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IMPROVEMENTS IN TRACTION ENGINE BREAKS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Wilkinson at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st August 1883.
WILLIAM WILKINSON, of Wigan, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TRACTION ENGINE BREAKS "
My invention relates to a break applicable to traction engines, and it is designed
to automatically break the wheels upon any cessation of steam pressure, as when
a boiler tube bursts, whilst at the same time it is available for breaking at all
times, and automatically applies itself upon a given speed being exceeded.
The nature of my device is as follows:-
The break blocks are fitted to the short ends of a pair of levers, and are
The long ends
adjustable to compensate for wear; by means of suitable screws.
of the levers project under the car, and they are drawn back and the break applied
by means of strong spiral springs attached to the framing of the engine. Thus
the normal tendency of the break is to grip the wheels. The inner ends of the
levers aforesaid are, on the side opposite to the spring, hinged to a piston, working
in a cylinder in direct communication with the boiler pressure, and reacting against
the pull of the springs. Whilst the steam pressure is existing, the force of the
springs is overcome and the break block is held removed from the wheel. It is
evident that immediately the pressure ceases to exist, the springs come into action,
and the break is applied. By means of a suitable two-way cock, or slide valve, the
driver may cut off the connection with the steam pressure, and at the same time
allow the steam in the cylinder to escape, and the springs to automatically apply
the break. This affords a means of applying the break at ordinary times, and its
pressure may be regulated by the amount of pressure allowed by the driver to be
left in the re-acting cylinder.
In order to secure the automatic application of the break when a given speed is
attained, I adopt the following means:-
The lever of the two-way cock or slide valve controlling the steam supply, is
connected by a rod to a small ram or plunger, which is operated (and the break
cylinder consequently deprived of its steam and the breaks allowed to grip) by
the steam pressure, when admitted through a valve actuated by the governor, when
any given speed is reached.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF CARDED WOOL FOR WEAVING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th April 1883. A communication
to him from abroad by Jean Benazet, of Lavelanet, France
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PREPARATION OF CARDED WOOL FOR WEAVING," a communication to me from
abroad by Jean Benazet, of Lavelanet, France,
The usual method of preparing carded wool for weaving consists in sizing the
warp-threads, which have been previously oiled or greased for spinning, so that
the warp threads obtain two superposed coatings, namely one of grease and one of
size. The consequence is, that woven fabrics obtained from such threads present
many inequalities from want of adhesion between the two coatings.
This invention consists in removing the fatty matter from the warp-threads by
any suitable method, before they are sized and used for weaving.
The sizing may take place immediately after the threads treated in a grease
extracting bath are rinsed or dried. After sizing the yarn is beamed and may be
used for weaving.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRICAL CUT-OUTS OR APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY BREAKING ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frank Geere Howard at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th November 1883.
FRANK GEERE HOWARD of Oaklands, Cricklewood in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRICAL CUT-OUTS OR APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY
BREAKING ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS."
"
My Invention relates to an improved electrical "cut out " or safety guard for
automatically interrupting an electrical circuit when the current traversing that
circuit attains a given strength. The "cut out" consists essentially of two
metallic contact pieces fixed within a chamber containing mercury and communi-
cating with a lower chamber by an orifice closed by an iron plug capable of being
raised to unclose the orifice by the influence of a coil or solenoid in the circuit to
be controlled. The two contact pieces are placed in electrical communication only
by means of the mercury and the circuit is complete so long as the mercury is
retained in the upper chamber, but upon the strength of the current reaching a
given point, the iron plug or core is raised by the influence of the coil or solenoid
and allows the mercury to escape into the lower chamber, thus automatically
breaking the circuit. The iron core may be tubular and slide freely upon a central
guide pin; its lower end is suitably shaped to form a valve or plug and fits upon a
corresponding seat around the orifice between the chambers. A stop may be
provided if necessary to prevent the descent of the core after it has been raised by
the action of the current. The coil or solenoid may surround the upper part of the
apparatus and be attached by one end to one of the aforesaid contact pieces, and by
the other to one of the leading wires, the other leading wire being attached to the
other contact piece.
The lower chamber is fitted with a piston by which the mercury may be raised
again into the upper chamber in order to restore the circuit.
The cut out may be readily adjusted so as to come into operation upon the
current attaining any given strength, either by varying the volume of mercury so
returned to the upper chamber and consequently varying the ratio of the displace-
ment of the mercury to the volume of the core or by varying the weight of the core,
or by altering the position of the solenoid or the number of turns of wire of which
it is composed
IMPROVEMENTS IN HAIR PINS FOR SECURING AND RETAINING LADIES' HAIR IN PLACE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Augustus Anderton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th July 1883.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS ANDERTON, Manufacturer of Bradford in the County of
York "IMPROVEMENTS IN HAIR PINS FOR SECURING AND RETAINING LADIES' HAIR
IN PLACE,"
My Invention relates to Improvements in hair pins used by ladies in dressing
their hair, the improvements having for object to give increased security by keeping
the hair in a fixed position when such pins are passed into the hair; and the hair
pins possess the quality of remaining in position in the hair of the wearer without
becoming accidentally displaced or falling out.
