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Patent GB-189924473-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Accumulator Plates.
Inventor: MAJERT WILHELM
Filed: 1899-12-08
Granted: 1900-01-20
Abstract: 24,473. Majert, W. Dec. 8. Secondary batteries.-Relates to plates or grids which are provided with ribs, and consists in stiffening such plates by providing them with solid marginal walls d, e at opposite ends, the walls being formed by causing the ribs b, c to stop short of the ends.
Patent GB-190009209-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for the Manufacture of Tubes of Paper, Paste Board or the like
Inventor: FREROT CHARLES
Filed: 1900-05-18
Granted: 1901-04-27
Abstract: 9209. Frerot, C. May 18. Paper tubes.-Relates to machines for making paper, cardboard, or pasteboard tubes from sheets of the material cut up to the size desired. The machine is shown in plan in Fig. 1, sections on the lines 12 and 13 being shown in Figs. 6 and 7 respectively. The mandrel 14 is slotted longitudina!ly, and is fastened to the shaft 15, which is partly toothed and carries the pinion 16 in gear with the shaft 22 through gearing, of which the wheels 20 and 21 give an intermittent gear only. The head 27 of the shaft 15 is connected by oscillating and swinging rods with the oscillating rod 34, which has a curved slot engaging with a pin carried by the disc 39 on the shaft 40. The shaft 40 is geared with the shaft 22 through intermittent gear-wheels 41, 42. The sheets to be folded and glued on the mandrel are placed on the oscillating table 46, and while the table is lifted the mandrel 14 is translated by the rotation of the disc 39. When the mandrel is at rest, the table 46 is lowered, and the sheet is presented to the mandrel slot. Afterwards the mandrel engages with the sheet, and is returned to its original position. The sheet is then rolled, and glued by the brush 56 fed by the pallet 61 from the receptacle 70, being pressed by the bar 72, which is raised and lowered as required by the mechanism shown in Fig. 7. The finished tube is taken from the mandrel by withdrawing the mandrel, the tube abutting against the face h of the support, and is delivered on to the support 76, which is thrust forward to receive it.
Patent GB-190013701-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Preservation of Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, Eggs, and other like Perishable Substances
Inventor: STUERLER ADRIAAN LOUIS DE
Filed: 1900-07-31
Granted: 1901-06-15
Abstract: 13,701. St³rler, A. L. de. July 31. Packing fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, &c.-Relates to the preservation of fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, and other perishable articles, for storage or transit. The surface of the substances to be preserved is subjected to the action of a gaseous sterilizing- medium, such as sulphurous acid or formic aldehyde, and the substance is then wrapped in paper, cotton, cellulose, muslin, &c. which has been sterilized by impregnation with sulphurous acid, formic aldehyde, boracic acid, &c. The wrapped substance is then dipped into melted paraffin wax or spermaceti; delicate articles, however, such as fruit, may be enclosed in a box containing sterilized charcoal or other non-conducting substance, before dipping them into the melted wax.
Patent GB-190018040-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Obtaining Charcoal having Great Decolourising Properties.
Inventor: OSTREJKO RAPHAEL
Filed: 1900-10-10
Granted: 1901-10-10
Abstract: 18,040. Ostrejko, R. Oct. 10. Charcoal.-Charcoal of great decolorizing power is prepared by treating any carbonaceous matter in small pieces with alkaline-earthy solutions at a raised temperature, and subsequently rapidly heating to a red heat without access of air. Only gaseous products of distillation are obtained. The use of a salt solution may be omitted when a moistened carbonaceous material is used, or when superheated steam is used, as below. The product obtained may be washed with an acid, such as hydrochloric acid, and then with water, and again heated to a red heat out of contact with air. Suitable solutions are calcium chloride or acetate, but combinations of magnesium, barium, and silicon may be used. Among the carbonaceous materials which may be treated are chopped wood, wood shavings, coal dust, washed peat, naphtha residues, pitch, sliced beet-root (after the extraction of sugar), and moistened potato chips or potato starch. According to another method, wood in small pieces may be rapidly heated to a red heat, and superheated steam or pure carbonic acid passed through. In any case, the resultant charcoal may be used to decolorize sugar, and will even decolorize sulphuric-acid residues left after refining mineral oils and throwing out the tar by addition of water. The Figure shows a suitable apparatus, consisting of a horizontal elliptical retort A inserted between two fixed pipes B, U, and provided with a charging-pipe D through which also some gaseous products may escape to the outlet pipe having a valve E. At the other end are another gaseous outlet tube J and an outlet for the charcoal. This outlet is closed by a door having a screw bolt 0, and leads to a funnel N having a hydraulic closing lid Q and emptying into a receptacle R. The charge is agitated by one rake H, and discharged by another G, each rake being inserted through a door F. Above the grate W is a perforated arch Y. A smoke outlet X is provided.
