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Patent GB-189911447-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Cables.
Inventor: HEYL-DIA GEORGE EDWARD
Filed: 1899-06-01
Granted: 1900-04-21
Abstract: 11,447. Heyl-Dia, G. E. June 1. Insulating-compositions.-Conductors are insulated with strips of paper such as described in Specification No. 2610, A.D. 1899, or paper saturated with oxidized oil. The strips are put on by ordinary methods. Layers of india-rubber, gutta-percha, pitch, &c., vulcanized or unvulcanized, may be employed between some of the layers of paper. A metal sheath may also be employed.
Patent GB-189912064-A (GB)
Title: Improved Machine for Printing Numbers, Letters, or the like.
Inventor: BROWN WILLIAM
Filed: 1899-06-09
Granted: 1900-06-09
Abstract: 12,064. Brown, W. June 9. Numbering-apparatus; platen presses; printing on tickets.-Fig. 3 shows four sets of numbering or printing apparatus for printing a strip of paper on an impression cylinder 2. Each numbering or sign-printing apparatus consists of a set of chains 4 arranged on wheels 5, 7, so that each chain may be set by hand to bring the link 23 having the required number or sign thereon into printing position. The wheels 5 are mounted on sliding bars to which are pivoted bars or links carrying the wheels 7. These links are operated to move the sets of chains away from and to the cylinder 2, by means of a yoke operated by a hand or other lever. The yoke has a rack which operates through ratchet mechanism to feed the cylinder 2 and paper intermittently. The tickets &c. are cut off by a guillotine knife. Spring - pressed rollers 8 hold the wheels 7 and chains in their adjusted positions. The types are inked, when the chains rise from the cylinder 2, by pivoted pads pressed inwardly by springs on the types.
Patent GB-189923287-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Producing High Vacua.
Filed: 1899-11-22
Granted: 1900-02-03
Abstract: 23,287. British Thomson-Houston Co., [Howell, J. W.]. Nov. 22. Exhausting. - Phosphoretted hydrogen is admitted to incandescent electric lamp bulbs and other vessels after a preliminary exhaustion, in order to decompose or mix with the residual or occluded gases and facilitate their removal.
Patent GB-189923689-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Appliances for Drying Roofing Tiles, Bricks, and the like.
Inventor: NEFKENS LEO
Filed: 1899-11-28
Granted: 1900-01-27
Abstract: 23,689. Nefkens, L. Nov. 28. Bricks; roofing-tiles.-The roof of a chamber for drying roofing-tiles, bricks, and the like is shown in Fig. 1. Heating-pipes are placed beneath the perforated floor of the drying-chamber a, in which the bricks &c. are placed. The desk-roof shown is made with an insulating-space i, and rests on a gable-stone or brick d, which is formed with a central cavity g containing insulating material, and with a projection containing perforations f, through which the heated air escapes underneath the projecting boarding k. A saddle-shaped roof is similarly made, and is provided with a gable stone or brick having two perforated projections.
Patent GB-189924328-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Carburettors for Motors.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1899-12-06
Granted: 1900-02-03
Abstract: 24,328. Boult, A. J., [Longuemare, A.]. Dec. 6. Gas or explosive-vapour engines, carburetting in. Heavy and crude petroleum can be used in the apparatus. The oil issues from the valve G, and mixes with air entering through the pipe E. The mixture is heated by contact with the walls A of the chamber and the ribs T, which are heated by the passage of the exhaust from the pipe P through the passages 0 and C to the orifices W. The mixing is controlled by a valve H surmounted by a perforated plate and described in Specification No. 16,080, A.D. 1899. At starting, the apparatus is heated by a lamp the hot gases from which enter at W and escape at X.
Patent GB-189924954-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of Blue Mordant Dyestuffs of the Anthraquinone Series.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1899-12-15
Granted: 1900-11-24
Abstract: 24,954. Imray, O., [Farbwerke vorm. Meister, Lucius, & Br³ning]. Dec. 15. Dyes, artificial.-Blue mordant dye-stuffs similar to anthracene blue are produced by heating the sulphonic acids obtained as described in the Specification of the German Patent No. 6526 by the action of fuming sulphuric acid upon dinitroanthraquinone or its products of reduction, with aqueous alkalies or alkaline earths, with or without the addition of an oxidizing-agent, such as potassium nitrate, and under pressure or not, until a test portion of the insoluble lime-lake produced yields, when decomposed with hydrochloric acid, the insoluble dye-stuff. In this process sulphonic groups are eliminated, and amido groups are substituted by hydroxy groups. The lime-lake is then washed and boiled with dilute hydrochloric acid, and the hexahydroxyanthraquinones separated are filtered, washed free of undecomposed sulphonic acids, and dissolved in dilute sodiumcarbonate solution, or washed with sulphuric acid.
