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IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH HARVEST SAVING APPLIANCES PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Owen Greening and Edward
Dunning Barker at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
13th January 1883.
EDWARD OWEN GREENING of 6 "The Terrace" Camden Square and EDWARD
DUNNING BARKER of London Road St John's Wood IMPROVEMENTS IN AND
CONNECTED WITH HARVEST SAVING APPLIANCES PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS IS
ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES
This Invention relates to improvements in and connected with those appliances
which are necessary for converting grass into hay or for ripening wheat, barley,
oats, or other field produce by artificial means and are applicable specially to what
is known as the "Neilson system of harvesting'
"
The first improvement has reference to the fan used to exhaust hot air from a
stack of Hay or corn and relates to the method of driving the said fan the object
being to obtain a very high rate of speed or velocity with the least possible amount
of wear and tear
This we effect by the employment of very compact anti-friction driving gear
consisting of a combination of friction pulleys & sun and planet motion gearing
with a combined inside and outside driving arrangement in said gearing the latter
being self adjusting and imparting an uniform surface speed to the inner and outer
discs of the fan
By means of these improvements we reduce friction, economise space and provide
against consequence of wear and tear The fan we attach to the pipes in the
centre or other portion of the stack of hay or corn by a flexible hose pipe and
adjustable couplings
The pipes employed we prefer to make according to another portion of our
Invention of half round or triangular shape having in any case a flat side to
enable them to lie level on the ground We also prefer to make them either
tapering or telescopic so as to enable them to pack inside one another when not
in use
The Thermometer we employ to indicate the temperature of the stack we prefer
to have marked with plain words to indicate when and how the exhaust fan is
to be applied and also when danger would be likely to arise from the over heating
of the stacks
We may if preferred combine with the thermometer an electric signalling
appliance
IMPROVEMENTS IN BULLETS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Frederick Bayliss and Charles
Brown at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th August
1883.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BAYLISS and CHARLES BROWN, both of Birmingham in
the County of Warwick, Machinists. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BULLETS."
The object of this invention is to form a bullet which shall be self lubricating
and in which the friction shall be reduced to a minimum and thus cause less wear
and fouling to the barrels than with the ordinary bullet, and secure greater accuracy
in shooting.
To effect this we form the bullet with a series of longitudinal ribs upon its
surface, which ribs give the bullet the requisite diameter to suit the bore of the
barrel, and thus the friction is upon these ribs only instead of upon the whole
circumference of the bullet.
In the case of those bullets which have an envelope or gas check these ribs are
formed upon that portion which covers the sides of the body of the bullet.
The bullet having been thus formed is then dipped into Bees Wax or other
suitable lubricant and passed through a die or mould, which will give the required
cylindrical form to the outer surface, leaving the bullet with a layer of lubricant
between each rib, and thus the bullet carries a larger amount of lubricating matter
than can be carried upon the plain surface of the ordinary bullet, and a more
perfect lubrication is effected.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BLEACHING KIERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Henry Ainsworth at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th June 1883.
RICHARD HENRY AINSWORTH of Halliwell in the County of Lancaster
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BLEACHING KIERS'
"
The object of this invention is so to construct a bleaching kier that the circulation
of hot bleaching liquor can be kept up without disturbing the cloth or other
material under operation by the boiling or "blowing up" of the same.
I employ an open kier without a "puffer pipe," from the centre of the bottom of
this kier a short neck or pipe leads into a horizontal pipe beneath the kier; one end
of which pipe is closed and the other end brought up vertically outside the kier to
a height of several feet above it, this upper end being open to the atmosphere and
a borizontal branch being carried out of this pipe terminating in a rose or bonnet
above the centre of the kier.
When the bleaching liquor is admitted, it fills the kier and the horizontal pipo
and the vertical portion of the same to above the lovel of the cloth or other goods
under operation.
A small steam pipe is brought into the closed end of the horizontal pipe. past the
neck above named (which communicates with the bottom of the kier) and this
steam pipe terminates in a small nozzle or jet some distance beyond the said neck.
Upon steam being admitted through this small internal pipe and issuing through
the jet it causes an upward current in the vertical pipe drawing the liquor with it
and as soon as this reaches the horizontal branch above the kier the hot liquor is
thrown onto the top of the goods. At the same time the jet of steam causes a
vacuum behind the nozzle and thus draws the liquor downwards through the goods
and so a constant circulation of the hot liquor in a downward direction through the
goods takes place.
To start the kier I sometimes employ a small auxiliary steam pipe leading into
the vertical portion of the hot liquor pipe.
