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IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF OBTAINING INCISED OR RAISED DESIGNS OR PATTERNS ON THE FLAT OR OTHER SURFACES OF STEEL, IRON, COPPER, BRASS, ZINC, BRONZE, OR THE MORE PRECIOUS METALS, FOR PRINTING, STAMPING, ENGRAVING, AND FOR ORNAMENTAL PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Brown at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 30th October 1883.
JOSEPH BROWN of 43 Halsey 'Street, Cadogan Square, Chelsea, Gentleman
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF OBTAINING INCISED OR RAISED DESIGNS OR
PATTERNS ON THE FLAT OR OTHER SURFACES OF STEEL, IRON, COPPER, BRASS,
ZINC, BRONZE, OR THE MORE PRECIOUS METALS, FOR PRINTING, STAMPING,
ENGRAVING, AND FOR ORNAMENTAL PURPOSES
"
In carrying out my invention the improved process is as follows:
I take a hand drawing, print, or engraving from which I obtain an engraved
plate in one or more sizes, by any of the well known or ordinary methods either
by photography, lithography, or copper plate; from this plate or printing surface I
obtain an impression in a bituminous, asphaltum, or resinous varnish or material
sufficiently strong to be acid resisting, I then take this print in bituminous or other
varnish and transfer it by slight pressure, on to the surface on which I intend the
drawing to be reproduced, the paper being removed leaves me the impression in
the bituminous ink or varnish perfectly intact on the plate; I then proceed to
protect those parts not forming the design with a wax or other protective varnish,
and the print thus transferred to the plate is then gently sprinkled with bituminous
powder, should the case require it.
The plate or metal surface in its thin condition is submitted to the action of
acids, or an electric battery, or any well known mordant until such parts
unprotected by the bituminous varnish are acted upon until the required depth
is obtained
This process particularly applies to the production of plates for pottery printing
purposes, calico or other textile printing, the production of cloisonné or mosaic
work in enamels, for the preparation of dies for metal and paper printing and
stamping, for leather stamping, and for obtaining designs on any other metal above
referred to.
Also for obtaining designs on cylindrical rollers either for repeated patterns or
otherwise, as well as for producing raised type printing blocks,
In cases where the pattern repeats itself I build up as it were or repeat it by
multiplication to any extent required.
IMPROVED MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR DETECTING THE EFFORTS OF BURGLARS, AND OTHER UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS TO ENTER PREMISES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Lush Pearson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th December 1883.
GEORGE LUSH PEARSON of Holloway in the County of Middlesex Engineer
"IMPROVED MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR DETECTING THE EFFORTS OF BURGLARS,
AND OTHER UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS TO ENTER PREMISES
"
The object of my invention is to alarm by means of electric communication first
with a revolving lamp on the exterior of the premises, and second with bells in
the interior, or exterior of the premises or house.
In a conspicuous position on the front or exterior wall of the premises or house,
I fix a bracket or other suitable bearing in which I place a vertical spindle of
suitable material, upon which spindle. I place a lamp which is revolved by two
bevel wheels, and a horizontal shaft which passes through the wall, and to the end
of which shaft a lever and balance weight are attached. The light in the lamp
may be either gas light or electric light. If gas is used it passes through the
aforesaid spindle. I provide a magnet in front of which and attached to the
frame of which is a clutch. The light of the lamp is concealed by a dark screen
which is removed as the lamp revolves on the aforesaid vertical spindle, and gives
place to three bright red lights, and by the same action the gas is turned on to its
full extent. I fix the lamp for working in the following manner. The lever
at the end of the horizontal shaft is held by the clutch in front of the magnet so
that the red light is concealed by being turned towards the wall of the premises or
house. Wires from the aforesaid magnet communicate with contacts on all the
doors and windows of the premises or house, and with a breaker and electric bell
in the owner's or housekeeper's bed-room, or any other part of the premises or
house where it may be deemed requisite or desirable The lamp being so fixed,
the housekeeper reverses the breaker whereupon the contacts on all the doors and
windows become charged with electricity and are made ready for action by means
of a battery. When a door, or window is opened, or attempted to be forced, the
contacts communicate with the magnet, which draws the clutch to itself, and
releases the aforesaid lever, which the balance weight hereinafter mentioned over-
powers, and thereby causes the lamp to revolve showing the three bright red lights
aforesaid and the bells to ring, and thus giving warning to the police and the
inmates of the premises or house.
IN BEETLING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles James Webb at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th July 1883
CHARLES JAMES WEBB of Randalstown in the County of Antrim
MENTS IN BEETLING MACHINES
17
" IMPROVE-
This invention is designed with a view to form a beetling machine that will
work more rapidly and efficiently than existing machines and that will enable a
greater length of cloth to be operated on.
