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Patent GB-190207681-A (GB)
Title: Polishing Brushes.
Inventor: FARNHAM FRANK GUNN
Filed: 1902-04-01
Granted: 1903-02-19
Abstract: 7681. Farnham, F. G. April 1. Rotary brushes for polishing boots and shoes. This invention, which relates to improvements on the invention described in Specification No. 12,242, A.D. 1900, consists, mainly, in the use of tubes a, Fig. 1, of textile material or cloth, such as seersucker or silesia. The tube is seamed at a<2>, and the edges a<3> may be placed inside or outside the tube, as shown. A number of these tubes are flattened and arranged radially round a wood &c. core b. The layers of tubes a<5> may be separated by annular strips c of textile material. The cores b may be covered on each side with overlapping- discs b<2> of canvas &c., which may be separated by other discs i, as shown. The various parts are nailed and cemented together, and the brush sections are clamped between collars g on a spindle y provided with a nut h.
Patent GB-190208079-A (GB)
Title: Lubricating Device for Wheels, Pulleys and the like.
Inventor: FOWLER BENJAMIN FARRAR
Filed: 1902-04-07
Granted: 1902-07-24
Abstract: 8079. Fowler, B. F. April 6, A.D. 1901, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Collectors.-Relates to a method of lubricating a pulley &c. which revolves on a fixed pin, axle, or spindle. Fig. 1 shows the invention as applied to a trolley. The wheel C is mounted between the arms B of the trolley pole, and revolves on a pin or bearing D. This pin is hollow to contain lubricant, and is secured in place by the head a and a nut e. The head a is cast or otherwise formed integral with the body, or is connected thereto by brazing, welding, or riveting. The lubricant is supplied through an opening b in the head, which opening is closed by a screw plug c, which may be provided with a vent. On one side the pin D has a number of holes, into which are screwed tubes E containing wicking, cotton, &c. Each tube is open at the outer end, and at the inner end is provided with a slit or other opening. During the rotation of the wheel, the lubricant is drawn through the tubes. The outer ends of the tubes come opposite to the point of frictional contact between a pulley and pin, thereby preventing the entrance of dust &c.
Patent GB-190219874-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Photograhic Enlargement Cameras or Apparatus for Enlarging Photographic Negatives.
Filed: 1902-09-11
Granted: 1903-08-06
Abstract: 19,874. Griffin & Sons, J. J., and Ibbetson, F. H. Sept. 11. Cameras; enlarging.-The base of an enlarging- camera is in two parts a, b, hinged together at c and fixed by the screw s. The negative holder h and lens holder g can be detached from the base, being fixed by screws i, l. In a modification, the holders h, g slide in guides on the base so that they can be adjusted, a rack and pinion being provided for the adjustment of the lens holder. The back d may be hinged, as shown at t, or may be detachable. The sensitized plate or paper m is held against the glass plate n by the cover p acted on by the spring q. When the camera is to be folded up, the holders h, g are detached and closed up with the bellows. The back is then turned down, the bellows entering the part b of the base, which is formed as an open frame. The part a is then folded back underneath the part b.
Patent GB-190224517-A (GB)
Title: A New and Original Method of Constructing Electric Resistances for Heating or other purposes
Inventor: HANKIN MAX
Filed: 1902-11-08
Granted: 1903-11-05
Abstract: 24,517. Hankin, M. Nov. 8. Heating by electricity.-R e s i s t - ances for use in electrical heating apparatus consist of partly metallic powder contained in insulating cylinders having means for varying the degree of compression of the powder. The resistance is placed in circuit by leads g clamped between nuts h, n on a screwed spindle e projecting into one end of a cylinder or tube c. There is a similar arrangement at the other end of the tube. The tube c may be of porcelain, fireclay, or other insulator, but is preferably of mixed mica and fireclay. It is filled with a powder d composed of metals such as tin, iron, lead, copper, gunmetal, or aluminium, and of fireclay, mica, asbestos, or slags, the material and size of the particles depending upon the electric resistance required. The constituents may be mixed as powders, or the metals may be melted and the other substances added. The pointed end of the spindle e is provided with projections to secure good contact. A tube a, preferably of iron or steel, surrounds the insulating tube c, which may be actually made inside it by filling up with the insulating composition and pushing a rod in centrally. To the end of the outer tube is screwed the cap b, and to this the spindle is secured by the nuts n, n' and washer c<1> bearing on the shoulder of the cap. These nuts also clamp insulating washers c', and the space k may be filled with insulating composition. By screwing the cap up or down the compression of the resistant powder may be varied. Solid resistance bars or plates of a similar composition may be formed by adding a binding material and subjecting to pressure. The resistances may be arranged in series for heating purposes in stoves, radiators, ovens, boilers, grills, and the like.
