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IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ALTERNATING ELECTRIC CURRENTS TO THE PRODUCTION OF LIGHT
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alexander Muirhead at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th January 1883.
ALEXANDER MUIRHEAD, of N° 3 Elm Court Temple E.C. in the County of
Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING
ALTERNATING ELECTRIC CURRENTS TO THE PRODUCTION OF LIGHT"
My Invention consists in improvements in the method of applying alternating
electric currents to the production of light and in the construction of the apparatus
for the same.
I interpose in the system composed of the dynamo-machine conductors and
lamps, a condenser which may either be placed in the main circuit or in a derived
circuit connected with two points of the main circuit. In the former case tho
arrangement renders the main circuit an open or broken circuit and in the second
case it affords to the currents an alternative path leading into and from the
condenser. By these means a brighter and steadier light is obtained.
As it will be necessary to have large condensers for this purpose and as such
condensers need not possess the very high insulation necessary in the case of
condensers that have to retain their charge for a considerable length of time I
propose to construct such condensers by soaking piles composed of thin sheets of
paper with alternate layers of tinfoil in parathin or other suitable mineral oil of
high boiling point and subsequently pressing out the superfluous oil,
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STEEL
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward William Crebbin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd November 1883.
EDWARD WILLIAM CREBBIN of 12 Batavia Buildings Liverpool in the County of
Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STEEL
My Invention consists in improvements in the manufacture of soft steel and is
adapted for Siemens and Bessemers and other processes for the manufacture of such
steel.
In carrying out my Invention I proceed mainly as follows:-The molten metal
is prepared in the ordinary way, but on its discharge from the converter into the
tank or other receptacle a proportion of manganese, consisting of peroxide of
manganese also protoxide of manganese is added.
The main ingredient added is the peroxide of manganese. The addition of these
will illiminate the dormant carbonic acid in the steel.
It is essential that ferro-manganese should be used as at present.
The important point or feature is the use of peroxide and protoxide of
manganese with or in combination with ferro-manganese
IMPROVEMENTS IN TRICYCLES
Year: 1883

page_text: (Void by reason of the Patentees having neglected to file a. Specification
in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Putent.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jesse Webb and Thomas
Webb at tho Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st July 1883.
JESSE WEBB and THOMAS WEBB both of Coventry in the County of Warwick
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TRICYCLES."
Our Invention has for its object to provide tricycles with convenient means
whereby they may be rendered self-propelling without any exertion on the part of
the rider. To this end we employ a spring motor so arranged as to be capable of
storing sufficient power to drive the machine a considerable distance, and furnished
with devices for enabling the motor to be readily wound up. The motor which
consists of a spring coiled upon a barrel and provided with a ratchet and pawl,
is mounted on the frame at one side thereof, so as to be completely out of the way
of the rider, and transmits its power through a train of gear wheels to one of the
front wheels, to whose axle a brake is applied for preventing the rotation of the
axle during the winding up of the motor and checking the speed of the vehicle.
This brake consists of a horizontal lever pivoted to the frame carrying at its
forward end the brake shoe or block and extending back to a convenient position
near the riders' seat where it is provided with a screw rod and hand wheel. The
motor would preferably be boxed in to prevent the entry of dust and to avoid
liability of the riders' dress becoming entangled with the gearing. The motor is
furnished with a hand wheel attached to the arbor of the spring barrel for
winding up the spring.
IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by David Whittaker at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th September 1883.
DAVID WHITTAKER of Blackburn in the County of Lancaster, Overlooker-
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
This Invention relates to improvements in shuttles and in mechanism for
taking up" the cloth as woven.
Shuttles made according to this my invention are constructed entirely of metal
and in one piece instead of in parts attached or secured to each other-this I effect
by casting the shuttles in a mould or in a moulding box the shuttle being recessed
at one end to afford facilities for lifting the shuttle peg its other end being recessed
or slotted for receipt of spring and peg holding pin the shuttle is pointed at both
ends so as to dispense with the use or requirement of the usual "tips which in
shuttles as heretofore constructed are very liable to become loose and to fly off
in use
I thus obtain a light durable and inexpensive shuttle requiring less
box room
"
The taking up motion comprises a gear wheel on the tappet shaft gearing with a
wheel mounted on a worm shaft the worm gears with and drives a wheel inounted
on stud and gives the necessary and uniform motion to the taking up roller.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR SECURING THE BILLS IN MILL-BILL HOLDERS, EMPLOYED IN THE FACING OF MILL STONES, OR FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Beard Pearse at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st September 1883.
EDWARD BEARD PEARSE of Exeter in the County of Devon "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MEANS FOR SECURING THE BILLS IN MILL-BILL HOLDERS, EMPLOYED IN THE FACING
OF MILL STONES, OR FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES.”
