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AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR PRESERVING MEAT
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Pietro Toninetti, Chymist, in the City of Hamburg,
Germany, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR PRESERVING
MEAT."
Sealed the 16th November 1877, and dated the 19th May 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Pietro Toninetti at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th May 1877.
PIETRO TONINETTI, Chymist, in the City of Hamburg, Germany. "AN IMPROVED
METHOD FOR PRESERVING MEAT."
This Invention relates to an improved method for preserving meat, and consists
of injecting into the veins, muscles, or other convenient part, a solution which
contains per litre water, the following ingredients:-
Natrum biboratum
Natrum aceticum
Natrum boratum
Cloruri sodium pur
Kali nitricum
Ammonium aceticum
Timoly in cristalli
Alluminae aceticum
Barium aceticum
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This solution will in most cases effectuate a sufficient preservation, but, according
to the degree of conservation demanded, a stronger or weaker solution may be
applied.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Pietro Toninetti in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th November
1877.
PIETRO TONINETTI, Chymist, in the City of Hamburg, Germany. "AN IMPROVED
METHOD FOR PRESERVING MEAT."
This Invention relates to an improved method for preserving meat, and consists
of injecting into the veins, muscles, or other convenient part, a solution which
contains per litre water, the following ingredients:—
Natrum biboratum
Natrum aceticum
Natrum boratum
Cloruri sodium pur
Kali nitricum
Ammonium aceticum
Tymolum cristallisatum
Alluminal aceticum
Barium aceticum
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This solution will in most cases effectuate a sufficient preservation, but, according
to the degree of conservation demanded, a stronger or weaker solution inay be
applied.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, 1 declare that I claim, the injection of a solution into meat
for the purpose of preservation, which contains, per litre water, the above-named
ingredients in about the quantities stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Pietro Toninetti, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of November, One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.
PIETRO TONINETTI (L.S.)
CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PLATED EDGE SEALS, KEYS, AND SPRING KEYS, MEDALS, AND EDGED CHARMS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Eade and John William
Blake at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th June 1877.
FREDERICK EADE and JOHN WILLIAM BLAKE, both of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick. "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PLATED EDGE
SEALS, KEYS, AND SPRING KEYS, MEDALS, AND EDGED CHARMS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES."
This Invention consists of certain improvements in the manufacture of plated
edged seals, keys and spring keys, medals and edged charms, and other similar
articles.
Hitherto plated seals have been produced by stamping two halves in dies,
necessitating a bevel edge, and then soldering them together; the result is that an
unseemly edge remains when put together. They adopt in the manufacture thereof
double gold-plated metal or single gold-plated metal, which is a base metal purchased
in the sheet with a thin sheet of gold rolled upon it. Then by the use of tools
they are cut or formed to any desired pattern; and to hide the base metal on the
outer edge they undergo a second process of gold plating.
We will describe our Invention as arranged for plated edged seals.
Firstly. In the manufacture we adopt double gold plating or single gold plating.
Secondly. The process of gold plating the outer edge.
Firstly. The sides of a seal or other article is made of gold plating metal, two
sheets put together, the gold being outside. These are soldered together in the
work.
And, Secondly. A thin sheet of gold plating is put upon the edge and soldered.
This we call the second process.
These processes give a superior appearance to the edge, and by our Invention we
obtain a flat or straight edge, giving a presentable appearance, and more economical.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CHURNS OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING BUTTER
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Yates and James Eastwood
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th April 1877.
THOMAS YATES, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Watchmaker, and JAMES
EASTWOOD, of the same Place, Manufacturing Chemist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHURNS
OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING BUTTER."
This Invention relates to churns or apparatus for producing butter, and consists
in constructing the churn or milk receptacle (which may be circular, oval, or of
other convenient form) with two compartments.
The vertical partition or midfeather which separates the compartments is provided
with holes or openings of suitable shape at each end, thus allowing the milk free
access to both compartiments.
The openings are of such a height as to extend somewhat above the surface of
the milk or cream to be churned.
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In one of the compartments we arrange a dasher" fixed upon a horizontal shaft
at right angles to the partition or midfeather.
The dasher shaft may be actuated by means of a landle mounted on a fly wheel
or in any other convenient manner. When the dasher is rotated the milk or cream
will be drawn through one opening and impelled through the other, thus producing
a constant stream or current through the two compartiments. When the milk or
cream becomes "broken" and butter begins to form, a partition is placed in the
second compartment at right angles to the principal partition or midfeather, and is
so arranged as to leave a small open space between it and the bottom of the
churn.
The butter will naturally float upon the surface of the milk, and by means of the
second partition, will be prevented from coming in contact with the dasher. At
the same time the milk or cream below the butter will be continually flowing
underneath the second partition to the dasher, until the churning is finished, when
the butter will have collected together in one mass on the surface of the milk.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CASES FOR HOLDING CIGARS, CIGARETTES, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Robert Smith at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th October 1877.
