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A NEW VARNISH IMPERVIOUS, TO LIQUIDS AND RESISTING ACIDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Thomas Hughes at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th August 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Josef Wojačrek, of Vienna, Austria.
EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents,
"A NEW VARNISH IMPERVIOUS
5 Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
TO LIQUIDS AND RESISTING ACIDS A communication to me from abroad by Josef
Wojačrek, of Vienna, Austria.
"
The present invention relates to a new varnish by means of which, wood, paper,
metals, natural and artificial stones, plastering, as well as textile fabrics or any
other materials can be made inpervious to water or other liquids contained either
in or outside of the said objects, and resisting the destructible influence of acids;
said varnish preventing further the dilatation and shrinking of organic substances,
such as wood, paper, etc., caused by the absorption or loss of moisture, so that the
said substances gain greater solidity and durability, and vessels manufactured
thereof are not subject to be corroded by aciis.
The above named substances, that are to be made impervious and acid-proof are
coated with the varnish, which is substantially composed of a solution of shellac
to which some Venetian turpentine of the best quality and some soot are added;
the quantity of these added substances is more or less great according to the nature
of the bodies that are to be coated, requiring a more or less great elasticity of the
varnish.
In order to prepare the said varnish, shellac is dissolved in alcohol, or in ether,
or in some other very volatile resolvent until saturation ensues; the nature of the
resolvent has no influence upon the qualities of the varnish, as it evaporates in
drying.
'
If wood is to be coated with this varnish, about 200 gr. of turpentine and
from say 20 to 40 gr. of soot are added per litre of alcohol contained in the
solution. It is preferable to prepare at first the saturated shellac-solution and
then to add slowly and by little quantities the Venetian turpentine and the soot,
in continually stirring the moisture.
The objects, stuffs or surfaces, that are to be made acid-proof and impervious
are then coated with the varnish prepared as hereinbefore described and containing

page_text: the above-named substances. As soon as the coat of varnish has dried, a second
layer can be applied.
In order to renter the varnish stronger and more compact, powdered shellac is
strewn upon the first layer of varnish, before it.has dried, and then this powdered
shellac is made to melt either by placing the varnished object or stuff in a heating &
room or by passing over it a heated roller, soldering iron or plate of a suitable
shape.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RISING HINGES.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th June 1883.
A com-
munication from H. Haltaufderheide of Cassel Germany
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 THE MANUFACTURE OF RISING HINGES.
A communication from H., Haltaufderheide of Cassel Germany,
23.
This Invention consists in a new mode of manufacture of rising hinges, and
especially to that of the helical hinge pin therefor. For this purpose a half round
iron or steel rod is made red hot and doubled over so that the flat sides touch each
other thus forming a cylinder. This rod is now made redhot throughout and one
end is then fixed in the vice while the other end is taken hold of by means of
suitable tongs and given one or two twists throughout its length. When cool the
twisted double rod is cut through the middle of one half with a saw or otherwise,.
the short piece cut off which of course as well as the other part of the rod has
been twisted belically by the previous twisting of the double rod, is now in the
usual manner fixed in the lower part of the hinge forming therewith a kind of nut
for the other twisted piece of rod which is fixed in the upper half of the hinge by.
means of a pin through, or otherwise.
The lower half of the hinge formis also a receptacle for the oil.
The advantages of this construction are that the door closes automatically with
certainty, that these hinges are cheaper, that they can have a greater pitch or rise
than that of the ordinary rising hinges and that the hinge-pin can easily be replaced
when worn out.
A METHOD OF PURIFYING GUM COPAL GUM DAMAR AND THE DUST AND WASTE OF THESE AND SIMILAR PRODUCTS AND FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME INTO BLOCKS OF SUITABLE SIZE AND SHAPE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Arthur Bernard Rodyk at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th February 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by John Dill Ross the younger of Singapore in the
Straits Settlements Merchant
ARTHUR BERNARD RODYK of Number 7 Mincing Lane in the City of London
Gentleman "A METHOD OF PURIFYING GUM COPAL GUM DAMAR AND THE DUST
AND WASTE OF THESE AND SIMILAR PRODUCTS AND FOR MANUFACTURING THE
SAME INTO BLOCKS OF SUITABLE SIZE AND SHAPE" [Communicated to him from
abroad by John Dill Ross the younger of Singapore in the Straits Settlements
Merchant]
The rough gum either in pieces or dust is placed in vessels filled with water and
stirred thoroughly whereby the woody fibres impurities and other matter lighter
than the gum float to the top of the water, this is then removed and the process
is repeated until by the stirring no more impurities are found to be detacted and
float to the surface of the water-The rough gum remaining in the vessels is
removed to metal vessels filled with water and heated to about 90 degrees.
