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IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRACES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Max Stellmann at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th March 1882.
MAX STELLMANN of Leman Street, Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex.
Trimming Maker. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRACES."
These improvements consist, first, in manufacturing brace-ends in a novel and
superior manner to those at present in use: and, secondly, in the mode whereby
such brace-ends are attached to the buckles and braces.
The first part of my said invention is carried out by plaiting the material,
(whether silk, cotton, woollen, gold or silver wire, or any other suitable material)
in such a manner as to leave a suitable button hole at one end thereof. The
operation of plaiting the material is completed at the end farthest from the button
hole, and the ends of the fibres are suitably gathered up ready for attachment to
the buckle or brace.
The second part of my invention is carried out by means of suitably formed
metallic plates or clips, which embrace and clip the brace ends, one portion of the
plate being on one side of the brace end and the other portion on the other side
thereof the plate being bent over the lower end of the buckle previous to attach-
ment, and a suitable button, stud, or rivet passed through the two ends of the plate
and also the brace end between such plate ends.
The brace ends may be attached to the back of the braces in a similar manner,
using a ring instead of a buckle, or two plates, rivetted together in the manner
herein before described, may embrace and clip the braces and the brace ends
respectively.
My said invention is chiefly applicable to braces for suspending Gentlemen's
trousers, but may be varied and adapted to other articles of wearing apparel, where
strength, elegance, and durability are required.
IMPROVEMENTĖ IN BEARINGS FOR ROLLING STOCK AND OTHER MACHINERY SUBJECT TO GREAT WEAR THROUGH GRIT
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Vernon Hope and John
Dickson the younger at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
7th July 1882.
JOHN VERNON HOPE of Wednesbury in the County of Stafford and JOHN
DICKSON the younger of Seaforth in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTĖ
IN BEARINGS FOR ROLLING STOCK AND OTHER MACHINERY SUBJECT TO GREAT
WEAR THROUGH GRIT."
The bearing and other brasses of locomotive engines where the same are at work
on roads or where they are liable to come in contact with sand or gritty substances
have to be overhauled and sometimes renewed almost every week and one of the
main objections to mechanical power on tramways is the great cost of renewing
these bearings owing to the grit getting in and cutting them away. Now from a
large number of experiments made on the dusty diamond fields of South Africa
and elsewhere we have found that wood, compressed fibre, and other ligneous
matters thoroughly saturated with oil and lubricated with graphite steatite and
other like lubricants forms a material vastly more durable and better for the purpose
than brass or bronze.
There are various modes of manufacturing the article, one consists in cutting the
bearing out of thoroughly seasoned wood-This wood is then steeped for a longer
or shorter period in heavy lubricating hydro-carbon oil or a higher hydrocarbon of
the series Cn H,n + 2 or their derivatives. It is then pared to shape if not
true after the steeping and lubricated with dry graphite steatite or the like.
It will be obvious that the soaking can be done in position and in some
circumstances the bearing can be used with or for a time instead of the solid
mineral powder lubricant.
THE MANUFACTURE OF A NEW AERATED WATER CONTAINING BISMUTH, TO BE EMPLOYED FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Sellers at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 14th December 1882.
JOHN SELLERS of 17 Farringdon Road in the County of Middlesex, Manu-
facturing Chemist. THE MANUFACTURE OF A NEW AERATED WATER CONTAINING
BISMUTH, TO BE EMPLOYED FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES.
The object of my said invention is the production of an aërated water containing
Bismuth in solution, for medicinal purposes.
In carrying out my said invention I prepare aërated water, charged with
carbonic acid gas, by any of the methods well known to persons acquainted with
chemical operations, and add thereto or combine with the water so prepared, a
solution or soluble preparation of Bismuth, preferably the solution of Citrate of
Bismuth and Ammonia, prepared according to the directions of the British
Pharmacopoeia, or any modification of that process.
I do not confine myself to any precise proportion, strength, or quantity of Bismuth
so added to such aërated water, or to any particular ingredients to be used in
the coloring and flavoring of the same, as the same may be varied to suit various
tastes.
The essential feature of my said invention is the production of an aërated water
in combination with Bismuth in solution for medicinal purposes.
IMPROVEMENTS. BUTTONS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Samuel Pearce Wilding at the Office
A communi-
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th January 1882.
cation from abroad by Richard Behrendt of Magdeburg in the Empire of
Germany.
.
SAMUEL PEARCE WILDING of the Firm of Fell & Wilding, of 23 Rood Lane,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
Fenchurch Street in the City of London Patent Agents.
BUTTONS." A communication from abroad by Richard Behrendt of Magdeburg in
the Empire of Germany.
