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AN IMPROVED NUT-LOCK
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake,
"
and Co Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for an Invention of
"AN IMPROVED NUT-LOCK Communicated to him from abroad by William
Joseph McTighe, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Clerk,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st July 1883.
"
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co, Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London "AN IMPROVED NUT-LOCK Communicated to
mo from abroad by William Joseph M Tighe, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United
States of America, Clerk,
The object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap and efficient device for
locking nuts on bolts used for uniting the ends of railway rails and for other
purposes, and the said invention consists in a washer or plate having a hole whose
edge is formed into a spiral or helical shape with a notch where the said edgo
begins and ends, thus adapting the plate to be used like a nut and to be screwed
onto a bolt.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation of part of a bolt, and a nut secured thereon by means
of the improved nut-lock.
Figure 2 is a perspective view, and
Figure 3 a plan of the improved nut-lock.
A is an ordinary bolt, and B its nut. C is a plate, which is preferably struck up
or stamped out of a sheet of metal, and having the edge of its hole pressed or
otherwise formed into a helical shape like a thread on a nut, and at the point where
the threaded or helical edge begins and ends, a notch d is cut, the plate radially from
notch d being inclined as shown to accommodate the shape given to the plate C.
By this construction the plate is adapted to be used like a nut, the notch d
permitting its entrance on the thread of a bolt. The plates will be made with.
holes of various sizes, and in using the lock, a size will be selected to properly fit

page_text: the bolt. The outer edge of the plate C can be square or hexagonal to adapt it
for use with a wrench. When screwed down tightly against the nut which it is
designed to lock, the plate C performs the function of a jam-nut, and holds the nut
securely in position.
If desired one or more corners of the plate C on its outer edge may be bent down
over the nut, but this is not essential. Also the inner edge of the plate may be
rounded or V-shaped to more closely fit the threads of the bolt.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same I wish it understood
that I claim.
The improved nut-lock consisting of the washer or plate C having a central hole
whose edge is formed into a spiral or helical shape and having a notch & where the
said helical edge begins and ends, substantially as shewn and described and for the
-purpose specificed.
In witness whereof I the said William Robert Lake havo hereunto set my-hand
and seal this Thirty-first day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty threo
IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENER-BUTTONS FOR ARTICLES OF CLOTHING AND THE LIKE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Gardner Colton at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th August 1883. Communicated
to him from abrond by Ernest Wuerfel of Brooklyn in the county of Kings
and State of New York United States of America.
"
EDWARD GARDNER COLTON, of Victoria Chambers, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENER-BUTTONS FOR
ARTICLES OF CLOTHING AND THE LIKE." (A communication to me from abroad by
Ernest Wuerfel. of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings, and State of New York,
United States of America)
This invention has reference to an improved button for clothing of all kinds and
the like, which can be readily attached to the cloth and which is reliably held in
position without the possibility of becoming detached and the invention consists of
a button, the head of which is made of three parts, a face plate, an intermediate
recessed spring plate, and a bottom plate, having a tubular shank, or annular rim,
through which the post of the base plate or shoe of the button is inserted, the post
being engaged by the interior ends of the recessed spring plate below the conical
or rounded head of the same.
The face plate may be of any suitable material shape or finish and is
advantageously attached to the bottom plate by an overlapping flange.
The bottom plate has a tubular slank or a short annular bulge or rim, the
intermediate plate has radial slits or recesses so as to form two or more spring
teeth.
This plate is advantageously retained by a flat depressed portion of the face
plate bearing upon it. To attach the button to a fabric, the solid shank, or post of
the base plate is first passed through a hole pierced in the fabric, and the head
attached by inserting the top of the post through the tubular shank or rim and
forcing the head down till the spring teeth spring into the annular groove on the
head of the post thus reliably securing the button.
IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILWAY CHAIRS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Robert Lake at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th September 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Charlie Edgar Mark of Flint, Michigan, United States
of America.
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"
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co, Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, London 'IMPROVEMENTS IN RAILWAY CHAIRS
[A communication to him from abroad by Charlie Edgar Mark of Flint, Michigan,
United States of America]
This invention relates to improvements in chairs of that class which are inserted
between the bottom of railway rails and the ties or sleepers upon which they rest
for the purpose of securing the said rails in place, and has for its object to provide
a chair for the purposes described which need not be engaged with the foot of the
rail by being slipped over the end thereof, which does not require wedges or other
devices to confine it in place, and which may be engaged at any point between the
two ends of the rail at an obtuse angle thereto, and after such engagement be
turned to a position at right angles to the length of the rail, rigidly clasping the
same; when the chair has been moved into the latter position it may be secured
to the tie or sleeper.
The said invention consists in the peculiar construction and operation of the
chair as hereinafter described.