Patent GB-190225163-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of Mercerising Cotton Rovings and Yarns.
Inventor: NASMITH JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-11-17
Granted: 1903-04-30
Abstract: 25,163. Nasmith, J. W. Nov. 17. Rovings and yarns, mercerizing.-The material is cross-wound upon perforated drums, cleansed in boiling water, immersed in the mercerizing- liquor, washed, and dried. The rovings are then either wound on to bobbins which can be placed in the creel of the next fly frame, or the manufacture can be continued by unwinding direct from the drums.
Patent GB-190225297-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Marking Boards for Billiards and like Games.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1902-11-18
Granted: 1903-02-26
Abstract: 25,297. Boult, A. J., [Heiron, W. W., and Smith, J. B., (trading as Heiron & Smith)]. Nov. 18. Scoring and marking.-Relates to an attachment to roller marking-boards for billiards and like games, to indicate the hundreds. a represents the marking.board having polygonal rollers b turned by knobs c, and numbered so as to score up to one hundred. The attachment A is formed with a face-plate with slots, behind which are arranged rollers d, d<1> turned by knobs e, e<1> and indicating hundreds, and slides f, f<1> operated by handles g, g' and indicating that the player is handicapped behind " scratch " or the like.
Patent GB-190308045-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces for Vertical Boilers.
Inventor: MILLS BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD
Filed: 1903-04-07
Granted: 1903-06-25
Abstract: 8045. Mills, B. J. B., [American Stoker Co.]. April 7. Steam-generator furnaces; mechanical stoking.- Automatic stokers 5, preferably of the endless screw type, are arranged horizontally, radially, and in pairs at the bottom of a vertical boiler between the casing 3 and enclosing-wall 1. Between these stokers are stationary grates 25, sloping downwards from the stokers, by means of which fuel is conveyed to a central section of dumping and shaking grates 15. These latter, shown in Fig. 3, are mounted in bearings 16, and are operated by a lever being connected in pairs by a link. Air is supplied by tuyÞres 10 from a wind-box 9 surrounding the fuel magazine.
Patent GB-190313468-A (GB)
Title: Method of Forming Heads for Brooms.
Inventor: HOWORTH FRANKLIN WISE
Filed: 1903-06-16
Granted: 1904-07-16
Abstract: 13,468. Howorth, F. W., [Heuchel, H. F.]. June 16. Long-handled brooms.-To enable brooms to be cleansed when desired, the bead to which the "corn" is secured is formed of metal, preferably tin, and is detachable from the handle so that it can be cleansed in a bath of disinfectant; or a disinfecting-fluid may be poured into the handlesocket, from which it will ooze through the fibres or " corn." The metal blank for forming the head is stamped and drawn into the form shown in Fig. 1, and the flange b of one half B is trimmed, as shown in Fig. 4, after which the metal is cut across the middle and perforated with holes c, d, Fig. 4, along the severed edges, these holes serving to receive the wire for securing the " corn " in the head. The two parts A, B are next put together, with the flange b within the overturned flange a of the part A, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, after which the flanges are compressed together and the seam closed on a suitable former or horn. The socket D, Fig. 9, for the handle is made separately, and is suitably secured in the neck C of the head A, B.
Patent GB-190315329-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Screwing Boots and the like.
Inventor: MACKENZIE JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-07-10
Granted: 1904-03-17
Abstract: 15,329. Mackenzie, J. W., [Caron, E.]. July 10. Bobbins.-In machines for in serting screws cut from a continunus length of threaded wire into the soles of boots and shoes, the bobbin on which the coil of wire is mounted consists, as shown in Fig. 2, of a disc 23 formed with a tubular flange 232 and an annular flange 231, and a second disc 24 formed with a tubular flange 242, the two discs being secured together by the nut 25 screwed on the end of the flange 242. The bobbin spindle 22 is removably secured in the frame by a key 223, and the bobbin is mounted on it by means of the nut 26 and collar 27, between which a spring 28 is interposed, the nut 26 being screwed in the end of the flange 242. The tension is adjusted by screwing up the thumb-nut 221, which presses the thimble 29 against the collar 27, and the nut 26 against the frame 21. The bobbin is separated, for the insertion of a fresh coil of wire, by removing the spindle 22 and the nut 25.
