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A NEW OR IMPROVED DRYING APPARATUS FOR TREATING SALVAGE, GRAIN, HOPS, MALT, TEA, SPICES WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS AND MATERIALS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Frank Conway Morris,
Thomas Henry Baker, and William Francis at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents on the 15th November 1883.
CHARLES FRANK CONWAY MORRIS of 30 St Thomas Street Southwark THOMAS
HENRY BAKER of Bow and WILLIAM FRANCIS of Bermondsey
"A NEW OR
IMPROVED DRYING APPARATUS FOR TREATING SALVAGE, GRAIN, HOPS, MALT, TEA,
SPICES WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS AND MATERIALS
"
This invention has for its object an improved desiccating apparatus which is
not only simple and economic in construction but is also far more effective in its
operation than any hitherto employed
Such improved apparatus consists of a Conical kiln of any suitable dimensions
and elevation fitted about midway with a trellis framework thus dividing the kiln
into an upper and lower chamber.
This staging or flooring is covered with perforated tiles of fire-clay, copper, or
any other suitable material or metal thus forming a staging or flooring upon which
the salvage or other material to be operated upon is placed by means of a suitable
elevator and when dried is withdrawn through an iron shoot either direct into
sacks or on to the floor below
Fitted in a well formed beneath the bottom chamber of the kiln is a blast
furnace which is supplied with air through an inlet pipe communicating with the
external atmosphere while in order both to assist combustion and preserve the
fire bars the well is filled with water to any convenient height, provision being
made for withdrawing such water when desired by a suitable outlet service of
pipes and taps
To ensure the heat radiating evenly over the entire kiln the top of the furnace
is fitted with a damper which can be raised or lowered as desired by means of a
chain pulley or other equivalent device
This simple and inexpensive system of construction will be found most effective
in operation as thereby large quantities of material of the most delicate and
sensitive nature, such as hops can be most effectively treated
IMPROVEMENTS IN GOVERNORS [GEAR] FOR GAS ENGINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Ashbury, Herbert Sumner,
William Lees, and Richard Withington Bromily Sanderson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 13th March 1883.
THOMAS ASHBURY, HERBERT SUMNER, WILLIAM
LEES, and RICHARD
WITHINGTON BROMILY SANDERSON, all of Manchester in the County of Lancaster
'IMPROVEMENTS IN GOVERNORS [GEAR] FOR GAS ENGINES
33
This invention, consists in a Novel arrangement of governor in connection with
tripping levers, and swinging valve spindle for regulating the flow of gas to Gas
Engine Cylinder of which the following is a clear and concise description,
The Governor has a central hollow spindle into which is fitted another spindle
carrying the end of a trip lever, On a stud on which this said trip lever swivels, is
also placed a second or bell crank lever, for the purpose of lifting the gas valve,
This second, or bell crank lever, engages with the end of the swinging valve spindle,
and gets its motion from a suitable cam placed on the same shaft which drives the
Governor the Governor receiving a positive motion from such shaft, The whole is
encased in a suitable Guard or shield forming an oil catcher
IMPROVEMENTS IN WHEELS FOR VEHICLES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Compton Merryweather at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th May 1883.
JAMES COMPTON MERRYWEATHER of Greenwich, in the County of Kent, Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WHEELS FOR VEHICLES.".
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The object of this invention is to prevent the wheels of vehicles "skidding
when crossing tramway lines or other irregularities or obstructions in the road.
For this purpose I make the wheel tyre to overhang at one or both sides of the
wheel and provide notches in the overhanging portion or portious, leaving pro-
jections which will act upon the tram rail or other obstacle and lift the wheel
over it.
The use of my invention will be found especially advantageous in roads having
tram rails above or below the general level and when it is required to cross them
at an acute angle with ordinary wheeled vehicles.
IMPROVED GUIDES FOR THE ROPE OE ROPE TRACTION RAILWAYS OR TRAMWAYS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Marryatt Martin at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th December 1883.
HENRY MARRYATT MARTIN of N° 5 Bedford Place in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVED GUIDES FOR THE ROPE OE ROPE TRACTION RAILWAYS OR TRAMWAYS
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My invention relates to the guides for the rope employed in rope traction
railways or tramways. This rope is usually supported on vertical guide pullies
mounted in the channel in which it runs. It may happen, that when the gripping
apparatus has to be engaged or released, one of these guide pullies is in the way
and does not permit the required movements of the gripper apparatus. In order
to provide against such interference with the working of the gripper apparatus, I
mount all the guide pullies on radial arms so that they can oscillate vertically, and
on these radial arms I pivot levers with arms projecting upwards and downwards,
these levers being pressed by weights or springs so as to take a vertical position, in
which position the lower arm in each case serves as a strut supporting the guide
pulley. When, however, the gripper apparatus comes to bear against the upper
arm of any of the levers it moves it aside, thus removing the strut and allowing
the guide pulley to descend so as to be clear of the gripper. When the gripper has
passed, a counterweight raises the guide pulley, and the strut resumes its position
supporting it. In cases where the line is curved, the rope throws a considerable
lateral strain upon the gripper tending to make the gripper stem rub hard against
the side of the continuous slot through which it passes. To provide against this, I
mount on the gripper stem horizontal radial arms carrying guide rollers. When
the gripper is reaching a curved part of the line, these radial arms, in passing
stationary stops, are caused to move outwards from the gripper stem, so that the
rollers which they carry are made to bear against the sides of the rope channel,
and so to relieve the gripper stem from such lateral strain as would otherwise cause
it to rub against the side of the slot. After the curved part of the line is passed,
another set of stops acts on the radial arms so as to make them move inwards, and
so withdraw their guide rollers from contact with the sides of the channel.
