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MENTS IN AND RELATING TO LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Ratcliffe at the O.lice of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 4th October 1882.
JOHN RATCLIFFE of Great Harwood in the County of Lancaster.
MENTS IN AND RELATING TO LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
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IMPROVE-
In looms for weaving in which the yarn or thread which forms the weft of the
cloth is carried in a shuttle, the shuttle is usually driven across the warp threads
with considerable force by the picker staff and as it reaches alternately one side
then the other of the loom a pad or buffer is required to check its velocity. The
picker which conveys the motion to the shuttle also requires to be checked in a
similar manner without causing any jar to the machinery. At present this is
effected by an arrangement of leather straps passed from one side of the loom to
the other or otherwise attached which I need not here more fully describe.
It is to do away with the encumbrance of these straps and to provide a more
effectual and complete buffer that I have designed this invention.
"
It consists of a spring buffer attached to a bracket which is bolted to the sleigh
of the loom. A rod is fastened by bolts or in other convenient manner to a couple
of simple brackets and around this rod I place a helical spring of steel or other
metal wire. Sliding on this rod I place another small bracket to which is fixed
another rod fitted with two lugs which slides on the "fly spindle" the "picker
sliding on the fly spindle between the two lugs on the said rod. The bracket
which slides on the first mentioned rod has part of the spring placed between it
and one of the first mentioned brackets and part of the spring between it and the
other.
The spring or springs come into operation at each shot of the shuttle one lug on
the rod which slides on the fly spindle receives the bump of the picker as it propels
the shuttle. At the return stroke the other lug receives the bump of and checks
the shuttle, through these lugs the concussion is conveyed to the springs. The
springs are made proportionately strong to relieve the force of the shock in each
direction.
While I have thus described my invention as I at present prefer to use it I do
not confine myself to the exact details of bracket or springs above described as by

page_text: slightly varying the shape of the brackets and rods flat or other springs mado of
steel might be used or oven india-rubber.
I consider that while the buffering of the shuttle and picker will be more effect
ually performed by the use of my invention the cost of keeping the loom in repair
will be much less as it will be less costly than the leather straps now in use will
last longer and be less difficult to repair.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE LIGHTERS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Ferdinand Karol de Stasicki at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th November 1882. Com-
municated to him from abroad by FA Christ and Joseph Weiler both of
35 Magdalenen Strasse Vienna in the Empire of Austria
FERDINAND KAROL DE STASICKI of the Firm of F. Karol, Hopkins & Co of
23 Martins Lane, Cannon Street in the City of London "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE LIGHTERS." [Communicated to him from abroad by
FA Christ and Joseph Weiler both of 35 Magdalenen Strasse Vienna in the
Empire of Austria]
All Firelighters hitherto have cost too much in the preparation, besides being
by no means good. The well-known wooden wheel fire-lighters for example do
not ensure a free passage of air as the interstices are apt to get filled with coal in
making the fire and the pieces of wood used in the construction of the wheel are
of too substantial a character to burn freely. Similar objections may be urged
against other fire lighters which have been put before the public.
This Fire-lighter consists of three twigs or other pieces of wood whatsoever.
These pieces of wood are either made up into bundles or not and then dipped into
an inflammable mixture which may be either hot or cold and may consist of oil,
paraffin, asphalte, pitch or other suitable substance.
In making up the twigs or other pieces of wood into bundles it is preferred to
use bands of straw, hay or shavings instead of wire or string as usual. Or the
wood after being dipped into the inflammable composition may be arranged simply
in heaps, the pieces being joined together by the composition without the use of
bands of any kind.
To prevent the soiling of the hands in handling these fire-lighters and to render
them more inflammable they may be sprinkled or coated with saw dust, powdered
charcoal, or other suitable powder.
One of these fire-lighters when placed in a fire place or stove together with
coal or other combustible in the usual manner will admit of a free and uninterrupted
passage of air
It is claimed for this invention that it is not only the best fire-lighter that has
been brought out but that it possesses the great recommendation of being the
cheapest.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF RETENE FOR THE OBTAINMENT OF ANTHRACENE AND OTHER PRODUCTS THEREFROM
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Irvine at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 8th September 1882.
ROBERT IRVINE of Edinburgh in the County of Midlothian North Britain
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF RETENE FOR THE OBTAINMENT OF
ANTHRACENE AND OTHER PRODUCTS THEREFROM
"
My process has for its object the decomposition of "Retene" (prepared as herein-
after described) into certain products but chiefly with the view of the production
of Anthracene therefrom.
