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Patent GB-190406094-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cigarette and Cigar Tipping Machines.
Inventor: ASHCROFT LEONARD CROSBY
Filed: 1904-03-12
Granted: 1905-02-23
Abstract: 6094. Ashcroft, L. C., and Thomas, J. L. March 12. Cigarette-making machines and appliances; cigars, tipping. Relates to apparatus for tipping the ends of cigarettes or cigars with a medium which will ignite when rubbed on a suitable surface. The cigarettes &c. are fed from a shoot into the pockets of an endless conveyer a, Fig. 2, which carries them to a wheel e frictionally rotated in a trough d containing the tipping-composition. A guide h presses the cigarettes &c. against the wheel e as the composition is applied, and, after tipping, they pass down a discharge shoot. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, the cigarettes &c. are carried to the composition-applying wheel e by a wheel a having the pockets in its periphery, and the tipping- composition is held by a container d and agitated by a stirrer driven from the wheel m by a cord l, a tap in the bottom of the container allowing the composition to drop on to the wheel e. This wheel is driven from the shaft a<1> by a cord q passing over pulleys o, r, r, p, and any drippings from the wheel e are caught by a tank u. The cigarettes &c. are fed to, and carried away from, the apparatus by an endless band s. Electric heaters may be used to keep the tipping-composition warm and liquid, and to dry the tips of the cigars or cigarettes. The Provisional Specification states that a counter may be used to indicate the number of cigarettes or cigars tipped, and the counter may be worked by tappets or projections actuating a star-wheel or the like, also that the composition-applying wheel may be placed above the feed shoot on the same side of the carrier.
Patent GB-190407521-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Running-gear and Brakes for Vehicles.
Inventor: SCHMAND CHARLES C
Filed: 1904-03-30
Granted: 1904-05-05
Abstract: 7521. Schmand, C. C. March 30, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Brakes; shafts and poles ; undercarriages. -Relates to an automatic brake for vehicles, and to an arrangement in which the draught tongue or pole may be interchanged from one end of the vehicle to the other, while the axles are so connected as to facilitate accurate turning. When the animals hold back, the horizontally-slotted tongue, held between sector-shaped guide-plates 42, 43 by a bolt 54, slides back to engage the ends of levers 57, 58, which are pivoted to bars 21, 22, and to levers 59, 60, respectively, so that a brakebeam 25 sliding in slots in the ends of the bars, is brought up to apply the brakes. By inserting bolts at opposite sides of the bolt 54, the vehicle may be backed without applying the brakes. The axles pivoted to the opposite ends of overlapping beams 6, 7, are connected by diagonal rods 14, 15, which are attached to the axles by a hook 16, Fig. 4, engaging a link of a chain on a hook 18. To lock either of the axles against swinging motion, the rods are disconnected by disengaging the hooks 16, and a vertical pin is inserted through a hole 37 or 38 in segments 35, 36, and through the beam 7 or 6. The latter beams are longitudinally adjustable, each being slidingly-supported by collars 8 or 9 on the other, and, when these beams are extended, the connecting-rods may be adjusted by engaging the proper link of the chain with the hook 18. Both ends of the vehicle are similarly constructed so that the pole may be changed from one end to the other. The plates 42, 43 are sustained by braces 44, 45, 46 from the bars 21, 22.
Patent GB-190407862-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Optical Observing Apparatus for Submarines and for other purposes.
Inventor: HUBBARD EDWARD LECOMPT
Filed: 1904-04-05
Granted: 1905-04-05
Abstract: 7862. Hubbard, E. L. April 5. Polemoscopes. - Relatesto observing-apparatus for submarine vessels &c. Fig. 1 shows a submarine boat fitted with a fixed observing-tube 1 for steering &c., and a periscope 2 for sweeping the horizon. Figs. 3, 4, and5 show the optical elements in section. In each case the virtual image formed by a negative lens, acting as an object-glass, is projected by a positive lens into the focal plane of the eyepiece. Thus in the periscope 2, the image formed by the negative lens 22 is projected by the lens 29 into the focal plane of the eyepiece 27. When the lens 29, which is adjustable, is at its lowest position, the magnification is unity ; when raised into a higher position the magnification is increased. The magnification of the steering-telescope is variable in the same way. The disposition of the reflecting and erecting prisms 5, 6,7, and 10 may be varied. The telescope may be used for general look-out purposes either on land or sea.