This Invention has for its object improvements in means for securing the bills in
their holders which are employed for the purpose of facing mill or other stones.
My Invention consists in the employment of a steel blade held in a manner
hereafter described, in a suitable holder to which the handle is also attached.
The bill holder is a hollow casting and one part of the cover is at a suitable
angle to receive a wedge and the other half is open and of a channel section. The
bill protrudes through the hollow or cored portion the desired distance and
determined by the abutment or stop through the transverse aperture hereafter
described.
The apertures at the sides are on a level with the base to allow for the insertion
of a key which forms an abutment for the bill or bar of steel when in use. In
addition to this abutment or stop I retain the bill by a wooden wedge which firmly
locks the bill in the holder and prevents any vibration.
The wedge finds its bearing on the angular or upper surface of the casting and at
the opposite side on the blade itself and the stop.
By these means the tool can be reversed, there is no possibility of any parts
becoming loose and the more it is used the firmer the bill is retained and in no case
can there be any vibration.
IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR BASTING MEAT
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Sanden Godman Kirkpatrick
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th February 1883.
THOMAS SANDEN GODMAN KIRKPATRICK of the Oxford and Cambridge Club
Pall Mall in the City of Westminster "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR BASTING
MEAT"
My Invention relates to apparatus for automatically basting meat when roasting
before the fire and it consists essentially in the combination with the common
bottle jack of a pump attached to and actuated directly by the mechanism of the
jack itself so that the operation of rotating and basting the meat are effected
concurrently by one and the same piece of mechanism.
In carrying out the Invention I fix to the underside of the bottom or base plate
of the jack a small pump which for the sake of avoiding packed joints is preferably
made single acting. The casing of the pump is in connection with a valve chamber
at one end to which are attached tail and delivery pipes provided with suitable valves
the tail pipe dipping down into the well of the dripping pan and the delivery pipe
carried to a point above the meat being roasted for distributing the fat where
required. The piston of the pump is attached to a frame of which one member
extends in a direction parallel to the pump piston rod and passes through guides
in the casing of the jack and is attached by a slotted and pivoted connection to the
tooth quadrant of the ordinary jack escapement mechanisin so as to participate in
the reciprocating motion thereof and impart to the pump piston the to and fro
motion necessary to its action.
The pump should be constructed of a metal or alloy not liable to be acted on by
the juices of the meat and the suction and delivery pipes are preferably made of
a soft metal so as to be easily beat to the direction required according to
circumstances.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George John Harcourt at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1883.
GEORGE JOHN HARCOURT of 9 Gloucester Row Clifton in the County of
Gloucester, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PERMANENT WAY OF RAILWAYS
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This invention has for its objects improvements in the permanent way of
railwaya.
I propose to fasten the rail to the sleepers by a double chair with a connecting
bolt running through both parts of the double chair and through the rail
The two parts of the double chair are similar and each has upon it a jaw to abut
against the web of the rail. Beneath the rail and on the centre line the two parts
of the double chair nearly meet they here form a bed for the rail to rest upon.
Further to give a longer base and to secure the strength of the single chair now in
use each chair is extended on one side with an arm so as to overlap the other part
of the double chair and at the extremity of this extension a fastening is provided
serving in conjunction with another fastening at the other end of the base to fasten
the chair to the sleeper.
The arm may be used with one chair only or with both.
In laying the rail one chair will first of all be bolted down at the outside of the
rail. The seat of the chair will as already stated extend nearly half way under the
rail and at right angles, an arm will pass completely under and beyond it, both
the chair and its arm will be bolted down to the sleeper.
The rail will then be placed on this chair
The second chair shaped like the first mentioned, but with the arm on the
opposite side, will then be placed and a bolt passed through it traversing also the
rail and the first chair.
The bolt will then be screwed as tight as possible and secured by a nut which
by suitable means will be locked.
Finally the last mentioned chair will be bolted to the sleeper on both sides of
the rail
To ensure the required amount of flexibility both faces of the chairs may be cased
or lined with vulcanized India-rubber.
The advantages of my invention are
1. Perfect and permanent grip

page_text: 2. Saving of expense, no men being required to examine the line and hammer in
wooden wedges as with the single chair now employed.
3. Greater safety than can be reckoned on with the single chair, as from the
absence of wood work the constant warping and falling out of wedges is avoided.