This auxiliary steam pipe is provided with a tap by which the steam may be
turned off as soon as the liquor has got well into circulation.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN PORTABLE ELECTRIC LIGHT APPARATUS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd December 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Jos. Beduwé, of Liege, in the kingdom of Belgium.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of
Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer, "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PORTABLE ELECTRIC LIGHT APPARATUS a communication to me from
abroad by Jos. Beduwé, of Liège, in the kingdom of Belgium,
دو
This invention relates to apparatus or machinery mounted on wheels and
adapted to produce electric light at a variable height, and to throw it out in any
desired direction
For this purpose the apparatus comprises a tubular steam generator with
accessories, a steam engine, preferably a three cylinder engine, a dynamo-electric
machine, a pump with two systems of pipes and two three-way-cocks, a water
tank and a hydraulic mast formed by a number of telescopic tubes mounted on a
hollow column and carrying at the top an electric lamp.
The crank shaft of the steam engine carries a spurwheel gearing into a pinion
mounted on the shaft of the dynamo-machine and adapted to be set in and out of
gear.
The water pipes and three-way-cocks are so connected, that the pump may be
made to draw water from a well and force it into the water tank, or to draw
water from the tank and force it into the column which carries the telescopic
mast, thereby raising the latter to the required height, or to draw water out of
the telescopic mast and discharge it into the water tank thereby allowing the
telescopic mast to descend. The crankshaft of the pump is set in motion from
the crankshaft of the engine by means of two spurwheels and a coupling provided
with disengaging gear whereby the pump may be set in and out of gear when
desired.
On the telescopic mast is mounted a hand wheel adapted to turn the lamp in
any desired direction.
Two feed water pumps are provided for the boiler, one of which is set in motion
by the engine, and the other by hand.

page_text: These two pumps are adapted to draw water from the water tank or from a
well, and to force it into the boiler, but may also be used for forcing water into
the telescopic mast in order to compensate for any waste.
The dynamo-machine may be replaced by any other suitable generator of
electricity, for instance a secondary battery, in which case the boiler and engine
are omitted and the steam pump is replaced by a band pump.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS OR OIL MOTORS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Lorentz Albert Groth at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th December 1883. A communi-
cation to him from G Daimler of Cannstatt in the German Empire
LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH K.G.V. Civil Engineer and Managing Director of the
Universal Inventors and Patentees Financial Company Limited 30 Finsbury
Pavement London E.C. "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS OR OIL MOTORS" a communi-
cation to me from abroad by G Daimler of Cannstatt in the German Empire
The improvements in gas or oil motors consist in a contrivance to press air
mixed with combustibles (gas steam oil &c) in a confined heat protected or not
cooling space at the end of a cylinder, by means of a piston so together and against
the hot sides of the space that at the end of the piston stroke, by the effect of the
compression, a spontaneous ignition as it were a pneumatic ignition and quick
combustion ensues throughout the whole mass of the mixture and to employ the
intensified tension thus obtained as moving power
The piston moves air tight in the cylinder one end of which is closed by a head
or cap covered by bad conductors of heat (clay slag hair &c) and as much as
possible heat isolated from the cylinder The bottom of the piston is likewise on the
outside covered with bad conductors of heat. By the fore stroke of the piston air
mixed with gas or oil is sucked in, or pressed in by a valve and by the back stroke
of the piston the mixture is pressed into the space behind the piston and ignites at
the completion of its stroke
By the combustion and expansion of the mixture the piston is driven back with
considerable force and can then transfer its power by cranks (winches) or other
contrivances
By the second back stroke of the piston the combustibles are wholly or partly
driven out through a valve whereupon a fresh stroke begins
After some repetitions of this motion the sides of the space and the bottom of
the piston obtain a normal heightened temperature in which the mixture regularly
ignites in or round the dead point of the length of the piston stroke in the inmost
position of the piston in consequence of the compression according to the principle
derived from experience that combustible mixtures, which under the pressure of
the atmosphere would either not at all or only slowly burn do by vigorous
compression quickly burn and even explode

page_text: That the mixture may explode also at the beginning of the working when the
sides of the space of combustion are still cold a metalic priming cap the interior of
which is continually in open communication with the space of combustion; is by
means of a flame from without so heated that ignition ensues only at the end of
the compression stroke till spontaneous ignition takes place
The advantages of the invention described above are a heightened useful effect
of combustibles as
1st By the compression heightened into spontaneous ignition and the hot sides
of the cylinder bad and cheap combustibles are made to burn
2nd Both during the compression and combustion hardly any heat is lost in the
heat protected sides
Ord No coling water is meanirod
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS, RUGS $6 AND MATS AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Crossley and Richard
Cochrane at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd May
1883.
EDWARD CROSSLEY, Carpet Manufacturer of Halifax in the County of York,
and RICHARD COCHRANE, Manager of the Weaving Department also of Halifax in
the aforesaid County 'IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARPETS, RUGS
$6
AND MATS AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH."