HENRY ROBERT SMITH, of Upper John Street, Golden Square, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CASES FOR HOLDING
CIGARS, CIGARETTES, AND OTHER ARTICLES."
This Invention relates to the construction of cases for holding cigars, cigarettes,
and other articles, so that the same are protected and preserved from injury whilst
they can be readily removed when desired.
The case consists of two parts of a flattened, cylindrical, or other suitable and
desired form, the lower part being so arranged as to slide telescopically within the
upper portion of the case, and forming the receptacle in which the articles are
placed. The latter when placed in the receptacle project above the top of the
same. The top of the upper portion of the case is hinged or jointed on one side,
so as to be capable of being opened or folded back; and when closed, forms a lid.
Suitable stops are provided in order to prevent the lower part of the case from
being moved too far either in an upward or downward direction.
In order to fill or charge the case the lower portion thereof is drawn downwards
and the articles placed therein, during which operation the upper portion or lid of
the case is folded back. The latter is then closed over the tops of the articles; and
upon the lower portion of the case being pushed upwards it enters the lid, and thus
maintains the articles in a perfectly secure manner. In order to remove the latter
it is only necessary to draw the lower portion of the case downwards when the lid
will be released.
AN IMPROVED STREET AND ADDRESS INDICATOR AND ADVERTISING TABLET."
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Dominique Tamet at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th May 1877.
DOMINIQUE TAMET, of Saint Mary Axe, in the City of London, Merchant. "AN
IMPROVED STREET AND ADDRESS INDICATOR AND ADVERTISING TABLET."
The object of this Invention is the construction and employment of an improved
tablet to be placed at the corners or other parts of streets, and serving to shew at a
glance the name of the street, the particular house and floor of the house of each
resident, and his or her occupation or business; also to point out the various places
of public interest, such as the theatres in such street, space being at the same time
provided for permanent advertisements.
The improved apparatus is constructed of a rectangular tablet of suitable dimen-
sions, on the upper part of which is fixed a piece of enamelled or painted sheet iron,
on which is painted or printed a plan of the street (or portion of the street, as the
case may be) shewing the turnings or streets running out of the same; also the
numbers of the houses, and any important buildings or railway stations therein.
To the lower end of the tablet is hinged a frame with a broad division in the centre,
such frame being fastened in position by two scrows, at the upper end thereof, against
the tablet. The two openings thus left in the frame may be glazed and serve to
enclose a number of removeable slips; on these slips are painted or printed the
number of each house in the street, and the name or names and profession or trade
of each person residing in the street, and when there is more than one person in a
house the floor is added; such slips being merely fixed by screws to the tablet, they
can be easily removed (by opening the frame) for alteration in case of removal or
otherwise of the residents or occupiers of the street. The central broad division of
the hinged frame serves for a number of permanent advertisements or for other
indications, according to circumstances.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANS, CASES, OR BOXES FOR CONTAINING PRESERVED ARTICLES OF FOOD OR OTHER GOODS FOR FACILITATING THE CLOSING AND OPENING THEREOF
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Rollason at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 14th December 1877.
WILLIAM ROLLASON, of 12, Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, in the Parish of Saint
Andrews, Holborn, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANS,
CASES, OR BOXES FOR CONTAINING PRESERVED ARTICLES OF FOOD OR OTHER GOODS
FOR FACILITATING THE CLOSING AND OPENING THEREOF."
This Invention relates to the manufacture of metal cans, cases, or boxes of
cylindrical, square, or other shape, for containing preserved articles of food or other
goods required to be enclosed hermetically, the object being, by means of a rim or
band of metal, to securo the disc or end plate at the end of the can, case, or box
intended to be opened, by soldering said rim or band by its upper edge to the said
disc or end plate, and by its lower edge to the side of the can, case, or box, so that
when required to be "opened" the rim or band may be pulled away and leave the
top or bottom of the tin unattached, and the can, case, or box open.
In carrying the Invention into practice the end plate to be secured is either flat
or stamped, or turned up at its outer edge, and the rim or band which is used is
longer than sufficient to extend round the can, case, or box, so that an end or
thereof will be left free.
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tab"
When the edge of the end plate is stamped up, the edge so raised may be turned
inward so that the edge of the can, case, or box, will come edge to edge therewith,
which I prefer, or it may be turned outward, the object of the turned up edge,
being to form a better edge than in the case of a flat end plate for attachment of
the rim or band.
The tab or free end of the rim or band is pierced with a hole, into which a stud
point or hook of a tool may be inserted for pulling away or stripping off the closing
rim or band; or a pair of pliars, with a stud in one face and recess in the other face
[Price 2d1

page_text: of the nipping "bits" to engage with the hole of the tab or free end of the rim or
band, is employed for this purpose, or an ordinary pair of pliars may be used.
