED, OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES" [communicated to him from abroad by Jean
Léonidas Allagnou of Paris in the Republic of France]
This invention has for its object the manufacture of a new industrial product.
from the vegetable fibres found in peat mosses which by subjecting it to the
treatment hereafter described is termed vegetable wool.
It is well known that all peat mosscs contain quantities (more or less considerable)
of vegetable fibre, the remains of an antediluvian vegetation.
Up to the present time it has always been the practice to burn this fibrous
growth with the turf; or even when it has been separated the only use to which it
has been put has been to employ it as stable-litter.
The idea of utilizing it in the textile industries by subjecting it to a special
treatment has never before been suggested.
In carrying out this invention the fibres of Dutch peat are advantageously used
which are as a rule longer and moro easily worked than those found elsewhore,
The method of preparing these fibres is as follows:-
The turf is first cut into large blocks or cakes which are then washed to separate
the fibres from the carthy agglomeration. After removing the former from the
washer they are put into a stove or drying room and there left to dry. They are
next passed through a thresher or beater which removes any remanent particles of
earthy matter, and disentangles the fibres. By these means I produce a material
which has a great resemblance to animal wool and which can be used in its stead
in the various branches of manufacture in which the latter is used,

page_text: By these means a new industrial product is obtained which is called vegotablo
wool. It is easily bleached, easily spun or twisted and can, therefore, be employed
in a large number of varied industries, such as carpet weaving, in the manufacture
of felts, tissues, wadding, hosiery, ropes, pulp for paper, tinder, wicks of all kinds,
stuffing for furniture and cushions, or instead of cork in the manufacture of linoleum 5
and other analogous purposes.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMPS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Swinburne at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th October 1883.
JAMES SWINBURNE, of the Borough of Gateshead, in the County of Durham
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMPS"
My Invention consists chiefly of a method of making carbon filaments. I use
cotton, paper, or any other suitable form of cellulose, and act on it with very
strong nitric acid-This converts it wholly or partially into a jelly-like substance-
I wash this and treat it with a suitablo reducing agent and so convert it into a
less combustible substance of somewhat similar physical appearance.
Thus a
suitable cotton or linen thread may be passed continuously through strong nitric
acid; then through water; and may then be boiled in a solution of potassium or
ammonium sulphide-If paper be used, a similar treatment is advisable, the
filaments being cut at any convenient stage in the process. Instead of nitric acid
may use acetic anhydride or any other agent giving an analogous action with
cellulose. Instead of cellulose as the basis, others of the same group of substances
may be used. Sheets of the gelatinous substance, sometimes called xyloïdin may
be made from starch, for example. After reduction, the filaments may be carbonised
and enclosed in bulbs in the usual ways. For joining the carbons to the terminal
wires I propose to employ cement wheroin carbonaceous matter is the basis, it
being incorporated with a substance which on being heated itself carbonisos and
cements the whole into a hard mass,
IMPROVEMENTS IN VALVES OR STOPPERS FOR THE TAP OR BUNG-HOLES OF CASKS, BARRELS AND LIKE RECEPTACLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Forman at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd August 1883.
HENRY FORMAN, of Imperial Chambers in the town and county of Derby
"IMPROVEMENTS IN VALVES OR STOPPERS FOR THE TAP OR BUNG-HOLES OF CASKS,
BARRELS AND LIKE RECEPTACLES."
This invention has for its object the production of cheap and simple apparatus
for automatically closing, or stopping the bung or tap holes of casks, barrels and
like receptacles and thereby preventing the fouling of such. I provide a suitable
plate or frame having a raised annular rim arranged to come over the hole on the
outside of the cask or barrel.
Attached to one end of the said plate I place lugs or arms and to such I pivot a
flat valve or stopper furnished with a suitable rubber or other packing to abut on
the before mentioned annular rim being pressed against it by a spring coiled round
the axis of the pivot or spindle. To insert a tap the valve is opened or pushed
aside by a thumb-piece attached to it and the tap inserted. The pressure of the
spring tends to keep the tap in position and on withdrawing the same the hole
is instantly closed. The apparatus can be cast in malleable metal and will be
found not liable to get out of order.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRINTING UPON MATCHES SPLINTS SPILL AND CIGAR OR OTHER LIGHTERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Goad and Richard Taylor at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1883.