Patent GB-190003812-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotary Kilns.
Inventor: CARMAN CHARLES LEWIS
Filed: 1900-02-27
Granted: 1900-06-30
Abstract: 3812. Carman, C. L. Feb. 27. Rotary furnaces or kilns for calcining cement &c. Relates to discharge fittings which will prevent the entry of air into a furnace or kiln consisting of an inclined rotating cylinder. At suitable intervals around the periphery of the cylinder at its lower end are arranged a number of pockets D', one of which is shown, provided with oppositely-hinged doors at top and bottom. These doors carry rollers which run on guides E, E<1> as the cylinder revolves in the direction of the arrow. As each door arrives at the gap E<1> it drops open, the top one being closed again before the bottom one opens. The material thus falls first into the pocket D<1>, and is afterwards discharged therefrom through the gap E<2>, while, as both doors are never open at the same time, no air can enter.
Patent GB-190006222-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Hoisting Apparatus.
Inventor: EDWARDS EDMUND
Filed: 1900-04-03
Granted: 1900-05-05
Abstract: 6222. Edwards, E., [Pedrick and Ayer Co.]. April 3. Hoists.-Lifting is effected by a pneumatic cylinder and piston A, B, to opposite ends of which air is supplied under pressure by a pipe a. This pipe joins a pipe b, connecting the cylinder ends, in which a threeway cook c is placed. When this cock is in the position shown, the lower end of the cylinder is open to pressure, and the upper end to exhaust o, and lifting is thus effected. When the cylinder ends are open to each other, but closed to exhaust, the piston descends, owing to the greater pressure on the larger upper surface. Should a suspended load begin to descend prematurely, owing to air leaking past the cylinder, a relief valve s is raised and opened by the end f of a lever v attached to a friction collar z.
Patent GB-190012279-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furniture Castors.
Inventor: MASON GEORGE
Filed: 1900-07-07
Granted: 1900-11-03
Abstract: 12,279. Mason, G. July 7. Castors.-Relates to means for connecting the horn to the pin and fixing the whole to a chair leg &c. The pin is made with a nicked head 12 and a plain cylindrical part. On this plain part is placed a sleeve 13, the lower serrated edge of which is pressed into a groove 14. The sleeve may be fixed to the plain part by a cross-pin. After the pin with its sleeve is put through the hole in the horn, a bulbous washer 19, with cut-away parts 20 corresponding to projections 18 on the sleeve 13, is threaded on the pin ; the projections 18 are now turned down by a suitable tool, and the screw 11 is engaged with the leg.
Patent GB-190014230-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Combined Pocket-knife and Nail-cutter or Trimmer.
Inventor: SCHMIDT JACOB ALBERT
Filed: 1900-08-08
Granted: 1900-09-08
Abstract: 14,230. Schmidt, J. A. Aug. 8. Nail files, cutters, and cleaners.-A pocket knife A is provided with a pair of self-opening nailcutting jaws C, and with a cam lever D for closing them, the underside of which is roughened as a file and the end d formed as a cleaner. A sliding catch E on the knife handle holds the lever when shut down.
Patent GB-190016233-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Tiles, Slabs, Panels and the like adapted for Paving Roads and other Surfaces Laying Gutters and for other purposes, and in the employment thereof.
Inventor: METZ ARTHUR
Filed: 1900-09-12
Granted: 1901-07-13
Abstract: 16,233. Metz, A. Sept. 12. Paving - blocks ; slabs ; tiles. - Relates to improvements on the invention described in Specification No. 10,841, A.D. 1896. A non - slipping pavement &c. is made of tiles, slabs, panels, and the like made of blocks of granite &c. p embedded in a layer of asphalt or cement b. The tiles &c. are fcrmed in a mould which may be cooled by a current of air and has sides which may be collapsed or taken to pieces. The tiles &c. may be made in the form of gutters for laying along foot-pavements.
Patent GB-190016514-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Anchors
Inventor: BAXTER ARTHUR WILLIAM
Filed: 1900-09-17
Granted: 1901-08-03
Abstract: 16,514. Baxter A. W., and Baxter, C. Sept. 17. Anchors.-The arms or flukes are made in one with the crown, which has at its centre a pair of lugs B. Between these lugs are pivoted two shanks C, which are pivoted at their other ends to a pair of plates or links E. The cable shackle G is pivoted between these plates or links. In this construction, no matter how the anchor falls, the pull of the cable throws the arms over into the holding position.