Our said Invention relates to the use, in the manufacture of Carpets, Rugs and
mats of threads composed of silk, linen, cotton, Jute, wooll or worsted combined
with strips or threads of Gold, silver, or other metal or metals for warps and these
warps may be either woven from bobbins or from a creel or from beams; such
specially prepared warps when introduced in the fabrics in the ordinary course of
weaving whether according to designs or not, produce novel and rich looking
carpets, Rugs and mats. For this purpose the combined threads are prepared on a
peculiarly constructed apparatus so that the gold, silver or other metal strips or
threads when being combined with the silk, linen, cotton, jute woollen or worsted
threads for the warps receive but little twist and when a slight tension is given to
the warps when placed in weaving position in the loom, the gold, silver or other
metal threads do not break and remain slightly twisted with the silk, linen cotton,
jute, woollen or worsted threads of the warps.
The metal threads employed are by preference flat.
The apparatus preferably used for preparing the combined threads is constructed
with a framework having in the top part brackets in which work spindles; on
these spindles are placed the bobbins on which are wound the flat gold, silver or
other metal strips or threads and on each side of each bobbin containing the metal
strips or threads and on a lower level are secured brackets which carry the spindles
for one or more bobbins containing silk, linen cotton, jute woollen or worsted
threads. The thread of gold, silver or other metal passes from the bobbin to the
silk linen cotton jute, woollen or worsted threads and through a twizzle or guide
and over a drawing roller and the threads from the drawing roller pass through a
wizzle or guide to the flyer by which means they are wound on a bobbin in the
isual manner.

page_text: The threads thus formed with the gold, silver or other metal flat strips or threads
are made into warps and placed either on bobbins in a creel or wound on beams
and are introduced either according to designs or otherwise into the fabrics during
the process of weaving and produce novel and rich looking carpets rugs and mats.
The number of silk, linen, cotton jute woollen or worsted threads combined
with one or more metal strips or threads may be varied according to circumstances
and any desired number of combined threads may be introduced into a carpet, the
remainder of which is composed of the ordinary materials.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LACE BLINDS LACE HOLLANDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Dow and Thomas Frame at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th May 1883.
WALTER DOW, and THOMAS FRAME, both of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LACE BLINDS
LACE HOLLANDS"
OR
This said invention has reference to a new or improved manner (or mode and
means) of manufacturing and finishing lace fabrics, as and for Holland blinds;
namely for window roller and such like window-light shading blinds; and which
gives to the fabric and blinds so made the combined advantage of the open
ornamental effect of lace figures or patterns and weaving, with the fine smooth and
solid effect of the Holland blinds, and heretofore confined and peculiar to each of
the fabrics separately.
And the nature and novelty of the Invention consist as follows; In weaving
the lace webs of a width to suit the windows (as Hollands are done) but with the
lace design or patterns of such a character and length that they may be completed
and cut off to suit each window with as little waste as possible between each
blind; or so that the figuring of the pattern may be cut to any length to suit
different heights of windows without injuring the general effect of the pattern.
The ornamental designs would preferably have border patterns down the two sides,
or sides and lower end, with separate figures in the centre, all of such an open
character as to show the design by the light shining through it direct, or dark
against a dark background; while the great body of the fabric would be woven
thick and close, to give the contrast and effect to the open pattern, by its plain
semi-transparent white or other uniform light tint to shade the great body of the
light passing through the window as the Holland blinds do. Or otherwise the
designs and figures might be made of that massive character to form the great
shading part of the blind, and leave the open parts through which the light would
pass direct, so modified or subdued as to be merely sufficient to give definite
outline and the effect of contract to the figures.
The webs of lace blinds, prepared as described, are woven otherwise as other lace
fabrics and curtains, in ordinary lace weaving looms, and bleached or dyed, and
then by a further improvement dressed with the hard glazed beetling finish, at
D

page_text: present given to the Holland blinds, for the purpose of flattening and closing up
the otherwise loose woven threads of the body part of the lace fabric, into a
uniform thin hard web with highly sheeny or glazed surfaces not hitherto given to
lace fabrics. Thus, this new or improved lace fabric or lace Hollands possesses the
the appearance, durability and cleanliness peculiar to Holland blinds, with the
additional beautiful ornamental effects of woven lace work.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR PRESSES FOR PRESSING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Griffith. Brewer at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th May 1883. Communicated to
him from abroad by Richard Goff of St Johns, Newfoundland
1
"
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex
VENEERS (A
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR PRESSES FOR PRESSING
Communication to me from abroad by Richard Goff of St Johns Newfoundland)
According to this invention the bed of the press is made hollow and preferably
of cast iron, with say three compartments therein, into each of which a pipe leads
perforated for heating and cooling purposes; these pipes are supplied with steam
or water from two external pipes one leading from a steam boiler, the other from a
force pump or water main. In the steam chest or bed there are longitudinal
divisions with holes at one end so that steam and water may freely go off to waste
pipe after passing through perforated internal pipes so arranged that the jets are
equally distributed over the surface of each compartment to heat uniformly.