Patent GB-190317229-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Appliance for Gripping and Supporting the Wires of Overhead Wire Systems of Electric Traction.
Inventor: LUBY JOHN HENRY
Filed: 1903-08-08
Granted: 1904-07-07
Abstract: 17,229. Luby, J. H., and Harris, W. Aug. 8. Conductors.-An appliance for gripping and supporting the wires of overhead systems of electric traction is formed of a pair of gripping-arms a, b shaped to grip the wire w and carried in a box or bracket c. The upper ends of the arms are shaped so as to form a hinge joint, the arm a being fixed by a screw d, while the arm b is acted upon by a wedge-bolt e, f, or its equivalent, such as sliding blocks, or pairs of wedges. The gripping-device may have two or more pairs of gripper-arms, and splicing ears may have two pairs at each wire end. For frogs, points, or like fittings, the boxes c, containing the gripper-arms, are cast on the fitting at the points where the wires are to be joined to the same.
Patent GB-190317266-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for the Separation of the Phenols of Coal Tar from the Neutral Constituents of the latter.
Filed: 1903-08-08
Granted: 1904-06-02
Abstract: 17,266. Schulze, E., and Chemisohe Fabrik Ladenburg Ges. Aug. 8. Phenols and their salts.-Phenol and its homologues are separated from the neutral oils of coal tar, by first adding, at a temperature below 70‹ C., sufficient milk of lime to form neutral phenolates, then filtering and decanting, and then distilling the liquid in vacuo at a temperature not higher than 65' C. to remove trimethylbenzene, durene, naphthalene, or other neutral oils. The phenolates remaining may be decomposed by means of mineral acids, or may be distilled, preferably with steam, at the ordinary pressure, when half the phenol comes over, leaving basic calcium phenolate behind. This phenolate may be used for dissolving fresh quantities of phenol. The process depends upon the fact that neutral calcium phenolates, such as phenol or cresol salts, are broken up when heatel.
Patent GB-190319617-A (GB)
Title: A Collapsable Frame for use in connection with Mail and like Bags or Sacks
Inventor: HARDER WALTER CHARLES
Filed: 1903-09-11
Granted: 1903-12-03
Abstract: 19,617. Harder, W. C., and Andrews, C. W. Sept. 11. Sacks and like bags.-The sack or bag is secured to a collapsable frame composed of bars A, B connected by bars C, D jointed in the centre at 15, 15 so that they will bend inwards. The frame may be bent, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, to vary the size of opening to the bag, or it may be bent into a triangular form. Openings 11 are formed in the projecting ends of the bars A, B so that the bag may be secured by pins 12 to suitable racks 13, Fig. 1. When the bars C, D are both bent inwards, the bag is completely closed, and may be fastened by a padlock and hasp 20, which is pivoted on the bar B and engages a slot 24 in the bar A.
Patent GB-190327613-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Furnaces.
Inventor: RITZ JOSEPH
Filed: 1903-12-16
Granted: 1904-02-18
Abstract: 27,613. Ritz, J. Dec. 16. Firebars and g r a t e s; clinkers, rem oving.-The grate bars c are formed and arranged to facilitate the removal of clinker by a poking- appliance d, f, inserted from beneath, the clinker being pushed to the opening a. The masonry is protected at the side of the grate bars by iron shields h, having passages for the admission of air, and at the roof of the clinker hole a either by iron plates which may be cooled by the passage of air, or by a chamber containing a liquid. The bars are shown recessed on their upper surface near the bottom, so that the poking- appliance penetrates further into the clinker where clinker is apt to collect. For the same reason the under surfaces of the bars may be recessed at a point near the opening a. The poker moves between the point e, above which the interstices between the bars may be narrower, and a stop g. The protecting-plates m, n form an air passage between them. The plate n is also ribbed on its underside to form additional air passages. The shields h may project from the masonry, be flush therewith, or be recessed therein ; they have passages to allow air from the ashpit to enter the furnace. In a modification, the grate is horizontal, but formed with a downward bend at the end remote from the opening a.