EDWARD GOAD, President of The International Inventors Institute, and
Permanent Exhibition, Dashwood House, New Broad Street, in the City of London,
and RICHARD TAYLOR, at present of Dashwood House New Broad Street in the
City of London IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRINTING UPON MATCHES
SPLINTS SPILL AND CIGAR OR OTHER LIGHTERS."
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for printing or
facilitating the printing of matches, splints, spills, cigar, or other lighters, and
consists in arranging the splints or matches in series for the purpose of printing on
the surface thereby presented. By this means a match or splint is rendered a good
advertising medium as words or devices may be printed or impressed on them.
The Matches, Splints, Spills, or thin wood, are arranged (before or after being
cut) between a suitable guide frame where they are retained in position by screws
cams or levers so as to compress the splints or matches causing them to present a
flat surface and for the pitch to be such as to allow of their being printed upon
each successively or all simultaneously the type for the purpose may either be
arranged cylindrically or flat and printed in the ordinary way. For matches they
are printed before receiving the ignition or phosphorescent composition on the end
or ends.
The frame containing such splints or match wood after receiving the impression
can be reversed so as to print on the other side either by being hinged on the one
side and turned over to meet another set of type or the frame or "galley" may be
turned over in any convenient manner and mounted on the "
equivalent
tympan" or its
These rectangular retaining frames or galleys may be in one or more parts and
provided with
_ shaped grooves on either side one end forms the abutting
part whilst the platen serves to compress them from the other end by screw cam or
lever pressure and may obviously be exerted from both ends.
In some cases these
frames or galleys may be in more than one part and
according to one modification we prefer that the top should be moveable either by

page_text: being hinged to the side or end or secured by screws, or clamps, so as to retain the
splints, spills, matches, or their equivalents, securely in position and at the same
time allowing of their free withdrawal.
Or in some cases the splints, spills, or strips of wood, may be retained securely
on one side only by one shaped clamp to firmly retain them. According to
this modification and in order to ensure a perfectly flat surface the strips may lie
where it is only necessary
on a bed forming an extension of the clamp thus
to print on the one side in one retaining frame or galley
The frames or galleys may be in series or not and may be made of any suitable
size suitable to the purpose required.
IMPROVED APPLIANCE OR HOISTING APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO LOW LEVEL BRIDGES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Pitt Bayly at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd August 1883.
JOHN PITT BAYLY, Architect of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVED APPLIANCE OR HOISTING APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO LOW
LEVEL BRIDGES"
This invention is an improved appliance for hoisting iron arches or spans of low
level bridges to any required height; necessary to allow ships a clear road beneath
to pass through, with rigging & masts any height or any width. The hoisting
apparatus is constructed in cast or wrought iron of semi-circular or any other shape
construction embedded in the top or any other part of the piers or abutments,
constructed for that purpose, with hollow or grooved columns to support it, fixed to
the piers on each side of the span or arch, the iron framing springing from the
outer piers on each side of the span securely tied together. The hoisting of the
arch or span is intended to rise up & down either by steam or hydraulic power.
In eight (more or less) of the columns, nearest the abutments are provided with
iron, copper or steel, rivetted cranked chains running to the top of the columns &
over pulley wheels encased or otherwise and down through the hollow semi-circular
or other shape rib girders to the outer piers with a weight or weights of three tons
and upwards, attached acting as a counterpoise in lifting the arch or span, this
acting as a part of the power of raising or lowering, the live power being supplied
by hydraulic or steam. Thus when a ship requires to pass beneath the arch or
span, at a given signal by electricity or otherwise, valves are opened, either by
steam or hydraulic, a balustrading rises on each side of the arch or span to the
height of the parapets, to prevent passenger traffic coming in contact with the arch
or span, inore valves are then opened when the iron arch or span parts from the
piers or abutments & rises to its required height, thus prepared the ship has a clear
road to pass through, when the arch or span is lowered again to its proper position
& the traffic is resumed. Having now described the nature of the invention, I

page_text: claim the following:-First. The raising and lowering of the iron or other material
arch or span constructed to low level bridges to allow ships of any size to pass
beneath. Second. The general arrangement of the raising apparatus either by
weights, hydraulic or steam power. Third:-The shape either semi-circular or
otherwise of the outer hollow ribs to allow chains to run through, supported by
columns, securely tied either by girders, rods, straps, ties, or otherwise embedded in
the piers or abutments of the bridge.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SIGNALLING DEVICES FOR BAROMETERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Harry Oscar Christensen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd July 1883. .