cases where the channel has to be constructed, it may be made somewhat narrower
in its curved than in its straight parts, and the guide rollers carried by the gripper
stem may be mounted on stationary arms, so adjusted that their rollers bear against
the sides of the channel in the curved parts where it is more narrow, but are clear
of it in the straight parts which are wider.
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IMPROVEMENTS AND RELATING TO CAPS FOR AXLE-BOXES, OR BUSHES OF WHEELED VEHICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Dugdale at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd July 1883.
"IMPROVEMENTS
EDWIN DUGDALE, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster
IN AND RELATING TO CAPS FOR AXLE-BOXES, OR BUSHES OF WHEELED VEHICLES"
My Invention has for its object to provide a ready and efficient means for
lubricating axle boxes, or bushes through their caps without requiring the removal
of the cap, as at present requisite, and consists in fitting the cap which screws onto
the axle box with a nipple valve, plug, or equivalent device through which lubri-
cating oil can be supplied to the interior of the cap.
In carrying out my Invention the nipple valve, plug, or equivalent device is
fitted in the face, or side of the cap. When a nipple valve is used, I provide a
spring for keeping the valve closed. For example the nipple valve may be fitted
from the inside of the cap and held up to its seat by a flat spring, so that the
valve can be pushed back and opened from the outside by inserting the nozzle of
an oil can. Under another form the valve may be fitted in a small valve box, or
seat, and be kept closed by a spiral spring, the valve box being fitted in the front,
or side of the cap so that the valve can be opened by the nozzle of an oil can. The
valve may also be fitted from the outside of the cap and kept up to its seat by a
spring, but this does not give so neat an appearance, as when the valve is fitted
from the inside of the cap.
Under another form and instead of the valve I use a screwed plug, screwed into
a screwed hole in the front, or side of the cap, or I use a spring retained, or washer
shield which will slide over the hole. In this case the shield is hung outside the
сар.
My Invention provides a ready and convenient means of supplying the inside of
the cap with oil and does away with the necessity of having to remove the cap
when oil is required. The caps also do not get slack and injured, because the
constant use of spanners, or wrenches is obviated.
A NEW SELF-ACTING PNEUMATIC INDICATOR FOR RAILWAY TRAINS APPLICABLE TO ADVERTISING AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick George Griffin Lines and
John Kendall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd July
1883.
FREDERICK GEORGE GRIFFIN LINES of 31 Tavistock Road, Westbourne Park,
and JOHN KENDALL of School Cottage, St Clements Road, Notting Hill (both in
the County of Middlesex) Engineer "A NEW SELF-ACTING PNEUMATIC INDICATOR
FOR RAILWAY TRAINS APPLICABLE TO ADVERTISING AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
"
The object of our Invention is to afford means whereby the Passengers in
Railway Carriages may be kept informed as to the next Station at which the
train will arrive, the name thereof being clearly shewn by indicators inside the
compartments of the carriages; and, attached to such indicators, advertisements of
various kinds may be displayed simultaneously.
Under any convenient part of a Railway train, we suspend a Pendulum, which
is so hung as to vibrate lengthwise to the train. The upper part of this Pendulum
is enclosed in a box, the pendulum rod passing through a slot in the bottom of the
box. In this box are two single acting air pumps, with suitable inlet and outlet
valves. When the pendulum swings in either direction one of these pumps is
actuated thereby, and the pendulum is again brought to rest by springs fitted to
the piston rods or otherwise. The pendulum is also caused at the same time to
sound a gong, bell, or other alarm to call attention.
The oscillation of the pendulum is effected by a series of small double inclines,
so placed between the rails that which ever way the train is proceeding the
pendulum is, by means of one of the inclines, caused to oscillate in the opposite
direction to the motion of the train, and this oscillation, by means of one of the air
pumps, supplies the motive power for working or moving the Indicators, and also
the advertisements, (if any.)
From the air pumps a small pipe is carried to each "indicated" compartment,
and there connected with a small cylinder and piston or equivalent apparatus. On
receiving an impulse from the main pumps these auxiliary pumps cause the

page_text: existing or prominent indicator to be displaced or moved away out of sight, and
another Indicator to take its place, and there remain until the occurrence of another
impulse and consequent. movement.