To effect this I take the solid product obtained in the distillation of Rosin or Rosin
Oils over Alkalies or Alkaline earths; but preferably the semi solid product obtained
when Rosin Oil is distilled over caustic Soda or its Carbonates and after freeing it
as much as possible from Oily impurities expose the same (preferably by passing a
current of its vapour) to a red heat in retorts or other suitable vessel by which
means the retene vapour is decomposed and among other products Anthracene is
formed which may be purified by any of the processes usually employed.
IMPROVEMENTS in dynamo electric and magneto electric machines
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles John Chubb at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th February 1882.
CHARLES JOHN CHUBB of Clifton in the County of Gloucester.
IN DYNAMO-ELECTRIC AND MAGNETO-ELECTRIC MACHINES."
"IMPROVEMENTS
This Invention has for its object improvements in dynamo electric and magneto
electric machines.
The Invention consists in causing the electro or permanent magnets of a dynamo
or magneto electric machine or machine for producing electricity to revolve in an
opposite direction to the armature or series of bobbins or coils; the object being to
increase the speed at which the coils or bobbins on the armaturo may pass the
magnetic poles.
The Invention also consists in causing a conducting material connected
magnetically with such magnets to revolve in an opposite direction to such
armature, bobbins or coils or conducting materials as may be electrically connected
with such bobbins or coils.
The object of this is to have the heavy magnets, coils and bobbins stationary
and to connect small and light revolving parts with them by means of conductors
so that the weight of the moving parts shall be reduced to a minimum and the
speed and efficiency of the electrical machine proportionately increased.
It is not essential to this arrangement that both parts that is the magnet and
armature should be caused to revolve.
Also in some cases I employ a small light armature revolving in front of a
magnet or magnets either stationary or revolving in the opposite direction to the
armature and I connect the armature coils with the coils of a large stationary
armature placed in front of a stationary magnet also of large dimensions. The
object in this arrangement also being that the moving parts may be small and
light and suitable to be driven at a high speed.
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TAPS AND VALVES.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Gustav Heidman and Yosef Hoffmanu
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th February 1882.
GUSTAV HEIDMAN of Elberfeld and YOSEF HOFFMANN of Uerdingen (both in the
Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire) carrying on business as Valve Manufacturers
under the Style or Firm of "Heidmann & Co." at Uerdingen aforesaid. IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TAPS AND VALVES.
.
This Invention relates to improvements in that class of taps and valves for steam,
water and other fluids, in which the body of the tap or valve is divided into inlet
and outlet channels by a partition in which is formed an opening controlled by the
valve proper.
These improvements are especially applicable to valves for use with high pressure
steam, and consist essentially in a special construction and arrangement of parts for
giving a simple opening or closing action to the valve proper without any axial
motion, when the handle for operating it is turned.
To this end, the valve spindle is threaded at its upper end to work within a
correspondingly threaded socket formed in one with the stem of the handle by which
the valve is operated, and the valve spindle is prevented from turning round by
means of a pin and slot in its lower portion.
The slotted portion of the valve spindle is plain and cylindrical, and works within
a socket formed in a screw plug which forms the bottom of the body of the tap or
valve by unscrewing which plug the valve may be fitted on or removed from its
spindle. A pin passes through this screw plug and the slot in the valve spindle
thus preventing axial motion thereof.
The stem of the valve handle is fitted with a doubly bevelled collar, the lower
part of which bears on a correspondingly formed flange in the valve casing, and it
is kept from rising by a filling or packing of a metallic alloy to be hereafter described;
the metallic packing being retained in place by a screwed cap piece. Thus, on
turning the handle which actuates the valve, the stem will be rotated and will force
the valve spindle by means of the screw thread downwards or draw it upwards as
the case may be. The valve proper consists of a metal cup screwed to the valve
spindle so as to be moved up or down therewith without rotating. The valve seating
in the central partition consists of a circular casting of smaller diameter than the
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page_text: valve itself so that on the valve being brought in contact with tho seating, the
V-shaped rim of the latter will be within the rim of the valve.
Carried by the valve, and interposed between the valve and its seating, is a ring
or washer formed of the alloy above referred to, which will ensure a perfectly tight
joint when the valve is drawn up against the scating. The alloy above named as
used for a packing around the valve handle, and between the valve face and its
seat, consists of
A NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR Coffee
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th June 1882. A communication
to him from abroad by Ernst August Grote, of Freudenberg, near Siegen,
Germany.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "A NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR
Coffee," a communication to me from abroad by Ernst August Grote, of
Freudenberg near Siegen, Germany,
This invention has for its object to provide a cheap and wholesome substitute for
coffee.
This substitute is produced by mixing roasted and ground rye paste or bread
with roasted and ground rye, adding some caramel, bicarbonate of soda, and, if
desired, a variable quantity of ground cacas shells and coffee beans, the most
advantageous proportions being 2 parts of rye-paste, 1 part of rye, 1 part of
caramel and 1/10 part of carbonate of soda. The product is a dark aromatic
powder, which may be used either alone or with the admixture of coffee powder for
making an infusion similar to ordinary coffee.
IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE BARS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Nash at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd February 1882.
THOMAS NASH, of Number 9 Nether Edge Road, Sheffield, in the County of
York, Mechanical Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE BARS."
This invention has for its object the improvement of fire bars for steam boilers,
furnaces and stoves. The advantages derived from the use of fire bars of my
improved construction are lightness and greater durability of the bars, and more
perfect and economical combustion of the fuel used.
The lightness is attained by making the bars of perforated plates, strengthened by
longitudinal and transverse ribs. The greater durability of my bars is due to the
thinness of the plate or top portion allowing the cold air to circulate nearer to the
fire than is the case in other bars, the cold air preventing the bars from being
melted or burned by the fire. The more perfect combustion is due to the corrugated
forin of the upper surface of the bars, thus admitting the air to circulate under
and through the fuel, thereby reducing the formation of clinker. It also admits
of the use of comparatively small and cheap fuel.
My fire bars can be manufactured by either cast iron, cast steel, rolled iron, or
rolled steel.
AN IMPROVED METHOD OF SEPARATING CELLULOSE FROM " MARINE AND OTHER FIBROUS PLANTS, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN FIBRE FOR PAPER MAKING AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN UTILISING THE WASTE REFUSE OR RESIDUUM AND LIQUIDS RESULTING THEREFROM."
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Springer at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th March 1882.
WALTER SPRINGER, of 20 Bridgwater Square, in the City of London, Manu-
facturer's Agent AN IMPROVED METHOD OF SEPARATING CELLULOSE FROM
"
MARINE AND OTHER FIBROUS PLANTS, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN FIBRE FOR PAPER
MAKING AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN UTILISING THE WASTE REFUSE OR
RESIDUUM AND LIQUIDS RESULTING THEREFROM."
This Invention consists of an improved method of separating cellulose from marine
and other fibrous plants, in order to obtain fibre for paper making and other purposes
and in utilising the waste refuse or residuum and liquids resulting therefrom.
In carrying out my said invention I submit marine and other fibrous plants,
straw, litter, slender branches and flexible shoots, to a process of fermentation in
order to reduce the same to a homogeneous mass, whereby the cellulose is capable
of being separated from the gluten and other constituents of the plants by the
ordinary pressure of the hand, or suitable pressure otherwise applied.
The homogeneous mass is then submitted to the action of a vertical rotator in a
suitable vessel containing water, whereby the process of disintegration, commenced
by the previous process, is completed.
The material is then washed and pressed in order to separate the water, which
may be done under the pressure of the hand. The cellulose has then become pulp.
It is then treated in a warm bath with alkaline oxides of 1 to 5 per cent added
thereto and 1 to 2 per cent of soap. The mixture is then allowed to stand for some
time, according to the quality of the material under treatment, and the pressed and
washed pulp is then bleached by chlorine or alkaline chlorides.
The remaining matters which have been thus separated from the cellulose, as
well as the waters arising from those processes, either in combination or not with
other suitable matters, are afterwards formed into valuable fertilizers and
manures, whereby the nitrogeneous phosphates, and other ingredients are rendered
valuable.
My said invention is equally applicable to all kinds of rags and paper, colored or
white, and is not only applicable to paper making but to the manufacture of fibre
for other textile fabrics.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN STEAM STEERING ENGINES, APPLICABLE TO OTHER STEAM ENGINES.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Robson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 17th May 1882.
GEORGE ROBSON of Sunderland in the County of Durham Engineer IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STEAM STEERING ENGINES, APPLICABLE TO OTHER STEAM ENGINES.
My invention relates to the construction of steering gear and of the controlling
gear of other steam engines in such a manner that the action of the steam, instead
of being controlled automatically by the engine operating the valves which admit
steam to the cylinders, is controlled by manual power applied to a shaft which is
not affected by the working of the engine.
As applied to steering gear, of any of the existing types, or other gear actuated
by steam, my invention consists in operating the valve, or valves, by which steam
is admitted to the cylinder, or cylinders, by means of a shaft which carries a hand
steering wheel, by the action of eccentrics (or their mechanical equivalents) so that
the admission, compression and release of the steam, are out of the automatic
control of the engine and are entirely controlled by the steersman, either from the
steering house or from the pilot bridge.
To effect this I prefer to construct the steering gear with two steam cylinders
working at right angles on to one crank, upon the shaft of which is a sliding
clutch pinion gearing into a spur wheel upon the chain wheel shaft. The hand
steering wheel shaft carries also a sliding clutch pinion gearing into the spur wheel
on chain wheel shaft; a lever handle, attached to the two spur pinions, putting
one into, and the other out of gear with the spur wheel as may be required for
steam or hand steering.