HARRY OSCAR CHRISTENSEN, of West Cowes, Isle of Wight, Horologist to the
Queen "IMPROVEMENTS IN SIGNALLING DEVICES FOR BAROMETERS'
"
It is well known that storms frequently give very short warning and when a
ship is at sea in some latitudes the barometer falls with great rapidity and unless
a constant watch is kept upon it, the greatest risk is incurred on account of the
ship not being prepared to meet the storm. Now my invention is designed to
obviate this danger, though the apparatus can of course be applied to instruments
on shore as well as to those at sea.
In applying it to these for nautical purposes I take a mercurial barometer hung in
gimbals in the usual manner, the glass tube being enclosed by preference in a metal
or wood case having an opening near the top through which is seen the usual scale
and the top of the column of mercury. Lower down the case is another scale
corresponding to the top one and an index can be adjusted by a rack and pinion or
similar means to any desired position upon the scale-The lower end of the rack is
arranged to move in the turned up end of the glass tube so that when necessary it
will make electrical contact with the mercury in the tube.
The whole of the rack and fittings can be moved up out of the way say for
plugging the tube &c when in use it may be fixed by a set screw. The position
of this scale and rack upon the case may be varied.
To the bottom of the casing below the tube, is attached a suitable box or case
which contains any suitable form of battery and a signal bell is provided in the
captain's cabin or elsewhere as required and suitable connecting wires so that upon
contact being made a current is transmitted to the bell and a signal given. In
practice the index is set at the required position say one tenth of an inch below
the present reading of the barometer, so that if the mercury falls one tenth the
column in the return portion of the tube rises one tenth and makes contact with
lower end of the rack and a signal is given which calls attention to the fact that
the mercury has fallen.
The application to aneroid barometers varies to suit the different construction.
Through a central hole in the glass over the face passes an adjustable metal
index whose end may be turned over to meet the usual index hand. The other

page_text: end of the first named index outside the glass is formed into a handle to set it by
and is in contact with the metal rim of the case. This rim is insulated from the
rest of the case by a ring of non conducting material in which however is a piece
of metal which touches the metal rim, and to which is secured one of the wires-
the other being fastened to the metal body of the case The instrument is set as
already described and when the index hand makes contact with the adjustable
index the current passes and the signal is given as before
The details can of course be varied to suit circumstances
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CAGES OR BOBBIN HOLDERS USED IN PRESSING THE BOBBINS OF LACE MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Chapman at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 8th November 1883.
JOSEPH CHAPMAN of New Basford, in the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Machinist, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CAGES OR BOBBIN HOLDERS
USED IN PRESSING THE BOBBINS OF LACE MACHINES
This Invention has for its object the improvement of the cages or bobbin-holders
which are used when pressing the disc-like bobbins employed in lace machines.
In the cages or bobbin-holders as commonly constructed up to the present time
there are two wires or rods which are held a little distance apart in a strong solid
soleplate having between them fixed in the same soleplate a strong bar. This bar
has hitherto been alotted and when the cage has been placed in the press and the
required pressure put on the bobbins (which are placed on the two side rods)
cotters or pins are placed into the slots in the central bar above a cross piece
placed over the top bobbins so as to maintain the required pressure on the bobbins
while they are in the ". oven. There are several objections to this method of
maintaining the desired pressure on the bobbins when obtained, and this Invention
obviates these objections in a simple and effective manner.
"
In carrying out the Invention the central rod or bar which has hitherto been
commonly slotted is formed with a rack or teeth along its sides and suitable
catches are provided on the cross piece which bears on the top bobbins when
placed in position and these catches are capable of sliding into and engaging with
the teeth or notches on the central bar when required on the necessary pressure
being reached that is desirable to be applied to the bobbins.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TIMEPIECES WITH CALENDAR DEVICE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Otto Fleischhauer at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th August 1883.
OTTO FLEISCHHAUER of the City of Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia and
German Empire IMPROVEMENTS IN TIMEPIECES WITH CALENDAR DEVICE
This invention consists in a novel combination of a calendar for timepieces
whereby the calendar indicator or hand moves automatically and uninterruptedly
forwards over a fixed disc provided with the initials of the day of the week. The
monthly adjustment is made from the exterior so that the said adjustment can be
readily and rapidly carried out even if the adjustment had been neglected for
several months.