We place the inclines on the up and down lines at or near each Station, and as
many Indicators are fitted in the carriages as there are stations to be passed or
called at the name of the next ensuing Station being always in view.
In case of a train over-running a Station, and having to back into it, the
pendulum receives a reverse motion and reinstates the name of the Station.
The Indicators have the names of the Stations printed or written thereupon, and
are mounted upon rollers or slides with ratchet wheels, pawls, pullies and other
suitable impulse gear for actuating the same.
IMPROVEMENTS IN LITHOGRAPHIC PRESSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st July 1883. Communi-
cated to him from abroad by Aisik Schapiro, of Berlin, in the German
Empire
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, IMPROVEMENTS IN
LITHOGRAPHIC PRESSES, a communication to me from abroad by Aisik Schapiro, of
Berlin, in the German Empire.
This invention has for its principal object to automatically vary the pressure on
the printing surface of a lithographic stone, while the latter is drawn through the
press. For this purpose I provide the underside of the table on which the stone
rests, or the upper side of the stone itself, with an inclined or wedgeshaped surface
or surfaces or I use an excentric roller or rollers for lifting the table while it is
being drawn through the press. As long as the roller or rollers, supporting the
table are in contact with a horizontal and thin portion of the latter, the pressure
rémains at a constant minimum, but when they arrive at the inclined portion
(where the table becomes thicker) the table is lifted and the pressure increased
until it has reached its maximum, when the roller is in contact with the thickest
part of the table.
The roller and table may be geared together, or they may simply adhere by
friction.
If an excentric supporting roller is used with which the table is in direct contact,
the roller and table should be geared together, and where a cylindrical roller is
placed between the table and the excentric roller, the latter should be geared
together with the intermediate roller. In either case the table will fall and riso
according to the radius of the excentric roller.
The roller or curved bar which comes in contact with the upper side of the
stone, while it is being drawn through the press, is made vertically adjustable
independently of the supporting roller, and may be pivoted on a horizontal shaft,
which allows the bar to turn sideways and be set out of action when the stone is
drawn backward, while it is arrested by an adjustable stop and held upright when
the stone is drawn forward. Either the upper press-beam, the stone, table, or
roller mechanism is provided with an elastic lining in order to render the pressure
elastic.

page_text: The pressing-board, generally used for lithographic printing and fixed to the
required position by a lever or screw at the beginning of the operation, is in the
improved press held by a frame mounted on two pivots resting in open bearings on
the table.
This frame has two arms which come in contact with the fixed cross-beam after
the stone has been rolled through, whereby the frame is turned on its pivots and
the pressing board lifted out, after which the printed paper can be easily removed.
During the forward motion of the stone, the frame is turned down again by its
contact with the curved bar or rubber.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MILLINERY AND OTHER TRIMMINGS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Wallis Askham at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th July 1883.
WALLIS ASKHAM, of the town and county of the town of Nottingham,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF MILLINERY AND OTHER TRIMMINGS,"
My machinery and apparatus consists of a pair of standards secured to a bed
plate, the standards forin bearings or bearings are secured to them in which the
axles of a number of rollers revolve, one pair of rollers at the back of the machine
are hollow, and are heated by gas and air jets in the usual way, these rolllers are
each reversely fluted from the centre of their length to each end, at any angle
required, the rollers are revolved simultaneously by toothed wheels on one end of
the axles, the other end of the axle of the lower roller carries a toothed wheel
forming one of a series of wheels driven by a belt passed round a fast pulley on a
driving shaft, the wheel on the axle of the lower roller is interchangeable, the same
shaft carries one of a series of toothed wheels which cause an accumulating roller
to revolve, this roller is grooved on its circumference, and is also cut or fluted at
the required angle from the centre towards each end and works through an upper
slotted guide plate capable of adjustment on the standards, below the accumulating
roller is a guide plate, in front of the reversely fluted rollers first named and at
the back of a gas and air heated grooved roller, in the grooves of which the bars
of the slotted guide plate lie, near each end of the grooved roller is formed a
trapping roller, below which is a gas and air heated roller which is either rough on
its surface or slightly fluted in the direction of its length, and pressing upon it is a
gas and air heated trapping roller carried in a swinging frame having springs
attached to it and the standards, the second wheel of the series which give
movement to the whole is capable of adjustment in a slot in the standards. The
material to be operated upon is passed between the reversely fluted rollers first
named, to and over the lower guide plate, and below the slotted guide plate where
it is gathered by the accumulator, and passes between the front fluted and grooved
rollers, a cotton or other thread being firmly pressed upon each edge of the material,
a central tl.read being pressed upon the material by the trapping roller in the
frame before mentioned the material then passes through suitable guides which

page_text: form it into a double pipe two other cottons are then pressed upon the material on
each side of the centre of its width by means of another pair of trapping rollers,
cach heated by gas and air jets, the material to be operated upon, and the cotton
or other threads employed are passed through or over guides suitably placed.
