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IMPROVEMENTS IN TREADLES FOR FOOT OR HAND POWER
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Frank Seeland at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1876.
FREDERICK FRANK SEELAND, of Waltham's Buildings, Holborn Circus, in the
City of London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREADLES FOR FOOT OR HAND POWER."
It consists of a straight or curved rod illustrated in the accompanying Drawing
and indicated by the letters A, A, fastened at one end by a hinge or moveable
joint (B) to the under part of a bench, table, or other object, or to the floor, and
At the end of
connected with the apparatus for which the treadle is to be used.
the rod is a stirrup, or handle, or foot rest (K) which however may be of any other
Where
shape. The rod is connected with the wheel by a crank shewn at point F.
the crank comes in contact with the rod there is a slot, indicated at D, D, equal in
length to or longer than the diameter of the circle described by the crank F when
revolving. The rod is held in connection with the crank by being placed between
a revolving washer in two parts, shewn as G, G, and H, H, and secured outside by a
nut (S). If desired two such rods and cranks may be connected with the apparatus,
and thus both feet or hands can work simultaneously.
I claim for my Invention the following amongst other advantages,-
1. Steadiness of the body of the operator, as the only part of the body employed
in the treadle for foot use is from the knee joint downwards.
2. Greater facility and power of motion and control of the wheel.
3. Simplicity of construction, noiselessness, and non-liability to get out of order.
4. Adaptability to all kinds of machinery worked by hand or foot, such for
instance as sewing machines, lathes, bicycles, &c.
A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD FOR PRODUCING HAND OR ENDORSING STAMPS AT LESS EXPENSE THAN BY THE PRESENT PROCESS OF CUTTING THE LETTERING AND FIGURING UPON METAL
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Rowland George Foot at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th May 1876.
"
ROWLAND GEORGE FOOT, 7, The Crescent, Upton Manor, nr West Ham, Essex.
"A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD FOR PRODUCING HAND OR ENDORSING STAMPS
AT LESS EXPENSE THAN BY THE PRESENT PROCESS OF CUTTING THE LETTERING
AND FIGURING UPON METAL"
By adapting the ordinary process of electrotyping and stereotyping to hand or
endorsing stamps, by compiling type either in metal bands or otherwise as may be
necessary to produce the required device, and by mounting electrotypes or stereo-
types of same on handles or frames, or otherwise substituting an electrotype or
stereotype for the cut or carved metal plate commonly used bearing the device or
design to bo stamped.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR FORCING THE WOOL OR OTHER FIBRE INTO THE CIRCLE OF NOBLE'S AND OTHER COMBS
Year: 1876

page_text: .PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Eastwood at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th July 1876.
JOHN EASTWOOD, of Spring Gardens, Bradford, in the County of York, Machine
Wool Comber. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR FORCING
THE WOOL OR OTHER FIBRE INTO THE CIRCLE OF NOBLE'S AND OTHER COMBS."
The object of my Invention is to push the wool or other fibre into the comb
without the aid of the dabbing or any other brushes, thus obviating the irregularity
of the comb's revolution, and also facilitating the speeding of combs beyond what is
possible with the dabbing brushes in use.
I accomplish this in the following manner :-From a reservoir of compressed air,
or the outlet from a continuous blast or blower, I push the wool or other fibre into
the combs, which effect has hitherto been accomplished by the dabbing brush. In
the event of any fibres not being sufficiently deep into the comb I use as an
auxiliary to my improved method a knife or series of knives shaped to the circle
fixed in the position represented by an inclined plane forcing the remaining fibres,
if any, into the comb.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR WATCHES AND CLOCKS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Thornton Bintley at the Oflice of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th March 1876.
JOHN THORNTON BINTLEY, of Beckenham, in the County of Kent, Civil Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR WATCHES AND CLOCKS."
The object of this Invention is the economical prevention of the entry of dust,
grit, and other foreign matters into the interior of watches and clocks.
In carrying out my Invention as applied to a watch either the body of the watch.
or the case is so manufactured as to admit of the application of a band or ring of
any section of an elastic description, preferably of india-rubber, or one of the
preparations thereof, which band or ring 1 cement, insert, attach, or spring over,
upon, against, or between the closing faces of the back and front, that is to say, the
top and bottom domes or cither of them, or to the rim into which the glass is fixed,
in such a manner as to ensure compression, and thereby lateral expansion of the
band or ring by the action of the domes of the watch being closed, and so
effectually secure a joint perfectly dust, air, and water tight, and dispense with the
highly finished and expensive workmanship now necessary to accomplish a similar
object.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SAMPLE ENVELOPES AND BAGS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Arden Makin, Charles
Willoughby Lane Makin, and Benjamin Marcroft at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents on the 29th February 1876.
EDWARD ARDEN MAKIN, CHARLES WILLOUGHBY LANE MAKIN, and BENJAMIN
MARCROFT, all of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAMPLE
ENVELOPES AND BAGS."