fahrenheit when the particles either large or small rise to the surface of the water
leaving the impurities and other matter chiefly consisting of sand and earthy
matter at the bottom of the vessels-The floating gum is then removed into
strainers and the residue at the bottom of the metal vessels is stirred up whereby
more gum is disconnected from the impurities adhering to it and rises to the
surface which process is repeated until no more gum rises to the surface-The
residuum in the bottom of the metal vessels may if it still appears to contain
gum be rewashed in order to extract the very last particle of gun mingled with the
impurities
The pure gum both in pieces and dust contained in the strainers is bleached in
the sun for the purpose of drying and improving its color and is then ready for
shipment or for casting into blocks as may be required
To cast the gum into blocks it is heated gently and placed in metal moulds and
subjected to pressure by hydraulic or other sufficient power whereby a solid block
of gum is formed for packing and shipment
By the above process almost all the large amount of waste that occurs from the
usual method of chipping the impurities from the pieces of gum is avoided and
the dust at present almost valueless and of which very large quantites are
accumulated is fully utilized and by the process of blocking much space is saved:
COLOUR ALPHABET AND FIGURES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Carl Robert Söderström at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th February 1883.
CARL ROBERT SÖDERSTRÖM, of Upsala, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Gentleman,
"COLOUR ALPHABET AND FIGURES
"
The object of this invention is in a manner agreeable to the eye to combine with
the reading of printed matter exercise in the discernment of colours. To this end
in printing books and other compositions according to this invention instead of
giving to each letter a distinctive shape the different letters are represented each
by a distinctive colour so that form has not to be relied upon. Thus by the use in
schools of books printed with my colour-alphabet colour blindness can be detected
in time to allow of turning the inclination of the pupil from a contemplated calling
for which colour blindness would disqualify such pupil.
The form or limits of the various colour signs may be varied. Thus the signs
may be square, triangular, round, elliptic, or of other shape so long as a distinctive
colour or tint is given to each. Conveniently an alphabet may be composed of
square colour-signs or marks, ciphers of round colour-sigas or marks
It will usually be advantageous to use for prints intended to be used by artificial
light colours somewhat different from those to be used by day-light.
This invention can also be used for phonetical alphabets, and as many different
signs are required, signs or marks of both similar and dissimilar forms may be used
partly with different colours. When, however, through the use of books printed
with my colour-alphabet, the sense of colour has been so exercised and sharpened
that it easily and rapidly apprehends the slightest variations of colours, the phonetic
alphabet can also be made to consist exclusively of uniform signs or marks differing
only in colour.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE RECOVERY OF SULPHUR FROM ALKALI WASTE
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Weldon at the Office of tho
Commissioners of Patents on the 8th January 1883.
WALTER WELDON, of Rede Hall, Burstow, Surrey, IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
RECOVERY OF SULPHUR FROM ALKALI WASTE,
This invention consists in recovering sulphur from alkali-waste by means of a
combination of the reactions which take place when alkali-waste is heated with
water under pressuro with the reactions which take place when solution of calcium
sulphydrate is heated by atmospheric air at a suitable temperature and the reaction
of hydrochloric or other acid upon the product of the treatment by air or oxygen
of solution of calcium sulphydrate.
When alkali-waste is heated with water under pressure, two equivalents of
water react upon two equivalents of the calcium sulphide of the alkali-waste,
giving one equivalent of calcium hydrate and one equivalent of calcium
sulphydrate, according to the equation:
2 CaS+2 H,O=Ca H₂O₂+ Ca H, S₂.
The calcium sulphydrate is obtained in solution, and if this solution be brought
into intimate contact with air at a suitable temperature it is converted into a
mixed solution of Calcium sulphide or sulphides and calcium hyposulphite, from
which mixed solution the wholo of its sulphur may be separated in the free stato
by treatment with hydrochloric acid or other acid as will be well understood.
The heating of the alkali-waste with water should preferably be accompanied by
mechanical agitation of the mixture of waste and water. The pressure used must
depend on various circumstances; but from three to six atmospheres gives very
good results.