4. Elasticity if the chairs be faced with vulcanized india-rubber.
5. A broader and firmer basis for the rail than afforded by the single chair
6. All the advantages of the single chair as regards strength and flexibility
without its disadvantages.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th January 1883. A communi-
cation to him from abroad by Hermann Ulbricht and Josef Hortig, persons
resident at Chemnitz, in the kingdom of Saxony
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS a communication to, me from abroad by
Hermann Ulbricht and Josef Hortig, persons resident at Chemnitz, in the kingdom
of Saxony,
This invention has for its object the manufacture of buttons by machinery in a
perfect and economical manner. It consists in a machine which automatically
cuts and dresses buttons (by means of milling tools) by three different operations
in such a manner, that all these operations are carried out simultaneously, but on
three different objects, the first operation serving to remove the crust from the
article, while the second produces the required shape and the third cuts or dresses
the back of the article while it is being held by a pair of automatically acting
clamps or tongues.
Also in a contrivance for adjusting the 'clamps to suit different sizes of buttons,
(by making the mouth narrower or wider) without shifting the centre of the
tongue.
For this purpose I place near each end of the tongue a pair of parallel screw-
spindles each spindle having a right and a left thread and passing through two
tapped plates between which the tongue is held.
The spindles of each pair are connected by tooth wheels, so that the spindles of
n pair turn simultaneously. The raw material or buttons are secured to the
circumference of a rotary disc set in motion by a ratchet-wheel, pawl and cam.
Each of the three revolving cutters is driven by the spindle of a head-stock moved
towards the disc or away from it by means of a lever and can.
Ench of the buttons, preferably six on one disc, is secured to the disc by a spring
and claw.

page_text: During the operations the buttons are also held by three spring bolts released
The latter acts on a lever
and engaged at the same time by means of a cam.
which simultaneously lifts the three rods holding the bolts. After the pawl which
holds the circumference of the disc has been disengaged by a lever and cam the
disc is free to revolve. The same cam moves another lever connected with another 5
pawl (near the axle of the disc.) by an adjustable rod, thereby turning the disc
one division (60 degrees).
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL STONE AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Stone at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 15th January 1883.
ROBERT STONE of King William Street in the City of London
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL STONE AND IN APPARATUS CONNECTED
THEREWITH."
My invention consists in manufacturing artificial flags and stone work of all
descriptions for fireproof and other purposes by using flint grinding or pulverizing
flints marble chippings spar or any other hard stone or material and mixing it with
cement or composition and putting it in dies or moulds with movable sides
peculiarly locked into each other being self adjusting-in some instances I make
the dies in long lengths say from 100 feet to 200 feet more or less to enable me to
remove the movable sides quickly from the material on those dies when the material
is filled in. I place covers the same size of the dies & put on a screw or leverage
bydraulic or weighted pressure which consolidates the material and shuts out all
air and pores giving the material more durability in wearing, in order to get the
pressure on each die at the same time I place long beams of wood or iron directly
over the dies to resist the force put on or by any other suitable method-In some
instances when I want to produce fireproof stones or material I use ground fire
proof stone or fire clay or other indestructible material mixed with molten slag or
soon as it runs from the furnace the material will act better if highly roasted before
blended with the molten slag or metal, then run into dies and moulds as aforesaid
and pressed while in a partially soft state when smelting the slag or iron I use a
powerful column of under or over blast for smelting or burning by this mode of
treating slag direct from the furnace and introducing this novel method of mixing
and introducing indestructible materials with the liquid slag or metal I can produce
at little or no expense most valuable materials for fireproof stoneware and other
purposes when pulverizing the materials I use my patent corrugated rolls or
grinding machines I may also roll in flags &c. by a to and fro rolling action or may
force the material through dies of a diminished shape to cause pressure force worked
by the action of a scrow or a ram by eccentric or can also in producing fire proof
materials without molten slag I may use a portion of fireclay mixed in proper
D...11

page_text: proportion with river mud-both those materials combined when highly burnt
will stand a much stronger heat in use than ordinary fire clay of itself
In using the screw leverage or hydraulic power on the partially soft material
operated on if left on for about 6 to 12 hours will make the material more
consolidated-when artificial stone is required to put into immediate use I roast 5
the material or boil the water which produces immediate contraction
IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Hollingworth at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th March 1883.
