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IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKING DEVICES FOR MINERS' SAFETY LAMPS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John McKellar Main at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd March 1882.
JOHN MCKELLAR MAIN, of Crossfield Iron Ore Works, in the County of
Cumberland Engineer IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKING DEVICES FOR MINERS' SAFETY
LAMPS
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This Invention has for its object to provide for miners' lamps improved locking
devices of a simple, efficient, and, convenient character, and which require special
arrangements or means for unlocking, such that the lamps cannot be opened
without being brought to the place where such arrangements or means are
provided.
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In carrying out the Invention the lamp is constructed so as to be closed by
screwing the oil vessel and wick holder up to or into the bottom of the frame or
casing, and the improved locking detail is a small rod or bolt fitted to the oil
vessel and pressed upwards by a spring, which bolts enters a socket, notch, or hole
in the part up against which the oil vessel is screwed as soon as this vessel becomes
screwed home, and prevents the unscrewing of the oil-vessel. The locking bolt or
rod has fast on it a small piston which works in a small cylinder fixed in the oil
vessel and a passage having an external orifice is made to communicate with the
small cylinder above the piston. In order to open the lamp air steam or other
fluid under pressure is made to act in the cylinder by applying the orifice of the
passage to a nozzle by which the fluid under pressure is supplied. When air is
used the necessary pressure may be imparted to it by means of a sufficiently
powerful hand pump or in any other convenient way. The spring acting on the
locking bolt or rod is by preference inade of such strength that the pressure
required for forcing down the piston against it will be greater than can be applied
by a miner by means of anything he can conveniently carry about; whilst the
apparatus for supplying the requisite pressure is of course provided only in the
lamp room or space specially arranged for opening cleaning and lighting the
lamps.
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 9th May 1882.
CROMWELL FLEETWOOD VARLEY of Cromwell House Bexley Heath in the County
of Kent. "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 belix 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 AND RELATING TO BICYCLE SEATS OR SADDLES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Robert Lake at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th October 1882. Communicated
to him from abroad by Joseph Lyman Wilson of Waltham, Massachusetts
United States of America, Mechanic
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake and Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings London, "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO BICYCLE
SEATS OR SADDLES [A communication to him from abroad by Joseph Lyman
Wilson of Waltham, Massachusetts United States of America, Mechanic]
"
In ordinary bicycles the saddle of the seat is usually mounted on a flat spring
which is rigidly attached to the back-bone of the machine; this spring, while taking
up, or neutralizing, the vertical movement of the seat produced by passing over a
rough road, does not take up or neutralize to any great extent, the horizontal
movements produced by the same cause.
The said invention is designed to obviate this objection and consists in constructing
and arranging the parts which constitute the seat in a novel manner as hereinafter
set forth, by which a more desirable and effective device of this character is
produced than is now in ordinary use.
The nature and operation of the said invention will be readily understood by all
conversant with such matters from the following explanation
According to the said invention a semi-elliptic spring is rigidly secured to the
back-bone by nuts and bolts, each end of this spring carrying two pendulous links
which are jointed thereto in such a manner as to swing freely in line with the
springs.
Another spring is arranged horizontally above the aforesaid spring and has its
ends curved downwardly and inwardly under the ends of the same where they are
jointed to the lower ends of the said links, the saddle being firmly secured to the
upper side of the second spring by a nut and bolt, or in any convenient manner
In the use of this.improved bicycle seat, it will be obvious that the jar or vertical
movements of the back-bone produced by the wheel in passing over a rough road,
or track, will be taken up, or neutralized, by the conjoint action of the said springs,

page_text: and also that the ill or disagreeable effects of all horizontal movements of the seat
produced by the wheel coming in. contact with obstructions in its path, will be
overcome by means of the said jointed pendulous links and the peculiar manner of
forming and connecting the said springs whereby the second spring is enabled to
move or swing slightly back and forth on the line of traverse followed by the
machine.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN BEDSTEADS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Matthew Lawson at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th October 1882.
MATTHEW LAWSON of the Town and County of Ayr North Britain. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BEDSTEADS
This Invention, which relates to improvements in bedsteads, has for its object to
construct such bedsteads of a combination of wood and iron instead of entirely of
iron as hitherto.
'
In iron bedsteads as heretofore manufactured the objection pertains that the
Carver's or Turner's art cannot be exercised upon them and therefore such bedstends
cannot be made en suite with the other furniture of a room.
Under this Invention the bedsteads whilst retaining all the advantages of iron
led-steads may be carved turned and otherwise treated with artistic affect to
accord with the style of the other furniture and for this purpose the posts or pillars,
and if desired other parts also, are made of wood turned or carved en suite.
