IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS BY WHICH MOTION CAN BE COMMUNICATED OR TRANSMITTED FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER AND BETWEEN DIFFERENT PARTS OF A SHIP OR OTHER STRUCTURE TO EXHIBIT ORDERS AND MESSAGES AND TO GIVE SIGNALS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Sacheverell Gisborne, of Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Electrical Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS BY WHICH MOTION CAN BE COMMUNICATED OR TRANSMITTED FROM
ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER AND BETWEEN DIFFERENT PARTS OF A SHIP OR OTHER
STRUCTURE TO EXHIBIT ORDERS AND MESSAGES AND TO GIVE SIGNALS."
Sealed the 26th June 1866, and dated the 80th December 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Sacheverell Gisborne
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
80th December 1865.
I, JOHN SACHEVERELL GISBORNE, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS BY WHICH MOTION CAN BE COMMUNICATED OR TRANS-
MITTED FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER AND BETWEEN DIFFERENT PARTS OF A SHIP
OR OTHER STRUCTURE TO EXHIBIT ORDERS AND MESSAGES AND TO GIVE SIGNALS,"
to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to improvements in that system of or apparatus for
communicating or transmitting motion to exhibit orders and messages and to
give signals on board ship and elswhere for which I obtained Letters Patent, of
date the 23rd day of November, A.D. 1864, No. 2926. In the Specification
of that Invention, patented as aforesaid in 1864, I described my improvements
as consisting of three parts, viz., firstly, the sending apparatus; secondly,
the wires, ropes, bands, chains, or jointed rods which convey motion from
the sending apparatus to, thirdly, the receiving and exhibiting apparatus ;

page_text: and it is to apparatus to take the place of the last of these three that the
first part of my present improvements have reference.
At the receiving and exhibiting end, say in the engine room of a steam
ship, I support a shaft free to rotate on its axis in a case of any suitable
external form. The said shaft has secured thereto a pully or pullies, lever
or levers on which the double line of motion conveyers bear or to which they
are connected; it, the said shaft, also carries a disc with orders, messages,
characters, or signals corresponding to those at the sending end inscribed
thereon. In the front of the case an opening is made sufficiently large to
allow one order, message, character, or signal, and no more, to be seen there-
through at the same time. Motion given at the sending end and conveyed
by the double line of conveyers, both of these parts being the same as in my
said Patent of 1864, causes the pulley or lever to move and the shaft and
disc to rotate and bring the desired part opposite the opening. Tappets on
the moving parts of this apparatus or on the motión conveyers could be used
to operate bell or other sound giving signals.
The second part of my Invention relates to a combination of parts; the
object is to enable any person who may have received an order, message, or
signal to return an answer that he has so received it. I enclose or combine in
one connected length of metallic or other tube or pipe two double sets of
motion conveyers of the kind described in my Patent of 1864 aforesaid; the
one set to convey motion from the person sending the order or message to be
exhibited to the person receiving the same, and the other set to perform the
same operations from the receiver to the sender. With both double lines, the
sending and receiving apparatus at both ends being constructed in accordance
with my Patent of 1864, as described under the above first part of my present
Invention, or in any other way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Sacheverell Gisborne in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SACHEVERELL GISBORNE, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Electrical
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her

page_text: reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Sacheverell Gisborne, Her special license that I, the said John
Sacheverell Gisborne, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said John Sacheverell Gisborne, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN-APPARATUS BY WHICH MOTION CAN BE COMMUNI-
CATED OR TRANSMITTED FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER AND BETWEEN DIFFERENT
PARTS OF A SHIP OR OTHER STRUCTURE TO EXHIBIT ORDERS AND MESSAGES AND
TO GIVE SIGNALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Sacheverell Gisborne, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Sacheverell Gisborne, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):
:-
My Invention relates to improvements in that system of or apparatus for
communicating or transmitting motion to exhibit orders and-messages and to
give signals on board ship and elswhere for which I obtained Letters Patent, of
date the 23rd day of November, A.D. 1864, No. 2926. In the Specification
of that Invention, patented as aforesaid in 1864, I described my improve-
ments as consisting of three parts, viz., firstly, the sending apparatus;
secondly, the wires, ropes, bands, chains, or jointed rods which convey
motion from the sending apparatus to, thirdly, the receiving and exhibiting
apparatus; and it is to apparatus to take the place of the last of these three
that the first part of my present improvements have reference.
"
At the receiving and exhibiting end, say in the engine room of a steam
ship, I support a shaft free to rotate on its axis in a case of any suitable
external form. The said shaft has secured thereto a pulley or pullies, lever
or levers, on which the double line of motion conveyers bear or to which
they are connected; it, the said shaft, also carries 'a disc with orders, messages,
characters, or signals corresponding to those at the sending end inscribed
thereor. In the front of the case an opening is made sufficiently large to allow

