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IMPROVEMENTS IN FURNITURE CASTERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Skinner and Francis James
Rumney at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th September
1883.
ALFRED SKINNER and FRANCIS JAMES RUMNEY both of Manchester in the
County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN FURNITURE CASTERS"
The object of this invention is to lessen the friction which is consequent upon
the whole weight of the article of furniture to which the caster is applied being
thrown diagonally on the pin which serves as the pivot, on which the horn carrying
the caster wheel turns; and thereby to prevent the caster from sticking fast and
dragging sideways upon the carpet, floor cloth or floor.
In the bottom of the socket or in the centre of the screw plate, by which the
caster is secured to the leg or bottom of the article of furniture, we rivet or screw
a conical steel pin having a concave shoulder at the thicker end which is next to
the socket or screw plate. The horn or bracket which carries the caster wheel is
made with a short tube or swivel the lower end of which fits and turns on the
lower end of the conical pin, its upper end being fitted with a concave conical steel
ring.
A number of steel balls being placed in this concave ring, the tube or swivel is
passed up onto the vertical conical pin until they are held between the concave
steel ring and the concave shoulder of the vertical pin.
The lower end of the conical pin is then rivetted (or it has a nut screwed on) to
keep the short tube or swivel up into its place and the steel balls are thus confined
and cannot fall out.
It will thus be evident that the whole weight of the article of furniture to which
the caster is applied will be supported by the steel balls running in the concave
steel ring, and as the lower end of the short tube or swivel revolves on the conical
pin it has a bearing both at top and bottom and all side or diagonal thrust is
thereby avoided.
The caster wheel is also by preference mounted in the horn or bracket with a
series of steel balls running in a concave cup and held in place by a steel axle pin
so as still further to reduce the friction.
Manufacturer, NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCES FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Asher and Leon L'Hollier
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st May 1883.
GEORGE ASHER, of Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester, Modeller, and
LEON L'HOLLIER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCES FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER
"
This Invention relates to improved apparatus for obtaining motive power:-
and the improvements are to a great extent a developement of the principle of the
Invention of similar subject matter for which Letters Patent N° 5503 bearing
date the 20th day of November. A.D. 1882. were granted to us.
One modification of the improved arrangement of apparatus is illustrated on
the accompanying drawings.
The contrivance thereon delineated is double acting. It is formed with a
spindle 1, which can revolve in collars or within an outer tube 2, carried by any
suitable frame 3, which can be bolted in any required position. Beyond the
framing 3, each end of the tube 2, is formed with an external screw thread 4, and
upon each screwed part 4, is a lever or handle 5, with its boss 6, formed as a nut
engaging with the screw 4. At the outer side of the boss 6, of each handle, is a
tubular piece 7, preferably bell-shaped, and it is fitted with its larger and open end
outwards, and with its smaller end adjacent to the boss 6, with an intervening
washer 9. The smaller end of each piece 7, has a squared centre and can slide on
a squared end part 8, of the tube 2.
The spindle 1, projects at both ends through the tube 2, and beyond the open
end of each piece 7, there is mounted fast on the spindle a grooved or toothed
driving wheel or pulley 10, having a tubular hub 11, which projects within the
open mouth of the piece 7, Each tubular hub is formed or fitted with one or more
tangential or outwardly extending levers 12.
Upon either of the handles 5, being turned on its screwed part 4, of the tube 2,
in the proper 'direction, the bell mouthed piece 7, is forced against the outer ends
of the lever or levers 12, and causes the same to revolve and press the wheel 10, to
which the motion is imparted, and is continuous so long as the said pressure is
maintained, and can be further communicated by any suitable means to where
required to be utilized.
A reverse direction of motion is obtained by the reverse turning of the other
handle 5.
IMPROVEMENTS IN EGG Cups
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Cook at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1883. .
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WILLIAM COOK of Headless Cross in the County of Worcester, Tool Maker
"IMPROVEMENTS IN EGG Cups"
This Invention consists in forming round the inside of the egg cup a groove or
sinking into which is inserted a ring of solid or tubular India rubber or other
elastic material, so that upon placing the egg within the cup this elastic ring grips
the sides of the egg and holds it within the cup. Thus various sized eggs will fit
the same cup, and the awkwardness of having the egg smaller than the cup is
avoided.
Instead of the continuous ring, several small pieces or balls of elastic material
may be placed within the groove to hold the egg at several points, or in some cases
metal springs may be used.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR STARTING TRAMWAY CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Gommell and Thomas Archibald
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th June 1883.
JOHN GEMMELL and THOMAS ARCHIBALD, both of Paisley, in the County of
Renfrew, "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR STARTING TRAMWAY CARS AND
OTHER VEHICLES
"
The object of this Invention is to provide means for starting tramway cars and
other vehicles and lessening the burden at starting on the horses, or on the motive
power engines employed to draw such vehicles.