In carrying the said invention into practice I provide a plate of wrought metal
which forms the base of the chair; upon which base are two lips diagonally
opposite to each other, and which may be either forged on to the plate or cut out
and struck up. This plate is also provided with holes through which the necessary
screws or spikes pass to secure it to the tie or sleeper.
The edges of the lips are curved by which means the same chair may be applied
to rails having webs of different thicknesses leaving a comparatively broad surface
to bear against the web of the rail owing to the curved shape, whereas, if the lips
are square on to the edges they must be made to exactly fit the rail, or otherwise
only a corner of the lip will bear against the rail
In practice, the distance between the two lips will be sufficient to allow it to be
engaged with the foot of the rail from the bottom by being turned diagonally to

page_text: the length of the rail. By turning the chair at right angles to the length of the
rail, one side of the foot of the rail is brought into engagement with one lip and
the other side of the foot into engagement with the other lip; when in this position
the chair is bolted to the tie
By this construction a cheap and perfect chair is made, easily and readily engaged
or detached from the rail, and which will hold the latter rigidly in place so long as
the chair is kept in engagement.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Crabtree at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 10th January 1883.
JAMES CRABTREE of the Heckmondwike Manufacturing Company, Limited,
Heckmondwike in the County of York, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF WOVEN FABRICS,"
This invention has reference to the weaving of a woollen "single fabric" and in
producing thereon whilst weaving a spotted design.
I am aware that spots and other designs have been produced on woven fabrics
whilst weaving and is a well known art in the trade, but such designs have been
produced by means of the warp on a double fabric but my invention consists in
producing a spotted design by means of the weft upon a single fabric which is
effected by depressing the warp threads by any well known arrangement of pegging
mechanism, which will operate the warp threads in such manner that the weft will
produce spots on the face of a single fabric.
The size and position of the spots may be varied as required by re-arranging the
pegging cylinders.
Hitherto any pattern or design required on a "single fabric" has lad to be
printed or tipped.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF LAWN TENNIS BATS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Albert Joseph Altman at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th June 1883.
ALBERT JOSEPH ALTMAN of the Parish of St Botolph, Aldersgate, London
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF LAWN TENNIS BATS"
This Invention has for its object to impart additional strength to a lawn tennis
bat combined with increased lightness and resiliency and in particular to obviate
the tendency of the bat to fracture and break off at the neck
To carry out my invention I line the frame of the bat with cane-horn-whale bone
or any other material uniting lightness and elasticity with strength. In order to
obtain additional lightness I also dispense with a portion of the wood framing and
substitute cork therefor
I also employ such cork and cane or other suitable material either separately or
together and I so construct and fit the frame of the bat there with that the desired
strength elasticity and lightness are secured
IMPROVEMENTS IN PADS FOR HORSE, CART, PACK AND OTHER SADDLES, COLLARS AND OTHER HARNESS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Albert Morgan at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th June 1883.
JOHN ALBERT MORGAN of Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PADS FOR HORSE, CART, PACK AND OTHER SADDLES, COLLARS
AND OTHER HARNESS
"
The chief objects of my invention aro to prevent chafing and to secure a true
fit and as applied to saddles, case and comfort to the horse and rider as woll
I will first describe my invention as applied to saddle pads. According to my
invention I provide a pad made of flexible waterproof material and hollow and
which can be more or less inflated with air: this pad is fitted and secured to the
saddle in a convenient and suitable manner. When saddles are fitted with pads
of this description the pressure from the saddle is thoroughly equalized and thereby
a true and perfect fit is obtained, the saddlo adjusting itself to any back, misfits in
fact cannot tako place.
As applied to collars the pads made as before described are secured to same and
thereby prevent chafing and afford comfort to the animal while a perfect fit and a
certain preventative to sore shoulders is ensured.
The invention is equally applicable to cart, pack and other saddles and collars
as well as to harness generally wherever a true fit is required and chafing to be
prevented.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPLIANCES FOR FIXING METALLIC LETTERS AND DEVICES TO CLOTH, FABRIC, AND OTHER SIMILAR SURFACES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Henry Hollinghurst at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd October 1883.
JOHN HENRY HOLLINGHURST of 21 Calthorpe Street-Gray's Inn Road-
London in the County of Middlesex IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND
APPLIANCES FOR FIXING METALLIC LETTERS AND DEVICES TO CLOTH, FABRIC, AND
OTHER SIMILAR SURFACES.
A fastener consisting of wire pointed at both ends and bent as in Fig 1 the
part A to B is applied to the back of the device, the points projecting from it as
Fig 2
Fig 3 is a bevelled slide with the shape of the device to be applied cut out of it
Fig 4 is a bevelled slide the holes in which are a trifle larger than the whole of
the device
Fig 5-is two plates working together on a hinge with an outer frame (A) to
which is attached a netting or wirework
B is a V Groove to contain Fig 3
C is a V Groove to contain Fig 4
.
