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Patent GB-190022523-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Automatically Changing Shuttles in Looms on Failure of Weft.
Inventor: SMITH ALFRED
Filed: 1900-12-11
Granted: 1901-12-11
Abstract: 22,523. Smith, A., and Jackson, S. Dec. 11. Loom shuttle-changing mechanism.-The shuttle magazine is formed in two parts g, k, respectively secured to the framework, and a swinging lever l, which transfers the full shuttles h to the shuttle box, on failure or breakage of weft. The lever l is actuated by means of a tappet 7, levers 3, 5, and a rod 4. Fingers s are pivoted to the part g, for normally supporting all the shuttles except the lowest ; during the transfer of a full shuttle by the lever l, the shuttles in the magazine are supported by a plate w carried by swinging arms u, mounted on the part g. The swell of the shuttle box is formed in two parts, pivoted to each other, and forced together by means of a rod 15, encircled by a coiled spring 16. When a shuttle is being changed, the pin 15 is forced inwards by a lever 21, actuated by means of a rod 20, lever 19, and tappet 17, causing the part 12 to eject the partiallyexhausted shuttle. The shuttle-box front 22 is mounted upon a crosshead 26, which is raised by a rod 32, actuated by means of a tappet 27, for the purpose of allowing the shuttle to be ejected. The handle 34 of the loom is held in its operative position by means of a stud 46 on a lever 45, connected to a lever mounted on the shaft 49, which carries a lever 40, supporting a roller 39 resting against a tappet 38. The weft fork is secured in the ordinary way to a slide 51, carrying a horizontally-sliding plate provided with a shoulder 59, which is in contact with a finger 60 while the loom is running ; this finger is carried by a shaft 80. When the weft fails, the slide 51 is moved back in the usual manner, and the handle is released so as to throw the belt on to the loose pulley. A pinion 61 on this pulley drives a wheel 63, which is mounted loosely upon a sleeve loosely mounted on the shaft e, and carries a ring formed with notches 65. A spring-controlled lever 74 is connected by an arrangement of links and levers 76, 78, 79 to the shaft 80, and is adapted to force a sliding-piece 72 into engagement with the notches 65, on failure of weft. When thus engaged, the sleeve rotates, and the series of tappets 7, 17, 27. and 38, secured thereto, actuate the lever l, lever 21, cross head 26, and handle 34 respectively. This actuation of the handle results in the re-starting of the loom, the usual motions of which are stopped during the operations of changing the shuttles. The wheel 63 is of the kind described in Specification No. 8066, A.D. 1896.
Patent GB-190100906-A (GB)
Title: Improved Automatic Gas-lighting Apparatus Operated by Gas Pressure.
Inventor: SEFTON-JONES HERBERT
Filed: 1901-01-14
Granted: 1901-11-16
Abstract: 906. Sefton - Jones, H., [Fader, C.]. Jan. 14. Ball or float valves; actuating valves.-Relates to appliances by which street and other lamps are automatically ignited and extinguished by varying the pressure of the gas in the mains. In the form shown lin Fig. 1, an incandescent burner F is secured to the top C of a cylinder A, provided with a gas-supply pipe B and with a cylinder d depending from the tup C. A pilot tube H connects the cylinder with a suitable igniting-device J. The cylinder is partially filled with glycerine, the quantity of which is regulated by an adjustable overflow pipe Q. A rod o, formed with a ball r adapted to engage valve seats s, t and with a tapered stem q adapted to regulate the amount of gas passing to the burner F when the valve is open, is normally pressed into the position shown, by a float M. Another float N supports a rod v carrying a ball w adapted to close, when in the position shown, a valve seat x in the pilot tube H. The appliance operates as follows :-At the normal day pressure of the gas, the liquid is depressed in the cylinder d to the position II. In the evening, the maximum gas pressure is put on for a short time, depressing the liquid to position III and causing the valve x to open and the ball r to engage the valve seat t. The gas passing up the tube H thus becomes ignited by the device J. The gas pressure is next reduced to the normal evening pressure, when the liquid rises to position IV, and first opens the valve t and then closes the valve x after the burner F is lit. In a modification shown in Fig. 2, the device J is dispensed with, the tube H passing through the burner F, and the seat t is dispensed with and the ball r replaced by a conical-topped cylinder z. The rod v carries a ball w placed above the valve x. In this form the valve x is open in the daytime, and the gas is kept alight. On increasing the pressure, the valve s opens and the burner is lighted by the tube H. The valve x is then closed. A reduction of pressure reverses the process. In both forms suitable stops u, y, p limit the motion of the valve-rods.