'
The starting of the car is effected by the pull of the horses, or of the hauling
engine on the draw bar of the car or vehicle, but instead of having to drag the car
direct at starting, the pull on the draw bar is primarily communicated to a lever
acting on the wheel axle to turn the wheels and so give motion to the car before
the pull of the horses or hauling engine is directly applied.
•
The draw bar instead of being directly attached to the car is fitted to slide in
roller bearings or other bearings between stops, and it extends some distance under
the platform of the car. A wheel or pulley is fitted on a stud at the inner end of
the draw bar, and around this pulley passes a chain or wire rope which at one end
is attached to a fixed hook or catch below the car frame, and at the other to the
end of a lever fitted loosely on one of the axles as a centre. On the same axle is
keyed or fixed a ratchet wheel into whose teeth engages a pawl which is hung on
the lever referred to.
When the car is being started, the draw-bar is drawn outwards to the extent of
a few inches, against the power of a counterweight or spring, and acting through
the chain or wire rope, it draws over the lever acting on the ratchet wheel. The
nction of the lever is to cause the axle to turn, and with it the car wheels on that
axle, whereby the car is started or moved forward to a certain extent. The
continued pull on the draw bar after such bar is fully drawn out, and the car has
been started, is directly applied to the car itself.
When the actuating lever has travelled to its full extent, and has set the car
wheels in motion, the ratchet pawl is raised out of contact with the ratchet wheel

page_text: by means of a counterweight, and the lever and other parts of the starting devices
are kept out of action, by a pin or catch which may be depressed by the driver to
bering back the drawbar and netuating lever to the requisite position for starting
anew.
In the case of tramway cars or vehicles which are provided with draw bars at
each end, the starting devices may be duplicated.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS VALVES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Coley at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th February 1883.
HENRY COLEY, of Mansion House Chambers, Queen Victoria Street, in the
City of London, Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS VALVES"
My invention has for object to effect in a gas valve closing of the valve against
its seat in an efficient way by simple means not liable to derangement, and
such as will offer no obstruction in the passage for gas when the valve is open. To
this end the valve is according to my invention furnished with a lever that
partakes of the movement of the valve and as the valve approaches the closed
position one end of this lever comes opposite an abutment formed with or attached
to the valve casing, and the other end is forced inward so that an intermediate
part of the lever is caused to act against the valve at or near its centre and to
press it home to its seat. The valve may be operated by a rack and pinion or by
a screw. When using a rack and pinion according to one arrangement a part of
the pinion acting on an inclined part of the lever will cause it to press the valve
to its seat as stated above-but various arrangements for this purpose may be
constructed to operate on the principle of my invention as above set forth.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TRIMMING GRAIN, SALT, AND OTHER LIKE SUBSTANCES IN THE HOLDS OF SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Holt at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 24th March 1883.
HENRY HOLT of Rawtenstall in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR TRIMMING GRAIN, SALT, AND OTHER LIKE SUBSTANCES IN THE
HOLDS OF SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS."
The object of my Invention is to trim the grain so as to bring it to the foot of
an elevator that the feed may be more regular and continuous.
In performing my Invention I mount a shaft in bearings fixed to the combing
of the ships hatchway: this shaft is driven from the steam winch or any other
motor by a detachable chain or in other convenient manner.
Another chain pulley is fixed to this shaft which drives a counter shaft carried
in bearings with universal joints and temporarily secured to the deck beams of the
hold in which is the grain to be trimmed.-On this counter shaft is a bush free to
swivel to which a tube in one or more pieces to alter its length is screwed or
secured; the lower end of the tube is provided with a forked end and carries a
short shaft forming the end of the trimmer or creeper: on this shaft is secured a
chain wheel which is driven by a detachable chain from the counter shaft.
The trimmers are made with a light frame in convenient lengths and provided at
each end with a shaft upon each of which shafts are secured one or more chain
wheels: a detachable chain (or chains) is placed on the wheels with light blades
secured to it and forms an endless band and when set in motion the under side
will scrape the grain in the direction required.
These trimmers can be placed one at the end of another according to the length
required.
By means of a short detachable chain and wheels the first trimmer will drive the
second and so on through any number of trimmers.
By means of ropes and pulleys secured overhead to the deck beams the trimmers
can be suspended and may be easily raised and lowered as required.
This arrangement may be worked on each side of the hold from the same shaft
over the hatchway.
I have described the trimmers driven by means of detachable chains but other
gearing may be used to convey power to the trimmers.
IMPROVED MEANS AND APPLIANCE TO FACILITATE TRAM CARS PASSING << POINTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Rettie at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 13th March 1883.
JAMES RETTIE of 27 Kirby Street, Hatton Garden in the County of Middlesex
[Engineer]
"IMPROVED MEANS AND APPLIANCE TO FACILITATE TRAM CARS PASSING
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POINTS
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The object of this Invention is to enable tram cars to be passed over points by
mechanical means capable of being acted upon by the driver without leaving his
foot board or his attention being withdrawn from the horse or horses which he
may be driving.
