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IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOOMS FOR WEAVING
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Hurst at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 20th June 1876.
HENRY HURST, of Little Hulton, in the County of Lancaster.
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOOMS FOR WEAVING."
"IMPROVEMENTS
This Invention relates to that part of a power loom called the "picking motion,"
and particularly to what are known as "under pick" looms, and is intended to
dispense with the use of the "half moon and box" usually employed for actuating
the "hammer" on the face of the "picking wheel" so as to cause the loom to
"pick" alternately at each side.
I bolt or fix the hammer fast to the face of the picking wheel, and I so mount
the picking shaft in its diagonal bearings that it cannot only revolve but also
move in the direction of its length. Beneath the crank shaft and parallel thereto
I mount a shaft driven from the former by spur gearing and making one revolution
to two of the crank shaft. At each end of this shaft I mount an excentric, the clip
of which is connected by a link to a slide provided with a fork embracing a neck
formed on the picking shaft. The result of this arrangement is that every revolu-
tion of the crank shaft one or other of the picking shafts is raised up so that its
projection is moved out of the way of the hammer on the picking wheel, and as the
two excentrics are fixed in exactly opposite positions to each other it follows that
the "picking" is effected alternatoly at each side of the loom.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PILLS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Sims Cocking at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd March 1876.
THOMAS SIMS COCKING, of High Street, Sittingbourne, in the County of Kent,
Manufacturing Chemist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
PILLS."
The object of the Invention is to simplify the process of operating upon plastic
substances by mechanical means so as to produce pills.
Various arrangements of machinery have heretofore been proposed for operating
on plastic substance in the formation of it into pills, but so far as I have been able
to ascertain in all cases the formation of the plastic substance into pipes and then
into pills has been effected by independent machines, or by separate parts of the
same machine, and the object of my Invention is to effect the formation of the
plastic substance first into a suitable pipe form and then into pills, by a variable
action of the saine pair of rollers grooved or fluted around their peripheries. For
this purpose when the apparatus is to be used for the formation of the plastic matter
into pipes, these rollers have given to them an uniform surface motion at or about
the same speed, and in a direction to meet one the other, so as to draw in and give
pipe form to the plastic matter as it passes between them.
When it is desired to form these or such like pipes into pills, this connecting gear
is thrown out of action and other gear is brought into action, by which the surface
speed of one of these same rollers is increased in relation to the other, whilst the
slower roller is caused to travel in the opposite direction, or from that of the
fast one at the meeting point, as is the usual practise in some pill-making machines.
Generally I form the grooves around one part of the pair of cylinders of one
gauge, and those of the other part of another and larger gauge, and I use the one for
piping, the other for pilling.
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS TO SECURE THE CORKS OR STOPPERS THEREIN
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Agur Weightman at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st June 1876.
AGUR WEIGHTMAN, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS
TO SECURE THE CORKS OR STOPPERS THEREIN.”
I employ several modifications of apparatus consisting of the following parts:—
A wire or strip of metal has two loops or eyes formed in or upon it; this wire or
strip I wrap round the neck of the bottle under the lip, and secure it by twisting,
clasping, or rivetting. In the loops or eyes I insert the hooked ends of a wire or
strip of metal bent or otherwise shaped so that the central portion thereof may be
over the outer end of the cork or stopper employed to prevent the contents from
escaping. To release the cork or stopper the last-named wire or strip is pressed on
one side. When corks or stoppers are required to be secured in other vessels than
bottles either loops or eyes or studs may be secured on cach side of the outlet
orifice, and the second-named wire or strip be hooked, hinged, or otherwise attached
thereto.
MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING CORKS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Jacques Magaud-Charf at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th March 1876.
JACQUES MAGAUD-CHARF, of Marseille, (France), Manufacturer.
MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING CORKS."
" IMPROVED
This Invention has reference to improvements in that description of machinery
for manufacturing corks wherein the piece of cork while being held between two
lathe chucks receives rotary motion, while at the same time a sliding cutting blade
is made to move in a direction longitudinally of the cork, and in contact therewith,
so as to shave off its surface as it rotates.