Patent GB-190022779-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mounting Telephonic Instruments and Accessories so as to Admit of Interchanging or Renewal of the Various Parts.
Inventor: BYNG MAX
Filed: 1900-12-13
Granted: 1901-01-19
Abstract: 22,779. Byng, M., and Bell, F. G. Dec. 13. Telephones.- T e l ephonic instruments and the necessary accessories are mounted on a board M by means of split pins p, screws n, and pins and cottar pins to facilitate removal and replacement. The hoard is provided with bushes o to receive the pins &c.
Patent GB-190022905-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Margarine.
Inventor: PELLERIN AUGUSTE
Filed: 1900-12-14
Granted: 1901-10-26
Abstract: 22,905. Pellerin, A. July 12, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Butter substitutes.-Consists in adding a small proportion of an animal or vegetable wax to margarine to impart to it physical properties more closely resembling those of butter. The wax is preferably dissolved in the mixed molten fats, before the latter are churned with milk in the usual process for making margarine.
Patent GB-190106325-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Machines for Moulding Glass and other Plastic Substances.
Inventor: SHUMAN FRANK
Filed: 1901-03-26
Granted: 1902-01-30
Abstract: 6325. Shuman, F., and Shuman, A. March 26. Moulding-presses.-Relates to apparatus for moulding plastic material to form sheets having corrugated, prismatic, &c. faces. A shaped or flat mould-table C is supported on a table A, and receives a mass R of the plastic material, which is spread and shaped on its upper surface by a close series of transverse dies or pressers D operated by a roller cam H. The dies are supported, preferably, by springs L, and work between longitudinal and transverse guides. Shoes N, attached by rods P to the operating-head K, form the edges of the moulded sheet. The roller cam H moves from one fixed table I to another I'. The roller H and shoes N may be stationary, the moulding table and dies being made to travel.
Patent GB-190106899-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rope or Cord Grips
Inventor: WALLMAN OTTO
Filed: 1901-04-02
Granted: 1901-05-25
Abstract: 6899. Wallman, O., and Carlson, C. G. April 2. Cleats and holders. -A grip or holder for ropes or cords applicable for clothes lines, tent ropes, window sash cords, and the like is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The holder consists of a block 1 formed with a tapering perforation 3 of such a size as allows the cord 4 to be passed through it and secured by a wedgeshaped block 2, which has laterally-projecting teeth. The block may have a perforated projection 5, through which one end of the cord can be passed, and the wedge may be secured to the holder by a chain.
Patent GB-190107453-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Time Check Receiver.
Inventor: MARKER STEPHEN ARNOLD
Filed: 1901-04-11
Granted: 1901-08-31
Abstract: 7453. Marker, S. A. April 11. Tell-tales for checking watchmen and workmen. A shoot 35 is attached to a vertical spindle 31, which is driven by a clock so that the shoot travels round over a circle of twenty-four pockets surrounding a central pan. Checks dropped down the shoot by the employes are thus found in the pockets assorted according to five minute intervals, during the first two hours of the day, but at the end of that time a flap 41 in the shoot is made to change its position, so that for the next two hours all checks inserted are pooled in the central pan. For the two hours of midday the flap is restored to its initial position, and the alternative positions recur every two hours. The actuation of the flap is effected as follows :-The inner end 50 of a radial lever 44 upon the shoot rubs round a fixed ring above the central pan, and a movable incline set to the required time mark on this ring lifts the lever and lets it fall. Accordingly, a spring finger 48 in the middle of the lever acts on alternate sides of a rocker 42 with which the flap moves. The mouthpiece 36 of the shoot is of funnel form, and contains a balanced swinging auxiliary shoot 37, which serves to drop the check plump down the main shoot.
Patent GB-190109277-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Union Suits.