Patent GB-190017948-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Celluloid
Inventor: ZUEHL ERNST
Filed: 1900-10-09
Granted: 1901-07-20
Abstract: 17,948. Z³hl, E. Oct. 9. Celluloid and like compositions.-Camphor is replaced by esters of phenols, or of substituted derivatives of phenols, with aliphatic acids such as formic, tartaric, and citric acids. As examples, nitro-cellulose may be mixed with half its weight of either naphthol propionic ester, diphenyl-carbonate, dinaphthyl-carbonate, resorcin-diacetate, chlornaphthyl-acetate, or nitronaphthyl-acetate.
Patent GB-190022505-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Game Apparatus or Toy
Inventor: JAMES GEORGE RICHARD
Filed: 1900-12-11
Granted: 1901-10-26
Abstract: 22,505. James, G. R. Dec. 11. Race games.-Relates to a race game in which longitudinal strips are given a sharp reciprocating movement so as to cause figures or counters placed thereon to travel forwards. In the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the strips F, mounted in a casing A, B, are drawn towards the end A by springs p encircling pins d, e, the former being carried by the strips, and the latter being fixed to a cross-piece and projecting through slots in the strips. The strips are reciprocated by a series of handles H, which actuate ratchet-wheels W engaging projections on the underside of the strips. The strips bear against a cam-shaped bar R, which can be rotated to adjust the extent of their reciprocation. The strips may ba actuated by other means, for instance by means of finger-pieces fixed to them, or may be simultaneously reciprocated by pinions carried on a shaft actuated by a single handle. The bar R is sometimes dispensed with.
Patent GB-190100077-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Spring Air Guns.
Inventor: MARKHAM WILLIAM FILMORE
Filed: 1901-01-01
Granted: 1901-03-09
Abstract: 77. Markham, W. r. Jan. 1. Toy guns.-The object is to construct spring air guns so that the parts can be readily disassembled for packing. Fig. 1 shows, to a small scale, the three main parts A, B, C ready for packing, and Figs. 2 and 3 show, in section, to a larger scale, the part B and portions of the parts A, B. The barrel part C consists of an outer casing in which the barrel proper Q is supported by the plug S and washer T, and the barrel part C is connected to the spring-barrel part B by a bayonet joint U, V. The stock part A is connected by a pivot pin M to the spring-barrel part B, and by a pin P to the link 0 from the piston-rod G. When the stock part A is broken down about the pivot M, the link O draws back the piston-rod G into engagement with the trigger N, and compresses the spring I. The release of the piston-rod, by pulling the trigger, causes the spring I to carry the piston F forward, thus expelling the air in front, and so propelling the bullet from the gun.
Patent GB-190101167-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Meters
Inventor: MATHIESEN WILHELM AUGUST RASMU
Filed: 1901-01-17
Granted: 1901-03-23
Abstract: 1167. Mathiesen, W. A. R. Jan. 17. Motor meters.-In order to render frictional resistances more uniform, the moving parts of a meter are enclosed in a casing, which contains a light non-oxidizing gas, or preferably is exhausted. The casing may be wholly of metal, with soldered joints, or wholly of glass, with fused or cemented joints, or may be made, as shown in Fig. 2, of glass and metal parts a', a<2> fitted together and also connected by cement. With a metal casing the counter is placed outside it, and driven magnetically. The counter may be separately enclosed. The main current field coils k, k<1>, and optionally also the brake magnets h, h', are placed outside the casing. Connection is made with the armature by platinum wires i fused in the glass. The armature shaft may be supported for transport by a lever o movable by a screw having an iron crosshead p, which can be turned by an external magnet. The casing is exhausted through a box containing a loose cup-shaped valve u, resting on a ring of solder ; the box is then heated until the valve sinks into the solder, sealing the casing. The lower part of the glass a<1>, the metal plate a', aud the valve box are embedded in fusible cement in a metal base w and cap y. When the lower part of the casmg is of glass, it is made with an annular channel to receive the upper part and cement for connecting the parts, the surfaces of which are roughened ; the mechanism is supported on felt padding in the lower part.
Patent GB-190103658-A (GB)
Title: A Hinge-joint for Tubes and Rods.