The Invention consists in arranging a small wheel to a rising and lowering or
rock frame under the car so that the small wheel which has a flange on its outer
side can engage with and ride against the outer edge of the tram rail at the part
where the "point" is situate.
I prefer that the frame be furnished with a spring which shall return it to
its normal position when pressure is removed which pressure can be produced by
the driver pressing his foot on a plate.
Where points are arranged for curves running in opposite directions a wheel
can be fitted at each corner of the car to enable the driver to direct his car in the
proper direction. Instead of the small wheel before mentioned any kind of guide
can be fitted to answer the same purpose the guide being removable from contact
with the rail substantially by the same appliance or means as described for the
small wheel.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS COOKING STOVES AND BURNERS FOR BOILING OR HEATING BY GAS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Allen at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 9th January 1883.
JAMES ALLEN of Addington Lodge Crouch Hill in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS COOKING STOVES AND BURNERS FOR BOILING OR HEATING
BY GAS."
This invention has for its object improvements in gas cooking stoves and
burners for boiling or heating by gas.
In order to avoid the waste which arises from gas being left burning when the
pot or cooking vessel or thing to be heated is taken off or removed I provide an
automatic contrivance for closing the gas tap. I also provide a lighting contrivance
to relight the gas as soon as it is turned on. The gas is turned on and off by
means of a lever provided with gear teeth engaging with a toothed quadrant
or other contrivance upon the plug of the gas tap. By a weight or spring the
lever when free is made to assume a position in which it closes the tap. The
lever arms then project above the stand for the pot or other thing to be heated
and consequently when the pot or thing is placed upon the stand the lever is
moved, and the gas tap opened.
The lighting contrivance is a small tube passing from behind the gas tap to the
burner and terminating in a fine perforation at which a small flame constantly
burns.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GALVANIC BATTERIES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Theodore Dawson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th April 1883.
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WILLIAM EDWARD THEODORE DAWSON of N° 7 Jeffreys Square in the City of
London "IMPROVEMENTS IN GALVANIC BATTERIES
"
My invention has for its object the preparation of zinc electrodes for galvanic
batteries in such manner as to greatly increase the durability of the plates and to
render the battery more constant.
For this purpose, according to one method, I provide the zinc plate with an electro
deposited coating of mercury, such electro deposit being effected in any known
manner, such as by immersing the zinc plate in a solution of mercury or salts of
mercury, and passing a galvanic current through it.
According to another method, I effect the coating of the zinc plate with mercury
by the use of mercury vapour, which may be conveniently effected by enclosing
the plates in a chamber into which mercury vapour produced by heating mercury
is introduced, and thus becomes deposited in metallic form on the plates.
In using such zinc plates (amalgamated with an electro deposit of inercury, or with
mercury deposited from vapour,) in a galvanic battery, it is advisable to have
mercury in some convenient form in the cell containing the zinc.
Process for Providing Pieces of Compressed Gun Cotton, Compressed Nitrated Wood, or other Cellulose with a Coating by Treatment with a Medium acting as Solvent of or to the same.
Year: 1883

page_text: Process for Providing Pieces of Compressed Gun Cotton,
Compressed Nitrated Wood, or other Cellulose with a
Coating by Treatment with a Medium acting as
Solvent of or to the same.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Friedrich Carl Glaser at the Office
A communication
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th August 1883.
from Wilhelm Friedrich Wolff, a person resident at Walsrode and Max von
Förster, a person resident at Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of
Germany.
FRIEDRICH CARL GLASER, of Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of.
Germany, Engineer and Patent Solicitor, "A PROCESS FOR WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY
PROVIDING PIECES OF COMPRESSED GUN COTTON, COMPRESSED NITRATED WOOD, OR
OTHER CELLULOSE WITH A COATING BY TREATMENT WITH A MEDIUM ACTING AS A
SOLVENT OF OR TO THE SAME A communication from Wilhelm Friedrich Wolff
a person resident at Walsrode and Max Von Förster a person resident at Berlin, in
the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of Germany.
If pieces of compressed gun cotton, compressed nitrated wood, or other cellulose
are laid or steeped in liquids which dissolve them (acetic ether, nitro-benzole and
others) and are then taken out and dried, a firm coating of the dissolved material
is formed over the piece.
A dipping of about half a minute in duration is sufficient, for example, to provide
a piece of gun cotton. with a coating half a millimetre thick.
This coating may be obtained both upon dry and wet pieces, and presents the
advantage of protection against scaling or peeling; further, in the case of dry
pieces the penetration of moisture is very much delayed or entirely prevented, and
in the case of wet pieces the evaporation of the moisture present is very much
delayed. In addition to which the coating protects against the formation of
fungus.