By a machine, constructed as above described, I am enabled to produce reversely
fluted or pleated trimmings of a novel description at twice the speed heretofore
obtained.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SHEARS FOR CLIPPING AND TRIMMING HORSES' TAILS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas William White and
Frederick Awdas at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
27th March 1883.
THOMAS WILLIAM WHITE and FREDERICK AWDAS, both of 5 Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHEARS FOR CLIPPING AND
TRIMMING HORSES' TAILS, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER PURPOSES
"
Our Invention has for its object the clipping and trimming of horses' tails with
greater precision, neatness and expedition than bas hitherto been done
According to the present system, the tail being first spread out is gathered onto
a hook and then clipped and trimmed by scissors or other instrument, but owing
to the slipping of the hairs over the hook and other causes, the tail is clipped and
trimmed unevenly and has an unsightly appearance
Now our Invention, which overcomes this difficulty, consists of a pair of shears
composed of two hook shaped steel knives or blades mounted on each other and
jointed together with their hook shaped cutting edges arranged on the principle of
scissor blades
The handles or levers of these knives or blades behind their joint instead of being
straight or in the same plane with the knives or blades are bent or arranged at an
angle therewith so that on placing the horse's tail between the hook shaped cutting
edges of the knives or blades and closing the latter by their handles or levers the
tail will be clipped evenly and trimmed at the proper angle, in whatever position
the shears may be held
Our invention may also be applied to the cutting and trimming of brushes and
for other purposes where hair or bristles have to be treated
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Wood at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd August 1883.
RICHARD WOOD of Manchester in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
"
The objects of this invention aro to afford a better hold and to prevent slipping
of the feet and at the same time to reduce the jar and shock upon the fetlock and
other joints of the horse or other animal when travelling upon hard paved roads
According to my invention I propose to cast or otherwise form in the outer
surface of the metal shoe a groove of a dovetailed or other undercut section, the
said groove being by preference wider at the central part or toe of the shoe and
narrower towards the heels, and into this groove I force by compression a strip or
pad of corresponding form made of india rubber, gutta percha vulcanite, wood or
other suitable substance, softer and more clastic than metal, the thickness of the
said pad being such that the india rubber or other material projects from one
eighth to one quarter of an inch beyond the lower surface of tho motal shoe, and
thus forms a softer and more clastic surface than the metal for the horse or other
animal to tread upon, not only affording an improved foothold and preventing the
animal from slipping, but also at the same time decreasing the shock and jar upon
the fetlock and other joints of the animal and reducing the liability to injury and
accidents of various kinds.
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO COUPLINGS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER TRAINS OR VEHICLES
Year: 1883

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis Trevor Sydney Hamilton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1883.
FRANCIS TREVOR SYDNEY HAMILTON of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO COUPLINGS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER TRAINS
OR VEHICLES
"
This invention has for its object a self-coupling arrangement, which can be
uncoupled from either side of the carriage without the man going between the
buffers. It consists essentially of (1) a pair of hinged or pivotted hooks at equal
distances from the centre line, one on each side (2) a sliding pin to engage said hook
and (3) lever or screw arrangement for sliding or withdrawing the pin and so
releasing the hook.
These three elements can be combined and arranged in a variety of ways.
The following are examples.
1 The hook hinged or pivotted to oscillate in a vertical plane; the pin of course
is horizontal and passes through one long bearing or two short ones some distance
apart, and when in position for work its end catches in another bearing and the
hook is hooked onto the pin between this bearing and the main one.
Levers or
screw spindles with hand wheel or its equivalent, enable a man by the side of the
car to release the hook by withdrawing the pin
2nd. The hook is pivotted or hinged so as to oscillate in a horizontal plane. In
this case, a spring or its equivalent must keep it in position for hooking unless
forcibly forced aside. The pin is vertical and arranged in bearings as in the last
case. A series of levers enable a man situated on either side of the carriage to
draw the bolt or pin and release the hook. The manner of operating is the same,
in both cases.
To couple, the wagons are simply shunted together. The sloping
nose of the hook coming in contact with the pin is pressed to one side till the nose
end slides over the pin. Then the weight of the hook or the spring or its
equivalent causes the hook to fall or fly into place and engage the pin. To
release the hook the pin is drawn back by the lever or screw mechanism till the
point enters the long bearing; the hook is now free. The lever arrangements can
be either direct-acting or have an intermediate lever. Similarly the pin can be
screwed in direct, or the bearings or one of them drawn apart the one from the
other or one part of the "long" bearing drawn back carrying the bolt with it.
MENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH RAILWAY KEYS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard David Sanders at the
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th July 1883.