According to my Invention I mount a rail on pivots at its ends in a framing that
can be adjusted so as to cause the rail to assume either a horizontal or an inclined
position. On this rail is a slide carrying the cutting blade or knife, which, owing
to the rail being mounted on pivots as described, can be adjusted in position rela-
tively to the cork, which is mounted between chucks in front of the knife. One of
these chucks is mounted on a spindle receiving rotary motion by means of a sliding
rack in gear with a pinion at its end, which rack is made to slide to-and-fro by
being connected through a rocking shaft and arms with a lever that is connected to
the slide carrying the knife, so that the moving of this slide by hand along its rail
at the same time causes the before mentioned spindle and with it the cork to be
rotated. The second chuck that holds the cork is carried by a sliding bracket
connected by a screw rod to a hand lever, acted upon by a spring or weight so as
to cause the bracket and with it the chuck to be pressed against the end of the cork,
and thus to hold it in position. By moving the said hand lever against the action
of the weight or spring the bracket and chuck are drawn back so as to let the
finished cork fall. By screwing the rod more or less into the sliding bracket this
is adjusted to suit corks of different sizes, the adjustment of the rail upon its
end pivots so as to bring the knife edge in contact with the cork is effected by
means of a cam or eccentric on a spindle beneath the rail, the latter resting upon
the eccentric, and being consequently raised or lowered by turning the excentric
spindle into different positions by hand. Stops are provided on the spindle or on
the eccentric, whereby the latter can be adjusted to definite positions, so as to
cause the knife to cut corks of definite sizes. The rail carries two small whetstones
supported by brackets fixed to the rail, and pressed by springs respectively against
the under and upper surface of the knife edge, so that as this is made to slide to-and-
fro in cutting the cork it is at the same time sharpened by the whetstones. Imme.
[Price 2d.]

page_text: diately below the cork held between the chucks is a balance lever connected by a
pawl and ratchet wheel to a counter of any suitable known construction, so that as
the finished cork drops from the machine it falls on the lever, and causes it to
actuate the counter, whereby the number of corks manufactured by the machine is
registered.
IMPROVEMENTS IN BUSKS FOR ABDOMINAL STAYS AND CORSETS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Rosenthal at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th November 1876.
WILLIAM ROSENTHAL, of Monkwell Street, in the City of London, Stay Manu-
facturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUSKS FOR ABDOMINAL STAYS AND CORSETS."
My Invention of improvements in busks for abdominal stays and corsets refers
more particularly to those stays and corsets known as the "swanbill," which are
more commonly worn by ladies who are enceinte.
The object of my Invention is to give increased strength to the busk so as to
afford means of support to the abdominal region, and my Invention consists of
constructing the busk in the following manner:-To each section of the busk I
rivet or otherwise attach to the back thereof one, two, or more plates, ribs, or
strengthening pieces of metal extending nearly to the whole length of the busk, and
of about one inch and a half in diameter. If more than one strengthening piece
is used one is superimposed over another and the whole series rivetted or fastened
together.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION of STEAM BOILERS OR GENERATORS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Edward Newton at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th January 1876. A communication
from abroad by Nicolas Roser, of Paris, in the Republic of France.
HENRY EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION of
STEAM BOILERS OR GENERATORS."
The object of this Invention is to construct a vertical steam boiler or generator
in such a manner that a greater vaporizing surface will be obtained than heretofore,
and whereby a rapid circulation of the water will result, thus preventing to a
great extent the formation of calcareous deposits in the boiler; and the Invention
consists in placing in the interior of the boiler two or more serpentine or helical
tubes.
In carrying out the Invention the body of the boiler or generator is constructed
in the ordinary manner with inner and outer shells suitably connected together and
provided with grate bars and door, and the requisite valves and pipes, and gauges,
the space between the two shells serving as a water space or jacket. Openings are
made in the inner shell near the bottom and in the dome to receive the ends of a
serpentine or helical tube, and inside the helice is placed a second and smaller
serpentine or helical tube, the ends of which are connected to the first near
the ends.
In order to distribute the flame and gases equally over and around the serpentine
tubes a double bridge or deflector is placed in the upper part of the internal, dome
and just below the chimney stack. Above the outlet in the dome of the serpentine
pipe is placed an angle piece, which is intended to receive the shock of the water
and steam issuing from the pipe.
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The feed water is supplied to the water space or jacket, whence it flows into the
serpentine tubes which are thus always kept full.
By constructing a steam boiler or generator in this manner a rapid and completo
circulation of the water will result, and the liability to explode is materially
lessened while a greater vaporizing surface is obtained.
IMPROVED MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING OR ASCER- TAINING DISTANCES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis Weldon at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 28th October 1876.
FRANCIS WELDON, of Windsor, in the County of Berks, Major in the Madras
Staff Corps. "IMPROVED MEANS OF AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING OR ASCER-
TAINING DISTANCES."
This Invention consists mainly in improvements on my Invention described in
Specification of Letters Patent granted to me, dated 25th March, 1874, No. 1047.