My invention consists in making the wire of the hair pins with curved heads of
nearly circular shape, the prongs of the hair pins approaching close together or
nearly so, at the circular heads but gradually increasing in width towards the ends
of the wires or prongs thus giving a springing quality to the prongs of the hair
pins, so that when a hair pin is being passed into the hair, the hair forces the
wedge-shaped prongs farther apart and the hair is allowed to pass freely through
the neck or small part of the pin into the circular head thereby holding and
retaining the hair in position and preventing the hair pins from being accidentally
displaced or falling out.
IMPROVEMENTS IN FANCY WEAVING, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR."
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Tristram and Joel
Whitehead at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st Juno
1883.
WILLIAM HENRY TRISTRAM, Cotton Spinner and Manufacturer; and JOEL
WHITEHEAD, Designer, both of Halliwell near Bolton in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FANCY WEAVING, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR."
Our invention relates to a particular kind of weaving by means of the jacquard
loom; the cloth having different effects or styles of weaving, namely; leno or
cross-weaving, with plain or solid woaving, or with brocade or float weaving, or
in all styles together at will, according to the pattern or effect desired to be
produced.
We divido the hooks of the jacquard machine into two sets, so that one half can
descend while the other half portion rises, and vice versa, each set working its
own harness; or the jacquard machine can be divided into any number of sets
equally or otherwise, according to the pattern desired.
The harness is coupled to the jacquard machine, part of which consists of a
double mail, provided with two holes in the top part, one hole in the centre, and
one in the bottom part of the mail; the usual leashes and lingoes being provided.
One warp thread passes through the centro hole of the double mail, one or more
warp threads pass through the ordinary mails behind the double mails, and passes
over them, between the two harness threads in the two holes in the top part of the
aforesaid double mails. As the harness thread in one of the two top holes in the
double mail rises, that part of the jacquard to which the other thread which passes
through the other top hole is attached, descends, and allows the thread to move
round the end or ends, which pass between them without lifting them up.
The working of the harness of course varies, as well as the motion of the
jacquard, according to the pattern being woven.
The novelty of this invention is that leno or cross-weaving with geometrical or
other patterns or figures are performed with a considerably reduced harness;
together with the improved double mail.
It also dispenses with the usual "doup" mails and healds for weaving the leno
part of the cloth; the whole being performed by the manipulation of the aforesaid
harness and jacquard.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLOCK ICE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Whitworth Nightingale at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st December 1883.
WILLIAM WHITWORTH NIGHTINGALE, Manager and Secretary of the Southport
Glaciarium and Ice Manufacturing Company Limited of Southport in the County
of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLOCK ICE."
In the manufacture of what is commonly called Block Ice it has been usual to
effect the desired freezing of the water under operation by immersing the moulds
containing such water in tanks containing the desired cooling and freezing mixture
or the boxes or moulds are otherwise surrounded by such cooling or freezing
mixture and the water to be frozen supplying each box or mould is kept in a state
of constant agitation to liberate, as much as possible, the air contained in such
water during the freezing of it and it is found that the multiplicity of the agitating
means employed is very expensive and otherwise objectionable adding materially
to the cost of the Ice making.
The object of my improvements is by simplifying the process to reduce the
present cost of Ice making
For this purpose the water to be frozen is supplied by any suitable means to an
elevated reservoir closed by a suitable cover so as to be as much as possible air
tight but with a tubular outlet extending to some considerable elevation to
facilitate the carrying away of air removed from the water in this reservoir-and
I effect the driving off or withdrawal of the air from the water in this tank by
means of agitators applied in or in connection with the water in this reservoir by
which the air will to a large extent be removed from such water and then such
water is allowed to flow by suitable channels with connecting means into the
moulds or boxes in which the ice is to be formed such boxes or moulds having
been previously exhausted of air they contained. These boxes or moulds when
filled may be separated from the source of supply and then be operated upon by
immersion or otherwise in the freezing mixture so as to effect the desired Ice making
By these means clear or transparent Ice is obtained
The air may be also removed from the water in the reservoir of supply by
pressure thereon. Pressure may also be applied to the water in the boxes or
moulds
IMPROVED MEANS FOR CHARGING GAS RETORTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Friedrich Carl Glaser at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th September 1883. Communicated
to him by R. W. Grice of Aix-la-Chapelle in the Empire of Germany
"
FRIEDRICH CARL GLASER of Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of
Germany, Engineer and Patent Solicitor IMPROVED MEANS FOR CHARGING GAS
RETORTS" [communicated to him by R. W. Grice of Aix-la-Chapelle in the Empire
of Germany]
The present Invention consists in a method of filling gas retorts whereby the
scoops containing the coals are carried by an endless band into the retorts and then
drawn back very rapidly, so that the coals by their own vis inertia remain behind
in the retorts. The forward as well as the backward movement of the scoops
may be effected by a variety of mechanical arrangements, as for example, the
following:-
On a wagon which runs on rails in front of the furnaces is arranged a platform
which, by means of a crane, can be elevated to the height of the bottoms of the
retorts. The platform carries rollers which, through ropes or chains, are connected
together so that all may be turned simultaneously by means of a crank. Over
these rollers runs an endless band (made of wire web or the like) on which the
scoop rests, and thus, as desired, can be moved forwards or backwards, either by
hand or steam power. In order to prevent the slipping of the scoops on the
endless band during the forward movement, a rod or bar is fitted to the band
and which serves to connect the scoop to the band. The rapid withdrawl of the
scoop from under the coals may be effected by the liberation of springs, which may
be placed in a state of tension either by the forward movement of the scoop or in
any other convenient way.