Small holes are along B Groove to contain the points along C Groove part of
this groove is cut away (D)
Precess of applying the Device
After Figs 3 & 4 are in the V-Grooves the cloth or Fabric is placed upon the
points along C Groove & Fig 4-the frame with netting is then closed upon it,
holding the cloth firmly on the points-the device to be applied is then placed face
downwards in Fig 3-the cloth is then brought over upon the points of the
fasteners which penetrate the cloth and they are then bent back holding the device
firmly to the cloth
Fig 6-is a section shewing the position of cloth, device &c when the plates are
nearly closed
IMPROVEMENTS IN ACCUMULATORS FOR STORING ELECTRICAL ENERGY APPLICABLE ALSO TO PRIMARY BATTERIES ور
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Greenwood at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th December 1883.
JAMES GREENWOOD of Bacup in the County of Lancaster Electrician,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ACCUMULATORS FOR STORING ELECTRICAL ENERGY APPLICABLE
ALSO TO PRIMARY BATTERIES
ور
My invention has for its object the charging of accumulators under a pressure
proportionate to the quantity of electricity passing into them and by means of
which they can be charged in very much less time their maximum capacity and
efficiency increased and the process of "forming" the cells accomplished in a more
expeditious and cheaper manner than hitherto
In the application of my improvements to primary batteries the pressure is
regulated by the quantity of electricity required to be generated.
To accomplish this object. I place the cells in an air receiver of sufficient strength
to resist & great pressure and of just sufficient dimensions to enclose them. This
receiver is made so as to be hermetically closed after the cells are placed therein
and access to which is obtained by means of a man-hole and lid of the usual kind
placed in a convenient position in the receiver.
The electrical circuit is established by means of ebonite or other insulating
material being fixed securely in holes drilled through the receiver and through
which copper rods or other suitable conductors are run and with which conductor
connection is formed to complete the circuit.
I then connect the receiver by means of a strong india rubber or other tube with
an air pump of any kind sufficient to give the required pressure and charge the
receiver with compressed air to the pressure required which is ascertained by a
gauge being attached
The best results are given by a pressure of from 75 pounds to 100 pounds to the
square inch for a current up to 60 or 70 Amperes and for a current exceeding that
quantity a proportionate increase in the pressure
When the receiver is sufficiently charged with compressed air the current may
be passed into the cells with results as described

page_text: In "forming" the cells I adopt the method usually employed and "form" them
in a more or less rapid manner in proportion to the quantity of electricity used
in charging and reversing and under the same conditions of pressure as already
described
In primary batteries I place the cells in the receiver as described for accumu-
lators and pump air into the receiver till the pressure is sufficient to give an
increase of current generated to the amount required
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Beatty at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1883.
JOHN BEATTY of Belfast in the County of Antrim in Ireland IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR.
The object of my invention is to dispense with much of the manual labour now
employed in the moulding or shaping of dough and placing it in the oven to be
baked into bread.
For this purpose I place the dough between endless belts running in opposite
directions over rollers which are so disposed as to retain the dough until properly
moulded when it is permitted to pass out by the operation of a lever which raises
or lowers one of the rollers.
In order to form baps or cakes the dough thus moulded is then carried by
another belt between two rollers running in the same direction.
For forming loaves the moulded dough is placed in cells or boxes and from them
transferred to the "Peel,"
I introduce a course of loaves into the Oven by the use of a broad Peel so
arranged by means of a Stop and Spring that each loaf is deposited in its proper
position on the Sole of the Oven.
A NEW OR IMPROVED PROCESS FOR THE DECORATION OF GLASS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th October 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Havier Saint-Rémy, of Liege, in the kingdom of
Belgium.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, A NEW OR IMPROVED
PROCESS FOR THE DECORATION OF GLASS, a communication to me from abroad by
Havier Saint-Rémy, of Liège, in the kingdom of Belgium,
This invention relates to the decoration of glass.
For this purpose the glass is first roughened by means of acids, or ground with
sand or emery.
Vitrifiable colour or enamel of one or more shades is then applied on one of the
surfaces of the glass and left to dry, after which the colour or enamel is vitrified in
a muffle.
AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF WHEELS FOR BICYCLES, TRICYCLES, AND LIGHT VEHICLES GENERALLY WITH SPECIAL MEANS OF SECURING THE RUBBER TYRE IN PLACE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Hutchison at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th October 1883.
