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Patent GB-190307342-A (GB)
Title: Improved Game Apparatus
Inventor: KING WILLIAM JOHN
Filed: 1903-03-30
Granted: 1903-12-17
Abstract: 7342. King, W. J. March 30. Games played with balls, boards, goals, and projectors.-The board or table a, Fig. 1, on which a game is played, is formed with a raised rim a<1>, a number of goal bridges b, and a corresponding number of recesses or goal wells c. Each player is provided with a cannon e, Fig. 4, by means of which play balls are propelled from the ends a<3> of the table, these balls being directed at larger goal balls which each player tries, in this way, to place behind the goals near his opponent's end of the table. The goal balls are started from spots on the arena d. The bridges b are formed with openings b<3>, through which the play balls can pass, but not the goal balls. The cannon e consists of a guided piston e<1>, normally held in position by springs e<3>. The cannon is actuated by pulling the trigger e<2> forward against the action of the spring e<4>, in which position, as shown in Fig. 4, the piston is engaged by a sear e<5> pivoted to the trigger. On releasing the trigger, the piston is driven forward, and, the sear e<5> becoming disengaged from the piston, the piston returns under the action of the spring e<3>. The end e<7> of the piston may be made of india-rubber. In a modified form of cannon, the sear e<5> is dispensed with.
Patent GB-190309442-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ships' Waterclosets
Inventor: SHANKS JOHN
Filed: 1903-04-27
Granted: 1904-02-18
Abstract: 9442. Shanks, J., Burnside, R.., and McInnes, T. M. April 27. Ship closets.-A centrifugal or other rotary pump D, driven by an electromotor E, discharges closets situated at or below the water line, into an exit B' fitted with a check valve B<2>. The non-concussive supply valve G, Fig. 2, is actuated by the armature lever H of an electromagnet J in the circuit. On switching on the current for the pump, the lever is pulled down upon the spindle G<1> of the valve, which is thus opened, and the basin flushed.
Patent GB-190310014-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Golf Balls and Balls for other Games.
Inventor: KINGZETT CHARLES THOMAS
Filed: 1903-05-02
Granted: 1904-03-10
Abstract: 10,014. Kingzett, C. T., and Lovegrove, F. J. May 2. Moulding balls.-Golf balls are provided with cores formed of small lumps of cork coated with gutta-percha, or of small lumps of vulcanized rubber coated with gutta-percha. These lumps in a heated state are compressed in a tube or mould with hemispherical ends. When cool, the spherical mass is encased in an envelope of gutta-percha, preferably with an intermediate envelope of vulcanized rubber, or pure rubber prepared as described in Specification No. 22,368, A.D. 1902, [Abridgment Class Toys &c.]. The lumps may be enclosed in a bag of muslin coated with gutta-percha before being compressed; or the lumps may be wrapped in muslin and encased in strips of rubber before being compressed. An outer envelope of gutta-percha may then be applied. The rough core may then be placed in two half shells, made of celluloid, xylonite, ebonite, &c., the whole being compressed within an outer cover of gutta-percha, with or without an intermediate layer of india-rubber. Or the lumps may be placed in two half-shells of celluloid, ebonite, &c., without first wrapping them up, the two shells preferably overlapping when placed under compression. The core may be weighted with metal. According to the Provisional Specification, means are provided for the dispersal of the air as the lumps forming the core are compressed ; the air may be forced out of the sides of the mould, or a tube or pin hole may be provided in some part of the mould for the escape of air.
Patent GB-190311785-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery for Winding Rubber Tape or Thread on the Cores of Golf Balls.
