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IMPROVEMENTS IN FLUSHING APPARATUS FOR WATER CLOSETS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles William Gauntlett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th December 1882.
CHARLES WILLIAM GAUNTLETT of Somers Road, Southsea, in the County of
Hants "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLUSHING APPARATUS FOR WATER CLOSETS
"
My improvements in flushing apparatus for water closets are designed to prevent
waste of water by simple and efficient means the apparatus employed being such as
to dispense with the necessity for using union nuts.
At one end or side of a suitable cistern I provide a syphon cast in one with the
cistern having its inlet in the shorter limb near the bottom of the cistern whilst
the overflow or bend which I prefer to make in a separate piece is above
the top of the cistern or the normal water level;-the longer limb passes down
parallel with the shorter limb through the bottom of the cistern thus forming a
flush conduit, and at the upper part the longer limb is enlarged and is of greater
cross sectional area than the upper part of the shorter limb. At the inlet to the
shorter limb of the syphon I provide a tube or cylinder fitted with a bucket or
piston through which is formed a hole or passage furnished with a valve (not
necessarily water tight) opening in the direction by the water when out flowing, so
that the water in the cistern can open the valve and fill the tube or cylinder which
is of such a capacity that by one stroke of its bucket or piston there may be dis-
charged into the syphon a quantity of water not less than the content of the shorter
limb of the syphon with which the tube or cylinder is in communication.
The bucket or piston of the above mentioned cylinder is jointed by suitable
means such as a link to a lever having a balance weight sufficient to overcome the
friction of the bucket or piston and the weight of the pull rod and to draw it out
to the mouth of the tube or cylinder so as to be ready for an in-stroke when
required: this in-stroke is effected by actuating the pull-rod.
The cistern is also fitted with ball cock or valve and overflow as usual and by
means of this ball-cock the quantity of water to be discharged at each operation
can be regulated as desired.
•
The cistern may be encased in wood the space between being filled with cork
shavings to protect the cistern from the action of frost
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-Assuming the water in the cistern to
be at the height regulated by the ball valve the same level obtaining also in the
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page_text: shorter limb of the syphon; if now the pull rod be actuated, an instroke will be
given to the bucket or piston, and the contents of the tube or cylinder will be forced
into the syphon causing the water to flow over the syphon bend and to start the
syphon action which will continue until the cistern is emptied to a level where the
syphon will draw air, whereupon its action will cease. The water now rises again
to the normal level in the cistern but no further syphon action will take place until
the pull lever is again actuated.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPERTAINING TO THE UTILIZATION OF TIDAL POWER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Dodd Gaman at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th July 1882.
THOMAS DODD GAMAN, of San Francisco in the State of California, but
temporarily at the Office for Patents 6 Lord Street Liverpool in the County of
Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPERTAINING TO THE UTILIZATION OF TIDAL
POWER."
This invention is practicable wherever the tides have a regular flow but marsh
lands which lie along the shores and round some of the bays are particularly well
adapted to my method. Most of these marshes are intersected by numerous
sloughs or salt rivers up which the tides flow with great regularity and many of
which are navigable at high tide for a considerable distance from their mouths.
In carrying out my invention I excavate or form a pit or pond hereafter called
the dry pond with levees or banks sufficiently high to keep out the highest tides.
On a race from the tidal water entering into this pond the mill wheel for
obtaining motive power is placed the race is provided with sluice gates-and other
self acting sluice gates empty the pond at low water.
A second pond dock or slack water area is made preferably with dock gates for
ships to enter and a second race with sluice leads from this to the water wheel.
The mill is preferably placed between the dock and the "dry" pond and so
that vessels can load at the wharf in front of the mill,
The mode of action is as follows. At high water the dock or slack water gate
is opened and the sea admitted to it, but the sluice valve from it to the wheel is
closed. The sluice from the tidal water is opened to the wheel and the wheel
turned by the water running into the dry pond. When the tidal water sinks to a
point at which it cannot be further utilized the sluice is closed and that connecting
with the dock or slack water is opened and the wheel is run with that water till
the tide rises again sufficiently to be utilized.
The dry pond is emptied automatically by self acting gates at low water.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOGS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Glover at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 25th August 1882.
GEORGE GLOVER of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN
OR RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOGS."
This invention consists in a new or improved manufacture of clogs.
The three great objections that working people and others have to clogs are
1st That they make a noise,
2nd That they are unsightly. and
3rd With the very poor that they cost too much.
It is to obviate to some extent all these complaints that this my invention is
designed.
1st To obviate noise I attach to or inlay in the sole and heel a layer of scrap
india-rubber old india rubber lose, or the like, some material in fact that will
deaden the sound and yet not rapidly wear. This I attach by a solution of india
rubber marine glue or other cement and nail or screw it also for additional
security.
