IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS OR LEADS, TO BE USED IN BUILDINGS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I MAX SUGAR of Waltham Buildings Holborn Circus in the City of London,
County of Middlesex, Inventor and Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature
of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS OR LEADS, TO
BE USED IN BUILDINGS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES to be as follows:-
I make my conductors or leads of copper or other suitable metal, and flatten it in
lengths to a certain shape and size, after which I cover it with a waterproof
insulating substance.
I finish my conductors or leads in such a style that it can be placed beneath the
paperhanging in buildings so as to be invisible.

page_text: I MAX SUGAR of Waltham Buildings Holborn Circus in the City of London
County of Middlesex Inventor and Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature
of my said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS OR LEADS
TO BE USED IN BUILDINGS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
The object of my Invention is to provide convenient and effective electrical
conductors or leads which are suitable for placing in buildings along the walls or
ceilings or floors thereof or elsewhere and for other purposes and which do not
necessitate the formation of a projecting casing therefor or the cutting a recess or
groove in the surface along which the said conductors or leads are to be led.
As &
To carry out this object I can use copper phosphor bronze or any other metal
possessing the required electrical conductivity or a combination or a compound of
any two or more of the same and the metal is drawn or rolled or otherwise shaped
into the form of a flat ribbon. This ribbon may be of any desired shape in cross
section such for example as square or oblong or oval or semicircular or triangular
or the like and the said ribbon may have smooth surfaces or may be ribbed or
corrugated or lined or beaded or impressed with any desired pattern and the edges
thereof may be straight or irregular or uneven as may be desired and when so
formed as aforesaid the ribbon which is made of any convenient length may be
coated with tin or other metals or with compounds thereof whereby the joining or
connecting together the several lengths of the ribbon is greatly facilitated.
general rule for use in buildings I prefer to make the ribbon as thin and flat as is
consistent with providing the required and necessary quantity in sectional area of
metal for the electric current that is to pass therethrough. When the ribbon is
so made I cover it when necessary with any insulating material such for example
as asbestos or india rubber or gutta percha or paraffin or shellac or the like in any
suitable form and condition and in any convenient manner and cotton tape or
sheeting or paper or other material may be wound round or placed over the said
ribbon either inside or outside the insulating material or both inside and outside
the same as may be desired care being taken to cover securely the edges of the said
ribbon and prevent any danger of the said insulating material being broken
through and afterwards the outside may be painted or varnished or otherwise
treated as may be necessary or desirable. The ribbon is then ready for use and
can be placed and secured in any convenient manner against the walls of the
building or elsewhere and covered by the paper or wainscot or otherwise as may be
desirable in each case and these conductors or leads made after the manner as
hereinbefore described do not therefore require any projecting casing to be forined
or any recessor groove to be cut in the said building or elsewhere as do the
conductors or leads now in general use.
It is obvious also that I can combine any convenient number of tho ribbons
together and insulate them from each other as well as or in addition to insulating
the whole combination externally as hereinbefore described and I can place them
in this combined form in the position they are required or desired to occupy.
These conductors or leads can be used for electrical currents for any purposes
such for example as telegraphic or telephonic or lighting purposes or for the
transmission of motive power or for other purposes and when it is so desired the
Baid conductors or leads can be used without being insulated as hereinbefore
described.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The electrical conductors or leads to be used in buildings and for other purposes
consisting of and being the flat ribbons of metal made and formed and used and if
necessary or desirable insulated substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and declared.