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Patent GB-190124878-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Explosion Engines
Inventor: GOWER ARTHUR
Filed: 1901-12-06
Granted: 1902-12-04
Abstract: 24,878. Gower, A. Dec. 6. Gas and explosive-vapour engines. - The admission valve n carries in the end of its stem a needle valve d for controlling the flow of gas, vapour, or oil from the nozzle b. The valve d is supported by a spring e in the valve stem. The f u e l mixes with air entering through the openings c in the adjustable plate s, by passing through baffles j. The nozzle b is adjusted to control the flow of fuel, or a separate valve in the fuel pipe may be employed for this purpose,
Patent GB-190124995-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Card-cutting Attachments for Printing Presses.
Inventor: SPEIGHT WINCHESTER FRANKLIN
Filed: 1901-12-07
Granted: 1902-01-09
Abstract: 24,995. Speight, W. F. Dec. 7. Cutting-apparatus. - Relates to a card-cutting attachment for printing-presses. The base or support for the cutters is formed of two longitudinal sections 1 clamped together by end bolts 5. This support 1 is adapted to be locked up in an ordinary chase for application to a printing-press. The sections or bars 1 are spaced apart by blocks 7 fitting the I-shaped space between the bars. The cutter 9. which may be any desired shape, has stems 10 formed to fit the space between the bars 1. Other blocks, such as 7, may be placed between the bars 1 to support the parts of the cutters over the space. A modincation is described in which the cutters 9 have differently-formed stems 10, and have also screwed stems extending through longitudinal slots in the bars 1 for clamping nuts at the undersides of the bars. In another modification, the cutters have no stems 10, but dovetail recesses on their undersides engaging correponding projections on the bars 1. The cards are ejected from the cutters by spring ejectors 11 having stems 12 passed through holes in the support 1, or holes 14 in blocks 13 placed between the bars 1. The stems 12 have removable heads 16, which limit their upward movement due to the pressure of the springs 15.
Patent GB-190125483-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hand Worked Brakes for Velocipedes and Motor Cycles and other Vehicles
Filed: 1901-12-13
Granted: 1902-10-30
Abstract: 25,483. Rudge-Whitworth, Ltd., and Pugh, J. V. Dec. 13. Brakes for velocipedes, motor cycles, &c. In the form shown in Fig. 3, the brake-actuating cord f is wound on a drum secured between ratchetwheels d, its end being attached to one of the attaching-pins. The drum &c. is mounted on an axle c mounted in ears b<2> formed on a sleeve b secured in the handle-bar. A pawl, which engages the wheels d, is mounted on a tapped rod g secured free to slide in a hand-lever mounted on the axle c, and ia pressed into engagement by a spring i<2> carried between the lever and a cap i secured on the rod g. A spring pawl l, sliding in the sleeve b, can be pressed by a stud l<2> into engagement with the ratchet-wheels, so as to hold the brake in its " on " position. The brake may be secured in this position by turning the cap i, which is normally screwed tight against the lever, into the position shown, then applying the brake, and holding it by the pawl l until the lever is turned back and the other pawl again screwed into rigid engagement. The wire &c. f is guided by cross-bars m secured across the tube b. In a modification, the spring pawl l is dispensed with, and replaced by a slot cut in the tube b to enable a penny or a suitable tool to engage the ratchetwheels. In another modification, both pawls are dispensed with, and the wheels d are actuated by a pawl formed on a plate which slides in the handlever and is pressed into engagement by a spring. In another modification, a pawl formed with two teeth to engage the wheels d is pivoted to a crosspin secured in the lever by placing the hooked end of a spring which actuates the pawl round a reduced portion of the pin. The drum and ratchet-wheels may be made in one piece, the cord &c. f then terminating in a rigid tube, which is inserted in a hole formed in the drum. The crossbars m may be replaced by a slotted ear formed from the sleeve b.
Patent GB-190201064-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Construction of Railway Vehicles.