RICHARD DAVID SANDERS, of Glasgow, in the county of Lanark,
MENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH RAILWAY KEYS,"
" IMPROVE-
This Invention has reference to certain improved means for preventing the
keys used for securing rails in their chairs from shaking out by the vibration of
passing trains.
In forming the keys for securing rails in railway chairs according to my
Invention, I cut in the outside of the key next the chair, a longitudinal groove,
into which I place a strip of thin metal somewhat longer than the key. The said
strip of metal is split at both ends, so that when the key is in place, one half of
the metal strip may be bent inwards over the ends of the key, and the other half
outwards round the sides of the chair, to prevent the key from falling out should
it become loose. I further drill a number of holes transversely through the key,
and insert plugs of hard wood or other suitable material which will not shrink to
the same extent as the other part of the key.
A METHOD OF ATTACHING A HANDLE TO A STONE TO ENABLE IT TO BE USED FOR " IRONING!"
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Lorentz Albert Groth at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th February 1883. Communicated to
bim from abroad by Laura v. Dulcken, a person resident at Stuttgart in the
Empire of Germany.
"
LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH, K.G.V. Civil Engineer and Managing Director of the
Universal Inventors and Patentees Financial Company Limited, 30 Finsbury
Pavement London E.C. A METHOD OF ATTACHING A HANDLE TO A STONE TO
ENABLE IT TO BE USED FOR " IRONING!" A communication to me from abroad by
Laura v. Dulcken, a person resident at Stuttgart in the Empire of Germany
The said handle is a moveable one and the following is the method of attaching
it to the stone when required for use
At the top of the stone near the fore part there is inserted an eye of iron or other
metal and near the hinder part of the said stone there is a peg with rounded head
likewise inserted
The said eye and peg with rounded head are both partly sunk and securely fixed
in their proper position in the stone
The foremost foot or stem of the handle (which is bent horizontally forward) is
then passed into the eye and the other or hinder stem of the handle pressed down
over the peg and held firmly by means of a semicircular cramp which turns on a
pin, the round or button head of the aforesaid peg imparting to the handle a secure
position
It will be readily understood that by this method of fixing the handles one
handle might serve for a number of the stones
IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Buckley Greenhalgh at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th April 1883.
JOSEPH BUCKLEY GREENHALGH of Whitefield near Manchester in the County
of Lancaster, Overlooker, "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING"
My Invention relates in the first place to the picking apparatus of looms for
weaving. In lieu of the picking sticks or levers which in ordinary over-pick looms
vibrate on vertical axes I employ sticks or levers which vibrate upon horizontal
axes. To the outer end of each lever is attached one end of a strap, band, cord
or equivalent part which is attached by the other end to a fixed stud or point.
In some or in all cases I fix the two levers upon one rocking shaft. One of the
levers or each lever or an arm upon the said shaft is acted upon by a cam upon
the crank shaft or by an anti-friction bowl upon the fly wheel or upon a part
fixed to the crank shaft. The picking is effected by the sudden tightening of the
strap and the same strap acts to check the shuttle. A picker running in the race
or box without a spindle may be used. In the second place I dispense with the
ordinary "sley swords" and arrange for the sley to slide or reciprocate in a straight
line. The sley is attached to a sliding frame or brackets are attached to the sley
and the cranks act upon blocks which are fitted to slide in the frame or brackets
so that the crank arms are dispensed with. By these means I am enabled to
shorten the stroke and to decrease the distance between the healds and the web
that is to say to shorten the shed. A third part of my invention relates to the
warp weighting apparatus. I employ a weight which rests in the space between
the levers, one lever or certain of the levers bearing against the warp upon the
beam and the other of the levers being connected with the ropes, chains or bands
which pass around the ruffles upon the warp beam, ends. The lever which bears
upon the warp is preferably in the form of a wide plate or a plate or bar may be
attached to a pair of levers. As the warp beam empties the weight slips lower down
and nearer to the fulcra of the weighting levers so that the " weight" upon the
warp beam is reduced. The weight may be in the form of a cylinder or roller and
may be increased by inserting bars within the cylinder or by enclosing the roller
within a tube or hollow cylinder.
A NEW OR IMPROVED PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BLUE COLOURING MATTERS, SUITABLE FOR " DYEING AND PRINTING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of. Patents on the 16th July 1883. communicated to
him from abroad by Lembach and Schleicher, of Biebrich on the Rhine,
Germany
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "A NEW OR IMPROVED
PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BLUE COLOURING MATTERS, SUITABLE FOR
"
DYEING AND PRINTING a communication to me from abroad by Lembach and
Schleicher, of Biebrich on the Rhine, Germany,
By causing p. diazobenzolsulpho-acid to act on dimethylaniline, dimethylaniline-
azo-benzol parasulpho-acid is obtained, which separates from the mixture in the
shape of violet leaflets.
This brown product serves as a starting point or raw material for the production
of a blue sulphorous colouring matter.
