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IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS STOVES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Powley Alexander at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th October 1883. Commu-
nicated to him from abroad by Jean Georges Dupuy of Canderan (Gironde) in
the Republic of France.
EDWIN POWLEY ALEXANDER of 36 Southampton Buildings in the County of
Middlesex Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents. "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS
STOVES a communication to me from abroad by Jean Georges Dupuy of Canderan
(Gironde) in the Republic of France
"
This invention has reference to gas stoves or heating apparatus of various kinds
but more especially to such as are used for cooking purposes or are employed by
chemists or used by ironers braziers and hairdressers for heating their irons and
has for its object the effecting an economy of gas by instantly and automatically
reducing the supply and lowering the flame the moment the utensil or other article
to be heated is removed from the stove whereupon and until the article is again
replaced only just sufficient gas is allowed to enter the burner to ensure the lighting
of the full flame immediately the article is replaced on the stove. In carrying out
this invention a gas supply regulating valve is fitted into the supply nozzle and is
acted upon by & lever, to the shorter arm of which a rod or wire is attached such
rod or wire being bent upwards and maintained with its extremity above the level
of the surface or seat of the stove by the gravity of the longer arm of the lever
upon which the spindle of the regulator valve rests in which position the supply of
gas is almost entirely cut off. So soon as any article to be heated is placed upon
the stove the end of the wire is thereby depressed causing the longer arm of the
lever to move upwards and thereby to change the position of the valve as to allow
the full supply of gas to pass to the burner in which position it is maintained so
long only as the article to be heated remains upon the stove. Immediately on
removing the utensil or other article from the stove the longer arm of the lever
drops again allowing the valve to become almost closed hence by this automatic
arrangement a considerable saving in gas is effected.
In combination with the said valve a gas beck having an orifice adapted to give
the full supply of gas required for the purpose to which the stove may be applied
is fitted into the end of the supply nozzle which carries the automatic valve the
usual apertures being also provided for the inlet of air along with the gas to the
pipe leading to the main burner.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF LOADS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Hodgson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1883.
CHARLES HODGSON of Fenchurch Avenue in the City of London " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF LOADS "2
My present Invention relates to the first of two systems for the transport of
loads by wire ropes described in the Specification of Letters Patent N° 2281
granted to me as of the 20th July A.D. 1868 and my said present Invention has
for its object the adaptation of that system to long distances over flat or undulating
ground and to circumstances under which it is more convenient to send forward
the produce or goods to be carried in successive trains or vehicles than to load the
entire line as has hitherto been customary in such system of transport when
arranged for short distances.
In order that such trains or vehicles may travel over the ropeway without
accumulating and taking with it the "sags" of all the different spans in the line it
is necessary that the bearing rope or ropes shall be securely fixed at each point of
support and that such supports shall each separately be capable of sustaining the
strain which in an evenly loaded line would be transmitted to the moorings at each
end of the said line. As it would be practically impossible to give to each support
such a resistance (necessarily of several tons) I according to my present Invention
lay parallel to the bearing rope or wire (or ropes or wires) another rope (or ropes
or wires) capable of taking a similar strain to that which the loads throw upon
the bearing rope or wire and I clamp securely at each support these sustaining
ropes or wires to the support to which the bearing rope or ropes is or are fastened
and as near as I conveniently can to said bearing rope or ropes
I lay first the bearing or working rope or ropes allowing it or them the "
"sag"
between the supports which by calculation will not overstrain it or them when
the loads are passing I then lay the sustaining or staying rope or ropes straining
it or them up whilst unloaded to the maximum strain which it is intended the
working rope or ropes shall receive when loaded.
I prefer to have both the bearing and the sustaining ropes of similar make so
that either can be used at any time but never both at the same time.

page_text: In order that the Vehicles or train may be more easily managable on slight
inclinations I join the vehicles or carriages of a train throughout by light bars in
line with the series of the axles of the bearing wheels of the Vehicles or Carriages
each end of the said bars being provided with universal joints.
I propose if electric force be applied to Locomotive purposes on such lines to use
the ropes necessary to this system as transmitters of such force.
I propose to make the hanger or bearer of the rope in one piece of cast steel
including the bracket for attachment to the timber support and the Clip which is
to secure the rope the jaws of which clip I propose to form with spiral grooves
corresponding with the lay of the rope...
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IMPROVEMENTS IN CHAPLETS OR CORE SUPPORTS FOR MOULDS FOR CASTING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Samson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 28th July 1883.
