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Patent GB-189711627-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Separators.
Inventor: TORNERHIELM THOR RAGNAR
Filed: 1897-05-10
Granted: 1898-03-05
Abstract: 11,627. TornÚrhielm, T. R. May 10. Cream separators. - The drum is fitted with one or m o r e partitions which cause the liquid to move in a spiral path. The partitions may be readily removable, and may be made of a rolled plate, provided with packing for keeping the different layers apart and for preventing escape of the liquid over the edge.
Patent GB-189714531-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in "Fearnought" or Tenter Hook Teasing Machines for Breaking and Preparing Wool and other Fibrous Materials.
Inventor: SYKES EZRA
Filed: 1897-06-16
Granted: 1898-04-16
Abstract: 14,531. Sykes, E., and Sykes, E. June 16. Openers; carding-engines.-Relates to the rollers and strippers of tenter-hook machines for opening or carding wool. To prevent the fibre from lapping round the roller axle &c., the axle is surrounded by a fixed sleeve A, provided with a flange A' which takes into a recess in the end of the roller.
Patent GB-189719696-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Ploughs.
Inventor: EDWARDS EDMUND
Filed: 1897-08-26
Granted: 1898-07-23
Abstract: 19,696. Edwards, E., [Gansel, T.]. Aug. 26. Ploughs; digging-machines. -Relates to the construction of an electric plough or digging-machine in which the shares or digging-tools E', E<3> are provided with helical blades and are rotated by gearing. The frame A is supported on a front steering- wheel a operated by means of the gearing shown from the hand-wheel c, and on two driving-wheels driven by the band C from the shaft d. The shaft d can be driven in either direction by a train of gearing from the motor B, which is of ordinary construction. Current is supplied to the motor through main conductors connected to springs r and r<1> carried by a swivelling bracket s and in contact with insulated rings p, p<1> connected to the motor. The tools E', E<3>, of which any suitable number may be employed, are mounted so as to alternate with each other in frames F and F<1> suspended from the shafts e and f and connected together by links i, and connected by a link m to a nut l travelling on a stationary screw k operated by gearing from the handwheel o' either to lift the tools out of work or to adjust the depth of work. The tools are individually driven by bevel gearing from shafts e and f driven from belts from the shaft d. The implement is covered by a roof G on which the support q for the rings p, p<1> is mounted.
Patent GB-189721389-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Means of, or Improvements in Apparatus for, Producing Musical Tone.
Inventor: HOPE-JONES ROBERT
Filed: 1897-09-17
Granted: 1898-07-23
Abstract: 21,389. Hope-Jones, R. Sept. 17. Organs and like instruments. - Relates to improvements on the invention described in Specification No. 22,414, A.D. 1894, and consists of a substitute for a reed for organs, foghorns, and other apparatus. The Figure shows one form, but different arrangements are adopted. E i s a valve mounted on a spring F and covering a hole C in a block B<1> through which wind, admitted at D, has access to a pipe or resonator P. G is a wire pressing against the spring F and used for tuning. The parts being properly proportioned, the valve E is set vibrating and a musical note is produced.
Patent GB-189730083-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Emergency Brakes for Street and Railway Cars.
Inventor: CASEY PHILIP
Filed: 1897-12-20
Granted: 1898-04-02
Abstract: 30,083. Casey, P. Dec. 20. Brakes.-The axle d carries a disc g provided with recesses h. A weight k is held up by the rod n, and when released drops into engagement with one of the recesses h, thus stopping the car. The rod n is operated by the lever o' against the action of the spring n<5>, and the weight k is raised after action by the cord p<1>.
Patent GB-189730323-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Apparatus for Use in Finishing Fabrics.
Inventor: DELHARPE CESAR ALPHONSE
Filed: 1897-12-22
Granted: 1898-11-05
Abstract: 30,323. Delharpe, C. A. Dec. 22. Drying fabrics.-Muslins and calicoes &c. are, when freshly dressed, pressed and partially dried to give a softening effect. by apparatus such as that shown in Fig. 1. The fabric is wound on, and unwound from, beams E, which rest, at each end of the machine, on revolving rollers C, by which the beams are actuated. The fabric on its passage to and from the beams passes slightly above a heated plate A, which partially dries it. The plate is heated by carrying a flue directly underneath it.
Patent GB-189800332-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Fire-places or Grates.
Inventor: WILTSHIRE EDWARD
Filed: 1898-01-05
Granted: 1898-04-09
Abstract: 332. Wiltshire, E. Jan. 5. Canopies and hoods.-A hood a secured by screws &c. b is arranged over the upper part of the grate opening with the view of improving the draught.
