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Patent GB-190114954-A (GB)
Title: Sewing Machine Attachments
Inventor: BIRKBECK HENRY
Filed: 1901-07-23
Granted: 1901-08-24
Abstract: 14,954. Birkbeck, H., [Ross Attachment Machine Co.]. July 23. Blind-stitching machines; overedge-stitching machines.-Relates to attachments for serging, overseaming, and blind stitching, in which the edge of the work is alternately moved out of, and into, the path of the needle. The pusher-bar D<1> by which this is effected, is reciprocated by a cam, Fig. 9, which engages a projection D<6> and a spring D<8> on the pusher-bar. The cam is rotated by means of a pin-wheel engaged by a pawl F<6> pivoted to a slide F<1>, which is raised by engagement with the needle-bar set-screw and returned by a spring. A spring D<9> prevents accidental rotation of the cam. In a modification, Fig. 16, the pin-wheel is replaced by a ratchet-wheel R, and the pawl is controlled, and the cam locked, by the engagement of its shoulder M with shoulders N, N<1> of the guide for the slide F<1>. The edge C' of the base-plate, Fig. 11, against which the work is guided towards the needle, is inclined as shown, in order to increase the tendency of the work to return after being deflected by the pusher-bar. This guiding- edge has a slot C' to allow the free edge of the work to project beyond the folded edge in blindstitching. The pusher-bar has a corresponding slot D<3>. A spring pusher-bar, carried in the presser-foot, may be used to return the work to position when the pusher-bar D' is retracted. Attachments, securing.-An extension of the baseplate has a slot B<2> engaging a block B', Figs. 7 and 16, secured to the work-plate by set-screws B<3>, B<6>, the head of the set-screw B<3> being of sufficient size to clamp over the slot B'. The position of the base-plate is adjusted by a nut B<7> having a collar B<8> which engages slots in the walls of the slots B<2>. Presser - feet.-A pin H<7>, Fig. 7, supported eccentrically in a sleeve H<12> carried by the baseplate, has a horizontal arm H<6> secured to a part of the presser. Thus, by turning the sleeve H<12>, the presser can be adjusted towards, or away from, the needle. The presser preferably comprises a long curved foot H<4>, Fig. 6, pivoted to a spring-pressed elbow lever H<1>, which is itself pivoted to a block H secured to the presser-bar.
Patent GB-190118666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bell Buoys.
Inventor: FAIRBANKS JOHN ALBERT
Filed: 1901-09-18
Granted: 1901-11-16
Abstract: 18,666. Fairbanks, J. A. Sept. 18. Signals, marine. - Relates to bell buoys for anchoring at sea fitted with electric sounding- devices and with recording-devices from the buoys to the shore, lighthouse, or lightship stations, to indicate that the buoy-striking apparatus is work- ing properly. The buoy is shown in Fig. 3, and the land or station mechanism in Fig. 1. The hammer G is operated by the rise of the core E into the electromagnet or solenoid D, which takes place when the circuit through the wires d, d is closed by the rotary closer K through the pegs or projec- tions k. The pegs k are arranged to give the chart number of the buoy. When the core E is raised, the switch rod P is operated so that the switch makes contact between the points p<11>, p<4>, and closes the circuit of the electric recording-device R. The point p<4> is earthed, as also is one pole of the battery or current generator Q<1>. Records are made on ribbon S.
Patent GB-190118884-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Cars.
Inventor: JESSEN BURCHARD HEINRICH
Filed: 1901-09-21
Granted: 1902-09-18
Abstract: 18,884. Jessen, B. H. Sept. 21. Doors, wagon.-The hinged doors 1, 2 are opened or closed by reciprocating a suspended beam 9 composed of angle-bars 17 placed back to back, the power being transmitted through the togglelevers 8, 8. A cross-shaft, not shown, has a crank for operating the beam 9, which is connected to the inner ends of the levers 8, 8 by universal joints 12, while the outer ends of these levers are connected to the doors 1, 2 by ball-and-socket joints 11.
Patent GB-190122848-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Dies for Making Taper and Parallel Gas Retorts and Clay Pipes.