Inventor: MCDAID MARTIN
Filed: 1903-05-23
Granted: 1904-05-19
Abstract: 11,785. McDaid, M. May 23. Balling.-Consists of a machine for winding rubber tape or thread on the cores of golf balls. Fig. 1 shows a front view, Fig. 2 a plan, and Figs. 6 and 7 details. The core x, Fig. 1, is placed between two rotary heads q, q<1> in each of which is mounted a set of rollers 1, 2, 3, 4, Fig. 7, rotated by the intermeshing bevel gearing shown in Fig. 6 and driven by a worm at the end of a shaft w, w<1> passing through the hollow spindle on which the head q, q<1> is adjustably mounted. The shafts w, w<1> are arranged in line. The rollers 1, 2. 3, 4 have cut-away parts at the milled edges so that they do not bear against the core during the whole of their rotation, and one head is set a quarter of a revolution in advance of the other head so that, when the rollers 1, 2 of one head are acting on the core in a vertical plane, the corresponding rollers are acting in a horizontal plane, and similarly with the other rollers, so that the core is made to wobble as it is being wound. The rollers, instead of milled edges, may have hollowed or curved teeth. The tape or thread is fed on to the core from a reel A between rollers M', Figs. 2 and 11, mounted on a lever M. The tension of the thread is sufficient to retain the lever M in the position shown, but, should the thread break, accidentally or otherwise, the lever M falls to a horizontal position, thereby thrusting forward a lever K, pivoted at K<1>, so as to cause it to bear against a cam-face F formed on one part D of a box clutch, and thereby disengage it from the other part E and so cause the machine to be stopped. The thread x<1> passes through a vertical slot in an upright N, Fig. 11, and in the upper and lower edges of this slot are fixed knife-edges so that, when the ball has attained a certain size, the thread bears against one of the knife-edges and is cut. The two heads q, q<1> are held together by a weight or spring v acting on levers u, t, r, s, but can be moved apart by moving the lever r to the left. The mechanism may be duplicated. The Provisional Specification states that the heads q, q<1> may be fixed ; that there are only two gripping- rollers in each head arranged at a different angle to those of the other spindle, that the rollers may have an intermittent motion, one set moving while the other remains stationary, and that the disengagement of the clutch is effected by the engagement of a lever with a screw instead of with a cam.
Patent GB-190322393-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Device for Facilitating the Cleaning of Windows and the like.
Inventor: HERON HARRIET BARLOW
Filed: 1903-10-16
Granted: 1903-12-03
Abstract: 22,393. Heron, H. B. Oct. 16. Windows, cleaning.-The rod a of a windowcleaning device consisting of a brush d and a telescopic handle carries also a strip of india-rubber e<1> which acts as a squeegee.
Patent GB-190324811-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Boots and Shoes
Inventor: STEVENSON JAMES
Filed: 1903-11-14
Granted: 1904-01-14
Abstract: 24,811. Stevenson, J. Nov. 14. Leggings and gaiters.-To the uppers of boots and shoes for runners, sportsmen, and others, for excluding dirt and stones, is attached an anklet b of elastic stocking or other material which may be provided with a flap or tongue c to cover the fastenings of the boot. An elastic band d passing around the top of this anklet presses it against the leg, air-holes e being made for ventilation.
Patent GB-190324999-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wheels for Motor Lurries and similar Vehicles, applicable also for other purposes.
Inventor: PERKINS ELIJAH
Filed: 1903-11-17
Granted: 1904-10-27
Abstract: 24,999. Perkins, E., and Rowcliffe, J. B. Nov. 17. Metallic w h e e ls ; disc wheels ; a x l e - boxes; felloes or rims; t y r e s, non - elastic ; Lubricating -In a wheel for heavy vehicles, especially adapted for use on motor lurries and the like, the rim g is of channel shape to receive a number of wooden blocks or felloes f on which a metal tyre h is shrunk Additional security may be obtained by means of bolts, screws, or rivets, passing through the tyre, rim and felloes. The body of the wheel may consist of a solid metal casting a, Fig. 1, or of solid or tubular arms d formed on a boss b. The bushes e may be formed in two parts with a space between them to receive lubricant. A sprocket-wheel j for driving purposes is secured, by bolts or the like n, to a flange j<1> of a casting or forged plate k which is similarly attached to the wheel through holes m. The holes m are arranged outside the pitch circle of the wheel j so as to lessen the shearing effect on the bolts.
Patent GB-190328499-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coffee Roasting Cylinders
Inventor: HESLOP JOHN JAMES SHIELDS
Filed: 1903-12-28
Granted: 1904-11-03
Abstract: 28,499. Heslop, J. J. S. Dec. 28. Roasting coffee.-In a modification of the invention described in Specification No. 9508, A.D. 1898, the coffee-roasting cylinder a, Figs. 1 and 3, provided with end journals b and a longitudinallysliding door c, is formed with two or more perforated panels e, having adjacent plain surfaces f for the attachment of the door slides d and stirring -ribs g. The perforations are small, and allow of the escape of moisture during the operation.
Patent GB-190411942-A (GB)
Title: Improved Safety Tap for Liquids or Gases.