Patent GB-189801251-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus used in the Manufacture of Gas from Oil or other Fluids.
Inventor: CHANDLER SAMUEL
Filed: 1898-01-17
Granted: 1899-01-17
Abstract: 1251. Chandler, S., and Chandler, J. Jan. 17. Gas retorts.-Oil or other liquid to be converted into gas is fed into chambers placed into ordinary retorts, either horizontal, inclined, or vertical, so that the oil is only heated by radiation and the gas formed is passed back outside the chamber along the inner surface of the retort. Fig. 2 shows a section of a vertical retort a, which is closed in the ordinary way at b and has a gas exit pipe C. A central tube d with baffle-plates f is enclosed in a case g provided with a lid h and an opening i communicating to the retort. e is a feed-pipe for the oil &c., andj is a supporting-foot connected to a discharge pipe k for any unconverted oil. In the case of inclined retorts the oil flows over a series of trays in steps, and in horizontal retorts a single tray slightly tilted is employed. The trays may have water or oil jackets. In inclined or horizontal retorts, the chamber is supported on feet ; the outer jacket g may also be omitted.
Patent GB-189801582-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Lubricant.
Inventor: TENNANT JOHN
Filed: 1898-01-20
Granted: 1898-12-31
Abstract: 1582. Tennant, J. Jan. 20. Lubricants.-Suitable proportions of sweated and spirit-refined paraffin wax are melted with colza oil. French chalk is added, and the whole boiled for some time. The mass is cooled by the addition of a further quantity of colza oil.
Patent GB-189804009-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Embossing of Metals and other Materials.
Inventor: YOUNG THOMAS
Filed: 1898-02-17
Granted: 1899-02-17
Abstract: 4009. Young, T. Feb. 17. Embossing.-Relates to apparatus for embossing umbrella and walking-stick mounts or other articles of metal or other material. The dies b<1> are secured in a block B on a bed A similar to a lathe bed. The blank b<2> is expanded or pressed into the depressions in the dies by a flexible plunger d<5> of india-rubber or the like. The plunger d<5> is supported by a tube d mounted on a slide D worked by a rack and pinion d<3>. The tube d is provided with a conical end d<4> fitting into the mouth of the die and with a funnel d<6> by which water may be introduced to reduce friction. The plunger d<5> is forced home by a rod c<1> on a screw C<1>. The end c<2> of the rod c' is made rotatable relatively to the rest of the rod, so that it may remain stationary when in contact with the plunger d<5>. Instead of the flexible plunger, a teat or bag may be used and expanded by fluid pressure. Flat or tray-like as well as hollow articles may be treated in this way. Casting.-The dies for embossing umbrella mounts and the like are cast in type metal, and are split in three parts after casting to allow the removal of the pattern and the insertion of the metal blanks. The mould B' for casting the dies is shown in section in Fig. 6 and in plan in Fig. 7. Three removable partitions G, G<1> separate the casting into three parts, except for connecting-webs g<1>, g<2>. The pattern f, which is made of material which is not acted upon by the fused metal, is held in place by a mandrel e<x> having a conical collar e'. After removal from the mould the die is split up into three parts by means of a chisel, a clean break being made through the webs g<1>, so that, when the parts are reassembled, the inner surface is complete.
Patent GB-189812719-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Blanket or Wrapper for Military and other Purposes, capable of being also used as a Cape or Cloak, Horsecloth, Tent Cover, and the like.
Inventor: STOHWASSER FRANCIS JOSEPH
Filed: 1898-06-07
Granted: 1898-07-16
Abstract: 12,719. Stohwasser, F. J., and Winter, G. B. June 7. Clothing for animals. -A blanket or wrapper for military and other purposes consists of a square cloth a with eyelets or fastenings at the two corners b, to which is fastened a cord or strap d in such a manner that the blanket or wrapper can be readily used as a cloak or cape. The blanket may also be used as a horsecloth or the like, and may be waterproof.
Patent GB-189813499-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres.