The said Invention is designed to afford a more secure attachment for and to
obviate certain disadvantages in buttons as at present used upon garments &c.
such as the cracking of the metal attachment, the cutting of the thread by the edge
of the button hole, and the cracking of the cloth (in the case of cloth covered buttons)
and further to afford an easy method of renewing the outer plate or covering of the
button when worn. The said Invention consists in the first place of a pin, screw
threaded at its inner end, and fixed in, or passed through, the plate of the button,
conveniently constructed with a head in the latter case, to hold it in position, and
prevent rotation. This pin is fitted with a nut and lock-nut made to screw on to
the threaded portion, and between which the cloth of the garment is gripped. This
nut and lock nut may be conveniently pierced or notched so as to be easily tightened.
Between the nut and the button plate there may be a washer, suitable to the
material of the garment, though in some cases it may be entirely dispensed with.
In the case of cloth covered buttons a curved under plate above the washer or nut,
is tightened into a groove, cut or turned in the underside of the button plate, to
fix the cloth covering, which may thus be easily renewed, though the pin and nuts
may be used in buttons covered in the usual manner.
In some classes of buttons where the plate is in two parts the pin may pass
through the inner disc and have its attachment in the outer one.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Simon at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st April 1882. A communication from
abroad by Friedrich Bernhardt Köhler of Chemnitz Saxony in the German
Empire.
HENRY SIMON of No. 7 St. Peters Square Manchester in the County of Lan-
caster "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING MACHINES" [A communication from abroad
by Friedrich Bernhardt Köhler of Chemnitz Saxony in the German Empire.]
This invention relates to an improved construction of sewing machines for
producing ornamental stitching by means of two or more needles for which Letters
Patent No. 4329 of 1881 have been granted to me (being a communication from
the said F. B. Köhler). As described in the Specification to the said Patent the
stitching was produced by transferring by means of a looper, the meshes formed
by the two or more needles to the front needle on the next following stitch.
According to the present invention, instead of arranging three needles in a
triangle the apex of which lies in the reverse direction to that of the feed motion
as described in the said Specification they are arranged so that the apex lies in the
same direction as the feed motion, so that the looper transfers the meshes of one
stitch to the two front needles forming the base of the triangle on the following
stitch. For this purpose the looper, instend of having only one curved side spring
blade as described in the former Specification, has two such spring blades one on
cach side of the hook, and it is placed in an oblique position relative to the
direction of the feed, so that it works in a plane parallel to a second plane passing
through the needle at the apex and the one necedle at the base, these two needles
being, at their descent made to pass between the looper hook and the one spring
blade, while the other needle passes between the hook and the other spring blade.
The looper shaft is either fixed in a correspondingly oblique position, or the
looper is fixed obliquely on its shaft, and the latter has an end motion imparted to
it at each stitch.
According to another improvement, four needles are employed arranged in a
rectangle that is to say there are two front needles and two others in line behind
them in the direction of the feed motion. The looper having two side spring
blades as before, is in this case placed in line with the direction of the feed and so
that on the descent of the needles the one pair of front and back needles passes
between the one spring blade and the looper, while the other pair passes between
the other spring blade and the looper.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Beatty, David Beatty, James
Beatty, and Joseph Beatty at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 10th February 1882.
JOHN BEATTY, DAVID BEATTY JAMES BEATTY and JOSEPH BEATTY all of
Belfast in the County of Antrim in Ireland, Bakers. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF BREAD, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR.
The object of our invention is to dispense with much of the manual labour now
employed in the moulding or shaping of Dough and placing it in the oven to be
baked into bread.
For this purpose we place the Dough in a trough which may be either longi-
tudinal, or circular, and is provided with a cover or lid to confine the Dough as
long as may be necessary. Either the trough or the cover or lid is mado to travel
in order to impart motion to and close the Dough, and to put smooth surfaces
upon it: or both the trough and cover or lid may be made to combine in effecting
the same purposes by travelling in opposite directions or at different velocities in
the same direction.
The lump of dough when smoothed is divided by means of a knife or saw
driven rapidly; and a kind of mould-board or share consisting of two curved or
twisted blades turns the parts thus separated so as to bring the smooth surfaces
together and to allow the cut surfaces to be closed.
The moulded lumps are afterwards ejected from the trough and are placed in
suitable spaces on a board or "peel-heads" attached to a frame the full breadth of
the Oven.
By the employment of these means we are enabled to introduco a course of
loaves into the Oven by a single operation and we arrange the frame so that it
remains stationary when placed in the Oven and transfers the loaves to the sole of
the Oven on the withdrawal of the peel-heads.
ATMOSPHERIC BURNERS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Henry Wylde at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th March 1882.
ROBERT HENRY WYLDE, of Leeds in the County of York.
ATMOSPHERIC BURNERS."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My improvements have reference to the so called atmospheric burners employed
for heating and cooking purposes.
Gas and air combined are admitted into a mixing chamber-over which are
provided two plates or discs, the upper one being by preference concave or dished
to leave room for sufficient gas to pass from the chamber between them I allow a
small space forming a slit between the two plates or discs at their outer edge through
which the gas is passed before it can be ignited. By the use of this continuous slit
inside of the usual perforations or gauze the burners are less liable to get out of
order. In order to prevent grease or other foreign matter closing the slit I cause
the upper plate or disc to project beyond the lower one; by this arrangement also
the required shape of flame is produced.