THOMAS SAMSON, of Greenock, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain, Rivet,
Nail, and Chaplet Maker, IMPROVEMENTS IN CHAPLETS OR CORE SUPPORTS FOR
MOULDS FOR CASTING
"3
"
This Invention relates to chaplets or core supports which are used in moulds for
casting various articles, such as cylinders, condensers, columns, and soles, and in
any cases in which a core is not otherwise sufficiently supported. The said chaplets
consist of studs having flat heads or disks and shanks, the axial length through the
shank of each stud being about equal to the thickness of the casting at the part
where the stud is placed. The chaplets or studs are supported with their disks or
heads uppermost and with the ends of their shanks just entered into holes or
depressions in a piece or pieces of hoop or sheet iron; and they remain in the
casting after the molten metal has been run into the mould. Besides supporting
the core, which rests on the disks or heads of the chaplets or studs, these chaplets
or studs serve also to insure the metal of the casting being of the proper thickness
at the part where they are placed. The shanks of the chaplets or studs are made
by preference of a square cross section and of a twisted form lengthways, the object
of such configuration being to prevent them from becoming displaced and loose in
the casting, for which purpose any other simple and convenient shape or configura-
tion may be adopted which by indentation or irregularity in the surface of the
shank will cause it to be securely locked in position when enclosed in the metal of
the casting.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN AND CONNECTED WITH PIPES USED FOR SMOKING.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Wilhelm Benjamin Haas at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th April 1883.
WILHELM BENJAMIN HAAS of the firm Wetzlar and Haas of 6 Castle Street
Falcon Square in the city of London Pipe Manufacturer AN IMPROVEMENT IN
AND CONNECTED WITH PIPES USED FOR SMOKING.
This invention relates to a special method of lining the interior of pipes used
for smoking with a material capable of absorbing the nicotine and moisture at the
same time rendering the pipe cool and also the smoke whereby the pipe is more
pleasant to the smoker than usual. The invention consists in the employment of
the material known as Amiante a substance composed of asbestos or the like of
an incombustible character and pulp of a porous and absorbent nature the two
ingredients being mixed in suitable proportions and moulded to the shape of the
bowl so as to fit within the wooden bowl the lining being retained in position by a
cap ring or other fastening.
The stem of the pipe between the bowl and the ferrule or socket on or to which
the mouth piece is affixed is also lined with the material Amiante said lining being
also moulded to fit therein or shaped from a sheet by rolling. The stem lining
is retained in place by the ferrule, by the mouth piece, or it may be fixed by a
cement if desired.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHING DOOR KNOBS AND OTHER KNOBS TO THEIR SPINDLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Finney at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 10th August 1883.
JAMES FINNEY of Bocking in the County of Essex "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ATTACHING DOOR KNOBS AND OTHER KNOBS TO THEIR SPINDLES
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in attaching door knobs and
other knobs to their spindles.
For this purpose the knob is formed with a hole or cavity in it provided with a
cap or cover plate. The spindle has a screw thread cut upon its angles and the
knob screws on to it; the end of the spindle then enters the cavity in the knob.
A flanged collar is employed to lock the knob upon the spindle when it has been
screwed up to its proper place. The collar fits the spindle and its flange is
perforated. There is a pin or stud fixed within the chamber of the knob and this
when the flanged collar is put on enters one or other of a series of holes formed in
the flange. In any position of the spindle .the collar when dropt on will either
present a hole directly to the stud or if not it will be necessary only to turn the
spindle through a small angle to bring a hole to correspond with the stud.
The interior of the collar being square and fitting the spindle the spindle cannot
turn in it and the fixed stud projecting into the hole in the flange of the collar
prevents the collar turning within the knob, and so the spindle is locked. When
the parts have been adjusted as described the chamber in the knob is closed by the
cap or cover plate and the appearance then will not differ from that of a knob of
ordinary construction.
IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO THE STOPPING OF WOOL COMBING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Howard Priestman and Francis Kemp
Adcock at tho Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th October
1883.
HOWARD PRIESTMAN, of Bradford in the County of York, Worsted Spinner
and Manufacturer, and FRANCIS KEMP ADCOCK, of Bradford aforesaid, Manager
"IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO THE STOPPING OF WOOL COMBING MACHINES
"2
This Invention has reference to the stopping of combing machines when a "lap"
or an accumulation of loose fibre forms around the drawing off rollers. And our
Invention consists in the use and application of electricity for setting in motion
certain mechanism which releases the stop rod and stops the machine-For the
purpose of carrying out our Invention we employ a magnet supplied with
electricity either from a dynamo machine or cells, and which is connected by rods
or other means to an insulated stand with adjustable set screws near the drawing
off rollers. In close proximity to the magnet is a counter balanced lever which is
so arranged that when it is attracted by the magnet it causes a sliding bar to move
forward to such an extent that the pin in a rotating pulley lifts up the sliding bar
and parts connected therewith whereby a catch which is holding the stop rod is
removed from its position and the machine stopped. This electric stop motion is
particularly applicable to be employed in connection with the hinged rubber
described in our provisional Specification N° 3871, August 9th: 1883, the formation
of a "lap" causing the hinged lever to move outwards thereby coming into contact
with the point of the set screws already mentioned, and a complete circuit being
formed thereby the magnet would act upon the balanced lever and stop the
machine. This electric stop motion is however applicable to other forms of
apparatus which are employed in connection with the drawing off.rollers for
stopping the machine on the formation of a lap.