Inventor: LIVESEY HARRY
Filed: 1902-01-15
Granted: 1903-01-15
Abstract: 1064. Livesey, H. Jan. 15. Wagons; underframing of bodies; bodies.-Relates to cheap, light, and strong under and other frames. Longitudinal beams, arranged on opposite sides of the centre line a-b, comprise upper angle-irons 1, extending from buffer beam to buffer beam, and lower angle-irons 2 of less length and bent upwards, as shown in Fig. 1, at their ends, which terminate adjacent to the irons 1, a little beyond the centres of the bogie pins. The beams 1, 2 are braced internally by the flat bottom plate 4 and by the two spaced dished plates 5, while channel bars 6 tie their horizontal flanges 1<1>, 2<1> to the buffer beams. The beams 1, 2 are also connected between the bogies, by vertical angle-irons 10, to vertical plates 9 flanged at the top and bottom. Flat bars 12 and angle-irons 13, arranged as shown in Fig. 4, are riveted to the side sills 11 and other parts of the framing, and the beams 13 may be extended upwards to form stanchions 13<11> for the sides of the wagon. At or about the bogie bearings, the arrangement shown in Fig. 3 is used, comprising a flat bar 12<1> and channel bars 13' stiffened by supplementary struts 14. In a modification, the ends of the beams 1 are splayed and connected to the outer ends of the buffer beams.
Patent GB-190203336-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Resistances
Inventor: HOPFELT ROBERT
Filed: 1902-02-10
Granted: 1903-02-05
Abstract: 3336. Hopfelt, R. Feb. 10. Resistances consist of car- bon powder held between carbon contact plates b by rings a of asbestos, or of enamelled cast iron with asbestos packing. The plates and rings are held together by end-plates c and connecting-bolts. The car- bon plates may be moulded on metal backing - plates, which may have small pro- jections, to hold the moulded carbon. No metal is left in contact with the carbon powder. The plates b may be larger than the rings a, to give increased cooling-surface, or may be used in pairs, as shown, with intervening metal distance-pieces f, to allow passage of air between them. The resistance of the carbon powder falls considerably in a short time when current is passed through it, and the resistances described are thus particularly suitable for use in starting motors, for tramways or other purposes ; they may be allowed to become very hot. When the current ceases, the powder recovers its original resistance in a few minutes.
Patent GB-190204350-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Roller Bearing Devices.
Inventor: BEDELL THOMAS HARRY
Filed: 1902-02-20
Granted: 1902-06-05
Abstract: 4350. Bedell, T. H. Feb. 20. Carpet-sweepers.-Relates to roller bearings particularly adapted to the supporting wheels of carpet-sweepers. A number of rollers E are mounted between the axle D and the hub C of the wheel. Each roller is formed with an annular groove, which is received in side apertures J in a frame or spider G, which surrounds the axle and is located within the hub. The passage-ways K from the apertures H to the apertures J of the spider are preferably made slightly less in width than the diameter of the rollers at the grooved portion, so that the rollers have to be forced into position. In a modification, the apertures to receive the rollers open out on the periphery of the spider. Two or more spiders may be employed in the case of long rollers. The rollers, may be retained in place in the hub so as to exclude dust &c., by means of a collar O on the shaft and a band or cap P, or a cap may be provided at each side of the hub.
Patent GB-190220485-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Spinning Toys or the like
Inventor: RADCLIFFE ROBERT DUNBAR
Filed: 1902-09-19
Granted: 1903-09-17
Abstract: 20,485. Radcliffe, R. D., and Ginzler, J. C. Sept. 19. Spinning-toys.-Relates to a toy in which a disc is given a fortuitous rotary movement among a selection of figures &c. Fig. 1 is a reverse plan, and Fig. 2 a section, of one form. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of a modified form. As shown Figs. 1 and 2, a disc A with a pointer a is fixed to a spindle a<1>, which is driven by a star-wheel a<2> receiving an impulse from the bent end c' of a lever C controlled by a spring D operated by the handle c ; the end c<2> is normally clear of the wheel a<2>. The star-wheel a' is enclosed in a circular box b. The disc A rotates in the middle of the disc B, on which figures are marked. In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the spindle a<1> can rotate in the sleeve b<1>. The end ax of the spindle is bent at right-angles so as to engage a tooth b<3> on the sleeve b<1>, which is arranged in a box b<2>. Before the disc can be set in motion, the part a<x> of the spindle is brought into engagement with the tooth b<3>, and, by bringing the lever c secured to the sleeve at c<x>, into the position shown in Fig. 3, and then, by means of the trigger b<4>, releasing it under the action of the elastic spring D, a blow is given by the tooth to the spindle, causing it (after dropping out of engagement with the tooth, which it can do as it has a longitudinal movement in the sleeve) to rotate under the action of the blow. In a modified form of the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the spring D and lever C are so arranged that the whole is enclosed in a box except the operating-part c. In the form shown in Fig. 7, a friction wheel a<2x> is used in place of the starwheel, and is driven by the segment c<3> carried by the lever C. The spring D is, in this case, a spiral.