By a slight modification in the construction any required number of lines, curves
or circles of flames may be obtained on one burner.
By the above arrangement of atmospheric burner what is known as the jumping
or striking back of the flame is prevented.
THE PURPOSE OF MANUFACTURING ATHLETIC BOOTS AND SHOES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Harry Craston and Thomas Craston
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd January 1882.
HARRY CRASTON & and THOMAS CRASTON, trading under the stylo of H. Craston
& Co. Nichols Buildings London E.C. THE PURPOSE OF MANUFACTURING ATHLETIC
BOOTS AND SHOES
The use of molo skin to be used in the manufacture of the said Athletic Boots
A NEW OR IMPROVED MOTIVE POWER ENGINE
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th January 1882. A communication
from abroad by Emile Schopfer of Besançon, France.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex. "A NEW OR IMPROVED
MOTIVE POWER ENGINE." A communication from abroad by Emile Schopfer of
Besançon, France.
This Invention consists in two parallel scale beams, bearing weight at one end,
and connected at the other end with a chain passing over a pulley in the following
manner Two parallel stands are secured to a base plate and forked at their upper
ends to receive the fulcrum of a scale beam, which is slotted near its pivot to
receive the pivot of a supplementary scale beam. The shorter arm of the same
passes under the shorter arm of the principal scale beam and touches the latter
with its extremity, while the longer arm passes over the longer arm of the principal
scale beam and forms at its end one half of the saddle which carries the weight.
To a short stand secured to the base-plate is pivoted a pulley over the lower half
of which passes a chain or rope passing upwards and attached with its ends to the
shorter arms of the scale beam by means of screws. The weight suspended from
the longer arm of one lever causes the latter to descend, thereby raising the shorter
arm and raising one end of the chain which turns the pulley. Meanwhile the long
arm of the other lever goes upwards, and when arrived at its highest position the
weight which has been shifted from one half of the saddle to the other, will cause
the lever to descend while the first lever ascends, this alternate motion causing the
pulley to turn, the weight being alternately shifted from the principal lever to the
supplementary lever and vice-versa.
SELF ACTING TIP VAN OR WAGON. AS PER DRAWING
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Mead at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 19th May 1882.
WILLIAM MEAD [of] Nos. 5, 6 & 7 Wharves, North Side Paddington Basin
London SELF ACTING TIP VAN OR WAGON.
AS PER DRAWING
No. 1 Carrying Frame which is supported on the Fore Under Carriage and on
the Hind Axle Bed.
No. 2 Hanging Carriage for Circular Spiral or other springs. The said springs
being fixed a little in front of Centre of the Body Support its weight but when
Lever No. 3 releases the Body, the Springs in regaining their natural position
Compel the body to rise up-This gives it the Tip.
No. 3. Racked Lever which keeps the Body down in position but allows it to
lower as the Springs are brought down while Van is being loaded.
No. 4. Circled Supporting Irons fixed round Axle Bed on which Carrying Frame
No. 1 rests. Being circled they allow the Axle Bed to revolve in them when Vau
is tipping.
No. 5-Cross Section of Centre of Axle Bed supporting Hind part of Body.
No. 6-Cross Section of Body resting on Springs.
No. 7. Cross Section of Hanging Carriage (No. 2) with Springs.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPERTAINING TO BOILERS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Samuel Jones at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 12th May 1882.
SAMUEL JONES of Wrexham in the County of Denbigh and of Ruabon in the
same county "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPERTAINING TO BOILERS
"
Egg-ended boilers are bulky for the amount of steam produced-to remedy this
Cornish boilers with a single internal flue were introduced. These when externally
fired are liable to burn out over the fire and are very expensive to repair from the
fact that in such case the flue must be first removed.
Now my invention is designed to give the ease of repair of egg-ended boilers
with the steaming powers of Cornish ones. It consists in a boiler egg-ended at one
end and Cornish at the other. The internal flue goes about two thirds through
and ends in a conical or other enlargement from which two branch flues equal in
united area to the unenlarged main flue, pass through to the outside one on each
side. The products of combustion thus circulate from the furnace below the egg-
end under the whole length of the boiler through the central flue back down the
sides and out at the chimney to the back. To prevent sediment I place at intervals
under the boiler projecting through the flue back of the furnace inverted conical
tubes communicating with the boiler and ending in a common tube or pipe below
the bottom of the flue in a space or cave below These tubes are all joined
to this pipe with orifices contracted and so dimensioned that the blow-off
cock at the end of the large main tube shall draw equally from all. The sediment
settling in the conical tubes (which also form good heating surface) is blown off at
intervals. I place a manhole at the back of the ashpit leading into the cave for
the purpose of enabling one to examine the pipes at intervals.
