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Patent GB-190322890-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Device for Catching and Holding Fowls and other Animals.
Inventor: ORR JOHN STEVENS
Filed: 1903-10-22
Granted: 1904-01-21
Abstract: 22.890. Orr, J. S. Oct. 23, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Birds, preventing escape of.-Relates to apparatus for catching fowls and other animals, and for holding them so that they can stand naturally. Attached to the side pieces 3 of a frame 2 are movable jaws 7, provided with guides 11 passing through holes 12, and normally held in the position shown by springs 8 formed integral with them. When the frame is pushed beneath the body of a fowl, the jaws 7, coming into contact with the bird's legs, move and allow them to pass into the loops formed by the parts 10, 13, and then spring back into place and prevent their removal. The appliance is held by a rod 6 carrying a tapered pin 14 which fits into holes in cross-pieces 4, 5. Attached to an eye on the cross-piece or double socket 5, is a string by means of which the fowl may be held after the rod is withdrawn. The apparatus may be adapted to catch fowls in trees &c., by passing the pin 14 through the holes 18. The parts 10, 13 are circular in cross-section, and may be provided with an elastic covering. Any other part of the apparatus may be provided with means for preventing the metal from coming into contact with the bird. The frame may be ornamented.
Patent GB-190323801-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fly-frames, and the like.
Inventor: SMETHURST HENRY ANDREW
Filed: 1903-11-03
Granted: 1904-06-30
Abstract: 23,801. Smethurst, H. A. Nov. 3. Slubbing, intermediate, and roving frames.-The cone belt C is passed twice over the cone pulleys A, B, and crossed on the tight side as shown. The antifriction bowl F, mouuted on a stud secured to the guide G, is used for keeping the belt in a crossed position, and the arm D, secured to the long rack E, supports the guides G, G<1>.
Patent GB-190326361-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wheels for Road Vehicles.
Inventor: TEMPLER JAMES LETHBRIDGE BROOK
Filed: 1903-12-02
Granted: 1904-01-07
Abstract: 26,361. Templer, J. L. B. Dec. 2. Wheels with two tyres side by side; detachable wheels.- Wheels for motor cars and other road vehicles, particularly those having pneumatic tyres, are prevented from side-slipping by bolting two similar wheels together coaxially to form a double wheel. In the construction shown, wheels a, a', mounted on ball bearings, are bolted together by bolts c. The axle is provided with a fixed collar e, and a movable collar g, secured by a feather to the axle, serves as a distance-piece between the wheels. An outer collar f is adjustably screwed on the axle, so that both wheels may be readily detached if necessary. The ends of the collars are adapted to form the ball races.
Patent GB-190327308-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Footwarmers for Carriages and the like.
Inventor: STEWART ALEXANDER DICK
Filed: 1903-12-14
Granted: 1904-12-14
Abstract: 27,308. Stewart, A. D. Dec. 14. Footwarmers.-A footwarmer for railway carriages, motor cars, and other vehicles is raised above the floor so that heat is transmitted through the uppers of boots &c. Figs. 21 and 22 and Figs. 24 and 25 show two forms of footwarmers, and the other Figures show the parts of which the footwarmers are built up. In the apparatus shown in Figs. 21 and 22, a liquid container of the usual form rests upon the upturned ends of a sole-plate. The metal plate shown in Fig. 1 is bent to form the chamber shown in end view in Fig. 3. The parts B of the plate are riveted together to form a central water-tight supporting-stay, which is attached by the parts A to the sole-plate. The projecting parts Z are bent and attached to the upturned ends of the sole-plate formed from the metal plate shown in Fig. 4. An additional central stiffening-stay, which may be one of the forms shown in end view in Fig. 10, may be fixed between the parts B. The stay extends from the sole-plate to the upper part of the liquid container. To produce the apparatus shown in Figs. 24 and 25, the plate shown in Fig. 11 is bent to fit the end pieces shown in Fig. 12. The plate and end pieces when united are secured to the sole-plate formed from the metal plate shown in Fig. 14. The ends s of the sole-plate are turned up and attached to the liquid container shown in Fig. 24. Fig. 19 shows a sole-plate for supporting existing footwarmers. The plate has its upturned ends provided with inner flanges to which the footwarmers may be attached. Existing footwarmers may be supported by and attached to other supports, such as end legs in the form of the letter H.