A NEW IMPROVED PACKING CASE, BOX, OR RECEPTACLE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Pearson and Walter Felix Orriss
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th August 1883.
JOHN PEARSON, of East Dulwich, in the County of Surrey, and WALTER
FELIX ORRISS, of Cannon Street, in the City of London," A NEW
IMPROVED PACKING CASE, BOX, OR RECEPTACLE"
OR
This Invention relates to a new or improved packing case or box which is more
especially applicable for containing articles during their transmission through the
parcels post or other means of conveyance. The object of the Invention is to
provide packing cases or boxes which can be readily adapted to the various sizes
of articles which have to be sent. Inconvenience is often experienced in packing
articles intended to be sent by the parcels post or otherwise by reason of the
difficulty of finding a packing case, box, or receptacle, sufficiently near the size of
the article or articles to be sent. According to the present Invention we make
packing cases, boxes or receptacles of various sizes and shapes in two parts one of
which is adapted to slide into the other. By sliding the internal part more or less
into or out of the other, a capacity is easily produced suitable to contain the article
it is desired to enclose, and devices for fastening the two parts together after the
article is enclosed and the two parts slid together to the required extent, are
provided in connection with the case or box or receptacle; these fastening devices
may take the form of adhesive flaps, springs, pins, hooks and eyes, and so forth, or
the inner part may be adapted as well to screw into the outer part and to be fixed
in any required position by one or other of the said fastening devices. It will be
seen that the case, box or receptacle thus formed is of a telescopic character
and that its capacity can be varied by the telescopic action referred to; the shape,
size and material may each be varied as required to suit different articles and
requirements, and the exterior may be utilized for the display of advertisements,
the profits derived from which may in some cases be sufficient to enable the cases,
boxes or receptacles to be sold very cheaply, or even given away. For cases, boxes
or receptacles intended to contain articles to be sent through the parcels post we
prefer that they shall be coloured red, that being the colour adopted usually in this
country for the vehicles belonging to the Postal department; but of course they
may be of any other colour. We consider however that the colour of the case, box
or receptacle may be made an important distinctive feature as distinguishing the
department, agency, firm or Railway Company by which the package is to
be sent
AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF PIANOFORTES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edgar William Brinsmead at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th December 1883.
EDGAR WILLIAM BRINSMEAD of the firm of John Brinsmead and Sons Wigmore
Street in the county of Middlesex Pianoforte Manufacturers.. AN IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION OF PIANOFORTES
This invention relates to a new system of constructing the wood framing, the
iron or steel framing the sounding boards and the resonators of pianofortes and
consists of:
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1 Triangular bracings in a wooden frame
2 Rectangular bracings in the form of a triple Ț square within the triangular
bracings
3 An iron or steel frame in the form of a triangle to which the upright bars are
shaped as a parallelogram
4 Strengthening the resonator with ribs of wood of geometrical triangular form
within a square or within a parallelogram
5 Fitting bars of wood in the centre of the sounding board affixed in the form of a
triple T square within a triangle
6 Combining the wood frame, the iron frame and the resonator as above mentioned
in the same pianoforte.
IMPROVEMENTS IN WRITING AND DRAWING PENCILS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Franz Clouth at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th February 1883.
FRANZ CLOUTH of Vorstadt Nippes near Cologne in the Empire of Germany
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WRITING AND DRAWING PENCILS ,,
This Invention has for its object improvements in writing and drawing pencils.
For this purpose I mix plumbago or it may be other black green red or blue
pigment with india rubber and with sulphur.
I mould the mixture into sheets and vulcanise it as other india rubber goods are
vulcanised. The produce is cut into strips and used to form the cores of writing
and drawing pencils.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF DRIVING DRUMS AND PULLEYS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Woodhouse and Samuel
Mitchell at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th September
1883.
RICHARD WOODHOUSE and SAMUEL MITCHELL of Brighouse in the County of
York Engineers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF DRIVING DRUMS AND
PULLEYS
This Invention relates to the Construction of driving drums and pulleys which
we carry out in such a manner as to combine great strength with lightness
The Boss or Centre may be whole or in halves, of cast or forged steel, or of
malleable or ordinary cast iron, in form like a bobbin having a flange at each end
and with intermediate ones if necessary for large sizes.
