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Patent GB-190017620-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Tin-openers.
Inventor: WATTNE FREDRIK
Filed: 1900-10-04
Granted: 1901-02-09
Abstract: 17,620. Wattne, F. Oct. 4. Cans, opening.- Relates to a tinopener combined with a knife or fork, or both, for use at picnics &c. The tool is made from iron or steel plate, which is bent at f<2> when the fork e is brought into use. The edge of the part d forms the. knife. The part serving as the tin-opener has a slot c with a cutting-edge b of the usual form.
Patent GB-190022645-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Grates, Stoves and Ranges Heated by Gas.
Inventor: HUMFREY CHARLES
Filed: 1900-12-12
Granted: 1901-11-16
Abstract: 22,645. Humfrey, C. Dec. 12. Gas stoves.-The gas supply is betted by the waste heat from the fire, so as to enable poor gas, such as producer gas to be used. In the example shown, the gas-supply tube C passes as a coil through a flue D leading from the fireplace A to the chimney E. The gas is then led to the burner tube B, having burners consisting of holes in the tube, each with a central extra air-supply tube N projecting above the tube B. The incandescent material is heated in the usual way. The coil may be placed in other flues, such as in the flue J. The flues E and D may be connected by a flue I.
Patent GB-190100275-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Switches.
Inventor: CRAWLEY CHARLES WILLIAM SCOTT
Filed: 1901-01-04
Granted: 1901-11-16
Abstract: 275. Crawley, C. W. S., and Madgen, W. L. Jan. 4. Couplings; switches.-Relates to switches particularly adapted for lamps, being actuated by raising or lowering the lamp. The lamp may be replaced by a weight or spring. Figs. 1 and 2 show a switch adapted to be fitted in a ceiling rose. The apparatus includes three parts, one fixed and the others relatively movable. The fixed part consists of a tube a fixed on the base. On the tube a slides a tube c guided by a lug c' working in a slot. The tube also carries a catch c<2> adapted to pass into a hole a<1> in the tube a when pulled down. A strong spring d tends to lift this tube. An inner tube e, connected to the lamp or weight by the rod g &c., carries an incline e<2> adapted to release the catch c<2>. The tube c carries a contactring c', and the circuit is completed when the tubes are drawn down. On lifting the lamp, the spring f lifts the tube e, and the catch c<2> is released. The spring d then lifts the tube c, and contact is broken.
Patent GB-190100702-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with the Accumulator System of Electric Traction.
Inventor: LIMB CLAUDE MARIE JOSEPH DIT C
Filed: 1901-01-10
Granted: 1901-10-12
Abstract: 702. Limb, C. M. J. July 5, A.D. 1900, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Electric railways and tramways on a mixed accumulator and conductor system. The vehicles are run by accumulators between the stopping-places, at which points current is supplied, not only to recharge the batteries, but also to start the vehicles. The supply conductors at the station may be overhead, as shown, or at the side or underneath the vehicle. In the latter case, contact-studs with electromagnetic switches may be used. A single conductor is used if an earth return is employed. The driver's switch is arranged for charging and starting conditions, and also for various series and multiple connections of the batteries for controlling the speed.
Patent GB-190109409-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rotatory Figure Indicators or Recording Dials.
Inventor: MOYNIHAN EUGENE JOSEPH
Filed: 1901-05-07
Granted: 1902-05-07
Abstract: 9409. Moynihan, E. J. May 7. Calculating- apparatus; counting-apparatus; dials. -The invention is shown applied in apparatus for counting or adding up English money, but is applicable generally. A fixed dial a, which shows by a revolving hand d repetitions of graduation from a penny to a shilling between apertures b, is backed by a rotary dial c, which presents the required readings in shillings through the apertures when the hand reaches them. Inner circles of graduations of the same kind read from a halfpenny to ten shillings only.
Patent GB-190111008-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Sewing Machines.
Inventor: SAILLET JULES LOUIS
Filed: 1901-05-28
Granted: 1902-04-24
Abstract: 11,008. Saillet, J. L. May 28. Sewing-machines, governing needle thread in.- Copsists in means for pulling off a measured quantity of thread for each stitch, and for releasing the thread when the presser-foot is raised. Before reaching the needle the thread passes round one of the grooves of a loose sheave p normally clutched to the wheel d by a spring o and clutch h. The wheel d is formed with helicoidal teeth, and is rotated by a worm on the upper shaft. The different grooves in the sheave p correspond to different lengths of stitch. When the presser-bar is raised, a projection t thereon engages the lever s, r, which presses against the sheave p and disengages the clutch h.