2nd In place of using leather for the tops I use canvas or stout cloth overlaid
with bituminous, or hydro carbonaceous matter such as boiled oil, or other tough
material laid on hot or rolled on or put on with a solvent and the solvent
evaporated, or made in the same manner as "American Leather."
This material is black shining and flexible and besides being cheaper is much
more sightly than the offal leather hitherto used for clogs.
AN IMPROVED ASH RECEIVER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Ralph Jackson and Samuel Jackson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th June 1882.
RALPH JACKSON, and SAMUEL JACKSON, both of Broadbottom, in the County of
Chester. AN IMPROVED ASH RECEIVER
This Invention relates to kitchen and cottage fire places, and to such other fire
places as are provided with an ash hole or pit in the hearth beneath the fire grate
covered with a grid or grating for the purpose of arresting the cinders and allowing
the ashes to fall through into the ash hole or pit which latter when full of ashes
has to be emptied by means of a shovel, spade, or other similar implement.
The Invention consists in constructing an ash receiver consisting of a box of plate
iron or other suitable material fitting into the ash hole or pit beneath the grid or
grating and provided with a handle by means of which when the grid or grating
is removed it can be drawn out lifting out all the ashes with it, and thus prevent
the necessity for using a shovel or spade for empyting out the ash hole or pit.
For facility of removal I prefer to make the receiver in two sections one in
front of the other so that if (as in most instances is the case) the grid or grating
should be partly under the fire place the front section of the ash receiver could be
lifted out first and then the back section could be drawn forward and also
lifted out.
After emptying, the back portion is first lowered into the ash hole or pit and
pushed to the back, and then the front section or box is lowered into the ash holo
or pit and the grid or grating is replaced.
A NEW OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF DISINFECTANTS AND THE APPLICATION THEREOF TO VARIOUS USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Griffith Brewer at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th January 1882. A communi-
cation from abroad by Eugene Ernest Egasse of Paris France.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF DISINFECTANTS AND THE APPLICATION
THEREOF TO VARIOUS USEFUL PURPOSES." (A communication from abroad by
Eugeno Ernest Egasso of Paris France.)
This Invention refers to the manufacture and employment of disinfectants
obtained from the chlorure of zinc as base. In this respect this present invention
refers to a patent dated 14th February 1879 No. 594.
Air is compressed and admitted with hydrochloric acid into a receiver containing
zinc where the chlorures are obtained and these chlorures represent a powerful
disinfectant applicable for disinfecting purposes generally, and for the preservation
of leather whether green, dry, or tanned for furs, feathers natural or otherwise
wools in grease natural or combed state, articles of gut work, tripe and such liko
and for commercial purposes generally for use by naturalists and others.
A NEW OR IMPROVED STEAM ENGINE GOVERNOR."
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Rettie at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st February 1882.
JAMES RETTIE of Kirby Street Hatton Garden in the County of Middlesex
Engineer. "A NEW OR IMPROVED STEAM ENGINE GOVERNOR."
This Invention rolates to a new or improved steam engine governor.
According to my Invention I introduce within the length of the steam pipe
conveying the steam to the cylinder a cylindrical chamber containing a scrow
blade almost fitting same and which screw-blade is caused to revolve against the
forward passage of the steam and thus to retard the passage of the steam in
proportion to its speed of revolution. This screw-blade is also capable of a longi-
tudinal motion with its spindle and is kept up against the pressure of the steam by
spring or weight power. The scrow-blade is also backed by a concentric disc
which travelling with the screw blade enters a valve seating when the screw is
forced back and so almost entirely cuts off the supply of steam. The annular
space around this disc and the speed at which the screw blade is revolved against
the forward passage of the steam are so regulated as to allow of the passage of
just the proper amount of steam when the engine is running at its normal speed
but should the engine begin to race from any cause two actions take place vizt,
the screw is driven immediately at a greater speed and so retards of the steam and
at same time the screw is forced back with said disc until the latter approaching
the valve seating the steam passage is first gradually reduced and then nearly
wholly closed. As the engine begins to slacken and the speed of the scrow to be
reduced the valve will open proportionately and this action will gradually proceed
as the engine slackens down until it and the screw-blade are brought to their
normal rate of revolution.
Sometimes as when the governor is required to be extra sensative to a sudden
access of speed (as with marine engines) I so gear the said screw-blade with the
engine that any sudden acceleration of speed in the latter will be multiplied to tho
degree required in the revolutions of the said screw-blade and as quickly decreased
on the sudden slackening of the engine.
A modification of the above action of the screw is to allow the screw to revolve
with instead of against the passage of the steam when the engine is travelling at
its normal rate of speed, whilst any sudden acceleration thereof will cause the
screw-blade first to be arrested in its motion and then to be driven in the opposite
direction.