The Arms may be of steel or wrought iron of ordinary flat or oval sections or of
special sections, placed so as to offer the least resistance to rotation They may be
double or single and made of one strip of metal, having the ends secured to the
flanges of the boss and the middle part of each strip to the rim of the drum. The
arms may be secured to the boss either by being cast in or by means of bolts or
rivets, and to the rim by bolts or rivets. They may also be stiffened by ribbon
bars placed diagonally between the arms.
Or in place of arms we may use diaphragms of sheet metal, flat, concave or
convex and flanged at the periphery to receive the rim.
The Rims may be of steel, wrought iron or other metal of ordinary flat strip, or
to give additional strength may be turned in on the edges or rolled to special
sections. They may have rivetted, lapped, welded or other joints or may be rolled
solid without joints in a machine somewhat similar to that used for rolling endless
tyres.
AN IMPROVED RESERVOIR PEN SOCKET AND HOLDER FOR USE WITH ANY ORDINARY PEN
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Leopold Beral Bertram at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th June 1883.
LEOPOLD BERAL BERTRAM of 5 Colville Mansions (1 Flat) Bayswater in the
County of Middlesex AN IMPROVED RESERVOIR PEN SOCKET AND HOLDER FOR
USE WITH ANY ORDINARY PEN
The object of this invention is to form a tapered hollow socket in combination
with and as part of the barrel which fits the wooden holder in one piece and to
step that part of the wooden holder so that the barrel may fit the larger diameter
and thus swell or open out the barrel as to permit an ordinary nib being fitted
into the space
The point of the tapered hollow socket just touches the slit to enable the
ink to flow to the point of the nib freely but without any tendency to blot.
IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR VENTILATINO, HEATING, DEODORIZING OR OTHERWISE TREATING THE ATMOSPHERE OF ROOMS, HOUSES AND BUILDINGS.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Maitland Tate at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st July 1883.
CHARLES MAITLAND TATE of 35 Store Street Bedford Square in the County of
Middlesex Civil and Sanitary Engineer IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR
VENTILATINO, HEATING, DEODORIZING OR OTHERWISE TREATING THE ATMOSPHERE
OF ROOMS, HOUSES AND BUILDINGS.
The object of this invention is Extracting by siphonic action, accelerated by
heat, vitiated air from rooms houses and buildings by apparatus of a portable
character within which disinfectants deodorants or other purifying agents can be
arranged to give off their odours or perfumes.
For the purpose of my invention I form a cylindrical or other shaped vessel and
provide it with a screen or partition and with a chamber for the reception of a
lamp or other means of heating. The vessel has also a pipe entering the lower part
and provided with a mouthpiece at its opposite end terminating preferably at or
near the upper part of the room or other place required to be acted upon.
The screen or partition may be of conical shape or set at an angle over or
around the lamp or other heating appliance and the vitiated air can be caused to
enter the lamp chamber or into a chamber above or partly above from which it
issues heated or rarefied and changed in its character if necessary The air inlet to
the vessel may be at the upper part and the outlet at the lower and the admission
or passage can be regulated by doors, flaps or shutters as desired.
In some cases several screens or partitions can be arranged within the vessel
and receptacles can be provided for holding gums which on the application of leat
causes a perfume to be distributed
By placing ice or other refrigerating material within the vessel and by arranging
the pipe or pipes to suit cool air can be caused to enter an apartment and such air
may be perfumed if necessary
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO LIGNEOUS MATERIALS APPLICABLE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGAR BOXES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph March Webster at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th November 1883.
JOSEPH MARCH WEBSTER, of Bootle in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR RELATING TO LIGNEOUS MATERIALS APPLICABLE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
CIGAR BOXES.
"
Cigar boxes up to the present time have been made almost entirely of red cedar.
This wood has got very expensive, and as it is difficult to sell cigars in boxes of
any other appearance, numerous modes have been adopted for making artificial
cedar wood, such as by forming artificial grain on a plain deal surface and tinting
it red.
Now I have discovered that by shaving or planing cedar in a shaving machine
very similar in principle to a joiner's plane, I can get shavings of cedar of ninety
layers to the inch. I therefore pass the boards slowly beneath a very sharp guarded
edge, the boards being pressed down by rollers onto the bed plate, and give a feed
of say the ninetieth of an inch at each stroke. Other arrangements of a sharp edge
and guard, as in a plane, will act for the purpose, and I make no claim for the
machine.
These shavings I place on freshly glued surfaces of ordinary white wood, and
pass them with considerable pressure under a roller. The boards are then allowed
to stand till the glue is set. The result is a species of board having a surface
of cedar undistinguishable from solid cedar, and admirably adapted for the
manufacture of cigar boxes, while costing vastly less than ordinary cedar. Both
sides can be covered with shaving in this way, or one side, forming the interior of
the box, can be covered only.