A falling weight connected by a rope or chain with the scoop, a vacuum, or a
heavy rotating fly wheel may also be employed for the like purpose. The effect of
the backward movement or recoil of the scoop may be taken up or neutralized by
an air cushion or spring buffer.
It will be understood that if the scoop be pushed forward rapidly and its motion
be suddenly reversed the coal will be thrown forward and thus the velocity required
in withdrawing the scoop may be considerably reduced,
A NEW OR IMPROVED COOKING UTENSIL SPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR THE COOKING OF EGGS, BUT WHICH MAY ALSO BE APPLIED FOR COOKING OTHER ARTICLES OF FOOD
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Darling at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 10th March 1883.
JOHN DARLING, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
" A NEW
OR IMPROVED COOKING UTENSIL SPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR THE COOKING OF
EGGS, BUT WHICH MAY ALSO BE APPLIED FOR COOKING OTHER ARTICLES OF
FOOD,"
This Invention, which relates to a new or improved apparatus which is specially
applicable for the cooking of eggs or other articles of food in regard to which the
cooking operation is required to be stopped at any exact instant of time, consists of
a vessel wherein is contained a moveable tray capable of being vertically moved
upwards or downwards therein. On this tray the eggs or other articles to be cooked
are laid, and during the cooking operation are wholly or partially immersed in the
water contained in the vessel.-The moveable tray is carried in vertical guides and
is provided with one or more spiral springs at its under side.-In the neighbourhood
of the vertical guides, a vertical hollow or tube is situated wherein is placed a
spring having a prong which when pushed forward projects through the bottom
part of the tube and coming over an attachment of the tray prevents the spiral
spring or springs from forcing the tray upwards.
When using the apparatus for boiling eggs or cooking other food the tray is
depressed in the manner hereinbefore described and the spring with its prong
drawn or pushed forwards in order to retain the tray at the bottom of the
vessel, and when the parts are relatively in this position, a piece of soluble sub-
stance such as hard salt, soda, alum, or an equivalent substance which having a
given bulk will dissolve in the water in a constant period of time, is dropped
thereinto and keeps the spring and prong in the holding down position until it is
dissolved. The period of solution corresponds with the period necessary to properly
boil an egg or eggs or other food placed thereon and at the moment of solution of
the said substance the spring and prong are released so that the spring or springs,
at the underside of the tray, instantly lift the tray and the eggs or other food that
are placed thereon up out of the water or other liquid in which the boiling operation
has taken place.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE JET NOZZLES OF GARDEN ENGINES HOP-WASHERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR APPARATUS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Haines of Horsmonden in the County of Kent
for an Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE JET NOZZLES OF GARDEN
ENGINES HOP-WASHERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR APPARATUS
"
'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Haines at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th April 1883.
EDWIN HAINES of Horsmonden in the County of Kent "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
THE JET NOZZLES OF GARDEN ENGINES, HOP WASHERS AND. OTHER SIMILAR
APPARATUS
"
My Invention relates to s an improved spreader for the jet nozzles of garden
engines and other apparatus for discharging a stream of water and has for its
object to furnish a detachable, and reversible attachment capable of being readily.
adjusted to vary the character of the stream of liquid as required so that the round'
jet as it issues from the nozzle may be more or less deflected and spread or,
distributed over any desired extent of surface.
The spreader consists of a blade or plate of sheet metal of variable shape in
outline and which is curved to a slightly concavo-convex form in cross section, and
furnished with a shank which is inserted in a socket or grooves provided on the
nozzle. The shank may be slid inore or less far into its socket so as to present the
blade of the spreader more or less closely to the dischargo orifice of the nozzle.