IMPROVEMENTS IN DOBBIES FOR FANCY WEAVING
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Shorrock at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th February 1882.
JOHN SHORROCK of the Firm of John Shorrock and John Hutchinson Shorrock,
trading under the name of John and Ralph Shorrock, of Bolton Road and Lee
Foundries, Darwen in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, Millwrights and
Machinists. "IMPROVEMENTS IN DOBBIES FOR FANCY WEAVING."
"
This invention relates to that class of looms for fancy weaving wherein the shed
is caused to open by means of what is well known as the "dobby" or "index machine
and consists of an improved method of working the lattice or pattern motion for
the aforesaid "dobby" at the same time considerably reducing the power required
to drive the same.
My invention consists in mounting and applying certain catches and springs or
their equivalents to the arms or knives which actuate the raising of the hooks in
such machines. On the lattice barrel shafts I attach a catch or rack wheel which
is operated upon and caused to revolve by the catches on the arms or knives coming
in contact with them during each downward stroke, thus giving the requisite motion
to the lattice barrel shafts, thereby enabling the lattice pegs to work the wires
according to the pattern required. On the opposite end of the lattice barrel shafts
I attach star or "paul" wheels and springs to give the necessary pause or stop
motion as required, the lattice barrel being made adjustable to compensate for the
wearing of the pegs which operate upon the hooks.
The novelty of this invention is its simplicity, by which it dispenses with many
cumbersome parts already in use for working "dobbies," such as crank, swivels,
connecting rod which is attached to one end of the tappet shaft, also the L leg and
levers to which the opposite end of connecting rod is fixed, also with the cross shaft,
stud and catch which give motion to the lattice barrels. By dispensing with theso
parts, the liabilities to get out of order are reduced, at the same time giving more
room about the loom and making more room in the passage at the end of the loom
from which the aforesaid connecting rod works.
Another feature in this invention is that the power required to drive it, is
minimised.
CORSETS AND IN APPLIANCES COMBINED THEREWITH
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Roger Ajax at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th December 1882.
JOHN ROGER AJAX of Paddington in the County of Middlesex
IN CORSETS AND IN APPLIANCES COMBINED THEREWITH
"
"IMPROVEMENTS
This Invention has for its object the application to corsets of an abdominal belt
or support for drawing in and supporting the lower part of the abdomen and
thereby improving the figure of the wearer.
For this purpose according to my improvements a belt or band is attached by
buckles or other suitable fastenings to the sides of a corset in such manner that
when the stay or corset has been fastened on the waist of the wearer the lower
front part can be further drawn in by means of the belt or band the central part
of which may descend to or below the bottom of the busk in front. The front
portion of the belt is strengthened by a series of vertical bones or strips of other
material sewn therein the sides being also strengthened by diagonal bones or
strips thus preventing all displacement in wear.
The ends of the belt have eyelets to adjust and fix the belt to the desired
tension.
The lower portion of the corset has elastic gussets inserted therein or laced up
openings.
The belt or band may be fixed or permanently attached to the corset or it may
be separate therefrom and be applied thereto when required.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SODA AND POTASH
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Mactear at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 10th March 1882.
JAMES MACTEAR, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Chemist.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SODA AND POTASH.
This Invention has for its object to improve some of the processes employed in
the manufacture of soda and potash, so as to separate impurities in a more expeditious
and less costly manner than heretofore, and also comprises the utilisation of a bye
product.
In carrying out the Invention the liquors formed by the lixiviation of the black
ash and known as vat liquors are treated for the separation of cyanogen compounds,
either in their fresh state or after more or less of the carbonate has been crystallised
out. The liquor is put into a boiler or vessel capable of sustaining a pressure of
upwards of 150 pounds per square inch and is therein heated by means of steam up
to a pressure of from 70 to 150 pounds per square inch, the steam being either
injected into the liquor or being passed through pipes in the boiler or vessel. The
liquor may be heated in this way either by separate charges, or it may be passed
continuously through the boiler or vessel a small stream of it being continuously
pumped in at one part and a similar stream continuously discharged at another
part. The heating process causes the decomposition of the cyanogen compounds,
and the resulting bye products are subsequently removed by well known means.
The liquor is afterwards treated with carbonic acid or with oxidising agents by
means of well known apparatus. The decomposition of the cyanogen compounds
gives rise to the formation of ammonia which is fixed by means of sulphuric acid,
or is collected and utilised in any other known way.
When the liquors have been treated as bereinbefore described soda crystals or
carbonate of potassinum can be obtained from them by fewer processes than
heretofore.
IMPROVED MEANS OF INSULATING COVERING AND COATING WIRES USED FOR ELECTRIC LIGHTING AND TELEGRAPHIC PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Shippey and Robert Punshon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th May 1882.