It will be seen at once that there being no internal flue above the fire and an
ashpit below the grate by simply dropping the grate bars repairs of the plates over
the furnace the part which almost always requires repairing first and oftenest―
can be done in situ and without in any way meddling with even the setting of the
boiler. This repairing still easier as the heating surface of the bottom flue is
brought up much higher at the furnace end than in the latter part of the boiler
where the surface is divided into bottom and side flues.
Sometimes instead of enlarging the internal flue and having two branches say
four or more branches of united area to that of the internal flue are used something
in the form of galloway tubes.
MENTS IN MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARETTES.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Davis at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 20th February 1882.
FREDERICK DAVIS, of Phillimore Place, in the County of Middlesex.
MENTS IN MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARETTES.
"
"IMPROVE-
This invention has for object improvements in machines for making cigarettes.
In a machine according to my invention two half tubes or cylinders are con-
nected by a hinge which extends their whole length and are so constructed that
when closed or laid together they form a tube or cylinder to contain the filler.
A fastening flap, connected to one of the half tubes or cylinders aforesaid by a
hinge extends its whole length, and can be closed over studs or catches fixed in the
other half tube to keep the said tube firmly closed whilst the filler is pushed out
popgun fashion by a piston or plunger. This piston or plunger is small enough in
diameter to enter the tube and long enough to extend to or nearly to the farther
end of the same.
The action of the machine is as follows:-The operator opening the tube lays it
flat upon a table. Then placing his filling tobacco in the two half tubes he closes
one over the other clearing away any loose protruding portions, and fastens them
tightly together, by means of the fastening flap and studs or catches aforesaid.
Then placing a paper tube (previously made) on to the end or nozzle of the divided
tube (which is slightly tapered for that purpose) and holding it there by his fingers,
he, by means of the piston or plunger, pushes the filler out of the machine into the
paper tube and so forms the cigarette.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR JOINING LEAD AND OTHER PIPES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Hinksman at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th September 1882.
CHARLES HINKSMAN, of 117 Great Russell Street Bedford Square, Bloomsbury,
County of Middlesex, IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR JOINING
LEAD AND OTHER PIPES,"
The object of my said invention is to afford increased facilities for joining lead
and other pipes, forming junctions with mains, and effecting other joints and
connections, for purposes of water, gas, or otherwise.
The means whereby I effect an ordinary junction of two lead pipes, are as
follows: I fit upon the ends of the two pipes to be joined one half of an union
joint (preferably of brass). The size of the union is such that it can easily be
made to fit the outside of the pipe, upon which it may be driven hard, until the
end of the pipe projects slightly through the union. The end of the pipe is then
spread outwards and riveted over the inner edge of the flange. One or more
grooves may be cut in each of the flange faces into which the lead pipe is forced by
the action of the joint.
By the above means, with such practical modifications as may be required,
T pieces, elbows, and other joints may be made, and the assistance of skilled
artisans may be dispensed with.
In forming junctions with water or gas mains, I use a tap with a driving or
screwing plug formned thereon or thereto, and, having bored a hole in the main,
and fitted the tap therein, I then attach the pipe to the outer end of the tap in the
manner berein before described.
Although my invention is chiefly applicable to lead and composition pipes for
water and gas, it may be applied to other metals and other purposes, and the unions
may sometimes have an internal screw thread to fit external screws upon the
pipes. Also suitable elastic and other washers may be used in some cases to make
the joint, or unctuous matter, or red and white lead may be used for the same
purpose.
IMPROVEMENTS IN NEGATIVING OR DESTROYING THE EFFECTS OF INDUCED CURRENTS IN TELEPHONIC LINES, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Daniel Smillie at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th April 1882.
ROBERT DANIEL SMILLIE, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Electrician, "IMPROVEMENTS IN NEGATIVING OR DESTROYING THE EFFECTS OF
INDUCED CURRENTS IN TELEPHONIC LINES, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED
THEREFOR."
This Invention has for its object to negative or destroy the effects of induced
currents from telegraph wires or other telephonic wires in the neighbourhood of a
telephonic line, which without means for counteracting their tendency frequently
interfere with clearness of transmission of the articulate sounds through them,
that is to say from the transmitting to the receiving instruments.
The Invention consists of a pair, or other equal number of pairs, of coils
surrounding a central core of iron or wire, applied at each end of a telephonic
circuit, the said coils being insulated from each other, and from the cores and
arranged so that the inducing currents pass into the coil which immediately
surrounds the first core, and from that to the outermost coil of the series of coils
surrounding the second core.-From the outermost coil of the second core the
currents pass back into a second or other intervening coil, or coils, of the first core,
and thence to the line.
In connection with this Invention a double line or Metallic circuit is employed,
and the effect is that the currents induced therein by adjacent telegraph or other
telephonic line, are brought to react upon each other in the said Metallic circuit and
are thereby negatived.