This hand steering shaft carries upon it the eccentrics (or equivalent gear) for
working the valves of the steam cylinders which are actuated entirely by the
movement of the steering wheel by the steersman either from the steering house
or from the bridge.
As applied for controlling the motion of other steam engines the hand gear
may be made to operate the valves, without the automatic action of the engine, in
the way above described for steering gear or, in some cases, of very large engines, an
auxiliary engine may be applied to operate the shaft carrying the eccentrics, or
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page_text: other equivalent gear, which auxiliary engine may be conveniently operated by
manual power.
The application of the mechanical principle of my invention may be carried out
in various ways, according to the special conditions involved, but the essential
feature consists in placing the controlling power over the steam out of the
automatic action of the engine itself.
AN IMPROVED METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR UNITING SHEETS OF PAPER AT THE EDGES, TO FORM TABLETS, BLOCKS, AND PADS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Bond at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 24th November 1882. Communicated to
him from abroad by William Doughtie, of Cleveland, Ohio, United States of
America.
CHARLES BOND of Leadenhall Street in the City of London "AN IMPROVED
METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR UNITING SHEETS OF PAPER AT THE EDGES, TO
FORM TABLETS, BLOCKS, AND PADS" [Cominunicated to him from abroad by
William Doughtie, of Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.]
This Invention relates to a method of and composition for temporarily uniting or
binding superposed sheets of paper at the edges to form tablets, blocks, or pads for
writing or drawing on, or for other purpose according to the kind of paper.
By this Invention the tablets, blocks, or pads are provided with a durable and
flexible binding which permits of each sheet being separately detached with ease
as required without damage to itself or the adjacent sheets and without loosening
the remainder. Moreover the use of this flexible binding effects a great saving of
time in the manufacture of tablets and pads as compared with the old method.
The Invention consists in a method of uniting the sheets to form the tablets,
blocks, or pads by the application to the edges of such sheets of a composition in a
plastic and slightly adhesive condition which when it sets, forms a tough and
flexible binding strip having sufficient adhesion to the edges of the sheets
collectively to hold them together in the form of a tablet, block, or pad without
however preventing them being individually detached cleanly therefrom without
injury to the sheet or to the binding strip which remains intact until all or nearly
all the sheets of the pad have been used and detached.
The composition of which the binding strip is made consists of some or all of the
following ingredients in suitable proportions, viz-glue, gelatine, glycerine, rice
flour, dextrine, acetic acid, brown sugar, extract sea onion, aniline (any color.)
These ingredients are heated if necessary and mixed or worked up together into
a plastic or semi-fluid mass and applied to the edges of the packets of sheets, and
when set forms a tough and flexible binding which holds them together as above
described.
IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH ELECTRIC AND OTHER LAMPS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Moss Fletcher at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd December 1882.
JOHN MOSS FLETCHER of 5 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS CONNECTED WITH ELECTRIC AND OTHER LAMPS "
The object of this invention is to render electric and other lamps (especially that
class known as incandescent lamps) more ornamental and useful than heretofore
According to this invention when applied to Electric Lamps I pass through a
vase or other suitable vessel for holding flowers plants or fish a copper wire in
connection with a disc or plate of copper or other conducting material and to the
under part of the vase or other vessel I suitably connect a reflector and to this
latter I connect a spring clip in such manner that upon an incandescent lamp being
pushed into the said clip it shall be held in contact with the copper so that
electrical communication is made therewith in order to light the lamp or the lamp
may be otherwise suitably connected. In the case of arc lamps the reflector and
vase or vessel would be fixed to the carbon regulator by a suitable arrangement.
By this invention a very effective and useful lamp would be produced For other
than electric lamps the conducting wire and disc would be dispensed with
IMPROVEMENTS IN COP WINDING MACHINERY
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Place at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 9th November 1882.
JOHN PLACE of the firm of William Place and Company of Leeds in the County
of York, Linen Manufacturers "IMPROVEMENTS IN COP WINDING MACHINERY"
My improvements have reference to what is known as the guide wires over which
the thread is conducted for the purpose of being formed into a cop on the cop
winding machine.
Hitherto the bare wire has been used as the guide for the thread, this is very
soon worn out owing to nicks being cut therein by the passing thread, consequently
it becomes useless and new wires are required. Now according to my Invention I
provide a ferrule or tube of glazed porcelain, earthenware or glass, these are fitted
on to squares or other polygonal forms, made to receive them on the guide wires
over these the threads pass instead of over the bare wire. These ferrules or tubes
being glazed and extremely hard are not readily affected by the thread passing
over them. When they do become worn at the part over which the thread passes
they are readily altered in position on the guide wires, and a new surface presented
for the thread. The polygonal form on which the ferrules or tubes are fitted
prevents them turning round as the thread moves over. The ferrule or tube is held
on the guide wire by a nut or pin of ordinary construction
A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR TESTING BUTTER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Friedrich Hermann Felix Engel at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th March 1882. A
communication by Wilhelm Osten trading under the firm of W. Osten of
Hamburg in the German Empire.