Inventor: FYFE WILLIAM WALKER
Filed: 1898-06-17
Granted: 1899-05-20
Abstract: 13,499. Fyfe, W. W. June 17. Tyres, pneumatic.-Relates to tyres of the type described in Specification No. 22,341, A.D. 1896, in which, when the air tube becomes punctured, a supplementary air chamber can be inflated. The air tube c<2> is inflated through the valve f; and that part of the air tube remote from the rim A is enclosed by a strip c, which is secured to the air tube along the seams c<3> as shown in Fig. 2. One part c<1> of this strip is extended so that the strip at this point almost surrounds the air tube as shown in Fig. 1. An inflating-valve d is secured to the strip, and the air passes from the valve along ducts d<1> in a rubber pad d<2> to the air chamber formed between the air tube c<2> and the strip c. When the air chamber, shown in Fig. 1, is punctured, the air tube, shown in Fig. 2, is inflated from the valve f.
Patent GB-189820279-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Registering the Number or Duration of Telephonic Conversations.
Inventor: HADDAN REGINALD
Filed: 1898-09-24
Granted: 1898-11-05
Abstract: 20,279. H a d d a n , R., [Eichwede, H.]. Sept. 24. Telephones; telephone systems.-Relates to arrangements at the subscriber's stations by which a duration or number of conversations registering- apparatus is only actuated when the call is answered by the called subscriber. The calling- generator 13 employed is an alternating inductor, and is provided with cam switching-devices and levers for operating the switch lever 2, whereby the recorder-operating coil 1 is cut into circuit at the same time. The recording-mechanism consists of timing or counting mechanism controlled by an escapement. The escapement is released or held by a detent catch acting with a latch on a pivoted balanced lever carrying a coil of wire situated in a magnetic field. The call bell 3 is operated by the alternating currents, and is provided with an electrolytic resistance which produces a counter electromotive force to continuous currents until cut out of circuit by the completion of the call, so that the recording-mechanism is not operated until the call sent is answered. The switch levers 5 are provided with additional switches 4, 4' controlling the circuits of the auxiliary battery 41. The switches are provided with lost motion, and are slowed in action by clockwork or by a balanced mercury contact. Several arrangements of circuits for the auxiliary recording-battery are described.
Patent GB-189821730-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Casement Windows.
Inventor: CLARE GEORGE EDWARD
Filed: 1898-10-15
Granted: 1899-06-02
Abstract: 21,730. Clare, G. E., Wareham, E., and Upshall, S. Oct. 15. Casements. - To enable a casement to turn inwards as well as outwards, it is fixed at the centres of the top and bottom rails to plates H hinged to a #-shaped metal casting A, which is connected by hinge flaps C to the frame. When the casement is only required to turn outwards, it is fixed to the casting by thumb-screws or the like.
Patent GB-189823493-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Quilts or Quiltings or the like.
Inventor: SPIELMANS JOHANN
Filed: 1898-11-08
Granted: 1898-12-17
Abstract: 23,493. Spielmans, J. Nov. 8. Quilts.-The filling of quilts, quilted hangings, &c. is composed of alternate layers of wadding, flock, wool, &c. a and of openwork fabric or wide-meshed fabric or net b. The filling is connected to the cover by stitching as usual, and does not become displaced or lumpy if the quilting thread break at any point.
Patent GB-189825270-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Fish Hooks.
Inventor: COLEMAN CECIL EDWARD OGILVY
Filed: 1898-11-30
Granted: 1899-09-30
Abstract: 25,270. Coleman, C. E. O., and Wright, J. B. Nov. 30. Forging; bending.-Relates to a machine for automatically flattening or eyeing the shanks of fish-hooks. The hooks H are placed upon an inclined bar F down which they gravitate to blades I and J, which are raised and lowered alternately by cams a<3> and a<4> on the main shaft A in such a way as to allow the hooks to pass, one at a time, to a projecting plunger M; as each hook falls upon this plunger ; it is gripped by the end p<7> of a lever P pivoted at p<1> and worked through a pin p<3> and lever P<2> from a cam a'. The flattening-plunger is now brought in operation, after which the plunger M springs back, the end p<7> rises, and the hook is pushed on one side by a lever o<2> into a receptacle. Instead of being flattened, an eye may be formed by a circling pin.
Patent GB-189826405-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Bodies and Carriages or Underparts and Door Hinges for Road Vehicles.
Inventor: MCDOWELL CHARLES GRIEVE
Filed: 1898-12-14
Granted: 1899-10-14
Abstract: 26,405. McDowell, C. G. Dec. 14. Bodies.-In vehicles such as broughams, clarences, and the like the light edge plates a, rockers b, and posts c, d are strengthened by steel " bow-spring " stays A, B, which pass through brackets g and are tensioned by nuts h. The fore part of the vehicle has stays C, D similarly arranged, while a strut l extends from the post d to the plates i.