ARTHUR SHIPPEY of Gaston House 95 Ladbroke Grove Road Electrician and
ROBERT PUNSHON of 16 St Michael's Place Brighton, Engineer "IMPROVED MEANS
OF INSULATING COVERING AND COATING WIRES USED FOR ELECTRIC LIGHTING AND
TELEGRAPHIC PURPOSES."
"
The object of our invention is to make a suitable material to cover or coat wires
used for Electric lighting Telegraph and other purposes where insulated wire or
wires is or are used or required.
The method we adopt or use is to take about equal parts of powdered glass and
soda silicate, mix these two materials intimately together, and whilst moist coat or
cover the wire with them. This coating may be applied several times and in some
classes of wire where desirable after the wire has received such a coat or covering
herein before stated of the thickness required the covering is allowed to dry and a
thin tape of cotton or asbestos paper or other suitable material is soaked in melted
paraffin ozokerit or other known waterproof material when still hot it is wrapped
round the wire already covered or coated by the above insulation the tape
covering is then allowed to dry and a solution of any waterproof material is laid
on the covered or coated wire; by preference I use a solution of gutta percha
dissolved in Bensole.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HAY-RAKES, KNOWN AS "AMERICAN HORSE RAKES OR " TURNOVER RAKES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Perrott Junior at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th August 1882.
GEORGE PERROTT Junior-[residing at Erinville-Western Road-Cork]
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HAY-RAKES, KNOWN AS "AMERICAN
HORSE RAKES
OR "
TURNOVER RAKES
"
""
My Invention consists in fixing the teeth to the centre Barrel or Axle with slit
or cut bushes or cones of either Brass Wrot Iron, Steel or other metal
These slit or divided Bushes or Cones are constructed with a centre hole of such
a size as will permit the teeth to pass through. The outside is tapered it may be
smooth or have a screw or thread cut on them or part may be smooth & part
screwed, and a slot or groove is cut length way in one or more places. This slot or
grooves allow the Bushes or Cones to contract or tighten on and grip the teeth
when they are forced into smooth or screwed into tapped or threaded holes, of
suitable size prepared in the centre Barrel or Axle, or fastened in by a nut on the
outside of the centre Barrel or axle.
These slit or divided Bushes or Cones enable the teeth to be easily and quickly
fixed to the rake, and saves time and trouble taking out a broken tooth and
refixing one in its place.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO SELF-ACTING MULES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Thomas Watts at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th March 1882. .
WILLIAM THOMAS WATTS, of the firm of Taylor Lang & Co Limited of Castle
Iron Works, Stalybridge, in the County of Chester, Machine Makers, " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO SELF-ACTING MULES,"
When a selfacting mule is in operation, the driving belt giving it motion, works
on two pulleys, and it is traversed in working, from one pulley, termed the fast
pulley which is on the "rim-shaft" on to the other pulley termed the loose pulley,
and vice versa by the belt guide.
The object of my invention is to move the driving belt as the carriage is going
out, when it arrives near the end of the stretch wholly or partially from the fast
pulley on the "rim-shaft" to the loose pulley, and also to so arrange the mechanism
that when the main driving belt on the counter shaft is traversed on to the loose
pulley to stop the mule by means of the stopping and starting handle, the driving
belt herein first mentioned will in the act of stopping the mule be traversed from
the fast pulley on the "rim-shaft" on to the loose pulley.
My invention consists in means for accomplishing the object above mentioned,
namely, by a lever jointed on a lever acted upon by the cam on the "changing
cam shaft," which lever is pulled towards the cam by a spring.
This lever is connected with the belt guide, and its upper end is jointed with
one end of a rod, the other end of which is jointed with one arm of a bell crank
lever having its fulcrum on the framing. One arm of this lever has a cam surface
upon it which is acted upon by a cam surface on the carriage of the mule when it
arrives near the end of its stretch.
The cam surface upon the arm of the bell crank lever or that upon the mule
carriage or both of them are adjustable so that they can be set to operate sooner
or later as required. When the carriage in its outward run has arrived at the
point fixed upon the cam surfaces come in operation, and the arm of the bell crank
is lifted and this acts upon the other connected lever to traverse the belt wholly
or partially from the fast pulley on the "rim-shaft" to the loose pulley, so that

page_text: the remainder of the stretch is performed wholly or partly by momentum. There
is an adjustable projection on the stopping and starting rod, which acts upon the
bell crank lever, or the other lever connected with the belt guide, or with a stop
on the rod connecting the two levers, when the handle is pulled to stop the mule,
by which movement the driving belt is traversed from the fast pulley on the
"rim-shaft" on to the loose pulley, at the same time, when the mule is stopped by
traversing the main driving belt.
VENTILATING APPARATUS FOR GREENHOUSES AND OTHER BUILDINGS "
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Mark Willshaw at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 28th April 1882.
