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Patent GB-190403831-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Shelling and Grinding Mill for Grain and the like.
Inventor: BOYD JOHN
Filed: 1904-02-16
Granted: 1904-08-18
Abstract: 3831. Boyd, J. Feb. 16. Hulling grain.-In a machine for shelling and grinding grain and the like, the material falls from the hopper A into a revolving pan B which distributes it to the grinding-discs C, D, any stones &c, present in the material settling at the bottom of the pan B. The disc C is fixed, and the lower disc D is mounted on the vertical shaft G, the ground material being delivered into a circular receiver E provided with an outlet spout. The discs are shaped as shown, and their surfaces are covered with powdered emery or the like. The shoot portion of the hopper A is provided with a sleeve J, adjustable by a pivoted lever actuated by a hand-wheel j<2> on the screwed rod j<3>. The driving- shaft G is supported in a footstep, adjustable by means of a pivoted lever L, actuated by the rod M, a spring P being placed between the footstep and the lever L.
Patent GB-190404699-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Process for the Manufacture of Explosives of the Nitrate of Ammonia Group.
Inventor: HADDAN REGINALD
Filed: 1904-02-25
Granted: 1904-10-20
Abstract: 4699. Haddan, R., [F³hrer, J.]. Feb. 25. Explosives of the ammonium nitrate group, which contain fusible components the melting- point of which is below the decomposition temperature of ammonium nitrate, are prepared by mixing the finely-divided components, compressing the mixture under high pressure into cylindrical shapes, heating the cylinders to a temperature slightly below the melting-point of the fusible component, immersing the cylinders in a bath of the melted fusible component, and then cooling them. Suitable fusible components are the solid fusible nitrohydrocarbons, especially if added to the explosive " ammonal." In the example given, the mixture contains 47 per cent. of ammonium nitrate, 1 of charcoal, 30 of dinitrotoluol or trinitrotoluol, and 22 of aluminium.
Patent GB-190405265-A (GB)
Title: The Regulation of the Flow of any Liquid from a Bottle
Inventor: HARRISON PETER WEBSTER
Filed: 1904-03-03
Granted: 1905-01-26
Abstract: 5265. Harrison, P. W., and Webb, T. March 3. Feeding-bottles; stop - pers. - To regulate the flow of liquid from a feeding or other bottle, the flexible tube which passes through the stopper is passed also through a hole formed near the edge of a disc B. The disc B is adapted to seat upon a ledge A formed in the neck of the bottle, and, by screwing in the stopper, the tube can be compressed to any required extent. A seating for a washer is formed on the upper part of the stopper. The Provisional Specification states that in a boat-shaped feeding-bottle, the flow may be regulated without the use of a flexible tube. In this case, a nipple is added at the apex of the stopper and adapted to receive a teat, and, when the stopper is screwed down, the holes are at different angles.
Patent GB-190411042-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Fire Extinguishing Sprinklers
Inventor: FIDDES JAMES
Filed: 1904-05-13
Granted: 1904-10-06
Abstract: 11,042. Fiddes, J., and Watt, J. F. May 13. Sprinklers, auto matic; alarms, fire -Relates to sprinkler apparatus of the class described in Specifications Nos. 2771, 2772, and 2772A, A.D. 1904. The lever f, which breaks the glass dome b<1> and opens the sprinkler, is made unjointed and is slotted at its inner end to surround the dome. The forked extension f<2> passes on either side of the stay a<2> and presses against the sprayer plate b<3>. This method of fracturing is also applicable to the frangible connections in the pneumatic alarm &c. systems described in the:prior Specifications.
Patent GB-190411355-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Dividing Machines for Paste, Dough and the like.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1904-05-17
Granted: 1904-07-07
Abstract: 11,355. Boult, A. J., [Bindler, K. H.]. May 17. Moulding dough.-Relates to dividing-machines for paste, dough, and the like. The dividing-plate b carrying the moulding-cells c, is rotated step by step in front of the mouth h of the dough-supplying machine. The plate b has a toothed periphery gearing with a wheel e carrying a clutch member p, which is put in and out of gear with the member r on the driving-shaft g. As the cell c is charged with dough &c., its piston d is forced out until its head s strikes a stop m on a lever o, when the rod q moves the member p into gear with the member r, causing the plate b to rotate until the piston head s is clear of the stop m, when the spring n returns the lever o and disengages the clutch, the succeeding cell c being then opposite the nozzle h. The dough &c. is discharged from the cells and the pistons d returned to their original positions by means of rollers k, which are arranged in the form of a curve l and against which the heads s of the pistons contact. The stop m is made in the form of a set-screw, to allow the quantity of dough &c. supplied to the cells to be regulated.