The posts or pillars are made of a thickness according to the nature of the wood
used and they are fixed securely into a clasp or socket attached to or forming part
of the iron stock of the bed by means of a key, dovetail or their equivalent.
In so fixing the pillars they are, from their upper ends, passed through the clasps
or sockets and after they have been fixed in position a wooden bead is clamped on
to each pillar above the socket or clasp to correspond with a similar bead formed
on the pillar below the socket or clasp and on which the said socket or clasp rest.
The upper clamped bead is turned off in a lathe or it may be turned as a ring,
cut in two and glued in position and to make the upper terminal of each pillar.
sufficiently strong, a metal dovetail is put nearly through it which dovetail also
constitutes the screw for holding the terminal in position.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DYEING TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John William Hepworth at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents ou the 25th March 1882.
JOHN WILLIAM HEPWORTH of Churwell near Leeds, in the County of York,
Cloth Dyer "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR DYEING TEXTILE FABRICS
"
This Invention has reference to machines employed in dyeing cloth and other
textile fabrics in continuous lengths, my Invention being especially applicable to a
machine for which Letters Patent were granted to John Oldroyd and others
No 898 AD. 1873
In cloth dyeing machines at present constructed, the fabric is passed over one or
more rollers in a vessel containing dye liquor the fabric passing out at one end of
the machine and re-entering at the other end, a sufficient number of times as to dye
the fabric the proper color and notwithstanding the efficacy of these machines, it
has been impossible to dye the pieces evenly, because the cloth on its way from one
end of the machine to the other would be folded and creased to such an extent that
the superfluous dyo would act irregularly on the said cloth and produce uneven
shades thereon. To remedy this is the object of my Invention which I accomplish
by the use of a vessel containing one or more rollers placed in the bottom amongst
the dye liquor and a corresponding number of nipping rollers at the top of the said
vessel through which the piece passes. These nipping rollers squeeze a portion of
the dye out of the piece, but in order to cool it and remove the superfluous dye
therefrom I place a trough near to the delivery rollers in which a stream of cold
water is running The cloth on leaving the delivery rollers passes through this
trough containing the running stream, whereby it is cooled and the superfluous
dye is removed before the cloth re-enters the dye vessel thereby rendering the
said piece more susceptable to the dye and avoiding uneven shades thereon.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS GOVERNORS, AND APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE SUPPLY CONNECTION THEREWITH
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Edward Webster at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th February 1882.
GEORGE EDWARD WEBSTER C.E of the Town and County of the Town of
Nottingham, Gas Engineer and Manufacturer, "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS
GOVERNORS, AND APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE SUPPLY
CONNECTION THEREWITH."
OF GAS IN
In the service pipe conveying the gas from the meter to the burner I fix a
partition, in the centre of which is a valve and its seating; the valve being
attached to a hollow spindle fixed on an inverted cup floating in an annular trough
of mercury, the spindle allows the gas to pass underneath the inverted cup, and
thus floats it according to its pressure. The gas is prevented from escaping round
the spindle by means of a projection (similar to the inverted cup) sealed by
mercury.
I sometimes employ in connection with the governor a weight attached to a
lever, which lever may be worked by a cord from a distance.
IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILERS AND HEATERS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Rapieff at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 20th February 1882.
JOHN RAPIEFF, of No. 35 Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STEAM BOILERS AND HEATERS."
For the purpose of facilitating the circulation of liquids in Boilers and Heaters,
I propose to use suitably disposed inner partitions, flat, curved or of other suitable
shape, separate or together, and made of metal, wood, webbing, like close canvass,
or of any other suitable material, or any combination of the same
In Tubular Boilers I propose to dispose or arrange suitably the tubes for the
same purpose, in combination with the above mentioned partitions, or without
them.
This invention is applicable to every kind of Boilers or Heaters.
IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN CONNECTION WITH CARRIAGE BRAKE BLOCKS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edwin Cary at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th December 1882.
WILLIAM EDWIN CARY of the City of Manchester in the County of Lancaster,
Coach Spring and Axle-maker, "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN CONNECTION WITH
CARRIAGE BRAKE BLOCKS
"
My Invention relates to carriage brake blocks and to the holders for the same
and the attachment of such holders to the rods or parts which carry the brake
blocks. Previously to my Invention wooden brake blocks have been secured to
back plates by means of coach screws or bolts the side of the grain of the wood
being brought into contact with the wheels. In my Invention the wood is cut so
that the end of the grain is brought into contact with the wheel and the block is
fixed in an improved holder. The said holder is made of a box form or in the
form of a back plate having projecting edges, lips or parts which grasp the block of
wood when it is tightly driven into the holder. The block may or may not be
further secured by means of screws. The holder is by preference formed with a
square socket which fits the squared end of the rod upon which the holder is
secured by means of a split pin or by other suitable means. In place of wood we
may use anti-friction metal or alloy, caoutchouc, leather or any suitable material
or composition.
AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION of Door Mat aND SCRAPER COMBINED.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Sweet Willway at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th February 1882.
JOHN SWEET WILLWAY of 17 St. Augustine's Parade in the City and County of
Bristol Gas Engineer. AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION of Door Mat aND SCRAPER
COMBINED.
This Invention relates to an improved construction of door mat and scraper
combined and consists essentially of arranging a series of parallel flat or other shaped
bars on edge tied at suitable distances apart by intermediate distancing pieces of
tubular form or otherwise and by transverse rods which bind the whole together.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHMENTS FOR SECURING TIRES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Norbrook John Crow at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd May 1882.
NORBROOK JOHN CROW of Pimlico in the County of Middlesex IMPROVEMENTS
IN ATTACHMENTS FOR SECURING TIRES
The improvements are intended more particularly for use with bicycle tricycle
velocipede, perambulator or other like and small carriages and are to be applied
when an elastic tire is used. They consist of a metal band or clip shaped so as to
embrace and hold the elastic tire and felly together, said band being formed of one
or more pieces and furnished with a tightening or adjusting device for drawing
together the ends of the bands and so firmly gripping and holding on the tire-
The use of the improvements is more particularly intended to secure the flexible
tire when it breaks or becomes detached from the felly which is frequently
the case
IMPROVE MENTS IN WINDING APPARATUS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Farrar at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st November 1882.
JOSEPH FARRAR of Halifax in the County of York Machine Maker "IMPROVE
MENTS IN WINDING APPARATUS }
This Invention relates to machinery or apparatus for winding fibrous material
onto bobbins, spools or pirns in conical layers so as to form a cop thereon, such
material being single or two, three or any number of folds in order that the same
may afterwards be doubled or twisted.
The object of my Invention is to provide for the stoppage of the spindle in the
event of one of the ends or threads breaking, to facilitate the removal of the cop
or bobbin when completed and to ensure the equal winding on of the two or more
threads.
Each
The apparatus consists of a number of spindles mounted horizontally or nearly
so in a suitable frame. One end of the spindle carries the bobbin or spool the
driving pulley being fixed about the centre of the spindle and on the other end.
thereof is a peg wheel. The cop is formed by means of a hollow cone or mould
which surrounds about three fourths of the circumference of the bobbin the thread
being guided thereon by means of a hinged guide eye to which a reciprocating
motion is imparted by means of a lever and cam the eye being kept in close contact
with the cop by means of a groove formed in one side of the hollow cone.
thread previous to reaching the bobbin or spool passes through a vertical needle, or
through the eye of a balanced stop lever so arranged that if any one of the threads
shall break, the spindle will be stopped by means of a catch rod which is released
and caused by either weight or spring to engage with the peg wheel on the end of
the spindle. When the cop is completed the hollow cone which is mounted on a
hinge or joint is lowered by disengaging the catch which supports it and at the
same time the guide eye being no longer controlled by the groove in the side of the
cone falls onto an inclined rod or finger and slides away from the cop which can
then be removed from the spindle.
IMPROVEMENTS IN BULLET PROOF SHIELDS FOR FIELD GUNS AND MACHINE GUNS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE GUNNERS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Bawden Parkin at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th September 1882.
JOHN BAWDEN PARKIN of Woolwich in the County of Kent, a retired Captain
of the Royal Artillery "IMPROVEMENTS IN BULLET PROOF SHIELDS FOR FIELD
GUNS AND MACHINE GUNS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE GUNNERS "
The object of this invention is to provide a certain amount of protection to the
gunners against bullets and like small projectiles or fragments of same while at
the same time affording the needed lightness and portability and facility for
sighting
For this purpose I employ a series of steel blades or bars arranged side by side
with very narrow interstices. I erect or mount these blades on a transverse bar or
bars which are fixed on the gun carriage or on the gun itself but so as to be easily
detached therefrom, and so that the inclination of the blades or blade shield may
be set as required to the angle most suitable for repelling or resisting the impact of
the bullets and if required folded down altogether to avoid impact of shells. For
the purpose of easy detaching and portability I prefer to make the shield in two
halves, meeting in the centre, and of about the total width of the space between the
wheels.