In the above-mentioned Specification the sights used were placed at the ends of
the bar and limb, the fore and back sights on the bar being directed to the staff
which is placed at the end of the base line, and without altering the position of the
bar the fore and back sights of the limb are aligned on the distant object.
According to my present improvements I dispense with the sights above named
and substitute reflectors as employed generally in reflector instruments. These
reflectors are placed one on the bar and another on the limb; and also by means of
these reflector sights the distance of the object is ascertained by one operation
instead of by two, as described in my Specification aforesaid. Also I dispense with
the necessity of supporting the instrument by tripod, &c., as therein described.
The action is as follows:-The right angle with the object, the distance of which
is to be ascertained, is found by an optical square. The instrument is held in the
hands of the operator, and he obtains by reflection the point where the right angle
has been obtained, and by moving the limb backwards or forwards the reflected
image is brought over or under, or aligned on the distant object, or vice versa, the
distance of which is to be ascertained. The numbers shewn on the scale multiplied
by the length of base give the distance of the object. The length of base line can
also be ascertained from the instrument itself if desired.
It will be seen that a right angle is obtained by the three points, viz., the distant
object, the staff marking the right angle, and the instrument. The value of one
angle of the base being determined by the optical square, the value of the other
angle is ascertained by reflection as before described.
The advantages of this instrument are its extreme simplicity, portability, and
immunity from derangement.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SHEARS AND SCISSORS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Alexander Walker at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th December 1876.
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JAMES ALEXANDER WALKER, of 33, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SHEARS AND SCISSORS."
The objects of this Invention are to facilitate the cutting or shearing, especially
of cloth, so as to perform it in a steadier and easier way, to do away with the
power now required for opening the shears, and to obtain more perfect control over
them. For this purpose I form the blade, which during the cutting rests on the
table, with a cam edge slanting downwards, and I terminate the blade at or near
this cam, a little distance behind the joint fulerun of the blades. Against this cam
edge operates the short end of a double armed lever, having its fulcrum on the
upper blade, the other end being operated by the prossure of the hand, which by
depressing it forces the other end of the lever (which may be fitted with friction
roller) against the slanting cam edge, thereby depressing the upper blade, and
performing a shearing operation; the blade is brought back by a spring, and the
two blades are forced apart behind their joint fulcrum by means of a spring, which
may be a spiral spring placed in a round recess or hole.
Instead of a slanting cam action, a tooth rack and corresponding tooth wheel
sector gearing therewith may be applied; and the prossing lever fitted at one end
with such sector teeth is then raised to its normal position of rest by means of a
spring.
IMPROVEMENTS IN DIRECT-ACTING STEAM PUMPS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Harry Wheeler and Joseph Pearson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th March 1876.
HARRY WHEELER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Engine Fitter,
and JOSEPH PEARSON, of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Engine Fitter.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN DIRECT-ACTING STEAM PUMPS."
Our Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in mechanism
for actuating the slide valves of direct-acting steam pumps.
According to one of our improvements we construct and arrange the parts of the
said mechanism in the following manner :-
-In the steam chest we form two small
cylinders, their axes being in the same line and parallel to the axis of the steam
cylinder. The cover ends of these small cylinders through which the piston rods
pass are turned towards each other. The piston rods carry tappets at their ends, the
said tappets being jointed to the said rods. The ends of these tappets when in their
normal position are below the level of a projection on the slide valve, and as the
said pistons advance their tappets bear against and carry forward the slide valve in
one or other direction. From the outside of the steam chest screw stops pass into
the said steam chest. Projections on the tappets strike against the said stops when
the small pistons bave advanced to a greater or less distance, and by lifting their
ends disengage them from the slide valve. The precise point in the strokes of the
small pistons at which the tappets are liberated from the slide valve is determined
by the distance to which the screw stops are advanced. On the return motions of
the pistons of the small cylinders the tappets are restored to their normal position
by striking against the covers of the said small cylinders. Ports communicating
between the steam cylinder and the said small cylinders admit steam from the
former into the latter at the required times and also effect the exhaust of the said
small cylinders.
The cover end of each small cylinder is in communication with the exhaust pipe
of the steam cylinder. By the motion of the piston of the steam cylinder the said
small cylinders are supplied with steam and exhausted at the required times for the
proper working of the slide valve of the steam cylinder.

page_text: According to another of our improvements we arrange the small cylinders with
their axes at right angles to that of the steam cylinder and parallel with one
another. The ends of the piston rods of the small cylinders carry inclines, which
act respectively on arms having motion in a line parallel with the axis of the steam
cylinder, and which on their advance motion strike against and carry forward the 5
slide valve. The said arms are carried by springs by which their return motion is
effected.