The can, case, or box, may be made in two halves or portions, and the said two
parts be secured together by an encircling band, with tab or free end soldered at its
upper and lower edges to the outside of the receptacle, for the purpose of pulling
away of the said band as before described for purpose of opening.
A NEW FUSEE WHICH CAN BE IGNITED IN THE OPEN AIR, AND THE SMELL, OCCASIONED BY THE ORDINARY FUSEE AT PRESENT IN USE, AVOIDED
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Alexander Kennedy Skipton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th May 1877:
GEORGE ALEXANDER KENNEDY SKIPTON, of the Union Club. Brighton, in the
County of Sussex, Esquire. "A NEW FUSEE WHICH CAN BE IGNITED IN THE OPEN
AIR, AND THE SMELL, OCCASIONED BY THE ORDINARY FUSEE AT PRESENT IN USE,
AVOIDED."
A piece of wood tipped with phosphorus, or some other ignitable substance
placed in the centre of a piece of hollow tinder rope, the tinder rope slightly over-
lapping the phosphorus and adhering to the wood by means of gum or other
adhesive substance, and reaching about a quarter of an inch down the wood from
the top; the ignitable substance or top can then be pressed out of the tinder rope
and struck, and the tinder rope ignited.
The fusees to be manufactured, complete in accordance with the above directions,
and the tinder rope to be also manufactured separately and sold in lengths to enable
the public to cut it in small pieces and convert any ordinary lucifer or other
match:
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IMPROVEMENTS IN HARROWS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Bentley Fenton at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th July 1877.
JOSEPH BENTLEY FENTON, of Great Hale, in the County of Lincoln, Implement
Maker. IMPROVEMENTS IN HARROWS."
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I construct an harrow of a number of chisel teeth, each of which has an eye at
the front end and a chisel tooth at the back end. Each tooth is formed with a
knee-shaped bend, which with the eye of the next adjacent tooth in the rear is held
by a clip. A series of these are kept the requisite distance apart by a number of
short tubes, the whole of which are kept together by a rod to each row, the rod
being passed through the clips, the knee bends, and eyes of the teeth, and also
through the tubes, and held therein by a cotter pin at each end, or by lock nuts.
The number of teeth in each row and the number of rows of teeth connected
together will depend upon the size of harrow required. By such means I am
enabled to construct an harrow that will readily accomodate itself to any inequality
of ground, and at the same time cut the clods and weeds in pieces.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR STRETCHING FABRICS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Newton at the Office
of the Cominissioners of Patents on the 27th March 1877. A communication
from abroad by Alfred François Lacassaigne, of Paris, in the Republic of
France.
WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS FOR STRETCHING FABRICS." A communication from abroad by Alfred
François Lacassaigne, of Paris, in the Republic of France.
The object of this Invention is to gradually stretch fabrics transversely to their
proper width while they are being carried forward slowly and continuously. To
this end while the fabric is travelling slowly forward over a smooth copper cylinder
which supports it while under operation it is laid hold of and gripped tightly at its
two selvages by a series of griggers, which are arranged on the peripheries of a pair
of rotating discs or wheels, which are carried by sockets or sleeves mounted on a
central shaft, to which is adapted a long right and left handed screw, whereby the
discs which carry the grippers may be drawn out and set wider apart, so that when
the grippers are rotated they will pull out or stretch the fabric transversely. Motion
is communicated to the working parts from the main driving shaft, which is pro-
vided at one end with a pulley, so that it may be actuated by means of a band
from any prime mover. Pinions on this main shaft gear into a drive toothed
wheels which are mounted on a central shaft, and are connected by means of hori-
zontal driving pins with the gripper discs. These toothed wheels turn loosely on
their sockets or sleeves, which are secured on the central shaft by means of a key,
but in such a manner that they are capable of lateral movement thereon when
acted upon by the right and left handed screw above mentioned.
On the sockets or sleeves are mounted brackets, which carry guides for opening
and closing the grippers, which in succession lay hold of the fabric as it travels
through the machine. The gripper discs are capable of adjustment at any angle or
inclination on their shaft by means of a worm or endless screw acting on a sector
rack attached to or formed on their boss, the amount of inclination or angle
depending upon the nature of the work to be done.
The central cylinder which supports the fabric while under operation is made in
two parts, one of which fits into the other, so that by drawing out the two parts the
length of the cylinder may be extended, according to the requirements of the work.

page_text: It will now be understood that as the inclined gripper discs. are slowly carried
round, the grippers which have tight hold of the selvages of the fabric, will stretch
the latter transversely, and when this has been done to the proper extent the
grippers will be opened by the guides and will release the fabric, which may then
be folded or rolled up in the usual manner.