The presser plank or platen which is above the bed and between which viz the
platen and the bed the veneers to be made are placed is made preferably of strips
of hard pine well seasoned and glued together and when finished well varnished
on both sides with shellac varnish. Bars of wood extend across the frame and below
the bed for carrying the screws which pass through corresponding bars placed
above the platen.
.
When hollow work is to be veneered such as drawer fronts or boxes the screws
are then run up and the presser bar or platen with screws and bars are pushed up.
out of the way to any convenient height by means of weighted tackle fall or falls
and a rail is provided below the bed hinged to a cross bar whereby the rail can be
turned down and hand screws applied in the ordinary way.
To operate the press, steam is turned on into the steam chest which latter when
sufficiently warm the steam is turned off; the work to be veneered is then put on,
the screws set down and the cold water turned on: when the bed plate is quite cold
the screws are slacked the work taken out and put to dry.
With a press of this kind two men can lay a veneer every ten minutes
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF "DEVONSHIRE" OR OTHER CREAM, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR 23
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Horner at the Office of
the Cominissioners of Patents on the 25th July 1883.
WILLIAM HORNER of Cuddington in the County of Chester,
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF "DEVONSHIRE" OR OTHER CREAM,
AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR
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This invention has for its object the manufacture of "Devonshire" or clotted
cream, and of cream from which cream cheese is made, in a better manner, and so
as to produce a better product than formerly. It consists in the heating of the
cream in vessels by steam, by which means I get a perfectly uniform heat with
maximum effect, without the sinoky taste nearly always perceptible when heated
in the ordinary way. My experimental apparatus, which answers well, consists of
a jacketted pan or vat with a bottom sloping to the outlet, and with steam tubes
circulating in the jacket thereof, perforated and having fixed checks or circulators,
so as to spread the steam uniformly over the bottom of the pan. This apparatus
is equally applicable for use in making clotted or Devonshire cream, scalded cream,
or raising cream from milk, and separating the milk from the cream when risen.
The cream while still at, or at a given heated temperature is poured into jars, pots
or other receptacles, and covered with material sufficiently impervious as to keep
out deleterious germs. This apparatus is equally applicable for cooling milk, cold
water or other fluid or cooling medium being used in the tubes.
In using it for a separator, the milk is left to stand till the cream separates, when
the skim milk is drawn off from below, and stopped automatically when it comes
to cream. This is done by forming the orifices leading to the exit or exits of such
small breadth, that while they will admit milk under a considerable head, they will
not allow the thicker cream under a diminished head to pass. Sometimes I uso
movable apertures and a spring that will close or nearly close them when the
pressure reaches a given minimum. In order to make the cream keep better, I add
to it, previous to it being heated in the pan, any antiseptic that may be required.
The advantages of putting it in at this juncture is that the ingredients get
thoroughly mixed and acted upon, and the disagreeable taste that is caused by
uncombined antiseptic is thus avoided.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF INKING ENDORSING STAMPS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Kissam Cooke at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd July 1883.
GEORGE KISSAM COOKE, of 12 Harp Alley, in the city of London, Manufacturer
" IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF INKING ENDORSING STAMPS
"
This invention relates to improvements in that class of endorsing stamps usually
known as "Vitesse" stamps and has chiefly for object to provide improved means
of pivotting the moveable die plate in the frame so as to allow the moveable type
bands to be adjusted through the central opening in the die plate in a more simple
manner than hitherto.
In carrying out my invention I employ the usual frame, die plate and type
bands, but instead of pivotting the die plate to the frame by means of an axle or
shaft passing through the die plato as hitherto, or by means of two pivots on the
ends of the die plate, I employ a cranked axle or shaft, the cranked portion of
which passes by one side of the central slot thereby allowing the type to be moved
in and out of the slot for rotating and setting the same. The type are justified in
a manner similar to that described in my Provisional specification N° 886, dated
the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty three,
the adjusting bar being pivotted on a pin or rod on which the moveable type
supporting block is also pivotted.
.
In order to secure the cranked axle to the die plate the latter is provided with
lugs each having a hole for receiving the ends of the axle, one of the lugs being
slotted down to its hole with a slot of less width than the diameter of the axle ;
the sides of one end of the axle are grooved so as to reduce its diameter at that
part to the width of the said slot and the crank being introduced is then partly
rotated and moved endwise so as to fit the holes in the lugs, the ends of the axle
passing through the usual slot in the frame.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF CERTAIN ORES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COLOURS AND PAINTS OR PIGMENTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Peter Cannell Bunn at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd June 1883.
