IMPROVEMENTS IN STORAGE BATTERIES FOR ACCUMU- LATING ELECTRICITY
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick John Cheesbrough of the Office for Patents
15 Water Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Consulting Engineer
for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN STORAGE BATTERIES FOR ACCUMU-
LATING ELECTRICITY." Communicated to him from abroad by Edward R
Knowles of Brooklyn in the County of Kings State of New York United
States of America
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick John Cheesbrough
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st January 1883.
FREDERICK JOHN CHEESBROUGH of the Office for Patents 15 Water Street
Liverpool in the County of Lancaster Consulting Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STORAGE BATTERIES FOR ACCUMULATING ELECTRICITY [Communicated to him
from abroad by Edward R. Knowles of Brooklyn in the County of Kings State of
New York United States of America]
This Invention consists of a novel method of constructing a storage battery, the
object of which is to expose the chemical and electrical action a larger proportion
of lead surface both metallic and oxide and thus obtain a more powerful battery
action
The improved battery consists of two or more electrodes each of which is com-
posed of alternate plates or discs of lead and oxide of lead piled one upon the other
each electrode beginning and ending with a plate of metallic lead and all of them
being connected and combined into a battery
A number of these electrodes are combined in the battery In these electrodes
there is a disc of metallic lead rectangular in form and having a rectangular hole in
its centre and a circular hole in each of its ends There is also a disc of precisely
the same form made of the oxide of lead These discs are made into a pile and held
together by means of lead rods passing through holes and rivetted at both ends
forming the electrode
Having made as many of these electrode piles as desired to incorporate into one
battery a suitable chamber or vessel is taken fitted with a false bottom of wood or
any suitable material In the false bottom there is cut a series of holes to correspond

page_text: in number and form to the electrodes the battery is to contain Into the holes of
this bottom the several electrodes are set, thus retaining the bottom of each electrode
always in the same position
Now to secure the top of each electrode a skeleton cover is made precisely like
the false bottom placed in the top of the chamber the top of each electrode being
embraced by a corresponding mortice in the cover The false bottom and the
skeleton are both made to exactly fit the chamber as well as each electrode The
whole is securely held in position
The electrodes being placed in the Chamber as described are connected electrically
by conductors and + and poles
-
The chamber is then charged with acidulated water and closed with a tight
cover to prevent evaporation
A modification of electrode differing from that just described consists in the discs
or plates having but one hole through the centre into which a lead bolt or rod is
placed rivetted at both ends to hold the disca together
In another modification the electrode consists of a piece of metallic lead having
grooves cut or formed in its surface on all sides into which grooves the oxide of
lead is placed
It will of course be understood that the electrodes of this battery can be made of
any metal or material that will act as a substitute for the metal and oxide of metal
of which this battery is composed, the Invention not being confined to the material
of which the battery is made but consisting of the method of constructing it for the
purpose of exposing effectually a larger surface of the metal and oxide of metal to
the action of the acid and water-It will of course.be understood that the metallic
oxide is first made into a stiff paste and then pressed to form the plate or button of
the desired size and shape
From the foregoing description the advantages and operation of the battery will
be apparent to any one skilled in the art of making or using storage batteries their
chemical and electrical action being now so well understood that no special
description of it is thought necessary