Patent GB-190412729-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Railways and Motor Vehicles therefor
Inventor: SAYER ROBERT COOKE
Filed: 1904-06-06
Granted: 1905-02-02
Abstract: 12,729. Sayer, R. C. June 6. Tunnels.-Comprises a single-rail electric-railway system to give rapid shortdistance and express longdistance. transit, the conductors being laid so as to cause the cars to be always kept a certain distance apart on the line. The rails are laid in true, irregular, or parallel cycles, circles, or loops, with intersecting main lines. The cars may be transferred from o n e cycle to another, or adjacent parts of the cycles form exchange stations. The stations may have lifts for raising the cars to the street or other level to enable the passengers to step from the cars to the pavements or floors of buildings, and also to allow one series of cars to run under another series. The railways may be laid in tubes or tunnels, in which case the tunnels may be constructed, as shown in Fig. 11, to form a subway a with path a<3> and pipes a<4> for sewage, gas, &c. carried on standards a<5>. The tube may be fixed on the ground or on a wall, suspended above land or water, or laid in water.
Patent GB-190413002-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam Operated Liquid Sprayers.
Inventor: WASSMUTH ALFRED
Filed: 1904-06-08
Granted: 1905-04-13
Abstract: 13,002. Wassmuth, A. June 8. Superheaters, steam; water-level indicators and alarms.-Steam for operating a sprayproducer is generated in a boiler a<o>, fed from a reservoir q, is superheated in the coils of the tube a<1>, and passes to the sprayer h by the pipe a. A weight causes the boiler to tilt when the water is low. This tilting may close the circuit of an electric bell to call attention to the condition of the boiler. The boiler may be simplified by the addition of a conical bottom a<2>, which will superheat the steam without a second heater.
Patent GB-190418425-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Discharging Boxes for Loading and Unloading Coal.
Inventor: REICHWALD AUGUST
Filed: 1904-08-25
Granted: 1904-11-17
Abstract: 18,425. Reichwald, A., [Duisburger- Maschinenbau Akt.-Ges., vorm. Bechem & Keetman]. Aug.25. Loading and unloading; skips.-Relates to the method of transferring coal &c. from, say, railway wagons to ships, by means of skips into which the wagons are tipped and which are then removed by a crane to the hold of the ship and there discharged. In order to obviate the necessity of using skips large enough to receive the whole contents of a wagon of unusual size, two skips are used, adapted to fit in a special pit where the contents of the wagon is divided between them. The inclined upper flanges 6 of the skips rest on the sloping sides 8 of the top of the pit, and a central rib of A-section helps to divide the material equally.
Patent GB-190418617-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Water Meter
Inventor: BIELEFELD ALFRID
Filed: 1904-08-29
Granted: 1904-09-29
Abstract: 18,617. Bielefeld, A. Aug. 29. Impulse and reaction meters in which an indicating or registering wheel is connected with a measuring-cylinder rotated by the pressure of the water. Fig. 1 shows a sectional elevation and Fig. 2 a plan. The free passage of the water from the inlet port d to the outlet port l is obstructed by partitions c, p, on which is a plate f provided with oblique perforations e. Above the plate f the ring h rotates in connection with the registering- wheel. This ring has oblique perforations i, to which the water has access by the passages g. The registering-wheel is thus revolved by the water, which escapes through an opening k formed by the plate f being cut away.
Patent GB-190421518-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or applicable to the Grates of Steam Boilers.
Inventor: POWELL ERNEST ROBERT
Filed: 1904-10-07
Granted: 1905-08-10
Abstract: 21 518. Powell, E. R., and Walke, C. Oct. 7. Firebars and grates.-To economize fuel, the firebars, preferably of the herring-bone type, have in addition to the usual open air passage a<2>, Figs. 1 and 4, a passage a' closed at the bridge end and supplied with steam by suitable pipes through a cock c. When the firebars are heated to redness, steam is admitted at boiler pressure and, on issuing through the apertures provided in the bars as shown, is resolved into oxygen and hydrogen, thus completing the combustion of the coal and preventing the formation of deuse smoke. The issuing gas also prevents the accumulation of clinker.