Inventor: SCHMIDT FERDINAND
Filed: 1904-05-25
Granted: 1904-06-30
Abstract: 11,942. Schmidt, F. May 25. Plug cocks; actuating cocks.-A safety tap for liquids or gases is constructed to be closed by turning the handle as usual, but to be opened only by a special lever handle. The plug b, Figs. 2 and 4, is provided with a slot, against the end of which the operating-pin e on the handle c engages in closing the tap, the handle being free to turn in the opposite direction when the cock is closed. The tap is opened by means of a lever handle g secured by a screw to the plug.
Patent GB-190413472-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Process for Mounting Photographs and the like.
Inventor: CHELIUS FRIEDRICH WILHELM GUST
Filed: 1904-06-14
Granted: 1904-08-25
Abstract: 13,472. Chelius, F. W. G. June 14. Mounting prints and the like; printing-paper and the like.-The back of photographic paper is coated, before the photograph is taken, with an adhesive, such as gelatine, isinglass, starch, or shellac, which becomes sticky when the print is in the toning or water bath, so that the paper may be mounted directly after leaving the bath. To prevent this coating from being mistaken for the sensitized film, the former may be lightly tinted.
Patent GB-190417235-A (GB)
Title: A Composition for the Manufacture of Ceramic Products.
Inventor: ROBIN CAMILLE
Filed: 1904-08-06
Granted: 1904-09-15
Abstract: 17,235. Robin, C. Aug. 7, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Bricks, tiles, pottery, and pipes, composition for. In a composition for making bricks, tiles, pipes, earthenware, &c., the quantity of the alumina in the composition is 5 to 7 times less than that of the silica, which may form 65-75 per cent. of the whole. The percentage proportions in a specified case are :-Silica 69, alumina 11À5, iron oxide 1À5, lime 4À5, magnesia 1À5, and water, carbonic acid, &c. 12.
Patent GB-190427004-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Buffing Abrading or Analogous Machines more particularly intented for use in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1904-12-10
Granted: 1905-12-09
Abstract: 27,004. Boult, A. J., [Winslow, S. W.]. Dec. 10. Compressing; dust, confining and expelling on generation.-In a machine for buffing, abrading, or analogous purposes, particularly for use in buffing and cleaning the bottoms of boots and shoes, air is supplied to the pneumatic cleaning-pad 50, which operates on the shoe after the latter has been buffed, from a chamber 70, into which it is forced by a pump 72 of any usual construction. In addition, there is provided a rotary fan 182, which sucks the dust generated by the buffing &c. operations away from the buffing-device and pad 50 and also from a rotary finishing-brush 172.
Patent GB-190502045-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Hot Water Heating Apparatus.
Inventor: BROOKE ROBERT GRUNDY
Filed: 1905-02-01
Granted: 1906-02-01
Abstract: 2045. Brooke, R. G. Feb. 1. Check valves used in connexion with a hot-water heating-system are shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The pressure at which either valve opens is controlled by a spring. In the construction shown in Fig. 3, the pressure of the spring is regulated by a screwed plug.
Patent GB-190505518-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Fittings for Shop Windows, Show Cases, and the like.
Inventor: ALLAN WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-03-16
Granted: 1905-12-14
Abstract: 5518. Allan, W. March 16. Brackets. - Relates to brackets for supporting shelves, displaying articles, &c. which are adjustable on vertical supporting- rods. In one form, Figs. 3 and 4, the bracket a is held in position on a supporting-bar c, which is partially enclosed by a recess in the bracket, by means of a spring d, flat or of other suitable form, pressing against the bar. One end of the spring enters an opening 5 in the bracket, and the other end is engaged by a nut on a clamping-screw e turned by a key. A screw g may also be employed for adjusting the bracket to a horizontal position. Brackets of this type having suitably - formed recesses can also be used for rods of square, circular, or oval cross-section. Another form, Fig. 12, is employed with a flanged rod h, portions 2 of the bracket engaging the flanges of the rod, and the bracket being held by a spring d pressed against the face of the rod by a screw e working in a boss f. In another modification, Fig. 18, lugs 3 have openings 4 to receive detachable shelf-carrying arms.