A NEW OR IMPROVED VARNISH
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henri Adrien Bonneville at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th December 1876. Communicated
by Jean François Lorthioir, a person resident at Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium.
HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middle-
sex, Patent Agent. "A NEW OR IMPROVED VARNISH." Communicated by Jean
François Lorthioir, a person rosident at Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium.
The Invention relates to a new or improved varnish, specially intended for the
preservation of beer and wine. It can be also applied to all objects which it is
desired to protect from becoming mouldy, and the duration of which is thus
prolonged.
The Invention consists in combining salicylic acid in the proportion of 5 gramines
to the litre (about 1% oz. to about 1 quart) with any kind of varnish, coloured or
not, of which alcohol forms the basis, whatever may be the nature of the gums, resins,
or lacs employed in the manufacture of the said different kinds of varnish, and
whatever inay be the use for which they are designed. The proportion of the
salicylic acid may vary according to the use for which the new or improved varnish
is intended.
The casks and vessels intended for the reception of the beer or the wine, or the
objects to be varnished, must first be well dried, and then done over with a coat of
the said varnish. The said casks and vessels are then filled with hot water, which
is poured out five or six hours afterwards.
PROVEMENTS IN THERMOMETERS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Joseph Hicks at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th February 1876.
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JAMES JOSEPH HICKS, of Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex.
PROVEMENTS IN THERMOMETERS."
The Invention has for its object improvements in that description of clinical and
other thermometers, in which the scale or graduations are marked on the tube or
stem of the thermometer, and such tube or stem is covered with a protecting tube
passing over the same.
Heretofore such protecting tubes have been fixed to the tube or stem of the
thermometer by means of sealing wax or other cement, or a ring of india-rubber has
been placed between the two at the open end of the protecting tube, for the purpose
of preventing moisture passing into the space between the stem or tube of the
thermometer and the protecting tube, but such modes of closing the open end of the
protecting tube have not proved as effectual as desired. To render this class of
thermometer perfectly secure against liquid or moisture passing into the space
between the tube or stem of the thermometer and the protecting tube, and to
prevent the coloured matter in the scale or graduations being washed out or
otherwise removed therefrom, I entirely fill such space with transparent cement,
by which means the scale or graduations are fully protected and remain always
distinctly visible.
I apply this Invention to all thermometers having the scales or graduations on
the tubes or stems thereof.
A NEW OR IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL ICE RINK OR SURFACE FOR SKATING UPON
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Hugo Low at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents on the 28th February 1876. A communication from
abroad by Dr. Otto Braun, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia.
HUGO Low, of 31, Threadneedle Street, in the City of London. "A NEW OR
IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL ICE RINK OR SURFACE FOR SKATING UPON." A communica-
tion from abroad by Dr. Otto Braun, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia.
A rink or surface of real ice requires a low temperature which is not only expen-
sive to lay down and maintain but very injurious to health in warm weather.
Now according to one part of this Invention this improved rink or skating
surface does not depend upon any particular temperature but can be used in any
climate and at any degree of cold or heat.
This improved rink or skating surface is made of common or rock salt which is
applied either by melting the same and pouring it on to the ground intended for the
rink, or by paving the ground or surface with blocks of salt or by macadamising
the rink with broken salt.
Any other suitable salt such as sulphates, allum, or gypsum, may be substituted
for common or rock salt in accordance with this Invention.
AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HINGES
Year: 1876

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Priestland at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 18th April 1876.
THOMAS PRIESTLAND, of Key Hill, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Machinist. "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
HINGES."
This Invention relates to an improvement or improvements in the manufacture of
hinges.
The present method of forming cabinet and other similar hinges consists in cutting
a blank, piercing the tongues and slotting or cutting out circular holes, for which
operations, three sets of tools are required.
The object of this Invention is to effect these results at one operation and with
one pair of suitably formed tools.
These tools are superposed, and the upper one is made, formed, or provided with
a series of pegs and faces which are pressed downwardly in an ordinary press,
into the correspondingly formed lower tool or die to effect the said operations and
results, thus there is also effected a considerable economy of labour and material.
IMPROVEMENTS IN BRIDLES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Green at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents on the 5th August 1876.
GEORGE GREEN, of Foleshill, near Coventry, in the County of Warwick, Gentle-
man. IMPROVEMENTS IN BRIDLES."
"
My said Invention consists of the improvements in bridles herein-after described,
whereby when the rider or driver tightens or draws in the reins the horse or other
animal is not only restrained or gagged in the ordinary way, but is so pressed on
the under side of the throat that a partial strangulation is produced, by the action of
which the horse or animal is effectually restrained.