THOMAS HOLLINGWORTH of Blackburn in the County of Lancaster Joiner-
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING "
This Invention relates to improved combination of apparatus for adjusting and
regulating the weighting of the warp beam and the delivery of warp therefrom
According to this my invention I affix to the lower cross rail of the loom a
bracket or brackets in which is secured a stud or shaft having a projecting arm for
carrying a catch or pawl on the said stud is a loose catch wheel having clutch box
the clutch engages with a like clutch on a lever having its fulcrum on the stud or
shaft referred to-On the boss of the catch wheel is a hook for the weighting rope
which thence passes around the neck of the ruffle of the warp beam
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HULLS OF SHIPS OR OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry John Frederick Russell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th June 1883. Commu-
nicated to him from abroad by Manuel Marzan of Havana in the Island of
Cuba
HENRY JOHN FREDERICK RUSSELL commonly known as Henry Russell of Salters
Hall Court in the City of London "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HULLS OF SHIPS OR
OTHER VESSELS a communication to me from abroad by Manuel Marzan of
Havana in the Island of Cuba
»
The object of this invention is to increase the possible speed of steamships or
other vessels
The invention consists in a vessel having its hull so forined that the lower
portion which is intended to be below the water line, is of a double-wedge shape,
or in other words, tapering from the middle toward both ends, having the middle
portion above the water line, coincident with the middle portion immediately below
the water line, and having the bow bulged out, or made more protuberant above
than below the water line The invention also consists in a vessel having its hull so
formed that the lower portion which is intended to be below the water line is of a
double wedge shape or in other words, tapering from the middle toward both ends,
having the middle portion above the water line coincident with the middle portion
iminediately below the water line, and having the stern bulged out, or made more
protuberant above than below the water line It also consists in a vessel having
the lower portion of its hull of a double wedge shape or tapering from the middle
toward both ends, having a flat bottom, and also having plane or flat surfaces
which extend at an angle from the sides toward the keel
It also consists in a vessel having its hull below the water line made of a double
wedge shape, or tapering from the middle toward both ends with plane or flat
surfaces extending at an angle from the sides toward the keel, and having the bow
bulged out or made more protuberant above than below the water line It further
consists in a vessel having its hull below the water line made of a double wedge
shape, or tapering from the middle toward both ends with plane or flat surfaces
extending at an angle from the sides toward the keel and having the stern made
bulging or more protuberant above than below the water line
IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th January 1883. A communication
to him from abroad by Conrad Neumeister, of Leipzig, in the Kingdom of
Saxony.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS," a communication to me from abroad by
Conrad Neumeister, of Leipzig, in the Kingdom of Saxony,
This invention relates to mechanical musical instruments in which the usual
revolving drum or pin-barrel is replaced by a reciprocating music-board provided
with pins set so as to produce the required inelody when coming in contact with a
series of pins attached to the operating levers or rods which operate the valves or
equivalent sound-producing or regulating mechanism.
In carrying out the invention I employ movable operating levers or rods
supported in a movable frame so that the music-board acts on the same operating
rods, during its forward motion and during its return motion. This is preferably
effected by providing each face of the music-board with two sets of teeth, each set
representing one melody, placing the pins at the operating levers twice as far apart
(perpendicularly to the motion of the board) as the pins of the board, and shifting
the frame and mechanism periodically sideways.
I also apply to the music-board near its ends two special pins, and adopt two
corresponding operating rods and levers, racks, a tooth-wheel, a segment, a prism,
two levers, and two springs for the purpose of automatically moving the music-
board forward and backward, and causing the whole frame to be shifted sideways
at the end of every forward or backward motion, by means of an angle-lever,
thereby bringing the pins of the operating rods in contact with a different set of
pins on the music-board.
The two racks mentioned above are attached to a rail parallel with the music-
board, and serving to move the latter. A pinion by being automatically disengaged
from one rack and made to gear into the other, after having arrived at the end of
its travel, produces a reversal of the motion of the music-board.
The said special (or reversing) pins on the music-board depress an operating rod
after having reached the end of their travel, whereby another lever is also pressed

page_text: downward and a tooth attached to the same is released from the slot of a
disengaging prism.
The above mentioned rail connected with the music-board has previously set in
tension a spring, which is then shifted lengthways together with a lever or cam
thereby moving the bearing which carries the axle of the driving pinion, and
placing the latter from one rack into the other.
While the disengaging prism is shifted an angle-lever connected at one end with
the frame and at the other with the prism causes the frame together with operating
levers and accessories to shift sideways as required.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OPENING AND DISCHARGING INTERNALLY STOPPERED BOTTLES CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Swales and Walter Peter
Cherry at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th November
1883.
RICHARD SWALES and WALTER PETER CHERRY both of Hull in the County of
Kingston upon Hull, "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OPENING AND
DISCHARGING INTERNALLY STOPPERED BOTTLES CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS,"
This invention has for its object to open and discharge internally stoppered
bottles by a simple operation and without waste.
For this purpose we construct a round cap provided in the centre with a tube
projecting downward and upward where it ends in a knob and has a lateral
outlet.
If this cap is pressed on the mouth of the bottle, the lower end of the tube, which
is open, comes in contact with the stopper and presses the latter from its seat, so as
to allow the liquid to enter the tube and escape through the lateral outlet, which
may be a bent or straight tube. The cap may be made of metal or wood, or other
suitable material, and is preferably provided with a packing ring around the
downward projecting part of the tube, which ring is pressed on the mouth of the
bottle in order to ensure a tight fit. Instead of an upward projecting pipe there
may be a perforation at the top or in the side of the cap, through which the liquid
enters the discharge pipe. The tube which opens the stopper may be made separate
from the cap and movable up and down in an upward projecting sleeve formed on
the cap.