Inventor: GIBBONS WILLIAM PIKE
Filed: 1901-11-12
Granted: 1902-11-12
Abstract: 22,848. Gibbons, W. P., Gibbons, G. B. A., Smith, W., and Gay, R. Nov. 12. Moulding gas retorts and pipes.-Relates to divided expansible and adjustable dies for making tapered or parallel gas retorts and pipes of various shapes, sizes, and thicknesses. Fig. shows a die for making D-shaped retorts, constructed of two sections G', G<2>, which are arranged to slide in guides of a mouthpiece H, and are moved outwards or inwards to expand or contract the orifice by spindles I<2> formed with right and left handed screws arranged to work through nuts of the sections. The expanding core is formed of sliding sections A', A' operated by a screwed spindle E working through nuts a<5>, a<6> fixed to the sections. The screwed spindles are rotated automatically, as the clay is forced through the die, by chains which are attached to the rising and falling table and pass over chain-wheels i<4> on the spindles. The sections A', A<2> are supported by a guide-plate secured to the fixed centre block or core C by screws. In order to prevent flaws in the retort at the joints of the die sections, the core C and die ring H are formed with upward projections or lugs over the joints. In this arrangement, a D-ahaped retort is produced with parallel sides and varying height. The width of the retort can be varied by making the die ring H in two parts and inserting packing-strips between them, and securing packing- blocks or plates to the movable core sections A', A'. For making D-shaped, circular, oval, or other retorts or pipes tapered or expanded in all directions, the movable core is constructed of four overlapping sections expanded by screwed spindles at right-angles to one another, and the expanding die ring is constructed and operated in a similar manner.
Patent GB-190123340-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Winding Yarns and Threads of Cotton, Flax and other Fibrous Materials.
Filed: 1901-11-19
Granted: 1902-11-13
Abstract: 23,340. Dobson & Barlow, and Rushton, T. H. Nov. 19. Winding-machines.-The two winding-drums 14 are carried by forked brackets 13 from a central rail 12, and the bobbins 15 bear directly against the winding drums. The bobbin-carriers are formed of levers 18, which are adjustable on the shaft 19 to accommodate different sized bobbins,and are weighted by means of weights 33. The carrier is supported in a position clear of the drum for piecing up by means of a pivoted catch 34, which rests on the upper face of the bracket 20. When a thread breaks, a spring or weighted lever 28, which is normally supported in the manner shown by the pivoted detector box 8, falls and forces a blade 24 between the bobbin and the driving-drum, and by means of a T-shaped rod 31 raises the pivoted thread-guide 17 against the stationary rod 32. The guide 17 is pivoted loosely on the rod 16, but is caused to be traversed with it and is pressed lightly on the bobbin by means of a spring &c.
Patent GB-190212494-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Safety Guard for Electric Tramcars and the like or Similarly Propelled Vehicles.
Inventor: BURN ROBINSON SCALING
Filed: 1902-06-02
Granted: 1903-05-28
Abstract: 12,494. Burn, R. S. June 2. Wheel guards and obstruction-removers.-Relates to safety fenders for electric or similarly-propelled tramcars and the like, and is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 applied under the front platform of an electric tramcar. The side frames a', a<2> are pivoted in brackets b fixed under the car, and carry between them an apron e<1> of wire netting or equivalent material. The upper arms a<3> of the side-frames have an extension a' provided with a recess a<5>, which is normally supported by a roller i on the upper arm of a latticed framework f pivoted on pins h in the brackets g. When an obstruction strikes the framework f, it is turned and releases the roller from the recess, whereby the side frames and their connections fall by their own weight until the rubber-tyred iron or like rollers c run on the tram lines. The rollers c rotate a rubber-covered or like steel spindle d in the opposite direction by means of gear-wheels c', d', the spindle being arranged in the front of the side frames so as not to touch the ground. The spindle has extensions d' beyond the side frames, and the parts near the sides are fenced for safety.
Patent GB-190212627-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in connection with Furnaces, Especially Applicable to Glass Furnaces
Inventor: KNOWLES FREDERICK WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-06-03
Granted: 1903-04-16
Abstract: 12,627. Knowles, F. W. June 3. Charging.-The charging-hopper a of a glass or other furnace is mounted to run on rails b over the top of the furnace, so that it may be withdrawn for charging and afterwards brought back over the top of the furnace. The charging-aperture of the furnace is provided with a lid or " stopper " k, which rests on a water-cooled seating m ; it is lifted by a screwed rod g depending from a bogie i, and capable of being raised and lowered by a nut operated by bevel gearing and a hand-wheel d. The hopper a is closed below by a sliding plate s. After the hopper is filled and the lid k raised, the hopper is pushed forward, driving the bogie i before it, until it stands over the charging-aperture. By this time the plate s has been arrested by the tappet v, striking a fixed bar u, and the charge then falls into the furnace. On withdrawing the hopper, the bogie i is brought back by a chain connection, and another tappet z arrests the plate s, thus closing the bottom of the hopper.
Patent GB-190212636-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gloves.
Inventor: RUNYON LETTIE BRACE
Filed: 1902-06-03
Granted: 1902-07-10
Abstract: 12,636. Runyon, L. B. June 3. Gloves.-A glove, Fig. 1, is provided with a pocket in the palm. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section showing the construction of the pocket. A slit 13 is made in the palm, and a faced tab 15 is attached to the inner side of the palm and is provided with a fastening 16<1>.