The object of our Invention is to produce an envelope or sample bag containing
two pockets, so that a sample of produce and a letter or two samples can be sent
in one convenient and safe package economical as regards postage charges. For
that purpose I cut out from paper, cloth, or other suitable material, the blank in the
desired form, which is shown on the Drawing Fig. 1., herewith then gum the edges
1, 2, 3 and 4, double the part a over b, as shown in Fig. 2, and finally double the
parts a and b over c into the shape delineated in Fig. 3, whercon the flap of one
pocket is shown closed and the other open.
Our Invention consists essentially in cutting the desired form, in gumming and
folding the edges, and in doubling as described, leaving the flaps ready for use.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTING WRENCHES OR SPANNERS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Robert Lake at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th June 1876. A communication from
abroad by Edward Hartley Knight, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United
States of America.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTING WRENCHES OR
SPANNERS." A communication.
My Invention relates to a wrench in which the jaws are permitted to yield when
the handle is returned to its first position, in order to slide over the corners or
angles of the article to which it is applied preparatory to re-engagement with
another side or face thereof. It also comprises an adjustable jaw in combination
with a jaw fitted to a sliding bar, whereby the jaws may be adjusted relatively to
the thickness of the nut or other article to be grasped, and the sliding bar will be
engaged by a controlling lever always at the same shoulder or notch, regardless of
the thickness of the said nut or article. It further comprises a manner of applying the
head or journal of the adjusting screw to the supporting step; also the construction
of the hollow handle of the wrench. The movable jaw is adjustable relatively to
the fixed jaw by means of a screw fitted to the shank of said moveable jaw, and
swiveled to a step or stirrup which occupies a position at the upper end of the
handle.
The handle is hollow or partly hollow, and receives the end of the bar loosely
fitted therein; a spring which coils around the bar and engages with a shoulder on
the inner face of the handle, and with a pin, nut, or stop on the end of the bar,
draws the end of the bar within the hollow of the handle, and consequently draws
one jaw toward the other jaw.
On
To the lower end of the stirrup there is hinged a lever, which extends in the
direction of the length of the handle, and is forced out therefrom by the action of a
spring interposed between the handle and lever, or otherwise suitably applied.
the inner face of the lever there is a lug which projects horizontally, and passes
through an opening in the handle so as to engage with a shoulder on the face of the
bar within the said handle.
The handle is formed in sections fitted together by a screw thread joint, and the

page_text: upper section may have the stirrup cast with, welded, or attached to it; said stirrup
is partly hollow, and has near its upper portion a horizontally extending plate, in
which is a slot whereby the head of the screw may be fitted under said plate, its
neck being passed through the. slot, thus providing a proper bearing for the screw,
and serviceably connecting it to the stirrup.
MENTS IN GUN CARRIAGES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thorsten Nordenfelt at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1876. A communication from
abroad by Helge Palmerantz, Engineer, of Stockholm, Sweden.
IMPROVE-
THORSTEN NORDENFELT, Engineer, of St. Swithen's Lane, London.
MENTS IN GUN CARRIAGES." A communication from abroad by Helge Palmcrantz,
Engineer, of Stockholm, Sweden.
"
The object of this Invention is to construct a gun carriage or turret in such a
simple manner that guns of light calibre as well as all kinds of battery guns, such
as the Gatling, the Palmerantz, or other mitrailleuses can be mounted with great
rapidity and ready for immediate action upon the bulwarks of a boat or a vessel,
upon the ramparts of fortifications, or upon portable stands or any other similar
kind of support.
I propose to form my gun carriage out of a flat iron semicircular plate, with a
hollow projection or turret, either solid, bolted, or riveted to or near its centre, and
so fitted as to receive into such turret the pin or pivot of a cross piece or gudgeon,
the ends of which holds the bearings of the gun or mitrailleuse, to which can thus
be given a double motion, horizontal and vertical.
In the construction of my gun carriage I propose to employ an arm or lever so
placed with the one end of it upon the top of the turret that when the lever is
moved the gun moves in the same direction, and underneath the other end of which
lever is fixed a friction block of wood or any other suitable material, which block
rests upon and moves along the outer edge of the plate above-mentioned, so that
when the gun is required to be turned to the right or to the left the lever is moved
accordingly, the friction block retaining its freedom and sliding on the circular
plate until adjusted to any position that may be required, and should greater
accuracy be desired in pointing the gun I propose to employ two screws so adjusted
on the aforesaid lever as to give the gun a final adjustment in the horizontal or
perpendicular direction.
I would also propose to make the base plate of my gun carriage, should it be
found necessary, a complete circle, instead of a semicircle, so that when the gun is
fixed on fortifications, ramparts, or on portable or fixed stands or supports and
other such like positions, it can be moved all round and fired in any adjusted
position of the entire circle.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GLASS MIRRORS, ALSO APPLICABLE TO GLASS Facias, SIGN TABLETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Samuel Jackson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 4th February 1876. A. communication from
abroad by Henry Fletcher Joseph Jackson, of Berlin, in the Dominion of Canada.