My apparatus consists as follows:
1st. Of a bean or roller, of the usual construction, on which the cloth is beetled;
if preferred the cloth may be wound or unwound on this beam as is customary
in the old fashioned make of beetling machines. For effecting this I have
arranged a lever with a compensating balance, by which one beam can be
placed in position under the hammers while a second beam is being filled with
cloth.
I prefer to pass the cloth in as many circuits as is required partially round a
stationary beam on which the hammers or beetles strike, and at the same time
round a series of rollers placed at a sufficient distance from the beam so as to
enable the cloth when finished, to be delivered or taken off without stopping the
machine between two of these rollers at the under side of the circuit while fresh
cloth is being entered on the upper side. Or the cloth may be entered at the under
side and taken off at the upper.
2nd. I prefer that the beetling hammers should strike the cloth on the side of the
roller-but they may be made to strike at any point. They are made with long
shafts or handles which are rigid and unbending throughout except at the end of
the shaft where it is connected with the rocker or pitmen hereafter described.
At this point I attach the shaft to a piece of steel which acts as a spring or break to
check the force of the blow, or I place the rigid shaft between two discs of thick
india-rubber or similar substance with saine object. The form of handle I prefer
is a wide spring steel blade bent into a channel form in the upper portion but flat
at the lower portion.
Two sets of hammers can be used, one set acting on one side of the beam and
the other the other side.

page_text: A series of stout rockers or pitmans are fixed below the beam or elsewhere to
which the beetles or hammers are attached. If two rows of hammers are used,
those directly opposite each other are attached to the same rocker.
Each pitian is oscillated by a separate eccentric keyed to a shaft which passes
through the machine, and which is parallel with the cloth beam.
The arrangement herein described could be considerably varied. The rockers
could be dispensed with and, the hammers worked direct or by an extension of the
shaft of the hanner; it could be made to act with the same effect by fixing a stud
or pivot at the centre.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE RISING AND FALLING PIANO STOOLS AND ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER FURNITURE PROAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Hemingway of 11 Northgato Halifax aud
Walter Bottomley of Brighouse both in the County of York for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE RISING AND FALLING PIANO STOOLS AND
ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER FURNITURE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Hemingway and
Walter Bottomley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
16th February 1883.
WILLIAM HEMINGWAY of 11 Northgate Halifax and WALTER BOTTOMLEY of
Brighouse both in the county of York "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE RISING
AND FALLING PIANO STOOLS AND ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER FURNITURE'
"
The object of our invention is to construct an adjustable stool, neat in appear-
ance, simple in construction of great durability and of little cost.
The spindle of the stool is of iron, or other suitable metal, and preferably square,
with a recess lengthwise the spindle in this recess is a pivotted toothed lever, the
spindle slides in a square socket in the support or body of the stool, the toothed
lever being constructed so as to engage with a stop or catch in the top part of the
body of the stool, a spring lever keeping it so engaged, but by drawing the spring
I lever forward, the spindle and seat to which it is attached are free and can be
lowered as desired, the height of the seat can be adjusted to any nicety, in
raising, the seat simply requires lifting, to the required position, and will stay
as placed.

page_text: It will be seen that this arrangement is applicable to invalids chairs, sofas, or
other furniture for adjusting the height.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of my said invention and
the manner in which the same may be carried into practical effect, I would have
it understood that what I claim as the invention to be secured to me by the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,-
1 The combination in stools or other adjustable furniture of a pivotted rack E,
and stop K, constructed and operating in the manner and for the purposes as shewn
and described.
2 The general arrangement for adjusting stools and other rising and falling
furniture constructed and operating as shewn and described.
In Witness whereof we the said William Hemingway and Walter Bottomley
have hereunto set our hands and seals this
day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
WILLIAM HEMINGWAY (L.S.)
WALTER BOTTOMLEY
(L.S.)
IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM AND OTHER BOILERS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Titus Robottom of Nuneaton in the County of Warwick
Engineer, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM AND OTHER
BOILERS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Titus Robottom at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th February 1883.
TITUS ROBOTTOM of Nuneaton in the County of Warwick Engineer IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STEAM AND OTHER BOILERS
.
My improvements consist in applying a stuffing box and gland to end of firing
tube or fire box or smoke pipe and in end of shell of boiler and stuffing the same
with asbestos or other packing to allow of the free expansion and contraction of
firing tube or fire box, and to facilitate the withdrawal of the same for the purpose
of cleaning or repairs.
The firing tube or box may be of any well known shape either elliptical, circular
or otherwise. The end of firing tube being circular may have a water space round
it with facility for cleaning out the said space

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Titus Robottom in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th August 1883.
TITUS ROBOTTOM of Nuneaton in the County of Warwick Engineer IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STEAM AND OTHER BOILERS
The invention consists in applying a Stuffing box and gland to end of firing
tube or fire box or smoke pipe and stuffing the same with Asbestos or other
stuffing to allow of the free expansion and contraction of firing tube or fire box
and to facilitate the withdrawal of the same for the purpose of cleaning or
repairs.