Patent GB-190116019-A (GB)
Title: Gratings or Screens for use in the Production of Photo-mechanical Engravings.
Inventor: LEVY MAX
Filed: 1901-08-09
Granted: 1901-11-02
Abstract: 16,019. Levy, M. Aug. 9. Photo-mechanical printing.-Relates to screens formed by fastening together two ruled plates of glass. One of the plates A is made smaller than the other plate B, its edges are bevelled, and it is held in contact with B by bevelled strips C, which are cemented on to the edges of the plate B. The cement used is a mixture of silicate of soda and asbestos, to which colouring-matter may be added. There is a layer of Canada balsam between the plates A and B.
Patent GB-190123025-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Means Employed in connection with the Cutting of Leather, Fabric and other Materials.
Inventor: LIVINGSTON SAMUEL HENRY BIAS
Filed: 1901-11-14
Granted: 1902-10-16
Abstract: 23,025. Livingston, S. H. B., and Doughty, F. H., [trading as Livingnton & Doughty]. Nov. 14. Cutting-out shirts &c. Relates to a holding or clamping apparatus for use in connection with a cutting-board, press, &c. for cutting up fabrics in the manufacture of shirts and other parts of garments. The invention is shown applied to a cutting-board 2. A frame 1 is screwed to the board and carries a roller 4, and a roller or bar 6, which can slide vertically in guides, is pressed downwards upon the roller 4 by springs 13 and may be raised to allow the material to be drawn between it and the roller 4 by means of a handlever 8 or a treadle. The material is drawn over the roller 4 and held during the cutting operation by the roller or bar 6. When two rollers are employed, the material may be drawn between them without relieving the pressure thereon.
Patent GB-190125297-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Producing Intermittent Rotary Motion.
Inventor: MYALL AMBROSE
Filed: 1901-12-11
Granted: 1902-12-11
Abstract: 25,297. Myall, A. Dec. 11. Toothed gearing. -Relates to mechanism for producing intermittent rotary motion. The pinion D on the driving - shaft gears with a wheel E having its teeth removed over an are sufficient to allow the pinion to rotate without affecting it. Fixed to the wheel and opposite this arc is an arm K, provided with a pin P the axis of which is on t h e pitch circle of the wheel. On the driving- shaft is mounted a disc H, formed with an annular segmental flange R, adapted to work over the pin P, and carrying a pin J, the axis of which is on the pitch line of the pinion, adapted to run round the end of the arm K. In the position shown, the wheel is at rest and locked, by the engagement of the pin P with the annular flange R, and the pin J is running round the circular end of the arm. When the pin reaches the tangential part M, it begins to turn the arm until, finally, when in the curved shoulder N, the wheel enters into gear with the pinion and the pin P leaves the flange R at S.
Patent GB-190200696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means or Apparatus for the Reception of Sound Signals or Messages.
Inventor: MEULEMEESTER EMILE DE
Filed: 1902-01-09
Granted: 1902-04-17
Abstract: 696. Meulemeester, E. de. Jan. 9. Sounds, locating.-Relates to apparatus for receiving sound signals or messages between two ships, or between a lighthouse or coast and a ship &c., and more particularly to the construction of trumpets such as are arranged in a circle to collect sounds coming from any direction. To protect the trumpets from rain or snow, their mouths are inclined downwardly as shown, while the under portion of each trumpet a is formed or provided with a prolongation c, serving as a screen to collect the sonorous waves and to cut off extraneous sounds. The screen may be made as a separate piece and attached to the lateral and lower edges of the trumpet, or the top of the trumpet may be cut away in the manner shown, or in other ways, to form the screen. The trumpets may also be slightly bent, as shown, and may each be made in two pieces connected by joints d, in which case the posterior part and the pipe b may be made of a different material, preferably bronze. When the trumpets are arranged in a circle, they may be insulated from their supports by washers or plates e, f of rubber &c.