The treatment of the solution of calcium sulphydrate by air may be performed
by any convenient way, and either hot or cold; but I have found a very great
advantage in performing it hot. Hence I recommend it to be performed by means
of a Giffard's injector or similar appliance, whereby air and steam are injected at
the same time, or else to heat the air before injecting it, or when injecting cold air
by any means which may be preferred to inject steam at the same time.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF BRINE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SALT
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Powley Alexander at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd February 1883. Com-
municated to him from abroad by Alfred Braconnier Mining Engineer of
Paris in the Republic of France
EDWIN POWLEY ALEXANDER of 36 Southampton Buildings in the County of
Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
TREATMENT OF BRINE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SALT." A communication
to me from abroad by Alfred Braconnier Mining Engineer of Paris in the Republic
of France
Heretofore it has been the usual practice to purify brine or water impregnated
with salt in the manufacture or production of salt by eliminating the Magnesia by
the action of Lime but this process presents the inconvenience of increasing the
yield of Sulphate of Lime. The present invention consists in depositing the
sediment of brine from which refined salt is to be manufactured by a cold process
employing for this purpose Magnesia, Carbonate of Magnesia and Dolomite or
Magnesian Limestone mixed in some cases with a proportion of Lime. By this
process the Sulphate of Lime is caused to disappear and to be replaced by Sulphate
of Magnesia The Magnesia and Lime precipitate in fact the earthy and metallic
bi-carbonates. The Carbonate of Magnesia whether free or associated with the
carbonated lime in the Dolomite transforms the Sulphate of Lime into Sulphate of
Magnesia and the Lime is precipitated in the state of Carbonate. The treatment
of brine by the said cold process of precipitation may be effected before the
evaporation and after or at the same time as the other operations of purification or
concentration. The proportions of the Magnesian mixture vary and depend
entirely on the composition of the brine or impregnated water. If this latter in
addition to Marine Salt contains only Chlorides and Calcareous and Magnesian
Sulphates natural Dolomite will suffice. The proportion of Magnesian mixture to
be added to a given quantity of brine also depends on the composition of the brine
and more particularly on its yield of Sulphate of Lime It also depends on the
earthy or crystallized nature of the Dolomite employed and to the degree of
fineness it may be considered suitable to give to the reagent according to local
circumstances. The operation may be effected in a continuous apparatus similar
Din 071

page_text: to that employed in the manufacture of soda and in which the brine follows an
opposite course to the reagent. Raking or stirring and decantation are dispensed
with, the treated brine comes out clear and may be employed at once.
The
operation may also be effected in a discontinuous manner and the stirring be
accomplished either by a jet of steam or by mechanical means or even by the mere 5
act of the falling of the brine into the receiver. By the improved mode of
treatment a considerable saving in the cost of maintaining the pans whether open
or closed and economy of fuel is effected. The re-agents may be used either in the
form of fine powder or in fragments
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE RECOVERY AND USE OF TIN FROM TINPLATE SCRAP AND WASTE TINPLATE ĂRŢICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Sandison Laird at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th August 1883.
ROBERT SANDISON LAIRD of Fern Lea, Clermiston Road, Corstorphine in the
County of Midlothian, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE RECOVERY AND USE OF TIN
FROM TINPLATE SCRAP AND WASTE TINPLATE ĂRŢICLES.”
*
The Tin is dissolved and separated from the Iron of the materials operated on,
by means of a solution of Caustic Soda or Potash, and the action of electricity in
such solution.
This can be effected by apparatus so arranged that these materials and solution
are made to form the positive element in an electric battery or single cell arrange- :
ment. It can also be effected by passing a current of electricity through them
from a separate battery, or from an electric machine.
By modifying the arrangements, the Tin may either be kept in the dissolved
state, or received as a deposit. In the latter case it may either be a metallic
deposit or in the form of a fine powder, presumed to be oxide. If a metallic
deposit, it may either be collected in fine filaments, or received as a coating on
some metallic surface, in which last case the Tinplate materials form what is
usually termed an "anode," and the metal to receive it a "cathode."
The novelty and utility of my invention consist in the application of these
processes to the waste materials mentioned in the Title, whereby the Tin is
recovered for a variety of useful purposes. When the materials are used as an
anodo for depositing on other articles, the invention constitutes a most economical
mode of Tinning these articles. The Tin is dissolved in a pure state from the Iron
of the materials, as the Iron is not acted on by the Solution, but is cleaned and
prepared for reforging.
AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR CONTAINING MEMORANDA TO BE EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION WITH THE HANDLES OF WALKING STICKS, FISHING RODS AND MANY OTHER ARTICLES IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE RECOVERY THEREOF WHEN LOST.
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Watson at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 10th August 1883.
ALFRED WATSON of Alma Villas, Manor Park Road, Willesden, in the County of
Middlesex AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR CONTAINING MEMORANDA TO BE
EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION WITH THE HANDLES OF WALKING STICKS, FISHING
RODS AND MANY OTHER ARTICLES IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE RECOVERY
THEREOF WHEN LOST.
The Invention has for its object improvements in means for facilitating the
recovery of lost umbrellas, walking sticks, fishing rods and many other articles.
For this purpose I employ a roller on which I fix and wind a labe! having
thereon the name and address of the owner of the article to which it is applied
together with any other information that it may be deemed advisable to add.
This roller I mount in a suitable recess formed in the article to which it is applied
and I close such recess with a hinged or sliding cover capable of remaining securely
closed except when it is desired to exhibit the namo and address of the owner by
unwinding the address label after which it may be again closed leaving the label
exposed.
