IMPROVED MEANS OF ACCUMULATING AND STORING ELECTRIC CURRENTS, AND IN ECONOMICALLY UTILIZING THE ENERGY SO STORED FOR LIGHTING PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Banting Rogers of 47 Holborn Viaduct in the
city of London, Engineer, for an invention of IMPROVED MEANS OF
ACCUMULATING AND STORING ELECTRIC CURRENTS, AND IN ECONOMICALLY
UTILIZING THE ENERGY SO STORED FOR LIGHTING PURPOSES
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Banting Rogers at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th April 1882.
JOHN BANTING ROGERS of 47 Holborn Viaduct in the city of London, Engineer,
"IMPROVED MEANS OF ACCUMULATING AND STORING ELECTRIC CURRENTS AND IN
ECONOMICALLY UTILIZING THE ENERGY SO STORED FOR LIGHTING PURPOSES."
The object of this invention is improved means of accumulating and storing
electric currents and in economically utilizing the energy so stored for lighting
purposes.
According to my invention I use small or comparatively small receivers or
secondary batteries within which the current or currents from dynamo machines or
other electric force producers is or are taken up and stored as intensity currents:
to be used for all lighting purposes in which intensity is desired. Coupled to these
small receivers are one or a series of larger receivers of the same or of a different
kinds which receive the energy or force from the smaller ones. The current in the
large receiver or receivers can be stored in quantity to be used as desired for more
evenly dividing the flow to the lamps than can be obtained from one sized
secondary battery or batteries alone.
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By my invention i.e. through larger receivers being supplied from smaller ones,
the light is maintained for a much longer period after the dynamo has ceased to
work than by any known system.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Banting Rogers in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th October 1882.
JOHN BANTING ROGERS of 47 Holborn Viaduct in the City of London, Engineer,
"IMPROVED MEANS OF ACCUMULATING AND STORING ELECTRIC CURRENTS AND IN
ECONOMICALLY UTILIZING THE ENERGY SO STORED FOR LIGHTING PURPOSES."
The object of this Invention is improved means of accumulating and storing
electric currents and economically utilizing the energy so stored for lighting
purposes.
According to my Invention I use large or comparatively large receivers or
secondary batteries within which the current or currents from Dynamo machines
or other electric force producers is or are taken up and stored as quantity currents
to be used for all lighting purposes in which quantity is desired. To-these-large-
receivers can be attached or coupled a series of smaller receivers of the same or of
a different kind which receive the energy or force from the larger ones.
currents in the small receiver or receivers can be stored in intensity to be used as
desired for the more evenly dividing the flow to the lamps than can be obtained
from one-sized secondary battery or batteries alone.
The
By my Invention, i.e. through smaller receivers being supplied from larger ones
the light is maintained for a much longer period after the dynamo has ceased to
--work than by_any_known_system. Series of the small accumulators may be
charged with electricity and the current taken therefrōin to one-or-more-
receivers of larger capacity if desired.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings represents my large or comparatively large
receiver into which the current or currents from Dynamo machines or other electric
force producer is received for the purpose of being used as quantity currents for all
lighting purposes. A and B are plates of lead positive and negative in alternate
rows or layers from the bottom to the top of the jar or vessel C. These plates are
scored in any direction as desired for the deposit to obtain a better hold to them.
All the positive plates A are connected together with the terminal D and felt,
wood, glass, porcelain, or other insulating substance E is placed between them and
the negative plates B which are also connected together with the terminal D¹.
Figure 2 shows my small receiver in which the plates and insulations are
arranged in a similar manner to those in Figure 1. The current is taken to the
lamps from groups of large and small receivers. The receivers may be round or
square or of any suitable shape.
Figure 3 is a vertical section and Figure 4 a plan showing the mode of laying
the positive and negative lead plates with insulations of wood between in rows of
throes. The plates are thus arranged in the jar or vessel which is then charged
with any suitable dilute acid.
When it is desired to form a battery for maintaining lamps for a long period
after the electric generator has ceased to work the large receivers supply the smaller
receivers which may be grouped together for an intensity similar to that obtained
while the generator was working.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the 4
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim :-
The improved means of accumulating and storing electric currents economically

page_text: for lighting purposes by secondary batteries consisting of large and small receivers
as herein described and substantially as shown in the drawings.
In witness whereof, I tho said John Banting Rogers have hereunto sot my
hand and seal this twenty fourth day of October in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
TATTN DANINA DAADDK
JOHN DANTINO
INC ROCE
(2.S.)