The pieces may be partially instead of wholly coated by the fluid in which they
are soluble and the remainder coated in another manner or left uncoated.
IMPROVEMENTS IN VELOCIPEDES, AND IN RENDERING THEM EASILY CONVERTIBLE INTO EITHER BICYCLES OR TRICYCLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Robinson Crawford and
Joseph King at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th April
1883.
HENRY ROBINSON CRAWFORD and JOSEPH KING, both of the Town and County
of the Town of Nottingham, Bicycle Manufacturers, " IMPROVEMENTS IN
VELOCIPEDES, AND IN RENDERING THEM EASILY CONVERTIBLE INTO EITHER
BICYCLES OR TRICYCLES,"
This Invention has principally for its object the rendering of bicycles easily
convertible into tricycles, so that they may be used either as a bicycle or a tricycle
as desired and also to render such converted velocipedes safer and less liable to
be overturned by stones or obstacles than at present constructed.
The Invention mainly consists in fitting the hind wheel of a bicycle in a forked
piece which is fixed to the "back bone" of the bicycle so that it may be easily
detached, and a cross piece carrying two wheels is substituted for the forked piece
carrying the single wheel when it is desired to convert the bicycle into a tricycle.
Each end of this cross piece fits into a socket on a forked piece so that the forked
piece may turn thereon. The two forked pieces carry a wheel each and suitable
springs act upon the forked pieces so that whenever a wheel encounters an unusual
obstacle that forked piece carrying the wheel may give slightly or turn backwards
and enable the wheel to pass such obstacle without inconvenience to or throwing
off the rider. The pressure of the spring quickly causes the forked piece to return
to its normal position. The forked piece carrying the hind wheel of a bicycle may.
be arranged to fit on one end of the cross piece so that only one other forked piece
and wheel will be required for converting the velocipedes into a tricycle. In some
cases the 'hind wheel of the bicycle may be made removable from its forked piece
so as to be capable of being used in the forked piece attached to the cross piece
of the tricycle; and also, if found desirable either of the forked pieces on the
cross piece may be arranged for attachment to the "back bone" piece of a
bicycle.
IMPROVEMENTS IN BATTING GLOVES USED IN THE GAME OF CRICKET
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Burbery at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 25th January 1883.
GEORGE BURBERY of Congleton in the County of Chester, Manufacturer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BATTING GLOVES USED IN THE GAME OF CRICKET
"
My invention relates to an improved construction of batting gloves for protecting
the user against injury from balls which may strike the hands when playing the
game of cricket.
Such gloves have hitherto been made with pieces of india rubber cemented on to
the back of the fingers of one glove, and back part of the hand of the other glove,
but these pieces of india rubber are liable to become detached and tend to stiffen
the gloves which are not sufficiently elastic to the movements of the hands.
My invention consists in quilting those parts of the gloves which are to be
protected, that is, forming such parts of two folds of leather with pieces of india
rubber placed lengthway or across the hand and finger parts, quilted or stitched
between them, then the parts are sewn together to form the glove.
The india rubber pieces or strips are moulded to the proper form and those for
the back of the hand are or may be moulded in one piece of ribbed india rubber.
In some cases, the india rubber strips are or may be tubular.
Gloves constructed according to my invention will stand wear and tear better give
more protection from injury and be less stiff and more free, to the movements of
the hands and fingers, than those of ordinary construction.
AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER SLIDE GASALIERS OR GAS CHANDELIERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Soutter, the younger, and
Thomas Edkins at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st May
1883.
WILLIAM SOUTTER the younger of the firm of William Soutter and Sons of
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Chandelier Manufacturers and THOMAS
EDKINS of Birmingham aforesaid Chaser "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS
IN WATER SLIDE GASALIERS OR GAS CHANDELIERS
"
The object of our invention is to provide means for ascertaining when the water
in the water slide of the gasalier or gas chandalier requires replenishing in order
to prevent the escape of gas and consequent explosion by a deficiency of water in
the said water slide.
This object we effect by combining substantially in the manner herein after
described with the gasalier or gas chandelier a safety water level indicator or small
water chamber in communication with the water slide by an inspection of which
indicator the safety level of the water in the water slide can be ascertained.
The said safety water level indicator or small water chamber consists of a tubular
case open at top and bottom the ends of the said case being contracted and made
of metal and the middle part of glass or other transparent material. This tubular
case is fixed outside and at about the middle of the sliding outer tube of the
gasalier or gas chandelier by soldering or otherwise fixing its metallic ends to the
said sliding tube. That part of the sliding tube around which the case is fixed is
perforated with a hole or holes. There is thus combined with the sliding tube of
the gasalier a safety water level indicator or small water tight chamber which is
in communication by means of the holes or perforations described with the water
slide the height of the water in the said indicator being seen through the glass or
transparent middle portion of the said indicator.
When the water slide of the gasalier is filled with water the safety water level
indicator on the external sliding tube is also filled with water and so long as the
said indicator remains filled there is a sufficiency of water in the water slide.