If desired the hinged or sliding cover may be dispened with in which case the
opening in the article will be closed by a bar or plate attached to the outer end of
the address label and the roller will be acted upon by a spring or other suitable
means to roll up the label thereon.
The label in addition to the address may bear a stamp to cover the cost of
sending the article through the post and the hinged or sliding cover, or the covering
bar or plate may if desired have stamped or engraved thereon the words "please
post" together with any other desired information.
,
If desired the roller may be dispensed with in which case I attach the address
label to the sliding or hinged cover or to the interior of the recess within which
the label is ordinarily enclosed.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF, AND APPARATUS FOR THE RECEPTION AND DELIVERY OF CIGARETTES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frank Hipgrave at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th April 1883.
FRANK HIPGRAVE, of 127 The Strand, London in the County of Middlesex,
Hotel Proprietor IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF, AND APPARATUS FOR
THE RECEPTION AND DELIVERY OF CIGARETTES
This invention has for its object the construction of a receptacle for Cigarettes
from which one or more may be obtained on the dropping into one portion of such
receptacle one or more penny peices.
I accomplish my object in the following manner; I construct a slide vertically, or
on the incline, into which the Cigarettes, say fifty, are placed, when, as it is termed,
feeding the apparatus, is performed: at the bottom of this slide, I centre a circular
peice of wood or metal having a recess on the top of the same for the reception of
one Cigarette. This centred circular peice of wood or metal, has beneath it a
weight in order to keep the recess uppermost-On one side the centre is carried
forward, and cranked passing into a compartment for the reception of the coin;
this compartment is so constructed, as to allow of the penny going into the same,
at right angles to the vertical drop of the coin, being hopper shaped, the upper end
receives the coin. Passing across the lower end is the cranked centre of the circular
recessed peice of wood or metal, so that the coin can not pass without canting the
same, and delivering one cigarette to the outside This operation can be repeated
as often as there are Cigarettes in the slide.
At the bottom of the hopper there is a box for the coin, the lid of which is
supplied with a registering lock.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OVERLAYING ATTACHMENTS FOR SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Scott, Junior, and David
Scott Morrison at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
31st March 1883.
WILLIAM SCOTT, Junior, and DAVID SCOTT MORRISON, both of Dundee, in the
County of Forfar, "IMPROVEMENTS IN OVERLAYING ATTACHMENTS FOR SEWING
MACHINES;
"
This Invention relates to attachments to be applied to the class of sewing
machines used for sewing bags and for heavy work generally, for the purpose of
overlaying or folding in the edges to be sewn together.
The improved overlaying attachment comprises one or more pairs of drawing
rollers, which are fitted on spindles carried in a light bracket or framing working
independent of or attached to the sewing machine frame or table in front of
the sewing mechanism. These rollers, which may be made of wood, of metal
covered with rubber, or of other suitable material, are overhung from the bracket
in which the spindles are fitted adjustably, so that the rollers may be made to
press more or less lightly against each other by means of springs or weights applied
direct or through levers.
The two edges of the sacking or fabric to be overcast or sewn are doubled over
inwards to form a seam, and passed between the drawing rollers, so that the double
edges may be drawn forward to the needle. The feeding forward of the fabric is
effected by driving the rollers by means of a belt and pulleys, or by other gearing
from one of the rotating shafts of the sewing machine, and the speed of the rollers
may be adjusted to suit the "feed" of the machine, whether such feed be
continuous or intermittent. The rollers bear against each other with considerable
pressure to pull or draw forward the fabric and fold in or overlay the edges to the
necessary extent to form the seam without requiring more than occasional guiding
in by hand.
The Invention is specially applicable to overhead sewing machines, or machines
by means of which the sewing yarn or thread is carried round the edges of the
fabric, but it may also be applied to other sewing machines.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTS OR HOLDERS FOR GLASSES, JUGS AND OTHER LIKE DRINKING VESSELS WHICH IMPROVED MOUNTS OR HOLDERS MAY ALSO BE USED AS MEASURING INDICES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Dawson of Kilburn and Thomas Frederick Davis
Heap of Russell Square both in the County of Middlesex for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTS OR HOLDERS FOR GLASSES, JUGS AND OTHER
LIKE DRINKING VESSELS WHICH IMPROVED MOUNTS OR HOLDERS MAY ALSO
BE USED AS MEASURING INDICES.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Dawson and Thomas
Frederick Davis Heap at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
16th November 1883.
JOHN DAWSON of Kilburn and THOMAS FREDERICK DAVIS HEAP of Russell
Square both in the County of Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTS OR HOLDERS
FOR GLASSES, JUGS AND OTHER LIKE DRINKING VESSELS WHICH IMPROVED
MOUNTS OR HOLDERS MAY ALSO BE USED AS MEASURING INDICES
"
The object of this invention is-Firstly-To protect a glass or other drinking
vessel from injury-Secondly, To render the same more convenient for use:-
Thirdly-When desired to afford a ready means of regulating its containing
capacity.