EDWARD HUTCHISON of 51 Fann Street in the city of London Manufacturer
AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF WHEELS FOR BICYCLES,
TRICYCLES, AND LIGHT VEHICLES GENERALLY WITH SPECIAL MEANS OF SECURING
THE RUBBER TYRE IN PLACE
The object of this invention is to construct wheels for bicycles, tricycles
perambulators, light carriages, carts, and the like in such a manner that the outer
rim or tyre of rubber of tubular shape in cross section can be secured in place
within a segmental ring or shell by screws from the inside of the inner rim and be
held firmly in position thereto without cement or mastic as is now the custom.
For the purpose of my invention I take an ordinary or an equivalent shaped
inner rim to which the spokes are attached in any suitable manner and I pierce or
form holes at fixed distances apart-at the central line. I then by means of
segmental strips of metal which have threaded holes in them to correspond with
the holes in the rim line the interior of a rubber tube whose length corresponds
to the circumference of the rim so that it fits said rim the rubber tube having been
previously punched with holes as desired screw pins are then inserted through the
rim and through the rubber and are then caused to screw into the internal strips of
metal to draw the three surfaces into close contact.
By this means the rubber tyre is compelled to lodge itself firmly in the groove of
the rim and be held therein at all parts of the wheels circumference without
possibility of becoming spread outwards or loose during the running of the
vehicle.
The rubber tyre may be of any shape in cross section and the hole or aperture in
it need not be in the centre as in an ordinary tube
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred George Bateman at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th October 1883.
ALFRED GEORGE BATEMAN of Manchester in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOOMS FOR WEAVING
"
This invention relates to looms employed for weaving checks, handkerchiefs, or
cross stripes and particularly to such check looms as are fitted with what is
commonly known as "Wright Shaw's drop-box motion"
In weaving checks or other similar goods with this motion where two or more
shuttles are employed it has always hitherto been the practise to make one to and
fro movement (and hence one quarter revolution) of the cylinder for each pick to
and fro of the shuttle, and hence when it was desired to make four, six, eight or
more picks with the same shuttle before effecting the change of box it was
necessary to have two, three or more similar cards punched to the same pattern
following each other.
The object of my invention is to dispense with the necessity for repeating the
same card in the chain, so that the weight, length and cost of the chain are reduced
and there is less wear and tear of the mechanism.
This I effect by causing the cylinder lever to act only when a change of box is
required, so that when repetitions of either shuttle are required the cylinder does
not revolve, but the needles are presented to the same card as many times as the
same shuttle is required to pick to and fro.
For this purpose I mount a short shaft parallel to the tappet shaft, and I drive
this shaft by toothed gearing at a slower speed (say for example at half the speed),
upon this shaft I mount a cam revolving in contact with the cylinder lever.
This cam is made with a rise and fall and a "dwell" and it is so arranged that
the "dwell" acts for a certain time upon the cylinder lever in such a way as to
hold it just out of reach of the ordinary tappet or cam on the tappet shaft which
acts upon it, so that although this ordinary tappet keeps revolving as usual, yet it
does not act upon the cylinder so as to move it to and fro so long as the "dwell"
remains in contact with the cylinder lever, but as soon as the "dwell" has passed,
it allows the cylinder lever to assume its ordinary position within reach of the
ordinary cam or tappet on the tappet shaft which then acts in the usual manner.

page_text: Thus it will be evident that the same card remains opposite to the needles Bo
long as the "dwell" on the cam keeps the lever out of reach of the tappet and
hence the same shuttle box will remain opposite the "race" and the same shuttle
will be shot to and fro until the "dwell" passes out of action and allows the
ordinary tappet to act and make the change.
The length of "dwell" on the cam will determine the number of picks repeated
before each change and this can readily be altered by changing the cam or by
altering the relative speed of the cam shaft by means of change wheels.
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IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OR RELATING TO ELECTRIC LAMPS USED IN DANCES, CHIEFLY APPLICABLE TO STAGE PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Glasgow Sanderson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th January 1883.
JOHN GLASGOW SANDERSON of Salford in the County of Lancaster Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OR RELATING TO ELECTRIC LAMPS USED IN
DANCES, CHIEFLY APPLICABLE TO STAGE PURPOSES,"
My invention relates to those dances, such as Maypole dances, in which streamers
are used, depending from a fixed or other centre and the object of my Invention
is to construct a simple and suitable lamp-holder to form a coupling between the
electric lamp and the wires which conduct the electric current from the machine.
This coupling may be readily attached to or detached from the electric lamp.