When however the level of the water sinks below the glass or transparent part of
the indicating chamber described the absence of water in the said chamber indicates

page_text: that the water slide requires refilling. Thus by an inspection of the indicator
from time to time the safety water level of the water slide can be readily
ascertained.
The safety water level indicator described may be made of an ornamental
character and although we prefer to solder it by its metallic ends to the sliding tube
of the gasalier yet it may be connected to the said sliding tube in other ways
which we do not think it necessary here to describe.
Our invention may be applied to existing gasalier or gas chandeliers at a small
cost
OR IMPROVED APPARATUS IN CONNECTION WITH PORTER PUMPS OR COCKS FOR THE PURPOSE OF COOLING OR WARMING BEER OR OTHER LIQUORS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Michael Cleary at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd June 1883.
MICHAEL CLEARY, of Dublin, Ireland, Practical Plumber, "NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS IN CONNECTION WITH PORTER PUMPS OR COCKS FOR THE PURPOSE
OF COOLING OR WARMING BEER OR OTHER LIQUORS"
In shops and stores wherein porter, beer, and other similar liquors are served
for consumption on the premises, the vessels containing same are usually placed
in cellars underneath, from which the liquors are drawn off by means of apparatus
known as porter machines fixed on the counters in the shops or stores. The
liquors as served from vessels thus stored are affected by heat in summer and cold
in winter; and the object of my Invention is to devise means for cooling or
warming the temperature of these liquors as may be desired.
This object I accomplish by arranging a tank or chamber around the most
suitable part of the porter machine, and cause the tubes or pipes between the
aforesaid vessels underneath and the porter machine to pass through same. In
this tank or chamber is placed, when it is desired to cool the liquor, cold water or
ice, or a circulation of water may be maintained through the tank or chamber, and
conversely, when it is desired to warm the liquor, a circulation of heated water
may be maintained; so that while the liquor is flowing from the vessels in the
cellar it passes through the tank or chamber thus arranged, and is affected by the
charge contained in same, and flows through the front cock or tap in the condition
(as to temperature) required.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING FOR THE STUFFING BOXES OF PISTON RODS AND OTHER RODS REQUIRING PACKING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Henry Smith and Robert
Marshall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th July 1883.
JAMES HENRY SMITH of N° 436 Euston Road in the County of Middlesex and
ROBERT MARSHALL of N° 2 Maidstone Villas, Earlham Grove in the County of
Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING FOR THE STUFFING BOXES OF PISTON
RODS AND OTHER RODS REQUIRING PACKING"
According to our present invention we construct packing for the stuffing boxes
of piston and other rods of rings or coils of either metal or other packing material,
whether hard or soft, through which rings or coils the rod passes, and we encircle
such packing rings with helical springs in tension, so that they tend to keep the
When the rings
rings or coils pressed tightly against the rod as the packing wears.
are of metal, they are ma te split and the joint is covered on the outside by a strip
of foil or other material. The rings are either made to fit steam .tight upon each
other, or they may have a dise of soft packing, asbestos-paper, or other material
interposed between them, and also between the end rings and the stuffing box and
gland. When the packing is of soft material, we first compress it by screwing
down the gland, so as to make the joints steam tight, and we then release
the gland slightly so as to allow the springs to press the packing inwards. As a
certain space intervenes between the inner wall of the stuffing box and the packing
rings, in which space the helical springs are contained, we utilise this space by
filling it with lubricating material.
When metal packing rings are used, we prefer to form a circular groove on the
outer surface of each ring, into which groove the helical spring fits, so as to insure
its always being kept in position.
The above improved packing has the advantages that it is kept steam tight with
the smallest amount of friction on the rod; that it is elastic and causes no undue;
strain at any point; that it is always uniform in fit and prevents all grooving or
cutting of the rod, and that it is automatic in its action, requiring no screwing up
of the gland after this is once screwed home.
IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Saint John Vincent Day at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th November 1883.
A communication to him from abroad by James Popham, of Montreal, in the
District of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Canada.
SAINT JOHN VINCENT DAY, of 115 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, North Britain, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BOOTS AND SHOES," [a communication to him from abroad by James Popham, of
Montreal, in the District of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Canada]
This Invention which relates to improvements in Boots and Shoes has for its
object the production of a strong, tight and durable seam therein.-The Invention
consists in forming the seams by overlapping the edges of the parts of Leather or
other material to be united and applying a line of rivets, of copper or other suitable
metal, through such overlapped portions and a line of stitching on each side of the
said line of rivets.-The lines of stitching are preferably run along the edges of the
overlapped portions, after which the rivets are driven through both thicknesses
thus completing the seam; the stitching preventing the edges of the Leather, or
other material, from turning up and the continuous line of rivets strengthening the
joint.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF ACTING FLUSHING APPARATUS FOR " FLUSHING SEWERS DRAINS WATER CLOSETS AND THE LIKE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Richard Palmer at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st May 1883.