IMPROVEMENTS IN FEED WATER HEATERS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Hyslop at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents on the 13th March 1877.
JOHN HYSLOP, of No. 8, Poplar Walk Road, in the County of Surrey, Mechanical
Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FEED WATER HEATERS."
My Invention relates to that class of feed water heaters in which the feed water
is heated by means of exhaust steam from the engine, which steam is caused to pass
through tubes contained in a cylinder, the ends of the said tubes being fixed in or
fitted into the opposed faces of two chambers screwed to the ends of the cylinder.
These tubes are apt to be drawn out of or loosened in their sockets or joints by the
unequal expansion and contraction of the parts. Now the object of my Invention
is to obviate this defect. For this purpose, instead of fixing the aforesaid chambers
rigidly to the ends of the cylinder, I fix one only of the said chambers (ie., the
upper chamber) to the said cylinder, and I form on the other chamber (i.e., the lower
chamber) a neck or inlet pipe which passes through a stuffing box and gland on the
end of the said cylinder.
The upper chamber is formed with an outlet pipe which is bolted to the end or
cover of the cylinder, in which end or cover is formed an exit passage coinciding
and communicating with the said outlet pipe.
An air chamber is in some cases formed on or affixed to the lower chamber. The
cylinder is formed with inlet and outlet passages for the steam."
The action of this heater is as follows:-The feed water to be heated is passed
through the feed water inlet into the lower chamber, and thence passes through the
heating tubes into the upper chamber, and thence out of the heater to a pipe leading
to the boiler, such water being heated during its passage through the said chambers
and tubes by the waste steam passing through the cylinder. As the parts expand
and contract by reason of changes of temperature the neck or inlet pipe on the
lower chamber slides in its stuffing box and gland, and thus prevents the heating
tubes from being drawn out of or loosened in their joints or sockets.
Instead of the steam being passed through the cylinder and the water through
the chambers and tubes, the steam may be passed through the said chambers and
tubes, and the water through the cylinder.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PENTAGRAPHIC ENGRAVING MACHINES
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Bryco at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents on the 17th December 1877.
JOHN BRYCE, Manager of Engraving Department to Messieurs Zechariah Heys
and Sons, of South Arthurlic Print Works, Barrhead, in the County of Renfrew,
North Britain. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PENTAGRAPHIC ENGRAVING MACHINES."
This Invention has for its object to save labor, time, and expenso in certain
kinds of engraved work, in connection with which pentagraphic machines are used
by calico printers and others.
In such machines as commonly used, lines composing a design are traced or
marked on the copper roller or plate by diamond points, such lines being subsequently
etched in with acid. In work of the kind to which the present Invention is
applicable, the etched lines or fine grooves are too smooth for properly holding
the color, and the common practice is to subsequently roughen them by means of a
separate milling or embossing machine or by hand instruments, only one repeat of
the pattern being operated on at one time
By the present Invention the desired roughening of the etched lines is effected in
the pentagraphic machine, and several repeats of the pattern are operated on at
once. For this purpose the diamond points and their holders are removed from the
traversing bar which carries them (or they are set so as to be inoperative), and
small steel milling wheels are substituted for the diamonds. Each milling wheel
is carried by a forked or slotted pin, which is adjusted by means of a screw or screw
nut in a lever, which is centered on a bracket fitted to the traversing bar, and
adjustable on it to suit the distance between the repeats of the pattern. The lever
is made with a long arm, a small weight on which gives the pressure necessary to
make the milling wheel act. The pin carrying the wheel is placed near the fulcrum
of the lever, and this fulcrum is placed on the adjustable bracket at some distance
from the traversing bar whilst the bracket is extended beyond the fulcrum and has
a pin screwed into its outer end to be adjusted, so that the bracket may rest by the
pin on a fixed bar, and keep the fulcrum of the lever quite steady.

page_text: The details can be arranged to act on either the under or upper side of the copper
roller, or they may be arranged to act on a flat plate.
The arrangement may also be used for pinning or spotting, a small punch or
indenting tool being fixed at the end of the lever opposite to that carrying the
milling wheel, or to a separate lever.
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IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PRESSURE GAUGES
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Aaron Bradshaw at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st April 1877.
"
AARON BRADSHAW, of Accrington, in the County of Lancaster. IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PRESSURE GAUGES."
These improvements are intended to obviate the difficulties hitherto experienced
in gauges for recording pressures of aeriform or other fluids. I cause the fluid
pressure which
required to be ascertained or recorded to act between or against
the inner surfaces of two elastic diaphragms fixed within an enclosed vessel at a
short distance apart from each other. On each external surface of these diaphragms
I place a stiff plate or washer of metal; the respective superficies of these two
plates or washers are unequal, and I connect the two plates or washers together by
means of a central bolt passing through them and the two diaphragms as well as
through the intervening space.