SAMUEL JACKSON, of Number 66, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLASS MIRRORS, ALSO APPLICABLE TO GLASS Facias,
SIGN TABLETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES."
"
The Invention relates especially to improvements in the backings of quicksilvered
glass mirrors, but is also applicable to mirrors made with other backings, or to the
backings of glass facias or sign tablets for shop fronts, and other similar articles,
whereby their liability to damage is greatly lessened.
The Invention consists in covering the quicksilvered or other backing of the
mirror, or the painted, gilded, or otherwise treated back of the article with varnish
or other waterproof material, and with a coating of plaster of Paris or other similar
cement.
In some cases the coating of varnish or waterproof material interposed between
the cement and the back of the mirror or other article may be dispensed with, the
cement being in that case applied directly to the back of the inirror or other
article, or the varnish or waterproof material may be applied to the back of the
coating of cement, or both to the back of the cement and to the back of the mirror
or other article as may be preferred.
A MACHINE FOR COR- RUGATING, FLUTING, OR INDENTING IRON WIRE NOT ANNEALED FOR THE MANU- FACTURE OF DIAMOND-SHAPED LATTICE OR TRELLIS WORK."
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Pierre Joannès at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 15th June 1876.
PIERRE JOANNES, of Rue Sainté, 52, Marseilles, France. A MACHINE FOR COR-
RUGATING, FLUTING, OR INDENTING IRON WIRE NOT ANNEALED FOR THE MANU-
FACTURE OF DIAMOND-SHAPED LATTICE OR TRELLIS WORK."
I construct a machine composed of two upright flat-headed cast-iron supports,
upon which turn two cylinders placed one above the other, and kept in place by
means of two brass cushions or bearings. The two cylinders turn by means of two
serrated wheels attached to each. A cast-iron driving wheel is attached to the
lower cylinder in order to give force and regularity to the movement. At the
points of contact of the cylinders a brass cushion or bearing is adjusted, so as to
prevent friction with each other and the consequent wear and tear. The projecting
extremities of the cylinders beyond the cushions are arranged so that they can be
adjusted to the various corrugating, indenting, or fluting cog wheels, operating
directly upon the wire, and which are affixed according to the size of the wire mesh
required. Two indenting cog wheels of the same calibre and dimensions turn in
mortising one upon the other, and draw along in their rotary motion the wire to be
operated upon. The cog wheels are moveable and vary according to the size of
the lattice bar or wire to be used. There must invariably be two of these cog
wheels of the same calibre in order to obtain uniformity in size or shape, placed one
above the other perpendicularly to the centres of each. The indenting cog wheels
are of natural size, numbered in order and according to the size of mesh desired.
To make a lattice, the meshes of which shall be 12 millimeters (1/2 inch) in
width, two corrugating or indenting cog wheels having a space of eight millimetres
between the teeth must be used.
In changing a set of nine corrugating or indenting cog wheels nine different
sized meshes can be obtained, and so on to a mesh twelve centimetres (43/, inches)
in width.
All the corrugating indenting cog wheels are of cast steel in order to prevent
the breaking of the teeth, and that they may be able to resist the pressure of the
strongest wire, moreover, the wire not being annealed, this kind of lattice will be
harder and more solid.

page_text: The machine can be worked by hand or by steam, and the work produced
serving for the manufacture of lattices from wire not annealed, and quite distinct
in originality and tastefulness from any heretofore made can be employed for
enclosures, garden fences, aviaries, and such like uses, and of such great solidity and
strength that it is almost impossible to twist it out of shape.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CONDITIONING AND AGEING PRINTED FABRICS, AND IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Knowles, of Tottington Mills, near Bury, in the
County of Lancaster, Calico Printer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CONDITIONING AND AGEING PRINTED FABRICS, AND IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED
THEREIN."
Sealed the 12th January 1877, and dated the 8th November 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Knowles at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th November 1876.
SAMUEL KNOWLES, of Tottington Mills, near Bury, in the County of Lancaster,
Calico Printer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONDITIONING AND AGEING PRINTED FABRICS,
AND IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN."
My improvements in conditioning and ageing printed fabrics consist in forcing by
means of a fan or otherwise a current of air, either cold or heated, into the chamber.
through which the fabric to be operated upon is conveyed. This chamber may be
heated by steam chests or not as may be required. The fabric is traversed back-
wards and forwards in the chamber so as to expose it to the air for the required
time. It is then taken into an upper chamber and carried over and under guide
rollers. The air from the lower chamber enters the upper chamber through
openings. The vapours and gases which escape during the process are drawn off
by a fan or other equivalent.
When necessary, jets of steam may be introduced into the chambers to condition
the fabric or to accelerate the process of ageing.