The firing tube or fire box may be of any well known shape either elliptical,
circular, or otherwise. In the case of the end of firing tube being circular a
water space may be applied round it with facility for cleaning out the said
space.
Having thus declared the nature of my said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I would in conclusion observe that what I consider novel
and original and therefore claim as being the invention secured to me by the said
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent are the improvements in the construction
of steam and other Boilers. Substantially as hereinbefore described and set forth.
In Witness whereof I the said Titus Robottom have hereunto set my hand and
seal this 28th of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty three
TITUS ROBOTTOM (LS.)
IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Charles Henderson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th April 1883. Communi-
cated to him from abroad by Léon Alexis Perin, Merchant, of 2 Boulevard de
Strasbourg in the city of Paris and Republic of France
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON of 47 Museum Street, Oxford Street in the
county of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN CARDING ENGINES A communication
to me from abroad by Léon Alexis Perin, Merchant of 2 Boulevard de Strasbourg
in the city of Paris and Republic of France.
The object of the invention is to card cotton and other fibrous matters, and free
them from all impurities such as burrs, sticks and so forth without crushing such
matters and without wasting the wool, which has not hitherto been effected by
carding engines
The wool laid in layers (more or less in thickness on an endless cloth is fed by
two rollers which without crushing the burrs or other matter deliver it to a seriese
of card cylinders of variable number, all of the same construction and having spaces
between them to prevent crushing the matters foreign to the wool or textile under
operation.
Inside the carding cylinder or cylinders is a hollow cylinder which is open at
certain points forming blow holes and in which cylinder a fan or blower revolves.
The apparatus being set in motion the wool or other substance is alternately
thrown forward by the current of air from the holes either against a grooved or
channeled cylinder above, which frees it from impurities, or against the teeth of a
succeeding card cylinder by engaging therein and being cleansed thereby passes on
to again undergo a repetition of the same process.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE PROPULSION OF VESSELS
Year: 1883

page_text: "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Kish at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 30th August 1883.
WILLIAM KISH of Sunderland in the County of Durham, Shipbuilder
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING THE PROPULSION OF
VESSELS
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in means and apparatus for
effecting the propulsion of vessels in such a manner that they can be propelled by
the vertical motion imparted to them by the natural action of the waves.
I accomplish my object in the following manner. At a point situated at or
near the centre of the vessel or a point fore or aft such point to be determined by
the disposition of the centre of gravity of the whole structure I divide the vessel
into two or it may be more parts. These two or more parts I connect together
by a powerful joint running athwartships at a certain level or by other suitable
means or I so construct the end bulkheads or some other suitable parts that the
vertical action of the sea will cause them to move upon one another vertically or
otherwise. Thus the two ends of the vessel are capable of moving in different
directions and at different speeds.
To one of the ends of the division bulkheads or other suitable parts I attach
with hinge or other joints, bars, levers rams, plungers, pistons or other mechanical
transmitters which I either carry through the other divisional bulkheads by
watertight chambers into the engine room or other part of the vessel or I transmit
the power by vertical bars through the deck or by other convenient arrangement.
The ends of these bars are fitted with suitable mechanical action as racks, pistons,
levers, plungers, or ratchets, on which latter pinions work and thus by ordinary
gearing I impart the requisite rotary motion to the screw shaft or other selected
motor and thus effect the propulsion of the vessel.
It will be obvious that by any of the foregoing devices that other means of
effecting the propulsion may be employed otherwise than a screw. For example
paddle wheels may be caused to rotate by the said automatic motion or in soine
cases motion may be derived from pressure through an hydraulic cylinder or by
other fluids and the said pressure in some cases may be transmitted to a turbine

page_text: at the stem of the vessel and operating in a similar manner to the "Waterwich.”
This invention is also particularly applicable to twin vessels
But what I particularly wish to bo understood is that by the aforesaid means
of dividing a vessel or otherwise forming it in two or more parts any suitable
device may be employed in connection therewith for effecting the propulsion and I t
lay no claim to any particular mechanical arrangement for the purpose as I may
employ any suitable means in combination with my said Invention.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING PLATES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Howard Fletcher and Francis John
Clarke at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th August
1883.
HOWARD FLETCHER of Jeffreys Road Clapham in the County of Surrey and
FRANCIS JOHN CLARKE of Ashburnham Road Chelsea in the County of Middlesex
'IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR WASHING PLATES"
The Invention has for its object improvements in machinery or apparatus for
washing plates after they have been used at a meal and is intended more
particularly to be employed in Hotels on Shipboard and in similar places where
large numbers of plates are constantly in use.