The fluid pressure to be recorded acting equally on the inner faces of the dia-
phragms causes the diaphragm which has the largest plate or washer with the
larger superficies to move the diaphragm which has the plate or washer with the
smaller superficies; and this movement I utilize for registering or recording the
amount of the said pressure acting on the diaphragms, either by causing mercury or
other fluid to rise in a glass tube having a suitable scale, or by acting upon a spring
with a pointer moving over an index plate.
To prevent deterioration of the diaphragm through the action of steam, water, or
other fluid, I fill the cavity between the diaphragms with mercury or other suitable
fluid, and by this means I preserve the diaphragms from oxydating and keep them
permanently elastic.
IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARDS EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING, AND IN THE MEANS OF OPERATING THE SAME
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Orlando Ball at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents on the 21st June 1877.
ORLANDO BALL, of the Firm of Paul Dracup and Company, of Bradford, in the
County of York, Jacquard Machine Makers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARDS
EMPLOYED IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING, AND IN THE MEANS OF OPERATING THE
SAME."
The first part of this Invention relates to the wires or needles of jacquards, such
wires having hitherto been made only of round wire.
My Invention consists in making the wires or needles of square, oblong, oval, or
triangular shape in section, so as to prevent them turning round on their ends, as
is now the case with round wires; also in forming the eye or hole in the horizontal
wire with two or more laps or twists, so as to give more bearing surface to the
vertical wire which passes through, such hole being formed same shape as the section
of the vertical wire.
The second part of this Invention relates to the means of operating the jacquard
apparatus, which has previously been done by a rod connected to a crank from the
crank shaft of the loom, such method of driving causing an irregular lift of the
jacquard.
My Invention consists in operating the lifting rod of the jacquard by passing the
rod through a swivel stud, so that a perfectly perpendicular lift is given to the
jacquard, and much wear and tear prevented.
IMPROVEMENTS IN FLEXIBLE VALVES FOR PREVENTING THE ESCAPE OF CAS WHEN LAYING, REPAIRING, OR CONNECTING GAS MAINS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Proud at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 8th December 1877
THOMAS PROUD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN FLEXIBLE VALVES FOR PREVENTING THE ESCAPE OF CAS WHEN LAYING,
REPAIRING, OR CONNECTING GAS MAINS."
This Invention has for its object the construction of valves in such a manner as
to render them suitable and of easy application to prevent loss of gas by oscape,
and the consequent chances of danger when laying, repairing, altering, or connecting
gas mains.
The Invention consists of a tubular iod, to one end of which is fixed a disc of
sheet rubber or other flexible material but little affected by gas. The edge of the
disc is fixed to an india-rubber band, which receives the ends of a number of stays
that radiate from and are hinged to a sleeve which is free to slide along the rod.
The rod has a rack which is operated upon by a pinion attached to a spindle
furnished with a handle.
The action and use of the apparatus is as follows:-Supposing that it is desired
to stop the flow of gas at any particular part of the main, a suitable hole is drilled
therein, and the valve inserted through it. By thrusting the rod forward, and then
drawing it back again, the valve is caused to distend, when a jointed stay or support
is placed beneath the rack end of the rod, and the hole closed by a flexible disc or
cup and cross bar and screw. The handle is then turned so as to actuate the rod,
and cause the radiating arms to distend the band and disc until it presses against
the interior of the main, and completely closes the passage, thus preventing any
escape of gas.
When it is desired to open the communication again the reversal of the action
before described is all that is necessary, when the valve and its support may be
withdrawn, and the hole plugged.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBOYS FOR CARRYING CHEMICALS, AND IN THE MOULDS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis Dixon Nuttall at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th June 1877.
FRANCIS DIXON NUTTALL, of St. Helens, in the County of Lancaster, Ġlass
Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBOYS FOR CARRYING
CHEMICALS, AND IN THE MOULDS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME."
Carboys as usually constructed are very apt to get broken, and being round
cannot be packed in protecting boxes without much loss of room. To obviate these
defects I construct my carboys with flattened sides, but rounded corners, something
on the principle of clock shades. These partially squared carboys are then fitted
into boxes, usually. iron bound skeleton boxes, composed of slats or staves bound
together with hoop iron. An inch of space or thereabouts is left between the-
carboy and the box, which is packed with straw. In order to mould the carboy
to this shape, I partially mould it in a round or cylindrical mould, and while in
the highly heated state transfer it to the flat-sided mould to be blown to the
desired shape. To prevent the glass from being too quickly chilled, I use moulds
of a comparatively non-heat conducting material, such as fire-clay rubbed smooth,
instead of cast iron.
IM- PROVEMENTS IN WATER POWER ENGINES FOR DRIVING AND REVERSING THE MOTION OF MACHINERY
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Alexander Binns at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th November 1877.
HENRY ALEXANDER BINNS, of Galway, in the County of Galway, Ireland.