PETER CANNELL BUNN of the City and County of the City of Norwich Colour
and Paint Manufacturer "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF CERTAIN ORES
FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COLOURS AND PAINTS OR PIGMENTS"
My Invention relates to the treatment of certain peats clays or earthy matters
or ores which are rich in oxide of iron and which occur for example in Norfolk
and Suffolk so as to fit these materials for use in the manufacture of colours paints
or pigments I take the said materials and submit it to the action of heat and
then grind the same to a degree of fineness suited for purpose to which it is to be
applied In some cases I submit the materials to a livigating process prior to
submitting the same to the action of heat-This process will produce yellows
browns and reds and blacks may be prepared in this way by submitting the
materials to the action of heat in a close furnace or chamber
By treatment with chlorine a green or a blue colour may be produced
The dry colours thus produced may be sold in this state or they may be
incorporated with oils or other vehicles for a paste pulp or liquid paint.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING UNALTERABLE CARTRIDGES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Louis Georges Bachmann at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th October 1883.
LOUIS GEORGES BACHMANN of Brussels in the Kingdom of Belgium. [cartridge
manufacturer] "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING UNALTERABLE CARTRIDGES
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The cartridges generally employed (whether entirely or partially metallic) offer
several grave inconveniences, without reckoning that of a high price. The powder
cases at present in use made of zinc and copper, form with the materials con-
stituting the powder veritable electric batteries which work in presence of the
least trace of moisture and in time alter the powder contained in the cases. The
cartridges at present in use are not completely impermeable, and it is especially in
hot countries and in a moist atmosphere that the inconvenience mentioned above
manifests itself with the greatest intensity. The envelope being opaque, the
quantities of powder and lead contained in the cartridges cannot be seen..
In order to obviate these inconveniences and produce a cartridge more solid
than any of those of previous manufacture, I construct my cartridges of a known
material, but which has never been applied to the manufacture of cartridges. This
material is the vegetable parchment which is obtained by treating pure cellulose
paper with sulphuric acid and water. I employ the vegetable parchment either
for making the whole of the case, strengthening piece ("renfort ") included, with
the exception of the bottom ("culot"); or for making the case only, while the
strengthening piece can be metallic. The wads both inner and outer can also be
made of vegetable parchment.
Naturally, this new application is as suitable for fire-arms for sport or amuse-
ment as for warlike arms; with these latter the construction is the same and the
ball is retained directly by the parchment.
Cartridges manufactured in this way would also have the advantage of being
translucid, which would permit of ascertaining the quantities of powder and lead
contained in them.
In certain cases I sheath an ordinary case with a parchment envelope. This
coating of vegetable parchment on the case permits of dispensing with the employ-
ment of the interior or exterior metallic "culasse." By this method of manufacture
the case acquires more solidity and permits of receiving a perfect bezilling or
sealing ("sertissage") which prevents all escape of gas at the bottom (" culot”).
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CARRIER MECHANISM AND PARTS RELATING THERETO of MACHINES FOR KNITTING CARPET OR STAIR PADS AND OTHER FABRICS WHERE FILLINGS ARE HELD IN PLACE BY KNITTED OR INTERLOOPED THREADS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Jabez Burdon and Charles Till at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th September 1883.
JABEZ BURDON and CHARLES TILL both of Leicester in the County of Leicester
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CARRIER MECHANISM AND PARTS RELATING THERETO of
MACHINES FOR KNITTING CARPET OR STAIR PADS AND OTHER FABRICS WHERE
FILLINGS ARE HELD IN PLACE BY KNITTED OR INTERLOOPED THREADS."
This invention has for its object the improvement in the carrier mechanism of
knitting looms for knitting carpet and stair pads and other like fabrics in which a
series of parallel fillings passed between the loops of the fabric are knitted together
and held in place by interlacing threads. Carriers for this work as at present
constructed consist of parallel reciprocating or traversing bars provided with thread
guides and are moved to-and-fro by catches and cords.
Now our invention enables us to greatly simplify the machine by doing away
with these cords.
We form our traversing rods as heretofore but connect each of them by a pin to
a slotted link suspended above from one of its ends. This link is linked by a
connecting link to another link pivotted below to the floor or frame of the machine
in a convenient position at the end or side of the machine beyond the main framing.
A cam or cams on a rotating horizontal shaft connected by a bevel gearing or other
synchronous motion with the main shaft of the machine actuates each of these
latter links. To keep these links up to their work we connect each by a spring to
another approximately parallel and similarly pivotted link on the opposite side of
the cam.
The spring constantly keeps the link up against the cam and as the cams
revolve the various carriers are reciprocated according to the throw of the respective
cams.