For this purpose we employ a shaft having a deeply cut screw thread formed for
a certain distance thereon. Beyond this screw thread at each end the shaft is
mounted in bearings and provided at one end with a hand wheel or pulley or other
means for communicating motion thereto and at the other end with gearing giving
motion to a lower shaft carrying brushes to wash the face of a. plate.
The screw threaded shaft runs in a trough or between guides and the plates to
be washed are placed on edge in a row between these guides and with their lower
edges between the threads of the screw by which they are fed forward to the
brushes and a follower carried by a nut mounted on the screw is caused to
follow up the row of plates and support them in proper position while being fed
forward.
Each plate in succession as it arrives at a certain point falls through an opening
and is guided to a position upon a sliding platform where it is held while the
brushes act upon the face thereof and while a jet of hot water plays thereon.
During this time brushes or a brush or cloth also act upon the back of the
plate. These brushes or the cloth are mounted upon a shaft to which rotary motion
is given when required and this shaft is capable of receiving endway motion to
enable the brushes or cloth to be advanced towards or withdrawn from the back of
the plate when required. The endway motion imparted to this shaft also acts to
Price 201

page_text: retract the sliding platform to remove a plate when it is sufficiently cleansed and to
advance it in time to receive the next one.
After a plate has been acted upon by tho hot water and brushes or cloth the
sliding platform is withdrawn and the plato slides down an inclined plano formed
of laths or slats or other openwork into a vessel containing cold water from which
the plates, when a number have accumulated, may be taken out and placed in a
rack to dry.
AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF MATERIAL, SUITABLE FOR TRUNKS, BOXES, AND CASES FOR TRAVELLING, TRANSPORT, AND LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Hugh Adams Silver at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th August 1883.
HUGH ADAMS SILVER of the firm S. W. Silver and Company of Sun Court
Cornhill in the City of London, Merchants and Manufacturers AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF MATERIAL, SUITABLE FOR TRUNKS, BOXES, AND CASES FOR
TRAVELLING, TRANSPORT, AND LIKE PURPOSES
The object of this Invention is the manufacture of trunks, boxes and cases of a
light yet strong material for holding articles of wearing apparel and goods
generally, said trunks, boxes or cases being available for travelling, transport and
like purposes with greater facilities than by those at present in use.
For the purpose of my Invention I mould or otherwise shape sheets, strips or
other forms of paper or mill, straw or like boards in corrugated or uneven order
and with bands linings or strips of metal or other material on the inside or on the
outside at the desired parts to obtain additional strength and finish.
IMPROVEMENTS IN STORES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd May 1883. a communication to
him from abroad by James Albert Houston, of the state of Massachusetts,
United States of America,
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STORES," a communication to me from abroad by James Albert Houston, of the
state of Massachusetts, United States of America,
In stores wherein goods are sold by retail, and many persons usually congregate
at times for the purchase of such goods, it has been the custom to employ messengers
or boys, termed "cash boys," whose duty is to receive from the salesmen money
paid them for and accounts of sales, and transmit them to the desk of the cashier,
and to receive from him any change and take it to the salesman, to be given by him
to the customers. When there may be a crowd or large number of buyers or
persons in front of the counters and in the aisles of the store, it often becomes very
difficult for the cash boys to pass along from the salesinan to the cashier and back
without inconvenience both to such boys and the customers.
This invention is to provide in connection with the sets of goods holding cases
or shelves, counters and the aisles of a store, means by which the cash boys can
pass to and fro as occasion may require, without going upon the floor amongst and
inconveniencing the customers, who may be in front of the counters or in the aislès
or passages, and for this purpose I combine with the set or sets of shelves for
holding goods on sale, one or more galleries or walks arranged directly over them
and leading from them to one or more receiving stations, and when there may be
an aisle or passage way extending between two or several sets of such abelves or
goods cases, and it may be desirable or necessary for the messengers or cash boys
to cross such aisle; I have the galleries of the sets connected by one or more bridges,
each leading from one set of shelves on one side of the aisle to another set of them
on the opposite side of such aisle.
IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERING BOTTLES, JARS AND LIKE VESSELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Jakob Gisbert van-der-Kaa at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd May 1883.
JAKOB GISBERT VAN-DER-KAA, of Nos 1, and 2, Australian Avenue, in the city
of London, Merchant; "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERING BOTTLES, JARS AND LIKE
VESSELS
"
My invention relates to an improved method of stoppering bottles, jars and like
vessels whereby I provide a secure and expeditious method of closing a bottle and
which does not necessitate the use of any appliance for either inserting or removing
the stopper. In carrying out my invention I construct, the inside of the bottle
neck with an annular projection situated a suitable distance below the top of the
bottle neck such projection being formed with two or more vertical slots for the
purpose hereinafter described. The stopper is made of suitable material and is of
cylindrical form with a head, the lower end of the stopper is reduced in diameter
and is provided near its lower end with a number of projections corresponding
with the number of the hereinbefore described slots in the annular projection in
the neck of the bottle. The stopper is provided with an elastic washer under the
shoulder of the head-To apply the stopper to a bottle it is passed into the neck
thereof the projections passing through the hereinbefore described vertical slots
in the neck and by then turning the stopper round the said projections pass under
the annular projection in the neck and thereby retain the elastic washer tightly
over the mouth of the bottle so as to form a tight joint. To open the bottle the
stopper is turned back until its projections correspond with the said vertical slots
when it can be withdrawn.