The calendar can be applied to the face or dial or to the back of the time piece
and can be employed to like advantage with watches and other timepieces
My improved arrangement consists of
1 a selfacting calendar hand or indicator which moves forward one thirtyfifth of
a circle each day
2 a fixed disc with a suitable pawl and provided with the name of the days of the
week
3 a revolving ring arranged in the aforenamed fixed disc and provided with two
toothed edges or flanges, an opening and the numbers 1 to 31
4 a revolving ring arranged beneath the aforementioned ring and provided with a
toothed periphery or flange, a pawl and the names of the months
5 a revolving square spindle or axis on a suitable knob and provided with a
sliding pinion and a revolving pinion
When the calendar device is employed with clocks these two pinions are
connected to each other.
In order to manipulate the calendar device proceed as follows:
At the end of the month or at any other time when one desires to ascertain
the date
a press on the knob so that the sliding pinion is pressed into gear with the
revolving pinion
D.

page_text: b. then turn the knob around to the right and consequently the rings bearing the
numbers 1 to 31 and the names of the months to the left by means of the pawl
until the figure 1 is adjusted to the corresponding day of the week
then turn the knob around to the left so that the ring with the names of the
month is rotated alone to the right, without the second ring, by means of the
pawl until the name of the next month appears under the opening
If the adjustment has been neglected for several months the manipulation is
repeated as often as is necessary whereon the time piece shows the correct date.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN AND RELATING TO BUCKETS FOR DREDGING AND DIGGING PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Christopher Jarvis at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th June 1883.
CHRISTOPHER JARVIS, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND RELATING TO BUCKETS FOR DREDGING AND DIGGING PURPOSES
"
My Invention has for its object certain improvements in that type of dredging
and digging buckets which are constructed with loose, or hinged bottoms and
provides a means for actuating such loose bottom so as to ensure the complete
discharge of the contents of the bucket
According to my Invention, for example, when the lower portion of the bucket
is of cast iron and the digging or mouth portion of wrought iron, I binge, or pivot
the loose concave bottom onto the same same pin that carries the leading edge of
the bucket chain, and underneath the loose bottom I provide a projection and I
cut away the centre portion of the tumbling wheels of the dredger ladder so that
the projection which is under the loose bottom of the bucket will lay in such cut
away portion of the tumbling wheel and allow the loose bottom to rest on the
boss by which the trailing portion of the bucket is attached to the bucket chain
and the bucket to be open to its full capacity. As a means for operating the
loose bottom and thereby emptying the bucket of its contents I provide a cam
which may take the form of a hook, the point of which is hooked over the pin of
the upper tumbling wheel so that the hooked cam lies in such cut away portion,
the shank of the cam being secured to the frame of the dredger ladder so as to
keep the cam in its place. As the buckets are brought round over and by the
action of the upper tumbling wheel the projection underneath the loose bottom of
each bucket comes in contact with the cam before spoken of, and the cam causes
the loose bottom to rise and move in the bucket so that the bucket is discharged of
its contents.
Under another method and when the bucket is constructed of wrought iron the
loose bottom may be hinged on an independent pin instead of on the pin that
carries the leading edge of the bucket, the bottom being provided with an under-
neath projection and the centre part of the tumbling wheels being cut away as
before described.
IMPROVEMENTS York APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND COOKING FOOD SUCH AS DINNERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Jackson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 18th October 1883.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN
ROBERT JACKSON of Leeds in the County of York
APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND COOKING FOOD SUCH AS DINNERS."
The object of my invention is to provide a portable cooking apparatus for
travellers and workinen by means of which they can easily and readily cook their
meals, wherever they may happen to be in or out of doors.
I construct my apparatus, preferably of block tin, the bottom part forms one, two
or more lamps on to this bottom part fits another vessel, the bottom sides of which
contain air holes to supply air to the lamps the upper part contains a vessel or
utensil, in which to cook the food, (loose vessels may be used to slip in and out if
required) so that it can be cooked either out of doors or inside, a lid covers the
cooking vessel and the whole forms a neat and portable cooking apparatus,
specially designed for travellers, and for outdoor workmen tea coffee, or any kind
of food, can be heated and cooked with it; if required gas can be applied in lieu of
the lamps, for indoor cooking.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SLABS AND COVERINGS FOR BUILDING AND DECORATIVE PURPOSES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles John Marson at the Office.