Being reversible either the concave or the convex surface of the spreader may be
presented for the liquid jet issuing from the nozzle to impinge upon, the jet being
thereby deflected and distributed more or less according to the forin, angle, and
distance of the surface. Being detachable and made of flat or nearly flat pieces of
sheet metal, two or more of these spreaders of different forms may be conveniently
provided for one nozzle and may be readily. substituted the one for the other
according to the effect it is desired to produce on the jet.

page_text: the same I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein before in part recited Letters Patent is:
1st. A detachable and reversible spreader for the jet nozzles of garden engines
and similar apparatus consisting of a metal plate either curved transversely or not
as specified, in combination with grooves or clips on the nozzle for holding the
spreader, substantially as shown and described.
2nd A jet nozzle for garden engines and similar apparatus constructed with clips,
grooves, or sockets, substantially as herein shewn and described in combination
with a removable spreader.
In witness whereof I the said Edwin Haines have hereunto set my hand and
seal this twenty-sixth day of October A.D. 1883.
IMPROVEMENT IN SHIRTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Charlton at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th June 1883.
GEORGE CHARLTON of the City and County of Newcastle on Tyne
IMPROVEMENT IN SHIRTS
"
" AN
My Invention relates to an improved construction of mens' shirt and has for its
object to enable the front to be starched and ironed with greater facility, to enable
the garment to be put on or off more readily, to ensure a better fit of the body
portion, and a better set of the front combined with greater comfort to the wearer
and at same time to lessen the amount of material required by avoiding the
looseness at the back now requisite to enable the garment to be passed over the
head and shoulders.
The Invention consists in a construction of shirt wherein the front is made
without the usual opening down the centre in fastening which the front is so apt
to be soiled, and in substituting for a central opening extending only a short
distance down the body portion of the garment, an opening extending the whole
length of the garment from the neck band to the tail, or in other words making
the garment to open completely in the manner of a coat said opening being situated
at one side of the front at which point the edges overlap and are secured by
buttons
By these means the garment may be put on and off like a coat without passing
it over the head as usual, and consequently it may be made closely fitting at the
back instead of being made of the usual loose or baggy form which is so liable to
cause discomfort by working or gathering in folds.
The front being made in one piece and being situated wholly in one flap along-
side the opening above described, may be much more readily got up by the
laundress than when it is attached on all sides to the body part of the garment as
usual.
IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Hindson at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th June 1883.
WILLIAM HINDSON, Engineer, of Park Works Gateshead-on-Tyne in the County
of Durham "IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILERS
"
My Invention has for its object to so construct Steam boilers that effective
evaporation and economy of fuel are secured whilst at the same time there is
economy in first cost and the parts are arranged so as to give a strong construction
of boiler
My Invention is especially applicable to vertical boilers but may also be applied
to Lancashire and Cornish Boilers. I will describe it as applied to a vertical
Boiler from which description its application to boilers of the other types will be
readily understood
The boiler constructed according to my Invention has a fire box with an uptake
so arranged that the flame and heated gases from the fire are made to inpinge
upon a number of crown plates and are also in their passage to the chimney made
to pass through a series of tubes whereby they are further split up and the heat
thereof thoroughly concentrated below the level of the water in the boiler the
shell of which surrounds the said fire box and uptake. The fire box has a domed
top from which a passage leads into a first combustion chamber from which open
the aforesaid series of tubes they leading into a second combustion chamber from
which the products of combustion pass from the furnace. The crown plates or
roofs of the fire box and the two combustion chambers together with the series of
tubes give a very effective breaking up and concentration of the flame and gases
as the passage from the fire box to the first combustion chamber opens opposite &
baffling part of the roof of said chamber and the series of tubes are arranged to
the sides or around the outer part of this roof and open opposite another baffling
surface formed by the outward portions of the roof of the second combustion
chamber the Chimney opening from the central part of the said roof
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO VELOCIPEDES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry James Grout at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th January 1883.
WILLIAM HENRY JAMES GROUT of Watson Street Stoke Newington in the
county of Middlesex Engineer and Velocipede Manufacturer IMPROVEMENTS IN
AND RELATING TO VELOCIPEDES
"
"
This Invention has for its object a more simple and efficient means of
constructing velocipedes such as tricycles and the like in such manner that the
variations for speed and power suitable to the nature of roads or the season of the
year may be satisfactorily and expeditiously made.
To accomplish this object I employ a pair of levers attached to a suitably
designed frame, these levers being provided with sliding blocks capable of being
moved by racks and pinions, worms and worm-wheels or equivalent mechanism
from what is known as the "steadying handle" or otherwise.
These blocks therefore can travel along the levers whether in motion or at rest
and so vary the leverage within certain limits to any desired extent.
I com-
municate the power from these levers by rods chains bands straps or the like to a
pair of oscillating pulleys fitted with pawls working in ratchets preferably cut in a
suitable brake drum enclosing a set of wheels or as it is termed a "balance gear,"
whereby I always drive both wheels whether at speed or power, and when turning
in a curvilinear path.
