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Patent GB-190110024-A (GB)
Title: An Apparatus for Extracting the Naphthaline Contained in Illuminating and Heating Gases.
Inventor: BREITTMAYER LOUIS
Filed: 1901-05-14
Granted: 1901-09-14
Abstract: 10,024. Breittmayer, L. May 14. Naphthalene, removing or preventing deposits of; carburetting. - An apparatus for denaphthalizing gas is formed of a closed vessel 1 containing aliquid solvent of naphthalene, either volatile or non- volatile, such as essential oils or petroleum oils, which rises up to a level X, X determined by a plug 4. The gas is introduced by means of one or more vertical or inclined nozzles 2 reaching nearly to the surface of the liquid. The liquid is thereby agitated, fresh portions being continually brought to the surface to dissolve out the naphthalene from the gas, while the denser portions impregnated with naphthalene sink to the bottom. The gas passes away, without any appreciable loss of pressure, through an outlet such as 3. Filling and emptying plugs 5, 6 are provided. In modifications, the inlet and outlet plugs may be provided with tubes leading nearly to the bottom of the vessel, and the outlet tube 3 may pass through the liquid and the bottom of the vessel. If a volatile solvent be employed, it also acts as a carburetter. When the gas is intended for motors, the nozzles may project slightly below the liquid level.
Patent GB-190112416-A (GB)
Title: A Quick Adjusting Variable Throw Excentric.
Inventor: EDWARDS DAVID
Filed: 1901-06-18
Granted: 1902-05-22
Abstract: 12,416. Edwards, D. June 18. Eccentrics. - Relates to variablethrow eccentrics especially suitable for jigging-machines used for dressing ores, for sif ting-tables and the like. The eccentric sheave or disc is made in two parts, one c keyed to the shaft f, and the other b capable of being angularly adjusted on the first, or of being fixed by a taper pin or key e. The part c has a toothed sector c', with which a pinion d<1> attached to a lever d can be brought into gear by inserting its axial pin into one of the holes g, g<1> in the part b of the eccentric sheave. To adjust the throw of the eccentric, the key e is loosened, and the adjustment is effected by means of the pinion d<1> ; the parts are then again fixed by tightening the pin e.
Patent GB-190114992-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Shaft Tugs.
Inventor: STRANAGHAN WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-07-23
Granted: 1901-10-26
Abstract: 14,992. Stranaghan, W ., and Twining, A. July 23. Tugs, shaft.- The tug is wholly of metal cast loosely to the buckle G, H and formed with a curved surface at D, one or more loops C, and shoulders B.
Patent GB-190118436-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Means for Replenishing or Emptying Receptacles for Liquid.
Filed: 1901-09-14
Granted: 1902-09-11
Abstract: 18,436. Lake, H. H., [Le Carbone]. Sept. 14. Funnels; emptying bottles; bottle necks.-A funnel A is combined with a siphon B, either leg of which may be lengthened to serve as an air outlet in filling the vessel to a definite height or emptying it. An air-escape tube is used for filling the vessels which are quite closed by the funnel ; this tube may be a continuation upwards of the inner leg of the siphon, and may be closed by the finger. The mouth of the vessel may be formed by recessing one corner, as shown at d, Fig. 9, in connection with a galvanic battery cell. An airtight joint is ensured between the funnel and the vessel by means of a washer a<3>.
Patent GB-190120248-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Milk Pails.
Inventor: DIDOT ARMAND FERDINAND
Filed: 1901-10-10
Granted: 1901-11-23
Abstract: 20,248. Didot, A. F. Oct. 10. Milk pails; milk strainers.-Relates to the construction of a milk pail, provided with strainers, and also with means to prevent the spilling of the contents, if the pail should be upset. The pail is formed with a conical spout 2, in the mouth of which is fitted a strainer 4, and which is closed by a screw cap 5. A conical extension 20 is arranged over the mouth of the pail to prevent splashing of the contents. The lid 18 fits upon the extension 20. The top 6 is formed with an opening having a depending flange 8. A tray or trap 7 fits inside the flange 8. An opening in which is fixed a strainer 13 is formed in the bottom of the trap. A hinged valve 14, connected by a cord 16 to a weight 15 lying in a pocket 17, closes the opening in the trap when the pail is upset. A removable strainer 11, having an opening for the passage of the weight 15, is secured above the trap 7.
Patent GB-190122770-A (GB)
Title: A Combination Rim Brake for Bicycle, can be used Single for Back or Front Rim.