Patent GB-190409490-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Signalling Systems for Houses, Hotels, Ships and so forth.
Inventor: BIRNBAUM ISIDORE BERNARD
Filed: 1904-04-25
Granted: 1904-09-22
Abstract: 9490. Birnbaum, I. B., and Bowles, E. W. April 25. Signals, bell, electric, reply, and indicator or visible; indicating ringing of bells to operators.- A signalling system for houses, hotels, ships, &c. comprises an annunciator circuit and a lamp circuit adapted to be closed by a push in the former circuit, the lamp circuit remaining closed until broken by separate means when the call is answered. On depressing the calling push 1, the circuit 2, comprising electromagnets 4, 5, relay 15, and battery 3, is closed, thus actuating the visible indicator 6, closing the relay bell circuit 7, and clcsing the lamp circuit 9 by the contact-maker 8. Lamps 10 in the latter circuit may be placed in the calling-room, the head porter's room, &c., and the porter may signal that the call has bean noted by momentarily depressing the key 17, thus producing a flickering in the lamp in the calling- room. When the call is attended to, the lamp circuit is broken by closing the shunt circuit through the electromagnet 13 by the push 14, thus returning the contact-maker 8 to its original position. The Provisional Specification describes mechanical means to replace the contact-maker 8.
Patent GB-190409892-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Motors for Motor Cycles, Motor Cars, Oil Launches and like Vehicles and Structures.
Inventor: CRAIG ROBERT
Filed: 1904-04-30
Granted: 1905-04-29
Abstract: 9892. Craig, R. April 30. Connecting - rods. -The connecting- rod of an internalcombustion engine is made in halves g, h held together by bolts g<1>, h<1>. This mode of construction facilitates removal of the rod.
Patent GB-190411142-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steering Gear for Ships.
Filed: 1904-05-14
Granted: 1905-03-16
Abstract: 11,142. Carron Co., and Rodgerson, W. J. May 14. Steering-gear.-Comprises ratchet gearing, which, while allowing the handing shaft to be moved by design, prevents its return movement until the hand-wheel is reversed. The motion of the shaft B, to which the hand-wheel A is fitted, is transmitted by the gearing shown to the sleeve C, carrying a pinion or forming part of the steering- barrel &c. On each side of the bearing H, the shaft B has right and left handed cam-surfaces F, F<1>, which act on radial blocks E, E<1> let into the sleeve C and adapted to engage or release right and left handed ratchet-rings G, G<1> fitted with pawls, not shown.
Patent GB-190413853-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reaping, Mowing, or Harvesting Machines.
Inventor: PEEL THOMAS
Filed: 1904-06-18
Granted: 1905-06-17
Abstract: 13,853. Peel, T. June 18. Reaping, mowing, and harvesting machines.-In machines for cutting peas, tares, lentils, vetches, and the like, special means are provided for lifting and feeding the crop across the horizontal cutting-apparatus and platform, and for discharging it at the end of the machine behind the travelling-wheels. The lifting and feeding appliances are caused to move longitudinally forwards and downwards and then upwards and backwards, and the discharging-devices are given similar movements in a transverse direction. Fig. 1 is a plan of the preferred form of the machine. Curved spring lifting and feeding prongs 11, 18 are attached to two sets of laths or bars 10 mounted on crank shafts 3, 13. The shaft 3 is driven through a coiled spring 5 or other flexible or universal joint and is connected to the shaft 13 by an endless chain 14. The axes 3, 13 may be in the same horizontal plane and one set of bars 10 may be moving forwards while the other is moving backwards. The cutter-bar may be fitted with curved lifting-devices known as corn lifters, and the rear ends of the bars 10 may be supported by rocking bars instead of cranks. The crop is discharged from the hinged platform 17 by prongs attached to oppositely-moving bars 19, 19<a> mounted on parallel cranks 21, 22, on shafts 23, 24, which may be geared together by an endless chain 28 and driven by bevel gearing 26. The horizontal bars 19, 19<a> are jointed at 30, the outer ends being controlled by springs. The divider consists of a pair of shears projecting in front of the cutterbar 1. The upper blade is hinged to the lower and is linked to a crank disc 37, or is oscillated by other means. The overhanging parts of the uncut crop are pushed back by a loosely-mounted horizontal wheel 38 provided with ratchet - shaped teeth 38<a>. The Provisional Specification states that the rear end of the platform may be convex at its outer side and concave and thin-edged at its inner, and that means may be provided for lifting it while the machine is going round corners.