The dimethylaniline azo-benzol parasulpho-acid is dissolved in an excess of
ammonia, and zinc powder introduced into the yellowish brown solution until the
latter has been completely discoloured, whereby an ammoniacal salt of dimethylani-
line-hydrazobenzolparasulpho acid is formed. The solution is now heated and
separated from the unused zinc powder by filtration, and the filtered liquid
acidulated with sulphuric acid. After cooling the liquid is treated with sulphuretted
hydrogen or with a metallic sulphide which develops sulphuretted hydrogen when
brought together with sulphuric acid, for instance sodic or calcic sulphide or zinc
sulphide.
By the addition of ferric chloride the liquid assumes a deep blue colour, and the
blue colouring matter is then precipitated by adding zinc chloride.
When dried the colouring matters forms a blue powder easily soluble in water
and applicable for dyeing wool, silk and cotton.
Instead of dimethylaniline-azo benzolparasulpho acid, its homologues may be
used in order to obtain blue colouring matters by an analogous process, for
instance: methylanthyl-aniline-azo-benzolparasulpho-acid and the dianthylaniline-
azo-benzolparasulpho acid The colouring matter obtained from the latter
compound forms a brown powder soluble in cold water.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SLEEPING BERTHS FOR RAILWAY CARRIAGES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Robert Hutton and Roger
Arthure Gartside at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
10th February 1883.
THOMAS ROBERT HUTTON Gentleman of Disley in the County of Chester and
ROGER ARTHURE GARTSIDE, Solicitor of Manchester in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SLEEPING BERTHS FOR RAILWAY CARRIAGES."
The object of our Invention is to support or suspend sleeping berths by means of
india-rubber or other springs or by chains so as to avoid the vibration and jolting
at present communicated to the sleeping berths and thus to the occupants by the
oscillation of the railway carriage
In one manner of performing our Invention we suspend the sleeping berth from
its four corners by bands or belts of india-rubber or other springs or chains secured
to vertical or horizontal bars or supports in any convenient manner or we may use
four (or more or less) vertical supports or uprights and stretch one or more bands
or belts of india rubber or other suitable material horizontally from upright to
upright: the sleeping berth or the mattress may be either laid directly upon these
bands or suspended from them in any convenient manner.
A third manner of performing our invention is to support the sleeping berths by
or to suspend them from vertical bands or belts of india rubber or other suitable
material or by chains secured to horizontal bars or bearers.
By these means we prevent the jars and vibrations, so distracting to railway
travellers, from reaching the sleeping berths.
The sleeping berths and supports may be readily stowed away during the day or
when not required for sleeping purposes.
PADDLES TO ASSIST LOCOMOTION IN WATER "
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Carter at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th January 1883.
WILLIAM CARTER of Masham in the County of York
PADDLES TO ASSIST LOCOMOTION IN WATER
"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
The object of the paddle is to assist persons in swimming and is especially
applicable at sea in case of shipwreck or other disaster, necessitating those on
board taking to the water, or in case of anyone falling overboard.
The paddle consists of a spindle or stem the upper portion of which forms a
handle and to the lower part are attached two wings or flaps of book-back form.
These are by preference constructed of canvas or other pliable or elastic material
such material being stiffened by wooden battens which enclose it. The canvas
intervening between the wings or flaps forms the hinge and at this point they are
attached to the stem or spindle. The battens are so secured to the canvas that
they will be readily taken off for the purpose of renewing it.
Those using the paddle would be required to grasp the handle in such a manner
as to retain the apparatus below the hand and in front of them. As the paddle is
thrust forward the flaps or wings close bookwise and when drawn towards the
the body they open out, offering a great resistance to the water thus assisting the
locomotion of the swimmer. These paddles may be attached to ordinary life-buoys
by cord so that not only could the user of the life-buoy float but however
inexperienced in swimming he would be able to make considerable progress to any
place of safety.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING MACHINES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Gawthorp, John Reddihough,
and Samuel Wade at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th
August 1883.
WILLIAM GAWTHORP, JOHN REDDIHOUGH, Wool Combers, and SAMUEL WADE,
Overlooker, all of Bradford in the County of York IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING
MACHINES.
The object of this Invention is to effect certain Improvements in carding
Engines whereby the machine is shortened and the wool more effectually carded.
We accomplish our object by dispensing with the two doffers and the workers
over the Cylinders: also the workers under and over the lickers in and substituting
endless carding sheets each passed round two rollers with a stripper over the
cylinders and lickers in.
Hitherto the workers on the cylinders and lickers in have been limited in the
amount of work done to the amount of contact of such workers and the cylinders
and lickers in; the substitution of endless sheets gives more horizontal contact with
the cylinders and lickers in as represented by the centres of the two rollers round
which each endless sheet passes.