Patent GB-190100951-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Making up Wages Bills and for other Purposes.
Inventor: REID SIDNEY
Filed: 1901-01-15
Granted: 1902-01-09
Abstract: 951. Reid, S., and Blakey, G. M. Jan. 15. Cal c ulati ng-apparatus.-A ready-reckoning sheet C for making up wage bills and for other purposes is read upon a board A by the aid of a sliding straight edge B marked with the rates.
Patent GB-190101249-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Lids of Kettles and the like.
Inventor: MACLEOD FLORENCE ELIZABETH
Filed: 1901-01-19
Granted: 1901-11-16
Abstract: 1249. Macleod, F. E. Jan. 19. Kettles; lids.-A socket of india-rubber, or india-rubber composition, &c. is fitted to the knob of a kettle lid for convenience in handling the same. The socket has a wide mouth a and a contracted neck b, which serves to grip the knob, and it may be open at the top. Rings or ribs d may be moulded on the exterior of the socket, to strengthen the same and to assist in handling.
Patent GB-190104312-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Forging Machines.
Inventor: RICE CHARLES DE LOS
Filed: 1901-02-28
Granted: 1901-04-13
Abstract: 4312. Los Rice, C. de. Feb. 28. Forging.-A forging-machine of the general character of that shown in Specification No. 2054, A.D. 1897, suitable for producing projectiles, hollow billets for tubes, &c., has a bed A on which is a main shaft B carrying cams C<12>, C<13> and an eccentric D'. The blank P, shown as a projectile, is held between dies c, against a fixed die, while pierced by a plunger operated by the eccentric. The dies c are carried by slides C operated by toggle-links C<3> from slides C' connected by toggle-links C<5> to rocking blocks C<6> operated by the cams C<12>, C<13>. The dies care moved inwards by a hand-lever C<8>, rock-shaft C<7>, and links C<10> to hold the work, the cams C" being formed to operate the dies to first grip the work and then to hold them in that position during the piercing. The rear ends c' of the dies c are formed with a reduced aperture or internal shoulder to strip the blank from the plunger during its return stroke, the dies being sufficiently opened by the cams C<13> to allow the blank to drop through the bed.
Patent GB-190105350-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ink-wells
Inventor: WALKER ROBERT
Filed: 1901-03-13
Granted: 1901-05-04
Abstract: 5350. Walker, R., and Smith, J. March 13. Inkstands; pen and pencil trays and stands.- Fig. 2 shows a vertical section, and Fig. 4 a perspective view. The ink reservoir a may be cylindrical or prismatic in shape. It communicates with the dipping-well b through the opening 3. The top a<1> may be made concave, to form a penrest. The tray d is used to hold pens &c.
Patent GB-190109375-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Doors for Boiler and other Furnaces.
Inventor: DUERR GUSTAV
Filed: 1901-05-06
Granted: 1901-06-15
Abstract: 9375. D³rr, G. May 6. Doors.-Relates to means for holding in any position the inwardly-opening furnace door shown in elevation in Fig. 1. The door h turns about the horizontal axis a, upon which is mounted a disc c having a wedge - shaped groove along the periphery. A weighted lever g is pivoted to a horizontal axis h above the axis a, and is provided with a wedge n adapted to take into the groove m, and thereby to hold the door in any position into which it may have been turned by means of the lever f.
Patent GB-190109389-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Boot and Shoe Holders.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1901-05-06
Granted: 1902-05-01
Abstract: 9389. Boult, A. J., [Knox Manufacturing Co.]. May 6. Washing.-Fig. 1 shows a sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 a sectional plan, of a holder for boots and shoes for use during cleaning. The end-plate b of the bracket B slides between the converging lugs a of the wall plate A. The pillar e may have its upper edge serrated, and is held in the socket C by the screw H. The self-adjusting side pieces F, F slide on the rods I, J secured to the frame E ; they are pressed outwards by the springs K, and are prevented from moving too far by the studs at the end of the rod J. The heel piece G slides between the plates d, d, and is pressed backwards by the spring L and carries a pin g sliding in a slot in the upper plate d.