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th July 1883.
CHARLES JOHN MARSON of Battersea in the County of Surrey,
"IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SLABS AND COVERINGS FOR BUILDING AND
DECORATIVE PURPOSES.
»
The Invention relates to the use of Brazil Bagging, Scrim, muslin, or other
convenient textile fabric in combination with portland cement and plaster formed
into slabs or mouldings. Also the mixing of Portland Cement and plaster for
forming slabs, mouldings, or for other purposes, with borax, carbonate of Soda,
glue, or glutinous materials for the purpose, of obtaining a thorough incorporation
of the cement and plaster; Also the combination of such textile fabrics, as above
mentioned, with hair and plaster moulded or otherwise formed into artistic pliable
coverings for application to walls and ceilings Also the building of structures.
of the above improved combinations or of some of them.
For performing the improvements I may take plaster 2 parts, portland cement
1 part, silicious sand 3 parts, and mix together dry with about 4th part of borax,
or equivalent; then thoroughly mix with sufficient water to render the whole
plastic, and cast into moulds of convenient sizes, placing the bagging or equivalent
in the mould in such a manner that it is inlaid in the plastic mass, or I can use
other proportions of ingredients.
For decorative coverings, I take liquid gum arabic, glue or equivalent and raw
or boiled linseed oil and mix together, then add a little hair, mix and add plaster
or plaster and whiting and well beat the whole with a fork or other convenient
beater.
I take a mould and line it with book muslin or other fine fabric and pour the
mass into it. and spread it over the surface, and coat over the book muslin and level
off with a straight edge, keeping the muslin well down on the face of the mould;
when sufficiently hard I remove it.
MENTS IN HAND PRINTING OR ENDORSING STAMPS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Kissam Cooke at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1883.
GEORGE KISSAM COOKE, of 12, Harp Alley, in the city of London,
MENTS IN HAND PRINTING OR ENDORSING STAMPS "
"IMPROVE-
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of hand printing stamps
more particularly to those known as the Vitesse stamp which have semi-rotating
die plates alternately inking and stamping. My invention also relates to adapting
to fixed die plates in combination with the removeable die plates a dating or
numbering appliance arranged to print alone or in combination with a printing die
attached to the removeable interchangeable die plate.
In carrying out my invention I construct the moveable die plate with two hooked
ears so formed as to engage with or hinge into two correspondingly formed bevelled
fastenings in the fixed die plate. The die plate is also provided with a catch pin
which passes through a hole in the fixed supporting plate and is held firmly in
position by a spring attached to the fixed plate. When the die plate is inten led
to be used in connection with a self inking stamp the die plate is provided with
the usual central opening to act as a guide to adjust the type in a correct straight
line for printing, either alone, or in connection with a die cemented to the adjustable
removeable die plate. The removeable die plate can also be attached to the fixed
supporting die plate of an ordinary hand dating stamp in which case the catch can
be secured by a spring which is attached to the supporting frame. To the
supporting die plate is attached two supports having slotted openings and holes.
Between these supports the type block is secured by means of a binding screw
shaft which passes through the slotted openings in the supports and through the
holes in the type block.
The axle shaft passes through ears on the supporting plate, holes in the supports
and slots in the type block and allows the type block to be moved only
perpendicularly for adjusting the type attached to the flexible type bands on a
plane with the printing die cemented to the removeable die plate. I obviate the

page_text: difficulty of securing the supporting die plate of dating and numbering stamps to
the rotating mechanism of self inking stamps by means of the axle shaft which by
passing through the block which supports the moveable type bands, gives great
strength and secures simplicity in their manufacture or construction, and the use of
changeable die plates considerably increases the utility of the stamp by allowing a 5
number of printing dies to be used with one stamp.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGNETIC AND ELECTRICAL APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE NERVES AND MUSCLES CONNECTED WITH THE HUMAN EYE AND EAR
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Seacome Mason and Charles Rodney
Huxley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th November
1883.
SEACOME MASON, Optician, and CHARLES RODNEY HUXLEY, Member of the
Royal College of Surgeons, both of Fulham, in the County of Middlesex,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MAGNETIC AND ELECTRICAL APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT
OF THE NERVES AND MUSCLES CONNECTED WITH THE HUMAN EYE AND EAR'
"
Our invention relates to certain devices or appliances by which we design to
place the nerves and muscles surrounding and connected with the human eye and
ear within the influence of a magnetic field, inducing electrical currents in the
moving fluids of the body, or directly under the influence of an electric current.