page_text: one order, message, character, or signal, and no more, to be seen therethrough
at the same time. Motion given at the sending end and conveyed by the
'double line of conveyers, both of these parts being the same as in my said
Patent 1864, causes the pulley or lever to move and the shaft and disc to
rotate and bring the desired part opposite the opening. Tappets on the moving
parts of this apparatus or on the motion conveyers could be used to operate
bell or other sound giving signals.
The second part of my Invention relates to a combination of parts, the
object being to enable any person who may have received an order, message,
or signal to return an answer that he has so received it. I enclose or
combine in one connected length of metallic or other tube or pipe two double
sets of motion conveyers of the kind described in my Patent of 1864 aforesaid,
the one set to convey motion from the preson sending the order or message
to be exhibited to the person receiving the same, and the other set to perform
the same operations from the receiver to the sender. When two double lines
are employed the sending and receiving apparatus at both ends are constructed
in accordance with my Patent of 1864, or with the improvements described
under the above first part of my present Invention, or in any other way.
That a knowledge of my Invention may be obtained readily and with ease
I have attached hereto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative of mechanical parts or
arrangements of apparatus suitable for general use.
.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my new receiving and exhibiting apparatus,
and Fig. 2 an elevation of the same apparatus, the front of the case or cover
and the disc being removed. In both of these views like letters denote the
same parts.
"
a is marked on the case or cover, which is provided with fastening pieces b;
c represents the opening in the case or cover through which only one order,
message, or signal can be seen. These orders are inscribed or formed on the
disc or plate & fastened on the shaft e, and are suitable for many places or
positions for exhibiting orders and messages and giving signals; the word
"stop" shewn is one of the orders frequently required to be sent by the
captain to the engineer of a steamboat. On the shaft there is a pulley f,
whereover the motion conveyers g are carried, and to which they give motion.
When f, e, and d are made to rotate, the tappets h, secured in fand carried
round therewith, catch one of the levers i, hung on or supported by pins j, and
kept in position by springs k and ', and cause one of the hammers 1 to strike
the gong m, and this in every case whichever way the pulley f is made to
rotate. The ends of the levers i are provided with short jointed pieces so as
to allow the tappets to pass them in one direction without raising the hammer

page_text: and sounding the gong m. The springs serve to bring i and 2 into
proper position. In some cases the sound giving parts would be dispensed
with. The motion conveyers g are here guided or conducted over pullies n.
Instead of using the pully e, a lever or levers to which 9 would be connected
could be used.
Under the second part of my Invention Fig. 3 is a transverse section of
a piece of tube or pipe containing four pullies o for guiding two double lines
of motion conveyers; these pullies are here shewn placed on one spindle p.
Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a box conveniently arranged for allowing two
double lines of motion conveyers to be easily conducted round a corner or led
away in a different direction, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation thereof. q is the box
with fastening pieces r; s is one set of two pullies, and t another set of two
pullies, each set being placed on an axis of its own. It will be observed that
one of the chief recommendations of this arrangement is that it occupies
small space.
Having now described the nature, and by details herein described and
partly shown on the Drawings particularly ascertained my said Invention,
I would have it understood that what I claim is,―
First, the receiving and exhibiting apparatus herein described in combination
with one or more double lines of flexible motion communicators, substantially
as set forth and illustrated by the Drawings.
And, secondly, arranging or combining in a length (be it long or short) of
tube or pipe two double sets of flexible motion conveyers, substantially as
described and in part illustrated on the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Sacheverell Gisborne, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
JOHN SACHEVERELL GISBORNE. (L.S.)
In the presence of
A. J. TEDDER,
128, Chancery Lane,
London.