In applying my Invention to a Maypole or other similar dance in which the
dancers carry bouquets or other fanciful device in their hands I employ an ordinary
lamp-holder of the incandescent type formed in two pieces as usual: one piece the
inner forms a holder for the bouquet in which is placed an electric lamp: wires
are connected to this lamp and may be carried in grooves or otherwise down the
stem of the bouquet holder terminating in two plates near the lower end: the
other and outer piece of the holder is hollow and is connected to the wires which
transmit the electric current from the machine. These wires which depend from
the Maypole or other centre are attached to two terminals on the outer holder and
the terminals are connected by separate wires to two plates on the interior of this
portion of the holder: when the lamp and the stem of the bouquet holder are
pushed into the hollow holder, one of the plates connected to a terminal comes into
contact with one of the plates on the stem but no electrical connection takes place
until a button on a spring lever, pivoted on the holder, is pressed, when the other
plate connected to a terminal is brought into contact with the remaining plate on
the stem of the bouquet holder and the electric circuit is completed
The wires which depend from the Maypole or other centre may be of the
ordinary insulated kind and may be ornamented with streamers or in other
suitable manner.
The lamps may be carried in the hands of the dancers or attached to any part
of their bodies.
IMPROVEMENTS IN AUTOMATIC EXPANSION GEAR FOR CONTROLLING STEAM AND OTHER MOTIVE POWER ENGINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick John Burrell at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th November 1883.
FREDERICK JOHN BURRELL of Saint Nicholas Works Thetford in the County of
Norfolk Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AUTOMATIC EXPANSION GEAR FOR
CONTROLLING STEAM AND OTHER MOTIVE POWER ENGINES"
My invention consists of improvements in automatic expansion gear for
controlling steam and other motive power engines where an expansion link is used
in connection with a high speed governor to vary the cut off. Instead of the usual
kind of link I use a box link or link of such construction that the expansion rod
end on which the die is fixed can be brought exactly over the rocking centre of
the link so that the expansion valve may remain stationary in one position of the
governor.
It is usual for the governor as it rises to raise the die in the link shortening the
travel of valve and cutting off the steam. In my arrangement the action is
reversed when the governors are down the expansion valve remains stationary and
as they rise the die is lowered and the expansion valve gets more travel and cuts
off the steam, by this means the travel of valve is greatly reduced and consequently
a shorter link can be used without increasing its angularity.
I also arrange the levers coupling the governor to the expansion rod to form a
parallel motion, in order that the link upon which the expansion rod is suspended
may be radial in all positions of the link and also in all positions of the die in the
link, thus reducing the slip of the die and the tendency to lift the governors up and
down. By this invention a much greater range of expansion is secured also a
simpler arrangement of valves and reduction of wear and tear consequent upon less
travel of valve. Owing to the method of attaching the governor to the link a
steadier action is secured and the strain upon the governor is rendered more
uniform.
IMPROVEMENTS IN VOLTAIC BATTERIES AND ADDAD A TITS CATE MNATION
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Gray of 23 West Street, Gateshead on Tyne in
the County of Durham for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN VOLTAIC
BATTERIES AND ADDAD A TITS
CATE
MNATION
(Void by reason of the Patentee having neglected to file a Specification
in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Gray at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st March 1883.
JAMES GRAY of 23 West Street, Gateshead on Tyne, in the County of Durham.
IMPROVEMENTS IN VOLTAIC BATTERIES AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH,
The electrodes of my batteries are Zinc and Carbon. They are separated by a
porous cell. The liquid in which the zinc is immersed is a saturated solution of
chloride of sodium or chloride of ammonium. The carbon is immersed in any one
of the following three oxidising mixtures.
In the first about one part of bichromate of potash is dissolved in six parts of
sulphuric acid and one of water, to which, is added one to two parts of nitric
acid, and five grains to the ounce, of permanganate of potash.
In the second mixture about one part of bichromate of potash is dissolved in
six parts of sulphuric acid and one of, water, to which is added about two parts of
nitrate of potash, or other equivalent nitrate, and five grains to the ounce of
permanganate of potash.
In the third mixture one part of nitrate of potash or other equivalent nitrate is
added to three parts of sulphuric acid. In this last case by making a supersaturated
hot solution of nitrate of potash or other equivalent nitrate, a solid or semi-solid
mixture is obtained on cooling.
In all these three oxidizing mixtures a constant current is obtained by using a
much larger percentage of sulphuric acid than has hitherto been employed in such
batteries

page_text: These batteries can be made of great lightness for a given quantity of electric
energy. They will be very well suited for a portable motive power;
as for propelling tricycles, tramcars pleasure boats, and such like; they will
also be suitable for railway reading lamps, portable table lamps and such like
applications. My improvements also relate to these applications.