MARK WILLSHAW, of Lenton, in the county of Nottingham.
IN VENTILATING APPARATUS FOR GREENHOUSES AND OTHER
BUILDINGS
"
"IMPROVEMENTS
HORTICULTURAL
To one or more of the air admitting orifices in the walls or lower parts of
greenhouses, and other horticultural buildings, I apply a conducting pipe, the inner
end of which terminates in the side of a pipe formed by bolting two semicircular
troughs together round that portion of heating pipe inside the building nearest to
the air inlet, the area between the inner and outer pipes being at least equal to the
area of the air inlet, by such means I am enabled to warm the cold air, during_its
passage between the pipes, before it escapes into the building when required. For
ventilating the upper portion of the building, 1 employ a ridge roll of a circular, or
other suitable shape in lengths.
The right and left projecting lower flanges of which instead of being secured to
the rafters or other parts of the building are hinged to studs or brackets projecting
from them in such a way that the side of the ridge roll, opposite to the way the
wind may be blowing, can be raised the required height by means of one or more
cranked levers operated by a rod or cord, the inner edges of the fanges, either form
part of, or are connected to the sides of a plate slotted at intervals, the plate being
of the width of the space between the flanges, and at each end of the ridge roll I
attach a ballanced valve plate, either or both of which may be opened and adjusted
by a rod or cord when one or other of these valves are opened, the hot air passes
through the slots in the ridge roll plate and out at the open valve by such means I
am enabled to adjust the amount of air passing through the building at will.
MENTS IN INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING THE INCLINATION OF PLANES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Gustav Grütter at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th April 1882.
GUSTAV GRUTTER, of Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, IMPROVE-
MENTS IN INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING THE INCLINATION OF PLANES
The invention has for its object the convenient measuring of the inclination of
planes by means of a spirit level, and consists in attaching the level to a graduated
disc, the centre of which is pivoted to a stationary disc secured to or made in
one piece with a straight edge or base plate. To the latter is screwed a flat
spring or click which falls with its tooth into one of the notches at the circum-
ference of the movable disc, when the disc is turned into the required position.
If the flat base of the instrument rests on the inclined plane, the discs are
vertical and the movable disc is turned on its pivot until the spirit level becomes
horizontal, after which the click shows on the graduated scale the inclination of
the plane.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GOVERNORS FOR REGULATING THE SPEED OF STEAM ENGINES AND OTHER PRIME MOVERS
Year: 1882

page_text: "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Paul Bedford Elwell at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th September 1882.
PAUL BEDFORD ELWELL of Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford,
IMPROVEMENTS IN GOVERNORS FOR REGULATING THE SPEED OF STEAM ENGINES
AND OTHER PRIME MOVERS"
The object of this invention is, to obtain a governor the speed of which is quite
regular and not sensibly affected by any variation in the speed of the engine or
other motor, and to so connect the same with the regulating valve that any
variation of speed between the prime mover and the governor has the effect of
immediately acting upon the regulating valve.
The mechanism employed in carrying out the invention consists (1) of an
arrangement of clock pendulum and escapement, or of an escapement wheel
action, (2) an endless band connecting a pulley upon the engine shaft, or a pulley
otherwise driven directly by the prime mover, with a pulley connected with the
escapement aforesaid, (3) a weight connected to a running pulley acting in a loop
of the endless band and tending to keep the same taut, (4) a connection between.
the said running pulley and the regulating valve, and (5) a band tightener. The
endless band passes from the pulling side of the engine pulley around the running
pulley, thence back again around the escapement pulley, thence forward around the
band tightener, and thence back around the engine pulley to its starting point. A
cord or other connection passes from the block or carrier of the running pulley
around a pulley on the valve spindle; and the weight bangs from a cord or other
connection passing, in the same direction as the cord from the running pulley,
around a pulley on the valve spindle, and thus exerts a direct pull upon the running
pulley. When the engine is at rest the weight is down to its lowest point and the
valve wide open.
As the engine is started the governor is thereby set in motion,
and the speed of the engine can increase until the endless band begins to travel
faster than the governor pulley, at which point the running pulley will be drawn
towards the engine, the weight raised and the valve closed more or less.
the speed of the endless band is less than the speed of the governor pulley the.
weight acts to pull back the running pulley and at the same time also opens the
valve wider. It will thus be seen that the weight acts as the compensating medium
Posing 21
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page_text: between the governor and the engine. The band tightener is employed simply to
maintain a regular degree of tension on the slack side of the endless band. For
the governor proper it is preferred to use an adaptation of Denison's gravity
escapement, but any suitable pendulum or balance wheel action may be employed.