Inventor: HORSWILL JOHN
Filed: 1901-02-20
Granted: 1901-06-15
Abstract: 3658. Horswill, J. Feb. 20. Hingejoints.-A hinge joint for tubes and rods, particularly applicable to cycle handle-bars and the like, is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The plugs bare fitted into the tubes a, and have a jaw c and a tongue d to form a hinge upon the pin e. The screwed splint or sleeve f keeps the joint rigid, and when unscrewed to uncover one plug b, the joint becomes a hinge, so that the tube or bar may be folded. For cycle handle-bars two joints are used.
Patent GB-190106347-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Regulating Steam Turbines.
Inventor: SCHULZ RICHARD
Filed: 1901-03-26
Granted: 1902-01-02
Abstract: 6347. Schulz, R. March 26. Steam turbines.-Relates to regulating-devices for adjusting the steam supply to axially or radially arranged turbines proportionately to t h e power required. A parallel-flow turbine has a number of turbine wheels 3, Fig. 1, the vanes of which move between fixed vanes on the casing 6. Steam is admitted to each wheel through a ring 8 acting as an admission valve and through an annulus of guide-vanes in the discs 7. A developed view of a quadrant of a ring valve 8, Fig. 4, and disc 7 shows that the apertures 8<a> in the valve are of gradually increasing size, while those between the guidevanes are of equal size, so that relative movement of these parts causes a gradual closing of the apertures between the guide-vanes, and a consequent cutting off of the steam. This movement is produced by means of a hand or governor actuated lever 12 on a rocking shaft 11, which has toothed sectors engaging with teeth on the ring valves 8. An independent movement of the guidevane discs is effected by a nut on a screwed spindle 16, Fig. 3, connected to each disc 7. The valve rings and discs may have correspondingly-arranged segmental openings, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7. As adapted for an outward-flow compound turbine, the turbine wheels 3, Fig. 9, are fitted with annular slides or valves 8 and guide-vane rings 7, similar to those described above. The adjustments are made by means of a lever 21 connected by a bir 22 to three rocking spindles 17, which have sectors gearing with teeth on the slides, and the guide-vane rings have independent adjusting-levers 27.
Patent GB-190107986-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Upward Flow Pulp Strainers.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1901-04-18
Granted: 1901-05-25
Abstract: 7986. Thompson, W. P., [Woge, A.]. April 18. Strainers.-Relates to strainers in which the pulp flows upwards through the strainer plates p. The pulp is forced through the plates, and the apertures in the latter are freed from lumps by perforated plates t, which are carried by an oscillating shaft w and are caused alternately to approach and recede from the strainer plates. The shaft w is operated by a crank, connecting-rod, and lever as shown, the crank shaft being driven through cone pulleys &c. so that its speed may be regulated. The pulp passes to the strainer Vat k from the sand trap s and through a vessel v and pipe r, the height of the pulp in the vessel v being preferably at least as high as the strainer plates, so that the pulp shall have a tendency to flow through them. The pulp may pass directly from the strainer to the paper machine.
Patent GB-190108804-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spindles for use in Spinning, and Twisting Threads or Yarn.
Inventor: GIHON WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-04-29
Granted: 1902-01-30
Abstract: 8804. Gihon, W. April 29. Spindle apparatus for spinning, spooling, and twisting yarns and threads. The spindle 17 is mounted to rotate in two sets of ball bearings, the races 29, 23 of which are mounted loosely round the spindle, are pressed apart by a spiral spring 38, and are connected together by a pin - and - slot arrangement 37, 36. The block in which the lower r a c e is formed rests upon an internal projection 10 in the casing A, which is screwed into the support B and filled with oil. The spindle carries two cones 27, 19, which engage respectively with the lower and upper set of balls, and are capable of a slight longitudinal movement on the spindle. The upper cone 19 is also pressed downwards by a spring 22, which extends upwards into a recess in the wharve 14. The race blocks are prevented from rotating with the spindle by a pin 34. The wharve extends downwards into a recess in the upper part of the casing A, is secured to the spindle in any usual manner, and at its upper part is provided with longitudinal grooves whereby spring tongues 16 are formed for holding the bobbin in position on the spindle.
Patent GB-190116663-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Deep Boring Machines.