A NEW OR IMPROVED ROOF-COVERING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Hugo Pataky at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 30th July 1883. A communication from
Charles Wildhagen, a person resident at Treseburg, Germany
HUGO PATAKY, Engineer and Patent Solicitor, of 24, Annenstrasse, Berlin,
Germany, "A NEW OR IMPROVED ROOF-COVERING," a communication to me from
Charles Wildhagen, a person resident at Treselburg, Germany,
The material for covering roofs is composed of the following substances: 4 parts
of vegetable filaments, for instance polished or chemically dissolved wood stuff,
straw fibro, tannery-tan or the cellular tissue of root and rape vegetables; 2 parts of
finely sifted pit-coal or brown coal ashes and 1 part of coal-tar. A sufficient
quantity of water is added and the whole compound thoroughly mixed together so
as to form a stiff mortar.
The mortar or cement obtained in this manner is ready for use, easily worked,
hardens while drying without remaining sticky at all, cannot be dissolved any
more in water and adheres strongly to wood and stones.
The principal use of this material is for covering roofs, which is effected in the
following manner:
A first coat of this cement is put over the laths or brush-wood with which the
rafters are covered (as in the roofs of Dorn), in such a manner, that the joints
between the laths are filled up and a plane surface is formed level with the top
edges of the laths. As soon as this first coat is dried its surface is thinly covered
with coal-tar, then a second coat about 1 centimetre thick is put on; over this a
sifted mixture of cement and clean sand is strewn and made level with a trowel.
The cement dissolves in the moist compound and extracts a part of the water and
protects the roof against fire.
The level coating thus obtained without any joints or cracks may be painted
over with any colours desired.
Flat roofs used as flower gardens and much walked upon, are provided moreover
with a coat of gravel from 3 to 5 centimetres thick.
Brick-roofs are more easily conted in-and out-side with this cement than with
chalk or plaster. The cement adheres very strongly to bricks, does not decompose
them, is lighter than any other plaster, as well as impermeable and fire-proof.
This cement remaining always a little elastic enables the bricks to move slightly
during changes of temperature, which prevents the coat from breaking off or
cracking.
IMPROVEMENTS IN DISINTEGRATORS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Carl Schütze at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 6th November 1883.
CARL SCHÜTZE of Charlottenburg in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN DISINTEGRATORS."
Disintegrators as heretofore usually constructed have been generally used in a
horizontal position rarely in an upright one and only in cases where dry material
has had to be ground or mixed, because wet material in being ground or mixed is
liable to accumulate on the casing, and thus either to stop the machine, or involve
the troublesome necessity of very frequently cleaning it. Moreover disintegrators
as hitherto used carry pins on both grinding discs namely fixed pins on the upper
disc and moveable pins on the 1wer one.
A machine according to my invention as illustrated in the accompanying
drawing is open all round and at the bottom, so that the material in being
thrown out is projected against a moveable and flexible mantle M made of leather,
rubber, or the like, and then falls to the bottom.
Moreover in this improved disintegrator pins c are provided only on the lower
movable disc b whilst the pins usually provided on the upper disc a are suppressed.
Thus accumulation of the ground material on the mantle M is obviated in this
machine, as the said mantle is kept in constant motion during the use of the
machine; nor are there any pios opposite to one another to which the mass can
adhere. A screen or guard is provided over the driving strap, to prevent any of
the ground material falling upon the strap.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR AND MEANS OF PURIFYING WATER
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Goldthorpe at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th July 1883.
ARTHUR GOLDTHORPE of the firm of Messieurs James Goldthorpe and Company
of Wakefield in the County of York Worsted Spinners,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR AND MEANS OF PURIFYING WATER"
This invention relates to improved arrangements of apparatus for and the use of
ingredients and treatment of water for the purpose of purifying the same.
The water to be operated upon is received within a vessel and raised by Steam
or other heating medium to about 120 degrees-the heat liberates the carbonic gas
leaving the iron in suspension in the water-the latter then is passed into settling
Tanks where the iron precipitates by its own gravity-the water is then by
suction drawn off for use leaving the iron deposit at the bottom of the tank from
whence it may then be drawn off to a separate vessel and evaporated and used as
oxide for paint or other use.
When lime or magnesia is present in addition to iron the former is removed by
the addition of about 1lb. of Caustic soda (90 per cent) that known as the "Green
Bank" being preferable which precipitates the lime or magnesia along with the
iron-The water is then drawn off as above described-Where iron is not present
the caustic soda will operate to precipitate the lime without the application of heat
but where heat is available the operation is facilitated.
Water so purified is specially applicable to worsted and woollen manufacture,
scouring dying and other uses in connection therewith, because it reduces the require-
ment for use of soap to a minimum-And it is also specially valuable for purpose
of raising steam as deposit of scale is entirely avoided.
IMPROVEMENTS IN RAG GRINDING MACHINERY
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Wilson and Enoch Scargill
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th June 1883.