FRIEDRICH HERMANN FELIX ENGEL Civil Engineer and Patent Agent in the
City of Hamburg Germany. "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR TESTING
BUTTER A communication by Wilhelm Osten trading under the firm of W. Osten
of Hamburg in the German Empire.
"
This invention has for its object an improved apparatus that can be used for
testing butter in a mechanical manner according to its contents of butter fat of
water and of mechanical impurities mixed up with it. A good and pure butter
contains very nearly 85 per cent of its volume of butter fat and should not contain
more than per cent of its volume of water.
The apparatus consists of a cylindrical vessel made of sheet metal, preferably
enamelled and furnished with a strong flat bottom. The vessel is furnished with a
cover formed with an upright cylindrical prolongation the top of which is pressed
inward into the opening of the prolongated part and formed in the shape of a hopper.
To this cover a handle is attached by means of which it can be placed upon or
removed from the vessel aforesaid.
The bottom of the vessel is at its innerside furnished with a circular projecting
rim or other suitable projection constructed for the reception of the foot of a glass
cylinder with open mouth the height of which cylinder is nearly of the same size
as the length of the metal vessel, so that the mouth of the glass-cylinder comes close
to the inner end of the hopper of the cover after the latter is attached to the vessel.
The glass cylinder is furnished with graduations or a scale dividing the whole
length of the cylinder or a certain part of it into a given number of equal parts
say 100 equal parts. The outer vessel which must be of greater width than
the glass cylinder is filled with water after the cylinder has been placed into it.
For using the apparatus the vessel is put on a stove or heating flame and the
water is heated. The steam generated from the water heats the cover and its
prolongation and hopper and by bringing a quantity of the butter that has to be

page_text: tested into the hopper of the cover the same is melted down and runs into the
glass-cylinder which is filled by it up to the mark 100 of the glass cylinder.
The cover is now removed and the cylinder taken out of the vessel and its
contents are allowed to cool off after which the water and impurities will be
found to be placed at the bottom of the cylinder whilst the butter-fat is placed on
the top of this. If the butter-fat begins at the mark 15 the butter may be judged
to be free of impurities whilst otherwise more or less impure ingredients have been
mixed up with it. If the marks show a larger quantity of water than 5 per cent
the butter may be judged to be adulterated by being too largely mixed up with
water.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN TOYS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Julius Fleischmann at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th August 1882. A communication
to him from abroad by Ludwig Muth, of Berlin, Germany,
JULIUS FLEISCHMANN, of 67 Strand in the City of Westminster, IMPROVE-
MENTS IN TOYS, a communication to me from abroad by Ludwig Muth, of Berlin,
Germany,
This invention relates to a toy or puzzle, and consists of a frame of metal
having cut out in the middle a hole or space, and being provided in its lower
portion with a slit or opening connecting the middle space with the outer edge.
Around the two side portions of the frame are clamped two wire loops so placed
as to link together or clasp within the opening of the metal frame. Against
these wires is pressed a ring held there by another ring of the same size, in
planes inclined to each other, the second ring being linked on to the wire loops.
The puzzle consists in removing the rings from the wire loops and out of the
frame through the slit.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- PRO
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Fisher of Beverley in the County of York
Chemical Manufacturer, for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Fisher at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd March 1882.
EDWARD FISHER of Beverley in the County of York Chemical Manufacturer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MANURE AND IN THE APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREIN "
This Invention relates to improvements in the means and apparatus employed
for converting woollen rags shoddy and every other description of woollen waste
and animal fibre or matter into manure including flesh blood fish offal silk waste
hair and other waste animal substances, some of these materials when required
being subjected to the destructive chemical action of sulphuric or other mineral
acid in suitable proportions according to the nature of the materials and as is well
understood in the manufacture of manure from such materials.
Heretofore the apparatus and processes employed for treating drying and con-
verting the above nained materials into manure in the form of powder has been of
a costly description and the object of my improvements is to simplify the means
and apparatus employed and thus reduce the cost of converting such materials into
manure in the form of powder.
For this purpose in carrying my invention into practice I introduce the materials
to be treated together with a proper proportion of sulphuric or other mineral acid
when required into an ordinary manure mixing machine furnished with revolving
knives or instruments to keep the contents in a constant state of agitation.