Patent GB-190417652-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Spacing Mechanism of Typewriters.
Filed: 1904-08-13
Granted: 1904-09-29
Abstract: 17,652. Wanderer Fahrradwerke vorm. Winklhofer & Jaenicke Akt. - Ges. Sept. 18, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Type-writers.-In type-writers, more especially these having front - striking gear and automatic mechanism for raising or depressing the ribbon fork and for feeding the ribbon, the space key or bar a on levers b, pivoted on a rod c, actuates the spacing - mechanism through the pawl e and a lever d, without actuating the ribbon-shifting devices. The type-bars n, however, are pivoted at their inner ends, and all actuate a universal bar i, from which, through a bell crank k, a link h, and lever f, the spacing-pawl e is operated, and at the same time the lever k operates a lever l pivoted at m through which the ribbon devices are worked. The lever l, although it rests on the bar i, does not move it sufficiently to actuate the ribbon devices, and the bar h has a slot at the upper end to allow for the independent movement of the pawl e by the lever d.
Patent GB-190418966-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Inventor: CLARK WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-09-02
Granted: 1904-10-06
Abstract: 18,966. Clark, W., [Underwood Typewriter Co.]. Sept. 2. Type-writers.-Relates more particularly to the escapement and mechanism connected therewith. Fig. 1 shows a sectional elevation in which 11 represents a key-lever having a slotted connection at 16 with an elbow lever 14 which operates the type-bar 17. Each type-bar operates a universal bar 19 connected by a frame 20 with a rod 21 carried by arms 22 on a shaft 41 pivoted at 23 preferably on pointed bearing-screws. The frame 20 engages a screw stop 24 on the fixed dog 25 of a dog frame 26, fulcrummed on bearing-screws 27. A loose dog 28 is pivoted at 29 on the frame 26, and pulled by a diagonal spring 30 which tends to swing the dog 28 and also the frame 26, so as normally to engage the loose dog with the escapement wheel 31. A spring 33 returns the frame 20 and bar 19 to the forward position. The escapement wheel 31 is connected by a pawl with a toothed pinion 34 gearing with the rack 36 of the carriage 37, so that the carriage may be returned without rotating the wheel 31. To prevent return motion of the wheel 31, a pawl 73 is pivoted at 72. When the loose dog 28 is, by the movement of the frame 20 and dog frame 26, disengaged from the wheel 31, it is swung by the spring 30 against a deflecting-stop 39, having an inclined surface with which the dog engages. This tends to swing the frame 26 and bring the dog 28 back into engagment with the wheel 31, the movement being assisted by the spring 30. The inclined surface on the stop 39 may, if desired, be dispensed with. The escapement is operated from the space bar by means of an arm 42 on the shaft 41 to which is fixed an arm 43 engaged by an extension 44 of the space bar. The ribbonguide 45 is moved by a lever 46 having a pin 48 engaging a slot 49 in a bracket secured to the frame 20. The ribbon-feed mechanism may be operated by a lever 51 having a pin-and-slot connection with the arm 43. The carriage rack 36 is carried by arms 53, and has a plane part engaged by a roller 54 on a carrier 56, pivoted at 57. This carrier is engaged by a projection 58 on the tabu lating-stop 59, so that the rack is lifted from engagement with the pinion when the stop 59 is operated. A movable stop carried by a lever 63 limits the movement of the dog frame 26, and may be moved away to permit of a greater movement of the universal bar for removal of type-bars &c. The return movement of the frame 26 is limited by a stop screw 67 held in its adjusted position by a set-screw 68 having a copper pad at its end. The pivot 29 of the dog 28, the pivot 57 of the frame 56, and other pivots may be constructed as shown in Fig. 6. The pivot pin 29 has a head 29<a>, which confines the hub 28<a> of the dog 28 or pivoted part, and the shank extends into a hole in the frame 26 or supporting-part. The pin is fixed in the required longitudinal position by a set-screw 70.
Patent GB-190420571-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Appliances for Fixing Standard & other Bars in Position for Shop Windows or Show Cases or other like purposes
Inventor: RICKABY ARTHUR EDGAR
Filed: 1904-09-24
Granted: 1905-02-09
Abstract: 20,571. Rickaby, A. E. Sept. 24. Displaying. - Relates to appliances for fixing the bottom ends of standards or other bars for displaying &c. A foot B is provided with one, two, or three lugs C inside which the end of the standard A can slide after which it is fixed in position by a collar D dropped over the lugs.
