Abraham Ripley
1852 Patent to Abraham Ripley, of Philidelphia-terrace, Westminster-road, in the county of Surrey, Engineer, for the invention of improvements in axles for railway wheels.
1853 Patent to Arthur Wellington Callen, of Peckham, in the county of Surrey, Gentleman, and Abraham Ripley, of Westminster-road, in the county of Surrey, Engineer, in respect of the invention of " an improvement in the modes of giving and transmitting multiplying rotative motion to shafts and other revolving bodies."[1]
1859 Patent to Abraham Ripley, of 21, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London, county of Middlesex, Engineer, and John Roberts, of Nelson-square, Bermondsey, county of Surrey, Engineer, for the invention of "improvements in machinery for striking or scraping leather and tanned or untanned hides."[2]
1860 Patent to Abraham Ripley, of 42, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, city of London, Engineer, for the invention of " improvements in the mode and process of treating the shavings, parings, and refuse of hides and leather, and also in the process and mode of treating or operating upon these and waste leather in order to produce a new article or fabric.[3]
1862 He was of Brook-street., Lambeth, and had invented a method for causing the rings forming the metallic packing of steam pistons to expand and press against the sides of the cylinder, so as to render it steam tight.
1863 Patent to Abraham Ripley, of Brook-street, West-square, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, Engineer, in respect of the invention of "improvements in the construction of pistons for steam engines, which improvements are also applicable to air and liquid pumps"[4]