The manure mixing machine according to my improvements is surrounded by
or arranged in combination with a heated chamber or flues heated by an ordinary
furnace (or supplied with heated air) the heat from which acts upon the contents
of the mixing machine externally internally or both until the whole of the contents
thereof are converted into the condition of a fine powder consisting of a valuable
ammonical manure. The product or manure which I attain from shoddy woollen
material and silk waste and dust and all of the products obtained as previously
described are suitable for being used for fertilizing purposes either alone or in
combination with superphosphates or other materials having a manurial value.

page_text: described wherein heat it applied in the manner above mentioned so as to produce
artificial manure in a more efficient and economical manner than has been heretofore
practised.
In witness whereof I the said Edward Fisher have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Witness
J. G. TONGUE
Patent Agent
34 Southampton Buildings
Chancery Lane
WC
EDWARD FISHER. (L.S.)
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STEREOTYPE PLATES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Sowler and William Ward, both of Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF STEREOTYPE PLATES."
(Void by reason of the Patentee having neglected to file a Specification in
pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Sowler and
William Ward at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on tho
21st January 1882. .
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THOMAS SOWLER and WILLIAM WARD both of Manchester in the County of
Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STEREOTYPE PLATES."
The Invention relates to the manufacture of the plates used for printing news-
papers and other printed matter by the stereotype printing process, the object of
the said Invention being to dispense with the necessity for dressing the edges of
such plates after casting, and thus to economize time and labor, and to dispense
with the use of the machine ordinarily employed for that purpose.
"
Stereotype plates as usually cast have a raised edge or "burr" round three
sides, and an "ingate on the fourth side formed by the aperture through which
the metal is poured and it is necessary to remove both the "burr and the
"ingate" before the plate can be printed from.
"
To avoid the "burr we cut or form a rebate or recess round the inner edges of
the chases on three sides of the "form" so that this part instead of being level with
the type face is only shoulder-high, and the papier-maché matrix made-from the
form thus arranged comes off with a raised edge round three sides.
The inner edges of the gauges employed in the casting box we also make with a
similar rebate corresponding with the raised edge of the matrix.
The papier maché matrix and the gauges thus formed being placed in the casting
box and the metal poured in as usual, the casting or stereotype plate thus formed
Price D31

page_text: will be found to have a sunken edge instead of a "burr" on three sides and the
usual "ingate on the fourth.
"
We remove the latter by drawing a sharp knife across and breaking it off in
the usual manner and the stereotype plate is then ready for printing without any
further dressing whatever with the exception of the usual boring process for level-
ling the back.
IMPROVED SECTION OF RAIL FOR RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS AND IN CHAIRS FOR THE SAME.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Bean and Edward Thompson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th January 1882.
WILLIAM BEAN of 15 George Street Croydon and EDWARD THOMPSON of
4 Dundas Road Nunhead both in the County of Surrey Engineers. IMPROVED
SECTION OF RAIL FOR RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS AND IN CHAIRS FOR THE
SAME.
The object of this Invention is an improved and special section of single rail
with four treads and two grooves at an angle with the tread surfaces which rail
can be turned end for end and the under surface be brought uppermost when
desired. Two of such rails may be laid together as to form three treads and two
grooves on the top and three treads and two grooves on the under part. Either
of the three treads on either side are suitable for the wheels of the vehicle to run
on, the grooves being for the flanges of the wheels to run either in the outer or in
the inner groove, the other groove serving as a guard groove should the vehicle or
vehicles leave the first groove from any cause.
The double groove and three tread surfaced rail may be in the same rolling of
metal or of two rollings or lengths of metal capable of being arranged in the
same chair with projections on the upper surface to engage in the groove or grooves
in the rail.
The chair we prefer to use with our improved section of rail is of cast iron with
end cheeks and with intermediate projections which are to set at certain angles,
corresponding with the angles at which we set the grooves in the rail or rails.
Our Invention is clearly shown in Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings in which
the rail has two treads A B on one side corresponding with two other treads CD
on the other, the groove E on the side of the treads A B being a repeat of the
other F so that on whichever side or at whatever end the rail may be shifted to,
it finds a bearing on or in the chair G with the projection G' as shown and can be
kept close in contact and in position against the cheek H by the key or wedge I
which presses against the other cheek J.
Figure 2 is a view of our double-doubled or quadruple rail in which the two

page_text: grooves E E and three treads A B K on one side are arranged and two grooves
E E¹ and three treads C D L on the other side these being formed from a single
rolling of metal. The chair has two projections G¹ G' to engage in the grooves
EE or E E of the rail and can be keyed or wedged home as before mentioned.
Figure 3 shows the double-doubled or quadrupled rail formed from two single
rails such as that shown at Figure 1 the projections of the chairs being slightly
differently arranged.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSES FOR COPYING AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Samuel Mart and Charles Wallace
Bradley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th February
1882.