By this means we are enabled to shorten the machine by the diameter of the
two doffers and reduce the cost of the machine and more effectually operate upon
the wool passing through the carding engine.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN MATCH BOXES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James George Stokes at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th February 1883. A communication
from Monsieur Henri de Schwabacher, a person resident at Rue Faitbout,
Paris, France
JAMES GEORGE STOKES, of Herne Hill, in the County of Surrey
IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MATCH BOXES (a communication from Monsieur Henri de Schwabacher,
a person resident at Rue Faitbout, Paris, France)
This invention has for object to utilize match boxes for advertising and other
uses additional to their main purpose of enclosing matches by constructing them to
enclose and protect also a sheet or sheets of material such as paper on which matter
may be printed or written so that it will be available for ready references.
For this purpose three cases of suitable material such as metal or cardboard are
arranged and connected one within another so as to leave spaces between them.
The innermost case is made to form a receptacle for matches, the intermediate
case has attached to it a sheet of paper, cloth or other suitable inaterial to contain
printed or written matter; it unrolls outward through an opening and is caused to
re-enter automatically by means of a spiral spring arranged at the bottom.
The construction and arrangement may be variously modified.
Thus according to one modification the construction is such as to form a kind of
book whereof the box is arranged to serve as cover.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VELOCIPEDES AND IN APPARATUS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry John Lawson at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th June 1883.
HENRY JOHN LAWSON, of Coventry, in the County of Warwickshire, Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VELOCIPEDES AND IN APPARATUS IN
CONNECTION THEREWITH.'
"
My invention consists in certain improvements in velocipedos and machinery to
be used in connection therewith which enable the rider to more effectively control
and vary the stroke of the crank without interfering with the speed of the
machine.
The main crank or driving spindle of the Tricycle passes through both the
driving wheels, and is connected with them in the following manner. Two recessed
cups at each outer side of the hubs are formed in the hubs themselves and covered
in with a flat dise, which fits the recess, but permits of the same revolving. Across
the hub three steel bars are arranged which at the ends carry three steel teeth,
which act upon suitably shaped toothed wheels that are keyed upon the crank,
The inner side of one of the hubs is also shaped as a cup to receive a cone. This
cono is fitted in the said cup with coiled springs passed over crank and resting
against a shoulder on the same, in such a manner that pressure is applied to tho
said cone. By this arrangement the crank cannot pass the wheels and revolve
without acting upon both the cone in the cup and also the three pawis suspended
from the three horizontal Bars across the hubs.
It will be obviously possible to arrange, by means of the ordinary arrangements
of three wheels now commonly used, diminishing speed gearing to work the other
wheel. This I propose to do by placing the main cog wheel upon the crank and
cutting teeth upon the inside of the other hub of the wheel not having the
arrangement above described.
A secondary, or intermediate toothed wheel sliding backwards or forwards upon
its axis, is arranged to shift its position in or out of gear, by means of an upright
handle suitably attached to it and situated at the side of the rider.
By the construction and arrangement of hollow steel uprights and curtains
running upon rings with springs so placed that they may draw the same up upon
being released, I effectually cover in the rider back and front with a canopy.
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH GUN CARRIAGES AND GUN STOCKS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by David Walker and William Spiers
Simpson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st August
1883.
DAVID WALKER of Riversdale Road Highbury in the County of Middlesex,
and WILLIAM SPIERS SIMPSON of Battersea Park Road in the County of Surrey
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH GUN CARRIAGES AND GUN STOCKS
"
The objects of these improvements are to reduce the strain of recoil upon the gun
carriage and to produce a return recoil in the gun, thereby giving increased velocity
to the shot or other projectile.
In our Invention we make a separate frame or upper carriage to which the gun
is attached. This upper carriage is arranged to slide freely in suitable guides on
the main carriage.
We place a spring or springs to meet the recoil between the upper and lower
carriages so arranged and adjusted as to produce a return recoil in the upper
carriage and gun before the shot leaves the muzzle, the spring or springs relieve
the main carriage from the strain or shock of the recoil so that it may be fixed
down without injury.
The main features of our Invention are the upper or sliding carriage to which
we attach the gun, also the application of a spring or springs to cushion the recoil
and to produce a return recoil upon the gun, together with the novelties of
mechanical application involved in these arrangements.
They also consist of the application of these arrangements, viz: the sliding of
the barrel upon the stock and the spring cushion between, to guns, rifles, revolvers
and pistols.
IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Taylor and John Whittaker
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th March 1883.
THOMAS TAYLOR and JOHN WHITTAKER both of Oldham in the County of
Lancaster. " IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS
"
The Invention consists of an improved tappet motion employed to work the
treddles which actuate the healds and is also applicable to work the jacquard.