Inventor: PETIT VICTOR
Filed: 1901-08-19
Granted: 1901-11-09
Abstract: 16,663. Petit, V. Aug. 19. Deep-boring, percussive. The sleeve 6, which is driven by a friction clutch from the main shaft 4, has eccentric collars 8, 9, 11 working in the eccentrically - cored drum 17 so as to give it a reciprocating motion for jumping the tools. To raise or lower the tools, the drum is connected to the sleeve by the projection 10 on the collar 12 sliding on its squared end so that the drum then revolves with the shaft 4. The friction clutch consists of a band 51 surrounding a flange on the sleeve 6 ; one end of the band is fixed to an arm 49 keyed on the shaft 4, and the other end is tightened by a cord 54 connected to the lever 57 pivoted in the arm 49 and worked through the link 59, sliding collar 60, and bell crank 61. This crank 61 is pivoted on a bracket 64 fixed to the frame 1 and having a collar surrounding the shaft 4 to keep it in place. The ends of the hoisting-rope 42 are wound on the drum, which may be provided with a brake. The chain 28, by which the tools are suspended when working, is held between two wheels 19, 23, to which two worm-wheels 18, 22 are fixed. The wheels 18, 19 are mounted on the central thickened part of the drum 17, and the wheels 22, 23 are carried above them by a frame 21, which is loaded by adjustable weights 33 or by springs 70 to counterbalance the rods. The two pairs of wheels reciprocate with the drum, and a worm 23 lying between the worm-wheels 18, 22 and worked by a hand-wheel 27 enables the chain to be paid out for the feed. The load of the weights 33 or the springs 70 is applied or released by a screw spindle and hand-nut 38 or 76. The springs 70, of which there may be one or more tiers, are held by bosses on loose plates lying in a cylinder 67 attached to the framework 1 of the machine.
Patent GB-190116903-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hop Drying Boxes.
Inventor: WOLFARD ARCHIE GROVER
Filed: 1901-08-22
Granted: 1901-11-23
Abstract: 16,903. Wolfard, A. G. Aug. 22. Drying hops.-An invertible box for use in drying hops, shown in plan in Fig. 1 and in transverse section in Fig. 3, consists of a rectangular frame with side and end crossed braces 1 and 2 and covered with sackcloth, wire netting, or the like. Double tapes 4, having finger-loops 5, are attached to the uprights, and the box is divided into two compartments by horizontal wire braces 6, 9, and 10. The box has a removable top and bottom, each adapted to rest on flanges 3 and consisting of a frame 11 having on one side plates 12 with studs 13 to enter sockets in plates 14 secured to the box. The other side of the lid frame has slots 15 in which are pivoted handled cams 16 adapted to enter slots 17 in plates 18 secured to the box. The netting on the underside of the lid frame is stretched tightly by a curved brace 19. In a modification, the studs 13 and cams 16 are replaced by spring-pressed bevelled bolts connected in pairs by rods or wires which serve to withdraw the bolts and form handles.
Patent GB-190117661-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Construction of Fire Proof Walls Partitions and the like
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
Filed: 1901-09-03
Granted: 1901-11-02
Abstract: 17,661. Newton, P. A., [New Jersey Wire Cloth Co.]. Sept. 3. Walls; partitions; ceilings.-A fireproof wall, partition, or the like consists of two sheets D of perforated or expanded sheet metal, or woven or netted wire lathing having interwoven rods 11, and separated by upright studs C preferably of angle - iron and having bent ends. The space between the sheets is filled with plastic concrete or similar coarse fireproof material, which is forced through the meshes of one sheet. A number of bars E, preferably each made in two adjustable pieces held together by bands 13 and supported by struts F, hold boards G, against one sheet D, whilst the concrete &c. is being forced in from an adjustable table H, which may be held in position by hooks 3, and hinged struts 4. The boards G are subsequently removed, and one or both sides of the partition coated with plaster. In a modification, a single reticulated partition is used, the concrete being forced between it and removable boards. The recticulated partition is prevented from bending by vertical supporting- rods, wedge-shaped projections on some of the boards, and wire ties passing round these projections, and may be made in two sections connected by horizontal rods and wire ties. The vertical supporting-rods are bent at the bottom for attachment to the floor, and at the top have hooks to engage the lathing of the ceiling, which may consist of rods extending from beam to beam, and supporting reticulated metal to which the plastic material is applied.
Patent GB-190117978-A (GB)
Title: Improved Surface-apparatus for Heating, Drying, Superheating, Condensing, or Cooling Gases, Vapours, or Liquids.
Inventor: HEIZMANN JULES
Filed: 1901-09-09
Granted: 1901-12-07
Abstract: 17,978. Heizmann, J. Sept. 9. Superheaters, steam.-Relates to surface apparatus for superheating &c. Two flat metal plates a, Fig. 3, are arranged parallel to one another, and are connected with inlet and outlet pipes e, f, and are traversed by a number of hollow rivets or abort flanged tubes b arranged in rows. In a slightly modified form, the apparatus is made mainly in one piece, and is traversed and stiffened by tubes and steel bolts as in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 3.