EDWARD RICHARD PALMER of Beckenham in the County of Kent Builder and
Sanitary Engineer IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF ACTING FLUSHING APPARATUS FOR
"
FLUSHING SEWERS DRAINS WATER CLOSETS AND THE LIKE
"
This invention relates to a simple and effectual arrangement of self acting
flushing apparatus capable of being adjusted or regulated so as to come into action
at any required period and consists in the use in combination together of a flushing
tank of any required dimensions a hydraulic sealed syphon flushing.pipe in connec
tion with the said tank and a peculiarly arranged self acting ball tap or valve
which is caused to operate in a manner the reverse of ball taps or valves usually
employed that is to say so arranged as that when the lever is down the supply is
reduced to a minimum and the flow gradually increased in volume as the ball rises.
The original position of the float lever is governed or regulated by an adjusting
screw acting upon the said lever so as to allow of any desired comparatively small
flow of water into the tank (according to the intervals at which the flush is to
be effected) whilst the float is down. So soon as the level of the water begins to
lift the float the flow gradually increases until the lever has arrived at or about a
horizontal position when the flow is greatest thereby starting the syphon flush by
the rapid rise of the water level. As the flushing tank empties the descent of the
lever gradually shuts off the supply until the ball cock or valve resumes its normal
action the operations being repeated automatically at any regulated intervals of
time. This apparatus is obviously applicable either to the flushing of sewers water
closets or other sanitary appliances but as applied to sewers I prefer to construct
the flushing tank above the sewer itself the bottom of the tank forming the arch
of the sewer at or near the manhole but I do not confine or restrict myself to this
particular manner of constructing the flushing tank,
PREPARATION OF A FOOD FOR INFANTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Nathaniel Edward Davies at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st August 1883.
NATHANIEL EDWARD DAVIES of Sherborne in the County of Dorset Physician
and Surgeon THE PREPARATION OF A FOOD FOR INFANTS
Fresh milk of cows to be in the first instance deprived of all cream or fatty
matter by means of a separator.
Ta anasu thousand parts of the milk thus deprived of all fatty matter is to be
added
of Cream
of Sugar of milk (lactose)
of Chloride of Sodium (Common salt)
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15 Thousands
12 Thousands
1 Thousand
and the whole to be condensed to one fourth of its original bulk. The product to
be preserved in air tight bottles pots or tins.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN BOGIE TRUCKS FOR LOCOMOTIVES AND THE ROLLING STOCK OF RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas English at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 9th August 1883.
THOMAS ENGLISH of Hawloy near Dartford in the County of Kent. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOGIE TRUCKS FOR LOCOMOTIVES AND THE ROLLING STOCK OF
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS
"
According to my invention, the two or four wheeled bogio frame of locomotives
and other vehicles is extended in the direction of the rigid wheel base of the
locomotive or other vehicle, and is pivotted thereto by a vertical pin so placed as
to guide the bogio axles so as to be approximatoly radial to any curve of the
railway or tramway, the bogie frane baing at the same time so arranged as to
have a tendency to return to its normal position, with its axles parallel to the
axles of the rigid wheel base.
For this purpose, there is mounted on the middle of the bogie frame a vertical
volute or belical spring, the plunger of which is free to twist round and is
provided at its upper end with a horizontal bearing in which it carries the middle
part of a strong bar, curved or arched downwards on either side of the said
bearing and lying in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The
bar is free to turn and also to slide somewhat in the said bearing, and its two ends,
being formed into gudgeons, are fitted into bearings on the rigid frame of the
vehicle, so that the gudgeons carry that part of the weight of the vehicle which
comes upon the bogie. When the bogie moves laterally upon its pivot, so as to
bring its axles into a position more or less radial to the curve of the rails, the
middle bearing of the arched bar is also carried sideways by the bogio, while the
end gudgeons remain in the axial line of the vehicle. The bar is thus mado to
assume an inclined position, and consequently raises the weight carried by the
bogie through a distanco corresponding to the versed sine of the vertical angle
swept through by the bar, the result being that the load, which is in its lowest
position when the bogio is central, in tending to regain this position when the
bogio is moved sideways, will consequently also tend to bring the bogio back into
its central position.
AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SHADE HOLDERS OR FRAMES FOR GAS AND OTHER LAMPS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Henry Stone at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th June 1883.
JAMES HENRY STONE trading as Benton and Stone of Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manufacturer "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN SHADE
HOLDERS OR FRAMES FOR GAS AND OTHER LAMPS "
My invention has reference to shade holders or frames used principally for
supporting paper shades over gas and other lamps and my said invention consists in
constructing and arranging the parts of the said shade holders or frames in the
manner hereinafter described.
In the said shade holders or frames as ordinarily made their parts are rigidly
connected together the bulk of the said holders or frames occasioning great incon-
venience in storing them or packing them for transit.