Patent GB-190426749-A (GB)
Title: Show-case.
Inventor: EVEREST LABAN JOSEPH
Filed: 1904-12-08
Granted: 1905-02-23
Abstract: 26,749. Everest, L. J. Dec. 10, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Show cases.-A show case adapted to be taken to pieces is provided with a glass top, front, and sides. At the rear, it may be provided with doors which are mounted between posts H secured to the base 35 and connected at their upper ends by a cross-rail. Special devices are provided for detachably securing the glass parts in position. The upper ends of the side and front plates are secured together by means of fastenings, each comprising U -shaped blocks B, A which fit respectively on the front and side plates. The block B is formed with a lug 15 to engage a recess in the blcck A. A block C of the shape shown in Fig. 5, slides over the parts A, B and secures them together. The block A fits on a shoulder shown in Fig. 9, on the side-plate. The block B is perforated to allow it to be soldered or cemented to a recess in the front plate. The parts C, A are secured similarly to the side-plate. The plates fit in grooves in the base and rear part of the case. The front lower edges are secured together by fastenings G, shown in Fig. 15. Each fastening G is provided with an L-shaped extension 37 adapted to receive the lower edge of a glass plate. The extensions are perforated to allow a holdfast material to extend into recesses in the glass plates. At the back, the sideplates are secured to U-shaped blocks 31, Fig. 13, formed with flanges 33 adapted to engage grooves in the posts H. The top plate is cemented at the back to U-shaped blocks E, Fig. 11, formed with extensions 28 adapted to be secured to the crossrail. The top plate fits at the front under L- shaped extensions 24, Fig. 9, of U-shaped blocks 21 which fit in recesses formed in the upper edges of the side-plates. Perforations 22 registering with recesses formed in the side-plates are formed in these blocks to enable them to be secured in place.
Patent GB-190500381-A (GB)
Title: Method of and Means for Electrically Lighting-up Street and other Gas Lamps whose Burners are Beyond Reach of Hand.
Inventor: PARE WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-01-09
Granted: 1905-09-14
Abstract: 381. Pare, W. Jan. 9. Actuating valves and cocks. - For turning on and off a gas cock e, a key m is provided which at the same time makes or breaks a sparking- circuit for lighting the lamp. When the cock is out of reach, the motion is transmitted to it by means of a rocking plate n' and two rods n, Fig. 6.
Patent GB-190501776-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process of Treating and Utilising Sewage.
Inventor: MCLEAN ALEXANDER
Filed: 1905-01-30
Granted: 1905-06-15
Abstract: 1776. McLean, A., and Paterson, W. Jan. 30, Gas manufacture, materials for.-Sewage sludge is mixed with quicklime in a mill A and the whole dried on trays C as described in Specification No. 12,232, A.D. 1904, [Abridgment Class Drying], each tray forming the top of a vacuum apparatus E mounted on trunnions F to facilitate the discharge of the dried residue into a trough K. The material is meanwhile stirred by scrapers or squeegees G. Air and water are withdrawn from the boxes E along pipes. After being conveyed to and dried in heated driers M, P, the material is moulded into suitable forms for gas-generating &c. in a machine Q. In the drier P a little tar, and if necassary lime, may be added to the mass An exhausting-fan is used to pass back to the chimney the furnace gases which have been used in the drying process. The extracted liquid is led away through troughs.
Patent GB-190503161-A (GB)
Title: A Poultry Recording Trap Nest
Inventor: COOK GEORGE
Filed: 1905-02-15
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 3161. Cook, G. Feb. 15. Poultry coops; nests; traps.-A coop and run are so arranged that the hen cannot enter the nest without closing the entrance to the run, and on returning from the nest to the run closes the entrance to the nest. The run a is provided with an entrance door f and a door g to the coop hinged at A and i respectively. The doors bear flags k, l, which are secured to bars j, working through or over leather or rubber pads. The doors are supported in an open position on the long arms of bent levers o, which are held in an upright position by springs q. On the short arms of the levers o rest flaps t, u, hinged to the ends of the run at v, w, the flap t resting on the lever that supports the door g and the flap u resting on the lever that supports the door f. A pin y on the flap t engages with a notch in the lever on which the flap u rests, so that until the flap u has been depressed the flap t is held.
Patent GB-190503309-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Joint-making Packing.