Our devices are either permanently magnetic, or an electric current is utilized
to render them temporarily magnetic, or an electric current may be utilized
directly..
In the first case where our appliance is to be permanently magnetic, we take
steel or other metal capable of permanent magnetism, and form it, in suitable
section, into the shape of a frame to press across the front of the face, similarly to
a spectacle frame, and which may contain glasses in the same way. To this frame
are hinged two wings similar to spectacle frame wings, but suitably of larger
surface area, and conveniently enlarged into or fitted with spatula like pole plates
at their extremities. The frame so formed we submit to magnetic passes in the
manner known to electricians, or adopt other known means to give the frame a
permanent set of magnetism, thus creating a magnetic field between the spatulae
or pole plates.
Alternatively, our frame may be constructed of softer magnetisable metal, and,
being coiled with light wire conducting an electrical current from any suitable
battery (conveniently a permanent dry battery) about the person of the wearer,
may be thereby temporarily magnetised.
Alternatively again, we may utilize an electric current directly. In this case
we fit the wings of the frame with sliding insulating pieces, adjustable to any
position. Upon these insulating pieces are contacts connected to the poles of a
Price 2d1

page_text: battery or batteries as aforesaid. Where one insulated adjustable contact alone is
employed, we may insert in the metallic frame, at any convenient point, an
insulating piece, to prevent the current travelling by the metallic circuit.
It has been demonstrated that beneficial results are obtained by subjecting the
delicate nerves and muscles of the eye and ear to constant and gentle electrical
action, and our invention is not only designed to obtain these generally by placing
the parts to be affected within a magnetic field, and thus creating induced electric
currents, or by applying an electric current directly; but more especially to
remedy the painful disease known as astanopia.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING AND PRESERVING BUTTER AND OTHER LIKE PERISHABLE PROVISIONS AND IN THE PACKING-CASES OR RECEPTACLES EMPLOYED THEREFOR
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Partridge at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 5th April 1883.
GEORGE PARTRIDGE of Bishopsgato Street Without in the City of London,
Provision Merchant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING AND PRESERVING BUTTER AND
OTHER LIKE PERISHABLE PROVISIONS AND IN THE PACKING-CASES OR RECEPTACLES
EMPLOYED THEREFOR
"1
This invention has for its chief object the preservation of butter and other like
perishable provisions from deterioration by contact with the atmosphere and
consists in packing such provisions in perfectly air tight receptacles specially
adapted for the purpose.
The improved receptacle which I employ consists by preference of an iron vessel
enamelled inside and made slightly tapering in form to facilitate the removal of the
butter or other contents a removeable air tight hydraulic-seal lid or cover also by
preference of iron enamelled inside is secured by any suitable fastening onto the
top of the said vessel. One mode of fastening which I have found to answer well
in practice consists in forming round the lip of the receptacle an external projection
or Hange having its underside inclined more or less at two or more parts of its
circumference and two or more vertical grooves or slots formed therein to admit of
the passage under the inclines of corresponding lugs or projections carried on the
lid or cover for tightening up the same on being partially turned as is well under-
stood. I make the said lid or cover with a deep inner annular rim or if preferred
with both inner and outer concentric annular rims and into the bottom of the
annular space left between the said rims (where two are employed) or at the base
of and outside the single inner deep rim where one only is used I place any suitable
material for forming a good air tight packing between the top or lip of the receptacle
and the under surface of the lid, felt soaked in wax, oil fatty or other suitable substance
forming a good packing for the purpose. The inner concentric rim when the lid is
forced tight home enters some distance inside the receptacle and by dipping into
the brine or other liquid which covers the butter or other provisions constitutes a
perfectly air tight joint or hydraulic-seal which not only effectually excludes the

page_text: air but prevents any contact of the contents of the receptacle with the packing
which in some cases might even be dispensed with the hydraulic-seal alone being
relied on.
An air vent hole closed by a suitable screwed or other plug or stopper
is provided on the lid or cover to allow any confined air under the lid to escape
when closing the same and enable the space enclosed by the inner rim to be entirely 5
filled with the brine or other liquid. A suitable projection should be provided on
the cover or on its holding lugs to facilitate the turning of the same for the
purpose of tightening and removal.