I will describe my Invention with reference to a horse bridle for riding.
My Invention is used in addition to the ordinary bit.
I take an ordinary gag and in place of the single ring ordinarily connected to
cach end of the gag for the side straps to pass through, I employ a couple of rings
at each end, each couple of rings being fixed respectively to the ends of a bar
swivelling in the outer ends of the gag, each of the said swivelling bars carries a
third ring fixed opposite to and nearly on the same level with the top ring on the
same bar. In the ordinary gag the strap after passing through the ring on one end
of the gag and over the horse's head passes through the ring on the other end of
the gag, but instead of making the strap pass over the horse's head in the ordinary
way I arrange the said strap in the following manner :-After passing through the
rings, say on the left-hand side of the gag, the strap passes through a metallic loop
secured to the horse's head, descends on the right-hand side of the horse's head,
passes under his throat, ascends on the left-hand side, crosses his head, passing
through a second loop and descending on the right-hand side of his head, passes
through the rings on the right-hand side of the gag, and is connected to the reins.
By this arrangement when the rider or driver pulls the reins connected with the
gag he not only causes the said gag to press the horse's mouth in the ordinary way,
but he tightens the loop which passes under the throat of the horse and by the
pressure produced on the throat effectually brings the horse to rest.
The metallic loops through which the strap crossing the horse's head and passing
under his throat works are provided with rollers on which the two parts of the
strap bear and by which their motion is facilitated. The said metallic loops are
fixed on a metal plate carried by a strap secured to the horse's head in the same
way as an ordinary bridle. The sides of the said strap are connected with short
chains terminating in T or cross pieces. The said cross pieces being passed through
the back rings herein-before. referred to in connection with the gag serve to con-
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page_text: nect the bridle to the gag. The said cross pieces also afford a means of connecting
my Invention to all kinds of bridles.
Although I have described my Invention as applied to a bridle having a bit of
the kind commonly called a gag, yet I wish it to be understood that my Invention
may be applied to bridles having any kind of bit.
IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR SINGEING WOVEN FABRICS AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Keighley at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1876.
EDWARD KEIGHLEY, of Bradford, in the County of York, Dye Works Manager,
"IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR SINGEING WOVEN FABRICS AND OTHER
FIBROUS SUBSTANCES."
My improved apparatus consists chiefly of a platinum singe plate instead of an
iron or copper plate as heretofore employed. This plate will on account of the
expense of platinum be made considerably thinner than the ordinary plates, and to
secure uniform heat I propose to make use of a bed of clay or rock salt, which
when heated transmits the heat readily to the platinum plate.
Instead of heating the plate by gas or other flame or fire I may use electricity
for the purpose.
The material to be singed passes over rollers fixed to a frame, and capable of
being raised and lowered with great nicety by means of a suitable arrangement of
racks and screws, and a brush or other equivalent is employed for raising the fibres
before passing over the singe plate.
Hitherto after the process of singeing it has been customary to wind the pieces
upon a roller, and in this process they are sometimes scorched. To obviate this I
cause the pieces to pass over a series of perforated cylinders through which a
current of cold air is forced, whereby the pieces are cooled.
IMPROVED SHIVE DRAWER."
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Thatcher at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 20th October 1876.
EDWIN THATCHER, Brewer, of Nailsea, in the County of Somerset.
IMPROVED SHIVE DRAWER."
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This Invention relates to an improved shive drawer, designed for the purpose of
preventing the bungs or bushes being drawn out of casks when withdrawing the
shives therefrom, and for the more easy drawing of shives generally so as not to
damage the casks.
The improved shive drawer is constructed or formed with three principal parts,
a bridge, a screwed drawer, and a screwed handle. The screwed drawer is con-
structed with a T or handle-shaped head, and it is threaded or screwed externally,
and at its bottom it is tapered and screwed like a gimlet. This drawer works freely
through the central boss of the bridge, which rests on the bush or cask. The
screwed handle works on the drawer between its T head and the boss of the
bridge.
.
This improved shive drawer is used as follows:-The bridge is first rested upon
the bush or cask, then the drawer is screwed into the shive, and then the handle is
screwed down upon the boss of the bridge and thus withdraws the shive with great
facility and ease, and without the possibility of the bush being withdrawn with it
or the cask damaged.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER FIBRES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPFCIFICATION left by Frederick Henry Wright at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition on the 7th January 1876.
FREDERICK HENRY WRIGHT, of Halifax, in the County of York, Wool Combing
Manager. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR COMBING WOOL AND OTHER
FIBRES."