Patent GB-190201615-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Hoisting Buckets for Dredging and other Uses.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1902-01-21
Granted: 1902-04-24
Abstract: 1615. Brookes, A. G., [Rawson & Morrison Manufacturing Co.]. Jan. 21. Grabs.-Relates to hoisting buckets or grabs for dredging, and for loading and unloading coal &c., and consists in arranging the parts of the grab so that they are protected from the knocks and blows to which the grab is subjected, in shaping the bucket segments so that the material is more easily entered, and in placing the sheave segments, over which the opening and closing chain passes, at an angle in the head and bucket. The grab is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 ; Fig. 5 is a plan view of the head ; and Fig. 8 shows the method of lubricating the head sheaves. The wear between the pivot shaft 9 and the arms 5 is preferably taken by a steel bushing. The opening weight 37 is sleeved upon the shaft 9 and is cored out at the centre to receive the sheaves 72, and has enlarged bosses nearly the size of the sheaves and containing oil passages at the sides of the cut-away portion. The sides and bottom of the bucket segments are connected by a curved portion of a radius progressively increased from the back to the mouth of the segment. The thickened mouth jaws 100 run round on the outside of the shell. The head has a laterally extended guide-eye 14 and a leader 26 having an opening to fit the chain detachably secured to the guide-eye 14, which is substantially in line with the first sheave of the bucket pulleys. The arm 16 of the head is inclined so as to be in alignment with the portion of the chain in connection with it. The pin 15, Fig. 8, supporting the head sheaves 17 has an oil cup at one end to lubricate the sheaves through the ducts 18, 19. The lugs 22 on the head project at either side of the oil cup and protect it from injury. The pivoted connections of the lugs and links do not project outside of the bucket segments.
Patent GB-190203808-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Device for Facilitating the Manufacture of Hand Made Hearthrugs and the like.
Inventor: ROGERS ROBERT JOHN
Filed: 1902-02-14
Granted: 1903-01-15
Abstract: 3808. Rogers, R. J., and Rogers, G. Feb. 14. Rugs and mats.-A tool for use in making hand-made hearthrugs has two arms a, b, pivoted at c, one arm being longer than the other and formed with a pointed extremity d and a notch e for receiving a lip f on the shorter arm. The parts g, g<1> of the arms on one side of the pivot, and the parts h, h<1> on the opposite side, are curved so as to overlap slightly when the tool is closed. The pressure between these overlapping parts and the strands of Hessian or the like, used as a foundation for the rugs, is sufficient to open the tool as its pointed extremity is passed through the fabric.
Patent GB-190204880-A (GB)
Title: Folding Bust for Use in the Manufacture of Garments
Inventor: MICHAELIS FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1902-02-26
Granted: 1902-06-25
Abstract: 4880. Michaelis, F. Feb. 26. Measuring for.-Relates to busts which are used in making garments, and consists in making them collapsable, so that when not in use they occupy a small space and may be carried in a bag. The bust, as shown in vertical section in Fig. 1, consists of a number of bands b connected together by strips c. The bust is held in the expanded position by two tubes i, h, one of which slides in the other and is retained in the position shown by the rod k and forked spring piece l. Some of the bands b are connected to pieces r, which bear against the tubes i, h. Fig. 3 shows the tubes i, h in the unextended position, and Fig. 4 shows the bust collapsed after the removal of the tubes i, h.
Patent GB-190209402-A (GB)
Title: Combination Clothes-horse and Apparatus for Teaching a Baby to Walk.
Inventor: HUEGLE OTTO
Filed: 1902-04-23
Granted: 1902-06-25
Abstract: 9402. H³gle, O. April 23. Go-carts.-The go-cart device shown in Fig. 1 consists of a framework 1 having a top rail from which the girdle 22, for the baby, is suspended. The device may be used as a clothes horse, by reversing the racks 12 so that the horse rests on the legs 2, 5 and on the racks. The legs 3, 4 are extended by rods engaging with eyelets 24 on the legs.
Patent GB-190214735-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Covering of Steam Pipes and the like with Non-conducting Compositions.
Inventor: PORTEOUS CHARLES
Filed: 1902-07-02
Granted: 1903-05-21
Abstract: 14,735. Porteous, C., and Bannerman, W. July 2. Non-conducting coverings. - A non-conducting covering 2 for steam pipes and the like has an external canvas or like cover 3, secured in position by a cord 5 passed over lacing-hooks 4, the hold of which is improved by washers 6, or metal, leather, or similar strips 7 inserted in the turned-over edges of the canvas. The stems of the hooks are inserted through holes in the canvas and washers, and then expanded.