MENTS IN HYDRO-EXTRACTORS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Coleby at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 17th July 1876.
THOMAS COLEBY, of the City of Manchester, Commission Agent.
MENTS IN HYDRO-EXTRACTORS."
"IMPROVE-
My Invention consists in so constructing hydro-extractors and adapting their
form to the nature of the different materials to be acted upon that the supply and
discharge are self-acting, or may be accomplished without stopping the machine.
"
In hydro-extractors working on a vertical spindle I propose to effect this by a
hollow shaft or other suitable channel through which the substances will be
supplied, and I adapt the shape of the machine so that the centrifugal force may
cause the substances acted upon to move up or down the sides and eventually to
escape, which escape may be regulated by a worm or guides attached to the shaft,
or by any other well known mechanical means, and I propose to construct these
machines in form either cylindrical or conical, and to drive the same either
vertically or horizontally as may be most convenient.
In adapting my improvements to the drying of fabrics I propose to construct a
series of revolving drums or reels on which the article is wound, and to bring
the same successively in contact with or remove from a continuously revolving
drum so as to give the required rotary motion to the fabric, or the motion is com-
municated by some other equivalent and suitable means. By this arrangement
much time is saved in supplying and removing the fabric and power is economised.
IMPROVEMENTS IN EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Peter Jensen at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 12th June 1876. A communication from
abroad by Adolphus William Wahlenberg, of Stockholm, Sweden.
PETER JENSEN, of Chancery Lane, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN EXPLOSIVE
COMPOUNDS." A communication from abroad by Adolphus William Wahlenberg, .
of Stockholm, Sweden.
According to this Invention explosive compounds are made of the following
substances, viz. mono- bi- or tri- nitro-benzole, chlorate of potash, and nitrated
alkalies, the latter being either in unmixed state or, by preference, treated ac-
cording to the mode described in the Specification filed with my application for
Provisional Protection of this days date.
This new explosive compound or compounds not containing nitro-glycerine
produces by its explosion an explosive power equal to or greater than that of nitro-
glycerine, especially if nitrate of ammonia is used amongst the nitrated alkalies;
this new compound possesses also the advantage over nitro-glycerine preparations
that it may be manufactured, transmitted, and used without any risk, as it has
been found to be non-explosive, except when firmly enclosed, and then only when
exposed to violent treatment or by means of a blow.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR LIFTING AND PROPELLING STILL AND AERATED LIQUIDS, AND FOR REGULATING THE PRESSURE OF STEAM, AIR, AND OTHER GASES OR FLUIDS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Bullough at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th April 1876.
WILLIAM HENRY BULLOUGH, of Blackburn, in tlie County of Lancaster, Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR LIFTING AND PROPELLING STILL AND AERATED
LIQUIDS, AND FOR REGULATING THE PRESSURE OF STEAM, AIR, AND OTHER GASES
OR FLUIDS."
My Invention is particularly applicable for lifting and propelling beer out of the
barrels without the aid of pumps, but it may be applied for various other purposes.
In applying my Invention for lifting and propelling beer I employ one or more
diaphragm valves, which are placed on a tank provided with water and pressure
guages, and I use the pressure of the water in the mains to compress the air in
the tank; the water passes first through the small diaphragm valve, then to the
tank, and then to the larger diaphragm valve; both the valves are acted upon by a
weighted lever, the fulcrum of which is between the two valves. The water com-
presses the air in the tank to the required extent. As soon as any beer is drawn
from the barrel a quantity of air enters the barrel to take the place of the beer
withdrawn, consequently the pressure in the tank is diminished to the extent of
the beer drawn off. I convey the air to the bung hole of the barrel from the tank
by india-rubber or other tubing. The pressure of the air on the surface of the
beer forces it up to the bar or to any required height, and any pressure can be
obtained up to the pressure of the water in the main.
In adapting my Invention for regulating the pressure of steam, air, and other
gases or fluids I connect the diaphragm valve to the pipe containing the steam or
other fluid, the pressure of which is to be regulated, and I employ a weighted
lever to act on the valve as before.
A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING AND DRAWING OFF ANY GIVEN QUANTITY OF LIQUID FROM A VAT, CASK, OR OTHER VESSEL CONTAINING IT IN BULK
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Shaw and William Blackburn
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th November 1876.
THOMAS SHAW and WILLIAM BLACKBURN, both of Marsh, Huddersfield, in the
County of York. "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR
MEASURING AND DRAWING OFF ANY GIVEN QUANTITY OF LIQUID FROM A VAT,
CASK, OR OTHER VESSEL CONTAINING IT IN BULK."
Our Invention consists in forming or constructing on one or more pipes (which
may be attached to a vat, cask, cistern, or other vessel of whatever form) any
desirable number of specified measures, of quantity from one or more, made to
contain from a maximum to a minimum, or vice versa, and to each of these
measures or receptacles is applied an ordinary tap or valve. Whatever quantity is
required to be drawn or measured off the tap communicating with the receptacle
containing the desired quantity is closed whilst it is filled, and on the tap at the
outlet or outlets being opened it allows the said desired quantity to flow therefrom.