Patent GB-190401405-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Synchronizing, Correcting and Winding Clocks, Operating Time Signals and like Operations
Inventor: THE STANDARD TIME COMPANY LTD
Filed: 1904-01-19
Granted: 1904-12-15
Abstract: 1405. Standard Time Co., and Harrison, H. T. Jan. 19. Signals, time- alarm.-Relates to systems for periodi- cally synchronizing, correcting, and winding clocks, or operating time signals, at a dis- tance from the controlling station, through relay de- vices which enable local sources of electric power at high pressure to be utilized, thus enabling a low voltage current to be used for con- trolling purposes and a cheaply- erected line com- posed of ordinary telephone or tele- graph wires to be sufficient. The circuit containing the clocks may be supplied at a pres- sure less than that of the power cir- cuit, say at 50 or 100 volts from a 500-volt circuit, the necessary frac- tion being obtained by tapping it off a suitable resistance which receives the whole pressure. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the central con- trolling station 19 sends the impulses necessary to syn- chronize the clocks or operate the time signals, through the line wire 18, an earth return 18<b>, 2 being employed. The synchronizing-devices 4 are arranged in series in a circuit 3 with earth return 2, such circuit receiving at its terminals 10, 12<a>, a fraction only of the pressure existing between the supply main 1 and earth. Fig. 3 shows the relay device or electromagnetic switch in diagrammatic form, and Fig. 8 shows the switch in side elevation. The controlling currents from the distant station energize the electromagnet 20 and pull down the pivoted arm 23 against spring control, making contact at 7, 8. Current then flows from the supply main 1 through the time fuse 9, magnetic blow-out 6, and resistance 5 to earth at the terminal 10. The potential supplied to the line 3 is taken from a section only, 5<a>, of the resistance 5. A higher pressure can be obtained between the terminals 10, 12. The switch is furnished with carbon contacts 26, 27. The current in the circuit 3 may be used to control another relay switch supplying another synchronizing circuit, or the same line wire 18 may pass through several relay switches in series. The switch may be of double-pole type when an earth return is not used.
Patent GB-190409713-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Self Closing Hinges.
Inventor: ULLMANN MAX
Filed: 1904-04-28
Granted: 1904-06-02
Abstract: 9713. Ullmann, M. April 28. Hinges.-Relates to rising hinges for doors, windows, &c., the speed of swing being adjustable. The upper part 2, Figs. 1 and 2, secured to the door, carries a movable collar 4 and turns on a bolt 3 on the fixed part 1. The projection 5 on the collar 4 bears in the curved recess 6 in the part 1. A screw 8 passes through the arm 7 on the collar 4 and bears on a lug 10 on the part 2 which extends through a recess 9 in the collar 4. The position of the arm 2, and therefore that of the projection 5 on the steeper or flatter parts of the recess 6, are regulated by the screw 8 or by wedge-sbaped pieces inserted between the arm 7 and lug 10.
Patent GB-190412222-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Making Carbon Paper.
Inventor: HOW FRED BRADFORD
Filed: 1904-05-30
Granted: 1904-07-28
Abstract: 12,222. How, F. B. May 30. Copying documents &c.-Relates to machines for making carbon paper. The paper is wound off a roll 17, passes over drums 4 carried by the frame 1 and is wound on to a roll 21. Each drum 4 contains a chamber 7 in which is a screw 8 and which opens at one end into a reservoir 9 holding the carbon solution. The screw is driven by means of a spur-wheel 10 from a large wheel 3 on a power shaft 2. The reservoir 9 is open at the top, and a slot 11 in the top of the chamber 7 leads to the interior of the chamber. The slot may be contracted at the mouth by a strip of rubber or the like 12 placed in a dovetailed recess. A steam jacket 13, having an inlet 14, almost surrounds the chamber 7. At the side of the slot 11 is a gutter 15 which slopes towards and leads into the reservoir 9. The edge of this gutter forms a scraper 16. The paper may be held against the drums by rolls 19, 20.
Patent GB-190417772-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Filtering Apparatus.