Patent GB-190511028-A (GB)
Title: A Talking Machine
Inventor: DEALER CHARLES THOMAS
Filed: 1905-05-26
Granted: 1905-11-02
Abstract: 11,028. Thomas, C. May 26. Phonographs.-Relates to a method of converting a disk machine into one capable of using cylinder records, and in adapting the apparatus to record sound on blank disks. In Fig. E, the disk machine is turned on its side and the mandrel is attached to the spindle by a screw-thread cut on the latter. The support for the trumpet and screw-feed is then put into position and geared by a chain. When it is required to record on a blank disk, the frame is set upright in two slots as shown in Fig. F and the recording-instrument guided from the screw-thread, which is rotated from the spindle by an endless flexible band passing over pulleys.
Patent GB-190513321-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Cleaning and Polishing Cream for Furniture and the like.
Inventor: PLOWMAN WALTER WILLIAM
Filed: 1905-06-28
Granted: 1905-09-21
Abstract: 13,321. Plowman, W. W. June 28. Boot-polishing preparations.-A cream for cleaning and polishing boots &c. is composed of white Japan wax, bees-wax, oatmeal, linseed oil, turpentine, paraffin oil, soft soap, borax, soda, methylated spirit, and water. The Japan wax, beeswax, and half the soft soap are melted and mixed with the oils. The oatmeal is made into a cream with cold water and added to boiling water and boiled for five minutes. This is then added to the former mixture, and the whole is added to the remainder of the soft soap, the borax, and the soda, which have been dissolved in water, and the methylated spirit added. The mixture is thoroughly stirred and applied with a soft rag and polished by a soft cloth.
Patent GB-190514376-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Clamps Designed for Machines for Stretching Woven Fabrics.
Inventor: GOLDAMMER OTTO
Filed: 1905-07-12
Granted: 1905-08-24
Abstract: 14,376. Goldammer, O. July 12. Stretching and tentering, clamps used in. The jaws n, a, Figs. 1 and 2, are attached to curved arms k, b, which are shaped to form a space which allows the introduction of several folds of the edge of the fabric, a feeler j serving to smooth down the creases as the cloth is pulled out of the jaws by the stretching process. As soon as the cloth is pulled out beyond the calliper or part f, the latter, being unsupported, falls through a space in the jaw a, and, by the action of the spring g, the upper jaw n clamps the fabric, and the curved piece p is simultaneously forced downwards into position against the jaw a to hold the clamp closed. The feeler j is lifted with the part f and jaw n when opening the clamp. In another form, the piece f is connected directly to the upper jaw, and the curved piece p is dispensed with, while the feeler is pivoted on the pin e and pressed down by a spring.
Patent GB-190516696-A (GB)
Title: Improved Apparatus for Removing the Surface of Ground for any Purpose Required.
Inventor: COOPER THOMAS
Filed: 1905-08-17
Granted: 1906-02-22
Abstract: 16,696. Cooper, T. Aug. 17. Excavating.-Scoops or shovels operated by mechanical haulage are fitted with means for automatically preventing overloading and for tipping out the load at the required time. Fig. 2 shows the scoop a, across the width of which extends the rock-shaft e carrying arms f which support the front of the scoop by links g. To the centre of the shaft e an arm h is keyed, this arm being connected to the drag rope j by links i. The arm h is held down by a catch k formed on the'lever l, the latter being provided with a piece m which is operated by the earth when the bucket has been filled to the required level. The operation of the catch k releases the lever h, and the drag rope then draws this lever into the position shown by dotted lines, so as to raise the mouth of the scoop. To empty the scoop, it is drawn over backwards by the rope secured to the link o on the wheeled frame c. The apparatus may be returned empty by dragging on the rope, shoes p, q being provided.
Patent GB-190519970-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Lithographic Printing
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1905-10-03
Granted: 1906-03-01
Abstract: 19,970. Boult, A. J., [Soc. Jullien et Dessolle]. Oct. 3. Printing - surfaces. - Relates to metal plates intended to replace the ordinary lithographic stone in printing. Thin sheets of one metal or of several superposed metals, electrolytically or otherwise obtained, are prepared with an electrolytically deposited surface of the same or other metal. This deposit is made for the purpose of obtaining a dull, grained surface, suitable for being drawn upon and for lithographic transfer, and is formed of a precious metal such as silver, gold, &c. The sheet is cleaned with alcohol and the drawing is then transferred in the ordinary way. The whole is next washed with weak nitric acid mixed with powdered calcium carbonate, then washed with water, gummed strongly, and dried. When dry, the sheet is inked with stiff colour. Talc and powdered resin can be subsequently added, American potash added to the water for washing, and the whole finally gummed. The metallic surface is unoxidizable and the transfer can be kept, but the latter may be removed without scraping, graining, &c., by first removing the ink with turpentine essence, washing, and then rubbing out the transfer with a pad supplied with American potash solution and a little rottenstone. The plate is next washed with water, then with dilute sulphuric acid, and finally, if necessary, with a weak solution of potassium bichromate. Iustead of these solutions, any others, alternately basic and acid, can be used. The sheets can either be used flat, or rolled on and fixed to printing-cylinders.
