IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING AND APPLYING MAGNETIC MOTIVE POWER, WHICH PROVISIONAL SPATION
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, of the Parthenon
Club, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING AND APPLYING MAGNETIC MOTIVE POWER, WHICH
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Henry Cradock
Monckton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 25th May 1861.
I, EDWARD HENRY CRADOCK MONCKTON, of the Parthenon Club, Regent
Street, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING AND APPLYING MAGNETIC MOTIVE
POWER, WHICH INVENTION IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES," to be as
follows (that is to say):-
My Invention has for its object the obtaining of motive power through the
agency of simple or compound magnets, as also the employment of the surplus
or induced magnetic currents obtained thereby for other useful purposes,
such as electro-plating, cure of disease, and to such arts and sciences to which
magnetism is or may be applicable, and consists,―

page_text: Firstly, in arresting or cutting off at certain points, by the introduction of slips
or pieces of iron or other para-magnetic mediums, magnetic attraction, either com-
pletely or partially between one or more magnets, or of magnets attracting pieces
of iron (or other substances that are para-magnetic or capable of being similarly
attracted) some rotating and others fixed, mutually attracting each other, by
which means (the circle of attraction being either wholly, or for the most part
completed according to the position of the attracting mediums) the magnetic
attraction is caused wholly or partially to cease, and thus admit of other
similarly placed magnets or attracting mediums acting in succession (which
are in their turn similarly cut off by the pieces of iron, or otherwise, as above)
so as to remove the first rotating magnet, or otherwise, as aforesaid, from its
sphere of action, and thus a rotatory motion is produced, whether the magnet,
the attracting medium, or both revolve; either of the said magnets may be shod
with iron of different shapes and sizes, or with other para-magnetic mediums,
and be variously applied.
Secondly, in having two magnets; or a magnet and a piece of iron or other
similar para-magnetic medium so placed as to rotate past the centres of each
others attraction by means of their own momentum acquired by mutual
attraction, the attraction being taken up by other rotating attracting mediums,
and thus causing a continued rotatory motion.
And, thirdly, in having magnets and iron, or other mediums for magnetic
purposes generally plated or coated with gold, silver, or other suitable substance
to protect them from the atmosphere, or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Henry Cradock Monckton in the Great Seal Patent 2
Office on the 25th November 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HENRY CRADOCK MONCKTON, of the Parthenon Club, Regent Street, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me;
the said Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, Her special licence that I, the
said Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, my

page_text: 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, usc, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING AND
APPLYING MAGNETIC MOTIVE POWER, WHICH INVENTION IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO
OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, 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 Edward Henry Cradock Monckton,
do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement (that is to say):-
My Invention consists, firstly, in obtaining motive power through the agency
of positive or negative electric currents, however derived or applied, by causing
tho said electric currents to be diverged at certain points by the introduction
of suitable mediums: (of various shapes and forms of construction) at such
times as the electric currents are made to pass near each other, the attraction
or repulsion of the electric currents being thereby momentarily, diverged or
sufficiently neutralised to admit of other similarly applied electric currents
exerting or exercising their forces in like manner; the said mediums having
performed their office are then to be removed by any suitable arrangement
so as to be ready for being again brought into position when required;
mediums suitable for this purpose are pure soft iron, and substances that are
of a para-magnetic nature or capable of being similarly attracted, though in a
minor degree, such as nickel, peroxide of. lead, red lead, and various other
agents, chemical or otherwise.
Secondly, in the manufacture of magnets for the above or other useful
purposes by casting fused steel into suitable moulds and then hardening,
magnetising, and preparing the same in like manner to the common magnet;
in this manner magnets may be formed in any variety of shape, as for example,
circular, waved, screw-shaped, globular, oval, oblong, straight, semicircular,
hollow, or cup shaped, square, or with projections, or of any other form
configuration.
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Thirdly, in communicating the magnetic. power to. hardened steel prepared

page_text: as aforesaid, or otherwise, of various shapes so as to render it uniformly,
magnetic, as also magnetic in a compound manner, by placing a ring of hardened
steel before the poles of a powerful electro or other magnet, the said ring
being placed vertically, and the magnet horizontally, in which position either
the ring or magnet is caused to revolve till the former is sufficiently charged;
it should then be withdrawn in a straight line, still keeping up the revolution.
and observing the same relative positions; thus also globes or spheres of
hardened steel can be similarily magnetised, and doubly magnetised, or have.
the direction of the magnetic current varied, for example, by communicating to
them a double rotatory or revolving motion simultaneously in a vertical and
horizontal direction in front of the poles of a magnet, and then withdrawing
them gradually in a straight line, still keeping up the revolutions they will
become magnetic, both vertically and horizontally, and by varying the angles.
of revolution, relatively to their position with regard to the magnet, the electric
current will be caused to pass and communicate the magnetism in the direction
required; but it must-bo-observed that the magnetised steel must be kept
revolving whilst being withdrawn, and that it must be withdrawn in a straight
line from the magnet, the relative positions being observed, so that the current
-of-electricity may not vary; it is obvious that the magnet may be made to re-
volve in front of the steel to be magnetised with the same results, and also that
the magnetism may be in this manner communicated in an endless variety
of methods by increasing the number of magnets and varying their positions;
magnets so prepared may afterwards be ground if necessary into any required
shape.
Fourthly, in tapering the ends or poles of magnets in order to concentrate
their magnetism, the tapering being either wedge-shaped or pointed, and the
ends curved in any required direction.
Fifthly, in the employment of tapered magnets for the production of motive
power or where intense magnetism is required for other purposes.
Sixthly, in the employment of electric currents induced by the aforesaid
means for other useful purposes, such as lighting, heating, propulsion, electro-
plating, telegraphing, the cure of disease, the production of chemical com-
positions and decompositions, protection of property, and to the arts and sciences
generally.
And, seventhly, in the combination of any or all of the aforesaid principles
with or without the use of galvanic batteries for the above-mentioned or
other useful purposes.
Having now described the nature of this my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed and carried into effect,

page_text: I would have it clearly understood that I do not claim as of my Inven-
tion the exclusive use of the several substances and processes herein-before
described, except when the same are employed in and for the purposes of
my said Invention, which I hereby declare to consist in obtaining and
employing electric currents in the manner and for the purposes herein-before
et forth and described.
I would have it clearly understood that I do not claim as of my Inven-
tion the exclusive use of the several substances and processes herein-before
described, except when the same are employed in and for the purposes of
my said Invention, which I hereby declare to consist in obtaining and
employing electric currents in the manner and for the purposes herein-before
et forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November,
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et forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty one.
EDWARD HENRY CRADOCK MONCKTON. (L.S.)