Inventor: FORBES ANDREW
Filed: 1904-08-16
Granted: 1904-09-29
Abstract: 17,772. Forbes, A. Aug. 16. Filters.-Filtering-tanks 8, for wine and distilled or other liqnids, are arranged around a standard 1 and connected by pipes 22 to a common supply receptacle 15 and by pipes 31 to a circular discharge pipe 32. Each tank consists of two parts, the upper part 19 being supported by projecting flanges 24, which rest on a table 6 supported by arms 5 fixed to the standard. The periphery of the table has semicircular recesses to receive the tanks, which are kept in position by yokes bolted to the table. Clamps 26 grip flanges on the two parts of the tank, between which is held a filtering-diaphragm 38, above which and separated from it by an annular spacing-ring is a disc 35 of flannel or other filtering-fabric and a cup-shaped filtering-screen 36 of wire mesh. The connecting-pipes at top and bottom are fitted with valves or cocks, so that individual tanks may be disconnected for cleansing.
Patent GB-190418149-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Element or Sectional Boilers.
Inventor: LANGE JENS JOHAN MICHAEL
Filed: 1904-08-22
Granted: 1904-12-08
Abstract: 18,149. Lange, J. J. M. Aug. 22. Water - heating stoves. - Relates to steam or hot-water boilers made up of cast sections, each of which contains a fuel chamber with doors and ascending and descending flues. Figs. 6 and 7 show in sectional elevation two rectangular forms of boiler, and Fig. 8 shows in plan, partly in section, a boiler suitable for the corner of an apartment. As regards Figs. 6 and 7, the fuel chamber 6 is enclosed by the water spaces 5 which, projecting from lateral water-walls, are common to the next fuel chamber. The fuel chambers may open into each other laterally. The spaces 5 also enclose the ascending and descending flues 7, 8, the outlets being shown at 14. Suitable e cleaning - holes, doors, and fuel-entries are provided. The circulating- water connections are shown at 16 and 17. When the apparatus is for use in the corner of an apartment, the elements composing the boiler are wedge-shaped. They may also be arranged to complete a circle as seen in plan.
Patent GB-190419331-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tabulators for Typewriting Machines.
Inventor: WHITE CHARLES MELBOURNE
Filed: 1904-09-07
Granted: 1904-10-20
Abstract: 19,331. White, C. M., [Underwood Typewriter Co.]. Sept. 7. Type-writers.-Tabulating-devices are provided with means for setting and changing the groups of effective stops, for different tabular work, consisting of a movable bar or part provided with cam-projections &c. for moving some stops into, and the others out of, operative position. Fig. 8 shows a known form of tabulator frame 1 having a bar 2 on which the stops 3 are pivoted. Each stop is held in or out of operative position by a spring-pressed ball 7, engaging a groove 8 or 10 in the bar 2. The stops are provided with projections or index fingers 16 by which they aro set in relation to the scale bar 4. The means for moving the stops consists of a bar 12, which may be arranged to slide under the scale bar 4, formed with sets of cam-projections 15 which engage the fingers 16 and move the stops out of operative position. Figs. 3 and 5 show a bar 12 with two sets of cams 15, either of which may be engaged with stops, by moving the bar lengthwise. The bar may also be placed in an intermediate position in which none of the cams engage stops. More than two sets of cams 15 may be provided, and these cams may be made adjustable on the bar 12.
Patent GB-190426539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Milling Cutters.
Inventor: EYNON THOMAS
Filed: 1904-12-06
Granted: 1905-01-12
Abstract: 26,539. Eynon, T. Dec. 6. Milling.-Cutters are made with notches into which teeth 4, 4<1> are placed, and with radial or longitudinal sockets 6, 6<1>, leaving the cutting - periphery integral except for the notches. Wedges are driven into the sockets to clamp the teeth.
Patent GB-190503275-A (GB)
Title: Improved Clip for Securing Handles to the Heads of Brushes or Brooms.
Inventor: WATKINS WATKIN WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-02-16
Granted: 1905-12-07
Abstract: 3275. Watkins, W. W. Feb. 16. Handles. - A metal stamping consists of a main part a and two tongues b. The part a is wrapped round the handle of a broom at the part adjacent to but not within the stock. The tongues are bent to conform to the surface of the stock. The fixing is effected by screws or nails passed through the perforations c.
Patent GB-190503842-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Handles for Spades and similar Tools and Implements
Inventor: PARKES FRANK
Filed: 1905-02-24
Granted: 1905-11-16
Abstract: 3842. Parkes, F. Feb. 24. Handles.-A D-type handle for spades, shovels, forks, and similar tools and implements is formed by making a handhole a<4> in a D shaped piece made from a single piece of wood and forming in the bottom position an open-sided or split socket which receives the upper end d' of the shaft, on which it is closed and fixed by wood-screws f<1>, nuts and cross-pins, or equivalent means, which pass through the cheeks a<2> and the shaft.
