IMPROVEMENTS IN CHAMBERS AND RECEPTACLES FOR ELECTRICAL APPARATUS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Alfred Barlow of 6 St Paul's Churchyard
in the City of London Patent Agent and Engineer for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHAMBERS AND RECEPTACLES FOR ELECTRICAL
APPARATUS
Paris France
Communicated to him from abroad by Louis Encausse of
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Alfred Barlow at'
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st July 1882.
WALTER ALFRED BARLOW of 6 St Pauls Church Yard in the City of London.
Patent Agent and Engineer "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHAMBERS AND RECEPTACLES
FOR ELECTRICAL APPARATUS-a Communication to me from abroad by Louis.
Encausse of Paris France.
This Invention relates to means for lining and composing the chambers and,
receptacles to receive the elements of divers electrical apparatus.
This invention consists in a new application of mixtures of vegetable or mineral
charcoal or carbon.
Carbon obtained from Gas-retorts or blocks manufactured under pressure as for
example those of Carrés system can be employed.
This new application consists in providing the receptacles destined to be used in
the construction of certain electrical apparatus with a coating of carbon throughout
the interior thereof-Thus for example, the box which serves to contain the
secondary batteries ought to resist the action of acids and at the same time be of a
certain strength in order to receive contain and store any amount of electricity of
any force and the sides are covered with a layer of compressed carbon and by these
means the desired result may be effectively simply and cheaply secured.
These special receptacles are employed in the construction of different batteries
either primary or secondary and there is thus obtained in a small space a great
strength of electricity and these apparatus will last for a long time
According to another application of the invention the tanks employed in the
deposition of metal are prepared with the carbon as described
Compressed carbon may receive the required shape either by cutting it out of a
block or by compressing it into blocks in any convenient manner and the plates
may be used rivetted together with ebonite rivets.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Walter Alfred Barlow in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th January 1883.
WALTER ALFRED BARLOW of 6 St Pauls Churchyard in the City of London
Patent Agent and Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CHAMBERS AND RECEPTACLES FOR
ELECTRICAL APPARATUS" a communication to him from abroad by Louis Encausse
of Paris France
This invention relates to means for lining and composing the chambers and
receptacles for reception of the elements of divers electrical apparatus and consists
of a new application of mixtures of vegetable or mineral charcoal or carbon.
Carbon obtained from gas retorts or blocks manufactured under pressure as for
example those of Carre's System may be employed.
This new application consists in providing the receptacles destined to be used in
the construction of certain electrical apparatus with a coating of carbon throughout
the interior thereof. Thus for example the box which serves to contain the
secondary batteries ought to resist the action of acids and at the same time be of a
certain strength in order to receive, contain and store electricity of any force and
in carrying this invention into practice the sides of such receptacles are covered
with a layer of compressed carbon whereby the desired result may be effectively
simply and cheaply secured.
The specially prepared receptacles may also be employed in the construction
of different batteries either primary or secondary and there is thus obtained in a
small space great electrical energy and these apparatus will last for a long time.
According to another application of this invention the tanks employed in the
electro-deposition of metal may be prepared with the carbon as before described.
The mixed compressed carbon receives the required shape either by cutting it
out of a block or by compressing it into blocks in any convenient manner and
of the desired shape and the plates may be used rivetted together with ebonite
rivets
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said Invention I
claim.
Firstly. The construction of electrical apparatus receptacles with a lining of
mixed compressed carbon of any kind applied to the interior of the receptacles or
chambers which compose, contain or receive the electrical apparatus or electricity
as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Secondly. The construction of tanks employed in the deposition of metals with
a lining of mixed or compressed carbon as herein set forth."
In witness whereof I the said Walter Alfred Barlow have hereunto set my
hand and seal this seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-three
WALLER
ER A. BARLOW
(L.S.)