To communicate the motion from the handle to the said racks and pinions or
equivalent devices I may use short rods fitted with universal joints or by bevel
wheels mounted on rods.
I may balance the levers by connecting them to a rocking beam or beams
pivoted on the frame so that as one lever is depressed the other is raised and at the
same time undue pressure on the axle removed, or I may so arrange the levers that
they may be worked alternately or in unison.
Another part of my invention relates to readily reducing the width of the
machine to pass the same through a doorway or passage.
To effect this I construct the driving axle about the width of the frame in its
widest part, and near the ends of the axle are a collar and union nut

page_text: The axle ends are tapered to fit corresponding holes in the tubular extension of
the wheel hubs, which are also fitted with screw threads to engage with the
union nuts.
By screwing up these nuts the tapered axle ends are tightly drawn into the
holes in the hubs.
To narrow the machine the nuts are unscrewed when they press against the face
of the bearings and are easily forced off. When this is done the machine runs on
the front wheel and on one of small size provided at the back of the machine and
can thus reduced pass through a space about two thirds of its width.
A NEW AND IMPROVED MOUTH-ORGAN
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd March 1883. A communication
to him from abroad by Otto Zabekow of Berlin, in the German Empire.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, A NEW AND IMPROVED
MOUTH-ORGAN, a communication to me from abroad by Otto Zabekow, of Berlin,
in the German Empire,
#
This Invention relates to a mouth organ or harmonica, to be operated by the
breath of the performer (like a flute) but in which the different sounds are
produced by means of a travelling music sheet moved before suitable air-openings
by means of rollers turned by hand.
For this purpose I compose the instrument of the following principal parts;
namely a hollow mouth-piece, a wind-chest and mechanism for moving the inusic
sheet. The windchest is attached to the outer end of the mouth-piece and contains
two rows of reeds, as well as two air valves. The two rows of reeds are attached
to opposite sides of a frame analogous to that of an ordinary mouth organ, and
placed inside the windchest, one row opening inward and the other outward
relatively to the frame, and one air valve being a suction valve for air sucked from
the wind-chest into the mouth-piece, while the other is a discharge valve for air
blown from the mouthpiece into the wind chest.
On the outer side of the wind chest (that opposite the mouth piece) is a row of
openings through which the inside of the reed-frame communicates with the
atmosphere and in front of which the music sheet travels.
For transporting the music sheet I use two or more parallel rollers one of which
is held in position by springs or equivalent means and made removable. For
connecting the contiguous ends of music sheets I use a detachable band or equivalent
means, instead of gum, or similar binding material, which band may be fixed to
one sheet and have tongues adapted to be passed through corresponding slots of
the contiguous sheet to which they are subsequently secured. For automatically
winding up the music sheet after use, I use two string-pullies of unequal diameter
connected by an elastic string capable of sliding over them when required.
This Invention also comprises a double acting spring capable of yielding side-
ways as well as lengthways and serving as an axle bearing for one of the rollers
which transport the music sheet, also a detachable hollow mouthpiece serving at
the same time as a handle for holding the instrument.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN ENGINES FOR MOTIVE POWER, COMPRESSION AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry George Williams at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th January 1883.
HENRY GEORGE WILLIAMS of 76 Calvert Road, East Greenwich in the County
of Kent "AN IMPROVEMENT IN ENGINES FOR MOTIVE POWER, COMPRESSION AND
OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
"
This Invention consists primarily in dispensing with connecting rods to transmit
the power from the piston rod or plunger of any engine actuated by steam,
compressed air, or water under pressure; and Secondly can be used in an inverse
direction for producing power by compressing air or by water to be used in any
motor driven by a liquid or gaseous body under pressure.
I use in my Invention a spur wheel revolving in an annular or internally toothed
wheel, the diameter of the spur wheel or pinion being exactly one half the diameter
of the internally toothed wheel and gearing thereinto.
A stud on the pitch line of the pinion or spur wheel makes during its revolution
around the centre of the annular or internally toothed wheel a straight line across
its diameter, and the crosshead of a piston rod, actuated by steam, compressed air,
or by water, attached thereto will necessarily travel in a straight liue, and will thus
preclude the necessity of using either connecting rods or guides.
In the same way but in an inverse direction by making the spur wheel or
pinion a driven wheel instead of a driving wheel, I can use the pistons or plungers
so driven as air, compressors for transmitting power to other motors; the principle
of using an internally toothed wheel in which is revolving an externally toothed
wheel of one half the diameter of the former remaining the same, The power, to
be transmitted is taken off or applied at the pitch line of the smaller or externally
toothed wheel in each case.
My invention also does away with the necessity of making the cylinders
oscillating as is the case with water or gaseous engines where the power is taken
directly from the piston rod, without the intervention of a connecting rod or its
equivalent.
IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM WINCHES FOR SHIPS DECKS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Roger at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 10th August 1883.