By my invention the said holders or frames are made collapsable so that all their
parts can be brought into the same or nearly the same plane and hence the said
holders or frames can be made to occupy a small space for storing and packing for
transit.
In constructing a shade holder or frame according to my invention I make the
holder or frame of two ring like metallic parts of different diameters the larger
ring like part constituting the base of the holder and the smaller ring like part the
top of the holder. These ring like parts are made preferably of wire and may
either have a circular figure or a hexagonal or other angular figure.
The said ring
like parts of the holder or frame are connected together at equi distant points by
chains or other flexible connections. When the holder or frame has a hexagonal or
other angular figure I prefer to connect the chains to the angles of the said holder
or frame These chains or flexible connections may be secured to loops on the
smaller ring like part and made to engage with hooks on the larger ring like part
of the frame or holder. When the holder or frame is in use the two ring like
parts are preserved at the distance apart permitted by the flexible connections by
means of rods affixed to the gas or other lamp. When not in use the small ring
like part of the holder or frame may be made to lie within the base or larger part
the flexible connections of the two parts permitting of the collapsing of the holder
or frame and when so collapsed the two parts together with the chains are situated
nearly in the same plane and may thus be packed into a flat parcel for carriage or
transit or for storing
AN IMPROVED PACKING FOR PIPE AND OTHER JOINTS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eugene Marechal of Liège in the kingdom of Belgium,
but at present of N° 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane in the
county of Middlesex for an Invention of AN IMPROVED PACKING FOR PIPE
AND OTHER JOINTS
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugene Marechal at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th May 1883.
EUGENE MARECHAL of Liége in the Kingdom of Belgium, but at present of
N° 28 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex
IMPROVED PACKING FOR PIPE AND OTHER JOINTS
"
"AN
My invention relates to the production of a packing for pipe and other joints
composed of Minium, White lead, Hair and Linseed Oil, these substances being
employed by preference in the following proportions:
Minium from pure lead 55
Pure White lead
38
per cent.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Eugene Marechal in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th October
1883.
EUGENE MARECHAL of Liège in the kingdom of Belgium, but a present of
No 28 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the county of Middlesex. AN
IMPROVED PACKING FOR PIPE AND OTHER JOINTS
"
*
My invention relates to the production of a packing for pipe and other joints,
composed of Minium, White Lead, Hair and Linseed Oil, these substances being
employed by preference in the following proportions :-
Minium from Pure Lead. 55
Pure White Lead
Cow Hair
Purified Linseed Oil
"
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per cent
38
"
"
1.25 "
"3
5.75
"
"
100.
The ingredients are thoroughly incorporated under a heavy grinding roller. The
packing thus produced, known as Marechals packing for jointing" is more
efficacious than ordinary white or red lead packing or even india rubber or asbestos
paper, while, at the same time, it is very inexpensive, easy of application and has
the advantage of keeping a long time in jars without deteriorating.
Having thus described the nature of my invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, I claim,
The manufacture of packing for pipe and other joints, substantially as herein
described.
In Witness whereof I the said Eugene Marechal have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twenty third day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand,
eight hundred and eighty three.
TTTA
SET TO T
IMPROVEMENTS IN LATCHES FOR DOORS, CUPBOARDS, WINDOWS AND THE LIKE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis Gascoigne Lynde at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th June 1883.
FRANCIS GASCOIGNE LYNDE of Melton Mowbray in the County of Leicester
Civil Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN LATCHES FOR DOORS, CUPBOARDS, WINDOWS
AND THE LIKE
My invention relates to latches for doors, cupboards, windows and the like and
the object of my Invention is to dispense with the use of springs in latches and
instead to actuate the bolt by means of a weight or lever
To accomplish this when my Invention is applied to a door, I fit to the door or
the door case or frame a metal box at the back of which is formed an inclined
plane. A slot is made in the front of the box and a ball partly projects through
this slot and takes into a catch plate with a hole in it fixed on the edge of the
door or on the door frame as may be required and thus acts as the bolt or latch.
As the ball projects less than half its diameter when the door is pushed or
pulled the side strain on the ball causes it to travel up the inclined plane and so
gradually withdraws it from the catch-plate as soon as the edge of the door is
passed, the ball drops down again. The edge of the striking plate on the door
or frame may be bevelled so as to make the motion easier when the door is
being shut.
In a modification of my Invention I employ a hinged or pivoted lever with a
weighted handle or handles at one end. The other end of this lever rests in a
slot cut in an angular direction through or partly through the bolt. When the
handle is raised the bolt is drawn back and the door may be opened and when the
handle is allowed to fall the bolt is shot forward and the door fastened. The
pivoted lever may pass through the slot in the bolt and bo provided with a handle
for use on the other side of the door.