By my invention I obtain a stopper and bottle which admit of the contents of
the bottle being partly withdrawn and being then restoppered airtight, keeping
the remaining contents of the bottle in as good condition as when first bottled.
The stopper is applicable to closing bottles containing either aërated or other
liquids.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FITTED DRESSING- BAGS, MORE PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO THAT CLASS OF BAG CALLED "STANDARD"-BAG OR "SOUFLET-BAG On
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Otto Seefels at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 28th August 1883.
OTTO SEEFELS of 16 & 17 Barbican in the City of London, Merchant
& Manufacturer, IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FITTED DRESSING-
BAGS, MORE PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE TO THAT CLASS OF BAG CALLED
"STANDARD"-BAG OR "SOUFLET "-BAG
On an ordinary Souflet-Bag-Frame I attach- two vertical round Bars paralel
with the bottom-wire forming the hinge of the Frame, one on each side, a short
distance, say one inch, away from the bottom-wire. I further construct two
Springs for the opening up of the double Board to which the Fittings are attached.
To each end of these Springs I fix a Hook, the opening of which corresponds with
the thickness of the vertical Bars, so that the Hook will easily hook on and swing
on the Bar; the upper part of the Hook is provided with a projecting Plate which
prevents the Hook from passing below the Bar. The Springs with the Hooks
attached are then fastened by me one on each end between the double Board, the
opening of each Hook being outwards and the Plates projecting in the same
direction. I am now able with the greatest ease to fix the fitted Board in
the open Bag on to the Bars by pressing together the Springs and, after transfering
the fitted Board to its readily ascertained right position, releasing them again, when
the action of the Springs will open up the double Board as far as the distance
between the two Bars will permit and press the Hooks into such a position that
they will form the outer part, and the Bars the inner part of a hinge the action of
which corresponds with that of the Frame when opening and closing the Bag.
This Invention dispenses entirely with horizontal fixtures, bars, tubes or such like
as have to be employed in other kinds of Standard-Bags and which are a hindrance
in packing the Bag. The greatest stability is given to a Board with heavy Fittings
by the bottom-part of the Board projecting behind the Bars, and a bulging out or
drawing away from its position by the weight of the Fittings is prevented. On
large size Bags I-further connect the corresponding ends of each pair of Springs by
a Metal-Strip or Rim, which also serves as a protection to the Board when standing
outside the Bag. In the same way as here described I attach the Bars, the Springs
and the Hooks on to any kind of Bag-Frame, on Portemanteaus and Cases or
anything where Fittings are employed.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Amos Patchett at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 17th February 1883.
AMOS PATCHETT, of Mill Green, Lincolnshire,
FOR GIVING MEDICINE TO ANIMALS."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
The improvements relate to apparatus constructed in the shape of a barrel or
cylinder for holding the ball or medicine, in said barrel is a piston, or an inner
sliding tube fitted with a catch or catches, the piston or inner tube has a spiral
spring fitted to it, the apparatus may have a handle like a pistol and is furnished
with a trigger connected with the catch or catches-and spring; when used the
piston or inner tube is pushed down, the spring or catch caught by the trigger-
the apparatus introduced into the animal's mouth, the trigger pulled and the ball
or medicine is projected into and down the animal's throat.
AN INT. GRATING ANEMOMETER
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Ford Stanley at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th February 1883.
WILLIAM FORD STANLEY of 5 Great Turnstile Holborn London, "AN INT.
GRATING ANEMOMETER
An Integrating Anemometer by which the direction and velocity of the wind
may be indicated at one operation.
To carry out this invention a machine is constructed with movable parts adapted
to receive and communicate the direct impulse of the wind, this for the first or
outward part is similar to what is technically known as Robinson's anemoneter
which moves by means of revolving caps. The motion of these caps being recorded
by means of wheel work and dials. In this invention the caps may be replaced by
fans or sails as in other anemometers. In other respects this invention differs
from the ordinary systems of Anemometers-Firstly in that the axis of the cups is
movable horizontally about and around a second or principal axis in such a manner
as the pressure of the wind may rotate the axis of the cups about the principal
axis to a position opposite to the direction of the wind in the same manner as the
greater surface of an ordinary vane is moved to this position Secondly in that
the axis of the cups in this invention communicates at one time with a part only
of the system of recording apparatus this being divided into eight or more separate
recorders each with wheel work and dials. Each Recorder records velocity of the
wind in one direction only as N, NNE, NE. The separate recorders are fixed in
a Circle about the principal axis in such a manner as the axis of the cups may pass
vertically over one of them at a time at any position it may be directed by the
wind. Upon each of these Recorders there is a Crown wheel by which motion is
communicated to the dials. The whole of the upper surfaces of the Crown wheels
are in one horizontal plane. Each crown wheel is moved only when the axis of
the cups passes vertically over it. The motion of the cups is communicated to any
one of the Crown wheels by means of a conoid moving with and under the cups
around the principal axis when this conoid is brought in contact with the Crown
wheel. The Conoid has its axis oblique being directed from the base of the axis of
the cups to the base of the principal axis by which it is carried, its motions being

page_text: given from the revolving cups through a Hook's joint supported by a friction
wheel. The Conoid is of such form as to give equal motion to the crown wheel.