Patent GB-190520323-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Biasing and similarly Treating Cloth.
Inventor: VOLAND FRANCISQUE
Filed: 1905-10-07
Granted: 1906-04-26
Abstract: 20,323. Voland, F., and Marchand, A. Nov. 11, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Driving and like chains.-Gripper chains are employed in producing in cloth a permanent alteration in the inclination of the warp to the weft threads. Fig. 4 shows one form, in which each gripper is connected to a plate G, having a slot F formed from a centre K midway between the grippers. A piece T on the gripper works in the slot of the corresponding plate G.
Patent GB-190521703-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Method of Diminishing or Neutralizing the Force of Waves.
Inventor: THIRY FRANCOIS
Filed: 1905-10-25
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 21,703. Thiry, r. Oct. 25. Sea - calming by discharging oil and other fluids.-Consists in a modification and addition to the apparatus described in Specification No. 18,369, A.D. 1905. The water or other liquid in the present case is sucked through a pipe a, as shown in Fig. 2, or the liquid may be discharged from one tube a, and sucked through another a<1>, as shown in Fig. 4, which is stated to give an ascending and descending curtain of liquid. A number of pipes may be provided to produce a double and single breakwater at the same time.
Patent GB-190526818-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture or Preparation of a New or Improved Salt of Eserine.
Inventor: ELLIS GEORGE BELOE
Filed: 1905-12-22
Granted: 1906-07-19
Abstract: 26,818. Ellis, G. B., [Merck, E., (Firm of)]. Dec. 22. Medicines. -Relates to the manufacture of eserine sulphite, the aqueous solution of which remains colourless. Its action on rabbits is stated to be equal to that of the sulphate.
Patent GB-190605045-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Acetylene Generator particularly applicable to Automobile Lamps.
Filed: 1906-03-01
Granted: 1906-07-05
Abstract: 5045. Weldhen & Bieriot, [Bieriot, L.]. March 1. Self-closing plug cocks.-A plug cock 24 interposed between the carbide container and water reservoir of an acetylene generator has two passages 27, 28 in its casing at right-angles to each other, and a plug 26 having a single passage. The passage 28 connects the casing 23 of the generator with the atmosphere. The plug 26 has at one end a flat spiral spring 30 tending to keep it in such a position that the passage' through it is horizontal. The valve is operated by a handle 35, the end 38 of which is forced by means of a spring 36 into one of two depressions formed in a sector 39.
Patent GB-190608526-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dynamo Electrical Machines
Filed: 1906-04-09
Granted: 1906-06-14
Abstract: 8526. Elektrizitõts Akt.-Ges. vorm. W. Lahmeyer & Co. April 11, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Dynamos, regulating; field magnets, special means for separately exciting; sparking, preventing.-The potential of a variable-speed dynamo used for train-lighting &c. is maintained constant by arranging an auxiliary pair of brushes upon the commutator in a symmetrical position with respect to the main brushes and short-circuiting them through a source of practically constant potential, such as a storage battery. When the machine runs at the normal number of revolutions, no current flows between the brushes and the battery, but, if the speed sinks below the normal, the battery current flows into the armature, producing a field which reinforces the main field. When the speed of the dynamo increases above the normal, the main field is weakened by the current flowing from the brushes into the battery. The field magnets are compound-wound, and are usually provided with stamped-out pole-pieces. The stator iron may be uniformly distributed, a compensating- winding being used to neutralize the cross-field. To avoid sparking at the auxiliary brushes, portions of the field structure adjacent thereto may be hollowed out, or other known means may be employed. The special exciting-battery may be dispensed with, and the required excitation derived from a few elements in the middle of the reserve battery that is generally employed in electric installations. If no cross-field exists, or if it is practically wholly compensated, the auxiliary brushes may be unsymmetrically arranged with respect to the main brushes to obtain the desired difference of potential between them.