One or more outlets are provided as required for the whole of the measuring vessels
or receptacles formed on the aforesaid pipe or pipes. The inlet tap to any of the
receptacles or measures from which the desired quantity is required to be drawn off
is closed whilst its contents are being drawn off, the taps being always so arranged
on the measuring receptacle or receptacles as to be able to draw the specified or
desired quantity. These measuring vessels or receptacles may be made of any
suitable material, and one or more pipes may be attached to each vat, cask, cistern,
or other vessel, and they may be placed in either a vertical, longitudinal, or any
other suitable position, every facility for cleaning them internally and externally
being afforded.
It will be obvious that measuring vessels or receptacles constructed according to
our Invention will be advantageous to retail dealers of all kinds of liquids,
inasmuch as a great saving both in waste and labor will be effected by their
adoption.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-FEEDERS
Year: 1876

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'IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-FEEDERS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Dimelow at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 13th June 1876.
JAMES DIMELOW, of Dukinfield, Cheshire.
FOR MACHINES FOR MAKING CUT NAILS OR TACKS."
This Invention relates to improvements in self-feeders for machines for making
cut nails or tacks.
The machine consists of a cylinder or barrel fixed in suitable bearings, and on
such cylinder is placed a cam having a left and right handed groove thereon. Such
groove imparts a revolving motion to the cylinder by means of a stud and bowl,
which is worked to and fro by an arm, and is supported in position by means of a
suitable bracket having a slot formed therein of a corresponding length to the cam
itself. The arm which works the stud and bowl to and fro is fastened in any
suitable manner to the machine in any convenient position. At one end of the
cylinder is fixed an ordinary nose-piece or nozzle, and at the other is placed a
collar or cam having two notches or teeth cut in its periphery immediately opposite
each other.
The clam or plunger is made so that it will revolve on the clam stick. This I
do by boring or drilling a hole in the clam, into which I insert a steel spindle,
which is affixed to the clam stick. On the extreme end of such steel spindle I place a
collar and pin in order to prevent the steel spindle from coming away from the clam,
at the same time that it allows it to revolve freely.
Such
To draw the iron away from the cutter whilst turning over I provide a sliding
plate working horizontally in two V grooves, one at each side thereof.
grooves prevent all risk of such sliding plate being displaced, and to this sliding
plate is attached an eccentric lever, which works in such a manner as to allow of
its gripping the clam stick when actuated by the collar or cam before described.
MENTS IN HYDRAULIC WEIGHING APPARATUS FOR ASCERTAINING THE LOAD ON WHEELS OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES AND OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frank William Barnes at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th January 1876.
FRANK WILLIAM BARNES, of Islington, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVE
MENTS IN HYDRAULIC WEIGHING APPARATUS FOR ASCERTAINING THE LOAD ON
WHEELS OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES AND OTHER CARRIAGES."
According to this Invention I remove a short portion of a rail in any convenient
or desired place, and I place in the space thus left a rail-shaped piece of metal, the
lower portion of which I form in the shape of a piston or ram, which I pack by
means of cup leather or other suitable appliance. This piston or ram works in a
short cylinder which communicates with another much smaller cylinder, wherein
works a small packed piston or rain; when the load of the carriage wheel comes on
the aforesaid piece of rail it is depressed with its piston, and the enclosed fluid
pressure between the large and the small cylinder forces the small ram or piston
out, its outer end working against a spiral or other spring of suitable strength and
tension; in doing this the said small ram or piston is made to actuate a dial hand,
which on a dial indicates the load or weight; this ram may for this purpose be
formed with a circular rack gearing with a pinion on the dial hand spindle.
I do not confine myself to the small piston or ram and spring arrangement for
indicating the pressure in the larger cylinder, but may if desired use a "Bourdon "
or other pressure gauge.
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THREADING OR PASSING WEFT YARNS OR THREADS THROUGH THE EYES OF SHUTTLES USED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Heywood Stutter, Joseph
Stubbs, and John Corrigan at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 29th March 1876.
EDWARD HEYWOOD STUTTER, of Ramsgate, in the County of Kent, JOSEPH
STUBBS, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Machine Maker, and JOHN
CORRIGAN, of the same Place, Mechanic. "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THREADING
OR PASSING WEFT YARNS OR THREADS THROUGH THE EYES OF SHUTTLES USED IN
LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
This Invention consists in the arrangement and construction of a simple and
economical apparatus for producing a partial vacuum to be employed for drawing
or sucking the yarn or thread through the eye of the shuttle, and thereby avoiding
the necessity of the operative drawing or sucking the end through the eye by a deep
inspiration of the breath, a practice which is well known to cause disease and
sometimes death.