A vertical or horizontal instead of an angular slot may be cut in the bolt and
the lever placed at an angle, if more convenient or a handle or handles may be
attached to a spindle on which is a cam working in the slot in the bolt. When
the handles are allowed to fall their weight forces the bolt out and when the
handles are raised the cam withdraws the bolt.
A PROCESS FOR CLEANING, BEAUTIFYING, BLEACHING, OR RENOVATING SPONGE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Ford Elms, Jacob Hugh
Payne and Frederick Richard Nurthen at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents on the 26th April 1883.
ROBERT FORD ELMS of Baker Street Portman Square, JACOB HUGH PAYNE of
Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, and FREDERICK RICHARD NURTHEN of the Strand
all in the County of Middlesex " A PROCESS FOR CLEANING, BEAUTIFYING,
BLEACHING, OR RENOVATING SPONGE
"
This invention has for its object a process for cleaning beautifying bleaching or
renovating sponge without acting detrimentally to the sponge but tending to
strengthen and preserve it.
The elements for the purpose consist of chemical solutions contained in baths of
a convenient number.
The solutions for the said purpose consist of
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1. Hyposulphite of soda.
2. Carbonate of soda.
3. Per-manganate of potash.
4. Chloride of sodium
5. Muriatic acid.
and then ablution as may be desired.
The above elements are each diluted with water and each solution contained in
a separate bath and the sponges dipped therein in proper order.
MENTS IN TELEPHONIC APPARATUS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Maximilian Betts at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th June 1883.
JOHN MAXIMILIAN BETTS of Edmonton in the County of Middlesex
MENTS IN TELEPHONIC APPARATUS
»
"IMPROVE-
According to my present invention I construct telephonic apparatus as follows.
Within a casing or framework is arranged a curved or bent spring or rod carrying
a bar or core of iron or steel on which is a coil of insulated wire, the core being
either a permanent magnet, or the core and coil together constitute an electro-
magnet, and opposite the one pole of the core is either a second electro-magnet or
simply an armature. The spring is made to press or to pull with its end or ends
or with any part thereof against a disc or diaphragin which is attached to the
casing in any manner that will allow it to vibrate when a person speaks in close
contiguity therewith. On the vibration of the disc in consequence of such speech
the spring is slightly bent and is thereby caused to move the electro-magnet to or
from the armature or second electro-magnet, and such motion of the electro-magnet
will cause a correspondingly fluctuating electric current to be produced in the coil,
which is transmitted, through the line wire. Or conversely, a fluctuating current
passing from the distant station through the coil, will cause the electro-magnet to
approach to or recede from the armature or second electro-magnet, and, in thus
bending the spring, will produce corresponding vibrations in the disc or diaphragm.
The arrangement of the spring and electro-magnets may be variously modified,
thus the spring may be formed as a complete loop, with one or more electro-
magnets fixed opposite each other on each side of the loop, or there may be one or
more electromagnets on one side and corresponding armatures on the other side, or
there may be two separate springs. Or again in place of a spring may be
employed a combination of levers so arranged that on imparting motion to one
part or point thereof by the vibrations of the disc, the electro magnet or electro-
magnets carried thereby will be moved to and from their armatures or opposite
electromagnets.
The disc or diaphragm may be of metal or any other material that will vibrate
when spoken against or that will give out sound by vibrations when actuated by
the spring ar lever.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SORTING OR SIFTING GREEN MALT
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frank Wirth at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 10th December 1883. A communication
from Georg Stein, a person resident at Mühlheim, in the Palatinate of the
Rhine, Germany.
FRANK WIRTH of the firm of Wirth and Company, Patent Solicitors at
Frankfort-on-the Main, in the Empire of Germany
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES
FOR SORTING OR SIFTING GREEN MALT [a communication from Georg Stein, a
person resident at Mühlheim, in the Palatinate of the Rhine, Germany]
.
This Invention relates to a malt sorter or sifter and is designed for separating
from the mass of malt those grains that have not sufficiently germinated.
The operation is effected by passing the malt over a vibrating screen having
openings of peculiar form which permit of the passage of the latter grains while
the former by reason of being specifically lighter pass on over the surface of the
screen
The malt is placed in a happer at one end of the screen and falls upon a
vibrating board extending about half the length of the screen frame the remaining
half being formed by a metal plate having oblong rectangular holes formed in it by
three incisions and the bending down of the metal lying within the same to an angle
of about 45°. The combined vibrating board and screen which is supported in a
suitable frame is provided with raised sides to prevent the malt falling off, and is
operated by a crank shaft and suitable gearing at one end. At the other end the
screen is suspended by springs from a cross bar or yoke attached to the machine
frame.
In operation the well germinated malt being specifically lighter passes away over
the holes in the screen and is received in suitable receptacles
By means of this apparatus the ungerminated grains which are unsuitable for
brewing may be conveniently and effectually seperated from the good malt and
utilized for another purpose, for example, for distilleries or as fodder for cattle &