Patent GB-190110137-A (GB)
Title: Novel or Improved Indicating or Registering, or Indicating and Registering, Apparatus for Use in connection with the Sale of Spirits and other Liquids
Inventor: LATHAM JOHN EDWARD
Filed: 1901-05-16
Granted: 1902-05-01
Abstract: 10,137. Latham, J. E. May 16. Receipts, checking and recording.-Relates to the sale of liquors. A frame F, containing a vertical rack in gear with a wheel H, is shifted along guides by means of an archimedean screw K with a handle L before a dial N, so as to bring the rack under any particular tablet M of a set which indicate different quantities and their prices. A toothed quadrant E, in gear with a pinion G that is integral with the wheel H in the sliding frame, is shifted with it along a square shaft f, on which there is an arm e lying over a tappet a upon the lengthened spindle C of the draught tap. Thus, on opening the tap, the tablet to which the rack has been set is raised to view, and is kept up by a latch of the same or another set till another tablet is raised, but the rack falls as soon as the tappet a escapes into the hollow of the arm e, a toothed sector R and a twoway pawl S ensuring complete opening of the tap. The quantity or value stated on the raised tablet is also registered, because, by means of a toe acting on stepped levers, the rack effects a proportionate advance of counting-apparatus.
Patent GB-190112597-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Poultice Boot for Horses and other Animals.
Inventor: PETERS WALTER CLAY
Filed: 1901-06-20
Granted: 1902-05-15
Abstract: 12,597. Peters, W. C. June 20. Poultices.-A poultice boot for horses consists of a lower receotacle a of leather &c. strengthened, if desired, by plates or bands of iron &c. In this receptacle are placed the animal's hoof and the poultice either in a separate bag or otherwise. The top of the receptacle is closed by a canvas &c. extension C provided with a drawstring d which enters the fetlock to enclose the hoof. The part a is prolonged by the leather &c. part b which may consist of several strips or of one piece cut with tongues b<1>. This part is fastened round the leg by straps &c. g, g<1> so that the tongues &c. overlap.
Patent GB-190113105-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in, and in the Manufacture of Cleaning or Polishing Devices.
Inventor: MAKEPEACE LUKE
Filed: 1901-06-27
Granted: 1902-05-15
Abstract: 13,105. Makepeace, L. June 27. Surfacing and polishing.-A cleaning and polishing device, such as is used in finishing the soles and heels of boots and shoes, consists of a cylindrical wooden block 1 round which are arranged small pieces 3 of leather, cloth, felt, or the like confined laterally by clamping-plates 5 secured by screws to the block 1. The pieces of leather &c. 3 are connected in sections by wire nails or the like 4, the sections being cemented or connected endwise and tightened on the periphery of the block 1 by a strip or cord. The pieces 3 are secured to the block by cement or like adhesive.
Patent GB-190116025-A (GB)
Title: Combination Ventilator and Turbine Driver.
Inventor: HOERENZ FRIEDRICH OTTO
Filed: 1901-08-09
Granted: 1901-09-21
Abstract: 16,025. H÷renz, F. O. Aug. 9. Air, cooling and moistening.-Ventilating-fans c are driven by a steam or air turbine a, on the axle, which may be open to the atmosphere so as to moisten and cool it when the fan is used in spinning, weaving, and like factories, or it may be enclosed in a casing carried on the bearing f with an opening in the casing or the discharge pipe for the escape of some of the motor fluid.
Patent GB-190116753-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Means for Applying Paste and the like to Labels and Sheets of Paper or other Material.
Inventor: CASSIDY PATRICK FRANCIS
Filed: 1901-08-20
Granted: 1901-11-02
Abstract: 16,753. Cassidy, P. F. Aug. 20. Damping and affixing labels and the like. -Relates to means for applying paste &c. to labels, sheets of paper, &c. The paper is placed on a corrugated india-rubber mat 2 on the table 1, and a pasting-roller 9 is passed over it, corrugations being formed on each end of the roller, which engage with the corrugations of the mat, and cause the roller to revolve. The roller is provided with fine circumferential grooves, and forms the bottom of a cylindrical reservoir 6 open at the top and fitted with a cover 15 which grips the sides of the reservoir and is held in place by catches 18. The roller 9 is pivoted in the end plates of the reservoir, and the latter is provided with internal inclined plates, which as the roller revolves cause the paste to flow towards the centre of the reservoir. When not in use, the roller and reservoir are supported above a recess 4 in the table 1, the roller being prevented from touching the bottom of the recess by reason of the cover 15 resting on the table, and from coming in contact with the sides thereof by wire projections 17.