Patent GB-190421915-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Phonographs.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1904-10-11
Granted: 1905-01-12
Abstract: 21,915. Thompson, W. P., [Shigley, C. C.]. Oct. 11. Phonographs. - Relates to magazine phonographs in which any selected one of a number of record cylinders can be brought beneath the reproducer, or they can all be reproduced automaticilly in succession. It is stated that the apparatus may be controlled by coin action. Fig. 1 shows the apparatus in side elevation with the casing A in section. The casing is preferably glazed. The record cylinders I<11> are carried by mandrel shafts I supported on bearing-pivots b, b<1> carried by the rims C of a wheel journalled at C'. Each mandrel shaft carries a friction wheel I', which, when the record cylinder is in the reproducing position, engages with a rubber-covered wheel M on a shaft M<1> which is rotated through suitable gearing from the shaft J. The shaft J is driven by a belt e from a motor E, which may be set in action by means of a coin. The reproducer N is carried by a carriaoe G which reciprocates on the rods f, f<1>, being moved in one direction by the engagement of a blade-like arm H" with the screw J, and returned by means of a cord r<1> attached to a weighted lever D. The lever D carries a pawl d which moves the wheel C onward one step, to bring a fresh record cylinder to the reproducing position, each time the carriage returns to its starting point. When the carriage reaches the starting point, the driving- blade H", which during the return movement has been clear of the screw J, is lowered into contact with the screw by the engagement of a pin on an arm H<1> with a spiral thread on the lateral face of the disc K. A spring is so arranged as to hold the driving-blade in either the active or the inactive position. When the carriage reaches the end of its movement, the driving-blade is withdrawn from engagement with the screw J by a pin on a disc J<1>. The reproducer N is lifted from the record cylinder by a downwardly-depending arm carried by the driving-blade, and at the same time the arm h' is withdrawn from beneath the lever L, which falls and stops the motor E. The arm h<1> passes under the lever L again when the shaft H is rocked to return the driving..blade H" into engagement with the screw J. A brush O is adjustably mounted on the reproducer for the purpose of removing dust &c. from the record cylinder. A bail P actuated on the upward movement of the arm j is connected to a pawl s which locks the wheel C while the reproducer is in contact with a record cylinder. When the action is not automatic, the required record cylinder can be brought to the reproducing point by any suitable means. A dashpot a is provided to prevent rapid movement of the lever D. The tube T communicating with the trumpet R<1>, Fig. 9, is pivoted at u to allow of movement of the carriage.
Patent GB-190426816-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or appertaining to Loom Dobbies or Head Motions.
Inventor: HOLLINGWORTH EDWARD
Filed: 1904-12-09
Granted: 1905-10-12
Abstract: 26,816. Hollingworth, E. Dec. 9. Loom dobbies; change-box motions; shedding - levers.- In the " Holling- "worth and "Knowles'" and similar looms, the connectors a which operate the jack levers b have their forked ends rigidly connected together or closed up by riveting, as at d, or by other means ; or the connector ends may be bent back on themselves and riveted to the main portions, or the connectors may have thickened slotted ends. Proper working of the connectors is thus ensured, a space or clearance b<11> being made in the jack levers to suit the new construction.
Patent GB-190428735-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Bird Trap
Inventor: KING WILLIAM
Filed: 1904-12-29
Granted: 1905-02-02
Abstract: 28,735. King, W. Dec. 29. Traps for birds. Relates to a net trap for small birds, such as sparrows, linnets, wood pigeons, &c. Two nets 8, 9 are attached by one edge to the ground and by the other to two stout wires 3, 4. These wires are strained outwards across each other and secured to posts or pegs firmly fixed in the ground, and are twisted at 7 into spirals, so that they can be pulled into the position shown in Fig. 1, in which they are held by catches 10, 11. The construction of one of the catches is shown in Fig. 4. The wire 3 is held by a trigger lever 12, the other arm of which engages with a ring 13 on a lever 14. When the lever 14 is pulled by the cord 15, the lever 12 and consequently the wire] 3 are released. To the lever 12 is attached a wire 16, which, on the lever 12 being released, releases the catch 11. When the wires 3, 4 are released and spring into a straight position, they draw the edges of the nets 8, 9 over each other. To ensure the wires 8, 9 rising sufficiently high, they are made to slide over fixed wires 19 which slope upwards.