Inventor: DANIEL WILLIAM ALLEN MC
Filed: 1901-05-04
Granted: 1901-08-24
Abstract: 9277. McDaniel, W. A. May 4. Coats; trousers; shirt fronts; braces.- A combination suit, for use by workmen, grocers, or boys, consists of a coat and trousers united permanently in front, a depending fold 12 of the material forming the lower edge of the coat, which appears like a vest if an ordinary coat is worn over it ; the sleeves are made with gores 32 underneath to permit free upward movement of the arms. The coat and trousers open vertically in front, with buttons and pockets as usual. The coat is without a collar, and provided with a linen front 3, secured by hooks or buttons. The coat and trousers overlap at the back 30, and are connected by elastic suspenders 22 ; buttoned side-openings and pockets are provided in the trousers.
Patent GB-190111919-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Processes for Preventing the Escape of Silicon Fluoride in the Decomposition of Phosphates
Inventor: TEISLER EMIL
Filed: 1901-06-11
Granted: 1901-08-24
Abstract: 11,919. Teisler, E. June 11. Phosphates.-To prevent or retard the evolution of silicon-fluoride fumes, in the manufacture of superphosphate by the action of sulphuric acid of about 54‹ to 60‹ BÚ. upon phosphates, sodium, potassium, or ammonium sulphate is added.
Patent GB-190112865-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Printing Apparatus for use with Photographic Processes
Inventor: WALLIS WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-06-24
Granted: 1902-01-16
Abstract: 12,865. Wallis, W. June 24. Printing.-Relates to an apparatus for producing printing- surfaces, prints, and the like. The negative is placed in the rabbet d over a diffusing-glass E. The paper is placed over the negative, and pressed down by a platen K actuated by a lever I. The end of the lever, when pressed down to the bottom of the fork q, q, closes the circuit of an electric lamp l. The light of this lamp is thrown by a parabolic reflector upon to the negative. The lamp may be removed and replaced by a mirror fixed at an angle suitable for throwing daylight on the negative. Carriers, such as F<*>, may be used to hold smaller negatives.
Patent GB-190114414-A (GB)
Title: Device for Showing Moving Pictures.
Inventor: CROCKER SAMUEL HENRY
Filed: 1901-07-15
Granted: 1902-06-12
Abstract: 14,414. Crocker, S. H. July 15. Kinetoscopes.-Apparatus for showing series of pictures in rapid succession. The picture cards G. are fixed in holders g pivoted on a drum F mounted to rotate loosely on a shaft B. The cards are spaced apart by blocks g<2>, or by stops &c. for limiting their pivoted movement. On the shaft B is fixed a wheel C which drives a wheel D having a rubber or like flange d<3> engaging the edges of the cards G. As the cards reach the sight point, shown by the arrow, they are rapidly thrown over, in succession, by the disc d<3>. The drum F is driven from the shaft of the wheel D by friction or other gear E ; or an annular flange on the drum may engage or gear with the shaft of the wheel D. This shaft is supported in brackets a on the frame A of the apparatus. The apparatus may be used in conjunction with coin-freed mechanism.
Patent GB-190115591-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wrapping Machines
Inventor: PAGE WILLIAM BEEDE
Filed: 1901-08-01
Granted: 1902-07-31
Abstract: 15,591. Page, W. B., and Hopkins, A. E. Aug. 1. Parcelling soap &c.-The cakes of soap are fed on an endless band A<9>, Fig. 4, towards a plunger A<15>, which pushes them in a direction normal to the plane of the paper in front of a plunger C<6> by which they are forced into pockets C o n an intermittinglyrotating wheel B, together with two wrappers. The wrappers are foldedo ver the top of the cake by blades G<5>, H<5>, carried on levers G', H<4> pivoted t the wheel and operated by their other ends G<2> working in grooves F', F<3> in a fixed cam disc F, Fig. 5. The top end folds are made by plates J<5> carried on an arm J<3> which receives a radial movement along its arm J, which turns for a short distance with the wheel so as to hold the top fold while the side folds are being made by the blades K<6>. These are hinged to their levers K<4>, which are worked by the cam disc F, and are turned by their tail ends K<7>, impinging against stops K<8>. The bottom folds are made by turning up flaps hinged to the bottom of the pocket C by means of a rod operated by the cam disc F. The packet is discharged from the pocket by a plunger C<5> operated by a lever Q<16>, and enters a trough A' with a spring mouth. The wrapper is fed by intermittently-rotating rollers R<5>, R<6>, and is severed from the web by cutters R<15>, R<16>. The web passes from the roll upwards over the spring lever, then downward under a lever the tail end of which presses on the roll as the paper. becomes slack. The labels or printed wrappers are taken from the top of a pile in a case N<1>, which is raised by ratchet and screw gearing N<8>, N<3>, and is kept at a constant level by the top sheet lifting the ratchet pawl through a rod N<14>, lever N<16>, and cord N<18>. A lever P<11> with a rubber face moves over the wrapper, draws it from beneath the retaining- spring P<16>, and bends it so that a pneumatic sucker Q<1> may engage it and carry it along, ultimately releasing it as it is pressed into the pocket C. The sucker is connected by a flexible tube to passages in the cones Q<8>, Q<9> on the wheel and shaft, Fig. 5, which act as valves.