Patent GB-190124481-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Screw-bolts and Nuts.
Inventor: ROSSER ALFRED GRA
Filed: 1901-12-02
Granted: 1902-10-23
Abstract: 24,481. Rosser, A. G. Dec. 2. Locking nuts.- The nut e is locked on the bolt a by a key c, the end of which is bent up after the nut is in position. The key has screw-threads or teeth d to engage with the nut, and can be placed in any position in a groove b in the bolt. The key may be made with both ends to turn up.
Patent GB-190126691-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Circuit Controllers
Filed: 1901-12-31
Granted: 1902-04-10
Abstract: 26,691. British Thomson-Houston Co., [Hewlett, E. M.]. Dec. 31. Cut-outs; switches. -Relates to apparatus for indicating an overload if small, but which immediately opens the circuit if large. It may also serve to open the circuit if there be a reversal of energyflow. Figs. 1 and 2 show a construction in which 2 denotes the controlling - solenoid, the core 1 of which slides in a brass casing 4, being guided by pins 5 sliding in slots. The weight of the core normally presses down a rod 10 carrying a bridging-contact 15. When the core is slightly raised, it allows the rod to rise and bridge contacts 13, 13<a> in an indicating-circuit. With a dangerous current, the core is raised sufficiently to lift the contact 16 and close a circuit for tripping a circuit-breaker. Fig. 3 shows an arrangement also adapted to open the circuit with a reversal of energy-flow. The solenoid has differential windings 2, 2<a> which oppose one another in normal working; 14 denotes an indicator, and 21 the coil of a circuit-breaker in a separate circuit.
Patent GB-190302124-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Rivets, Bolts, and like Articles.
Inventor: BONE JAMES
Filed: 1903-01-29
Granted: 1904-01-28
Abstract: 2124. Bone, J., and Reid, M. Jan. 29. Casting and moulding.-A chill mould for casting rivets, bolts, nuts, and like articles consists of a base A, Figs. 2 and 4, a middle plate B pivoted to it at b<1>, and a cover C pivoted to the base at C'. The base has a number of recesses to form the heads of rivets or bolts, and the middle plate is perforated to form the shanks, and is divided along the perforations to facilitate the removal of the articles. The cover carries a pivoted gate block or blocks D, and has ducts c' to distribute the metal. The middle plate is locked in position by a jaw E operated by a handle e, and the cover is held in position by a pivoted handle C<2> with ears c<2> engaging on either side of the middle plate. The gate block and the cover may be turned on their pivots to separate the metal in the block and the ducts from the finished articles. For casting nuts or other perforated or recessed articles, projections instead of recesses are formed on the base, the middle plate and base being clamped together to allow the removal of the studs from the articles. Or the studs or cores f, Fig. 7, may be carried by a plate F carried by a handle f<1>, pivoted below the base, so that the cores may be inserted into or withdrawn from the moulds. In a modification, the base A is hinged to the middle plate B, which is supported on feet, the cover being caused to slide on the middle plate to cut off the runners and to allow the cast articles to be ejected.
Patent GB-190302564-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Brake Apparatus of Electric Railway and Tramway Vehicles
Filed: 1903-02-03
Granted: 1903-06-18
Abstract: 2564. Johnson-Lundell Electric Traction Co., [Lang, J. G. V.]. Feb. 3. Electric locomotives and motor vehicles.-The brakes are normally held off, but are applied automatically when the speed increases beyond that due to the position of the controller, or on failure of the regenerative motors to act as brakes, or when the controller is in the off position. In the diagram, Fig. 1, the needle a of a voltmeter, supplied by a generator D driven from the axle or motor, causes the pivoted frame a<5> to work over the contacts a<1> ... a<4>, which are connected with corresponding contacts b<1> ... b<4> swept by a pointer on the controller handle B. The needle is insulated from the frame, and normally is held against the stop a<7> thereon, but, if the speed increases unduly, the needle comes against the uninsulated stop a<6>, carrying the frame forward, and completing a circuit through a switch C, which controls the mechanical brake system. As shown, the brakes are held off by a small motor E, but the switch may operate a valve in a pneumatic-brake system. The needle a may be worked from a mechanical speed governor instead of an electric governor, and a battery used to supply current for the switch C. The contact b x at the " off " position of the controller may also be connected to the needle, so that the brakes go on when the main current is cut off.