The apparatus consists of two sheet metal cylinders, one within the other, with
only sufficient space between the two to allow the inuer one to be moved up and
down or to and fro. The outer cylinder is held firmly to the framework of the
loom, and has at the top a central tube, through which is passed a suction tube
fixed to the bottom of the internal cylinder, and when the end of the yarn or thread
is placed against one side of the eye and the other side of the eye pressed against
the suction tube, and the tube and cylinder pressed up, down, or sideways, the
internal cylinder moves out of the external one, and gives suflicient vacuum to
immediately draw the end, through the eye of the shuttle, and the two cylinders are
held in their contracted positions by a spring or weight when not required to be
used.
ENABLING PERSONS TO TRAVEL ON FOOT WITH INCREASED SPEED
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Habberley Price at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th January 1876.
HENRY HABBERLEY PRICE, of Bryn-glas, near Neath, in the County of Glamorgan,
Ironmaster. "ENABLING PERSONS TO TRAVEL ON FOOT WITH INCREASED SPEED."
That my Invention consists of a plate of iron cut to the form of the heel and sole
of the boot or shoe and attached thereto, and which plate of iron is provided with
two springs upon which the person using the Invention treads, and is thereby
enabled to walk with increased speed and case, as shewn by the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS FOR RAISING WATER FROM MINES, AND FOR OTHER SUCH LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hocking, junior, of Trewirgic Terrace, Redruth,
in the County of Cornwall, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS
FOR RAISING WATER FROM MINES, AND FOR OTHER SUCH LIKE PURPOSES."
· PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hocking at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th March 1876.
"
JOHN HOCKING, junior, of Trewirgie Terrace, Redruth, in the County of
Cornwall. IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS FOR RAISING WATER FROM MINES, AND FOR
OTHER SUCH LIKE PURPOSES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in pumps for raising water from
mines, and for other such like purposes.
employ tubular pump rods which serve also as delivery pipes, and the rising
column of water passes through them. Motion is given to the rods from the motive
power by two side links, which may be connected at any point.
For a fixed drawing lift I fix at the bottom of the pump rods a turned cylinder,
it is hollow, and open at the bottom, and a valve or clack is fitted at its upper end.
The turned cylinder works through a stuffing box at the top of a stationary barrel,
which is furnished at the bottom with a valve or clack closing the mouth of the
suction passage. The column of pump rods is continued to the required height
and is counterpoised. The water, when being delivered, may be discharged through
a hose or into a cistern of a depth rather in excess of the stroke, the upper length
of the pump rod working through a stuffing box in the bottom of the cistern.
For a plunger lift the plunger pole is connected to the pump rods on one side near
their lower end. To permit the water from the plunger barrel to rise through the
column of pump rods, the barrel is connected with a fixed cylinder having a
stuffing box at is upper end, through which the lowest length of the pump rods
works. The suction and delivery valves are near the bottom of the fixed cylinder,
and the connection with the plunger barrel is between the valves. In this case
the pump and column of water will balance each other.
For a sinking drawing lift the top valve or clack resembling an ordinary
bucket is suspended by a rod from above the pump rods and kept stationary, the
working barrel connected to the pump rods working about it.

page_text: Figure 4 is an elevation partly in section of a double acting pump resembling
the pump shewn at Figure 2, except that the delivery valve is removed from
the bottom of the barrel d and placed at the top of the turn cylinder b, as in
Figure 1.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim the construction of
pumps for raising water from mines, and for other such like purposes, substantially
as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hocking, junior, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
JOHN HOCKING, JUN". (L.S.)
IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND TUBES " FOR SMOKING
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Oppenheimer, of Watling Street, in the City of
London, Merchant, for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND TUBES
"
FOR SMOKING." A communication from abroad by Charles Vuillard, of Saint
Claude, in France.
Sealed the 23rd June 1876, and dated the 25th January 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Oppenheimer at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th January 1876.
DAVID OPPENHEIMER, of Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchant.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND TUBES FOR SMOKING." Communicated to me froid'
abroad by Charles Vuillard, of Saint Claude, in France.
The object of this Invention is to construct pipes and tubes for smoking in suchí
manner as to occupy as little space as possible that they may be readily carried if
desired, say, for instance, in the waiscoat pocket. For this purpose the mouth-piece
of the pipe or tube is made detachable and separable, and it is so constructed as to
fit, slide, or work telescopically into the stem in such manner that the pipe or tube
may be lengthened when to be smoked, and shortened when it is desired to carry it
in the pocket.
The travel of the mouth-piece in the stem is regulated by a shoulder on its outer
portion, and a projection on its inner portion prevents it being drawn out entirely.
The mouth-piece passes through a cap or ferrule, which is furnished on its inside
with cork or other suitable material to make an air-tight packing and joint.