Patent GB-190118475-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: HEARTH JAMES
Filed: 1901-09-16
Granted: 1902-08-14
Abstract: 18,475. Hearth, J., and Preston, E. E. Sept. 16. Tyres, pneumatic. - Relates - to outer covers adapted for use with rims of any ordinary form. The lining consists of two layers 1, 2 of diagonallydisposed parallel threads, of which each layer has near each edge some longitudinally - disposed threads 3. Strips of the two layers are solutioned together to form a ring with the diagonallydisposed threads of one layer inclined to those of the other, with the longitudinally-disposed threads 3 between the layers, and with the abutting ends of each layer and of its longitudinal threads placed about the middle of the other layer. The edges of the ring may either form flaps which lie between the inflated air tube and the wheel rim, or be turned back to form pockets 6 in which lie segments 7 of wire or the like. The threads 3 are so placed that the thickenings produced lie outside the rim when the tyre is inflated, and an outer rubber strip is fixed on by any means.
Patent GB-190200261-A (GB)
Title: Novel or Improved Combined Means of Enclosing a Motor-car Body at the Rear of the Front Seats and Providing Access to such Enclosed Portion.
Filed: 1902-01-04
Granted: 1902-11-27
Abstract: 261. Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Co., and Austin, H. Jan. 4. Motor road vehicles. - Relates to motor-car bodies. Fig. 2 shows one form in plan. The body has an enclosed rear portion A with a seat B, and a front seat divided into two parts C, C<1>. The back of each portion of the front seat is carried up to the roof to form the front of the rear part A, and one portion C, together with the back which is attached to it rigidly, is hinged to a vertical pillar e so that it can be turned outwards to give access to the part A. The back of the portion C' is carried down to the floor ; but that of the portion C is not, a curtain g carried by a board h being substituted. This allows for the body being narrower below the seat level than above, and the board h prevents the curtain from being dragged over the side when the seat is opened.
Patent GB-190200646-A (GB)
Title: A Garden Tool or Appliance for Eradicating Weeds and for like purposes
Inventor: BOWMAN ERIC G
Filed: 1902-01-09
Granted: 1902-03-20
Abstract: 646. Bowman, E. G. Jan. 9. Weeds, destroying.-Relates to an appliance for eradicating weeds from lawns and for like uses. A curved sharpened blade 6 is secured by a socket 5 to a handle 2. A movable blade 10 shaped to fit the blade 6 is pivoted at 8 in a slot 9 in the handle 2, and is operated by a rod sliding in guide eyes 13. The blade 6 severs the root of the weed, which is then grasped between the blades 6, 10, so that it can be removed and deposited in a suitable receptacle.
Patent GB-190204754-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Field Magnets for Dynamo Electric Machines or Electric Motors
Inventor: LUNDELL ROBERT
Filed: 1902-02-25
Granted: 1902-03-27
Abstract: 4754. Lundell, R. Feb. 25. Field magnets; frames.-Laminated field magnets, particularly applicable to motors for railway service, are constructed as follows :-The laminated body is composed of overlapping sheet-iron punchings L', L<2>, L<3>, and L<4>, threaded on steel rods. It is supported by a rigid skeleton frame consisting of two end brackets, each provided with four strong arms or projections C' ... C<4>, through which pass connecting - bolts B<1> ... B'. The connectmgpieces C' ... C' pass across the four corners of the laminated body, and the laminations extend outwards between them, and form the outer faces of the machine. Laminated pole-pieces P<1> ... P<4> are secured to the laminated yoke.
Patent GB-190206623-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spring Wheels.
Inventor: HUTH ALFRED HENRY
Filed: 1902-03-18
Granted: 1903-02-12
Abstract: 6623. Huth, A. H. March 18. Tyres, elastic other than pneumatic; felloes or rims.-Relates to spring tyres of the type shown in side elevation and cross-section in Figs. 1 and 3, respectively. Helical springs b are arranged round the periphery of the wheel with their axes radial, and are secured to curved plates d connected to the ends c<1> of helical springs c. Each spring c is preferably formed in two oppositely-wound coils from a single piece of wire, and has near the middle a loop c<2>, which projects through a slot in the curved rim a and is secured by a key e. In a modification, the springs b are secured directly to the rim.