Patent GB-190304868-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Nut Locks.
Inventor: ROSENTHAL WILLIAM URIAH
Filed: 1903-03-02
Granted: 1903-04-16
Abstract: 4868. Rosenthal, W. U. March 2. Rail joints. - Fish plates 3, 5 are webbed to grip the corner flange of the rail, the plate 5 also having an upper web 6. The web 6 is perforated and the web 8 recessed, to receive nutlocking pins 10.
Patent GB-190305179-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Railway and like Vehicles
Inventor: HANSEN JOHN MORRISON
Filed: 1903-03-05
Granted: 1903-09-17
Abstract: 5179. Hansen, J. M. March 5. Wagons; underframing of bodies.-Relates to metal underframes for railway vehicles, especially box cars and gondola cars, having wooden superstructures. The underframe is constructed with centre, side, and end sills, draught sills, bolsters, and transverse tying-members. The centre sills consist of channel beams 1, Figs. 2 and 3, which extend through the bolsters and are riveted to the draught sills 3. Each bolster 2 consists of a top cover plate 4 passing through slots in the beams 1, a bottom cover plate passing below the beams 1, cast-steel flanged fillers 6 riveted to the cover plates and to the centre and side sills, and a cast brace 11 placed between the centre sills and preferably formed with a vertical hole for the centre pin. Side bearing-pieces 9 are riveted to the bottom plate 5. The side sills 14 are of Z-section, and support wooden stringers 15 ; they are riveted to flanges on the ends of the fillers 6 and have strengthening angle - pieces 17. Intermediate wooden stringers 18 are bolted to the top flanges of the bolsters. A cover plate 20 is riveted to the tops of the centre sills along their whole length. The draught sills 3 are of Z-section, their top flanges being flush with the tops of the centre sills and their lower flanges below the centre sills. Draught lugs are riveted to the inner faces of the draught sills. Each end sill 24 is of L-section with the vertical flange wider in the middle than at the ends and the horizontal flange wider at the ends than at the middle. It is connected to the draught sills as shown in Fig. 1<a>, and is strengthened by an L-bar 28 which supports a wooden sill 29. Round the hole for the draw-bar the end sill is strengthened by a horn brace 30, Fig. 2, and a buffer casting 31 with a draw-bar carrier 32 is riveted to it on the outside. Diagonal braces are connected by gusset plates to the ends of the end sills and to the centre sills. The side sills are tied to the centre sills at intervals by channel bars 36, Fig. 4, attached by angle-pieces 37, 37<a>, and braces 40 consisting of plates pressed to a box shape are riveted to the centre sills in line with the channelbars 36. The sills also tied together by deeper channel-beams 42, Fig. 3, braces 48, and pairs of angle-bars 50 passing under the centre sills from one side sill to the other. The tying-members 36, 42 also support wooden stringers 18. The underframe is trussed by rods 51, secured to the bolsters by anchor castings 52 and passing under queen posts 53 riveted to the angle-ties 50. The anchor castings 52 may be formed to hook over the edge of the bolster, the filler 6 being formed with a bulb edge to take the strain. The side posts of the wagon body are preferably secured to the sills by cast socket pieces 60, Fig. 11, formed with flanges 62 for bolting to the sills and with lugs 64 taking into holes in plates 65 riveted to the sills.
Patent GB-190305895-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Crane Apparatus for Elevating and Discharging or Tipping Wagons, Buckets and the like Receptacles.
Inventor: TAYLOR WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-03-13
Granted: 1904-01-14
Abstract: 5895. Taylor, W., and Hubbard, W. S., [trading as Taylor & Hubbard]. March 13. Tipping - apparatus; tip-buckets ; cranes.-Relates to means for tipping wagons, buckets, &c. by means of a crane or the like. The winding-drum is made in two parts, one fixed to the shaft 3 and the other loose but caused by springs 6 or the like to engage the fixed part frictionally. The hoisting-rope B, Fig. 1, is wound on the fixed drum 1, and a second rope 18 attached to one side of the wagon &c. on the loose drum. The friction between the drums is sufficient to cause the drum 2 to rotate with the drum 1 and wind or unwind its rope 18 as fast as the rope B, but allows the drum 2 to be held by its brake while the shaft 3 is reversed, thus tipping the wagon &c.