IMPROVE.. MENTS IN FLOATING LIGHTS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Denton Abel of N° 28 Southampton Buildings
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex for an Invention of IMPROVE..
MENTS IN FLOATING LIGHTS Communicated to him from abroad by Léon
Alexandre Brasseur of Brussels in the Kingdom of Belgium
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Denton Abel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th June 1882.
CHARLES DENTON ABEL of N° 28. Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in
the County of Middlesex “IMPROVEMENTS IN FLOATING LIGHTS." [Communicated
to him from abroad by Léon Alexandre Brasseur of Brussels in the Kingdom of
Belgium,
According to the present invention the oscillations of a floating buoy or vessel or
the movements of the waves relative thereto are utilised for producing by means
of a magneto or dynamo electric machine within the buoy electric currents that
serve to produce light either by incandescence of a conductor or by means of
"Geissler" tubes.
For this purpose the ends of a horizontal shaft within the buoy or vessel pass
through stuffing boxes on the sides thereof and carry outside a forked lever the
end of which is attached to a float resting on the waves. Within the buoy the
shaft carries a toothed wheel in gear with two opposite racks formed on vertical
weighted slides, which as the shaft is caused to turn through a certain angle in
contrary directions by the rocking motion of the lover and float, are moved
alternately up and down; these slides carry other vertical racks gearing with
toothed wheels that are loose on their spindles but are connected thereto by
ratchet wheels and pawls so that the vertical motion in one direction of the racks
is imparted to the spindles. These spindles are geared together and to clockwork
mechanism in such manner that their intermittent motion is caused to wind up
the clockwork, and the motion of the latter is imparted to a magneto electric or
dynamo electric machine, the currents generated by which are caused either
directly, or through the intervention of an induction coil or of Ruhmkorff coils to
produce light either by the incandescence of a conductor or by means of “Geissler'
tubes, situated in a glass lantern at the upper end of the buoy. The currents
may also be utilised for sounding gongs or bells on the buoy in foggy weather.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Lotters Patent filed
by the said Charles Denton Abel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th December 1882.
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CHARLES DENTON ABEL of N° 28 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in
the County of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLOATING LIGHTS A communi-
cation to me from Abroad by Léon Alexandre Brasseur of Brussels in the
Kingdom of Belgium.
According to the present invention the oscillations of a floating buoy or vessel or
the movements of the waves relative thereto are utilised for producing by means
of a magneto or dynamo electric machine within the buoy electric currents that
serve to produce light either by incandescence of a conductor or by means of
"Geissler" tubes.
For this purpose the ends of a horizontal shaft within the buoy or vessel pass
through stuffing boxes on the sides thereof and carry outside a forked lever the
end of which is attached to a float resting on the waves. Within the buoy the
shaft carries a toothed wheel in gear with two opposite racks formed on vertical
weighted slides, which as the shaft is caused to turn through a certain angle in
contrary directions by the rocking motion of the lever and float, are moved
alternately up and down; these slides carry other vertical racks gearing with
toothed wheels that are loose on their spindles but are connected thereto by
ratchet wheels and pawls so that the vertical motion in one direction of the racks
is imparted to the spindles. These spindles are geared together and to clockwork
mechanism in such manner that their intermittent motion is caused to wind up
the clockwork, and the motion of the latter is imparted to a magneto electric or
dynamo electric machine, the currents generated by which are caused either
directly, or through the intervention of an induction coil or of Ruhmkorff coils to
produce light either by the incandescence of a conductor or by means of "Geissler
tubes situated in a glass lantern at the upper end of the buoy. The currents may
also be utilised for sounding gongs or bells on the buoy in foggy weather.
"

page_text: Second. The combination of a float working a spindle with the racks, pinions,
weights or springs and ratchet gear whereby continuous movement is given by
the oscillations of the float to the clockwork within the buoy, substantially as
herein described.
In Witness whereof I the said Charles Denton Abel have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twenty-sixth day of December in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.