Instead of using a knob for depressing the central tube, this operation may be
performed by an eccentric and handle pivoted on a stand fixed to a table or bench,
or by a screw spindle turning in a fixed stand.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ADVERTISING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Jethro Foot and Robert Jethro Foot
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd May 1883.
JETHRO FOOT and ROBERT JETHRO FOOT both of 101 Grays Inn Road in the
County of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADVERTISING MACHINES
"
This invention has reference to an improved apparatus specially suitable for
placing in shop windows and other public places for advertising or giving publicity
to show cards pictures designs & and consists of a wood and metal casing open at
one or more sides within which a spring is so fitted as through toothed gearing to
give motion to a vertical spindle on which is a toothed pinion which communicates
rotary motion to a horizontal drum or frame to which the advertisements show
cards, pictures, designs &c are attached which it is desired to advertise. Within
the casing and fitted to the roof of the same is a spring which when the drum
revolves retards for a moment the fall of the several show cards fitted to the same
in order that their fall forwards may be more sudden or if preferred the show
cards may be fixed round the revolving drum.
The vertical shaft set in motion by the spring and toothed gearing is continued
upwards and employed to give motion to any toywork, figures or mechanism
outside the casing which may be calculated to draw public attention.
A NEW OR IMPROVED MATERIAL TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR INDIA-RUBBER FOR VALVES, PACKINGS AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Leopold Kirlew at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th October 1883.
RICHARD LEOPOLD KIRLEW of Manchester in the County of Lancaster "A NEW
OR IMPROVED MATERIAL TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR INDIA-RUBBER FOR
VALVES, PACKINGS AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
"
The object of this invention is to introduce asbestos into the manufacture of a
sheet or other material as a substitute for india-rubber for valves packings and
other analogous purposes for which india rubber alone has hitherto been used and
whereby a material is produced which is not so liable as india-rubber to injury by
heat, steam, grease or other destroying agency.
In carrying out my invention I introduce ground asbestos or asbestos powder
into the manufacture of india-rubber by preference at that stage of the manufacture
when the sulpher is introduced for vulcanising purposes-and I employ only as
much india-rubber as is necessary to consolidate and hold the asbestos together and
impart the requisite elasticity to the material produced keeping these points in view
the more asbestos I can use the better.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WORK-BASKETS WORK AND FANCY TABLES BOXES AND MATS AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FASTENINGS FOR BASKETS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Johnson and Eugène Renaudin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th January 1883.
JAMES JOHNSON of 7, 8, and 9 Sycamore Street St. Lukes Fancy Goods Manu-
facturer and EUGÈNE RENAUDIN of 11 Arthur Road Stoke Newington both in the
County of Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WORK-BASKETS
WORK AND FANCY TABLES BOXES AND MATS AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
FASTENINGS FOR BASKETS "
Our invention has for its object the improved manufacture of work-baskets work
and fancy tables boxes and mats (more especially work-baskets and work tables
which are generally made of cane wicker straw and cotton or hemp string) by
introducing and combining therewith in the construction thereof of cord or string
made of exotic hemps as aloe, alpha Mexico and manilla hemps china grass and all
plants of the same family from St. Domingo, Madagascar or other tropical or sub-
tropical regions, which plants when prepared made into string or cord and dyed
have the appearance of silk. This silk like cord or string we plait with cane of
any colour wicker or straw and various sorts of flexible vegetable substances or
materials such as willow palm leaves or metallic wires etcetera.
Our improved fastenings for baskets consists of a plate of metal or other material
fixed to the lid or cover of the basket. To this plate a slotted flap is hinged the
slot being arranged to pass over a projecting tube soldered or otherwise fixed upon
a plate fixed on the body of the basket to which a chain and pin is attached
When the cover is closed the pin is passed through the tube so as to secure tho
hinged flap and cover of the basket.
The arrangement of the parts may be varied.
HOLDING OR SECURING THE GLOBES ON LAMP BURNERS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Blakely at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st February 1883.
WILLIAM BLAKELY of Bournemouth in the County of Hants
OF HOLDING OR SECURING THE GLOBES ON LAMP BURNERS
"
"IMPROVED MEANS
My Invention relates to improved means of fixing globes on oil lamp burners of
the kind known as Lewtas in which the globe is secured by outwardly projecting
pins engaging with the edge of the lower aperture of the globe which is devoid of
any flange or rim the holding pins engaging with the globe from within outwards.
To enable the globe to be applied and removed the holding pins at one side of the
burner have been carried by an arm pivotted at its lower end and adjusted by a set
screw but this has not been satisfactory as the holding pins being concealed within
the globe accidents were liable to happen in consequence of the serew being turned
in the wrong direction. To remedy this I provide two forms of spring catch with
which no such error is possible and which are at once simple in construction and
effective in action.