Patent GB-190328812-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in High Compression Gas or Vapor Engines.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1903-12-31
Granted: 1904-02-18
Abstract: 28,812. Thompson, W. P., [Duryea, O. C., and White, M. C.]. Dec. 31. Rock drills.-Two cylinders have free pistons connected together positively so that they are moved in both directions by explosions, and are arrested by them only, being connected to powertransmitting mechanism in such a way that the length of stroke will not be interfered with. The compression in consequence of this mode of working is very high, combustion is spontaneous after starting and very rapid, and loss of heat through the cylinder walls is small. The invention is applicable to rock drills, fluid-pressure hammers, and other directacting machines, and -is described in several forms, In the form shown in Fig. 4, a charge is drawn into the chambers 4, 5, compressed on the out-strokes of the pistons 6, 7, and admitted to the cylinders 2, 3, expelling the burnt gases when the pistons uncover ports 11,14. Induction coils are excited by contact of the terminals 31, 32 with the pistons, and produce sparks for a considerable time at starting, which is effected by moving the pistons by hand. A heated bulb or a magneto-electric machine worked by the engine may be employed for igniting. The power is varied by adjusting a long plug throttle valve with an inclined cut-off edge. The motion of the piston is transmitted by a rod 9, which is given a rotary motion by a rifled sleeve 52 which is allowed to turn in one direction only by a silent ratchet 53. Side rods may be attached to a crosshead between the cylinders, or the cylinders may be side by side and the piston-rods connected by a rocking beam.
Patent GB-190400420-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Taps or Valves.
Inventor: JAUNCEY PHILIP HENRY
Filed: 1904-01-07
Granted: 1904-11-10
Abstract: 420. Jauncey, P. H. Jan. 7. Lift valves; casings.-A plug valve C with a washer E, Fig. 2, is carried on a spindle B and has its seating on the inner end of the casing, which may be lengthened by screwing on a ferrule I, Fig. 3, recessed at J so as to allow free flow round the valve. Actuating valves and cocks.-The spindle may work in a screw in the casing, in which case it is actuated by a handle as shown. In other cases it does not rotate and is operated by a lever, a handle screwing on the casing, or by other means. In Fig. 6 it is shown operated by a pivoted lever actuated by a screw.
Patent GB-190408008-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vertical or Pale Fencing.
Inventor: MAIN ROBERT RAMWAY
Filed: 1904-04-07
Granted: 1905-02-02
Abstract: 8008. Main, R. R., and Cameron, J. J. April 7. Fencing.-Pales of corrugated or other form have horizontal bars secured to them without the use of bolts, nuts, &c. The corrugated pale shown in Fig. 1 is partly slit across at a, a, and the parts A<1> creased so as to reverse the corrugations. The horizontal bars B have two notches cut out of one of the webs, leaving a tongue b<1> to fit into the funnel shaped channels in the parts A'. The slits and creased portions may be arranged in any other suitable manner. Figs. 6 and 7 show types in which a tongue b<1> on the horizontal bar passes through an aperture in the vertical bar, while in Fig. 8 the web B' of each horizontal bar is slightly notched at B<2>, and fits into an inclined aperture A<4> in the T-shaped vertical bar.
Patent GB-190409127-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for use in Washing Plates, Cups and Saucers, or the like.
Inventor: CLEVELAND BARRY
Filed: 1904-04-20
Granted: 1905-04-20
Abstract: 9127. Cleveland, B. April 20. Plates, dishes, cups, and saucers, washing.-The articles to be treated are placed in a holder, which is then immersed in a tank heated to the boiling- point by gas burners and rotated or agitated. The holder is of a cage-like form, and fitted with trunnions ; the bars of one half are fixed to ring- shaped end pieces b, one or more of them being notched to receive the plates, which are then clamped in position by one or more bars d. The latter are adjustable in the end-pieces to allow the holder to take plates of different sizes, and are secured by wing-nuts. When filled, the holder is placed in the washing-tank, in which it rests on bearings i, and is rotated or merely agitated by means of the handles f. When the process, which may be accelerated by inserting brushes between the plates, is complete, the holder is placed in bearings i placed well above the surface of the washing-liquid while the articles are rinsed, and it may subsequently be removed to allow the articles to drain. Three sides of the tank are prolonged to form a casing for the burners placed beneath it, the fourth serves as one wall of a flue which is situated at the back of the tank and communicates with the chimney. A strainer k', a valve-controlled waste-pipe k, and a hinged flap in the front of the casing, which may be turned down to form a working surface, are also fitted to the tank. A holder for cups, Fig. 4, for use with the apparatus, consists of a framework in which are mounted springs s of a suitable shape ; the cups when in place are secured by a skeleton lid, the bars of which press on the top of the cups, adjustment for different sizes of cups being made by the lid being movable on the uprights of the frame, to which it can be clamped by screws. A saucer holder may form part of the same frame, one half of this part being constructed of notched bars, and the articles being secured by an adjustable bar as first mentioned or by a similarly-arranged hinged lid.