SAMUEL MART of Sutton Lodge, Sutton at Hone in the County of Kent
and CHARLES WALLACE BRADLEY Engineer of 16 York Street London Road in the
County of Surrey-AN IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSES FOR COPYING AND OTHER
USEFUL PURPOSES,
This Invention relates to a new and improved method in the construction of
presses for the copying of letters and other purposes, where any degree of pressure
is or may be required
For this purpose we construct the box or easing of metal, or combination of
wood and metal open at each end for the entrance and withdrawal of the book
or article subjected to pressure, but preferably we construct it of cast iron of a
size most convenient to the book or article to be pressed
Upon the inside bottom of the case or box is a moveable plate or platten, so fitted,
that it will rise and fall, between this plate and the bottom of the case, we fix a bag
preferably made of sheet copper, out of which is fixed a tube, passing through the
case attached to which is a three way cock. In using this press a pipe is con-
nected to one way of the three way cock which conveys water from a cistern or
reservoir through into the metallic bag, which expands by the pressure of water,
lifting up the plate and giving the neccesary pressure, when the plug of the three
way cock is turned one quarter round, the water supply is cut off and the water in
the bag makes its escape into the third way of the cock and is conveyed away by a
waste pipe as desired, the plate falls giving relief to the book or other article
pressed and enables it to be withdrawn.
This arrangement can also be used by having separate cocks for the supply and
drainage of the water, also instead of obtaining the pressure from a cistern or
reservoir, it may be used in connection with a force pump or an accumulator and
force pump.
Manufacturer NEW OR IMPROVED STAMP BOX CHARM WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Hirst at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 30th March 1882.
" A
JOSEPH HIRST of Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex Manufacturer
NEW OR IMPROVED STAMP BOX CHARM WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER
PURPOSES."
This invention relates to a new or improved stamp box charm which is also
applicable to other purposes and which may readily be attached as an appendage
to the watch guard and has for its object to combine portability with utility
My improved charm stamp box consists of a small cylindrical chamber or
receptacle formed by a semi tubular outer and inner case the former being rigid
while the latter works loose and acts as a revolving shutter which is manipulated
by means of a ring lever attached to an eye fastened to the top of a dome, or
other suitably shaped cap-A small centre pin corresponding in length to the
height of the cylindrical chamber formed by such inner and outer cases is fastened
to the base of such cap and passing centrally down such cylindrical chamber is
secured at the bottom to a suitably shaped base piece which also works loose-
Thus; as the revolving shutter is opened or closed by means of the before
mentioned ring lever-such centre pin likewise revolves and acts as a winder
whereon the stamps when placed in the cylindrical chamber, are wound or
unwound according to the motion imparted thereto.
By enlarging the dimensions of my improved charm stamp box and supplying
the same with a suitable fastening it will be found an extremely useful and
convenient receptacle for circular notes and other valuable papers when
travelling
IMPROVEMENTS IN
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Wagstaff at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th September 1882.
ROBERT WAGSTAFF of Hyde in the County of Chester
AND CONNECTED WITH ROTARY ENGINES."
IMPROVEMENTS IN
My invention relates to rotary Engines, my object being first to produce an
efficient and durable engine, that will occupy little space, have few working parts,
and that will run at high speed; and secondly to provide improved apparatus for
transmitting the power and for reversing the motion. I form on the shaft three
eccentric pistons, each piston having a portion of its periphery concentric to the
axis of the shaft which passes through the centre of the cylinder-at each end of the
middle (or of each) piston is a circular disc that fits the cylinder parts for the
admission of steam or other fluid, and for the exhaust are provided for each piston
also a sliding valve one edge of which is caused to bear against the piston by the
pressure of the steam which also presses the back of the valve against a taper
packing which is pressed against the valve by the steam, or instead of the taper
packing I fit at the back of each valve a packing of other form that may be
adjusted by set screws or otherwise I make each outer piston half the length of
the middle piston so that the engine may be perfectly balanced and run at a high
speed More than three pistons may be used if desired By the use of my
invention all external cranks eccentrics and connecting rods may be dispensed
with The second part of my invention consists in fitting on or connecting to the
shaft of a rotary engine a pair of friction cones or pulleys placed between two
friction plates connected to gearing suitable for the transmission of power; the
friction cones are formed or secured together and fitted so that they may be moved
to put either of them into gear with the friction plates for reversing-For
transmitting power in one direction I employ one friction pulley By the use of
friction pulleys and plates I am enabled to reduce the speed to any desired extent.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN PARTS OF SPINNING FRAMES FOR SPINNING JUTE, FLAX, COTTON, OR OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Saint John Vincent Day at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th August 1882. A com-
munication to him from abroad by James Robertson of Samnuggur Calcutta
in the Empire of India
SAINT JOHN VINCENT DAY of 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, North Britain Civil Engineer and Patent Agent "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CERTAIN PARTS OF SPINNING FRAMES FOR SPINNING JUTE, FLAX, COTTON, OR
OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES [A communication to him from abroad by James
Robertson of Samnuggur Calcutta in the Empire of India]
"
This invention which relates to improvements in the arrangement of certain
parts of spinning frames consists in the employment of much shorter spindles
whether solid or hollow than hitherto used, and in the placing of the driving
pulleys or wharves above the flyers instead of below as hitherto.-In carrying out
the invention, the wharves are so hollowed out and holes with a slit formed therein to
allow the yarn to pass therethrough after the manner of the slits in "eye-boards.”.