Patent GB-190222474-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Thread Guides and Antiballooning Apparatus for Spinning Frames.
Inventor: MUHLENBECK EDOUARD
Filed: 1902-10-15
Granted: 1903-09-17
Abstract: 22,474. Muhlenbeck, E. Oct. 15. Thread-guides ; doubles, preventing and breaking ; anti-ballooning arrangements.-Relates to a threadguide used in spinning-frames between the cylinders and spindles. The thread a normally passes over the apex 2 of the guide, which is made of stamped metal or metal wire, but, if the next thread a<1> becomes entangled with it, either above or below the guide, it is drawn to one of the " breakers " on either side, and, as it passes downwards, it becomes more and more undulated, since the middle branch approaches the plane of the side branches, regular twisting is prevented, and finally the thread is broken. The thread-guide may serve as an anti-ballooning device by being formed of one piece of metal wire into a circular guide with two " breakers " one on each side. The sinuous passage followed by the thread through the " breaker " is sufficiently wide not to become clogged.
Patent GB-190223971-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Electric Motors.
Inventor: PIEPER OSCAR HENRY
Filed: 1902-11-03
Granted: 1902-12-24
Abstract: 23,971. Pieper, O. H. Nov. 3. Motors, controlling. -A motor of the direct-current type is adapted to be operated as an alternating - current motor by connecting one of its windings, such as, for example, the field winding b, with the mains c, in series with the primary winding d of a transformer, while the other or armature winding g is connected in series with the secondary winding f of the transformer. The speed of the motor is regulated by varying the voltage impressed on the armature, and this is effected by the operation of a switch k, which varies the number of active sections of the secondary coil f. Sparking, preventing.-The field may be wound for a relatively-high electromotive force or selfinduction, and the armature for a relatively-low electromotive force or self - induction, for the purpose of preventing sparking at the commutator
Patent GB-190228714-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Car Couplers.
Inventor: EVANS MORRIS SANDS
Filed: 1902-12-29
Granted: 1903-08-13
Abstract: 28,714. Evans, M. S., Layman, C. W., Mueller, A., Arthaud, D., and Wever, J. W. Dec. 29. Couplings, automatic.-Relates to couplings of the Janney type, and consists mainly in providing means for preventing the knuckles from unlocking accidentally. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 show horizontal, vertical, and cross-sections respectively of the partsin the coupled position. The trip bolt 8 passes through a square orifice 22 and is connected by the spring pin 31 to the lock block 20, pivoted in the recess 18 of the draw-head. As shown, the sliding wedge 37 locks the bolt 8, and the spring 30 presses its shoulder 13 under the lower side of the front wall of the orifice 6. A pull on the chain 43* first operates the chain 43 to lift the wedge 37, and then causes the chain 44 to trip the lever 10 pivoted to the bolt 8, thus causing the shoulder 13 to be forced backwards so that the bolt 8 and locking- block 20 may be raised by a furtherpull on the chain 44 until the bolt is supported on its shoulder 15. As the block 20 rises, the tail 26 is released, the knuckle swings open, and the stop 55 on the tail comes against the stop 53 in the draw-head. The tail 26 has a swelling 27 adapted to engage a corresponding recess 45 in the draw-head and so prevents the parts from uncoupling should the knuckle-pin 48 break. The lock block 20 has recesses 24, 25 which permit the rail 26 when the locking-end of the block is up to pass, and the stop 55 strikes the swelling 14 in doing so and trips the bolt 8 which falls, and then the wedge slips down and locks it. Couplings, non-automatic.- Each knuckle has orifices 50 to receive the bolt of the end link of an ordinary coupling.
Patent GB-190304294-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Covering or Envelope for Rendering Medicines Tasteless
Inventor: FAIRWEATHER WALLACE
Filed: 1903-02-24
Granted: 1903-05-28
Abstract: 4294. Fairweather, W., [Kobayashi, M.]. Feb. 24. Medicines, coverings or films for. A soluble envelope for medicines is made of equal parts of starch and isinglass or gelatine dissolved in water and boiled. The solution is then filtered and spread in a thin film on a hot plate, and when dry is peeled off and cut into round discs. The medicine to be coated is placed on a disc, which is folded over and secured by dipping in water.
Patent GB-190304335-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces.
Inventor: MARKS GEORGE CROYDON
Filed: 1903-02-24
Granted: 1903-05-21
Abstract: 4335. Marks, G. C., [Moore, W. E.]. Feb. 24. Regenerative furnaces.-In a Belgian or other retort or ore-reducing furnace, two regenerators 1, 2, and 3, 4 are used one above the other. Air and gas enter by the separate chambers of one regenerator, while the products of combustion escape through the other regenerator. The upper parts of the regenerator chambers are connected by passages 7 ... 12 with the retort or other heating chambers 13, 14. The invention may be applied to a one-sided furnace, but is preferably applied as shown to a two-sided furnace.