ROBERT ROGER, Engineer, of Stockton-on-Tees in the County of Durham
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM WINCHES FOR SHIPS DECKS"
My invention has for its object the making of steam winches for ships de:ks
which shall use a less quantity of steam than those now in use
This is effected by passing the same steam through different sized cylinders
forming a pair of engines working cranks at right angles in the usual way. The
steam passes first through the smaller cylin ler and afterwards through the larger,
by this means the steam is expanded and a low terminal pressure is produced in
the larger cylinder. At the same time each cylinder respectively maintains a more
uniforin heat before the steam is passed into the atmosphere.
The capacities of the cylinders are so proportioned that the power transmitted to
each crank is practically equal and the valve gear is arranged so as to keep steam
on the pistons through the greater part of the stroke and thus produce uniform
revolving power without which this invention would be useless.
In order that the engines thus made shall start and reverse satisfactorily the
motion of the reversing lever is made to open a valve which admits a little steam
direct into the larger or low pressure cylinder. This is effected whilst the reversing
lever is moving from mid gear either to fore or back full gear.
I arrange a safety valve on the low pressure steam chest to prevent too great a
pressure being thus applied to the piston of the larger cylinder..
I prefer to bolt the cylinders down to a bed plate and not against the sides of
franies as is usually done, by this means better access is had to the respective gears
and pipes of the two cylinders. The cylinders may bo jacketed or unjacketed
but it may be remarked that this invention makes steam jacketing of secondary
importance.
MENTS IN RAILWAY SIGNALLING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter William Linscott at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd February 1883.
WALTER WILLIAM LINSCOTT of King Street in the City of London,
MENTS IN RAILWAY SIGNALLING,"
"IMPROVE
My Invention for railway signalling more especially during foggy or heavy
weather, consists mainly as follows:-The apparatus is enclosed in a box on which
is fixed a "biassed" or weighted wheel, grooved wheel for the rope or chain used
from signal box, and a striking arm and wheel for setting the apparatus. On the
outside is a gong or bell, and at one end a lever, which when touched or acted upon
by passing engine or train, sets the apparatus in motion, immediately striking the
gong. The apparatus can be constructed to strike the gong more than once if
necessary, and same will be connected with signal box by the ordinary means of
wire ropes or chains, and worked by lever handles, with bell attached in the signal
box-The setting of these gong signals is effected from signal box by means of
lever handles, and on train passing a signal gong, it will at once be known in
signal box by the position of lever handles, at same time, signalman's attention is
called by means of small bell acting with lever, thus informing him where the
train has arrived.-The apparatus being portable can be used by platelayers and
men at work on permanent way; it can be set by them at any distance, to notify
the drivers how to proceed, and on a train passing the signal will at once inform
the workmen of a train being on the line.
Where trains are running at short intervals, it would be best to work this
arrangement of fog signalling distinct from the ordinary signalling.
IMPROVEMENTS IN A MOVEABLE OVEN PRODUCING A CONCENTRATED AND COMPENSATED HEAT FOR COOKING AND BAKING PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Leon Dathis at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th January 1883.
LEON DATHIS of Paris in the Republic of France "IMPROVEMENTS IN A
MOVEABLE OVEN PRODUCING A CONCENTRATED AND COMPENSATED HEAT FOR
COOKING AND BAKING PURPOSES,"
My invention has for its object to cook provisions equally and economically by
means of a simple stove applicable in various localities. The stove constructed for
this purpose comprises a metallic base-plate placed over any suitable fire or source
of heat and supporting on its flange a hood lined with a bad conductor of heat.
Inside this apparatus is placed one or more plates or trays (preferably of metal)
insulated from the walls and supported by racks or any other suitable means.
These plates or trays may be made hollow and serve to divide and direct the heat
emanating from the base, equally upon the articles to be cooked, which are placed
in or near the focus or foci of radiating surfaces which form the inside of the hood,
but preferably on the upper plate or tray. The plate or plates allow a part of the
heat coming from below to pass to the underside of the upper platform, while the
rest of the heat rises through the annular spaces left between the said plates and
the walls, so as to strike the inside of the hood, by which it is reflected down upon
the upper plate.
A cylindrical casing may be placed between the lower edge of the hood and the
supporting flange of the base-plate, and the hood or casing may be provided with
suitable openings for the inspection of the inside, and with a thermometer for
observing the degree of heat.
IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOUNDS IN THE NATURE OF VULCANIZED INDIA RUBBER AND HARD RUBBER
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Henry Huth at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th April 1883.
ALFRED HENRY HUTH of 17 Kensington Square in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOUNDS IN THE NATURE OF VULCANIZED
INDIA RUBBER AND HARD RUBBER."
This Invention has for its object improvements in compounds in the nature of
vulcanized india rubber and hard rubber.
I prepare soft rubber compounds from the following ingredients in the proportions
indicated.