According to one form I employ a spring of a peculiar carved form and provided
with a bevilled catch or nib at its extremity. This spring is rivetted or soldered
by its lower end to the body of the burner and it passes up through a slot in the
gallery or rim, on which the globe rests its upper end carrying the bevilled nib or
catch being in such position as to spring over and engage with the lower edge of
the globe when the latter is applied thereon. The spring is curved or bowed
outwards at a point beneath the rim or gallery supporting the globe so as to insure
the necessary flexibility for engaging and disengaging the globe and serve as a
push piece to be pressed in order to spring the globe in or out of the holder.
Another form consists of a right angled or elbow lever pivotted at its elbow in a
slot in the rim or gallery the short arm of said lever forming the outwardly
projecting lug or pin to engage with the globe and the long arm of the lever being
pendent alongside the body of the burner and having applied upon it a spiral spring
confined between a stop on the end of said arm and the underside of the rim or
gallery against which it bears in such a way as to tend to retain this arm in the
vertical position whilst leaving it free to be drawn out in order to throw up the
horizontal arm or lug for engaging it with or disengaging it from the globe
IMPROVE- MENTS IN CHILDRENS COTS OR CRADLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Brown at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd February 1883.
JAMES BROWN, of Montrose, in the County of Forfar, North-Britain, "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CHILDRENS COTS OR CRADLES,"
The object of this Invention is to arrange and combine with childrens cots or
cradles, mechanical devices for rocking or swinging them.
In carrying out the Invention, a cot or cradle of the ordinary construction is
hung from a rocking shaft carried in bearing brackets, and fitted with a crank or
crank lever at one end. This crank is operated, to rock the shaft and swing the
cot or cradle, by means of an oscillating lever fixed on a spindle on which is fitted
an escapement working in the teeth of a scape wheel forming part of a train of
clock-work which may be operated by a strong spring, or by weights. The
actuating clock-work is attached to one of the brackets carrying the cot or cradle.
When a rocking instead of a swinging motion is to be communicated to the cot or
cradle, the cot or cradle is fitted on rockers, and has a projecting lever fitted at one
end, on which the escapement lever of the clock-work acts.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LIFE-BOATS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Critten at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 9th November 1883.
HENRY CRITTEN, of Cobholm, Great Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk,
IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LIFE-BOATS."
" AN
My Invention relates to the construction of the inidship air tanks of life-boats and
it has for its object to cause the boat to sail steadier in a gale and when submerged
in a heavy sea to free herself more quickly of water. To accomplish this I increase
the space for water ballast at the bottom of the boat and at same time increase the
air space of the tanks at the upper part so as to act with more lifting power and
diminish the space for water above the level of the water line.
Hitherto the midship tanks of life-boats have been constructed with perpen-
dicular or parallel fronts so that the space between the tanks is of equal width
above and below the waterline, but by my Invention. I incline or otherwise construct
the fronts so that instead of being parallel they are divergent, or nearer together at
the upper than at the lower part, thus affording greater space for water between
the air tanks near the bottom of the boat where ballast is required and less at the
upper part above the water line and at same time increasing the air capacity of
the tanks at the upper part where their buoyancy will act with better effect.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN FIRE ESCAPES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Brierley at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 12th March 1883. Communicated to him
from abroad by John Hall and Richard Babbington Holdsworth both of
Trinidad Colorado United States of America
WALTER BRIERLEY of Halifax in the County of York Patent Agent "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FIRE ESCAPES" communicated to me from abroad by John Hall and
Richard Babbington Holdsworth both of Trinidad Colorado United States of
America
This Invention has for its object the construction of improved Fire Escapes
designed for use from the interior of Hotels Hospitals, Theatres, Mills, and other
like buildings
Apparatus for the purpose aforesaid constructed according to this our invention
comprises Framework, bolted or secured to the Walls, having winding barrel or
drum around which is a wire rope ladder the rails of which are of metal folding
wire or metallic netting chairs or cages having hooks formed or attached to their
backs so as to be readily connected to the said rails-Arms from the frame work
of the raising and lowering apparatus carry guide rollers over which the wire
rope ladder passes and is thereby prevented fouling or catching on projecting parts
of the building the winding drum is provided with winding and brake gear-
The apparatus is portable and may readily be removed from or to any window or
room as desirable.
-IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR VARNISHING GUMMING AND SIZING PAPER OR OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Newsum and William
Henry Ibbetson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th
January 1883.
GEORGE NEWSUM of Leeds Machinist and WILLIAM HENRY IBBETSON of
Bradford Lithographer both in the County of York.-IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR VARNISHING GUMMING AND SIZING PAPER OR
OTHER MATERIALS
The object of this invention is to lay evenly upon the surface of paper or other
material varnish, gum, or sizing.