Patent GB-190502475-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Systems of Signalling for Electric Railways.
Inventor: YOUNG SAMUEL MARSH
Filed: 1905-02-07
Granted: 1906-02-07
Abstract: 2475. Young, S. M. Feb. 7. Switches.-A switch controlled by a solenoid for operating a railway signal consists of a bar carrying a disk which makes contact in each of its two positions with two springs. A relay has two mercury contacts, and the lever is so shaped that at one contact the resistance is increased when the relay is energized, the circuit being in no case broken at that contact. The relay armature carries a conducting bar 20, Fig.2, which is connected through resistances to the power line, and the ends of which dip into mercury cups and are provided with floats 31 moving in oil on the surface of the mercury. In the position shown in Fig. 2, the relay coil is energized and the arm 22 makes contact while the arm 21 is partially withdrawn from the mercury ; this arm is so shaped as to increase the resistance of the contact but not to break it. When the relay coil is de-energized, the contact-arm 22 withdrawn and the arm 21 enters further into the mercury andreduces the resistance of the contact. The magnetically-controlled switch is shown in Fig. 3, and comprises a solenoid with a fine winding 40 and a coarse winding 44. Its armature has a stop 64 to regulate the amount of its travel and is connected by a pin-and-slot joint 71 to a lever 66 pivoted to the base 65 and to the signal rod 50 and the dash-pot 72, the plunger 73 of which is also pivoted to the base. The attraction of the armature 49 raises the signal rod and the cylinder of the dash-pot, and the projection 76 on the latter lifts the disk 80 to break the circuit to the thick-wire coil 44 and to connect other contactpieces (not shown). The spring-controlled locking- piece 81 engages a fixed pin 83 and holds the signal until the thin coil 40 is de-energized and releases the armature 49, which drops and knocks away the locking-piece 81.
Patent GB-190502877-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Table Game.
Inventor: BURTON GEORGE
Filed: 1905-02-11
Granted: 1905-04-20
Abstract: 2877. Burton, G. Feb. 11. Games played with boards and pieces or men.-A game is played on a board which is marked with circles or squares a connected by roads b, along which disks c, or other pieces, such as model soldiers, are moved. Each player has six pieces, one of which represents an officer. Forts d and guns e are marked on the board, and, when a piece is on one of these, it can take a piece which is on a linef passing through several circles a. The pieces start from circles a'. Points are scored in various ways, for instance by moving the officer on to one of the ooponent's circles a<1>. The pieces, the forts d, and the guns e are preferably distinctively coloured.
Patent GB-190506005-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Steam-boilers and Apparatus for Superheating Steam.
Inventor: ROWLAND BARTHOLOMEW RICHMOND
Filed: 1905-03-22
Granted: 1906-02-08
Abstract: 6005. Rowland, B. R. March 22. Drawings to Specification. Water-tube boilers ; superheaters, steam. - The shells of the boilers and of the superheaters described in Specifications No. 459, A.D. 1891, and No. 6961, A.D. 1903, respectively, are formed of segments which are rolled without joints.
Patent GB-190509036-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to a Process and Means for Photographically Copying Designs for the Production of Photo-mechanically Printing Surfaces
Inventor: MERTENS EDUARD
Filed: 1905-04-29
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 9036. Mertens, E. April 29. Photo - mechanical printing. Relates to the method of preparing photo-mechanical printing- surfaces, more especially printing-cylinders, by repeatedly copying the pattern or design upon successive adjacent portions of the sensitive surface of the surface or cylinder. The carrier a for the pattern sheet or negative is mounted on the slide b, which moves on the slide way i, and can be raised from contact with the cylinder by the lever v and link connexions s. The pattern, which only covers a fraction of the circumference, is printed by illuminating tubes r, which are worked in conjunction with the raising and lowering of the frame a. After each printing, the frame a is raised and the cylinder rotated by the wheel e, which is graduated so as to obtain an exact register of the adjacent copy. When a complete circular series is printed, the film carrier is moved longitudinally through a distance equivalent to the width of a pattern by the screw spindle k. As moclificatioula, the cylinder can be mounted on the slide, the film carrier being stationary, or the film carrier can rotate round a stationary cylinder. The illuminating-device may be independent of the frame a, and a protecting- screen arranged on the cylinder. In another modification, the pattern is in connexion with an internally-illuminated cylinder which rotates in contact with the sensitized cylinder.