To effect these objects we make a frame or mount of any convenient size and
shape-furnished with a suitable handle or handles and provided with a spring
clip placed in any convenient position
The tongue of such spring clip takes into a serrated bar, (hereafter termed "the
serrated wedge")-the upper extremity of which is curved or hooked so as to allow
of its lodging on the rim of the vessel-One or more such wedges may be
employed
•
The operation of our invention is as follows:-The drinking vessel, say, for
instance, a Glass, being placed in the mount or holder the spring clip is depressed
sufficiently to allow of the serrated wedge being pushed down between the mount

page_text: and the glass until its curved or hooked extremity clips the rim of the Glass-The
spring clip is then released and its free end lodges in one of the serrations formed
on the wedge thus firmly holding the Glass in position and thereby considerably
reducing the risk of injury owing to the protection afforded by the frame or mount
at the same time that owing to the handle or handles on such frame or mount the
vessel is rendered much more convenient for use
If preferred such handle or handles may form the spring clip or spring clips to
hold the serrated wedge or wedges in position
In order to regulate the containing capacity of the vessel it is only necessary to
elongate the hooked or curved end of the serrated wedge or wedges so as to
indicate the precise height to which the liquid should rise in order to give the
required measure
Our invention combines the united and essential advantages of utility, economy
and elegance
AN IMPROVED FROG PAD FOR HORSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Colin Campbell Baird at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1883.
COLIN CAMPBELL BAIRD, of the City of Edinburgh and County of Mid Lothian,
North Britain, "AN IMPROVED FROG PAD FOR HORSES,"
This Invention relates to an improved frog pad adapted for use in combination
with ordinary horse-shoes to prevent slipping.
The improved frog pad is formed of rubber, or rubber compounds, or of leather,
vulcanised fibre, or similar material, preferably of rectangular shape in plan, and is
adapted to fit between the heel parts or calks of the ordinary iron horse-shoe. The
upper side is made flat to fit the frog of the hoof, and the lower side is convex or
raised in the centre.
Within the pad is fitted horizontally a strip of metal, which projects on each side
in the form of lugs, and the pad is secured in its place by these projections fitting
into slits or sockets formed in the shoe, or into recesses between the hoof and
the shoe.
AN IMPROVED SCREW- PRESS APPLICABLE FOR PRESSING GRAPES AND OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th October 1883.
him from abroad by Dominique Lille, of Troncens, France
Communicated to
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "AN IMPROVED SCREW-
PRESS APPLICABLE FOR PRESSING GRAPES AND OTHER MATERIALS," & commu-
nication to me from abroad by Dominique Lille, of Troncens, France,
This invention has for its object to construct a wine press by means of which the
grapes may be pressed so as to give up the whole of their juice, while the working
of the same permits of considerable economy in manual labour.
The press chiefly comprises a press-screw on which is mounted a nut which
when screwed down along the screw, pushes the press-block downward.
Round the nut and forming one part with the same are situated a pair of
horizontal tooth wheels.
Also two pivoted arms or levers provided with two adjustable steel pins engaging
between the teeth of the wheel and capable of being placed in such manner as to
turn the tooth wheels at will either to the right or to the left. The pivoted arms
or pawl levers are adapted to gear alternately into their respective tooth wheel,
thereby causing the nut to turn and to press the grapes placed under the press-
block.
The machine is operated by means of an iron rod secured in an orifice of that
part of the press which holds the pawl-levers.
When less power is required a lever is applied to a bracket placed near the nut,
and secured to the same.
IMPROVEMENTS IN Middlesex, APPARATUS FOR CUTTING OR SLICING VEGETABLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th March 1883. A communication
to him from abroad by Ernst Barth, and Otto Spilger, persons resident at
Döbeln, in the kingdom of Saxony.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex,
APPARATUS FOR CUTTING OR SLICING VEGETABLES," a communication to me from
abroad by Ernst Barth, and Otto Spilger, persons resident at Döbeln, in the
kingdom of Saxony,
This invention consists in the application of a slide for varying the thickness of
the slices cut by the knife of the apparatus, said slide being movable to and from
the edge of the knife, so as to vary the width of the slot left between the edge of
the cutter and the slide.
Also in applying to the plate or frame of the vegetable cutter a grating in
combination with a pivoted axle placed under the grating and armed with knives,
for cutting small strips, said axle or roller being made removable and the grating
covered by a slide when not in use.
Such a removable axle armed with series of small knives may be placed under
the edge of the principal knife or cutter.