Patent GB-190409647-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electro-magnetic Machines for Igniting in Explosion Motors.
Inventor: PICHARD PHILIPPE
Filed: 1904-04-27
Granted: 1904-06-23
Abstract: 9647. Pichard, P., and Meunier, E. April 27 Magneto-electric machines.-Figs. 1 and 2 show in outside elevation and in vertical section respectively a magneto-electric machine for igniting in explosion and like engines. Attached to, and rotating with the bronze or non-conducting shaft 3, are a pair of metal discs 13, between which is a fixed tube 14 carrying a pair of coils 10, 11. The chamber containing the coils and rotating discs is closed below by the condenser casing 4, attached to the pole-pieces 6 of the permanent magnet 7. A current-breaker is shown on the end of the shaft, and consists of a cam 22, operating a spring which makes and breaks contact with the platinumpointed screw 18.
Patent GB-190410624-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Retarding the Speed of Vessels, and Steering the same.
Inventor: ZERBE AARON
Filed: 1904-05-09
Granted: 1904-06-23
Abstract: 10,624. Zerbe, A. May 9. Stopping way; steering by plates at stern.-Two longitudinal shafts D, geared together by spur-wheels E and capable of being rotated by the hand-shaft H and bevel-wheels shown, may be clutched at will to the aligned shafts B, which carry plates A, normally masked by the stern of the vessel. The clutches Care operated by thelevers J, and, when both shafts are turned together, the plates retard the vessel, whereas, when only one is turned, steering is effected. The position of the plates A is indicated by miniature discs L, which are caused to m o v e simultaneously by bevel-wheels operated by chain gearing from the shafts B.
Patent GB-190415010-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cooling Towers for Reducing the Temperature of Condensing Water and other Liquids.
Inventor: REAVELL JAMES ARTHUR
Filed: 1904-07-05
Granted: 1905-05-04
Abstract: 15,010. Reavell, J. A. July 5. Liquids, cooling. -Relates to an arrangement of troughs, conduits and "mats" in a cooling-tower, whereby the liquid is distributed evenly over the mats, the troughs being so construfted that they may be readily cleaned, and the amount of liquid trickling over the mats regulated. Each trough A is made in two pieces, which are bolted together, with intervening distance-pieces b<2>. The mats B are supported by the bolts, and the parts lying between the portions of the mats through which the bolts pass may be cut away. The liquid enters the troughs by means of the main pipe E and branch pipes e', and escapes over the mats by the openings in the troughs between the bolts.
Patent GB-190416007-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin Counters
Inventor: LININDOLL CHARLES CALL
Filed: 1904-07-19
Granted: 1904-08-25
Abstract: 16,007. Lake, H. H., [Linindoll, C. C.]. July 19. Counting-apparatus for coins and the like, adjustable for coins of different sizes. The coins are poured into the hopper 14, Fig. 1, which has a deflector 14<a>, to prevent them from getting into a wrong position, and is detachably secured to the coin tube 16 through which the coins fall on to the plate 19. The latter has a shoot 22, Fig. 4, along which the coins are pushed by pins or abutments 30 on the rotating gear-wheel 31 into the offset 19<a>, which is inclined at 22<a> as shown in Fig. 1, so that the coins drop down through a hole 22<b> into the receiver 23. The latter is adapted to hold the paper cartridges for the coins and is mounted on the sliding base 11, and may be withdrawn by pulling the knob 28. The gear-wheel 31 is driven by gearing 34 carried on a handle shaft 35 which projects through the casing 10. As the coins are pushed along the shoot 22, they engage an arched foot 37 which carries a pawl 40 to engage the ratchet-wheel 41 on the dial staff 42. This staff is socketed at its end so as to engage the squared end of the shaft which carries the pointer end 47 of the indicating dial 48, the latter being attached to a hinged lid which is fitted to the casing 10 and can be swung out so as to expose the internal mechanism. Two or more ratchet wheels 41 and pawls may be provided according to the various coins counted. Stop pins 50 engage the cross-pins 51 on the ratchet-wheels 41 at the completion of each count, and have to be lifted by handles 50<a> before the mechanism can start again. A bell also may be suitably installed and operated by a lever on the staff 42 to indicate the completion of a count.