Patent GB-190510621-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Lighthouse Lamps, Searchlights and the like
Inventor: TURENNE EMILE LEON PAUL
Filed: 1905-05-20
Granted: 1905-11-09
Abstract: 10,621. Turenne, E. L. P. May 20. Search-lights; lighthouse lamps.-In lighthouse lamps, search-lights, and the like for projecting a parallel beam of white light, a number of internallyreflecting Fresnel rings k are disposed in front of an electric arc or other suitable source of light and are sufficiently overlapped to prevent conical beams of light from being projected between them from any part of the source of light. A central lens g may be arranged in the part which is in the shadow of the carbon m. The body part n of the lamp may be arranged below the projecting-rings, or the size of the apparatus and the length of the carboncarriers p, q may be reduced by arranging the body part n within the periphery of the projecting-rings as shown.
Patent GB-190510821-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Motor Cycles or Cycles.
Inventor: BAINES WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-05-24
Granted: 1906-05-24
Abstract: 10,821. Baines, W. May 24. Motor road vehicles.-Consists of a two-wheeled frame carrying a motor and driving-mechanism, for attachment to the rear of an ordinary cycle. The frame comprises several vertical tubular members a connected at the top by a transverse tube b, and at the bottom by tubes c, which carry the road wheels at their outer ends and support the rear axle of the bicycle at their inner ends. The auxiliary frame is also connected by a clamp l and bolts to the back fork of the bicycle. The motor is supported by the auxiliary frame, and drives by a chain the differential gear on an intermediate shaft passing through the transverse tube b, from which motion is conveyed to the road wheels by chains k. The oil tank is carried between the vertical tubes a on the side opposite to the motor. The rear wheel r of the bicycle may if desired be raised clear of the ground. In a modification, the transverse tube b is connected to the bicycle frame by diagonal tubes fixed to the back fork immediately below the saddle.
Patent GB-190514292-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Inventor: JAMES REGINALD WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-07-11
Granted: 1905-10-12
Abstract: 14,292. James, R. W., [Monarch Typewriter Co.]. July 11. Typewriters.-A printing-point indicator 50, Fig. 5, is fitted by arms 47, 48 in grooves in the ribbon-vibrator guide 41, Fig. 3, of a typewriter, and is automatically moved in the opposite direction to the ribbon-vibrator 38. The arm 47 is connected to a lever 53, retained by a spring 57 and provided with a pin 58 for engagement by the vibrator lever 33.
Patent GB-190515511-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Holders for Cards or the like.
Inventor: RICH LOUIS FREDERICK CHARLES
Filed: 1905-07-28
Granted: 1906-07-26
Abstract: 15,511. Rich, L. F. C. July 28. Fastenings, clip. Clips are formed by bending a piece of wire into a coil to hold a postcard between its convolutions, and into another coil at any angle with the first to support the clip on a wire or on the stem d of another clip, Fig. 3. A wire f, Fig. 4, may have a coil e at one end, and a cranked part g at the other to receive the coil e of a similar piece f at an angle with the first, the piece g being long enough to receive a clip a, b above the coil e. Or a wire h, Fig. 5, with a loop i for suspension and a spike for insertion into a wall, may carry clips a, b. Or a wire k, Fig. 7, may carry a coil n with arms o bent upwards at p to receive clips a, b. The devices may be modified and combined in various ways. The Provisional Specification describes also clips provided with spikes, and clips to be used separately, one of which consists of a coil with two spikes approximately at right-angles, and another of a coil provided with a spike and a hook to suspend it from a string for holding photographic prints in a dark-room.
Patent GB-190515520-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Driving Belts.
Inventor: RAE KENNETH THOMAS
Filed: 1905-07-28
Granted: 1906-03-15
Abstract: 15,520. Rae, K. T., and Edwards, T. F. July 28. Belts and bands.-A driving-belt, shown in transverse sectional view in the Figure, is built up of alternate strips a of leather, with bevelled lower edges b, and preferably narrower strips c of indiarubber, the lower parts d of which are thickened to correspond with the spaces and to form a continuous driving-surface. The strips are secured together by lacing or rivets e, and are preferably made in short lengths secured end to end in any convenient manner.