The regulating valve may, if desired, be so constructed that in case the endless 5
band breaks, the weight in descending will turn the valve sufficiently to completely
close it.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SCREW PROPELLORS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Lambert at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st April 1882.
THOMAS LAMBERT, of Plymouth in the County of Devon "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SCREW PROPELLORS
"
If a scrow propellor be revolved at a given speed it will exert a certain thrust
upon the water, but if the vessel be drawn forward at a suitable speed, that thrust
will be entirely nullified, because the pressure which the blades would exert upon
the water is counterbalanced by their being pulled forward by the vessel away
from that portion of the water against which the pressure ought to be exerted.
This difficulty commonly occurs with ordinary propellors of a fixed pitch where the
extremities of the blades may be producing useful offect but the portions nearer to
the boss which have the same pitch but a slower rate of revolution are merely
passing through the water or positively acting against the useful portion of the
blades.
Now my invention is designed to overcome this by increasing the pitch of the
blade as it nears the boss thus making the increased pitch compensate for the
slower rate of revolution, By carrying this principle to an extreme, the inner
portion may even be made to produce the most effect.
In setting out this increasing pitch I form a triangle in the usual manner, one
side representing the circumference of the propellor, and another the pitch The
circumference will be divided off on the circumference line.
The pitch line being also graduated cross lines are drawn joining the graduation
lines and forming the angle of the increased pitch.
In some cases I prefer to leave a hollow in the blade near the boss, the blade
being forked instead of solid.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION APPARATUS." AND ARRANGEMENT OF WATER CLOSET
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Casey at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 9th June 1882.
JAMES CASEY, of 10 Philpot Lane in the City of London, Consulting Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
APPARATUS."
AND ARRANGEMENT OF WATER CLOSET
The object of my said invention is to provide means for applying a "douche" to
the person while seated on a watercloset either before or after or at the same time
as the usual flushing apparatus.
I effect the above object by suitably fitting, independantly of and in addition to
the flushing appliances, a valve or cock, connected, to the necessary supply under
suitable pressure and to the back or any other part of the closet pan through
which the pipe or its connection passes and is fitted with a rose or other perforated
plate or plates.
"
When the operator opens the valve which governs the admission of water to the
"douche a jet, spray, or other form of stream of water is propelled or injected.
against the person and continued as long as desired.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSETS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Wrencher at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 31st May 1882.
• GEORGE WRENCHER of Church Row Bethnal Green Road in the County of
Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSETS "
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of corsets and
consists in the insertion of one or more strips of elastic material in the back or
body of a corset whereby the use of eyelets and laces as now worn for lacing up
the back are dispensed with by inserting and thus substituting a strip or strips of
elastic material in place thereof as the laces frequently break and the eyelets come
out causing the wearer much discomfort and inconvenience.
The insertion of a strip or strips of elastic material in the back or body of a
corset in accordance with my invention will admit of every movement of the
wearer and by so doing will protect the busks from breaking. The front of the
corset is secured in the ordinary manner
AN IMPROVED COMBINED NAIL CUTTER AND CLEANER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Prout Jones at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th March 1882.
JOHN PROUT JONES of 203 Strand in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman AN
IMPROVED COMBINED NAIL CUTTER AND CLEANER
The improved combined nail cutter and cleaner which forms the subject of my
present application for patent is formed of a short lever or rod which hinges
between the two ends of a metal bow or loop similar in appearance to the bow or
loop portion of a pocket corkscrew. The rod or lever portion is partially hollowed
out and pointed at one end to enable it to scrape or clean the nail, whilst at
the other end it is provided with an eye or opening the inner edge of one side
of which is formed with a sharp cutting edge to pare or cut the nail, the portion
of the nail as it is cut off passing through the eye or opening
The appliance or the cutting portion of it is by preference formed of the best
steel and the whole may be nickelled or otherwise suitably embellished.
The lever portion is so hinged or swivelled that it describes only half a circle in
being opened for use and consequently both ends are firmly supported while in use.
AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MOULDING SMALL ARTICLES MECHANICALLY
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Charles Henderson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th January 1882. A communication
from abroad by Charles Gaston Picard, Lapidary of the City of Paris in the
Republic of France.
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON of 6 Southampton Buildings Holborn in the
County of Middlesex. "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR
MOULDING SMALL ARTICLES MECHANICALLY." A communication from
abroad
by Charles Gaston Picard, Lapidary of the City of Paris in the Republic of
France.
The mechanical process of moulding fancy articles, refers to such objects as glass
lenses, small ornaments of glass, crystal, prisms, stars, earthen or ceramic ware, and
generally all articles of small dimensions.