AN IMPROVED MEANS OF COUNTERACTING INCRUSTATION IN BOILERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Edward Richmond Mills at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th September 1883.
GEORGE, EDWARD, RICHMOND MILLS of Langley Burrell in the County of Wilts.
"AN IMPROVED MEANS OF COUNTERACTING INCRUSTATION IN BOILERS."
This invention consists in the application of cutch (Acacia Catechu) or gambir
(Catechu Pallidum) to the purpose of preventing incrustation in steam boilers.
The cutch or gambir is introduced into the boiler either in a solid state or
dissolved in water. The effect of the tannic acid, contained in the cutch or gambir,
upon the impurities in the water in the boiler is to prevent the formation of
incrustation
From 1lb to 5 lbs of cutch or gambir per nominal horse power of boiler
measurement may be stated, approximately, as an efficient proportion.
AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SCORING LAWN TENNIS AND OTHER LIKE GAMES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by Edwin Ruck Kesterton at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th August 1883.
EDWIN RUCK KESTERTON of 93 Long Acre in the County of Middlesex, Carriage
Builder. AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SCORING LAWN TENNIS
AND OTHER LIKE GAMES.
The object of this invention is to construct or arrange an apparatus in or by
which the progress of a game can be scored during its progress the register being
visible from both sides
For the purpose of my invention I mount a series of plates of metal or other
material upon rings or supports mounted on a pedestal or attached to a fraino and
in such a manner that the plates can be turned. Each plate has the necessary
numeral or sign-with a repeat on the next following plate to enable the scoring
to be read from both sides of the apparatus.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC CURRENT METERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Murray and Henry Morgan
Capner at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th May 1883.
WILLIAM MURRAY and HENRY MORGAN CAPNER both of Clerkenwell in the
County of Middlesex, IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC CURRENT METERS,
Our invention relates to devices, through or by which electric currents are
passed, attracted by means of magnetic force; said devices being combined with
and made to move and actuate one or more train of wheels for recording the
movement of the said devices and the electric energy employed therein, for the
purpose of measuring registering and recording the amount of energy of the
electric circuit to which said devices may be applied-The devices may consist of
a metal disc, star, cylinder, ball, strip or wheel, or of a pendulum capable of being
revolved or vibrated between the poles of an electro or permanent magnet, and
placed in electrical connection with the circuit, said disc or equivalent being
connected by a trough of mercury or a metal spring contact piece, the disc or
equivalent is so mounted and arranged that by its movement it actuates a train
of wheels and these being fitted with any desired index plates, the amount of
movement of the disc and force of the current employed in such movement is
registered-In lieu of the disc or equivalent being arranged to move, it may be
made stationary and the electro or permanent magnet made to rotate vibrate or
move and the train of wheels actuated by it
IMPROVEMENTS IN INSULATORS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George William Hannam at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd December 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Samuel Oakman, of Melrose, Massachusetts, in the
United States of America.
GEORGE WILLIAM HANNAM, of Palmerston Buildings, in the City of London,
IMPROVEMENTS IN INSULATORS, communicated to me from abroad by Samuel
Oakman, of Melrose, Massachusetts, in the United States of America.
This invention relates to that class of glass insulators which are supported upon
screw pegs, and it has for its objects to so construct the interior of the insulator
that it shall have a broad interior band of weather protected surface for insulation,
between the exterior of the insulator and the supporting peg; also to provide the
interior of the insulator with an annular recess for the reception of paraffine, or
other similar repellent of moisture.
This improved insulator is formed with a screw thread on its interior, of the
ordinary style and dimensions. On the interior surface I form an annular recess
which serves to receive a coating or body of paraffine or other repellent of
moisture. Immediately below this recess I form an annular shield and an
upwardly projecting recess.
By the above described construction, I obtain, in connection with the internal
screw, an interior insulating surface, a part of which is especially adapted to
receive and retain paraffine or the like; another part is doubly protected from the
weather; and a third part adds to the interior insulating surface.
The arrangement of the interior of a screw insulator, as above described, gives
a great advantage over the ones now in use; by it, I am enabled to obtain in a
single moderate sized insulator all of the different styles heretofore in use.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TELEPHONIC TRANSMITTORS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Francis Pollak at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th June 1883.
CHARLES FRANCIS POLLAK of 54 Wool Exchange, Coloman Street in the
City of London IMPROVEMENTS IN TELEPHONIC TRANSMITTORS
This Invention consists of an Improvement on any Telephonic Transmittors in
which the Platinum and the Carbon are fixed in a manner equal to the so called
'Blacks system
"
In Blacks system as at present in use the Turning points of the Platinum and
Carbon are fixed in such a manner that by the sound waves striking the
Diaphragm the Platinum is bound to rub against the Carbon because the Turning
points of the two springs upon which the Platinum and the Carbon are fixed aro
not in one line parallel to the surface of the Carbon.