•
India rubber
parts
64
Sulphur
parts parts parts parts parts
04 64
5 or 6 or 7
64
or 8
64
64
or 7 or 5 or 8
parts
64
Camphor
2
2
4
6
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"
"
"
"
21 21
Kauri
12
14
14
12
26
"
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37
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71 71
I mix also with the above compounds Farina of mustard or linseed or like seeds
from which oil has been separated by pressure.
Also I add lime, glycerine and insulite. Twenty four parts of Farina is a suitable
proportion. If Insulite be also added 8 parts of Farina and 24 of Insulite is
found suitable. Glycerine may be used in the proportion of 8 parts with or
without Insulite.
Lime may be used in the proportion of 5 parts.
IMPROVED MEANS OF SIMULTANEOUSLY REMOVING THE CORES FROM, AND SLICING, OR CUTTING APPLES, PEARS, AND THE LIKE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Downie and William John
Sage at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th April 1883.
WILLIAM DOWNIE of 35 Lorne Road in the County of Middlesex Managing
Director and WILLIAM JOHN SAGE of 77 Lorrimore Road in the County of Surrey
Manager. "IMPROVED MEANS OF SIMULTANEOUSLY REMOVING THE CORES FROM,
AND SLICING, OR CUTTING APPLES, PEARS, AND THE LIKE
"
In a rectangular frame of suitable material to which, are attached two or more
upright bars, we mount a series (six or any desired number) of cutters, each of
which is formed and acts as hereinafter, described, and is actuated by a lever-
handle, or other suitable contrivance suitably pivoted. by which the combined,
cutters are raised and lowered through oscillating connections which at their lower
ends, are riveted to said frame in which the cutters are secured, the vertical travel
of the cutters being insured by guides fixed to a stand, or cutting board provided
with recesses, to facilitate the placing of the apples, pears, or such like under the
cutters. Each of these cutters consists of a hoop, or hollow circle of tin, zinc, or
other suitable material in the centre whereof is fixed, a vertical tube of the like
material which is held in position by a convenient number of pieces of the like
material placed edgewise, and joined or soldered thereto after the manner of the spokes
of an ordinary carriage wheel, and also to the inner side of the periphery of said hoop.
These pieces act, as blades or cutters in the process hereinafter described.
aforesaid tube is somewhat longer than the depth of the periphery, of said hoop so
that when the entire device herein described is placed upon a plane surface the
aforesaid tube, and the ends of the blades, attached thereto rest upon the object to
be operated upon, whilst the lower edge of the periphery of the aforesaid hoop,
and the other portions, of said blades joined thereto, are raised above said plane.
We provide for said device now being described, a convenient handle such as that
of an ordinary teakettle, when the device is used singly, and not in a series. The
apple, pear, or such like having been peeled is placed endwise upon a table, and
under the device which is pressed upon the apple pear, or such like, and the
operator by, a single downward push, or pressure removes the core which remains
in the aforesaid tube, and slices by means of the aforesaid blades the apple, pear,
or such like.
The
IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC LAMPS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Wilson Swan at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th September 1883.
JOSEPH WILSON SWAN of Bromley in the County of Kent-" IMPROVEMENTS
IN ELECTRIC LAMPS
"
It is well known that Platinum possesses the property of absorbing atmospheric
air and other gases-This property has caused a defect in that class of electric lamp
in which a carbon filament is contained in a vacuous glass bulb-Platinum wire is
usually employed to support the carbon filament in such lamps, and, under the
action of the heat generated during use, the atmospheric air occluded in the wire
is gradually emitted and acts chemically upon the hot carbon filament to its
detriment
My Invention has for its object the remedying of this evil, and consists in
subjecting the platinum wire to be used in the construction of lamps of the kind
to a treatment which will effect the removal from it of atmospheric air, and, the
substitution of a gas chemically inert as regards the carbon filament
In carrying out my Invention I effect the removal or extraction of atmospheric
air from the wire by heating it either electrically or otherwise in a vacuum, and I
then admit into contact with the wire the nitrogen or other suitable inert
gas which it is intended it should absorb instead of the atmospheric air, and
I allow such gas to remain sufficiently long in contact with the wire to insure
its complete gaseous saturation-I employ the wire thus treated for forming the
conducting supports of the carbon filaments in the lamps of the kind herein
referred to.
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IMPROVEMENTS IN LAUNDRY PANS AND BOILERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Hartley, Zaccheus Sugden,
and Charles Parker at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
10th April 1883.
THOMAS HARTLEY, Commercial Traveller and ZACCHEUS SUGDEN Boiler Maker
both of Halifax in the County of York and CHARLES PARKER Engineer of
Amberley Mews, Amberley Road, Paddington, in the County of Middlesex-
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LAUNDRY PANS AND BOILERS"
Heretofore "coppers or "set pans" used in Laundrys or Wash houses were set in
brick work provided with firing hole or furnace, the heat from which after acting
on the copper or set pan was not further utilized but passed away to the flue.