On the bottom or tappet shaft of the loom we mount a disc or plate carrying on it's
periphery any suitable or required number of anti friction bowls carried on pins
or studs and employed to actuate the treddles. To the free end of each treddle is
connected a spiral spring the upper end of each spring being connected to the
loom frame and have for their object to keep the treddles in contact with the bowls
IMPROVEMENTS IN TOOLS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOTTLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Barrett at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 19th September 1883. A communication
to him from abroad by Isidor Lippmann, of Berlin, in the empire of Germany
HENRY BARRETT, of Charterhouse Buildings, in the county of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TOOLS EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOTTLES" [a
communication to him from abroad by Isidor Lippmann, of Berlin, in the empire
of Germany]
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of tools employed in
making the necks of bottles and is particularly applicable to the tools employed in
making that class of bottles the necks of which are formed with an internal screw
thread, or with an interior annular groove or shoulder, but is also applicable to
other classes of bottles, and the improvements have for object to prevent the metal
from spreading while the neck or mouth of the bottle is being formed and thereby
allow of a better finish and a more perfect bottle being made.
In constructing the improved tool I employ ordinary spring tongs provided with
any of the usual revolving or fixed plugs and usual jaws according to the class of
bottles to be made; the ends of the arms of the tongs preferably pass through slots
in a plate which takes the place of the disc usually employed for forming the top
of the mouth of the bottle; on this plate and at right angles to the jaws I fix two
lips, the said lips being placed at a suitable angle and at a distance from the
circumference of the plng equal to the distance of the jaws therefrom when closed.
Or instead of these fixed lips it will be evident that additional moveable jaws may
be used, operated in any suitable manner.
By the employment of these lips or additional jaws the metal is prevented from
spreading forward when the neck is being formed, and the metal being kept well
towards the plug, the interior as well as the exterior of the neck will be better and
more perfectly finished than hitherto.
For locking the revolving plug (when a revolving plug is employed) a projection
from one of the arms of the tongs carries a stud, which stud when the arms spring
apart on being released, takes into a hole in the revolving plug. Other arrangements
for locking the revolving plug may however be employed.
WATER WASTE PREVENTORS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Samuel Chandler and Josiah Chandler
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th June 1883.
SAMUEL CHANDLER and JOSIAH CHANDLER both of the Central Works
Kennington Oval in the County of Surrey Gas Engineers.
WATER WASTE PREVENTORS
"
"
IMPROVEMENTS IN
This Invention relates to improvements in water waste preventors.
Its object is to simplify the discharge for flushing and other purposes and to
nake it absolutely certain in its action.
We prefer to use an oblong cistern with a lift up valve at its bottom into this
cistern we place a syphon and connect the lift-up valve to its long or suction leg―
the cistern is supplied by a ball valve or other ordinary valve, and when discharge
is required the valve at the bottom as aforesaid is lifted by chain or rod and if
held so of course the cistern is emptied by this outlet-but if (as is most probable)
the user chooses to let the valve fall before the cistern is completely discharged the
syphon immediately takes up the work and completes the flushing.
OTHER LAMP GLASS AND SMOKE CAP HOLDERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Solomon Falk at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 6th April 1883.
SOLOMON FALK of Basinghall Street in the City of London,
IN GAS AND OTHER LAMP GLASS AND SMOKE CAP HOLDERS
"
"IMPROVEMENTS
This invention relates to improvements in the arrangement combination and
construction of holders for supporting the globe or glass and a smoke cap or cover
over a gas oil or other lamp glass of globular or other form.
For this purpose according to my improvements I support the smoke cap or
cover in combination with the glass holder by extending the ends of the arms of a
glass or globe holder and forming them with a recess or otherwise so that the edge
or circumference of the smoke cap or cover is held or retained thereby the arms of
the holder being sprung open to introduce the edge of the cap or cover between
them.
The glass globe and cap holder are thus combined in one.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC BATTERIES A
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Charles Henderson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th December 1883. Commu-
nicated to him from abroad by Jean Baptiste Gaston Vauzelle, Electrician of
the city of Paris in the Republic of France.
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON of 47 Museum Street, Oxford Street in the
Parish of Bloomsbury and county of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRIC
BATTERIES A communication to me from abroad by Jean Baptiste Gaston
Vauzelle, Electrician of the city of Paris in the Republic of France
"
This battery is simple in construction, small in compass and of great generating
capacity.
The outer vessel is or may be of cylindrical or other form, and is of copper
coated externally with varnish, gutta percha or some other insulating matter.
Suspended or otherwise supported in the centre of this vessel is a serpentine
zinc wire or strip, kept in position by three non-conducting supports of wood,
hooked in form, at the ends so as to hang or be fastened to the edge of the copper
vessel or jar.
These supports bear at their lower ends the spiral or serpentine wire or strip of
zinc alluded to and keep it in a position concentrically with the jar, whilst
preventing contact with it; this wire is partially immersed in the exciting liquid
which is composed of sulphate of copper or other suitable salt of copper.
A globular glass vessel may be used filled with crystals of sulphate of copper for
maintaining the saturation of the exciting solution.
The poles of the battery are formed by the copper vessel and the zinc serpentine.
In this species of battery the surface of contact with the exciting liquid is as
large as possible, the result being a minimum of resistance with an increased
production of electricity.