The cap or ferrule is secured or fitted on the stem by means of a bayonet slot and
stud, or by a screw thread or other convenient means of attachment may be
employed in order to readily detach or separate the month-piece from the stem for
purposes of cleaning the parts:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said David Oppenheimer in the Great Scal Patent Office on the 11th July
1876.
DAVID OPPENHEDIER, of Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchant."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND TUBES FOR SMOKING." Communicated to me from
abroad by Charles Vuillard, of Saint Claude, in France,
Price Ad 1
IMPROVE- MENTS IN LOCKS OR FASTENINGS FOR BOXES, THE SAME BEING SPECIALLY APPLICABLE IN IMPROVED BOXES FOR CIGAR LIGHTERS AND MATCHES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Carl Hermann Wetzel at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th September 1876.
CARL HERMANN WETZEL, of Aldermanbury, in the City of London. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LOCKS OR FASTENINGS FOR BOXES, THE SAME BEING SPECIALLY APPLICABLE
IN IMPROVED BOXES FOR CIGAR LIGHTERS AND MATCHES."
This Invention has for its object an improved lock or fastening for boxes, cases,
and other articles requiring to be secured.
In carrying out my Invention I adopt mainly the following arrangements, and,
by way of illustration will describe the same with reference to match or fuzee boxes.
The box I construct in the ordinary manner, but in the front part of box I insert
pin or pins, or any other suitable contrivance of similar character. Through the lid
of the box, immediately above the head of a pin or stud a hole is made, and above
this hole and on the upper or sometimes on the lower part of the lid I fasten a
piece of india-rubber through which a hole of smaller diameter than that in the
lid of the box is made, which hole corresponds with the hole in the lid of the box.
In closing the box the pin bead passes through, first the hole in the lid and thence
through the hole in the rubber, and rests upon the upper part thereof, the same
by its elasticity holding the pin and therefore locking the box securely. Though
for some purposes, if desired, the pin or stud might have an eye at top, whereby
a padlock could be secured. In some cases I substitute for the india-rubber the
clastic action of a small slit tube of springy metal which will clip the pin tightly
when closed. When the rubber is fitted underneath the lid, it passes first through
same, the hole in the rubber being smaller than the head of the pin, stud, or
equivalent. But in some cases the rubber is fitted to top of the box front, the pin
or contrivance being fitted to the lid.
Sometimes the lock is made in the form of a clip attached to the lid, which, when
closed, causes the lip to expand, and when pressed firmly down, such clip holds the
lid to the box.
In the case of boxes for holding matches, I profer to adopt, when my lock is used,
a box in two divisions, one division for matches, the other for fuzees. By this
arrangement I dispense with the necessity of having two boxes, and in place use
only one for both matches and fuzees.
AN IMPROVED PORTABLE FOLDING MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Elizabeth Frances Kelly at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th October 1876.
ELIZABETH FRANCES KELLY, of Colville Road, Notting Hill, Teacher of Music.
"AN IMPROVED PORTABLE FOLDING MUSICAL INSTRUMENT."
My Invention of an improved portable folding musical instrument refers to a new
instrument which may be used for teaching the use of the pianoforte in schools
and by persons temporarily residing in lodgings where a pianoforte cannot be had,
and by invalids who cannot sit before such an instrument, and it combines the
tones of the pianoforte with those of the harmonicon, accompanied by great
portability and the facility of being readily folded and transported. It has a key
board similar to that of a piano, that is to say, the white and black keys are
arranged in a similar manner. The hammers which are acted upon by the lever
connected with the keys strike pieces of stone, wood, or composition, or other
material, or bells made of any sonorous metal. Slips one inch wide are found best
adapted, the length of which slips regulate the tone; for example, the longer they
are the deeper the tone, and vice versa. There are not less than seventeen black
keys and twenty-three white ones. These levers, hammers, and pieces of stone,
wood, or composition, or other material, or bells made of any sonorous metal aro
fixed in an oblong or other conveniently shaped box.
To make this instrument more portable than it would otherwise be it is con-
structed so that it folds up or can be taken in pieces. This is done as follows,
vr2.-
Firstly. By cutting it across in two or more pieces, or making it in two or more
sections, and fastening the lid together with hinges on the bottom and folding it by
bringing the bottom pieces together.
Secondly. By cutting across or making it in sections, and fixing the hinges and
the back, thus allowing the sections to fold over or approach one another.
The object is to make a keyboard and instrument so that it shall not only fold
up but when opened out become a continuous keyboard instrument capable of
emitting musical tones or sounds.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CRICKET TRATTO
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Malings, of the Firm of Jefferies and Company, of
Woolwich, in the County of Kent, Racket and Cricket Bat and Ball Manufac-
turers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CRICKET
TRATTO"
Scaled the 22nd June 1877, and dated the 29th December 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Malings at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th December 1870.
JAMES MALINGS, of the Firm of Jefferies and Company, of Woolwich, in the
"IMPROVEMENTS
County of Kent, Racket and Cricket Bat and Ball Manufacturers.