when moving in any part of its circuit of contact as the cups possess at the time.
The details of this invention may be varied-The principal novelties claimed are
a secondary axis and an integrating conoid moving over separate Crown wheels in
one plane communicating motions to separate recorders.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHURNING MILK
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Morgan at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 24th September 1883. Communicated to
him from abroad by Albert Lebert of Vendome in the Republic of France
"
THOMAS MORGAN, Secretary of the Inventors Patentright Association Limited,
21 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross in the County of Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR CHURNING MILK (a communication to me from abroad by
Albert Lebert, of Vendome in the Republic of France)
"
My improvements relate to arrangements by which I obtain a very easy motion
of the pistons, requiring only a slight amount of power, and the pistons are so
connected to the mechanism that they can be disconnected without loss of time,
in order to take out the butter from the barrel, or to clean it.-The barrel is of
an oval section, and two pistons are working in it up and down aside of each
other, and always in opposite directions, so that when one piston is going down,
the other ascends, and vice versa In the centre of the barrel, between the two
pistons, I place a stone jar, or a reservoir of metal or any other convenient material,
to receive in summer fresh water for cooling and in winter lukewarm water for
maintaining the proper temperature in the milk to be churned.
By way of illustration, I now proceed to describe two forms of the mechanism
for moving the pistons up and down-In the first form, I give motion to a disc
carrying a crank pin, by any convenient mechanical means. In two vertical
frames, two blocks are sliding up and down, which by means of projecting arms,
clamp the wooden rods of the pistons in the barrel.
The blocks are provided with trunnions projecting to the rear, which are
connected by a lever, having its fulcrum in the middle of the two sliding
frames, so that one block is always in its highest position when the other is in its
lowest,
The ends of this lever are slotted to receive the trunnions, one of which is a few
inches longer than the other, in order to receive a connecting rod applied to the
above mentioned crank pin of the revolving disc.

page_text: In the second form, I give motion to a double crank shaft by any convenient
and well known means. Two vertical iron rods of square, triangular, or any other
section being connected to the cranks of the crank shaft by the proper links, receive
an up and down motion, and are sliding each in two holes or eyes fixed to the
framework-Two arms projecting from these sliding rods, clamp the wooden rods
of the pistons, and transfer to them the alternate up and down motion.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VELOCIPEDES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph White and John Asbury at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th December 1883.
JOSEPH WHITE of Coventry in the County of Warwick and JOHN ASBURY of
Coventry in the same County. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
VELOCIPEDES "
The object of this invention is to prevent the vibration caused by the running of
velocipede wheels over a rough road, affecting the seat of the rider and the steering
handles of the vehicle. Many attempts have been made to secure this result, but
the slackening of the driving chains or the variation in the distance between the
driver's seat and the pedal shaft, has resulted.
To avoid these inconveniences, and at the same time to secure the contemplated
advantage, the following contrivance is adopted. The bearings of the travelling
wheel axle are carried by radius arms which are pivotted to brackets on the frame
of the vehicle, or take the pedal axle as their pivot. These arms are connected to
the frame at points equidistant from the bearings by means of helical springs,
which will permit of considerable play of the bearings due to irregularities of the
surface over which the wheels are run, without affecting the frame on which are
mounted the seat and steering handles.
In place of the pendant helical springs, other forms of springs may be used to
connect the pivotted radius arms, with the frame, as for example "Arab springs" or
Coach spring.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLAVOURED, OR SCENTED, CIGARS AND CIGARETTES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John McGovern at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1883.
JOHN MCGOVERN of Liverpool in the county of Lancaster [Cigar Merchant]
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FLAVOURED, OR SCENTED, CIGARS AND
CIGARETTES
"
I find from experiments that if tobacco be flavoured with tolu and other
flavourings the cigarettes and cigars are much improved but the difficulty has been
to flavour them. If the tobacco. is steeped in a solution of the flavouring the
quality is injured, and this is also forbidden by the excise; the drying without also
evaporating the flavoring or injuring the tobacco is a very difficult operation and
some of the flavourings I employ have a tendency to cause the tobacco to go out
as with the filling of the pores the tendency to smoulder is diminished. I find
however that cotton or linen twisted fibre has a great absorbing effect and that
Buch material can be impregnated with the flavourings and yet smoulder when
surrounded by tobacco, especially if it be made in the manner set forth with a
highly oxygenated body as one of its ingredients. There are several such bodies,
nitrate of soda or potash, chlorate of potash or of soda, or the permanganates.