Patent GB-189901841-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Collectors or Trolleys for Electric Tramways and the like.
Inventor: TWEEDY ROBERT NAUDIN
Filed: 1899-01-26
Granted: 1899-11-25
Abstract: 1841. Tweedy, R. N. Jan. 26. Electric tramways on the overhead system. Collectors.-Compressed air is used in the place of the usual springs to hold up the trolley pole &c. The tail end C of the pivoted pole socket Y is connected to a piston working in the cylinder A carried on a bracket on the swivelling base X. Air under pressure is supplied through the central tube and swivelling union d and is controlled by a three-way cock or otherwise.
Patent GB-189908130-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Velocipedes and in Driving Mechanism therefor.
Inventor: ROBBINS JOHN CHARLES
Filed: 1899-04-18
Granted: 1899-06-24
Abstract: 8130. Robbins, J. C. April 18. Ball bearings for cycles. Relates to driving- mechanism in which motion is transferred to the rear wheel through clutches placed upon the wheel hub. Double cones 39, 40 are mounted upon each end of the axle 36, the cone 39 being secured by pins 41, 41<1>, while the cone 40 has a sleeve 42 extending through the cone 39 to meet a sleeve on the axle cone 37 and has a slot 43 engaging the pin 41<1>. These cones form surfaces for the ball bearings of the hub 47. By this arrangement the cone 37 serves to adjust all the bearings.
Patent GB-189911948-A (GB)
Title: Electric Closing Devices.
Inventor: WILKE FERDINAND
Filed: 1899-06-08
Granted: 1899-07-22
Abstract: 11,948. Wilke, F. June 8. Alarms, burglar and like.-The contacts 2, 3 of a circuit-closer are normally held apart by a sliding plunger D held up, in the form shown, by a fusible strip F serving as a fire-alarm. In a burglar alarm, the strip F is mechanically operated from a door or window.
Patent GB-189916202-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bolt and Rivet Cutters.
Inventor: HELWIG ANNA
Filed: 1899-08-09
Granted: 1900-05-26
Abstract: 16,202. Helwig, A. Aug. 9. Pipe and rod severing machines.-A fluid-operated bolt and rivet cutter has blades 4, dovetailed into and bolted to levers 3 pivoted between plates 1. The blades are operated by long levers 6, which are opened and closed by a yoke 13 fixed on a cylinder 11, which slides on its piston-rod 9, which is secured to the plates 1. The cylinder has a plug valve 20, which can be turned to place the supply pipe 25 in communication with one of the pipes 26, 27 leading to opposite ends of the cylinder, the other pipe being simultaneously connected to the exhaust 28. A spring stop on the plates assists in correctly placing the cutter with respect to the bolt &c. 44. When used to cut stay bolts, the pin of the suspending- -shackle 33 is lengthened to bear on the boiler plates 37, to give the desired angular adjustment, and spring stops or gauges 48, Fig. 10, are provided in the faces of the levers 3 to obtain the lateral position.
Patent GB-189921966-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture and Repair of Incandescent Electric Lamps.
Inventor: FANTA FERDINAND
Filed: 1899-11-02
Granted: 1901-02-01
Abstract: 21,966. Fanta, F. Nov. 2. Incandescent lamps. - Filaments are flashed after being mounted permanently in the bulbs, in a stream of a mixture of a hydrocarbon vapour with air, which prevents deposition of carbon on the bulb, a photometer b e i n g simultaneously applied and the electric pressure increased until the lamp gives the desired candle-power at a pressure somewhat above that to be applied normally. The mixture may contain 3 to 10 per cent. of air, and be used under a pressure of from 4 to 15mm., depending on the candlepower and resistance of the filaments, the size of the bulbs, and the power of the exhausting-pump. The mixture may be made in a pump drawing air and vapour through separate regulating-valves, and delivered through a gas holder, a heating-coil, an automatic or other pressure-regulating valve, a stop valve d, Fig. 1, and a small tube i, held in packing e and extending to the upper end of the lamp. The tube a of the lamp is secured in packing b, and connected through a stop valve g and a pressure-regulating valve with the exhausting-pump. Old lamps are repaired by unsealing the bulbs and attaching tubes a. The bulbs are then heated externally while hot air or oxygenized air is passed through them, to burn off the deposit on the bulbs. The old filaments are then flashed in the manner above described, to the desired candle-power, and the lamps exhausted and sealed.
Patent GB-190004933-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Register Dials for Meters and the like.