CHARLES WILSON of Batley Carr in the County of York, Mechanic and
ENOCH SCARGILL of the samo place, Machine Maker. "IMPROVEMENTS IN RAG
GRINDING MACHINERY"
This Invention relates to improvements in rag grinding machinery, and consists
in a new method of feeding the rags to the swift. Instead of feeding the rags by
means of a pair of rollers, we feed them by means of a series of reciprocating bars,
having serrated or toothed edges the alternate bars being caused to advance, and
recede in rotation.
For operating the bars, we employ two cam shafts, one for the reciprocatory
movement, and the other for lifting the foremost set of bars clear of the material.
The material whilst being fed, rests upon a smooth table or plate.
IMPROVEMENTS IN UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, OR SUNSHADES, AND IN TOOLS FOR APPLYING THE SAME
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Wrench at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 5th December 1883.
THOMAS WRENCH of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, OR SUNSHADES, AND IN TOOLS FOR APPLYING THE
SAME
"
Umbrellas as usually constructed require considerable labour and time to re-cover
them. Now my invention is designed to enable any one to re-cover them or
change the covers in a few minutes, so that a person can if he desires it have
several covers for his umbrella and use one on state occasions and another for
common wear, and so that umbrellas can be re-covered while a person waits.
For the mode of attachment to the stick I use a double truncated conical rubber
cap described in my provisional Specification No 4271 of this year, in which the
two cones close over the two surfaces of the cover and the ring formed by the
junction of their smaller ends encircles the stick. To fasten the cover to the stick
I use a series of thimbles or hollow points having side eyes projecting therefrom
to which the cloth is sewn. To attach the cloth cover these caps after being sewn
in place on the cover are simply slid on the ends of the ribs which have been
sprung back momentarily for the purpose, and which are also made destitute of or
deprived of the usual terminal knobs. A set of ribbons, strings, or threads
attached to the cover seams are then tied or knotted round the ribs and the
umbrella is complete.
Where it is desired to repeatedly change the cover, little spring catches take the
place of these springs. The terminals too for the ribs can be made highly
ornamental and of any desired material, but for common use I stamp them out of
metal as hollow cones. The said cones are pressed round a mandril like a rib-end
in shape, so as to leave a projecting flange on each side, and a hole is punched
(by means of punches on the stamp or otherwise) through each of these flanges
for use in attaching the cap to the umbrella cover. The cap is then complete.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MARINE NIGHT SIGNALS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Harrison Doty at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1883.
HENRY HARRISON DOTY of N° 14 Strand in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MARINE NIGHT SIGNALS"
This Invention of Improvements in Marine Night Signals relates to the signals
red and green to shew the port or starboard side of the vessel and the object is to
make the light correspond to the position of the rudder and is intended as a powerful
auxiliary to the ordinary signal lamps and to cause a sudden flood of light on an
emergency that is when a vessel appears in sight
Two lanterns or cases are provided and fixed where convenient or on the bridge
one to Starboard one to Port
These cases are provided the Port case with red lights the Starboard case with
green lights-The lights are made of the ordinary composition but having a steel
or iron wire as a core down the centre the top of this carries a percussion cap-
the lights are put in a socket in the case and above the cap is a spring and
detent or hammer and trigger which can be cocked or charged as a gun.
In connection with this the doors of the case are arranged and fitted so that when
the trigger is pulled the doors of the case open and the light at once floods the fore
part of the Ship, over the same angle as is covered by the ordinary red and green
light
Supposing the Captain on the bridge sees a vessel before him shewing a red light
he at once ports his helm strikes the trigger on the port side and the light blazes
out giving the coming Ship unmistakeable warning that the Vessel is then on the
Port tack and so on inversely if the coming vessel has shewn a green light.
One case may be employed on the centre of the bridge, the port, and starboard
side of it being fitted as described
AN IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOSITIONS FOR HEATING AND ILLUMINATING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th November 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Urial King Mayo, of Massachusetts, United States of
America
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
COMPOSITIONS FOR HEATING AND ILLUMINATING," a communication to me from
abroad by Urial King Mayo, of Massachusetts, United States of America,
In making the new or improved composition I take in or about in the following
proportions:
Twenty two pounds of Benzine.
One pound of Rosin.
One pound of Gum Camphor.
Two pounds of Blue Vitriol and
One pound of Beeswax.
The solid materials above mentioned are to be brought into a comminuted stato
and thoroughly mixed together, and incorporated with the benzine.
This having been done, the solution is to be placed in one or more suitable
receivers, and evaporated therein with and by air forced therein, and from thence
into a gasometer.
The gaseous hydrocarbon thereby produced, can be employed to great advantage
for heating or illuminating purposes, as it readily consumes with little if any
Boko, and produces a flame with very important heat and light giving properties.
One pound of Beeswax.
The solid materials above mentioned are to be brought into a comminuted stato
d thoroughly mixed together, and incorporated with the benzine.