The first mentioned though the cheapest, causes a mouldering to take place in the
cigarette and is therefore inadmissible. The second under some circumstances
gives out nitrous fumes, so is objectionable, the permanganates and chlorates are
therefore to be preferred.
The fibre is steeped in an aqueous solution of chlorate of soda or potash or of .
permanganate of potash and dried. It is then dipped in an alcoholic solution of
the flavouring and dried in such manner as to enable the alcohol given off to be
collected and condensed.
These two operations may be reversed or in some cases where the flavouring
material is soluble in water and will not be decomposed by lengthened contact
with the oxygenating compound, a combined aqueous solution of the various
materials may be employed.
The fibrous thread thus prepared is placed in the centre of the cigarette or
cigar and thus a pleasant aroma therefrom is emitted as it is being smoked or
consumed.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES HUNTER FOR CUTTING OR REAPING SUGAR CANE AND THE LIKE CROPS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Burns, Robert Barr and
Archibald Duncan Hunter at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 11th January 1883.
JAMES BURNS, of Gracechurch Street in the City of London, ROBERT BARR, of
Air Street Regents Street in the County of Middlesex, and ARCHIBALD DUNCAN
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES
HUNTER, of Great St. Helens in the City of London
FOR CUTTING OR REAPING SUGAR CANE AND THE LIKE CROPS
"
According to this invention we employ one or more pairs of circular disc knives
or saws which are revolved at high speed in opposite directions by means of tooth
wheel or other gearing the whole being mounted on a carriage which is arranged
to be pushed or drawn by animal or manual power or by steam or other power
applied in some cases in a manner similar to that of a steam plough. Friction or
other clutch gear is provided for throwing the discs or saws out of action when
required. Guard or guards are fitted to throw the cane or other crops off clear of
the machine. The discs or saws may be made in segments or parts for the purpose
of easily replacing damaged parts. Brushes or equivalent means are provided for
clearing or cleaning the saw teeth while at work
DUCTORS OFLECTRIC
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John George Parker at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th April 1883.
JOHN GEORGE PARKER, of Plymouth, in the County of Devon,
IN CONDUCTORS OF ELECTRICITY,"
"IMPROVEMENTS
My invention has for its object to reduce the resistance encountered by an electric
current while following a metallic conductor, and the loss of current resulting from
such resistance.
For this purpose I give to the metallic conductor such a cross section, that the
insulating medium touches the conductor only along a number of ridges or wings,
instead of being in contact with the same on its entire circumference, and that the
metallic surface of the conductor is increased, as compared with the ordinary circular
cross-section.
A simple way of attaining this result is to compose the metallic conductor of any
suitable number (preferably eight) of strips or wings radiating from a central core
and running parallel along the entire length of the conductor, each strip or wing,
which thus forms part of the entire conducting area, being in contact with the
insulating medium, at its extremity only.
The insulating medium which insulates and protects the metallic conductor may
be a tube of gutta-percha, or other known material suitable for the purpose.
Instead of metal, any other material suitable for other conductors of electricity
may be used.
The wings forming part of the conductor may be flat or of any suitable shape,
they may be drawn from one piece like wire and either parallel with the axis of the
conductor or with any desired twist.
The open sectors between the wings or strips may be utilized for placing
insulated conducting wires of smaller diameter, which are thus protected by the
same insulating tube as the main conductor.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ALKALIES AND ALKALINE SALTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Philip Middleton Justice at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd December 1883.
Communicated to him from abroad by Sidney Gilchrist Thomas at present
residing in Algiers.
PHILIP MIDDLETON JUSTICE of 55 & 56 Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ALKALIES AND ALKALINE SALTS A communication to me from
abroad by Sidney Gilchrist Thomas at present residing in Algiers
This Inventions relates to the manufacture of soda and commercially available
phosphates by means of the phosphorous contained in phosphoric pig iron.