Inventor: KNOWLES JOHN
Filed: 1905-02-17
Granted: 1905-12-07
Abstract: 3309. Knowles, J., Rimmer, J., and Liptrot, W. Feb. 17. Joint-making packing.-A joint ring packing for flanged joints, made of a compound of lead and antimony, lead and zinc, or lead and bismuth is shown in Fig. 1. The packing may be in the form of a single ring, but preferably two or more concentric rings A are connected by bars a. For square and similar joints, the packing may be made in straight lengths as in Figs. 3 and 4. The fixing of the ring may be facilitated by the extension B carrying a wire which can be held in the band.
Patent GB-190516771-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Knife Motions to Looms Weaving Pile Fabrics, such as Velvet and the like.
Inventor: BOTT JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-08-18
Granted: 1905-11-16
Abstract: 16,771. Bott, J. W. Aug. 18. Looms, pile-cutting in.- Relates to knife motions for cutting double pile velvets and other pile fabrics in looms. The knife-carrier is reciprocated along the usual guide-rail by cord connexions with pulleys D, which are actuated by a pinion d and a rack f, carried by a nut moved to and fro on a screw in the frame G. The screw carries a pinion gearing with a segmental lever C, which is rocked by a tappet-worked lever. In looms where the work passes close under the knife rail, the driving-cords may be passed through a tube under the rail, and round a pulley, and back along the top of the rail.
Patent GB-190525902-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sleeve Links.
Inventor: ROBERTS ALBERT
Filed: 1905-12-13
Granted: 1906-08-02
Abstract: 25,902. Roberts, A., and Rhodes, T. B. Dec. 13. Sleeve - links have one or both end plates a, b divided into two or more parts hinged so that they may be turned back on the connecting-link c. A spring or catch may be added to retain the divided plate b normally in the open position.
Patent GB-190602199-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Newspaper Holders.
Inventor: BERCHTOLD HEINRICH
Filed: 1906-01-29
Granted: 1906-04-12
Abstract: 2199. Berchtold, H. Jan. 29. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Newspaper holders.-A newspaper holder for supporting one or more papers comprises a board 1 with clamping- wires 2 for holding the fold of the papers, the upper ends of which engage recesses in the board 1. To the board 1 are pivoted two wire frames 5, 6, the former of which is formed with ends 10, 11 bent at rightangles, adapted to enter recesses in the board 1 and to form pivots for the frame 6. The lower arm of the frame 6 carries a grooved block 12, which engages the frame 5 either to retain the frame 6 in the position shown or in the opened-out position to support an unfolded newspaper. The frame 5 is rigidly connected to a bar 3, provided at one end with a suspending-ring 20 and at the other with a hinged handle 4, which may be turned back and held by a spring 15, to form a support when the holder is placed on a table or desk.
Patent GB-190609207-A (GB)
Title: Lubricator.
Inventor: GROUVELLE JULES
Filed: 1906-04-18
Granted: 1907-01-24
Abstract: 9207. Grouvelle, J., Arquembourg, H., and Joret, L. April 18. Rotary disk valves for lubricators. The admission of oil to a pump e is controlled by a rotary valve q mounted on a shaft m and pressed by a spring r against a trued face on the side of the casing a. The valve q has a recess on one face, extending for about half its circumference, which puts into communication the oil inlet p and a pipe n leading to a channel d. Oil is forced by the pump through one or more passages o to a circular channel s<1> in a rotary distributor s, having a radial paseage s<2> communicating successively with a number of channels t and outlets s u. The distributor s works on a block a<2>, against which it is pressed by a spring regulated by a nut s<5>, and is actuated by an endless screw v carried by a shaft j, t h screw having a straight portion which holds the passage s<2> in an intermediate position between two of the outlets t during the suction stroke of the pump. A single distributor may be arranged to combine the functions of the two distributors q, s.
Patent GB-190615531-A (GB)
Title: Reversing-gear for Fluid Pressure Engines
Inventor: LOFFLER SAMUEL
Filed: 1906-07-09
Granted: 1906-12-06
Abstract: 15,531. L÷ffler, S. July 9. Valve-gear.-To enable a steam or other fluidpressure engine to be reversed without altering the positions of the cams or cam shaft, either of two cams b, b<1> is used to actuate the valve-rod c through intermediate levers d, d', carried by arms g, g<1> and held in contact with the valve-rod by springs h, h<1>. The levers d, d<1> may be connected so that one is engaged and the other simultaneously disengaged, and they may carry rollers to avoid wear.