Patent GB-190222783-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Switches.
Inventor: COX HARRY WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-10-20
Granted: 1903-08-13
Abstract: 22,783. Cox, H. W. Oct. 20. Incandescent lamps, holders for, with switches. Relates to switches having rectilinearly-moving contacts and a rapid break. Figs. 9 and 11 show the application of the invention to a key-holder switch in which the insulating parts 36, 37 are secured together by a casing of usual construction. A block 39 sliding in a groove in the part 36 can be moved by an arm 41 secured to an axle 46 so that its spring contacts 40 connect contacts 42, 43 connected respectively to a binding-screw 44, and a spring plunger 45. The axle 46 is actuated by a handle 47 mounted so as to allow of a partial relative rotation so that, on opening the switch, after a slight positive motion the block 39 is rapidly moved by a spring 48. In a modification of this form the contacts 40 are replaced by a bent wire 50, Fig. 14, which is mounted in the block 39 so as to permit relative movement and compensate for irregularities in the position of the contacts. By duplication of the parts a double pole switch is formed. The Provisional Specification describes a modification in which the spring contacts are replaced by spring plungers, and also a form in which the operating lever is placed between spring contacts which are expanded against the contact plates when the lever is turned. The contacts may be formed on a bent spring.
Patent GB-190224951-A (GB)
Title: A Portable Shop or Vehicle for the Sale or Exhibition of Goods
Inventor: ZOLTYNSKI JOSEPH MICHEL DE
Filed: 1902-11-13
Granted: 1903-03-05
Abstract: 24,951. Zoltynski, J. M. de. Nov. 13. Vehicles convertible into or adapted for use as shops. -A corridor coach fitted with a number of compartments and a shop counter, also has a weather screen 3, and a hinged or sliding platform 2 approached by steps 12 for the accommodation of purchasers. In the example shown, the platform 2 and screen 3 form one side of the coach when collapsed.
Patent GB-190227263-A (GB)
Title: A Tool for Facilitating the Insertion of the Outer Covers of Pneumatic Tyres in the Rims of Wheels
Inventor: HOLTZHEUER WILHELM
Filed: 1902-12-10
Granted: 1903-10-15
Abstract: 27,263. Holtzheuer, W. Dec. 10. Tyres, pneumatic. - A tool to facilitate the insertion of the outer covers of pneumatic tyres in the rims of the wheels, more particularly those of motor vehicles, consists of a shank provided with a kind of hook. The end d is passed into the rim of the wheel ; the tool is then raised, when the edge g of the outer cover is applied to, and slides over, the curved surface c into the rim.
Patent GB-190301279-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Cleaning, Sorting, and Classifying of Grain, Meal, and other Particles.
Inventor: HAGGENMACHER CARL
Filed: 1903-01-19
Granted: 1903-03-19
Abstract: 1279. Haggenmacher, C., and Voll, G. Jan. 19. Separating or sorting grain, meal, &c.-Relates to apparatus for cleaning, sorting, and classifying grain, meal, or other particles. The particles pass from a hopper b, Fig. 1, down an inclined plane a, and are collected at c, c<1>, or c' according to their varying trajectories. The tongues d are sharply bevelled and may also be serrated. The inclined plane may be subjected to successive shocks to keep it in vibration. Curved surfaces may be used instead of flat ones. A further separation may be obtained by allowing the materials as first separated to fall on three inclined planes a, Fig. 3 ; or several series a<1>, a<2>, a<3> of parallel planes may be used, as shown in Fig.5. A very gentle current of air may be passed from left to right across the stream of falling particles to ensure the particles of bran being deposited clear of the heavier grain particles.
Patent GB-190302133-A (GB)
Title: An Attachment for or Improvement in Printing and other Machines to Obtain Accurate Register of Several Impressions or Treatments on the Material Printed upon or otherwise Treated.