The smallest rubbing of these two parts together produces a rattling noise
which is transmitted with the Telephonic sounds and produces an unpleasant
feeling in the ear of the Listner and also sometimes prevents the pure transmission
of the sounds.
To prevent those noises I fix the Turning points of the Carbon and tho Platinum
on the same surface as the Carbon. This can be accomplished either by fixing the
two springs in the same straight level with the Contact point of the Carbon, or in
fixing the spring carrying the Platinum upon the spring carrying the Carbon both
of course being insulated from each other; or in any other manner producing the
same effect. By means of this arrangement the Carbon and Platinum can easily
be moved by the sound waves striking against the Diaphragm in a vertical
direct to the contact point of the Platinum and the diaphragm and by no means
can the Platinum change the Contact points upon the Carbon. The rubbing of
the Platinum upon the Carbon is therefore prevented and no rattling noise can be
produced. I therefore claim for my Invention the prevention of rattling Noises
produced by the rubbing of the Platinum and Carbon by means of fixing them
in such a manner that they can be moved by the sound waves but can only press
on and not rub against each other.
IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR IRRIGATING GARDENS WITH WASTE WATER HOUSEHOLDS " FROM
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Blakely at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th February 1883.
WILLIAM BLAKELY, of Bournemouth in the County of Hants " IMPROVED
MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR IRRIGATING GARDENS WITH WASTE WATER
HOUSEHOLDS
"
FROM
This Invention relates to a system wherein the waste water or slop waste
from a household is utilised for irrigating the garden instead of being thrown
into the house drains as usual.
The apparatus which I employ consists of a slop sink placed in the water
closet or in other convenient place in the house, constructed as hereafter described
and in communication by means of conduits with pipes laid in the garden at or
near the surface of the earth; The slop sink consists of a pan similar to an
ordinary water closet pan but provided with two or more independent strainers
which fit in the pan one above another and have handles to permit of their easy.
removal.
These strainers serve to intercept any solid matter that may be thrown into
the sink and prevent it from passing into and choking the conduit. The conduit
is fixed to the outer wall of the house and is made of a number of short lengths of
pipe made with a coned socket at the upper extremity and a spigot end at the
lower extremity the tubes being held in place by the spigot end of one pipe fitting
into the socket end of the one next below. A longitudinal groove extends from
the lower end of each pipe on the outside so as to provide for ventilation and the
short piece through which the sink discharges into the conduit is of smaller
diameter than the conduit thus permitting of natural ventilation into the outer
air and preventing the rising of gases into the sink.
The pipes in the garden into which the conduits lead are preferably moulded
in halves jointed together by longitudinal tongue and groove joints and secured
together by a band or clamp. These pipes are furnished with contrailing valves
in convenient position and are perforated for the even distribution of the water
through the ground wherein the pipes are laid and are moulded with internal
baffles or inclined transverse plates to prevent the too rapid flow of the water.
IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER WASTE PREVENTERS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Smeaton Senior of the City of Westminster
Sanitary Engineer, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER WASTE
PREVENTERS
"
(Void by reason of the Patentee having neglected to file a Specification in
pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Smeaton, Senior, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th October 1883.
"
WILLIAM SMEATON Senior of the City of Westminster Sanitary Engineer
IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER WASTE PREVENTERS"
The object of this invention is twofold, viz 1° To effectually prevent any waste of
water 2° To ensure a perfect flush and after flush thus ensuring a perfect water
Seal
To carry out my invention I proceed as follows. I fit an ordinary valve body
with any suitable service and outflow-I then provide a dome top thereto fitted
with a central plug which terminates in suitable guide arms so as to regulate the
up and down movement of the valve
Mounted on such central plug at the top and bottom are suitable elastic packings
which have their seatings on suitable flanges, while attached to the dome top is a
cock which cock is actuated by a rack and pinion motion the rack being fitted to
the handle of the closet or elsewhere as most convenient
In order to regulate the quantity of the flush and after flush I provide a bye-pass
formed outside on the body of the valve This bye-pass is regulated by a screw
plug, or cock, or valve, inserted in the side of the bye-pass
The operation of my invention is as follows:-I raise the handle of the closet
thereby actuating the rack and pinion and thus producing a vacuum between the
upper elastic seating and the dome top, by exhausting the air and water therein
and at the same time lifting the lower elastic packing from its seat and so causing
the outflow of the water into the basin and when the handle is again depressed the
cock or valve is released and so a perfect after flush is obtained

page_text: I would here observe that no matter how long the handle of the closet is kept
raised it will be found impossible, owing to the perfect action of the valve secured
by the rack and pinion arrangement; to obtain a single drop of water beyond the
proper supply which is regulated by the position to which the screw plug, or cock,
or valve, is set in the bye-pass
One great advantage of my invention is that while perfect and effective in action
it is extremely simple and inexpensive in construction
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IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LAWN TENNIS BATS, RACKET BATS, AND OTHER BATS OF A SIMILAR NATURE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Cole at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 25th August 1883.