Patent GB-190505042-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrically Operated Pianos.
Inventor: WEBER JOSEPH
Filed: 1905-03-10
Granted: 1905-10-19
Abstract: 5042. Weber, J. March 10. Automatic instruments.-The keys 1 of a piano are operated by a series of electro-magnets 7, 44, arranged staggered, as shown in Fig. 4, or in vertical alinement, as shown in Fig. 11, there being a number of magnets, with a common armature, or separate armatures, for the individual keys. Each armature 13 is pivoted at the side on the projections 26 on the magnet cores 25, or it may be pivoted to side brackets, or to projections carried by collars on the cores, or in small holes in the cores, and it has an extension 28 connected to the key-operating telescopic member 16, 18. In modified groupings of the magnets, the magnets are in pairs, or fours, with one or two armatures, operatively connected to the key, and the sections of the magnets arc elliptical. A pair of flattened magnets, or a single magnet with a split core, may be employed. Specifications No. 3169, A.D. 1866, No. 2477, A.D. 1871, No. 16,313, A.D. 1889, No. 4617, A.D. 1892, No. 17,617. A.D. 1901, and No. 10,346, A.D. 1902, are referred to.
Patent GB-190510663-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Traction Engines and other Motor Road Vehicles.
Inventor: HOARE GEORGE
Filed: 1905-05-22
Granted: 1906-03-22
Abstract: 10,663. Hoare, G. May 22. Motor road vehicles traction engines and road locomotives. - Relates to driving-gear for transmitting motion from the countershaft of a motor road vehicle or traction engine to the road wheels, the distinguishing feature being an Oldham's coupling connecting the spur and differential gearing, thereby allowing vertical movement of the framework due to the play of the springs, while the countershaft and road wheel. axle are kept parallel by equalizing levers. Fig. 1 shows the main spur-wheel E mounted on the bearing F, which is fixed to the vehicle framework and has an oval or circular bore encircling the road-wheel axle J. Sufficient clearance is allowed between the bore and axle to permit the latter to move relatively to the vehicle framework due to the play of the springs K. The wheel E is driven by the pinion D on the end of the fixed countershaft B, and has slots on its face engaged by projections e' on the coupling-ring H. The third member G of the coupling is connected to the central member of the differential gear. The equalizing-levers O, O<1> are pivoted, respectively, at f, P<1> to the sleeve N, and their inner ends engage one another, while the outer ends engage recesses in the brackets L, L<1>, on the framework. The equalizing-gear described in Specification No. 6912, A.D. 1900, is shown adapted to the present invention. It consists of a pair of bell-crank levers connected by a link.
Patent GB-190511532-A (GB)
Title: Seats of Adjustable Height and Inclination.
Inventor: BROWN GEORGE
Filed: 1905-06-02
Granted: 1905-10-26
Abstract: 11,532. Brown, G. June 2. Chairs, couches, seats and stools, tables, &c.-Relates to means for adjusting the height and inclination of stools, chairs, benches, couches, and other seats, and also the heights of tables, forms, and the like. The invention is shown as applied to a music stool. The seat S, Figs. 1 and 2, is provided on the underside with two pieces of wire A secured at the centre by staples W and nails N, the ends being free to spring outwards and work in grooves R in the seat frame SF. The seat is supported by the engagement of the wires A with notches G formed in the upper parts of the legs L, which pass through holes H at the corners of the seat. The ends of the wires are connected across by chains C, which pass over grooves Q formed in projections P of brackets B secured under the seat, so that, by depressing the chain between the projections P, the wires A are released from their notches. The holes H in the seat are made large enough to admit of the seat being supported at an inclination. In a modification, Fig. 3, the grooves G are formed in metal castings or stampings M, which are secured to the legs.
Patent GB-190521483-A (GB)
Title: A Safety Oil Lamp
Inventor: CONRAN EDWARD PETMAN
Filed: 1905-10-23
Granted: 1905-11-30
Abstract: 21,483. Conran, E. P. Oct. 23. Extinguishing oil lamps.-The wicktube A is mounted in the ground concave socket E of the reservoir R by means of a ground ball F and an attached weightedbob or pendulum H. In the event of the lamp being upset, the wicktube is tilted to the position indicated by the dotted lines, when the burner cone B extinguishes the flame. Oil - lamp reservoir fittings.- Should the oil in the reservoir explode, the ball F is lifted, thereby relieving the pressure in the reservoir and preventing it from bursting.