This Invention is applicable to the "Nobles" combing machine, or to others of
the class in which "feed boxes" are employed. A defect in such machines is that
when the plough or lifting knives lift the ends of the slivers of fibre out of the
comb and the feed boxes are raised, the tendency of the slivers is to slip backwards
or retreat from the comb, to obviate which various devises have been applied to
the feed boxes, such as weighting lids, weighting rollers, hinged lids, the loose end
of which and the end of the box together forming a nipping jaw, such contrivances
however not only add materially to the weight and cost of the machine, but they
are not reliable or efficient.
The object of this my Invention is to remedy the defect above referred to, and to
secure such result by the employment of a light and inexpensive appliance, and
which is applicable to existing machines.
According to my Invention I apply to each feed box a small oblong or other
shaped block having a lip or straight edge thereunder, and which latter rests upon
the fibre within the feed box, the block is free to move vertically and radially upon
a hinge or pin which is eccentric to the block so as to ensure its lip or straight
edge resting upon the fibre. The result is that any tendency of the fibre to slide
backwards causes the block to "bind" and nip the closer upon the fibre, as
distinguished from present appliances the efficiency of which was limited to the
mere friction and weight of the instrument employed.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS AND BEER ENGINES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lawrence Jordan, of Milton-next-Sittingbourne, in the
County of Kent, Plumber, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS
AND BEER ENGINES."
Sealed the 4th August 1876, and dated the 7th February 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lawrence Jordan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th February 1876.
LAWRENCE JORDAN, of Milton-next-Sittingbourne, in the County of Kent,
Plumber. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PUMPS AND BEER ENGINES."
The Invention consists in placing by means of flanges or sockets an arm or trap
in the working barrel of any kind of pump, beer engine, or other appliance for
drawing liquids, of whatever construction, and by fitting at the bottom of the saine
arm or trap a valve so constructed as to work with a loaded india-rubber ball.or
metal ball. The Invention is placed at the bottom of the working barrel. The
bucket or sucker is to be on the same principal as the valve above described. The
bucket or valve can be made of any kind of hard metal or wood.
The improvements in this Invention consists, -
I. That by the Invention water or other liquids can be continuously retained
within the working barrel of the pump, beer engine, or other appliance used, so as
to insure a constant and certain supply.
II. The Invention above described can be applied to any pump, beer engine,
or other appliance for drawing liquids without any injury thereto. It can also be
cast in with the pump, beer engine, or other such appliance in the first instance.
III. The said Invention can be made of any kind of hard metal or hard wood,
and can be easily repaired.

page_text: The Invention consists in placing by means of flanges or sockets an arm or trap to
the working barrel of any kind of pump, beer engine, or other appliance for drawing
liquids of whatever construction, and by fitting at the top or bottom of the same arm
or trap a valve so constructed as to work with a loaded india-rubber ball or metal
ball. The Invention is placed at the top or bottom of the working barrel, the
bucket and sucker are to be on the same principle as the valve above described.
The bucket and valve can be made of any kind of hard metal or wood.
The improvements in this Invention consist,-
First. That by the Invention water or other liquids can be continuously retained
within the working barrel of the pump, beer engine, or other appliance used so as
to insure a constant and certain supply.
Second. The Invention as above described can be applied to any pump, beer
engine, or other appliance for drawing liquids without any injury thereto. It can
also be cast in with the pump, beer engine, or other such appliance in the first
instance.
Thirdly. The said Invention can be made of any kind of hard metal or hard
wood, and can be easily repaired.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lawrence Jordan, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.
Signed and scaled by the
said Lawrence Jordan, in
the presence of
ALF. EDW. HOBBES,
1, St. Paul's Street,
Milton-next-Sittingbourne,
Chemist.
LAWRENCE JORDAN. (LS.)
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROLLER SKATES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Scott at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 29th March 1876.
WALTER SCOTT, of 119, Mansfield Road, Hampstead, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROLLER SKATES."
This Invention relates to improvements in the construction of roller skates, and
consists in arranging in vertical slots in the foot board two or more keys that can
be depressed by a side pressure of the foot. The keys have at their lower edges or
ends inclined or rounded faces to act upon other inclined faces of a flat ring shaped
table, which is in connection with the axle of each pair of rollers by a vertical stem
in order that the axles of the rollers may be moved round to put the rollers aslant
for producing curvilinear movements.
The roller axles are supported by a girder bracket reaching from one to the other,
and the ends of the girder are braced to the foot board fore and aft to bind the
girder firmly.
The upper portions of the foot board at the sides have rubber cushions, which after
a depression of one or other of the keys returns the foot to a vertical position and
equalizes the pressure on both sides, thus bringing the keys to the same level and
the table and rollers into position for straight running.