.
IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL WAGONS OR TRUCKS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Herbert Wallis at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th September 1882.
ARTHUR HERBERT WALLIS of the Firm of Wallis and Steevens of Basingstoke
in the County of Hants. "IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL WAGONS OR TRUCKS
My invention relates to wagons or trucks made of sheet metal, such as are used
for mining and other purposes. The sides and ends of such trucks, and in particular
the doors forming the one end thereof being of comparatively thin sheet metal are
liable to become bent out of shape in usage. According to my present improve-
ment, I strengthen the door and sides against internal pressure or external blows by
stamping the metal between dies so as to assume a concave or dished form on the
outer side leaving a certain portion flat all round the dished part. The outer edge
of the door may have a flange projecting outward to impart further strength to it.
IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF GAS AND OIL COOKING AND HEATING STOVES AND IN COVERS FOR SUCH STOVES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Sweet Willway at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd September 1882.
JOHN SWEET WILLWAY of 17 St Augustines Parade in the City and County of
Bristol Gas Engineer "IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF GAS AND OIL COOKING AND
HEATING STOVES AND IN COVERS FOR SUCH STOVES "
This Invention relates to certain detail construction or arrangement of gas and
oil cooking and heating stoves also in covers for the same and other like stoves,
whereby cooking can be carried on upon the grill or grating under a hinged and
readily removable cover, which cover is formed of two shells, the inner one being.
perforated at the crown or bellied part and the outer at or near the lower part at
back and at front so that the heat from the stove is checked in its passage and so
retained between the two shells as to regularize the heat within the stove and
above the food being cooked.
The lower part of the stove which is of metal or of wood lined with tin or like
sheets forms a receptacle into which plates etc: can be warmed as desired.
The front of the receptacle has a close fitting hinged flap or a door to prevent
escape of heat and the entry of cold air.
The outer shell of the cover may be coated or protected with a non-conductor of
heat if desired.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING WEIGHTS.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Edwards at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th June 1882. A communication to
him from abroad by Victor Cassin, of Sauveterre, in the Republic of France.
EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 40 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex " IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RAISING WEIGHTS. [A com-
munication to him from abroad by Victor Cassin, of Sauveterro, in the Republic of
France.]
"
This Invention relates to improvements in the ordinary "jack" used for lifting
weights in which a toothed rack by which the weight to be lifted is supported is
actuated by a corresponding toothed pinion worked by a handle.
Such ordinary "jack" is inconvenient in use and is dangerous from the liability
of the toothed rack to descend with violence if the handle is released, and the
present Invention has for its object a novel method of construction and arrangement,
by which the apparatus is simple and cheap, is easily worked and free froin such
liability to danger.
The novel apparatus consists of a vertical screw of sufficient length, upon the
upper end of which is fixed a bevilled toothed wheel driven by a corresponding
pinion which can be made to rotate by means of a handle upon its axis, the vertical
screw being thus made to revolve, and to raise or lower a nut which is fitted upon
it and carries two vertical iron bars the lower ends of which are connected
together and carry a chain or rope to which the weight to be lifted is attached.
The upper end of the screw below the bevilled toothed wheel is provided with a
bearing, which fits and turns in a hole or socket in a plate which also carries
bearings for the axis of the bevilled toothed pinion. The whole of the mechanism
described is enclosed in a frame or cage, within which the nut works up and down.
IMPROVED, COMBINED CLOTHES HOOK AND HAT PEG.
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Adolphus Folker at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th September 1882. Communicated
to him from abroad by A. F. Bechmann, of Vienna, in the Austrian Empire.
GEORGE ADOLPHUS FOLKER, of the firm of J. N. Kuhn and Company, of Wimpole
Street, in the County of Middlesex, Importers and Manufacturers, A NEW, OR
Communicated to me from
IMPROVED, COMBINED CLOTHES HOOK AND HAT PEG.
abroad by A. F. Bechmann, of Vienna, in the Austrian Empire,
This Invention relates to a new, or improved, combined clothes hook and hat peg,
constructed and arranged in such a manner that it can be carried in the pocket, and
can be readily brought into use when required.
This combined article is made of metal, and in two parts, which are hinged
together, one part forming a hook for clothes, and the other part a peg for hats.
Steel pins are inserted in the part forming the clothes hook for the purpose of
securing the combined article to the woodwork of a window, door, cupboard, wall,
or to a tree. The upper part of the clothes hook is turned over, and forms a joint,
to which the hat peд is hinged, and which peg, when not required for use, folds
over the back part of the portion forming the clothes hook, thereby constituting a
guard for the steel pins, and preventing injury to the fingers, whilst reducing the
contrivance to a convenient size for carrying in the pocket, as aforesaid.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADWAYS, TRAMWAYS, AND RAILWAY STATION PLATFORMS THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Todd Todd at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th March 1882.