We accomplish the above object in the following manner: We construct a
machine having a Table or feeding board upon which the paper is placed: it is
then fed into grippers fixed in an ordinary rotating cylinder also driven in
the ordinary way: the .sheet is carried round by the cylinder and brought in
contact with a roller mounted in adjustable bearings and driven by a wheel
on revolving cylinder shaft giving the surface of such roller and revolving
cylinder the same surface speed. This roller is geared to another roller working in
a trough, also mounted in suitable bearings, in which the varnish, gum, or sizing is
placed. These two rollers are driven at varying speed. There is on one end of
the shaft of the roller working in the trough, a cam which imparts to this roller,
lateral motion.
By these means, that is, the varying surface speed of the two rollers and the
lateral motion imparted to the one revolving in the trough we are enabled to give
to the upper or varnishing roller an even surface of varnish gum or sizing and this
roller imparts the same evenly to the paper
IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTIFICIAL SETS OF TEETH
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Isidor Beutelrock at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st April 1883.
ISIDOR BEUTELROCK, of Munich, Germany, " IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTIFICIAL
SETS OF TEETH,"
My invention has for its object to construct artificial gums and plates for sets of
teeth, which have at different places different degrees of hardness, so as to form a
solid and hard masticating surface, while the base plate is very soft and elastic, so
as to adhere to the palate by suction without any inconveniences.
For this purpose I make the case of two different materials of similar origin and
affinities, both being capable of vulcanization but having widely different degrees
of hardness, namely Para rubber and cautchouc.
In order to produce such a set of teeth, a model is made in wax as usual, and
when the model with the teeth is completely finished, a plaster cast is produced of
the same.
The wax is subsequently removed, and the front, the teeth and masticating
surface laid out with cautchouc, and stamped.
An indiarubber plate is then laid over the surface, and the product vulcanized,
after which the cautchouc is hard and the rubber soft.
AN IMPROVED SUBSTITUTE FOR THE IRON- PARTS OF OTHER ARTICLES A WORK OF CARRIAGES AND FOR THE IRON Communication to me ab
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th February 1883. A commu-
nication to him from abroad by Gabriel Lefèvre of Paris, France,
"
WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of N° 11 Wellington Street, Strand, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, 'AN IMPROVED SUBSTITUTE FOR THE IRON-
PARTS OF OTHER ARTICLES A
WORK OF CARRIAGES AND FOR THE IRON
Communication to me from abroad by Gabriel Lefèvre of Paris, France,
»
This Invention is characterized by the substitution of Cast Steel, or of any other
material susceptible of being cast, in lieu of wrought iron, for the manufacture of
solid or hollow pieces, of any suitable shape and dimensions, and more particularly
such as are intended for carriage work in general; Cast Steel presents a degree of
strength equal and even superior to that of iron for the manufacture of all these
parts and its use gives a considerable saving.
The composition of Cast Steel is such that it permits a perfectly suitable soldering
or welding of any piece when required in the manufacture.
A STUD BUTTON.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William George Delf at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th December 1883.
WILLIAM GEORGE DELF of 47 Walworth Road, London [S.E.] A STUD
BUTTON.
The Stud Button is made after the manner of an ordinary stud, but with a
hollow concave base in place of the solid convex base usually made to a stud, and
with holes drilled or made through the centre or neck as through an ordinary
button, in such manner that the thread by which it is sewn on to any article is
protected entirely by the neck of the stud button from any friction and is quite
hidden from observation, except that the threads are visible on the reverse surface
of the material to which the stud button is attached. It will be preferable to
have the neck of the stud button hollow at the top and as far down as the
bottom of the neck which will be level with or a little below the top of the
hollow concave base, so that when the stud button is placed upon any material
before being sewn on, the centre of the stud button through which the holes are
drilled or made need not necessarily touch the material, but when it is sewn on,
the material to which it is sewn will be drawn by the thread upwards &
therefore towards the top of the concave base, which base will then be in a
measure filled with the material which would thus provide a certain grip for the
stud button and a considerable resisting power to hard wear or rough usage.
For those stud buttons which may require covering with Cloth, silk, Satin, or
other texture, it may be preferable in many cases to have the holes by which the
threads attach it to any material, made round the edge or on any part of the lower
or concave part of the stud button, in preference to having them made in the
bottom of the neck, & in such manner that when the stud button is fixed, the
threads will be subjected, to the least possible amount of friction. When the stud
button is made in this latter manner it may be preferable also to reduce the
concavity at the base thus bringing the neck of the stud button in closer proximity
with the material to which the button is attached.
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPLICABLE TO LAMPS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by August Rincklake at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th December 1883.
