IMPROVEMENTS IN THE GENERATION OR PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY BY VOLTAIC ACTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1884

page_text: I ELIESON PROSPER CHAIMSONOVITZ of 7 Drayton Terrace, Leytonstone in the
county of Essex, Electrician do hereby declare the nature of thic said invention
for "
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE GENERATION OR PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY BY
VOLTAIC ACTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to the production or generation of electricity by the
employment of a number of positive and negative electrodes or elements mounted
on a shaft and revolving in the exciting Iluid of a galvanic battery, the said
electrodes being suitably connected with a commutator or commutators so as to
produce an alternating or continuous current. By this arrangement I am enabled
to utilize with advantage the maximum surface of the electrodes and to produce
electricity in great quantity at a minimum of expense.
The apparatus is constructed of a vessel or receiver of insulating or insulated
material for containing the exciting fluid of a galvanic battery, the fluid I prefer
employing being that described in the Provisional Specification lodged with the
application for Letters Patent No 43345 in the names of myself and Thomas Rowan
dated the 11th September 1883. In this vessel mount a hollow shaft of insulated
or insulating material and turning in bearings; on the shaft I fix positive and
negative electrodes; these electrodes are made of any suitable known material but
I prefer making the positive electrodes (forming the negative pole) of zinc, and the
negative electrodes (formning the positive pole) of litharge or the like as described
in the said Provisional Specification; a commutator of ordinary construction
having the usual brushes is provided and the usual terminals; the wires from the
electrodes are connecte alternately to the sections of the commutator; that is to
say the first negative electrode is connected to the upper section of the commutator
and the first positive electrode to the lower section of the commutator, and so on.
Motion is communicated to the shaft by a pulley or in any other suitable
manner.
By this arrangement of apparatus, the electrodes in revolving will bring their
poles alternately in connection with the opposite sections of the commutator, that
is to say from positive to negative and negative to positive and so on thereby
producing an alternating current,

page_text: In some cases the electrodes are connected for quantity in which arrangement
the positive electrodes are all connected to one section of the commutator and the
negative electrodes to the other section of the commutator producing an alternating
current.
When two commutators are employed, all the positive electrodes are connected to
one commutator and the negative electrodes to the other commutator in such a
manner that a continuous intermittent current is obtained as will be understood by
any electrician.
If however the electrodes be connected for quantity with this arrangement of two
commutators, a continuous current would be produced.
My arrangement of mounting the electrodes on a shaft which can turn on its
axis also enables me to provide a battery or generator having any desired number
of pairs of electrodes of which any single pair or number of pairs may be connected
up as herein before described and when such pair or pairs of electrodes is or are
exhausted the shaft may be partly rotated by any suitable means and another pair
of electrodes or a number of other pairs of the electrodes will become connected and
so on until the whole are exhausted.

page_text: I ELIESON PROSPER CHAIMSONOVITZ of 7 Drayton Terrace, Leytonstone in the
county of Essex, Electrician do hereby declare the nature of the said invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE GENERATION OR PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY BY
VOLTAIC ACTION, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR" and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by tho
following statement :-
This invention relates to the production or generation of electricity by the
employment of a number of positive and negative electrodes or elements mounted
on a shaft and revolving in a suitable exciting fluid, the said electrodes being
suitably connected with a commutator or commutators so as to produco an
alternating or continuous current. By this arrangement I am enabled to utilize
with advantage the maximum surface of the electrodes and to produce electricity in
great quantity at a minimum of expense.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to
describe the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1, is a
sectional elevation of a suitable construction of apparatus for carrying out my
invention, the apparatus having one commutator and the electrodes being
connected thereto in series; figure 2, is an end view of the commutator of the
apparatus shewn in figure 1; figure 3, is a section of an apparatus where the
positivo electrodes are connected to one section of the commutator, the negative
electrodes being connected to the other section of the commutator; figure 4, is an
end view of the commutator of this arrangement of apparatus and figure 5, is
a sectional elevation of an arrangement of apparatus in which the positive
electrodes are connected to oue commutator, and the negative electrodes to another
commutator. Similar letters in all the figures represent similar parts.
a,
In the apparatus shewn in figures 1 and 2, a, is a vessel or receiver of insulating
or insulated material for containing the exciting Quid, the fluid I prefer employing
being that described in the specification of Letters Patent granted to myself and
Thomas Rowan dated the 11th September 1883 N° 4345. In this vessel
I mount
a hollow shaft b, of insulated or insulating material and turning in the bearings
c, c; on the shaft b, I fix the electrodes p, n, the letters p, denoting the positive
electrodes and the letters n, the negative electrodes; these electrodes are made of
any suitable known material but I prefer making the negative electrodes of zine
and the positive electrodes of litharge or the like as described in the specification of
the above named Letters Patent of the 11th September 1883; d, is a commutator
of ordinary construction having the usual brushes e, and f; g, and h, usual
terminals of which two are employed; in the drawing the wires from the negative
electrodes are marked - and the wires from the positive electrodes are marked +;
the wires from the electrodes are connected alternately to the sections of the
commutator; that is to say the first negative electrode marked N° 1 (figure 2) is
connected to the upper section of the commutator, and the first positive electrodo
inarked No 1+, to the lower section of the commutator, and so on.
Motion is communicated to the shaft b, by the pulley i, or in any other suitable
manner.
By this arrangement of apparatus, the electrodes in revolving will bring their
poles alternately in connection with the opposite sections of the commutator, that
is to say from positive to negative and negative to positive and so on thereby
producing an alternating current.

page_text: The arrangement of apparatus shewn in figures 3, and 4 is substantially the
same as that shewn in figures 1 and 2 except that the electrodes are connected
for quantity the positive electrodes all being connected to one section of the
commutator and the negative electrodes to the other section of the commutator
producing an alternating current.
In the arrangeinent shewn in figure 5, two commutators d, and d', are employed,
all the positive electrodes being connected to the commutator d, and the
negative electrodes to the other commutator d', as shewn in such manner that a
continuously intermittent current is obtained as will be understood by any
electrician.
If however the electrodes be connected for quantity with this arrangement of
two commutators, a continuous current would be produced.
.
My arrangement of mounting the electrodes on a shaft which can turn on its
axis also enables me to provide a battery or generator having any desired number
of pairs of electrodes of which any single pair or number of pairs may be connected
up as bereinbefore described and when such pair or pairs of electrodes is or are
exhausted the shaft may be partly rotated by any suitable means and another
pair of electrodes or a number of other pairs of the electrodes will become connected
and so on until the whole are exhausted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claina is:—
(1). The method herein described of producing or generating electricity by the
employment of a number of discs forming electrodes, mounted upon a shaft
revolving in an exciting fluid the said electrodes being connected to a commutator
or commutators as herein before described.
(2). The improved apparatus or battery herein before described for producing or
generating electricity consisting of a number of positive and negative electrodes
mounted upon a revolving shaft in the exciting fluid of the battery, the said
electrodes being connected with a commutator or commutators as herein before
described and represented in figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
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