It is obvious that according to the number of pairs of cores and the number of
coils surrounding them either in layers all parallel to, or all at right angles to the
axis of the core, or partly parallel to and partly at right angles to the said axis-
the manner or order of leading in the said currents and leading out the said
currents to and from the several pairs of coils may be considerably varied and in
some cases the central bar of soft iron or bundle of wires may be dispensed with.
It is to be understood that the Invention may be applied to a Metallic circuit
which may constitute a complete telephonic line or circuit, or it may be placed
intermediately in the course of one or more Telephonic lines or circuits.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OB CONNECTED WITH SHIPS' BUDDERS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Michael Cotter at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 17th June 1882.
MICHAEL COTTER, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North-Britain,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OB CONNECTED WITH SHIPS' BUDDERS"
This Invention bas reference to improvements connected with the pintles and
gudgeons or journals and bearings of rudders for ships or vessels, whereby rudders
fitted with these improvements are made to work much more steadily, doing away
with that jerking and vibration of the rudder and stern post which is so
disagreeable, thus rendering the whole more efficient and durable, with less liability
to derangement, than with rudders fitted as heretofore.
The nature and novelty of the Invention or Improvements, consist in forming
or fitting the pin, pintle, or journal part of the rudders with an anglod or conoidal
bearing collar on the under side of its shoulder, fitted to rest and turn on and in a
corresponding hollow conoidal bearing and carrying bush in the upper part of the
gudgeon or eye of the pintles. The conoidal collar might either be forined out of
the solid malleable iron, or steel, forming the pin or journal, or cast or fitted tight
on it, out of gun-metal, or the hard white metal used for bearings, with or without
an outer securing ring or rim; And the hollow conoidal bearing part on which the
collar works, might be formed of lignum-vitoe or other hard wood, secured in the
eye or gudgeon, or it might be cast or fitted in as a bush of gun-metal, or of the
said white metal, and the angle of the conoidal working surfaces proferred, would
be about forty five degrees. And as these angled collars and bearing sockets or
bushes would carry the whole weight of the rudder (instead of resting on the
footstep only as heretofore) the rudder would always find its true central bearing,
thereby tightening itself, and maintaining the same steady working action, during
the wearing away of the bearing surfaces, which constitutes the essential advantage
of the improvements.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COMPOUNDS SUITABLE FOR USE AS A SHEEP WASH AND AS AN INSECTICIDE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Godson Little at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th October 1882.
WILLIAM GODSON LITTLE of Heckington Hall near Sleaford in the County of
Lincoln "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COMPOUNDS SUITABLE FOR
USE AS A SHEEP WASH AND AS AN INSECTICIDE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND
HORTICULTURAL PURPOSES "
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of compounds
suitable for use as a sheep wash and as an insecticide for agricultural and
horticultural purposes.
For this purpose I take bone oil (also known as Dippel's oil) purified as far as
possible from pitch by distillation, or shale oil and render the same soluble in water
by the aid of resinous substances and alkali or by the aid of these substances
together with oleate of potash. Preferably I first mix the oil (bone or shale oil)
with resin oil adding soft soap (oleate of potash) gradually stirring gently till the
whole is fluid and finally caustic soda or potash solution. If so minded I oinit the
addition of oleate of potash using only resin or resin oil (or the two combined) with
caustic soda or potash solution adding the bone or shale oil after the two (or three)
former constituents have been warmed together.
The fluid resulting from the mixture of the above ingredients when dissolved in
a suitable proportion of water may be used as a sheep wash and as a general
insecticide.
If necessary I submit the bone oil to a process of fractional distillation or special
refining process to free it from any bodies contained in it which may tend to
discolor the wool of sheep.
Subject to circumstances I use the above ingredients in the following proportions.
Bone oil or shale oil
60 parts
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IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO GAS ENGINES EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION WITH TRAM-CARS, RAILWAYS STEAMERS, AND OTHER CONVEYANCES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Eli Dyson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st November 1882.
ELI DYSON of Milnsbridge, near Huddersfield in the County of York Woollen
Manufacturer "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO GAS ENGINES EMPLOYED IN
CONNECTION WITH TRAM-CARS, RAILWAYS STEAMERS, AND OTHER CONVEYANCES
"
My invention consists firstly-in the means or method of supplying gas to
such engines so that they can proceed on a journey uninterrupted so far as the
supply of gas is concerned; and for this purpose I employ a bag or other form of
receiver made of any suitable material for containing gas so that the engine may be
supplied therewith,
The size of bag or receiver so employed is determined according to the distance
the vehicle or conveyance bas to travel. Secondly. My invention consists in
providing gas engines employed in connection with moving carriages with a
disconnecting apparatus capable of connecting and disconnecting the "going part'
of the carriage with the engine instead of the engine having to be stopped and
reversed for that purpose.
"
The form of apparatus I employ for connecting and disconnecting the engine,
consists in a suitable arrangement of clutches capable of being slided in grooves on
a revolving shaft by which means the connecting and disconnecting may be
accomplished at will and this is done whilst the engine is running.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINES FOR CLEANING KNIVES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Heinrich Friedrich Hambruch at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st June 1882.