In principle the Invention emanates from the rolling mill, in so far that the
moulding substance in the requisite condition is distributed at the point of contact
of two disks turning in contrary directions at an equal velocity. On the periphery
of one of the disks is engraved or sunk the mould of the article desired, whilst the
other disk having a perfectly smooth surface, in revolving presses the matter into
the moulds whence it can then be removed, the matter having been forcibly pressed
into all the cavities and turns of the moulds, so that the substance is in a manner
rolled and falls by its own weight on to an inclined table or plane which removes
the mou.d-d pieces to a distance, to be then submitted to other operations such as
cutting, shaping, and polishing.
The two disks are supported on two shafts borne by an iron frame, on these
shafts are also two cog wheels which are actuated by a crank handle on one of the
shafts which communicates to the disks an intermittent motion by aid of two
spring butlers pressing against the faces with which the bearings of the disks are
furnished. These faces are equal in number with the cavities or moulds sunk or
engraved on one of the disks, and produce stoppages in the revolution sufficient to
allow of filling the moulds before they are subjected to pressure from the smooth
faced disk or cylinder.
The matter to be moulded is supplied to the apparatus from an iron recipient
placed just above the point of contact of the two disks, and its dimensions are
regulated in accordance with the speed and out put of the machine.
IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William MoNichol and James
Hollingworth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th April
1882.
WILLIAM MCNICHOL of Batley in the County of York, Loom Tuner and JAMES
HOLLINGWORTH of the firm of Hutchinson, Hollingworth and Co Limited of
Dobcross also in the County of York Woollen Loom Makers "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LOOMS FOR WEAVING"
This Invention has reference to the swells employed in holding shuttles in the
boxes. Our improvements consisting in the employment of apparatus for rolieving
the swells to as to remove pressure off the shuttle just before it is sent out of the
shuttle box by which means less power is required to remove the shuttle than is
the case when the pressure is always on the swell. To accomplish this object we
place a lever on the stop rod extending into the loom and operated by a cam on the
crank shaft at each revolution thereof. This lever is connected to or in connection
with a vertical lever or finger also on the stop rod the said levers and cam being so
set and timed that the pressure is always removed off the swells a moment before
the picker strikes the shuttle, the pressure returning again immediately after the
shuttle has been sent out of the box and remaining there until the shuttle returns,
when the pressure is again removed.
Instead of employing apparatus as above described, a lever or finger projecting
from the stop rod or going part of the loom may be employed coming into contact
with a tilting cam so set and arranged that by means of rods and levers the swell
may be removed off the shuttle.
A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF GLAZING ROOFS AND OTHER STRUCTURES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Ferguson at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th December 1882.
WILLIAM FERGUSON of Cottage Newlands in the island of Guernsey A NEW OR
IMPROVED METHOD OF GLAZING ROOFS AND OTHER STRUCTURES
The object of my invention is to glaze roofs and other structures without the use
of putty or the like in such a manner as to lessen the cost of making such
structures and of repairing the same. The framework of the roof or other structure
may be made after the usual manner but to carry out my object I hollow out the
upper surface of the sash bars so as to form a groove down the same. The panes
of glass are placed side by side in juxtaposition on the sash bars and are secured
thereto by a screw or other fastening passing between each pair of panes near their
lower edges under the head of which screw may be placed metal and india rubber
washers or the like so that the screw or other fastening may be screwed tight
down into the sash bar and the panes be secured. When the lowest row of panes
have been placed and secured in position the next row above is placed and secured
in the same manner with their lower edges slightly overlapping the upper edges of
the lower row and so on until the structure is glazed. Thus the water falling on
the lateral edges of the panes of glass is carried down the same the said edges
acting as conductors and if any water does pass between the said lateral edges it
falls into the hollows or grooves in the upper surfaces of the sash bars and is
carried away thereby. The panes of glass are thus tightly secured without the use
of putty or the like and at the same time they can be quickly and easily released
from the sash bars for repairing or otherwise. The rafters may be covered in the
same manner or a rabbet may be formed in their sides in which the lateral edges of
the panes of glass would be placed and a groove or trough formed under these
edges to carry away the water.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING CHEESE
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Alexander, Junior, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th July 1882.
RICHARD ALEXANDER Junior of Edinburgh in the County of Mid-Lothian,
North Britain IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING CHEESE"
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This Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for cutting cheese into
segments and the said improved apparatus consists of a frame composed of a top
and bottom member joined or connected together at or near their ends the said
frame being secured to the shop counter or other convenient place by screws passed
through the bottom member or sole and also if desired through the vertical con-
necting piece at one end
In both the top and bottom members of the frame a slot is made to receive
another frame which is preferably of T shape in transverse section the vertical
part of the T reciprocating through the slot. The latter frame is formed with a
handle at one end and at its other end it is provided with a vertical wire one end
of which is secured in the lower part of the T frame whilst in the upper part of
the said frame a stenting roller or ratchet is carried to which the upper end of the
wire is connected and by turning which the wire is stented in the frame the wire
being retained tight by a ratchet wheel and spring or pawl.