Patent GB-190214842-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Rakes.
Inventor: TRUMPLER CHARLES HENRY
Filed: 1902-07-03
Granted: 1903-04-16
Abstract: 14,842. Trumpler, C. H. July 3. Rakes, hand.-Relates to the addition to handrakes of inclined teeth 4 at each end of the rake head 2, and in addition to the ordinary teeth 3, as shown in Fig. 4. In a modification, the ordinary teeth 3 may be dispensed with. The addition of the teeth 4 enables the rake to be used with effect between growing plants nr in narrow places. The teeth 4 may be formed integrally with the head 2, as shown in Fig. 4, or may be formed as a separate attachment, which may be applied to an existing rake. The Specification describes two methods of attaching the teeth 4 to the rake. In one case, the teeth 4 are formed integrally with a bar which is secured to the rake head 2 by screw clamps. In the other case, the teeth 4 are formed integrally with a plate fitting against one side of the end of the rake head. A similar plate, having recesses engaging projections on the teeth 4 and head 2 respectively, is placed on the opposite side of the head, and the parts are secured together by a bolt.
Patent GB-190215091-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Sandblasting Files and Rasps
Inventor: POTTS FREDERICK
Filed: 1902-07-07
Granted: 1902-08-14
Abstract: 15,091. Potts, F. July 7. Sand blast. - Files and rasps are cleaned and sharpened at the same time in a single sand-blast apparatus by using two nozzles E, F, inclined to the file G as shown. The sharpening- nozzle E is inclined at an angle of about 25‹ to the file, while the cleaning-nozzle F, through which a less powerful jet passes on to the opposite side of the file &c., is inclined at an angle of about 70‹.
Patent GB-190215197-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Implements for Playing the Game known as Parlour or Lawn Golf.
Inventor: FOULIS DAVID
Filed: 1902-07-08
Granted: 1903-05-14
Abstract: 15,197. Foulis, D. July 8. Games imitating golf.-Relates to apparatus for practising golf. The ball is driven through a box a open at opposite ends and provided with inclines d. The box can be turned on a pivot c on a plate b, so that it can be set in any direction. In the top of the box is a cross-bar e, which may be formed by bending in the cover of the box. If the ball is struck with too much force, it strikes the cross-bar e, and rebounds. A putter is stamped or otherwise formed out of aluminium or an aluminium alloy, and the head f, Figs. 4 and 5, is channel-shaped.
Patent GB-190216388-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Generators for Acetylene Gas.
Inventor: SCHMITT FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1902-07-23
Granted: 1902-12-18
Abstract: 16,388. Schmitt, F. July 23. Acetylene.-An acetylene generator, in which the supply of water to the carbide chamber is regulated automatically, consists of a main casing 1, serving as a water reservoir, which is fitted with a horizontal partition 2 supporting a cylinder 3, into which is inserted a generating-chamber 18 having an open bottom. This chamber contains a carbide holder 19, divided into two or more compartments, and having water inlet pipes 9, 10 of different lengths. The gas, as it is generated, passes off through a pipe 5 into a purifying-chamber 6, thence through a U-shaped pipe 17 into a gas dome 12, and thence through a pipe 13 and rubber bag 14 to the outlet 15. When the pressure accumulates, the entry of water into the carbide holder is prevented and the generation of gas stopped. A modification is described in which one limb of the U-shaped pipe 17, instead of being enclosed in the tube 11, passes up through one of the watersupply pipes 9, 10, and terminates inside the pipe 5.
Patent GB-190216628-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Stamping or Punching Tools for Cutting out Articles and Patterns from Leather, Paper and other Material.
Inventor: NEUENDORFF WILHELM
Filed: 1902-07-26
Granted: 1902-10-16
Abstract: 16,628. Neuendorff, W. July 26. Cutting and punching machines. -Relates to stamping or punching tools for cutting out boot and shoe scles and uppers and other articles from leather, paper, and other material. The tool is provided with two cutting- edges a, b, and is made of the form shown, so that, when one of the edges becomes worn &c., the tool can be reversed in its holding-frame f, and the other one brought into use.
Patent GB-190224781-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Elastic Fluid Turbine Engines.