Annular projections are also left on the top of the wharves, which run into and are
carried by bushes attached to the "eye-board."-The spindle is cut to run in the
"neck-rail" instead of a "step-rail" with provision for driving it.-A slit is also
made in the bushes to admit of the yarn being passed into the holes in the
wharves.
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IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES FOR PULPING OR WORKING FIBROUS MATERIALS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Tidcombe at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 29th March 1882.
GEORGE TIDCOMBE Junior of Watford Iron Works Watford in the County of
Herts Paper Makers' Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGINES FOR PULPING OR
WORKING FIBROUS MATERIALS."
This Invention relates to improvements in engines for pulping or working fibrous
materials such as paper pulp used in the manufacture of paper mill board papier
maché, leather-board, asbestos or other fibres.
Such engines are ordinarily made of oval form with a dividing partition or
midfeather which forms the channel for the flow of the material and in which the
pulping or grinding roller is worked.
This oval form causes unequal mixture and grinding of the fibres because the
pulp on the inner side or transit passes more quickly and frequently through the
roll than that on the outer side, more power is absorbed than actually required, and
to enable the pulp to travel in large engines it becomes necessary to add a propeller
or driving wheel.
The present invention obviates these defects by the following means,-
I construct a circular engine that circulates the fibres equally and in one natural
direction without a partition or midfeather having only one channel the width of
the roll or rolls having the inner or centre side of peculiar shape with an outward
swell in the course or channel so as to narrow the gut without impeding the average
current which shape is applicable to other engines and I drive the roll or rolls by
centre shaft and beani or toothed wheel in gear with bevil or pinion on the axes of
the roll or rolls or with ordinary driving bands.
.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR FASTENING TOGETHER THE ENDS OR PARTS OF STRAPS OR BELTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Tetlow and Joseph Holding
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th November 1882.
HENRY TETLOW of Miles Platting in the County of Lancaster and JOSEPH
HOLDING of Lower Broughton in the same County, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR FASTENING TOGETHER THE ENDS OR PARTS OF
STRAPS OR BELTS
"
Our Invention relates to the piecing of the ends of the driving belts used in
transmitting motion and in attaching together lengths of leather or material in the
formation of such driving belts and is principally intended for application to
leather belting. For the said purpose we employ plates of untanned hide and we
attach them to the ends to be connected together by means of screws.
We press,
mould or shape hide such for example as buffalo hide into forms to suit the different
widths of belting and we drill or punch holes to receive the screws. We prefer to
press the plate between dies and to recess or counter-sink the back of the plate so
that the leather can be drawn into the recesses when the screws are tightened up.
We consider mushroom headed screws to be the most suitable. The ends to be
connected are cut square so as to form a butt joint the plate being applied on the
outside that is to say the side which does not come into contact with the pullies
when the belt is in use. In some cases we may use rivets in place of the screws.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Taylor at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd June 1882.
WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR of Barbican in the City of London, Corset Manu.
facturer, "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS."
My Invention relates to an improvement in the construction of corsets and has
for its object to enable these articles to more readily adapt themselves to the figure
of the wearer and to permit of greater freedom of motion and a more healthy
action. of the respiratory and other organs of the body than is possible with corsets
as at present constructed.
My Invention consists in the insertion in each half of the corset in lieu of one of
the ordinary inextensible gores or pieces composing the same, of an extensible or
elastic gore or piece extending from top to bottom of the corset and made of
varying width at different parts, according to its position in the corset. These
extensible gores or pieces are generally of greater width at the top and bottom
than at the middle or waist portion and they may be inserted at the front side or
back but preferably at the back at a short distance from the lace holes and they
are inserted by sewing to the adjacent pieces or gores in the ordinary way. These
extensible gores or pieces may be made of indiarubber web and fabric and may be
in more than 1 ply at different portions of the gore or-piece according to the
amount of strain to which each part liable to be subjected in wear, or the degree
of elasticity required.