Patent GB-190208277-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Writing Pens.
Inventor: BOWER GEORGE
Filed: 1902-04-09
Granted: 1903-03-12
Abstract: 8277. Bower, G. April 9. Right to Patent relinquished. Pens. -The tongue b forms a reservoir at the back of the nib, and serves to regulate the hardness of t h e writing- point by adjusting the position of the ring c. The semicircular part b<1> prevents the flow of ink to the holder. The Provisional Specification also states that conical spirals made of wire may be used to form ink reservoirs for nibs.
Patent GB-190210831-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Sewing Machines for Embroidering and the like
Inventor: BOWDEN WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-05-12
Granted: 1903-04-16
Abstract: 10,831. Bowden, W. May 12. Embroidery; sewing-machines, trimming or cutting in.-Relates to cutters for embroidery and other sewing-machines, and is specially useful for appliquÚ work. A fixed blade c, which has a sharppointed hook c<11> to enable it to be readily passed under the fabric and to keep the part cut off from the needle, is connected to a collar d, which can rotate but is otherwise adjustably fixed. The nipple a, which rotates and also reciprocates vertically, carries a flat cutter b<11>. This cutter always bears against the fixed one, and the two turn together. As the two cutters are always in contact, the movable one is sufficiently fixed to the nipple by slipping it on to two pins projecting therefrom. According to the Provisional Specification, the movable cutter can be operated from below. Feed.-The feeder f is fitted with an elastic ring f<1>.
Patent GB-190223022-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Electrically Igniting Miners' Safety Lamps.
Filed: 1902-10-22
Granted: 1903-09-24
Abstract: 23,022. Best, R. O., and Ackroyd & Best. Oct. 22. Miners' s a f e t y lamps. - Miners' safety lamps, which are to be simultaneously electrically ignited, are placed on non-conducting discs 2, Fig. 1, provided with two spring conductors 3, 4, the conductor 4 of one disc being connected by a wire 5 to the conductor 3 of the adjacent disc. The first and last conductors are respectively connected to the poles of the secondary of a Ruhmkorff coil 7. In circuit with the primary of the coil is a switch 9. An insulated conductor 11, Fig. 3, passing up the lamp to the top of the wick-tube 12, engages with one spring conductor 4, when the lamp is placed on the disc, the oil vessel engaging with the other conductor 3. On completing the primary circuit, an electric spark passes across each wicktube. A hinged contact-piece 15, Fig. 1, may connect the conductors 3, 4 if any of the lamps be missing.
Patent GB-190226094-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Charging Apparatus for Blast Furnaces.
Inventor: HOWORTH FRANKLIN WISE
Filed: 1902-11-26
Granted: 1903-09-03
Abstract: 26,094. Howorth, F. W., [Benrather Maschinenfabrik Akt.-Ges.]. Nov. 26. Blast furnaces.-The counterbalanced lever 15, from which the charging-bell 17 is hung, is connected by links 14 to the crosshead 13 of the double ram 11 working in the cylinders 3, 4. The lowering and lifting of the bell by the weight of the charge or of the counterweight, respectively, is controlled by the valve 24, which opens and closes passages through which liquid flows from one cylinder to the other. The valve has two ways of different sizes, and these, together with regulating-valves 22, 23, control the speed. A weighted three-armed lever 27 normally holds the valve 24 closed, and opens either way of the valve according as the electromagnets 25 or 26 are excited from a switch 36 at the foot of the furnace. The lever may, however, be operated by hand or by a cord connection 43. An indicator 37 for the position of the charging-bell and an alarm bell 39 are provided. Liquid in the cylinders is prevented from freezing by circulation of hot gases through their jackets by the pipes 5 connected to the flue 7 by a valve 10. In a modification, the opening and closing of the bell is rendered automatic by utilizing the pressure in the two cylinders, caused by the weights of the charge and the counterbalance respectively. A small cylinder is connected to each main cylinder, and, when the pressure rises to a predetermined amount, it opens one or other of the two valves connecting the main cylinders, so that the bell may rise or fall. The valves are caught and held open by catches, which are tripped at the end of the stroke so that they may close again.