"IM-
PROVEMENTS IN WATER POWER ENGINES FOR DRIVING AND REVERSING THE MOTION
OF MACHINERY."
My Invention has reference to improvements in water power engines, whereby
water power may be utilized in driving machinery and reversing its motion in a
more convenient, simple, expeditious, and economical manner than by the use of
apparatus such as so far as I am aware has been hitherto employed.
To carry out these objects I construct a drum or wheel with double buckets or
floats on its periphery, and I enclose this drum or wheel in a casing (which can be
made portable), which I provide with two feed pipes or inlets, and an escape pipe
or outlet.
The feed pipes or inlets respectively enter or communicate with the casing at
opposite sides of an imaginary line drawn through the wheel centre and outlet, and
each feed pipe or inlet is provided with a cock or valve. Thus while the one cock
or valve is open the water entering the case through it will act on that side of the
periphery of the wheel, and cause the wheel to revolve in the corresponding
direction. Upon closing that valve and opening the other valve the water will
enter at the opposite side of the centre line, reversing the rotation or causing the
wheel to rotate in the contrary direction.
IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING AND IN LOOMS THEREFOR او
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Matthew Morton and John Wilson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd May 1877.
MATTHEW MORTON and JOHN WILSON, both of Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain. "IMPROVEMENTS IN WEAVING AND IN LOOMS THEREFOR
او
This Invention which relates to certain improvements in weaving, has for
its object to diminish the power required for driving looms as at present con-
structed.
The class of looms to which the Invention relates is that wherein harness, gauze
mounting, and heddles are used to produce the cloth, and the present improvements
apply thereto whether the loom be driven by hand or by power.
The improvements consist in dispensing with the gauze mounting and ordinary
harness, in substituting therefor what is known as a "doup" harness, and
in placing short eyed heddles behind the "doup" harness in place of under the
old system, wherein gauze mounting is used, of placing short eyed heddles in front
of the harness.
The effect of this improved arrangement is that in place of the heddles when
shedding the warp having the weight of the gauze mounting to lift, and the
resistance or pull due to the crossing of the warp threads for forcing the gauzing to
overcome the weight and resistance, are under the present improvements dispensed
with, and the expenditure of power necessary for weaving is saved, the cloth being
also generally improved and its production cheapened.
IM- PROVEMENTS IN VALVES AND VALVE SEATS, APPLICABLE TO WHAT ARE COMMONLY KNOWN AS PULSOMETERS, ALSO TO PUMPS AND OTHER LIKE APPARATUS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Eliot Hodgkin and Mathias
Neuhaus at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th December
1877. A communication from abroad by Max Hecking, of Dortmund, in
the Empire of Germany.
JOHN ELIOT HODOkin and MATHIAS NEUHAUS, of the Firm of Hodgkin, Neuhaus,
and Company, of Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, Engineers.
"IM-
PROVEMENTS IN VALVES AND VALVE SEATS, APPLICABLE TO WHAT ARE COMMONLY
KNOWN AS PULSOMETERS, ALSO TO PUMPS AND OTHER LIKE APPARATUS." A com-
munication from abroad by Max Hecking, of Dortmund, in the Empire of
Germany.
This Invention relates to peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination
of valve and valve seat, more particularly applicable as the steam valve of what arc
commonly known as pulsometers and apparatus of that class, also to pumps and
other like apparatus, and consists in making the valve conical or in the form of a
frustum of a cone, rounded at its smaller end, the said valve resting upon its apex
or rounded end in the hollow of a valve sent, consisting of two halves of a hollow
cone or frustum of a cone, joined on the two opposite sides by a short length of
straight, in horizontal section, the suid straight portion tapering from the top or lip
of the valve seat down to nothing at the lowest part thereof. Within this seat the
said valve is free to vibrate laterally to and fro in one direction, so as to open and
close alternately two orifices made one in each of the two opposite sides of the seat
which are farthest apart, such orifices communicating respectively with the chambers
of the pulsometer, or with the suction and discharge passages of a pump, or other
like apparatus to which the said improved valve and valve seat may be applied.
In cases where the pressure would so act as to tend to lift the valve from its seat,
a spring or other well-known contrivance may be applied to the valve for tho
purpose of proventing its undue displacement. For the facility of removing the
said valve when required, a tapped hole may be made in the larger end thereof for
the temporary introduction of the screwed end of a lifting rod or spindle.
NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR BATCHING JUTE OR ANALAGOUS FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Stewart at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 13th November 1877.
"A
WILLIAM STEWART, of Dundee, in the County of Forfar, North Britain.
NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR BATCHING JUTE OR ANALAGOUS FIBROUS
SUBSTANCES."
This Invention, which consists of a new or improved compound for batching jute
or analagous fibrous substances, has for its object to supersede the use of whale oil,
seal oil, and mineral oil for batching purposes, and thereby to ecconomise the cost of
batching operations.