For guiding the vegetable over the cutter and pressing it against the same it
may be mounted in a movable box or frame guided right and left by grooves
applied along the frame of the apparatus. Said box is open on two sides and
contains a plate guided perpendicularly to the main frame by two grooves applied
to two opposite sides of the box.
AN IMPROVED BUCKLE OR COUPLING DEVICE FOR REINS, STRAPS AND BANDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Nicholls at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th July 1883.
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JOHN NICHOLLS of St. Buryan, Penzance in the County of Cornwall, AN
IMPROVED BUCKLE OR COUPLING DEVICE FOR REINS, STRAPS AND BANDS."
My Invention relates to a kind of buckle or coupling attachment to be used in
lieu of the ordinary buckle for straps or bands and is particularly useful for reins
and harness generally. The buckle or attachment consists essentially of a plate or
rod having at each end a loop or eye, and at the middle a fixed stud or knob
projecting at right angles to the plate or rod.
To attach the end of the rein strap or band to a ring or other object it is drawn
a sufficient distance through the staples eyes or loops of the buckle or coupling
attachment and the knob or stud is passed through a hole in the rein or strap.
The projecting end of the latter having been passed through the ring or other
object to which it is to be attached, is then doubled back through one of the eyes
and a hole near its end is again passed over the stud or knob, thus securing the
end. Or the ends of two straps to be united may be simply passed in opposite
directions through the eyes or loops of the buckle and successively hitched onto
the knob or stud.
WASTE PREVENTORS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis George Fleury at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th February 1883.
FRANCIS GEORGE FLEURY of 45 Bedford Row. W.C.
WASTE PREVENTORS
IMPROVEMENTS IN WATER
This invention has for its object improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for
the prevention of waste of water, and relates to that class of machinery in which
the action is automatic in closing. According to this invention, the general
construction consists of an outside casing, similar to an ordinary tap, with the
usual outlet having a suitable inlet for the water, and seating for valve in the inside
of the said casing. Attached to the spindle is a small ring, which holds two India-
Rubber cups, which are divided by a diaphragm having a small hole communicating
from one to the other, these cups being charged with water & fixed in their seating,
any pressure exerted on one will force the water into the other cup, which will
resume its normal condition on the pressure being removed. Hence the action of
the apparatus will be thus, on turning the handle on the spindle this will be lowered
by a screw motion or other equivalent, which will force the cup down on its
seating, this action drives the water in the lower cup into the upper, on raising the
handle the cup will be lifted off its seating and thus allow the free passage of the
water through the seating, which will be arrested by the lower cup resuming its
normal condition by the water passing through the small opening in the
diaphragm, between the India-rubber cups; thus automatically closing its outlet
to the water
AN IMPROVED COMBINED THICK COPYING AND WRITING PAPER
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederic Bardo at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th December 1883.
FREDERIC BARDO of 23 Royal Exchange in the City of London, [Manufacturing
Stationer] AN IMPROVED COMBINED THICK COPYING AND WRITING PAPER
My invention refers to the manufacture and preparation of paper, capable of
being used as an Improved Copying Paper and at the same time of being used
either before or after copying as a paper for writing or printing purposes.
My improvement consists in adding to the pulp during preparation a mixture
of zinc ferro-cyanide and zinc ferri-cyanide or mixtures of other insoluble ferro-
cyanides and ferri-cyanides, for the purpose of fixing both the ferrous and
ferric salts present in the ink to be afterwards used on or with the prepared
paper.
I vary the proportions, amounts, and character, of these mixtures of ferro-
cyanides and ferri-cyanides, according to the strength and nature of the materials
used.
The pulp is prepared, from linen, cotton and other rags, or materials as preferred
or in the ordinary manner.
During the pulping I mix with the rags, resinous soap and alum in small
quantities and at intervals.
The "Stuff" thus prepared and to which my mixture, or mixtures of insoluble
ferro-cyanides and ferri-cyanides has been added, can then be finished in the
machine or otherwise in the usual manner and can be air-dried or otherwise as
may be deemed necessary
IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOW CASES FOR SHOPS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Herbert John Haddan at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th September 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by James Albert Houston, of the State of Massachusetts,
United States of America.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOW
CASES FOR SHOPS," a communication to me from abroad by James Albert Houston,
of the State of Massachusetts, United States of America,
In shops wherein goods are sold by retail, and many persons usually congregate
at times for the purchase of such goods, it has been the custom to employ
messengers or boys, termed "cash boys," whose duty is to receive from the
salesmen money paid them for and accounts of sales, and transmit same to the
desk of the cashier, and to receive from him any change and take it to the salesman,
to be given by him to the customers. When there may be a crowd or large
number of buyers or persons in front of the counters and in the aisles of the shop,
it often becomes very difficult for the cash boys to pass along from the salesman to
the cashier and back without inconvenience both to such boys and the customers
This invention consists in providing improved cases or shelves, for holding goods
combined with bridges or galleries or overhead passage ways, by means of which
the cash boys or assistants can pass to and fro as occasion may require, without
going upon the floor amongst and inconveniencing the customers, who may be in
front of the counters, and for this purpose I combine with the cases or shelves for
holding goods on sale, one or more bridges galleries or overhead walks arranged
directly over such cases and leading from them to one or more receiving stations,
and when there may be an aisle or passage way extending between two or several
sets of such shelves or goods cases, and it may be desirable or necessary for the
messengers or cash boys to cross such aisle, I have the galleries of the sets connected
by one or more bridges, each leading from one set of cases or shelves on one side of
the aisle to another set of them on the opposite side of such aisle. I construct the
improved cases of angle and T iron frames and supports with wooden shelves or
shut up boxes for goods, and wooden planking to the bridges, galleries, or passage
ways.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING RAILS IN THEIR CHAIRS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Ayton and Ernest Frederick
Ayton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th March
1883.