In carrying out my invention I take melted phosphoric pig iron the higher in
phosphorous, the better; if it is not already very low in silicon I blow it in an acid
(or even a basic) Bessemer vessel and run it very hot on to the hearth of a basic
Siemens furnace on which has been spread at least six parts of salt or chloride of
potassium for each unit of phosphorous present in the pig; the salt being covered
with lime or limestone preferably with iron ore I prefer to blow air into the
Siemens furnace and also to inject a further quantity of salt with or without
superheated steam or other hydrogen supplying material The operation is
continued at a high temperature till a test piece shows that all the Phosphorous
has been removed from the metal The slag will consist in great part of phosphate
of soda or potash which is lixiviated out in tanks From the solution of phosphate
of soda phosphoric acid may be precipitated with lime or a lime salt. In this way
caustic soda or potash is produced with the utmost economy Instead of using a
Siemens Furnace, a lime or magnesia lined Bessemer converter may be used. The
addition of salt etc is made as above described I prefer however to inject a great
part of the salt through the buyeres which I prefer to be side tuyeres, crude
carbonate of soda or potash may be used to replace salt in whole or in part
The operation in the Bessemer vessel is continued in the ordinary way till all
the phosphorous is removed
As some of the phosphoric acid and phosphate is volatilized I pass the gases
from the converter through a condensing tower in which they are cooled and
deposited Instead of removing the silicon in a separate vessel the first formed
silicious slag may be poured off from a basic Bessemer vessel before the salt is
introduced; in this way the operation of forming phosphate of soda from the
valueless phosphorous of pig iron is confined to one operation
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF BREWERS YEAST
Year: 1883

page_text: :
LETTERS PATENT to John Shaw Lord, of the Rutland Browery Company
Newark on Trent, in the County of Nottingham Brewer for an Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF BREWERS YEAST"
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Shaw Lord at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th August 1883.
.
JOHN SHAW LORD of the Rutland Browery Company Newark on Trent, in the
County of Nottingham, Brewer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF BREWERS'
YEAST.
"
The object of my invention is to preserve yeast, rendering it light and dry and
easily portable for exportation and capable of keeping for months, and rendering
the same beneficial to Distillers and Bakers, especially in the making of bread for
invalids.
The yeast, as taken from the Brewers fermentation, is first pressed: then washed
in a saturated solution of carbonate of lime: pressed again, and finely granulated,
then dried by means of hot or cold air passing through it. It is then in a condition
for exportation: for the use of Distillers, and the making of bread for invalids, as
it contains a considerable portion of carbonate of lime, which is an antidote for
sickness, and a great assistance to digestion

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Shaw Lord in the Patent Office on the 4th February
1884.
JOHN SHAW LORD of The Rutland Brewery Company Newark on Trent in the
County of Nottingham Brewer. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF BREWERS
YEAST
The object of my invention is to preserve Brewers' Yeast, rendering it light, dry,
and easily portable for _exportation, and capable of keeping for months, rendering
the same beneficial to Distillers and Bakers.
The Yeast as taken from the Brewers fermentation, is first pressed, then mixed
with a saturated solution of carbonate of lime. The yeast and solution together
consist of one part by weight of yeast to three parts by weight of the solution.
The lime then forms a thin coat round the yeast cells, which yeast cells, after being
again pressed, and the moisture driven off by means of cold or warm dry air
passing through it, are rendered dormant, and which (when required for use) are
_brought_back_to_their_former state by adding an equal weight of water at a
temperature from 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit The yeast when dry, is in a
condition for exportation;-also for use by Distillers and Bakers
.
Having now particularly described the nature of my said Invention and in what
manner the-same-is-to-be-performed,-I-declare that what I claim is :—
The method and means of treating Brewers Yeast in manner and for the purposes
herein before described
In witness whereof I the said John Shaw Lord have hereunto set my hand and
seal this second day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight bundred
and eighty four,
ASU
TARA
IMPROVEMENTS IN ROTARY BRUSHES USED BY JEWELLERS AND OTHERS FOR POLISHING GOLD, SILVER, AND OTHER METALS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Hermann Heinrich Räuber at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st May 1883.
HERMANN HEINRICH RÄUBER of Stuttgart in the Empire of Germany
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ROTARY BRUSHES USED BY JEWELLERS AND OTHERS FOR
POLISHING GOLD, SILVER, AND OTHER METALS"
My invention relates to the manufacture of rotary brushes used for polishing
metals, and it has for its object to facilitate the setting of the wires, bristles, or
fibres in the stock and to render the brush more durable
Heretofore the stocks of such brushes have usually been made of wood and
in one piece and they are liable to split in fixing them on their spindle or
subsequently
My invention consists in making the stocks of such brushes in two parts and of
a soft metal or alloy. According to my invention the stock consists of an annular
part forming the stock proper, pierced with radial holes in which the wires or
bristles are set, and a solid central core or bush driven tightly into the annular
stock and serving to fix it on its spindle. The interior of the stock and the
exterior of the core or bush may either be cylindrical or slightly coned so as to fit
tightly the one on the other and the parts may be respectively formed with an
internal and an external flange to limit the insertion of the one into the other
The annular part of the stock may be cast of the proper form and with the holes
for the reception of the wires or bristles thus saving the labor of drilling and the
parts may be interchangeable with others so as to facilitate renewals when the
brushes are worn.