According to this our invention we dispense with the use of brickwork setting
and combine with the copper or set pan a boiler for heating water.
The copper or set pan is received within the hot water boiler, the latter being
provided with necessary fire box smoke outlet and usual pipe connections for
securing supply of hot water for Laundry or other use, or the said boiler may have
flow and return sockets attached to circulating pipes so as to adapt the boiler to
the warming of buildings, Greenhouses or other uses by the circulation of hot
water
It will thus be seen that the fuel used for heating the copper or set pan is not as
heretofore largely absorbed by the brick setting but is utilized by the boiler as
described.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE INDIA-RUBBER TYRES AND METAL RIMS OR FELLOES OF BICYCLE TRICYCLE AND OTHER WHEELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Clarke at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 19th September 1883.
THOMAS CLARKE of Manchester in the County of Lancaster
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE INDIA-RUBBER TYRES AND METAL RIMS OR FELLOES OF BICYCLE TRICYCLE
AND OTHER WHEELS."
This invention consists in forming a groove with straight parallel sides slightly
widened out at the mouth and with a curved base in the metal rim or felloe of
bicycle, Tricycle and other wheels and in forming the india-rubber tyre of a
similar corresponding cross-section to auch groove so that the same can be
cemented in position along the curved base whilst the straight parallel sides afford
a protection to effectually prevent the tyre coming out of the groove
A NEW AND AUTOMATIC SWITCH FOR ELECTRIC LIGHTING [LIGHTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Francis Pollak at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th July 1883.
CHARLES FRANCIS POLLAK of 54 Wool Exchange, Coleman Street in the City
of London 'A NEW AND AUTOMATIC SWITCH FOR ELECTRIC LIGHTING [LIGHTS]'
My Invention consists of an new and Automatic Switch for Electric Lighting.
I place upon a round board (or any other insulating material) a number of
receptacles as in ordinary use in the Jablochkoff System. I connect one side of all
these receptacles by a wire or metal ring and from this ring I make one wire
connection for the circuit. Upon the other side of the receptacles I place strong
springs of a conducting material bent towards the centre of the Board and
working against a metal plate in the shape of a Kight or Triangle with a circular
base next the receptacles (which base is a little wider than the space between two
Candles). To the middle of the base of this Triangle I affix a piece of Fire proof
material such as china clay, Porcelain, Asbestos etc which projects a little over
the edge. This Triangle is fixed by its apex to the centre of the Board where I -
place a spring which when wound up acts on the Triangle and turns it round.
In the centre point I fix the second wire forming the Circuit
As soon as the Candles are put in and the middle spring wound up it causes
the Triangle to turn round and the piece of fire proof material projecting from the
middle of the Triangle presses against one of the Candles. When this candle is
burned down past the point where the projecting fire proof material presses
against it the Triangle turns it round to the next candle and the Springs upon the
receptacles forming the connection the next candle is put into the circuit before
the first one is entirely gone out and no interruption occurs.
IMPROVEMENTS IN HOSIERY STITCHING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Douglas and John Frederick
Bird at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st May 1883.
JAMES DOUGLAS, Tea Dealer and JOHN FREDERICK BIRD, Mechanic both of
Wigston Magna in the county of Leicester "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOSIERY
STITCHING MACHINES
"
Our invention relates to improvements in the ordinary Hosiery Stitching
Machine whereby the raw edges left after sewing together two pieces of fabric are
automatically removed with less waste than bas bitherto been the case.
In the stitching machine commonly in use in the hosiery trade the fabric is
carried on a horizontal revolving cylinder the circumference of which is armed with
a series of points from which the fabric to be sewn is suspended; the revolution of
the cylinder brings the work up to the needle which works horizontally a little
below the level of the row of points above mentioned, where the fabric is sewn and
the seam carried forward to a pair of cutting edges or knife blades one of which is
fixed and the other movable; by the action of these the raw edge is cut off.
The fixed blade in our improved machine is so placed that its back falls into a
groove in the circumference of the cylinder just above the row of points, so that its
cutting edge is horizontal and facing outwards and tapers to a point in the direction
of the work, the movable blade working to and fro on a pivot and being actuated
from the shaft of the stitching machine by a crank and connecting rod or their
equivalents
The points from which the work is suspended being below the knife and our
object being to save waste by making the margin or raw edge which has to be cut
off as narrow as possible, it is necessary to lift the seam slightly after it leaves the
needle; to effect this we use a spring, the extremity of which when in its natural
position is above the points but is so shaped that as such point passes over it, it is
depressed and released again as the point passes forward; when released it springs
up and being so arranged with regard to the fabric on the cylinder as to engage
with it in its recoil, it has the effect of lifting the said work to the proper level;
the work is then guided to the knife by a fixed guide so arranged as to leave a
narrow passage between itself and the cylinder.
.