AUGUST RINCKLAKE, Professor, of Brunswick in Germany "IMPROVEMENTS IN
AND APPLICABLE TO LAMPS
"
My invention relates to improvements in lamps and especially to those in which
hydro-carbon oils are burned and in which the burner is screwed or secured into a
socket or collar upon the the vase of the lamp
And the object of my invention is to prevent the oozing of the oil through the
plaster by which the metal collar or socket is generally fastened upon the glass
vase in lamps of this description and also to prevent its leakage from the spindle
shaft or shafts used for raising and lowering the wick or wicks
In order to effect this object I make in the first place a hollow circular
metal socket or collar and into the upper part of which I insert a suitable
substance such as glue, rubber, cork, or other suitable substance or material
impermeable by the oil or petroleum., The lower part of the said socket or collar
is fastened to the vase of the lamp by means of plaster of Paris, or other like
material in the usual manner
Also in order to prevent the escape of the oil along the pinion shaft employed
for raising or lowering the wick I have adapted and applied a box or case soldered
to the outside of the burner through which the pinion shaft passes and in this box
or case I place an elastic packing which is forced against the pinion shaft by means
of a hollow screw thereby preventing the escape of the oil
The said packing may consist of a material such as I have mentioned above for
fitting the collar or socket or other suitable material
The glue or other such substances must be prepared suitably for the purposes
hereinbefore stated
AN IMPROVEMENT IN COWLS FOR VENTILATING PURPOSES CHIMNIES AND FOR
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Allan Snelling at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st May 1883..
ALLAN SNELLING of 107 Manor Street Clapham in the county of Surrey
Sanitary Engineer AN IMPROVEMENT IN COWLS FOR
VENTILATING PURPOSES
CHIMNIES AND FOR
The object of this invention is the construction of cowls in or by which a
suction is produced by artificial or natural rotation of a drum provided with vanes
of a curved form and having other vanes or blades of straight form as part of same
or attached thereto, some of the vanes have internal extensions curved in the
opposite direction to the first named ones to direct the air or noxious vapours to
the exterior. The drum is carried by a pivot pin and is arranged between a
bottom band and an upper part or cover of double cone shape these being tied by
stay bars upon the outside
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN APPARATUS FOR THE 65 AMALGAMATION OF GOLD AND SILVER FROM THEIR ORES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Descon Chester at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st May 1883.
EDWARD DESCON CHESTER of Claverley, Surbiton in the county of Surrey
Assayer and Chemist IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN APPARATUS FOR THE
65
AMALGAMATION OF GOLD AND SILVER FROM THEIR ORES
"
This invention relates to improvements in the process of amalgamating gold and
silver from their ores by riffle boxes. catching the gold and silver as amalgam
sickened mercury, run-away mercury and as amalgamated in conjunction with
sulphurets
The apparatus hereafter described may be placed at the discharge of a battery
box or at the end of the tables covered with amalgamated copper plates or both.
I provide a copper cylinder or a copper covered or plated cylinder. having a
coating, or deposited exterior surface of silver, and amalgamated, placed at right
angles to the side of the tables and the same size as their width.
By suitable gearing it is made to revolve at a slow speed in the same direction
as the current of water carrying the tailings.
To prevent the tailings or water finding their way to the other side of the cylinder
and also keep the cylinder nearly dry and eager for run-away mercury I place
suitable packing between the edge of the copper plates of the tables and the cylinder.
The packing may be of rubber leather rope or other suitable packing
A convenient method would be to lay the rope in a groove and keep it strained.
Suitable provision must be made for taking up the wear and tear of the packing
and this can be made self adjusting till worn away by means of springs weights or
their equivalent keeping the same in constant contact with the cylinder
A similar or other suitable packing is held by suitable means against the lower
and hinder part of the cylinder. and beneath this is a box or tray so that any
mercury. amalgam etc. caught on the cylinder is scraped off and falls into the box
or tray.
At the back of the cylinder above the packing is placed a bath of sodium
amalgam. or other chemically prepared mercury. or bright mercury (which can if
desired be kept bright by electrolytic action) and which bath has dipping in it the
periphery of a smaller amalgamated cylinder, the axle of which is mounted in

page_text: inclined guides or otherwise so that this cylinder makes peripheral contact and is
frictionally driven off, the large cylinder
It will be seen that a continual freshly amalgamated surface is presented to the
current carrying the tailings and the packings keep a clean surface charged with
energetic mercury. Thus the surface of the cylinder not being fully charged with
mercury makes it eager to absorb any runaway mercury which is scraped off by
the under packing and caught in the box below, while after passing this it becomes
freshly charged by contact with the coating cylinder, the supply of mercury being
regulated by the top packing. The copper plates may be connected to a generator
of electricity and the main cylinder to a return wire for the purpose of reviving
"sick" or flowed mercury