The cheese is cut by placing it between the person using the apparatus and the
wire and drawing the frame towards the person.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Dibble at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st January 1882.
WILLIAM DIBBLE of Regent Street in the County of Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS
IN GLOVES."
My Invention relates to an improvement in gloves having for its object to
provide a means of holding or carrying a railway or other ticket, or it may be
small change, in a secure and yet readily accessible.position, and it consists in the
combination with a kid or other kind of glove, of a pocket sown or otherwise
attached to the palm of the glove, or formed or cut out in one therewith, said
pocket being provided with a buttoned flap by which it is securely closed. The
pocket may be either inside or outside of the glove and in any case it is so arranged
as not to form an unsightly protuberance. The pocket may be attached to the
back portion of the glove at the wrist or in other convenient position.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING MOTIVE POWER.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Dobney at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st February 1882.
JOHN DOBNEY of Gosberton-Risogate in the County of Lincoln, Machine Owner,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING MOTIVE
POWER.
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The object of this invention is to facilitate the transmission of power to shafts
axles or lines of shafting in workshops and other places, This I effect through a
series of levers which alternately grip the said shafts or axles and rotate them.
For this purpose a series of seven or more levers are employed each of which
engage at one end by means of a spring pawl or its equivalent with ratchet teeth
on the axle to be rotated, the other end of each lever being periodically raised by
means of a multiple crank or its equivalent operated by hand or other motive
power.
As this crank is rotated it will raise the rear ends of the levers in succession and
their weight in descending will cause the axle which they grip in succession to be
racked round.
If necessary this axle may be connected with another multiple crank by which
levers of greater length and more heavily weighted may in their turn be successively
raised and in descending rack round a second axle by a pawl and ratchet
arrangement similar to that above referred to.
It should be remarked that by this arrangement of multiple crank for raising
levers which in their descent rack round a shaft or axle, the said shaft or axle will
make one rotation for every complete revolution of the crank or its equivalent, and
this will be a convenient method of transmitting motive power in cases where
there is not much head room available. When speed is desired the axle rotated
as above described may be geared with other mechanism in any well known
manner.
AN IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR 'STARTING' OR INCREASING THE COMBUSTION OF FRESULY LIGHTED FIRES IN FURNACES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th February 1882. A communi-
cation from abroad by Johannes Hahn, of Holzwickede near Dortmund,
German Empire.
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of the Firm of W. P. Thompson & Boult, Agents for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, of 323 High Holborn London in the County of Middlesex
and G Lord Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster. "AN IMPROVED MEANS
OR APPARATUS FOR 'STARTING' OR INCREASING THE COMBUSTION OF FRESULY
LIGHTED FIRES IN FURNACES." A communication from abroad by Johannes
Hahn, of Holzwickede near Dortmund, German Empire.
This Invention consists of a blast nozzle placed in the ashpit preferably forming
a long slit between the projecting sides and ends of the nozzle which projects
upwards between the firebars.
A suitable pipe generally of an ogee or similar shape proceeds from the nozzle
and is of sufficient length to project beyond the ashpit and a flexible tube connects
this with any suitable blower.
To use this instrument the nozzle is inserted between the firebars and the pipe
connected with the blower; a mass of easily ignitable material (such as dirty waste
which is saturated with oil, or a cake of tar and coaldust) is placed upon the bars
above the nozzle and lighted, the blower turned on and a bright fire is soon
obtained.
The firebars should be cleaned before lighting up.
IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE RESISTING BRICKS AND BLOCKS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles James Mountford of Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Paint Manufacturer for an invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE
RESISTING BRICKS AND BLOCKS
(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 Charles James Mountford at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd March 1882.
CHARLES JAMES MOUNTFORD of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Paint
Manufacturer "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE RESISTING BRICKS AND BLOCKS
"
The object of my present invention is to provide for use bricks or blocks of such
a nature that after being once burned during the process of manufacture they shall
be but slightly affected injuriously by any subsequent heating to which they may
be subjected, that is to say they will better resist fire action as regards cracking and
disintegration than any of those heretofore in use. Their use where liable to be
acted on by high temperatures either designedly as when they form parts of
furnaces or accidentally when in buildings or structures, being specially
advantageous.
For the above purpose I combine and mix together in a suitable grinding,
reducing or mixing mill or apparatus, Asbestos and silicate of soda or potash, with
or without, but preferably with fire clay. When thoroughly incorporated the
mixed ingredients are moulded or shaped and afterwards burned in ordinary or
suitable kilns. The mixture may be used in a semi-dry condition and moulded by
pressure or it may be rendered plastic by the addition of moisture during grinding
and mixing, or afterwards in which case the moulded articles are dried previous to
being burned.