Inventor: FALLA ERNEST JAMES
Filed: 1903-01-29
Granted: 1904-01-21
Abstract: 2133. Falla, E. J., and Barrett, P. F. Jan. 29. Feeding sheets; cylinder machines with plane printing-surfaces; platen presses.-Relates to the registering of sheets which hive to receive several successive printing, embossing, or other impressions or operations. At the first impression &c. the sheet is perforated by tapering points or spikes, which at subsequent impressions enter the holes previously made by them in the sheet, and move the sheet into correct register. Figs. 2 and 3 show a device for a platen press. Oa the platen is pasted or otherwise fixed a plate 1 having raised fingers 3, under which the edge of the sheet passes when it is fed on to the platen. The plate 1 carries a spring arm 4 having a spike 5. On the type bed is fixed a block 7 having a spring 8, and, when the platen moves to the bed, the block and spring 7, 8 engage the head of the arm 4 and press the spike through the sheet and through a hole in the plate 1. The fingers 3 strip the sheet from the spike. Fig. 4 shows the apparatus applied to a cylinder. The spikes may be carried by the gripper fingers, but are preferably on arms k applied to and closed by two or more of the gripper fingers 10. The arm k is pivoted on a shaft h connecting a pair of plates a which embrace the finger 10. The plates a are held in position against the shaft c by clamping-arms @ pivoted at h on the plates and operated by screws i to engage and clamp on to the blanket rod f. A spring opens the arm k, and when the grippers close they push the spike m on the arm k through the sheet q, which is fed on a board r. A stripping-arm s is provided to remove the sheet from the spike. The arm s is pressed away from the arm k by a spring, and is controlled by a cam and catch &c. so as to keep away from the sheet as the arm k closes and to bold up the sheet as the arm k opens. In a modification, a plate is used in place of the arms e, and the arm k is opened by a wire loop connecting it to the gripper.
Patent GB-190303058-A (GB)
Inventor: POPOWITZKY ALEXANDER
Filed: 1903-02-09
Granted: 1903-11-19
Abstract: 3058. Popowitzky, A. Feb. 9. Lenses.-A reflector or combination of reflectors is used instead of a lens to produce images in a photographic camera. In the form shown in Fig. 1, a single concave reflector C mounted at the back of the camera A is used to throw an image on the focal plane at the right-hand side cf the front of the camera, the position of the reflector being adjusted by screws a, b, c, d. The rays of light from the object enter the camera through an aperture in the diaphragm D, a small extensible bellows E being used to screen off oblique rays. Fig. 4 shows an arrangement in which lateral concave surfaces c reflect the rays on to a central concave mirror C, which throws the image on the focal plane. Other modifications are described in which one of the elements of the combination is a flat reflector or a concave reflector.
Patent GB-190316716-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clasps or Securing Devices for Corsets and like Garments.
Inventor: PELLEW RICHARD
Filed: 1903-07-30
Granted: 1904-06-02
Abstract: 16,716. Pellew, R. July 30. Clasp fastenings.-On one side of the corset or similar article is fixed the plate a, Fig. 3, to which are fixed the projections c, and on the opposite side is fixed the plate f, Figs. 2 and 5, which carries the ears g and the frame i pivoted therein. To secure the two parts, the cross-piece j of the frame i is inserted in the slit d, Fig. 3, and the frame is then turned down, the sides i engaging with spring arms l, which keep the frame i in position and prevent accidental unfastening.
Patent GB-190320088-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Nut-lock
Inventor: BRANDON JAMES GRAHAM
Filed: 1903-09-18
Granted: 1904-07-21
Abstract: 20,088. Brandon, J. G. Sept. 18. Locking nuts.-The device is shown locking the nuts securing the abutting ends of two rails, and consists of the plate 1, Figs. 1 and 2, which has one or more rectangular holes 2, and a key-shaped aperture 3. The plate ends in the lugs 4, between which works the cam 5 pivoted on the pin 7 and having an extension 6. A headed screw 9 projects from the face of the fishplate 10, through which and the abutting rails the bolts 11 project. After the nuts 12 are adjusted, the cams 5 are turned to allow the plate 1 to be placed in position on the fishplate 10, the heads of the screws 9 passing through the larger parts of the keyhole slots 3. The plate 1 is then moved until the heads of the screws pass over the narrow parts of the slots 3, and the cams 5 are depressed. The spring plates 8 are forced by the cams against the fishplate, between which and the heads of the screws 9 the plate 1 is firmly clamped. The spring plates 8 engage behind lugs 13 on the fishplate, and prevent accidental displacement of the plate 1 if the cams are left unsecured.
Patent GB-190321840-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Labelling Machines.
