Improvement in Dattery
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvement in Dattery
I, HENRY BLUMENBERG, JR., residing at corner of White Plains Road and De
Milt Avenue, Wakefield, in the Borough of Broux, in the County and State of
New York, United States of America, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improvement in battery solutions, and according to the
same I make use of a chlorate of an alkali or alkaline earth together with a bisulphate
of an alkali or alkaline earth. I prefer to make use of a chlorate of soda and a
bi-sulphate of soda in about equal proportions mixed with water and introduced into
the cell of the primary battery.
I find that an electrolytic solution formed of the aforesaid materials is more
constant in use and more durable than the battery solutions heretofore employed,
that the zinc is not so rapidly consumed, and that the current is more intense
and continuous than could heretofore be obtained from a battery of the same
size.
I do not however limit myself to the proportions of chlorate and bi-sulphate of
alkali or alkaline earths made use of, but I find that about one pound of chlorate of
soda and one pound of bi-sulphate of soda dissolved in three quarts of water form a
reliable electrolyte for a primary battery.
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I, HENRY BLUMENBERG, JR., residing at corner of White Plains Road and De Milt
Avenue, Wakefield, in the Borough of Broux, in the County and State of New
York, United States of America, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
In the present instance I make use of a chlorate of an alkali or alkaline earth,
I prefer to make use
together with a bi-sulphate of an alkali or alkaline earth.
of a chlorate of soda and a bi-sulphate of soda in about equal proportions mixed
with water and introduced into the cell of the primary battery; and I find that
an electrolytic solution formed of the aforesaid materials is more constant in use

page_text: and more durable than the battery solutions heretofore employed, and the zinc is
not so rapidly consumed and the current is more intense and continuous than
could heretofore be obtained from a battery of the same size. These materials
can be mixed dry in the proper proportions and put up in packages to form a
charge for one cell.
I do not limit myself to the proportions of chlorate and bi-sulphate of alkali
or alkaline earths made use of, but I find that about one pound of chlorate of soda and
one pound of bi-sulphate of soda dissolved in three quarts of water form a reliable
electrolyte for a primary battery.
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:
First. The battery solution herein described, consisting of a chlorate of an alkali
or alkaline earth, and a bi-sulphate of an alkali or alkaline earth in approximately
equal proportions and mixed with water, substantially as set forth.
Second. An electrolyte for a primary battery composed of chlorate of soda and
bi-sulphate of soda in about equal proportions mixed with water, substantially as
specified.
ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent, 78, Fleet Street London,
and 5ª, Market Street, Nottingham, Agent for the Applicant.