The front foot strap or straps of my skate run through loops fitted under the foot
board, and partake of a circular sliding motion with the foot when the foot is moved
over for the depression of either of the keys.
AN IMPROVED COMBINED REFRIGERATING FILTER AND PROVISION PRESERVER OR ICE SAFE
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Major Wilde Radcliffe at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th December 1870.
Major WILDE RADCLIFFE, of New Hampton Road, Wolverhampton, in the County
of Stafford. "AN IMPROVED COMBINED REFRIGERATING FILTER AND PROVISION
PRESERVER OR ICE SAFE."
My Invention consists in the first place of an improved combined arrangement of
filter and refrigerator or provision safe by means of which water tanks around the
provision safe act as non-conductors, and their contents are filtered by means of the
apparatus herein described, and carried down to a receptacle in the bottom of the
refrigerator, where the pure filtered water is brought into immediate contact with
any suitable freezing mixture, which also serves for the purposes of wine cooling and
ice or provision preserving.
My second improvement consists in the application of charcoal separated from the
meat or fish preserving safes by a medium permeable to the air, such as gauze wire
or perforated zinc plate, for the better preservation of such provisions.
The combined refrigerating filter and provision preserver or ice safe consists of a
capacious chamber A surrounded with a non-conducting coating in which ice may
be stored, wine may be cooled, or provisions be preserved by using a suitable
freezing mixture in the bottom pan B to refrigerate the air. In the upper portion
of the provision or ice safe is a small water tank C with a pocket D in which rests
a charcoal or other suitable filter E; the filter is closed and is connected by a pipe F
to a second small water tank G at the bottom of the safe. The water is thus
syphoned over from the upper tank to the lower, being drawn upwards through the
filtering medium in E through small holes perforated in the bottom of the filter.
The filtered water thus descends into the bottom tank, and is there refrigerated
by contact with the freezing mixture which lies on its upper surface. The top and
bottom water tanks thus form non-conducting protections to the top and bottom of
the ice or provision safe, and if the sides be made hollow and so as to remain full
of water the sides are thus also protected by a non-conducting substance. The walls
are further covered within with an internal layer of finely divided charcoal to effect
the lengthened preservation of fish or meat. This it will effect by absorbing the
noxious gasses and vapours of the air which are the usual causes of accelerated

page_text: putrefaction. Thus then by the combination of a filtered water cistern to an ordinary
provision safe or wine cooler, I employ this water as a non-conducting substance
round the outside walls, and at the same time obtain a constant supply of refrigerated
filtered water for drinking or other purposes; and, secondly, by the application of
charcoal as an inner wall to the provision safes I greatly purify the inclosed air 5
and delay putrefaction.
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARDING ENGINES FOR CARDING WOOL
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Ingham at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd June 1876.
JOHN INGHAM, of Lower Broughton, in the County of Lancaster.
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARDING ENGINES FOR CARDING WOOL."
"IMPROVE-
The object of this Invention is to draw out and lay the fibres of the wool or
worsted straighter than they have hitherto been laid by the carding engine, and
the Invention consists principally in the addition to the ordinary carding engine
of certain small rollers covered with cards, and which I call "holding" and
"straightening" rollers.
The "holding rollers" are placed in front of the "strippers," which take the wool
or worsted from the "taker-in" to the first cylinder, and from one cylinder to
another. These holding rollers revolve very slowly (say, twenty times slower than
the strippers), and thus hold back the wool, and cause the strippers to draw it out
straight through the card teeth. I also place one or more slowly revolving holding
rollers of larger diameter on the first and second intermediate cylinders, and imme-
diately behind each of these holding rollers I place a small straightening roller,
which revolves rapidly (say, twenty times faster than the holding roller), and the
combined action of these holding and straightening rollers will be found to draw
out and lay the fibres much straighter than has hitherto been accomplished by the
carding engine, and a better quality of yarn is produced.
IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLIERY TUBS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Johnson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd September 1876.
HENRY JOHNSON, the younger, of Dudley, in the County of Worcester, Mining
Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLIERY TUBS."
one.
The "under frame" for carrying the tub body is formed out of a wrought-iron
plate so as to make the under frame self contained and separate from the body,
so that when the body becomes worn out it may be removed and replaced by a new
At each end of the wrought-iron plate five langets are formed; the central
ones in each case are turned up to receive the rings for hauling the tub, and the
other ones are turned up round the buffers, which are secured to the tub body by
means of bolts passing through the langets and buffers into the body.