JAMES TODD TODD of the City and County of Edinburgh North Britain
Gentleman "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADWAYS, TRAMWAYS,
AND RAILWAY STATION PLATFORMS THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE FOR OTHER
ANALOGOUS PURPOSES,"
This Invention which relates to improvements in the construction of Roadways,
Tramways, and Railway Station Platforms, is also applicable for other pavements,
or flooring, and for other analogous purposes.
The object of the Invention is whilst providing for all the advantages which
accrue to the use of wooden pavements as compared with ordinary paving setts to
enable such pavement always to be maintained with a regular and even surface
and so that the blocks of wood of which the paving is composed may be worn
down to a very much greater extent than is the case with wood pavement as
hitherto used.
The Invention consists in providing metallic frames preferably formed of chilled
cast iron wherein are cells, or receptacles, say of six, eight, ten, or other convenient
number, each cell, or receptacle, corresponding to the shape and size of the blocks
of wood which are used. The inner surfaces of the said cells, or receptacles, are
preferably roughened so as to have a firm hold upon the surfaces of the wooden
blocks which are tightened therein by means of a wedge, or wedges, or a spring,
or springs, driven either between any two contiguous blocks, or between one such
block and one end or side of a cell, or receptacle.-The metallic frames may be
made either with or without a bottom and when used to form the Roadway for the
horses to tread upon in lines of Tramway, the rails of such Tramway may be bolted
to the said frames in which case the side of the frames may form the inside flange
of the groove of the tramrail.-When the wooden blocks become of uneven height
by wear they are removed from the metallic frames and sand, or other packing, is
placed in the cell, or receptacle, in quantity sufficient to raise the wooden blocks
to the required height after which the blocks are again tightened by replacing the
wedges or springs.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Horatio Fanshawe and
Charles John Griffith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
16th February 1882.
HENRY HORATIO FANSHAWE of East Dulwich in the County of Surrey, and
CHARLES JOHN GRIFFITH, of Essex Road Islington in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER."
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery or apparatus for obtaining
motive power and has for its object to provide means for continuously driving
machinery, such for example as sewing machines lathes or the like by means of
weights or springs or their equivalents by causing such weights or springs or
their equivalents to be periodically rewound without the intervention of manual
power.
is
In carrying the said Invention into effect two toothed wheels gear into and drive
cach other. Upon the arbor of each of these wheels, a projection or lever is fixed
each to be acted upon by one of the weights or springs, from which the power
derived. The continuous revolution of the wheels is caused not to be arrested, during
the rewinding of the weights or springs by providing the said wheels with the
ordinary click and ratchet arrangement used in clocks. The rewinding is
effected by levers, placed loosely upon the two main arbors worked by independent
weights or springs. The lastmentioned levers (controlled by spiral spring and
trundle, or other similar contrivance in the case of the arrangement in connection
with each wheel strike under action of the independent weights or springs, a bar
fixed upon the main shafts and provided with a pin to receive the blow thus
restoring the requisite tension a small degree cach time. The coming into and
out of action of the lastimentioned levers at proper times is provided for by pins,
placed at equal distances on the main driving wheels. This mechanism is analogous
to that used in the striking mechanism of clocks but the action is dual and
alternate. Wheels and pinions or other devices are employed, to convey the
motion of the main wheel to the place where it is to be used, for example to the
driving band aud balance wheel of a sewing machine. A pedal may be provided
to stop the machine, when required and a second peda to regulate the speed.
AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN York CLIPPING HORSES AND SHEEP
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Greenwood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th October 1882.
WILLIAM HENRY GREENWOOD of Honley near Huddersfield in the County of
" AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN
York
CLIPPING HORSES AND SHEEP
This Invention relates to apparatus employed in clipping hair off horses and
wool off sheep, and consists in the employment of a rotary cutter working upon a
vertical pivot.
Underneath this cutter I place a plate the front edge of which is made like a
comb and is placed a little in advance of the cutter for ploughing or lifting up the
hair which passes through the teeth thereof and is supported thereby until removed
by the cutter. The cutter may be made in the form of a star or it may be made
circular or cam shaped. If circular I prefer to work it upon an eccentric stud
so as to give a sweeping effect to the cutting edge. The apparatus may be attached
to suitable framework and driven by a band from an arrangement of wheels, or
an electric motor may be employed or other form of apparatus may be used for
driving.