HEINRICH FRIEDRICH HAMBRUCH of Hamburg German Empire "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINES FOR CLEANING KNIVES
"
This Invention relates to improvements in knife-cleaning machines, in which the
blades of the knives pass between rotating rollers, and the objects of my improve-
ments are first to apply a device for automatically pushing the blades to and fro,
secondly, to provide a fastening mechanism for holding the knives while cleaned;
thirdly to facilitate the adjusting of the knives in the proper position for passing
the blades between the cleaning-rollers; and fourthly to furnish a transportable
feeder of cleaning powder.
The rotation of the cleaning-rollers of a soft or elastic material like india rubbor,
leather &c., is communicated to a shaft whereon a bevel-wheel is fixed by means
of geared wheels.
In consequence thereof a screw rotates by intermediation of a bevel-wheel and
causes a slide to travel in a direction corresponding to that of the hand crank
attached to the shaft of one of the cleaning rollers.
The handles of the knives to be cleaned are attached to the slide by means of a
clamping device actuated by means of the screw in such a manner that the blades
of the knives are pushed between the rotating cleaning rollers. A cross piece is
pressed towards a plate attached to the slide by a screw; the plate may be
adjusted according to the thickness of the knife handle by means of regulating
screws in order to hold the knives in the position required for satisfactory working
of the machines.
A transportable table fastened to the slide and travelling with the same serves
to protect the mechanism located below and to receive the cleaning powder for
feeding the cleaning rollers continuously.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SMOKE CONSUMING FURNACES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Fletcher at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th August 1882.
THOMAS FLETCHER of Warrington in the County of Lancaster Gas Engineer
IMPROVEMENTS IN SMOKE CONSUMING FURNACES
The object of my Invention is to secure that the gases passing from the fire place
or furnace shall be completely burnt before reaching the flue or chimney.
To accomplish this purpose I erect between the fire place or furnace and the flue
or chimney an open screenwork of fire brick or other fire resisting material. This
screen is maintained at a high temperature by the flame or products of combustion
and is so arranged that the spaces between the fire bricks shall be as narrow as
convenient so as to expose as great a surface as possible to the issuing gases. To
facilitate cleaning the apertures should also be straight. The high temperature
induced in the screen ensures a secondary and flameless combustion which burns
the smoke and produces a further increase of heat.
The necessary thickness of the screen is governed by the intensity of the fire and
by its other dimensions but it may be continued into the flue for as great a distance
as the required temperature can be maintained.
The high temperature induced in the screen by the secondary combustion is
communicated by radiation or convection to the bodies or surfaces to be acted
upon
The screen may be applied to furnaces or fireplaces of all descriptions in which
either solid or gaseous fuel is burnt.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DRIVING GEAR OF, AND THE BENCHES OR FRAMES FOR, CARRYING SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Murphie at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 5th December 1882.
THOMAS MURPHIE, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DRIVING GEAR OF, AND THE BENCHES OR FRAMES FOR,
CARRYING SEWING MACHINES"
This Invention which relates to improvements in the driving gear of and the
benches or frames for carrying sewing machines has for its object in the first place
to dispense with the necessity of employing packing between the floor and the
brackets which carry the clutch shafts in order to raise or adjust the clutch operator
or lever to the proper height. This object is effected by forming in the upper part of
each arm of the clutch operating forks or levers a slot of sufficient length to enable
the pins which operate the clutch to be adjusted to the said slots at any position
irrespective of the distance between the floor and the driving shaft. The pins in
place of passing into or being attached to a clutch ring enter a check or recess
formed in the moveable part of the clutch. The shaft on which the aforesaid clutch
lever is carried, is provided with a treadle for operating it.
The second part of this Invention has for its object to provide a very much
larger receptacle than is usual for the holding or receiving of the work from two
lines of sewing machines arranged at opposite sides of a bench or table. This
object is effected by so forming the said receptacle that it extends from underneath
the centre or thereabouts of each side of the bench or table on which the sewing
machines are carried in a curved or segmental circular line extending from the said
central points or lines down to within a short distance of the driving pulleys upon
the longitudinal shaft below. Each of the frames carried on the tables or benches
is formed with a groove for the purpose of receiving and holding in place the wood
or other material of which the said receptacles are composed. By means of this
arrangement a considerable saving of floor space is effected.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SCREWS FOR WAGGON-BUILDING, SHIP-BUILDING AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Stephen Isaac Adams and James
Adams at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th May 1882.
STEPHEN ISAAC ADAMS and JAMES ADAMS, both of Romford in the County of
Essex IMPROVEMENTS IN SCREWS FOR WAGGON-BUILDING, SHIP-BUILDING AND
OTHER PURPOSES
Our Invention relates to screws more especially designed for use in waggon
building and ship building but also applicable to other constructions, and it has
for its object to replace the screws and bolts and nuts ordinarily used for the
purpose of securing metal plates or other objects to wooden or metal surfaces or
structures, and to prevent tampering with the fastenings, afford a firmer hold and
make a close water tight joint.