Inventor: HOUNSELL WILLIAM GEORGE
Filed: 1901-11-12
Granted: 1902-10-16
Abstract: 22,770. Hounsell, W. G. Nov. 12. Brakes.-Relates to means for simultaneously or separately actuating front and rear wheel bicycle &c. rim brakes. The usual brake rod R, which actuates the front brake, has adjustably secured on it by a screw s an arm C, which engages the curved arm l<2> of a lever L pivoted at D to the head, the other arm l<1> being connected by a rod R', bell-crank lever L<1>, and a rod to a lever L<2> pivoted on the saddle post and connected by a rod R<4> to a rear wheel rim brake. The arm C may be fitted with a roller, and can be adjusted to throw either brake out of action.
Patent GB-190123989-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and Means or Devices for Corking and Sealing Bottles, Jars, and other Vessels.
Inventor: GIBBS WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-11-26
Granted: 1902-10-09
Abstract: 23,989. Gibbs, G., [Executrix of Gibbs, W.]. Nov. 26. Corks; capsuling and sealing bottles, jars, &c.-To prevent bottles, jars, and other vessels from being surreptitiously opened by children or others without detection, a cap B of soft metal, such as thin tin, is fitted over the end of the ordinary cork A, and the cork is in. serted until the top of the cap is flush with the mouth of the vessel, the flange C of the cap being within the neck. A corkscrew can be inserted through the cap to remove the cork. As the cork cannot be withdrawn without injuring the cap, the latter serves to indicate whether the vessel has been opened.
Patent GB-190126021-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Explosion Engines.
Inventor: LAUFFS FRANZ
Filed: 1901-12-20
Granted: 1902-11-13
Abstract: 26,021. Lauffs, F. Dec. 20. Gas and like engines.-The compression is kept constant by providing an auxiliary piston d, on one side of which air is drawn in when the admission of explosive mixture to the other side is cut off during the suction stroke. In Fig. 1, the air enters at f behind the piston d and the explosive charge at h, while the exhaust escapes by the pipes g. In Fig. 3, the combustion chamber a is situated behind the loose piston d, and a plate k on the exhaust valve i prevents communication between the chambers a, a<1>. The Provisional Specification describes a different arrangement of the passages f, g, Fig. 1, and a different method of working, for which the chamber a<1> is larger in diameter than the cylinder a, and the piston d can move only to the rear of the position shown in Fig. 1.
Patent GB-190200454-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Incandescence Mantles.
Inventor: CREASE JOHN FREDERICK
Filed: 1902-01-07
Granted: 1902-04-24
Abstract: 454. Crease, J. F. Jan. 7. Incandescent gas &c. lamps. - Mantles are strengthened and rendered more durable by the use of wires, or asbestos threads. The strengthening may be effected in various ways, as by introducing fine wires or fine asbestos yarn, or a fine wire into the cotton yarn or the threads of cotton or other material from which the fabric is woven or manufactured. The wires may be protected, if necessary, from chemical action by coating with india-rubber or gutta-percha solution, or beeswax and tallow, or equivalent material. Or mantles made of threads of cotton or vegetable fibre may be strengthened at predetermined intervals by threads made up of cotton thread and wire or asbestos yarn. Or when cotton and like threads are steeped in the solution of the salts of the rare earths before manufacture, two or more such threads may be twisted or spun with wire or asbestos yarn into a single thread. When mantles are manufactured from cellulose filaments expressed through capillary tubes, wires or asbestos threads may be simultaneously expressed through the capillary tubes to form cores from the threads.
Patent GB-190207431-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Preservation of Fruits, Vegetables, and the like
Inventor: BAIN JOHN WILSON
Filed: 1902-03-27
Granted: 1902-05-01
Abstract: 7431. Bain, J. W., and Hannay, C. March 27. Preserving fruit &c.-Bananas or other fruit or vegetables are preserved by first wrapping the partially-ripe fruit &c. in paper and packing in cardboard boxes, then placing them in a chamber, the temperature of which is from 35‹ to 40‹ F., for two days, and finally packing them in watertight wooden cases, the cardboard boxes being separated by layers of dry Barbadoes infusorial earth or the like.