IMPROVEMENTS IN LUBRICANTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Field at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th March 1882.
FREDERICK FIELD of Rectory Road, Beckenham in the County of Kent
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LUBRICANTS
"
My invention has for its object the production of lubricants that will stand a
Considerable degree of heat without liquefying. For this purpose I take substances
known as stearate of lead or stearate of zinc which may contain oleates of the
same metals, and dissolve the same in the heavy hydro-carbon oils, known
commercially as lubricating oils, and also in neutral animal or vegetable oils, under
the application of gentle heat. These compounds on cooling become solid, and
will be found to remain in that condition even when subject to a considerable
degree of heat.
The proportions of the said ingredients which I have found useful are from five
to ten parts by weight of the stearate or oleate to one hundred parts of the oil, but
these proportions may be considerably varied according to the nature of the
materials used and the degree of hardness desired.
A similar result can also be obtained by the employment of the stearates and
oleates of lime, magnesia and baryta although the compounds of the so called heavy
metals above mentioned are preferable for the purpose
IMPROVEMENTS IN SEPARATING OIL OR TAR FROM BLAST-FURNACE GASES AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR."
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Gavin Chapman at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th January 1882.
GAVIN CHAPMAN, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Manufacturing Chemist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SEPARATING OIL OR TAR FROM
BLAST-FURNACE GASES AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR."
This Invention has for its object the separating of oil or tar from blast-furnace
gases, in an improved, convenient, simple and economical manner.
In carrying out the Invention the gases to be operated on are caused to pass
through a vessel or chamber having in it a number of diaphragms, disks, or screens,
which are kept constantly wetted with water, the parts being by preference all
constructed of metal so as to have a rapid cooling action on the gasos and to be
themselves rapidly cooled by water. The diaphragms, disks, or screens are formed
with perforations or openings and are placed across the vessel or chamber so that
the gases must pass through such perforations or openings; and the perforations or
openings of one of the diaphragms, disks, or screens, are by preference placed
so as to face the unperforated parts of the diaphragms, disks or screens, next to
them.
In one simple and convenient modification circular disks fixed on a longitudinal
shaft are employed, and the lower part of the vessel is partly filled with water whilst
the gases pass along the upper part through the perforations in the disks. The
shaft is made to rotate at a suitable rato so that all parts of the disks become
repeatedly wetted. Water is continually added to make up for the evaporation
caused by the heat of the gases.
In another modification the diaphragms, disks, or screens, are arranged to be
continually dipping vertically into and rising out of the water; and in a third
modification the diaphragms, disks, or screens are stationary and the water is
continually pumped up and distributed over their upper ends so as to run down and
keep their surfaces constantly wet. In the event of considerable cooling power being
required strong currents of cold water may be passed through pipes or passages in
the vessel, such currents being in addition to or instead of water admitted into direct
contact with the gases.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR VENTILATING TRAMWAY CARRIAGES AND FOR DISPLAYING MOVEING ADVERTISEMENTS THEREON
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th September 1882.
A Communication from Messieurs Dorn and Company of Hamburg and
Berlin in the German Empire.
GERARD WENZESLAUS VON NAWROCKI, Proprietor of the firm of J. Brandt &
G. W v. Nawrocki, Patent Solicitor and Civil-Engineer of 124, Leipzigerstrasse,
Berlin, Germany, "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR VENTILATING TRAMWAY
CARRIAGES AND FOR DISPLAYING MOVEING ADVERTISEMENTS THEREON," (A Com-
munication from Messieurs Dorn and Company of Hamburg and Berlin both in
the German Empire)
These appliances are so combined and arranged as to be worked together from
the carriage itself when in motion.
In an aperture provided in the roof of the carriage is mounted a ventilating
exhausting or blowing fan having screw formed vanes. This fan may by means of
pipes be connected to various parts of the interior of the carriage for the purpose
of drawing the vitiated air equally and without producing strong draught currents
from all parts of the interior as required, or for similarly supplying divided or
distributed streams of fresh air thereto. This fan is by means of endless cord and
pulleys revolved from a vertical spindle mounted in bearings at one end of the
carriage and encased in a tube; this spindle is worked from one of the carriage
axles and is for this purpose provided at the bottom with two pulleys which by
means of a crossed and an open driving strap or cord respectively are connected to
two pulleys mounted loose on one of the wheel axles and provided with clutch
gear so that according to the direction in which the tram car moves one or other
of the said loose pulleys may be clutched into gear with the axle and thus caused
to revolve therewith and transmit revolving motion therefrom to the vertical
spindle. On the upper end of the aforesaid vertical spindle is fitted a pulley which
by means of endless cord transmits revolving motion to a pulley fixed on one of
four vertical spindles mounted one at each corner of the roof of the carriage.