WALTER COLE Architect of Raleigh Lodge 114 Tulse Hill London SW
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LAWN TENNIS BATS, RACKET BATS,
AND OTHER BATS OF A SIMILAR NATURE
A metal frame of sufficient length to take the principal longitudinal strings of
the bat, to the centre of the lower side of this frame is attached by a hook one
small strong metal wire which is led through a hole bored through the centre and
the entire length of the wedge peice [sic] of the frame of the bat this wire is of
sufficient length to reach to the end of the handle of the bat and the butt end of
this wire is threaded with a screw to work in a small metal nut fixed in a peice
of hard wood which is socketed into the butt end of the handle and shouldered out
so as to form about one inch of the bandle itself on this shoulder is fitted a metal
washer to reduce friction through the extreme end of this wire where it passes
through the nut a slot is cut to take a forelock to prevent the nut being taken
quite off except by intention so that by simply turning the knob at the extreme
end of the handle the strings of the bat are strained up tight or slacked off to lay
by and I claim for this invention the following advantages-The neck of the frame
is not weakened by holes bored for strings or side screws thus giving to the frame
all its strength where most needed-there are no Fly nuts or other projections to
catch the dress or cut the balls in play-it avoids pulling the bat out of shape by
tightening one side more than the other-it is much more simple in construction
and working and neater in appearance than any other method for tightening the
strings now before the public-there are no keys required for winding
IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR BREAKING UP ROADS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Albert Dixon at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st August 1883.
ALFRED ALBERT DIXON, of 24 Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, "IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR BREAKING UP ROADS."
My invention has for object to enable roads to be broken up by machinery in
lieu of by hand labour as heretofore usual. For this purpose, I provide a suitable
carriage on which are mounted cylinders with pistons or plungers to which by any
suitable fluid pressure such as that of water, oil, compressed air or steam recipro-
cating movement is imparted. To these pistons are connected picks which are
operated by the pistons, and have imparted to them, in addition to longitudinal
movement, also movement in a rotary, or radial (upward) sense, or it may be
movement compounded of these two, so that they will be caused to enter the
roadway to be broken up, and to raise or throw up portions thereof at each stroke,
thereby superseding the use of the ordinary hand-worked picks, and enabling
the work to be done much more rapidly and economically than has heretofore
been usual
IMPROVED PACKING RINGS AND SPRINGS FOR PISTONS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Mace and William Tate at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th March 1883.
CHARLES MACE and WILLIAM TATE, of Sunderland in the County of Durham,
Engineers, "IMPROVED PACKING RINGS AND SPRINGS FOR PISTONS
"
Our invention relates to an improved construction of packing rings and springs
in connection therewith for pistons of steam or other engines.
We cast the packing rings of which there are two to each piston with their
inner circumferences grooved either to a portion of a circle or with inclined sides,
forming a channel to receive the spring. The edges of the rings project inward so
as to give them a steady bearing against the flange of piston and against the
"junk ring" or cover. After being turned on the outer face and on both edges
(the inner faces being left as cast) the rings are cut to give them the requisite
amount of "spring" and a tongue (preferably of brass) is inserted into each edge
so as to cover the cut and prevent passing of steam. This tongue is formed of
two parts which are accurately fitted to work in perfect sliding contact being half
lapped so that no steam can pass and they are also made of ample thickness and
breadth.
The spring is a common round coil formed of round or square steel or other
suitable metal and bent to the circle of the packing ring in one piece, or in large
pistons it may be put in in sections.
The ends are fitted over sockets (preferably of brass) through the centre of
which is placed a bolt, on which about the middle of its length is forged a hexagon
or square collar, which abuts against one of the sockets; the other half of the bolt
is screwed and fitted with a nut and check nut, and which abuts against the other
socket; by this means the sockets are forced apart, and the circle of the spring
increased, causing it to press outward against the packing rings. The inclined
sides of groove at back of the packing rings cause the spring to force the rings
apart against the piston and “junk” ring or cover as well as outwards against the
..מ

page_text: cylinder. In large pistons more than one pair of sockets may be fitted to increase
the range of expanding the circle of spring or springs
When first fitted the spring is forced into the cavity behind the packing rings
by closing its coils and presses itself into the groove formed to receive it and has
now sufficient elasticity to force out the packing rings but when, by wearing, the
packing rings expands the elastic force of the spring is restored by setting its
ends apart by means of the screwed bolt and sockets previously described.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR JOINING LEAD PIPES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Jakens at the Offico of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 14th September 1883.