The lubricators or brackets for the axles of the wheels to work in are cast with a
recess in the top for the under frame to drop into so as to keep the axles perfectly
lineable and square. The lubricators, brackets, or axle bearings are cast with a
closed top, and have each a round hole at the bottom for the oil or grease to run
through on to the axle, such hole having a needle to work up and down as the tub
is turned over to keep the hole clear. The grease box of the lubricator is fed
through a hole on the inside which is kept closed by a screw plug; thus these
lubricators are pneumatic. There is a collar cast on the inner side of this bracket,
and such collar is made to work into a collar cast on the wheel and hollowed out
for inore perfectly conveying the oil from the lubricator through the wheel.
I also employ a buffer consisting of a short cast-iron nozzle, wider at one end than
the other, and a flange with holes in to bolt it on to the tub body. A piece of
round wood conical in section is fitted inside this nozzle projecting beyond its
smaller diameter, the other end being level with the larger diameter; a wrought-
iron plate is placed at the back, and the whole is bolted through the flange and the
wrought-iron plate on to the body of the tub.
FLEXIBLE COUPLING OR JOINT."
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Strick at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 24th June 1876.
JAMES STRICK, of Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan.
FLEXIBLE COUPLING OR JOINT."
"AN IMPROVED
The object of this Invention is the production of a flexible joint or coupling
designed for connecting together the ends of ropes, cords, bands, straps, or the like,
upon which a tension or pull is exerted, the application of which will expedite and
facilitate the process of such connection, and also preserve at the joint so formed an
uniform shape or surface.
The improvements consist in constructing a tube, having a circular or other sec-
tion, out of ribbon, or wire, steel, or other suitable material having a spiral forma-
tion. The said tube is composed of two or more of these spiral lengths, which are
arranged to interlap one with the other in contrary spiral directions in such a
manner that when in their normal condition they will have a short contracted tube-
like appearance, the inner surface of which is roughened or serrated.
When it is required to make a connection between the ends of a cord, say, for
example, the endless cord of a window blind roller, a coupling tube is used, the
internal diameter of which will be sufficiently large to allow the ends of the cord to
be inserted at each end thereof with a slight pressure, exerting thereby a contract-
ing force to the flexible tube, which gives it a slight radial expansive tendency
during the time the two ends of the cord are being inserted; but immediately the
ends thus enclosed exert a pull in a contrary direction outward from the tube the
grip of the inner serrated surface of such tube combined with its elongation causes
it to grip or bite the cord with a flexible tenacity proportionate to the tension or
pull exerted by the cord. The expansion of the flexible coupling also gives an
elastic tension to the endless cord which maintains an uniform and even friction of
the cord upon the pulley of the roller blind.
I would remark that although I have illustrated as an example one application
only of the flexible coupling tube, it will be readily understood that a variety of
forms and shapes of tubes made according to the principle herein described will be
serviceable as a medium for coupling or connecting together the ends of straps for
driving purposes or suspended connections for pictures and the like, and in special
cases such connections will be found applicable as couplings for the ends of metallic
rods or wires.
A NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED MATCH BOX AND CIGAR CLIPPER.
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Holland at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st December 1876.
FREDERICK HOLLAND, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manager of
Works. "A NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED MATCH BOX AND CIGAR CLIPPER.'
My said Invention consists of an instrument or apparatus constructed as herein-
after described, which said instrument serves the double purpose of holding matches
and cutting off the pointed ends of cigars.
The said instrument consists essentially of two tubes of metal, the one sliding
somewhat tightly within the other. The larger or outer tube is open at one end for
the reception of the other part, but is closed at bottom. In this part and near its
bottom or closed end a hole is made of a size suitable for the introduction of the
end of a cigar; the other smaller tube is preferably of somewhat greater length
than the outer tube; this smaller tube is open at its lower end, or the end which
enters the outer tube, and is closed at its other or top end. The open end of the
smaller tube is ground to a knife edge.
In using the instrument for cutting off the end of a cigar the inner tube is raised
or drawn partially out of the outer tube; the end of the cigar is introduced into
the hole near the bottom of the outer tube, and the inner tube is forced down. The
sharp edge of the said inner tube is thereby made to cut off the end of the cigar.
The two tubes made as described constitute a match box, but when it is thought
desirable to keep the matches separate from the cut-off ends of cigars the instru-
anents may be modified as follows:-The inner tube is closed at a short distance
from its cutting edge, and its top end is left open, a small cap sliding on the top
open end to close it. In this modification access to the matches is gained by re-
moving the small cap described, while in the first described form of the instrument
the smaller or inner tube has to be drawn out of the outer tube.