Inventor: FERRANTI SEBASTIAN ZIANI DE
Filed: 1902-11-11
Granted: 1904-02-11
Abstract: 24,781. Ferranti, S. Z. de. Nov. 11. Superheaters, steam; feedwater, heating.-Relates to a fluid-pressure turbine and to apparatus or plant in connection therewith, in which the steam, ether, oil vapour, ammonia, or other working fluid isothermally or nearly so, in place of adiabatically. Fig. 1 shows one arrangement of the plant, in which any type of multiple expansion steam turbine a may be used. Between successive stages of the expansion, the steam is passed through reheating tubes b, c in the furnace flue d. The exhaust steam passes through a generator or feedwater heater n, supplied with water from the condenser u or from the hot-well. The feedwater is further heated in tubes k, l in the flue before entering the boiler e, f the live steam being superheated in tubes h, i at the furnace end of the flue. Air for combustion in the furnace is heated by passing it through a pipe in the boiler flues. The arrangement of the plant may be slightly modified, and may be adapted for use with Lancashire or other flue boilers.
Patent GB-190304153-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Holders for Doors and other Fittings in Ships, Railway Carriages and other Vehicles.
Inventor: MULLAN WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-02-21
Granted: 1903-12-03
Abstract: 4153. Mullan, W. Feb. 21. Bulkhead doors.-Relates to holders for bulkhead doors &c. The rod a is fastened loosely to the plate c by the eye d and has a tapered hook e which engages with a hole in the plate f attached to the door. When the rod a is raised to its horizontal position, the part h of the buffer A presses against the projection l, and compresses the spring k sufficiently to obviate rattling of the parts. The india-rubber ring n prevents the rod a from damaging the paint &c. when in its disengaged position. In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the buffer spring is replaced by a piece of indiarubber o.
Patent GB-190304237-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hot Coke Conveyers.
Inventor: GRAHAM MAURICE
Filed: 1903-02-23
Granted: 1903-05-07
Abstract: 4237. Graham, M. Feb. 23. Conveyers.-Relates to hot-coke conveyers of the kind described in Specifications No. 11,979, A.D. 1900, and No. 1560, A.D. 1903, in which the steam, fumes, &c. are conducted away to a chimney or the like, and the coke is dried during its passage along the conveyer. The conveyer trough a has covers r, and is surrounded, wholly or partially, by a closed casing k having outlets s to the chimney &c. and communicating with the trough a by perforations u. The conveyer b is perforated, and is a sufficient height above the bottom of the trough to allow of the use of scrapers f for discharging the dust, breeze, &c. through outlets, such as g. The casing k may be in one with the trough a, or may he built up thereon, or may be entirely independent. Slight modifications of arrangement are described.
Patent GB-190304952-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wrenches and similar Tools
Inventor: BARBER MELVIN
Filed: 1903-03-03
Granted: 1904-01-28
Abstract: 4952. Barber, M. March 3. Spanners and wrenches.-To facilitate the rapid adjustment of a nut wrench or other tool with co-acting jaws, such as a pipe wrench or a hose spanner &c., the shank 10 of the jaw 11 is provided with slightly-inclined teeth 12 on two opposite eccentric faces to engage corresponding teeth 18 on the eccentric lugs 23 of the sleeve 16, which is swiveljointed, preferably by a screw thread, to the stem 15 of the jaw 14. The sleeve works inside a casing 20 secured to the end of the shank 10, and is pressed towards the jaw 11 by a spring 22. When the sleeve is rotated in one direction, the teeth 12, 18 engage and lock the jaw 14, but, when rotated in the opposite direction, the shoulders 24 at the ends of the lugs 23 prevent the teeth from engaging, and the jaws may then be adjusted.
Patent GB-190308024-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Shaking or Tumbling Barrels.
Inventor: GRIFFITHS REGINALD ARTHUR
Filed: 1903-04-07
Granted: 1904-03-24
Abstract: 8024. Griffiths, R. A. April 7. Tumbling-barrels.-Tumbling or shaking barrels A<1> are mounted on the oppositely bent ends of a revolving shaft B, and are fitted with a removable cover a<2> at the end, or a hinged door at the side. The barrels may be provided with a cross-bar H, adjustably secured by nuts on a screwed part of the bent ends so that the throw may be regulated, or may be loosely mounted and prevented from rotating with the shaft during a part of its revolution by a corner of the barrel coming against a fixed cushion block.