The Invention consists in a screw of which the head or the upper portion thereof
is removable from the shank in such manner that the head is only available for
screwing the screw into the structure, but not for unscrewing it therefrom so that
any attempt to remove or loosen the screw would be baffled as the loose or upper
portion only can be unscrewed by the tool used for driving it. This false or loose
head screws onto the screw bolt proper by means of a screwthread of the same
direction as the thread of the screw shank or bolt itself so that in driving the
screw, the tendency is to screw the cap on tighter, but in attempting to unscrew.
the screw bolt the cap merely screws off leaving the screw itself undisturbed in the
structure.
The screw consists of a threaded shank or stem provided with an enlargement
of cylindrical or other form at or near its upper end, such enlargement being
preferably terminated in square shoulders or ends and forming the head proper of
the screw.
From the upper side of this enlargement there rises a short screw
threaded stem in the same axial line with the shank or stem proper of the screw
and of the same or a different diameter and pitch, and upon this short upper stemn
is screwed a cap or loose head which is of the same external diameter as the said
enlargement and forms together there with a cylindrical head to the screw. This
cap is nicked on its upper surface or otherwise adapted to receive a screw driver or
other tool for the purpose of driving the screw into the structure.

page_text: In use the whole of this cylindrical head is wholly countersunk into the work
so that when the loose head or cap is removed there is no portion of the screw
itself projecting to which a tool can be applied for the purpose of removing it.
When the plate or other object to be secured is of insufficient thickness to entirely
receive the head, the said plate or object may have a metal socket secured upon its
underside forming a prolongation of the hole in the plate or other object to receive
the screw head and which socket is itself countersunk into the surface to which
the plate or other object is to be secured.
IMPROVED MEANS FOR APPLYING POWER TO THE STEERING OF VESSELS AND TO THE HAULING IN OR WINDING UP OF CHAINS OR ROPES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Pepper at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 8th March 1882.
WILLIAM PEPPER of Kingston-upon-Hull in the County of York, Engineer
"IMPROVED MEANS FOR APPLYING POWER TO THE STEERING OF VESSELS AND TO
THE HAULING IN OR WINDING UP OF CHAINS OR ROPES
"
The chief object of this invention is to provide a means for applying either hand
or steam power to the steering of Vessels. The same arrangement is also applicable
to windlasses, capstans and cranes.
In the steering of large Vessels it is now common to employ steam power, but it
is desirable also that the vessel should be capable of being steered by the same geer
without the use of steam power.
In order to effect this object and also to provide more power by virtue of a slow
speed I provide the following arrangement of geering: Keyed to a horizontal shaft
is a barrel around which the rudder or steering chain is lapped. This shaft also
carries a cross bar, or radius arms, the extremities of which form stud axles to
bevil pinions of equal pitch. These pinions geer at their opposite sides into rings
of bevil teeth carried by discs or wheels mounted loosely on the shaft. One of
these discs or wheels I connect with handles or equivalent means for enabling the
steersman to control its action, and the other I put into connection with geering
driven by a Donkey, or other motive power engine.
Supposing it is required to steer by steam the steersman after locking the hand
steering disc by a bolt provided for that purpose will by starting the Engine in the
required direction cause the steam power to actuate the barrel in a like direction
through the differential gear just described.
When it is required to steer by hand he will stop the Engine, and if necessary
lock it and then actuate the barrel by the hand gear in either direction.
In applying the differential gear to a steam crane or windlass a brake will be
required to hold fast the wheel or disc that is driven by handles in the first des-
cribed arrangement. This brake will be applied when the lifting is proceeding but
when the goods are being lowered the brake will be used to control the descent of
the goods.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SOUNDING ALARMS AT INTERVALS APPLICABLE AS A BIRD SCARER OR CROW BOY, AS A FOG SIGNAL AND FOR OTHER "ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Hale Willats at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th May 1882.
WILLIAM HALE WILLATS of Denton Court Canterbury in the County of Kent
Esquire "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SOUNDING ALARMS AT INTERVALS
APPLICABLE AS A BIRD SCARER OR CROW BOY, AS A FOG SIGNAL AND FOR OTHER
"ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
"
The said Invention relates to an apparatus for sounding alarms at intervals
applicable as a bird scarer or crow boy as a fog signal and for other analogous
purpose. The apparatus as constructed according to my Invention consists of a
casing within which a platform is caused to rotate by clockwork of ordinary
construction With this platform is provided a rebounding hammer which by
adjustable timing apparatus is caused to strike at intervals upon caps carried by.
nipples on the platform thus giving an alarm at intervals without personal attention
after it is wound up. The apparatus can be suspended from any suitable place or
it may be provided with a spike or screw for fixing it in the ground. A number
of them may be placed in position to act as stops or beaters for Sportsmen. They
may be provided with a short barrel filled with Gunpowder to produce smoke for
use in military operation to mislead the enemy.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRO-MAGNETIC AND MAGNETO-ELECTRIC ENGINES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Cromwell Fleetwood Varley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st October 1882.