RCULA BOILERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Barnes Heal at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th September 1883.
JAMES BARNES HEAL of Southsea in the County of Hants,
WATER CIRCULATING BOILERS"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My object is to produce a cheap and efficient boiler suitable for baths,
conservatories and the like and one that can easily be repaired in case of
accident.
I may also describe it as being bent into a series of hollow plates, returned
at the top ends, presenting when viewed at the bottom a row of hollow plates
with a space between each (a section of this is somewhat similar to a fret pattern)
this forms the inside of boiler.
The top and ends may be flat and the sides are formed to suit the bottom plate;
any suitable means may be used to heat it, such as gas, oil lamp or fire.
The flow tube is taken from the top and the return or supply tube is introduced
preferably in the same end but at the bottom.
By this arrangement I obtain a very light boiler easily made and repaired and
having a very large heating surface and very small water space.
The zig zags or hollow plates of the bottom depend towards the fire or flame
somewhat like a number of attenuated Vs but the angles need not necessarily be
sharp and may in fact be rounded.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- facture of TENNIS BALLS SUITABLE FOR LAWN TENNIS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Burbridge at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 16th April 1883.
JAMES BURBRIDGE of the Firm of Mess™ W Warne & Co of the India Rubber
Works Tottenham in the County of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
facture of TENNIS BALLS SUITABLE FOR LAWN TENNIS"
The usual manner of manufacturing lawn tennis balls is first to make vulcanize
and inflate the rubber balls in the ordinary way of manufacture and then to cover
them with cloth flannel or felt.
As these balls have to be made of a certain size and weight the material
employed in their manufacture is necessarily of a common kind and the joint is
very liable to break thus allowing the air to escape and rendering the ball quite
useless
When the covering is sewn on in the ordinary way any defect in the indiarubber
ball is hidden and it is very common to see quantities of new and unused balls
utterly worthless from this cause lying about on tennis lawns and elsewhere.
Now the object of the present invention is to protect and strengthen the joints
of tennis balls so that the inconveniences above referred to will be avoided.
In carrying out my invention I first protect the joint in the rubber ball by the
cloth covering and I then cover the join of the cloth with a strip of rubber and
vulcanize the whole together. Thus I join up the pieces of unvulcanized rubber
compound to form the ball with solution in the ordinary way, then I take the
cloth of any desired kind or material, but preferably of what is termed "Elastic
Twill" (which has sufficient elasticity in it to bear the strain of the inflating without
being weakened) and cover the rubber (still in the unvulcanized state) taking care
that the join of the cloth (a lap join) comes opposite or over the join of the rubber
compound, so that the rubber join is well covered and strengthened by the cloth.
The cloth is not sewn on the ball but is prepared with a thin sticking coat of
rubber solution. While the ball is still unvulcanized I take a strip of unvulcanized
rubber compound of any desired width say half an inch and place it over the joint
of the cloth, thus the article is made up of first the rubber compound, then the

page_text: cloth cover, and finally the strip of rubber. The unvulcanized article thus formed
is placed in the iron mould and vulcanized with air or water inside in the usual
way. When vulcanized not only no join will be visible, but it will be perfectly
protected and secured and the article will receive the required set to form a ball
which set it will always retain. The cloth if desired may be waterproofed before 5
covering the ball.
A MEANS OF RETAINING AND FACILITATING THE DELIVERY OR MEASUREMENT OF RIBBON, TAPE, LACE, WOVEN FABRICS, PAPER, OR OTHER MATERIAL THAT MAY BE WOUND ON CORES OR REELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Ernest Jones at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 15th June 1883.
ERNEST JONES at present of 22 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the
County of Middlesex "A MEANS OF RETAINING AND FACILITATING THE DELIVERY
OR MEASUREMENT OF RIBBON, TAPE, LACE, WOVEN FABRICS, PAPER, OR OTHER
MATERIAL THAT MAY BE WOUND ON CORES OR REELS
"J
This Invention has for its object a means of retaining and facilitating the
delivery or measurement of ribbon, tape, laco, woven fabrics, paper, or other
matorial that may be wound on cores or reels.
At present drapers in measuring ribbons or the like let free the reel and draw
the ribbon through their hands for each yard or portion thereof that it is desired to
measure and after the length has been cut off the free end has to be coiled round
and secured by a pin. Now it is obvious that considerable time is wasted and the
ribbon or other material is not improved by these manipulations
Such material is usually wound on a reel or core of cardboard or wood and I
take advantage of the centre thereof by passing a piece of elastic through it and
tying or otherwise securing it around the periphery of the reel. Now I do not not
propose that the elastic should come in contact with the surface of the ribbon, or
other material but I thread on the elastic (or otherwise connect thereto) a small
wooden roller or it may be a glass bead or a tube of porcelain carthenware or other
material which bears on the surface and acts as a break when the band or ribbon
is pulled so that by taking (for example) a reel of ribbon between the finger and
thumb of the left hand the short free end can be pulled with the right to measure
the yard, the roller or bead acting as the mark to cut off to, but where more may
be required then the ribbon or other material need only be touched once in each
yard or part thereof.