Patent GB-190213720-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Fixing Tiles
Inventor: SIMPSON EDWARD GRAHAM
Filed: 1902-06-17
Granted: 1902-07-24
Abstract: 13,720. Simpson, E. G., and Simpson. F. C., [trading as Simpson & Sons, W. B.]. June 17. Facing-tiles.-In order to ensure the adherence of glass facing-tiles to a cement backing, they are coated with a hot mixture of 12 parts of resin, 1 part of tallow, and 1 part of Venice turpentine, and granite chips or like fragments are sprinkled over the composition while it is soft. The tiles are re-heated in an oven for finishing purposes.
Patent GB-190218821-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Motor Control Systems.
Filed: 1902-08-27
Granted: 1903-07-30
Abstract: 18,821. British Thomson-Houston Co., [Case, F. E.]. Aug. 27. Motors, controlling.-Relates to a contro system of the type described in Specification No. 20,275, A.D. 1898, in which the pairs of motors on the separate cars of an electrically-propelled train are controlled by means of reversing-switches and controlling-switches of the separatelyactuated contact type, the mastercontroller being any one of a number situated throughout the train. The connections are, in general, the same as those described in Specification No. 13,721, A.D. 1900, some of the controlling-switches being, however, altered by the application to them of safety-devices, which prevent the formation of undesired earth circuits otherwise formed under certain conditions of the master - controller and the reversing-switches. Fig. 3 shows a diagram of the actuating-circuits between a master-controller A and the reversing- switches D<1>, D<2> and the controlling-switches T<1>, T', R', R<2>, S, P, P on the corresponding car and on a second car, the reversing-switches D<1>, D' of the second car having failed to act in obedience to the movement of the master reversing-switch B. The controlling-switches T' &c. consist of solenoids a, Fig. 5, movable and fixed contacts c, d, and blowout coils e, the safety-devices consisting of bridging-contacts h, which connect pairs of fixed contacts i when the contacts c, d are separated. The switches S, Fig. 3, cuntrolling the series arrangements of the motors, and one of the switches P controlling the parallel arrangement, are, as described in Specification No. 20,274, A.D. 1898, provided with safety-devices, which are now also applied to the first trolley switch of each pair T<1>, T<1>. When the master reversing-switch B is moved on to the conductor 13, an earth circuit is completed through the reversing-switch coil D<2>, as shown with regard to the second car; if the master-controller A is then placed in any of the series positions 1 to 5, the reversing-switches should be thrown to complete a circuit through the switches T<1>, T<1>, R', S, conductor 4, and controller contacts 4<a>, 3<a> as shown with regard to the first car. If the reversing-switch does not throw and this second earth circuit is not completed, the motors are not put in circuit. When the controller A is moved from the series position 5 to the parallel position 6, the second earth circuit is broken at the controller A, and, assuming that the safety-device 21<1> has not been applied to the switch T' of the first car, current from the trolley conductor T flows from the point Y in the reverse direction through the switches S, R<1>, T', T<1> and coil D<1> of the second car, and then through the coil D<1> of the first car to earth. The motors of the second car would thus be put in circuit in the wrong direction, the reversing-switch not having been thrown. The use of the devices 21<1> prevents'this action by breaking this circuit as soon as current flows through the switches T' of tho first car.
Patent GB-190221300-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Machine for Opening Bivalves.
Inventor: MCKENZIE ALEXANDER WALTER
Filed: 1902-09-30
Granted: 1903-06-25
Abstract: 21,300. McKenzie, A. W., and McKenzie, J. B. Sept. 30. Oysters, opening. - Relates to apparatus for opening oysters and similar bivalves. The base 5, provided with screw holes for clamping it to a table &c., carries an upright 4 to which the lever 1 is pivoted as shown. The lever carries a knifeblade 12 upon a cross-plate 10<a> provided with a shoulder 11, the spring 15 keeping the lever normally in a raised position. The frame 7 receives a block of hardened wood 8, which is recessed at 9 and grooved at 10 as shown, the hinged end of the oyster being placed uppermost, and its opposite edge in one of the grooves. The outer end of the lever is curved as shown, and provided with a hole 16, to enable it to be attached to a treadle if required. The knife is inserted in the junction of the shell, and the lever depressed to effect the opening.
Patent GB-190224767-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Sulphocyanides.