HENRY AYTON of Seaton Delaval, and ERNEST FREDERICK AYTON of
Heddon-on-the Wall in the County of Northumberland, Mining Engineers,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING RAILS IN THEIR CHAIRS
"
Our invention relates to certain improved appliances for fixing and securing
rails in their chairs, applicable to any rails carried in chairs, and secured therein
by keys, and to any form of chairs now in ordinary use without alteration, or to
chairs which may in some cases be specially designed.
and
As applied to ordinary chairs it consists of a plate of iron, steel or other suitable
metal inserted and fixed between the jaw of the chair (by overlapping ends)
and the rail, having one or more serrated grooves or teeth (preferably vertical
7 shaped) formed in its outer face; its back resting against the jaw
of the chair so that when the wooden key or wedge is driven in, the teeth will
penetrate and fix it firmly between the rail and the plate preventing it from
working back by vibration, or any other cause, and allowing it to be further
driven in, if necessary. A certain elasticity may be given to the toothed plate by
curving it slightly from the chair when desirable.
.
As a modification of our invention, in cases where chairs can be conveniently so
constructed, we form the serrated grooves or teeth in the inner face of the jaw
of the chair itself, thus dispensing with the toothed plate between the chair and
the rail.
In exceptional and very special cases, where metallic keys or wedges may be
used, we form the serrated grooves or teeth in the key itself and fit the jaw of the
chair with hard wood or other suitable substance into which the teeth will
penetrate.
The key or wedge can be driven in from either end of the chair as may be
most convenient by turning the plate and can be driven out when absolutely
necessary.
Our invention, in any of the forms of application described, involves no
special skill on the part of platelayers and, as first described, can be applied,
without alteration to existing chairs and rails.
IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINES FOR CORKING BOTTLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Johann Jacob Hermann Schultz at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd October 1883.
JOHANN JACOB HERMANN SCHULTZ of Hamburg. Germany. Engineer. " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINES FOR CORKING BOTTLES
"
This Invention relates to improvements in corking machines, and the object of
my improvements is the application of cork compressors with convergently arranged
compressing jaws.
The cork compressor is composed of two loose jaws; which are connected with
the slide piece of the machine and therefrom receive a reciprocating motion. Both
jaws being sliding at guides converging towards the front of the machine compress
the cork, to which the advancing motion of the one jaw is communicated by an
arm or projection attached to the jaw, until the cork is pushed by well known
mechanisiu into the neck of the bottle.
Three compressing jaws may be used, which when arranged in such a manner as
to form an equilateral triangle and to approach each other in equal proportions,
w lien one of the jaws is pushed towards the opposite angle, will compress the cork
from three equally distant points towards its centre.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SURFACING LITHOGRAPHIC STONES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Cochrane at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 18th April 1883.
GEORGE COCHRANE, of Edinburgh, in the County of Mid Lothian, North
Britain, Engraver, "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SURFACING LITHOGRAPHIC
STONES
33
This Invention has for its object to improve the construction and action of
machines for surfacing lithographic stones, and it consists principally in imparting
to the stone and to the plate upon which it is surfaced an improved combination of
motions whereby truer surfaces are imparted to the stone even after considerable
use of the machine.
The machine is made with the usual circular horizontal table of castiron which
is fixed on a vertical shaft held in bearings in a suitable frame, but the gearing by
which the table is turned is proportioned so as to give a comparatively slow
movement to the table. The parts for moving the stone are such as, without
angular rotation, to carry the various parts of it through oval or circular paths.