Inventor: OTTING KARL
Filed: 1903-10-10
Granted: 1904-01-07
Abstract: 21,840. Otting, K. Oct. 10. Affixing labels. -In a machine for labelling cardboard boxes &c., the labels are lifted one at a time from a pile 7, Fig. I, by a gummed horizontal bar 18 of square section which carries them to conveyer cylinders 25 ; while upon the last of these cylinders, the labels are gummed by a doctor roller 36, and pressed on to the boxes 3. The bar 18 is traversed in fixed guides 17 by means of slotted connecting-rods 21 attached to cranks 22 on the main shaft 16, and is turned through a right-angle during each double stroke by spring pawls 23 engaging with toothed wheels 20 on its ends. The bar 18 is gummed by passing over a roller 15 in a trough 10 so that the uppermost label 7 is raised by it. During the upper portions of its strokes, the bar 18 is held from rotating by the engagement of squared discs upon it with bars 24 on the guides 17. The three conveyer cylinders 25 are each formed with label-grippers 26, Fig. 4, which are opened and closed at the required times by the action of fixed cams 30, Fig. 1, upon rollers 29 on cranks 28 carried by the gripper shafts 27. The cylinders 25 are all geared together and to the shaft 16 and a roller 33 which supplies gum from a trough 32 to the gumming-roller 36. A spring 39 and a cam 37 on the shaft of the last cylinder 25 reciprocate the roller 36 between the roller 33 and the last cylinder 25 to gum the labels properly on this cylinder. The boxes 3 are carried from the bottom of a pile in a holder 2 by means of lugs 6 on an endless chain 5 driven by gearing 42, 43 and toothed wheels 4. The labels are pressed down on to the boxes by the last cylinder 25, and are smoothed down at the sides by brushes 40 driven by belt gearing 44.
Patent GB-190407139-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Condensing and Cooling Apparatus.
Filed: 1904-03-24
Granted: 1905-01-26
Abstract: 7139. Austin, H., and Scott & Son, G. March 24. Condensers.-A condensing and cooling arrangement for distilling-apparatus consists of a number of surface condensers of any ordinary type, so connected that they are always kept full. In the arrangement shown, the vapour from the still enters the top of a tubular condenser b, from which the condensed liquid flows into a cooler d, and collects there until the chamber is full. It may then pass, as desired, through further similar coolers to a receiver g which communicates with the air or with a vacuum pump. Worm or other condensers may be employed in place of the straight tube form shown, the cooling-medium circulating through the pipes i in each case in the opposite direction to the condensed liquid.
Patent GB-190407948-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Folding Tripods.
Inventor: FISHER WILLIAM HUBBELL
Filed: 1904-04-06
Granted: 1904-06-16
Abstract: 7948. Fisher, W. H. April 6. Tripod stands.-The top-plate folds down flat against the legs, which may be folded out or laid flat in the same horizontal plane. To the topplate A, Figs. 4 and 10, is fixed a plate C', to the lugs D of which is hinged one leg B. The other two legs are hinged to similar lugs D of the plates E, and these plates E are pivoted at F to the fixed plate C<2>, and are bent so that, when rotated, the holes E' coincide with the central hole A<2> in the plate A. The rotation is stopped at the same instant by a stop J, and the neighbouring extensions of the plates E fit between the plate A and the horizontal extensions J<2>, J<3> of the stop J. The legs B of the tripod fold together, and the pivot of the middle leg is arranged relatively to the pivots of the other legs so that, when the top A is folded flat down upon the legs in the position shown in Fig. 4, the centre leg and outside legs move in relatively opposite directions, and a lug I on the recess H, Figs. 9 and 10, engages with a recess G<2> on the catch-lug G and locks the legs securely together. The catch-lug I may be formed and attached in any convenient manner. The lower parts of the legs are prevented from slipping or falling out, when folded, by the spring K<2>, Fig. 11, which is bent out at K<3> and engages the cut-away portion K<4>.
Patent GB-190413594-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Dealing with Dust in Mines and the like
Inventor: THWAITE BENJAMIN HOWARTH
Filed: 1904-06-16
Granted: 1905-05-25
Abstract: 13,594. Thwaite, B. H., Denny, T. J., and Commans, R. E. June 16. Rockdrills; blasting.-An apparatus for separating dust and the noxious gases produced by blasting from the air of mines consists of a sucker terminal and a perforated pipe connected by hose with a portable vessel containing water to which suitable absorbents and disinfectants have been added, the foul air being aspirated through the water by means of a centrifugal fan. A sucker hood 16 provided with an elastic collar 17 adapted to surround the drill 18 is supported by an adjustable crutch, the hood being connected with an armoured hose pipe which is also connected with a perforated pipe spanning the level and fixed in position by jamming screws.