Patent GB-190523080-A (GB)
Title: An Apparatus for Displaying Diagrams, Drawings, Maps, Pictures, Photographs and the like.
Inventor: HUTT HARRY
Filed: 1905-11-10
Granted: 1906-07-26
Abstract: 23,080. Hutt, H. Nov. 10. Displaying.- Maps, pictures, photographs, and the like are displayed by being temporarily attached to laths A, C, D by pins, clips, or the like. The laths are connected together by tapes B, and cards E passing through eyes at the rear of each lath and over pulleys H are secured to the bottom lath D, so that the screen can be drawn up in the manner of a venetian blind, the cords E being secured by means of cleats M. Cords J attached to the top lath A pass o v e r pulleys K carried by the piece G, and may be secured in any position by cleats M, so that the top lath A can be held at any height ; or the tapes may be extended upwards and passed over a roller operated like a roller blind.
Patent GB-190604981-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Preparing, Dyeing, Scouring, Ageing, Setting, Bleaching, or otherwise Treating with Liquids Pieces, Warps or other Fibrous Material or the like in Cotton, Silk, Worsted, Woollens or the like.
Inventor: RHODES JOHN
Filed: 1906-03-01
Granted: 1907-02-21
Abstract: 4981. Rhodes, J. March 1. Bleaching; dyeing; washing.-Pieces, warps, &c. of cotton or silk, worsted, woollens, &c. are treated with liquids in one piece or a string of pieces, warps, &c., or as a number of pieces or strings of pieces &c., at the same time, in an apparatus which consists in an arrangement of rollers in a vat or vats, Figs. 1 and 2, in conjunction or not with guides or raddles and divided rollers. The pieces &c. may be repassed through the machine to get any desired or increased effect, and the treatment may consist in ageing, bleaching, dyeing, preparing, scouring, or setting (i.e. preventing tendency to curl), &c. The material to be treated, e.g. two pieces 6<a>, is passed over a guide-roller 4 on to guiderollers 5 in the first vat 2, arranged, as shown, for treating six pieces &c. simultaneously. One, two, or three pieces or one to six ends of warp may be treated. The material then passes by rollers 5<a> ... 5f out of the first vat 2, over a guide-roller 4<a>, and through squeeze-rollers 7 into a second vat 3. It is passed over rollers 8 in the second vat, through squeeze-rollers 9 and, when required, out through " sleeve rollers" 12, as shown at 6<b>. When an increased effect is wanted, e.g. in the case of two ends of warp 10<a>, shown separated at 10, the ends are passed in the reverse direction through the " sleeve rollers" 12, over rollers 13, and through squeeze-rollers 14, and are then tied to the same ends entering the first vat 2 so that they pass through the vats two or three times before finally parsing out of the machine at 10<b>, or through the rollers 12 carrying the pieces at 10<c>, or being drawn out at 10<d>. By repeatedly passing the material through the vats, " setting " and ageing are stated to take place. Fig. 2 shows one half of the machine used for warps 10 as well as pieces 6. The ends of warp pass through guides or raddles 16, and, in order that they may be passed through the rollers 12 in the reverse direction to that of the pieces 6, the rollers 12 are divided at 12<a>. When a pin 17 is removed, a sleeve 18 is rendered loose on its shaft 19 and the halves of the rollers 12 can be driven by means of pulleys 20, 21 in reverse directions.
Patent GB-190606165-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Binding Cover for Books, Periodicals, Catalogues, Albums and the like.
Inventor: BOSWELL WILLIAM FRANCIS DRAKE
Filed: 1906-03-14
Granted: 1906-05-10
Abstract: 6165. Boswell, W. F. D. March 14. Filing papers &c.-Relates to a bindirg-cover for books, periodicals, catalogues, albums, music, &c. Tapes or webbings f, Fig. 5, formed into pipings, are threaded through loops on the periodicals or the like and through slots in covers a, and are secured at the proper length by pins or wires k passed through the pipings, the free ends of the tapes being threaded back through the slots iu the covers. The loops may be formed by wire staples, or on wires l, Fig. 6, the ends of which are bent over and secured by threads n.