In some cases springs may be employed and a wire may pass through the core or
through the roller or both and be suitably connected either by elastic bands or
coiled springs so that they exert a continual pressure on the periphery of the reel
and suit themselves to the varying lessening diameters.
These improvements are applicable for various purposes for example the paper
reels of printing telegraphs to prevent the slackening of the reel or for toilet
requisites to facilitate the tearing off of the paper at the perforations and for any
other purpose where its application for the above purposes may be advantageous.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STEEL.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Riley and George Smithers
Packer at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1883.
JAMES RILEY, General Manager, and GEORGE SMITHERS PACKER, Manager, to
the Steel Company of Scotland, Limited, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STEEL.
This Invention has for its object to obtain steel of improved quality and which
when cast into ingots is very free from blow holes or honeycomb. The improved
steel is specially although not exclusively suitable for being rolled into plates,
plates rolled from it being very free from surface defects.
One part of the Invention consists in combining with the steel in an improved
and peculiar manner about one per centum or a little less of an alloy of iron,
manganese, and silicon, or of iron and silicon alone. The alloy is made by
preference so as to contain from 10 to 13 per centum of silicon, and if manganese
is used, from 18 to 24 per centum thereof the remaindor in either case being iron
and more or less carbon.
The alloy is not added in the steel making furnace wherein it would be unequally
mixed and would be more or less absorbed by the slag, but is put, either in a
molten or solid state into the ladle into which the molten steel is run when about
to be cast into ingots. The alloy in a molten state may be first run into the ladle
and be intermixed by the pouring of the steel upon it: but when put in unmelted
it is by preference in a crushed or powdered state and heated and is added
gradually whilst the steel is being run into the ladle, any suitable mechanical
feeding apparatus being by preference used.
Another part of the Invention consists in putting upon the top of the steel
immediately after it has been run into the ingot mould a quantity of ground
carbon which prevents or diminishes the formation of cavities in the top of the
ingot ordinarily caused by unequal cooling and shrinking. The ground carbon,
which may be added to a depth of three or four inches may consist of moulders
blackening, or plumbago, or of coal coke, or charcoal, or any mixture thereof,
preference being given to whatever carbonaceous material will readily enter into
comparatively flameless combustion, and thus help to maintain the heat of the top
end of the ingot, and allow it to shrink more equally.

page_text: When making ingots for rolling off into plates without hammering, the addition
of carbonaceous material as above stated is sufficient to greatly diminish the
unsoundness of the top end of the ingot where the mould is of a size for casting
ingots of 6 or 7 inches in thickness or thereabouts; but in the case of thicker
ingots, it is preferable to also surround the top end of the ingot with similar
material combined with a suitable cement and for this purpose to recess the top
end of the mould to a suitable extent.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR DISENGAGING SHIPS FROM THEIR MOORINGS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Henry Lewis at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th November 1883.
GEORGE HENRY LEWIS, of Southampton, in the County of Hants, Master
Mariner, IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR DISENGAGING SHIPS FROM
THEIR MOORINGS,
The object of my Invention is to enable a cable or chain extending from its
mooring, to be let go suddenly, no matter what strain is on it.
The apparatus, or contrivance for effecting this purpose consists of a shank or
body terminating at its outer end in claws, forming a double hook, and at its inner
end in a ring, to which is secured a rope or chain coming from the winch.
The claws or double hook pass over a link of the mooring chain, the shoulder of
the next link bearing upon the claws, and as the claws are slightly curved they
permit any amount of strain to be put upon them without the slightest danger of
the mooring chain slipping therefrom.
The upper parts of the claws or double hook are each provided with a shackle,
through which a tripping-line is passed and secured; the purpose of this tripping
line is as follows:-When it is desired to suddenly let go the mooring chain, the
slack of the tripping line is taken up and made fast, and the winch rope let go, by
which action the upper part of the claws is held back and the lower part of the hook
falls, thus, the mooring chain or cable easily and freely falls from the claws and
ruus free.
IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING AND REELING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Charles Henderson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th August 1883. Commu-
nicated to him from abroad by Eugene Essers of the city of Viersen in the
Empire of Germany
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON of 47 Museum Street Oxford Street in the Parish
of Bloomsbury and county of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDING AND
REELING MACHINES A communication to.me from abroad by Eugene Essers of the
city of Viersen in the Empire of Germany
The first part of the invention relates to mechanism for holding the ends of skein
threads whilst winding, the object being to insure an equal tension and perfect
equality in the length of all the threads from each respective skein.