JOSEPH JAKENS, of Bury in the County of Lancaster, Consulting and Technical
Chemist, "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR JOINING LEAD PIPES.'
"
This Invention relates to the joining of lead pipes by the application of a flexible
fibrous leeve or other formed wrapper, composel by preference of asbestos, but
other fibrous heat resisting material may be used.-I prepare the ends of the lead
pipes to be joined by bevelling them on the outside round the bore of the pipe, and
inserting about half the length of a short thin hard metal tube in the end of each
pipe I then place the ends of the lead pipes to be joined in the fibrous or asbestos
sleeve or wrapper, and clamp the same or bind it tightly round the ends of the lead
pipes, and by the application of heat, which may be applied externally by means of
a jet of gas from a blow pipe, or internally by molten metal conducted within the
sleeve by means of a specially formed thin hard metal funnel, with two or more
outlets, to enable the metal to be supplied to different parts of the chamber when
requisite at the same time, thus causing the ends of the lead pipes to be fused or
burned, together with lead, by which means a continuous homogeneous lead pipe
practically results.
This apparatus is also applicable in like manner when required for the purpose
of joining lead pipes and brass or other metal fittings to lead pipes with solder.
The asbestos or other fibrous wrapper or sleeve may be held in position by
various forms of clamps, or may be tightly kept in place by means of asbestos or
other heat resisting twine.-In some cases the clamp may he so formed as to contain
a valve for relief and overflow of the surplus molten metal forming the joint.
Various modifications of the details may be made without departing from the
Invention, which mainly consists of apparatus composed of an asbestos or analogous
fibrous sleeve or wrapper, held in position by means of clamps or otherwise, for the
purpose of joining lead pipes by fusing the same with or without molten lead, or
by means of solder. And also of the specially formed funnel for conveying molten
metal within such sleeve or wrapper.
MANUFACTURE OF TOOTHED OR OTHER WHEELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Whittaker at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd June 1883.
JOHN WHITTAKER of Oldham in the County of Lancaster
THE MANUFACTURE OF TOOTHED OR OTHER WHEELS
"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
This invention is designed principally to be applied to the manufacture of toothed
wheels of large diameter but it may also be employed in the manufacture of other
large wheels or pulleys not provided with teeth.
It is a well known fact that wheels of a large diameter when cast whole are
liable to fracture through the unequal strains caused by the contraction of the
metal in cooling; and the casting of the arms or internal part of the wheel separate
from the rin has been found to greatly reduce this liability to fracture.
I am aware that there is no novelty in the mere casting of the rim separate from
the arms and that various methods have been adopted for the purpose of securing
the rim and arms of the wheel together. The method which I propose to employ
for securing the rim and arms together, and which forms the subject of my
invention, is by interlocking the arms and the rim in the manner hereinafter
described.
The interior surface of the rim of the wheel is cast with lugs or projections
rather less in thickness than the outside of the rim (or it may in some cases be
necessary to cast short projecting internal rims inside the main rim)
The ends of the arms are turned true and are of such a width as to fit inside the
rim (which is also turned true) and between the lugs or projections the ends of the
arms being wider than the said lugs, and provided with a recess into which the lug
can enter.
The arms being placed sideways into the rim with their ends between the lugs
the rim (or the arms) is partly turned round so that each alternate lug enters the
recess in the end of the arm and thus the arms and rim become interlocked.
Wedges or keys being driven into the spaces between the other sides of the arms
and the remaining lugs the two become firmly united.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC ARC LAMPS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th October 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Dr. Emil Boettcher, of Leipzig, in the Kingdom of
Saxony.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ELECTRIC ARC LAMPS," a communication to me from abroad by Dr Emil Boettcher,
of Leipzig, in the kingdom of Saxony.
This invention consists in utilising for the regulation of the electric arc that
part only of the iron core of a solenoid, which, while protruding from the coil
corresponds to an approximately uniform electro-magnetic attraction for a given
strength of current.
Also in magnifying and transmitting this motion upon the other carbon-holder
by means of a lever-mechanism.
Also in using for this purpose rollers of different diameters, mounted on the
same axle.
Also in replacing the loss of weight, occasioned by the burning of the positive
or upper carbon acting on the longer arm of the lever, by unwinding a inetallic
chain connected with the said carbon.
Also in replacing the loss of electro-magnetic attraction, which gradually occurs
by the withdrawal of the iron core from the coil, by the only partial replacement
of the excess of the weight of the upper carbon by means of the said chain, or in
compensating the loss of attraction by the continual increase of weight of the
lower carbon holder, the latter being adapted to gradually lift a metallic chain
from a fixed support, or to set a spring in tension.