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CRICKET BALLS."
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture of cricket balls,
the object being to make them more capable of sustaining wear than the ordinary
balls, and more especially to render them serviceable in damp weather by reason of
their resistance to the effects of moisture, so that when the ground is wet the balls
will not be affected during play, and be less liable to fracture than hitherto.
The Invention therefore consists in the introduction of catgut in part or entirely
in the seams of cricket balls by sewing or stitching the same therewith so as to
render them impervious to water.
The sewing or stitching is done by hand.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the
said James Malings in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th June 1877.
JAMES MALINGS, of the Firm of Jefferies and Company, of Woolwich, in the
County of Kent, Racket and Cricket Bat and Ball Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CRICKET BALLS."
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture of cricket
balls, the object being to make them more capable of sustaining wear than the
ordinary balls, and especially to render them serviceable in damp weather by reason

page_text: of their resistance to the effects of moisture, so that when the ground is wet the
balls will not be affected during play, and be less liable to fracture than hitherto.
This Invention therefore consists in the introduction of catgut in part or entirely
in the seams of cricket balls by sewing or stitching the same therewith, so as to
render them impervious to water.
The sewing or stitching is done by hand.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is performed, I declare that I claim as of my Invention,
the introduction of catgut in part or entirely in the seams of cricket balls, for the
purposes herein fully described and set forth.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Eleventh day
of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
seven.
Witness,
ALEX. C. M. PRINCE,
Office for Patents,
9, Adam Street,
Strand,
W.C.
JAMES MALINGS. (L.S.)
THE CONSTRUCTION OF STEAM BOILERS OR GENERATORS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Mirfin at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th April 1876.
WILLIAM HENRY MIRFIN, of the City of Manchester, Engineer.
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF STEAM BOILERS OR GENERATORS."
"IMPROVEMENTS
The object of this Invention is the construction of a steam boiler in sections
which shall present a large heating surface combined with a full and free circulation
of the water through all its parts, and at the same time be readily accessible for
cleaning or repairs.
One section of this boiler consists of a pair of spherical-shaped vessels of equal or un-
equal dimensions, set one over the other, and connected together by a vertical tube or
vertical tubes, by preference a large central tube, surrounded by others of smaller
diameter, and the central one extending down into the lower sphere; these con-
necting tubes being either parallel or tapered in form, and round or oval in cross
section.
The upper spherical vessel, herein-after called the steam chamber, communicates
with a suitable steam reservoir, and the lower spherical vessel, herein-after called the
water chamber, with a water supply pipe, the water level being situated at or about
the centre of the steam chamber.
One or more of these sections may be connected together at their upper and lower
extremities, and be so placed within brickwork as to expose the vertical tubes, to-
gether with the lower spherical surface of the steam chamber and the upper spherical
surface of the water chamber, to the direct action of the fire, or the intermediate
space between the spherical chambers may be horizontally subdivided into two or
more flues through which the flame and products of combustion may pass on their
way to the chimney.
Instead of the steam and water chambers being of a spherical form, I sometimes
employ oblong-shaped vessels, partly cylindrical and partly spherical, or a flattened
sphere or cylinder with conical ends may be substituted without departing from the
peculiar nature of my Invention, and I sometimes dispense with the spherical water
chamber and connect the vertical tubes at their lower extremities to a hollow cast
iron ring constituting in this case the water supply pipe.
[Price 2d 1

page_text: This construction of steam boiler not only permits the space between the spherical
or cylindrical vessels to be covered by cast-iron plates, which are capable of removal
in order to obtain access to any part of the flues, and thus facilitate the removal
of any section, but all the joints being outside the boiler are therefore readily
accessible for examination or repairs.
IMPROVED METALLIC FASTENERS FOR ROUND WOOD TENNONS OR BRUSH HANDLES AND For OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Stuart at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 15th September 1876.
CHARLES STUART, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer. "IMPROVED
METALLIC FASTENERS FOR ROUND WOOD TENNONS OR BRUSH HANDLES AND For
OTHER PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to a new and novel method of fixing or attaching the
handles of brooms to their respective stocks or heads, also applicable for various
other purposes, and consists in the employment of an archimedian or screw-shaped
thread ferrule composed of metal wire of any desired size or shape of section of such
wire. The wire to compose these ferrules is first obtained in the desired shape, and
then wound upon a cylinder or mandrell having grooves cut upon its periphery
corresponding to the shape represented by the half section of such wire, and cut
to form an archimedian screw or thread in longitudinal direction of said cylinder or
inandrell; the wire is then wound upon it and within these grooves of cylinder or
mandrell by suitable machinery in any desired lengths to be afterwards cut into any
other lengths necessary.
It is not necessary that the desired shape of sections of wire should be obtained
previous to its being wound on the mandrell, as this can be done at the same
operation of such winding by the employment of wire having a circular or other
section passing through suitable dies, which will thus give to the wire any other
section desirable.