This having been done, the solution is to be placed in one or more suitable
ceivers, and evaporated therein with and by air forced therein, and from thence
to a gasometer.
The gaseous hydrocarbon thereby produced, can be employed to great advantage
r heating or illuminating purposes, as it readily consumes with little if any
aoke, and produces a flame with very important heat and light giving properties.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF GAS FROM OILS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Abraham Jay and Charles Hook
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st January 1883.
ABRAHAM JAY and CHARLES HOOк, both of Kingswood Hill in the County of
Gloucester. IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF GAS FROM
OILS
Our Invention which relates to improvements in apparatus for the manufacture
of gas from oils, consists, first, in the construction of the retort in which the
vapourisation or conversion into gas of the oils is effected. The interior of the
retort is divided, by wedge-shaped partial partitions, into a series of partial
chambers, the partitions extending alternately from each end of the retort in such
manner that the pointed or thin end of each partition does not reach to the opposite
end of the retort, but terminates short thereof so as to leave apertures for the passage
of the gas or vapourised oil over the inclined planes formed by the partitions
throughout the whole series of chambers. The arrangement of the partitions
is such that they extend from each end of the retort alternately, the pointed
The oil is
end of one terminating towards the butt or thick end of the other.
supplied to the retort from an aperture formed at the bottom of one of the end
walls thereof, and the gas passes off through an aperture formed towards the top
of either of the ends of the retort.
A cover or lid is made to fit on one end or both ends of the retort, such cover or
covers being readily removed for the purpose of cleansing the retort.
Waste of heat is reduced and greater purity of gas is obtained. The construc-
tion of the retort being simple, it may be economically made of any suitable
metal.
Our Invention consists secondly in the arrangement and construction of a
portable stove or furnace in combination with a retort as above described, or a
series of such retorts. The body of the stove is formed of sheet metal or plates
lined with fire bricks or other material or substance to protect the plates from the
action of the heat. Across the bottom of the furnace, the fire-bars are arranged,
and, at a suitable distance above them, are placed the retorts, extending in one or
more parallel rows across the furnace and supported in recesses formed in the sides
thereof, the whole forming a compact portable apparatus.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE BARS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harry Born at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th May 1883.
HARRY BORN, of Whitton, Hounslow in the County of Middlesex Saddler,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE BARS,"
My Invention for improved saddle bars has for its object the releasing of the
rider should he fall or be thrown, and consists mainly as follows:-
In carrying out my Invention, I attach to the saddle tree a curved piece, in
which is inserted a cranked piece, on which is cast or formed a cam.
This cranked piece is so shaped that at the lower part it is formed as a tube,
through which is inserted a rod, forming part of a U piece, which is the stirrup
bar, one extremity being fitted with a spring bar or thumb piece, so as to close
the opening. The action is as follows:-
Should the rider be thrown over the saddle, the cranked piece is at once released-
If the rider falls and is dragged, the thumb piece is released, and the spring bar is
pulled out of the tube connected to the crank before described.
An important point in my Invention is reversing the stirrup bar as at present
in use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Harry Born in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th November
1883.
HARRY BORN, of Whitton, Hounslow, in the County of Middlesex, Saddler
IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE BARS.
My Invention for improved saddle bars, has for it's object the releasing of the
rider, should he fall or be thrown, and consists substantially as follows:-
In carrying out my Invention, I attach to the saddle tree a curved piece, in
which is inserted a cranked piece, on which is cast or formed a cam.
This cranked
piece is so shaped that at the lower part it is formed as a tube, through which is
inserted a rod, forming part of a U piece, which is the stirrup bar, one extremity
being fitted with a Spring bar or thumb piece, so as to close the opening.
Having thus far described the nature of my Invention I will now proceed aided
by the accompanying drawings, to further and particularly describe and ascertain
the same, that is to say,
Witness,
T. MORGAN
21 Cockspur Street.
Charing Cross S W
HARRY BORN (L.S.).
IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Brierley at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th January 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by A. F. I. L. Scholz of Mezo-Szakal Transylvania.
WALTER BRIERLEY of Halifax in the County of York Patent Agent.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PENS." Communicated to me from abroad by A. F. I. L.
Scholz of Mezö-Szakal Transylvania
My invention consists of pens the points of which are flat and solid, without the
usual slit. The hair-strokes or ground-strokes are produced by pressing the flat
point more or less against the paper, the point must therefore be made sufficiently
slender and elastic.
In order to accumulate the ink in proximity to the point I employ small tongues
formed by transversal slits made in the pen close by the writing point or apertures
or holos employed usually for storing up the ink in pens.
Pens so constructed may be used with the concave or the converso side of the
pen against the papers with equal effect.
The ink flows over the flat solid point in the same manner as over the circular
point of the so called stylographic pen.