Inventor: TCHERNIAC JOSEPH
Filed: 1902-11-11
Granted: 1903-10-29
Abstract: 24,767. Tcherniac, J. Nov. 11. Sulphocyanides.-Relates to the manufacture of sulphoeyanides from crude coal gas or other gas containing cyanogen or its compounds, and from gases containing carbon bisulphide and ammonia. In the case of coal gas, which contains hydrogen cyanide and sulphuretted hydrogen, the gas is passed through magnesia, magnesium carbonate, or a double carbonate such as magnesium-ammonium carbonate, preferably dissolved or suspended in a menstruum such as water, or aqueous saline solution. Magnesium sulphocyanide is produced. It may be crystallized out by evaporation. A gas containing carbon bisulphide and ammonia, when passed into the liquid containing magnesia &c. or by heating with water containing a magnesium compound, also produces sulphocyanide. The same product results when carbon bisulphide and ammonia are heated with a slight excess of magnesia in a closed vessel at 110‹ C. With gas containing ammonia as well as cyanogen and sulphur compounds, a soluble magnesium salt may be used. If the gas is deficient in sulphur, sulphur or a sulphide, or polysulphide, may be added to the liquid. When applied to the recovery of cyanogen from coal gas, the gas is passed first through nearly-exhausted magnesia &c. liquid and then through fresh liquid. Other sulphocyanides can be prepared from the magnesium sulphocyanide by digesting its solution with salts of the metal the salt of which is required, e.g., potassium carbonate.
Patent GB-190228533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cooking and Heating Apparatus
Inventor: NICHOLLS RICHARD
Filed: 1902-12-24
Granted: 1903-11-05
Abstract: 28,533. Nicholls, R. Dec. 24. Gas stoves.- Fig. 1 shows a vertical section of a stove for cooking and heating purposes. The oven is formed by the plates a, b, f, and is provided with outer and inner doors. Surrounding the oven are coils of tubes t, x, connected by tubing A, w and enclosed by the casing h, which is terminated by the plate k below. Above the plate l is placed a gas or otherwise heated grill. Holes m are provided around the source of heat, which is preferably a gas stove d, to admit the heat to the annular casing. Cocks r, s regulate the air admission and discharge to and from the space between the plate d and the plate which supports the coil t. Cocks v, n, z are fitted to the coils.
Patent GB-190301094-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres for Vehicle Wheels
Inventor: GALLIEN VALERY
Filed: 1903-01-15
Granted: 1903-10-22
Abstract: 1094. Callien, V. Jan. 15. Tyres, pneumatic.- Pneumatic tyres for cycles, motor cycles, &c. are provided with a protecting-band b, to which is riveted or hooked a thickening- piece a, while a band f prevents the hooks from injuring the outer cover d. The bands and the piece a are of chrome-tanned leather. To unite the parts b, f to the cover, one or more. layers of rubber solution are applied to their contact surfaces, and, when this is dry, a coating of a liquid composed of 98 per cent. sulphide of carbon and 2 per cent. protochloride of sulphur is given, and the parts are then pressed strongly together. The parts a, b may be similarly united before being furnished with the headed hooks or rivets c. The band b has a roughened surface for preventing side slip.
Patent GB-190301725-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Road Making Machines:
Inventor: PAGETT WILLIAM S
Filed: 1903-01-24
Granted: 1903-12-31
Abstract: 1725. Pagett, W. S. Jan. 24. Roads and ways, making and repairing.-A machine for grading and scraping roads, and for analogous purposes, is formed with a platform 2 supported by wheels 5 on tracks 6 laid on the road. Ploughs 31 are carried in front of the machine on a beam 30 vertically adjustable by means of a rack and pinion 32. Scoops 11 are arranged at different depths behind the ploughs, and are pivoted to hangers 10 connected by yokes 9 to ropes 21, which pass over pulleys 23 to spindles 18. Each spindle is pivoted in bearings 19, 3<b> so that one end can be either raised or lowered from its normal position by means of a lever 26. A friction wheel 22 on the spindle is thus moved into contact either with a friction wheel 8 on the rotating axle 4 of the wheels 5, to raise the scoops when full, or with a stop 25, to hold them raised. The arms 13 are normally engaged by bolts 15 to hold the scoops in position, but, when the bolts are withdrawn, the scoops tip forwards, and empty the material. Behind the machine are verticallyadjustable ploughs 37, which loosen the earth under the V-sectioned tracks 6, to allow them to sink when the machine again runs over them to take off another layer.
Patent GB-190308792-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin Freed Machines.