The new or improved compound is composed of four lbs. of common soap and
two lbs. of soft soap, which are dissolved at a gentle heat in sixteen gallons of water.
Sixteen to twenty gallons more of water, having two oz. of caustic soda dissolved
therein are also provided, and the two liquids mixed together constitute the new
or improved batching compound. The foregoing proportions may however be
varied.
Besides the advantages herein-before mentioned the batching compound con-
stituting this Invention maintains the machinery in a cleaner state, improves the
colour of and strengthens the yarns spun from the fibres treated therewith.
IMPROVEMENTS IN DIRECTION OR OTHER LABELS, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED for ATTACHING - THE SAME
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Parker and George Agustus Prince, both of
Leeds, in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DIRECTION OR OTHER LABELS, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED for ATTACHING
- THE SAME."
Sealed the 4th January 1878, and dated the 11th July 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Parker and George
Agustus Prince at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th July
1877.
THOMAS PARKER and GEORGE AGUSTUS PRINCE, both of Leeds, in the County of
York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN DIRECTION OR OTHER LABELS, AND IN THE MEANS
EMPLOYED FOR ATTACHING THE SAME."
Our improvements have reference to the ordinary direction or other labels,
rendering them more secure against being torn away from the article to which they
are attached.
: In our improvements we by preference dispense with the ordinary eyelet (whereby
the label is usually fastened) on account of its liability to be torn away or otherwise
separated from the label; and instead of this we provide a strip of wire, by
preference the full width of the label though not necessarily so, over which one end
of the label is folded and fastened down by some adhesive material; this being
done; the label is perforated in front of the wire, through which perforation, may be
passed a string or wire for the purpose of securing the label.
By this arrangement a larger bearing being provided the danger of tearing away
is obviated.
In some cases we provide a plate formed of metal or other suitable material
instead of the strip of wire; this may be of any convenient width or length and
secured to the label in the same manner as the strip of wire.
In this case the metal plate is perforated along with the label, and the fastening
string or wire passed through it.
:

page_text: having a portion of the label folded over the wire and secured by adhesive material,
substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Second. The arrangement and application of plate e to labels having a portion of
the label folded over the plate and secured by adhesive material, substantially as
and for the purposes herein set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Parker and George Augustus Prince,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Ninth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight and seventy-eight.
THOMAS PARKER.
(L.S.)
GEORGE AUGUSTUS PRINCE. (L.S.)
AND APPERTAINING TO BATHS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Dodd at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1877.
JOHN DODD, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster.
AND APPERTAINING TO BATHS."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My Invention relates to certain improvements in and appertaining to iron or
copper baths, such as are used as single baths in dwelling and bath houses, and
consists in nickel plating, by electric force, such iron or copper bath.
In carrying out my Invention, the bath to be nickel-plated or coated over by
electric force with nickel, is provided with a temporary gutter or rim round its
upper edge. The bath is then filled with the usual liquor used in nickel plating,
which liquor has placed in it in solution or in bars, or other convenient form, the
nickel to be deposited. The bath is then connected with the poles of an electric
battery, and by this means the bath is entirely coated over with nickel, and I thereby
produce a new article of manufacture, namely, a nickel-plated bath. After the
bath is sufficiently plated the temporary rim or gutter can be removed and the
liquor drawn off.
THE MANUFACTURE OF PICKERS USED IN POWER LOOMS."
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Burslem at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 25th October 1877.
GEORGE BURSLEM, of Stockport, in the County of Chester.
THE MANUFACTURE OF PICKERS USED IN POWER LOOMS."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
This Invention consists of improvements in the manufacture of that class of
buffalo hide pickers, known as "Cunliffe's" picker, for which Letters Patent,
No. 11,701, were granted to John Tattersall Cunliffe, dated 14th May, 1847.
The object of the present Invention being to facilitate the manufacture, and to
give increased steadiness and durability to the picker, and to reduce the friction on
the picker spindle.
I take a single piece of buffalo hide, about eight inches long and two inches and
a half wide, and of the requisite thickness (say, about '/ inch), and I fold or double
it across the centre, bringing the two ends together and pinning or rivetting them
to form the foot.
In the bend I place a maundrel or rod, about equal in diameter to the "picker
spindle," and I rivet the two folds together by two rivets (one near each edge)
just below the said maundrel, so as to form a sort of tube or long boss to run on
the picker spindle. To reduce the friction that would be occasioned by this long
boss I then punch the central part of the tube, leaving only a short boss at each
end and a connecting piece across the top, which latter, when raised and pressed
into form, serves as a bar or staple to connect the picker to the picking band. I
then cut away the front and back portions of the leg and foot of the picker till it is
reduced to about an inch and a quarter in depth.