CROMWELL FLEETWOOD VARLEY, of Bexley Heath, in the County of Kent
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRO-MAGNETIC AND MAGNETO-ELECTRIC ENGINES,"
This Invention has for its object improvements in electro-magnetic and magneto
electric engines.
A hollow iron cylinder free to move has another cylinder inside it. They are
united together or worked out of the solid. This compound cylinder is mounted so
as to rotate upon its axis. Magnetism is imparted to it by an arrangement of
magnets or a hollow helix surrounding it so that the double cylinder forms one of
the poles of the magnet. In between these two cylinders is placed another magnetic
cylinder which may be stationary or made to rotate. This cylinder is wrapped
with wire parallel to its axis. This cylinder forms the other pole of the magnet.
I prefer to construct the cylinder or piece which goes between the inner and the
outer cylinders of such a form that its section is like a section of half a double convex
lens. The adjacent internal surfaces of the compound cylinder are curved in a
corresponding manner.
IMPROVEMENTS IN
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Watson at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th May 1882.
WILLIAM WATSON of Harrogate in the County of York
GAS ENGINES
"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
In my improvements I employ a cylinder constructed in a similar manner to
that of an ordinary steam engine and use the steam chest as my gas mixing and
igniting or exploding chamber I also employ ports and slide valve similar to those
on ordinary steam engine cylinder.
Gas and air are admitted into the exploding chamber through a valve which
may be of the construction of the inlet valve described in the Specification of
Letters Patent granted to me October 21st 1881 No 4608 or other convenient
construction. I also apply to the mixing chamber or cylinder one of the exploders
described in the Specification of Letters patent granted to me dated April 28th
1881 No 1723, and July 4th 1881 No 2919.
As the piston moves along, the gas and air are drawn into the mixing chamber
and thence into the cylinder and at any required point of the stroke the exploder
is brought into operation, and the mixed gases in the first instance may be ignited
in the mixing chamber such "ignition" travels along the passage to the mixed
gases in the cylinder and completes the explosion thus continuing by the force of
the explosion the movement of the piston. Whilst this operation is going on the
exhaust port has been opened by the movement of the slide valve to allow the
products of combustion from the previous explosion to be forced out of the cylinder
from the opposite side of the piston.
Alternate operations of exploding and exhausting take place within the cylinder
on each side of the piston imparting thereby the required movement of the engine.
The construction of the engine in other respects may be the same as that of
ordinary high pressure steam engines.
MENTS IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN WINDING YARN AND THREAD
Year: 1882

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Liddell, John Swallow Brierly,
.
Sydney Herbert Brierly, Frederick William Hirst, and David Hamer at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th October 1882.
.
JOHN LIDDELL, JOHN SWALLOW BRIERLY, and SYDNEY HERBERT BRIERLY,
all of Marsh Huddersfield in the County of York, Spinners and Manufacturers,
and FREDERICK WILLIAM HIRST and DAVID HAMER, of the same place. "IMPROVE
MENTS IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN WINDING YARN AND THREAD."
This Invention has reference to apparatus employed in winding woollen,
worsted, cotton, silk, and other yarns or threads from swifts or cops onto bobbins,
spools or tubes.
In practice it is found (more especially when the banks have been dyed) that the
yarn is sticky and twisted, which prevents it freely leaving the swift without extra
drag and friction, such extra drag frequently breaking the yarn.
By the application of our Invention it is intended to prevent such breakages by
the employment of mechanisin placed between the swift and bobbin, which will
yield and give way to the drag of the yarn, and when the drag is sufficient the
tension thereof will stop, the rotation of the bobbin.
The apparatus we employ consists of an arrangement of spiral or other form of
springs or weights provided with rods and bars capable of sliding in suitable
framework. The front end of these bars are provided with an antifriction pulley
over which the thread passes on its way to the bobbin, and the bars are so arranged
that when the yarn is freely leaving the swift, it has no effect upon the springs,
but should the yarn be entangled or stick to the swift the tension thereof upon the
friction pulley will be such as to cause the springs to yield and compensate for the
increased drag which prevents the yarn breaking, if however the drag continues,
the springs will yield sufficiently far as to cause one of the bars to slide and extend
beyond its bracket and come into contact with one of the projections of a revolving
star wheel placed on the wharle which drives the spindle and so stop its rotation
and prevent the yarn breaking.
Instead of stopping the rotation of the wharle, which is in some cases, objection-
able, we stop the rotation of the bobbin, spool or tube by an arrangement of lovers
acted upon by the sliding bar herein mentioned.
The sliding bar can be regulated by screws, so as to render the springs more or
less susceptible to the various strength of yarn.
.