Inventor: HARRIS ALEXANDER CHARLES
Filed: 1903-04-18
Granted: 1904-04-14
Abstract: 8792. Harris, A. C. April 18. Measured quantities, delivering, in coin-freed sale apparatus for cooled aerated beverages, or hot drinks such as coffee, tea, or beef preparations. The aÙrated beverage or the hot water receives a measure of syrup or extract. Dropped down a shoot 11, Fig. 4, the coin rebounds from a magnet 12 and over a stop 13 into a pocket 14 at the end of a detent 15 for a ratchet pinion 16 on a shaft 17. Half a revolution to and fro being then given to the shaft by a handle 4, Fig. 2, as allowed by a lug 20 and stops 21, 22, the motion is communicated through an endless chain 42 and wheels 43 to shafts which constitute parts of the delivery mechanism for the beverages, and their component syrups or extracts. The aÙrated liquid stored in a holder 55 is supplied to a delivery funnel 67<a> by a measuring-valve 56, such as is described in Specification No. 23,160, A.D. 1901, and the syrups or extracts to mix with it are supplied by plunger pumps 59, the rods 65 of which are lifted and let fall by cams 61. A series of segments 63 on a shaft 62 keeps all but one of the plungers clear of the cams, but the shaft is turned to select the one desired, which is pushed against the cam by a corresponding spring 66. Hot water in place of aÙrated is obtained from a boiler 69, Fig. 7, which is kept full by a feed-pipe leading to the bottom, and has at the top a measuring- chamber 70. The inlet and outlet lift valves 71, 72 hang from a rocker which is operated by a finger swinging first to the inlet side and then to the outlet side. Vent pipes rise from the boiler and measuring-chamber.
Patent GB-190309975-A (GB)
Title: An Invention for Facilitating the Apportioning of the Cost of Private Street Improvements to the various Frontages
Inventor: CAINK THOMAS
Filed: 1903-05-02
Granted: 1904-03-31
Abstract: 9975. Caink, T. May 2. Calculating-apparatus. - The cost of private street improvements is apportioned tc frontages of different lengths by the proportional scale shown. Two scales, one of lengths A and the other of monetary values B are drawn upon cardboard E and meet in a point. To the cardboard is also fixed a straight-edge D for a square F with a blade C adjustable at an angle and having a projecting celluloid edge with a reference line marked thereon, so that when the blade is set at the angle corresponding to a given cost per unit length of frontage, the actual cust for any given length of frontage may be read off by setting the reference line to that length.
Patent GB-190313967-A (GB)
Title: Acetylene Gas Generators.
Inventor: ROBERTSON WILLIAM ARCHIBALD
Filed: 1903-06-23
Granted: 1903-08-27
Abstract: 13,967. Robertson, W. A. June 23. Gas holders.-A holder for storing acetylene produced by a special generator comprises a bell 10 mounted over a water seal, guided by a rod 33 sliding in a fixed tube 34 and carrying a rod 9 which, by means of a slot and detent actuates the feeding-mechanism of the generator, as shown. The service pipe 35 is provided with a branch 36 dipping below the surface of liquid contained in a vessel 36, having an air vent 37 and acting as a safety device.
Patent GB-190317811-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the connection of the Ends of Driving Cords or Strings for Spinning Spindles and other Apparatus
Inventor: WOLF PAUL WALTHER
Filed: 1903-08-17
Granted: 1903-10-08
Abstract: 17,811. Wolf, P. W. Aug. 17. Couplings. - The ends of driving cords or strings are secured together by passing them through a ring or eye d and tying.
Patent GB-190319876-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tool Holders.
Inventor: HANSON BENGT MAGNUS WILHELM
Filed: 1903-09-15
Granted: 1903-10-22
Abstract: 19,876. Hanson, B. M. W. Sept. 25, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Tool-holders ; lathes.- A combined tool and steady-rest holder for the turret of a lathe or a "screw machine " &c. is shown in the Figures. Four posts 14, 15, 16, 17 are secured in a base-plate 10, the posts 16 and 17 being screwed and slotted to receive the rests 28. Each tool 25 is fixed by screws 26 in a support 20, mounted on the post 14, and is adjusted by a screw 23 bearing against the post 15, or by a screw 35, Fig. 9, bearing against a longitudinal shoulder 36 on the post 14, the post 15 being then dispensed with. The rests 28 are preferably tapered, and, along with correspondingly-grooved collars 31, are fixed between nuts 30, or a nut and one end of a slot 29. The free ends of the posts may be connected by a yoke-plate 18, through a hole in which the work is passed. The spindle 11 is preferably hollow to receive the end of the work.