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Frederick John Cheesbrough in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 29th June 1883.
FREDERICK JOHN CHEESBROUGH, of the Office for Patents, 15, Water Street,
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Consulting Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STORAGE BATTERIES FOR ACCUMULATING ELECTRICITY."-A Communication to me
from abroad by Edward R. Knowles of Brooklyn in the County of Kings, State of
New York, United States of America
The following is a description of this Invention in such full, clear, concise and
exact terms as to enable anyone skilled in the art to which it appertains to make
and use the same reference being had to the accompanying sheet of Drawings
making part of this Specification and to the figures and letters of reference marked
thereon Figure I' of said Drawing being a perspective view of said battery partly
in section and Figures 2. 3. 4 and 5 detail parts of the same.
This Invention consists of a novel method of constructing a storage battery, the
object of which is to expose to chemical and electrical action a larger proportion of
lead surface both metallic and oxide and thus obtain a more powerful battery
action.
The improved battery consists of two, or more electrodes, each of which is
composed of alternate plates, or discs of lead and oxide of lead piled one upon the
other each electrode beginning and ending with a plate of metallic lead and all of
them being connected and combined into a battery.
In the Drawing Figure 2 represents a top view and a vertical section of one of
the electrodes A, a number of which are combined in the battery illustrated by
Figure 1. In these electrodes a is a disc of metallic lead rectangular in form and
baving a rectangular hole d in its centre and a circular hole c in each of its ends 6
is a disc of precisely the same form made of the oxide of lead. These discs are
made into a pile, as shown and held together by means of lead rods passing through
holes c and rivetted at both ends forming the electrode
Having made as many of these electrode piles as desired to incorporate into one
battery a suitable chamber, or vessel B is taken and fitted with a false bottom c of
wood, or any suitable material. In the false bottom are cut a series of holes to
correspond in number and form to the electrodes the battery is to contain.-Into
the holes of this bottom the several electrodes are set, thus retaining the bottom of
each electrode always in the same position.
Now to secure the top of each electrode a skeleton cover c¹ is made precisely like
the false bottom and put it in the top of the chamber B, the top of each electrode
being embraced by a corresponding mortice in the cover. The false bottom and
the skeleton being both made to exactly fit the chamber B as well as each electrode
the whole is securely held in place.
The electrodes being placed in the chambers as described are connected electrically
by the conductors E E E E and the + and poles D and D'.
The chamber is then charged with acidulated water and closed with a tight cover
to prevent evaporation.
By Figure 3 of the Drawing is shown a section and top view of an electrode
differing from Figure 2 in that the discs, or plates have but one hole through the
centre into which a lead bolt, or rod is placed, rivetted at both ends to hold the
discs together.
By Figure 4 of the Drawing is shown a top view, a cross section and vertical
section of an electrode differing in form from either of the other two In this case

page_text: the electrode consists of a piece of metallic lead having grooves cut, or formed in its
surface on all sides into which grooves the oxide of lead is placed.
By Figure 5 of the Drawing is shown a perspective of one of the discs composing
the piles contained in the battery. It will of course be understood that the
electrodes of this battery can be made of any metal or material that will act as a
substitute for the metal and oxide of metal of which the battery is composed, tho
Invention not being confined to the material of which the battery is made but
consisting of the method of constructing it for the purpose of exposing effectually
a larger surface of the metal and oxide of metal to the action of the acid and
water-It will of course be understood that the metallic oxide is first made
into a stiff paste and then pressed to form the plate, or button of the desired size
and shape
From the foregoing description the advantages and operation of the battery will
be apparent to any one skilled in the art of making, or using storage batteries their
chemical action being now so well understood that no special description of it is
thought necessary.
Having thus described this Invention what I claim as the Invention communi-
cated to me by my Foreign correspondent is
First A storage battery consisting of two, or more electrodes composed of
alternate plates of metallic lead and oxide of lead united and combined substantially
as described.
Second A storage battery consisting of two, or more electrodes composed of
alternate plates of metallic lead and oxide of lead perforated to admit the fluid into
the interior of the pile.
Third A storage battery consisting of a combination of separate electrodes, each
electrode consisting of alternate plates of metallic lead and of oxide of lead
perforated, united and electrically connected substantially as described.
Fourth In a storage battery consisting of a series of separate electrodes the
combination of a falso bottom (c) and cover (c¹) each of which are perforated to
receive and support the electrodes substantially as described.
In Witness whereof I the said Frederick John Cheesbrough have hereunto
set my hand and seal this twenty seventh day of June in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
FREDERICK JOHN CHEESBROUCH
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