Filed: 1900-03-15
Granted: 1900-04-21
Abstract: 4933. British Thomson-Houston Co., [Alton, G. H.]. March 15. Dials; counting- apparatus.-In apparatus where indications are progressively shown through a stationary opening, a screen is provided having an aperture large enough to show only one indication, and is moved forward therewith until the next indication is behind the stationary opening, when the screen is suddenly retracted to expose such next indication. The invention is applicable to counters having continuous gearing, especially in electric meters, the power necessary to drive such counters being constant. Each axle of the counter carries a number-wheel 2, made with ratchet teeth to engage a pin 6 on the screen 5, which is pivoted in the frame of the counter at the opposite side of the axle, and is weighted to hold the pin 6 up to the ratchet teeth. The front opening in the frame (not shown) is large enough to show two numbers. As the wheel 2 turns, a tooth moves the pin 6 and screen 5, showing a number, until the tooth leaves the pin, which then moves back against the next tooth, the next number being then shown. The screen is adjusted by filing down the pin 6 until the tooth can pass it when the screen is in contact with a stationary pin 7.
Patent GB-190006909-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Treatment of Cotton Seed.
Filed: 1900-04-12
Granted: 1901-02-01
Abstract: 6909. Stanley, J. C. W., and Cotton Seed Oil Syndicate. April 12. Drawings to Specification. Roller mills.-Relates to a process and apparatus for treating cotton seed from which the major portion of the cotton has been previously removed. After treatment the cotton seed is converted into kernel meal, hull meal, and cotton. The Specification describes an arrangement of apparatus certain parts of which are of special construction. The cotton seed is subjected to a preliminary sifting to separate all large and all small impurities, and is then passed to machines composed of grinding- rolls, beating-arms, and screens. These machines convert the seeds into two products, one of which consists of the huils with cotton and large pieces of kernel, while the other product consists of small portions of kernels with small fragments of hulls with cotton. The kernel meal is removed by sifting from the latter product, and is then passed over a fine-meshed reciprocating sieve which causes the cotton to ball while the kernel meal passes through the sieve. The coarse particles from which the kernel meal was removed are retained for treatment with the kernels to be separated from the hulls. The hulls from the above-mentioned grinding and beating machines are treated in special carding-machines provided with sieves. The carding-machines consist of two conical toothed drums working inside casings with corresponding internal teeth, and screens are arranged in the bottom of the casings and separate the kernels from the hulls, which are discharged with the cotton, as tailings, from the end of the second casing and passed to grinding and sifting apparatus, which separates them into hull meal and into balls or rolls of cotton. The large pieces of kernel separated during the above operations are together passed into a grinding-mill composed of three pairs of rolls with sieves which separate the kernel meal from the fragments of hulls, both of which products may be separated from the cotton in the manner described above.
Patent GB-190009088-A (GB)
Title: Improvements connected with Incandescent Gas Lighting
Inventor: PLAISSETTY ACHILLE MARIE
Filed: 1900-05-16
Granted: 1901-05-16
Abstract: 9088. Plaissetty, A. M. May 16. Incandescent gas lamps.-Mantles are woven from filaments of salts of the rare earths, which filaments are so prepared as to contain a comparatively small amount of organic matter. Salts of the rare earths dissolved in a small quantity of water are concentrated by evaporation until the weight of the residue is about equal to, or in some cases less than, the weight of the salts originally dissolved. To the melted mass thus obtained, alcohol is added, drop by drop, until nitrous fumes cease to be evolved, and the resulting syrupy solution is mixed with the binding solution of gelatine or collodion. The product is drawn out into non- explosive solid threads, which are soaked in an ammonia bath to render the threads more supple and to transform the nitrates and acetates into oxides. Threads thus prepared shrink but little, owing to the small quantity of binding-material employed, and when dry are ready to be woven into mantles, which, before incineration, weigh considerably less than mantles obtained by an impregnation or like process. The mantles can be handled and sent out without risk of breakage before incineration, which is subsequently effected on ordinary burners.
Patent GB-190019268-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Water Supply or Flush Tanks.
Inventor: WANGELIN FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1900-10-27
Granted: 1900-12-01
Abstract: 19,268. Wangelin, F. Oct. 27. Ball and float valves, operating. In flushing- cisterns, the inlet cock is fitted with a rocking arm e with a weight at each end. The weight f works in a compartment b, which during normal working empties at each flush, thus allowing the weight f to fall and open the inlet. Should the main cistern empty by leakage, the compartment b does not empty, and the inlet consequently is not opened. The arm e may be fitted with a float.