The stone is placed between holding pieces secured to the underside of a longitudinal
bar on which a cross bar is formed or fixed; and one end of the longitudinal bar
is jointed to a horizontally vibrating lever set on a fixed centre, whilst the other
end is jointed to a crank on the upper end of a rotating shaft carried vertically in
bearings on the framing. The rotating crank shaft imparts a comparatively rapid
non-angular ovoid or circular motion to the stone, whilst there is a continuous
slow change beneath the stone of the parts of the table on which it rests such
Whilst the
change being caused by the comparatively slow rotation of the table.
parts are moving as described sand and water are supplied in the ordinary way;
and an annular gutter is provided to receive the materials passing over the edge of
the table.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAST METAL WHEELS FOR WAGGONS TRUCKS TROLLIES AND OTHER PURPOSES AND IN THE METHOD OF CHILLING CERTAIN PARTS OF THE SAID WHEELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Robert Hill Hyde at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th June 1883.
ROBERT HILL HYDE of The Midland Iron Works, New Mills in the County of
Derby Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CAST METAL WHEELS
FOR WAGGONS TRUCKS TROLLIES AND OTHER PURPOSES AND IN THE METHOD OF
CHILLING CERTAIN PARTS OF THE SAID WHEELS 33
This invention relates to an improved manufacture of cast iron wheels for
waggons trucks trollies and other similar vehicles and for use in machinery for
various purposes and consists in the manufacture of cast iron waggon or other
wheels chilled both on the rim and on the boss.
According to my improved method of chilling whereby I chill the rim and boss
of the wheel at the same time I cast the rim and boss in suitable chills and then
remove the top box or boxes and clear the centre and arms round the boss so that
the latter will cool at the same time as the rim which containing more metal will
keep hotter but of course cools along with the other portions of the wheel. The
pattern is so designed that the whole casting shall contract together thereby
obviating the necessity for splitting the bosses as heretofore which split bosses had
to be made good by the subsequent application of wrough iron hoops or rings
round them. By chilling the rims I am also enabled to dispense with the necessity
for placing steel tyres round them the process of chilling rendering the rims and
bosses much harder and more durable than in ordinary cast iron wheels whilst
considerably reducing the cost of manufacture of this class of wheel.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WINDING OF THREAD ON THE SHUTTLE BOBBINS OR SPOOLS OF SEWING MACHINES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SHUTTLES IN WHICH THE SAID BOBBINS ARE EMPLOYED
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James M° Hardy at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 11th April 1883.
JAMES MO HARDY, of Dollar, in the County of Clackmannan, North Britain,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WINDING OF THREAD ON THE SHUTTLE BOBBINS OR
SPOOLS OF SEWING MACHINES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SHUTTLES IN WHICH
THE SAID BOBBINS ARE EMPLOYED,"
This Invention which relates to Improvements in the winding of thread on to
the bobbins or spools used in the shuttles of sewing machines and in the construction
of the said shuttle so as to enable the improvements in winding the bobbins or
spools to be effected has for its principle object to enable the bobbins or spools
when empty to be rewound or refilled with thread without the necessity of
removing the said spools or bobbins from the shuttles.
This object is effected by causing the bobbins to rotate within the shuttles or the
shuttles to rotate around the bobbins.-For this purpose the spools or bobbins may
be made with a long journal or bearing projecting through one end of the shuttle
and so shaped that the bearing can be coupled to a rapidly rotating shaft whereby
the bobbin is revolved whilst the shuttle remains stationary or vice versa the
bobbin may be held stationary by a fixed coupling whilst the shuttle is rotated by
any suitable rotatory gearing.-In either case the thread to be wound on the
bobbin may be guided by a finger or traveller to ensure its being evenly laid
thereon, and in order to wind the thread on the bobbins of existing shuttles which
do not admit of one of the bearings of the bobbin or spool passing through the end
of the shuttle, the bobbin is in such case rotated within the shuttle by frictional
gearing
Another improvement in the construction of the shuttle consists in dispensing
with the ordinary drag holes which pass through the walls of the shuttle and
substituting therefor a slot which may be at either side of the shuttle and of a
quadrantal form the thread being led from the slot to and through one or more
drag holes distinguished from those ordinarily in use by not passing through the
walls of the shuttle but passing through holes which are confined to the exterior of
the shuttle.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd October 1883, a
communication from Friedrich Seidel, of Grund, near Bodenbach, in the
Empire of Germany,
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 THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS,"
communication from Friedrich Seidel, of Grund, near Bodenbach, in the Empire of
Germany,
a
This invention relates to the manufacture of buttons of china, ironstone, majolica,
or clay.
For this purpose clay or material when moist is pressed into moulds and then
turned on one or both sides. After which the holes of the buttons are drilled or
stamped out according to the shape of the botton.
For producing very thin buttons the clay is cast in moulds in such manner that
the holes are formed at the same time.
After the buttons have been turned and provided with holes they are left to dry
and then painted, bronzed, glazed or coated with suitable varnish after which the
buttons are baked or treated in a furnace.