I next take a strip of buffalo hide, about three inches and a half long and one
inch broad. The central part of this is placed in front of the leg so as to form the
front or striking part of the picker, the ends being bent at right angles (one on each
side of the leg), and the whole is then secured together by driving a staple or wire
through the ends of the strip and the two folds which form the leg of the picker,
and then clinching or rivetting the same. The picker is then pressed and dried in
the usual manner.
CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR NEEDLES, PINS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Woodfield and Albert Fenton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th January 1877
WILLIAM WOODFIELD, of Redditch, in the County of Worcester, and ALBERT
FENTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR NEEDLES, PINS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES”
Our Invention refers to various improvements in the method of, or the arranging
of cases or receptacles for the above enumerated articles, but more especially needles,
the object being to facilitate the opening and closing of such cases on receptacles,
and for the extraction of such articles from the same
The cases we propose
making of any desued size, according to the articles they are required to contain, and
formed of metal, paper fabrics, or any other suitable material either separately or
combined as we piefer
Firstly We construct a case or receptacle with the ordinary fiame or receiver,
the lower end of which is jointed, and working upon this Joint is one or more
sheaths for containing the needles, upon the edge of this frame centrally or
approaching thereto is a moveable plate working upon a pin or joint, and in
the centre of this plate is an aperture or aperture through which the sheath passes,
so that by moving this plate in an outward direction it bungs out the sheath and
the needles are then exposed, the action reversed encloses the same, and it is then
secured by an ordinary fastening
I
Secondly. I construct a case or receptacle in a simple and economical manner,
arrange a frame or back upon the edge of which is a tubular joint or hinge, attached
to this is the lid or receptacle, the joint of this being decreased, allowing it to slide
a certain distance, upon the lower end is a chip gained by the turning over of a
part of the same, and into this is placed the needles, so that by folding or closing
the same and imparting an upward movement it will slide under a clip upon the
upper part of the frame or back and is then secure, a ring or stud is employed to
the lid or receptacle for opening the same.
AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR LUBRICATING WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE FIBRES IN CARDING, SPINNING, AND OTHER MACHINERY
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Sowden and Henry Pike at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th June 1877.
JOHN SOWDEN and HENRY PIKE, of 44, Well Street, Bradford, in the County
of York. "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR LUBRICATING WOOL AND OTHER TEXTILE
FIBRES IN CARDING, SPINNING, AND OTHER MACHINERY."
Our Invention relates to an improved composition which we term "Gallipoli
cream" for lubricating wool and other textile fibres when operated on in carding,
spinning, and other machinery.
The following are the ingredients and method of making the composition, but we
would remark that we do not limit ourselves to the proportions named, as such may
be varied without departing from our Invention. For, say, 5 gallons of composition,
we boil, say, 4lbs. of potatoes in 5 gallons of water until the potatoes are reduced
to a mash or pulp. We then press and strain the liquor from the same until free
from all sediment. We then add, say, 11b. of soap to the potatoe liquor, and boil
it again until thoroughly mixed together. The liquor is then strained again and
run into a cooler, and, say, 1 gallon of ammonia is added thereto. To this composition
is also added an equal quantity of Gallipoli oil, and the composition when ready
may be applied in such quantity as will suit the purpose required in the manufacture
of woollen and other textile fibres.
A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF DISCONNECTING POLE CHAINS OR STRAPS
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Vincent Ernest Holder at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patonts on the 12th March 1877.
VINCENT ERNEST HOLDER, of Evelyn Street, Deptford, in the County of Kent.
A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF DISCONNECTING POLE CHAINS OR STRAPS."
This Invention relates to a new and improved method of disconnecting from the
pole cap of vehicles the chains or straps which unite the said pole cap to the collars
of the horses, especially in the event of the said horses falling.
The following is the manner I propose to disconnect the pole chains or straps
according to this Invention :-Instead of making the rings on each side of the pole
cap of once piece, I form them with a hinge, the ends of the movable parts thereof
being shaped as tenons, which are made to enter two mortises cut out of the pole
cap, the said tenons having each a hole drilled through them. The pole cap is made
hollow, so as to allow a piston furnished with two pins or spiggots to work freely
therein. The object of the said pins or spiggots is to secure the movable parts of
the rings aforesaid by passing through the holes in the tenoned part. The piston acts
against a spring placed at the back of it, and is kept in position by a screw or pin.
When it is desired to disconnect the pole chains or straps from the pole cap, the
piston is depressed, thereby releasing the pins from the tenons of the rings and
loosening the hinged part of the said rings.
To reform the rings it is only necessary to depress the piston, place the ends of
the said rings through the mortises, when the pins or spiggots will secure them by
the action of the spring at the back of the piston. In certain cases the piston
aforesaid may be made in two parts, so that on one of the said parts being depressed
one of the rings only will be opened.