The mechanism by which this is effected consists of pincers which are mounted
on a suitable support, one of the jaws of each of the pincers, of which there are
several is movable, and turns on an axis, whilst the other is stationary, the movable
jaw is connected to a lever arm, at the end of which is a lug, ear or slotted
projection through which a rod passes by which the pincers are opened and closed
when so required.
A flat or other spring is fixed by screw or otherwise for keeping the movable jaw
closed against the fixed one for holding the ends of the skeins.
This apparatus is fixed on the reel or winder so that it revolves with tlie reel, but
it can nevertheless be disconnected therefrom as occasion may require.
When the skeins are all wound on the reel, the latter is stopped to remove them,
and work is resumed as before, so that all the ends of fresh skeins are firmly held
by the pincers.
A modification of the same principle is the substitution for the pincers of a
nipping rail, by the employment of which the thread ends are kept in a constant
state of tension, which facilitates tying the skeins in hanks.
The second part of the invention refers to mechanism for tying the hanks in a
manner to avoid inequalities by regulating the length of the tying yarns or
threads
The most simple method of effecting this consists in the employment of a bar on
which a number of vertical arms are mounted, also of a second bar to which an

page_text: equal number of shorter arms are fixed, the longer arms are arched at the top and
form thread holders. To the short arms a movable har is attached, these two bars
can be drawn towards or separated from each other when desired.
When the tying mechanism is brought into play it is got into position between
the arms of the reel so that thero is a row of tying threads right and left between
the tall and short arms alluded to, between each of which is a skein, the tall arms
bearing the thread are then turned by aid of a bar or rod; this turning motion
brings the arched or tall arms above the skeins which are then encircled with the
loop thread and then the operative has merely to tie the ends of the loops either by
hand or with the knot making apparatus
IMPROVEMENTS IN GRINDING MILLS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th November 1883. A communication
from Joseph Boullier fils, Merchant of Viriville in the Republic of France.
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex.
Engineer, "IMPROVEMENTS IN GRINDING MILLS." [a communication from Joseph
Boullier fils, Merchant of Viriville in the Republic of France]
This invention relates to an improved mill with vertical stones, which is adapted
for grinding wheat, oats, and other material A mill embodying this invention has
two vertical stones, of the form commonly used in ordinary flour mills, and
dressed in the usual manner. One of these stones is fixed the other rotates,
receiving motion from a spindle driven in any convenient manner. The two stones
are enclosed in a casing preferably made of sheet metal, and divided at the centre
so as to allow ready inspection, and, if desired, removal of either of the stones.
To this end, one half of the casing together with the spindle and driving gear may
be mounted on a standard somewhat resembling a lathe-head and moving on a
slide or bed, This head also carries suitable starting and stopping gear. In the
casing surrounding the stones, there is provided (at the lower part) a spout or
shoot, allowing the escape of the flour or other ground material; at the side of the
said casing, rises a suitable channel conducting the material to be ground, between
the stones. A hopper is provided; it is supported above the stones, and a spout
or shoot delivers from the hopper to the chanuel on the casing. If required, the
hopper spout may by means of an eccentric or otherwise receive an oscillatory
movement, the power being derived from the main spindle
The whole mill and gearing may rest on a suitable frame with either legs or
wheels so as to make it portable, or it may be supported by a fixed basis, say
brick work
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH SAFETY-VALVES FOR STEAM BOILERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th May 1883. A communication to
him from abroad by Ernest Delsart, of Anzin, France,
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR
CONNECTED WITH SAFETY-VALVES FOR STEAM BOILERS," a communication to me
from abroad by Ernest Delsart, of Anzin, France,
This invention has for its object to provide the boilers with a safety apparatus
which allows the escape of water, and subsequently of steam, when the pressure
rises too high.
For this purpose. I provide the top of the boiler with a casing containing a
valve which communicates with the water space of the boiler through a pipe which
may also serve as feed water pipe. A lever pivoted to the outside of the casing
and carrying a weight, acts by means of a moveable spindle upon another lever
placed inside the casing and acting with its opposite extremity on the back of the
valve, by means of a short link, which may have a ball and socket joint at each end.
The valve and link may be secured to the lever by chains.
The valve box or casing consists chiefly of an approximately cylindrical pipe
surrounded by an annular space from which a brass tube leads to the bottom of
the boiler, while the valve is placed between the pipe. and the annular space, so
as to admit water or steam from the latter into the former which is open at
one end.
The annular space is provided with a feed water-inlet.
When the pressure exceeds the limit, for which the valve and weight are adjusted,
the valve opens and allows water to escape, and steam, as soon as the water-level
falls below the lower end of the brass pipe.