Around the said four spindles is passed an endless band containing advertisements
(when applied to a tram car without top seats) This band will thus be moved
continuously and by the same vertical spindle and other gear that works the
ventilating fan. As applied to a tram car with seats on the top, an endless band
is provided on each side instead of one band all round.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLES ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Emma Eliza Frost at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th June 1882.
EMMA ELIZA FROST of the Kindergarten Emporium 57- Berners Street in the
County of Middlesex " IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLES ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER
ARTICLES OF FURNITURE
"
The primary object of my Invention is to construct tables in such manner that
their height can be readily adjusted to suit persons of different sizes from young
children upwards or for other purposes.
To the underside of the table so hinge two or more frames that they can be
moved into either a vertical or a horizontal position. When in the vertical position
they support the table top or table proper at its greatest height that is to say at a
height suitable for grown up persons for example; and when in the horizontal
position they support the table top at a height suitable for young children for
example. When in the vertical position they are kept in place by hinged stays or
other supports connected to the underside of the table. The number of hinged
frames will depend upon the size of the table; for those of ordinary length a frame
at each end will suffice while for long tables an extra frame in the middle will be
desirable. Each frame should be provided with feet or legs and in order to allow
of additional adjustment of the height of the table I make the legs telescopic and
fit them with bolts and bolt holes or other like contrivances to retain them at any
required height.
I construct other articles of furniture such as seats and invalid furniture and
artists furniture in a similar manner so that their height can be adjusted as
required. And my arrangements as before described also enable the article to be
placed at any required inclination by lowering the frames or supports at one end
or side only.
The table or other article may be jointed at the middle to enable it to be folded
into a small compass for transport or otherwise.
IMPROVED MEANS OF GLAZING OR FIXING SHEETS OF GLASS IN GREENHOUSES, CONSERVATORIES, SKYLIGHTS, ROOFS, RAILWAY STATIONS, AND OTHER STRUCTURES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Chaffin at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 14th March 1882.
"AN
JAMES CHAFFIN, of Charlcombe, Bath, in the County of Somerset,
IMPROVED MEANS OF GLAZING OR FIXING SHEETS OF GLASS IN GREENHOUSES,
CONSERVATORIES, SKYLIGHTS, ROOFS, RAILWAY STATIONS, AND OTHER STRUCTURES
"
My Invention relates to improved means of glazing greenhouses, conservatories,
skylights, roofs, railway stations or other structures in which glass is employed,
whereby I am enabled to dispense with the use of putty.
The process consists in placing a layer of Croggan's patent felt, india-rubber, or
other suitable soft waterproof material upon the wood or metal rafter or sash bar,
the glass being then placed upon the felt or other material, and upon the upper
surface of the panes of glass a second layer of felt or other suitable soft waterproof
material is placed, sufficient space being left between the various rows of panes to
allow for the expansion and contraction of the glass. An outer covering of zinc,
corrugated iron, wood, or other material is screwed to the rafters or sash bars by
screws passing between these spaces.
The advantages claimed by this system are: great economy in construction,
durability, and the facility for removing and replacing broken panes of glass, no
skilled labour being required.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED FOR ATTACHING OR FIXING ELECTRIC LAMPS TO FITTINGS OR SUPPORTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Stephen Henry Emmens and Roland
Isaac Barnes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th
December 1882.
STEPHEN HENRY EMMENS, of Soho Square, in the County of Middlesex, Actuary,
and ROLAND ISAAC BARNES, of 34 Castle Street, Holborn, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED FOR ATTACHING
OR FIXING ELECTRIC LAMPS TO FITTINGS OR SUPPORTS.”
Our invention relates to improvements in the means of attachment of electric
lamps to brackets, chandeliers, or other fittings, and it is designed mainly to utilize
the globes of gas fittings as supports, so as to admit of the easy substitution of
electric lamps without disturbing the gas supply
Our improved lamp holder or attachment to carry out this object, consists of a
central boss to receive the lead wires and support the lamp. From this boss
project radial arms of suitable number. The outer ends of these arms engage with
the edge of the orifice of the globe, and may be secured by any suitable screw or clip.
Our holder may be fitted to the top of the globe, in which case the lamp depends
from the central boss, or it may be fitted to the bottom of a globe, not using gas, in
which case the central boss supports the lamp. The arms may be curved or straight,
and the whole device may be constructed of any suitable material.
IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION, left by James Youngjohns and William
Youngjohns at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th August
1883.
JAMES YOUNGJOHNS and WILLIAM YOUNGJOHNS both of Kidderminster in the
County of Worcester Loom Tuners * IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOMS FOR WEAVING,"
In the weaving of velvets and certain classes of looped fabrics it is necessary
that a longer pause or "dwell" should ensue before the needle or wire carrier acts
to withdraw the wire than in the weaving of carpets and other than the ordinary
class of looped fabrics, and in order to effect the desired change a considerable
number of parts of a loom had to be removed and other parts substituted.
The object of this our invention is by the use of parts of mechanism few in
number and of simple construction and which can readily be interchanged so as
to adapt the loom to the work required.
"
We employ a cam disc driven from the crank shaft, within the groove of the
cam, is received a "runner on a stud affixed in a pendant lever. The bottom or
lower end of the lever is by screw adjusting link connected with a vertical lever,
received and working on the "monkey tail levers" stud, the upper end of the
vertical lover being attached by link as ordinary to the needle or wire carrier.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING CALVES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Osborn at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 15th May 1883.
WILLIAM OSBORN, of Trull near Taunton in the County of Somerset
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING CALVES AND OTHER ANIMALS,"
My Invention relates to an improved calf and colt feeder. This apparatus is so
constructed as to keep the food warm and prevent the animal feeding too rapidly.
It consists of a cylindrical vessel to contain the milk, in combination with a piston
like cover fitting therein said cover being provided with a teat for the animal to
suck at.
The vessel is constructed with double sides and bottom the intervening space
forming an air jacket to prevent the food cooling rapidly by radiation and the
piston like cover is also made double for the same purpose and of a bowl shape in
order to contain a small quantity of food to induce the animal to take the teat.
The teat is fixed in the cover in an upwardly directed position and has a through
aperture communicating with the space beneath. This cover is furnished with an
indiarubber packing to ensure a close fit to the sides of the vessel. It is forced
down upon the surface of the milk by the animal pressing upon it in sucking and
by the superincumbent weight of the atmosphere as the milk is withdrawn from
under it the downward pressure of this piston like cover causing the milk to flow
up through the teat in a regular manner.
IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYER'S THROSTLE FRAMES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Edward Vaughan, of 57 Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FLYER'S THROSTLE FRAMES "
communicated to him from abroad by Sorabji
Nusserwanji Wadia, of Bombay, in the Empire of India
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Edward. Vaughan
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th September 1883.;
GEORGE EDWARD VAUGHAN, of 57 Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYER'S THROSTLE FRAMES," a communication
to me from abroad by Sorabji Nusserwanji Wadia, of Bombay, in the Empire of
India,
"
This invention relates to the employment of an antifriction ring for causing
variation of drag in Flyer's throstle frames.
The said ring is placed between the throstle bobbin and the disc of either
Ashworth Patent Long Collars or ordinary bolsters. The ring rests on the disc of
the collar and the bobbin rests on the ring, which may be made of any suitable
metal and of any desired section and size to suit the varying counts of yarn
produced on the said machines for causing variation in drags.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said George Edward Vaughan in the Patent Office on the 4th March
1884.
GEORGE EDWARD VAUGHAN, of 57 Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLYER'S THROSTLE FRAMES," A communication.
to me from abroad by Sorabji Nusserwauji Wadia, of Bombay, in the Empire of
India,
This invention relates to improvements in Flyer's throstle frnines of spinning
machines and consists of the employment of an antifrictional ring for causing
variation of drag.
The said ring is arranged between the throstle bobbin and the disc of one of
Ashworth's Patent Long Collars or the upper part of any ordinary bolster upon
which it rests whilst the lower end of the bobbin bears against the upper part of
the ring. The ring is made of any suitable metal and of any desired section and
size to suit the varying counts of yarn produced on the said machines and for
causing the desired variation of drag.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1. is a front view of a bobbin mounted as
A. is the
hereinhefore described, and Figure 2. is a vertical section of the same.
bobbin, B. is the collar or bolster, and C. is the antifrictional ring.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I would observe in conclusion
that what I consider novel and original and therefore claim as constituting the
invention secured to me by the said herein before in part recited Letters Patent,
is:-
The employment of an antifrictional ring between the bobbins and collars or
bolsters of the throstle frames of spinning machines, substantially as, and for the
purposes, herein before described and set forth.
In witness whereof I the said George Edward Vaughan have hereunto set my
hand and seal this fourth day of March in the year of our Lord Oue thousand
eight hundred and eighty four.
OBO T VATICHAN (LS)