Patent GB-190305204-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Brakes, particularly applicable to Brakes for Electric Tram Cars
Inventor: VICKERS THOMAS
Filed: 1903-03-05
Granted: 1904-01-14
Abstract: 5204. Vickers, T., and Andrews, E. March 5. Stopping engines.-When the gate 23 or other part of the safety fender of an electric tramcar is moved by contact with an obstruction, the arm 26 is released from a catch 28 and allows a spring 27 to reverse a switch 12 which applies the electric brakes. The switch is interposed between the ordinary hand-operated controller 6 and the motor 13, and, when in the position shown in Fig. 1, allows the controller to be manipulated either to supply current for the motor or to apply the electric brakes 17 through the ordinary connections. When the switch 12 is reversed, current flows from the motor, acting as a generator, to the electric brakes, and may also flow through a pullout 20 which operates the switch 21 to disconnect the controller from the trolley-wire. In a modification, the controller may be operated either by hand or by the safety fender, and an additional terminal in the controller replaces the switch 12.
Patent GB-190306950-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Deoxidising and Carburising Molten Iron or Steel
Filed: 1903-03-25
Granted: 1903-04-30
Abstract: 6950. Soc. Electro - Metallurgique Franþaise. March 25, A.D. 1902, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Materials for purifying and refining; steel, special treatment of.-Molten iron or steel, especially in the electric furnace, is deoxidized and carburized by a pure form of carbon, mixed with filings or turnings of iron or any other desired metal addition, and agglomerated into blocks of definite weight. Thus graphite, iron filings, and pitch may be mixed, pressed, and baked, or clay, tar, glucose, syrup, &c. may be used if the form of carbon used does not serve as binding material.
Patent GB-190311295-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fans
Inventor: WEYANT THOMAS ROMER
Filed: 1903-05-18
Granted: 1904-03-24
Abstract: 11,295. Weyant, T. R. May 18. Fans.-Relates to means whereby rotary fans are automatically oscillated by the action of the air. The fan is directly supported on the circular plate 9, which has a vertical hub 10, in which a spindle 11 is mounted in ball bearings. The arm 12, carrying this spindle, is also mounted in ball bearings on the base 6, so that the fan and arm 12 can oscillate together about the base, and the fan can move relatively to the arm. An arm 17 on the extended end 14 of the arm 12 limits the two motions by engaging, at the requisite points, with stops 15 on circular brackets 16 of the base 6, or with stop devices 18 with hooked spring fingers on the plate 9.
Patent GB-190311717-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of New Dyestuffs of the Anthraquinone Series.
Inventor: NEWTON HENRY EDWARD
Filed: 1903-05-22
Granted: 1904-03-03
Abstract: 11,717. Newton, H. E., [Farbenfabriken vorm. F. Bayer & Co.]. May 22. Dyes, artificial.-The yellow product described in Specification No. 3239, A.D. 1901, is transformed, by heating with halogen acids, into blue dye-staffs containing halogen. These dye-stuffs may be used to form vats which dye unmordanted cotton blue shades, fast to the action of chlorine. The dye obtained from hydrochloric acid forms a paste which can be used directly for dyeing. It is soluble in nitrobenzene, aniline, and quinoline, forming blue solutions, and crystallizes from quinoline in blue needles. The dye obtained from hydrobromic acid is also soluble in sulphuric acid, forming a brown solution. The dyes are more easily soluble than the blue dyes described in the above-mentioned Specification.
Patent GB-190313462-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Recording Distances Travelled by Motor-cars, Tramcars and the like in Certain Intervals of Time.
Inventor: WILSON WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-06-16
Granted: 1904-06-16
Abstract: 13,462. Wilson, W. June 16. Odometers; speed indicators; indicating times of running and stoppages of vehicles.-Apparatus for recording the time occupied by motor cars, tramcars, and the like in travelling certain distances, and to record speeds or stoppages, is shown. The pencil or pricker p receives impulses through the pivoted lever l and the notched disc c by mechanism operated by the car, while the recording-surface q, which may be a drum or tape or disc, is operated by clockwork, or vice versÔ. The impulses given to the pencil or pricker may correspond with quarter miles, and every fourth impulse may be greater than the others. The lever l strikes the pricker p when the arm n enters the notch in the disc c. The pricker is kept out of contact with the surface q by the spring w, and can be re-set by means of a button which rotates the wheel s to raise the screwthreaded tube v. The pricker may be mounted directly upon the lever l, and a rubber block or stationary plunger may be arranged in the path of the lever to return the pricker to its inoperative position. When the instrument is used on a vehicle running backwards and forwards, a pivoted wedge on the arm n engages with a square notch in the disc c. The pulley on the shaft l driving the disc c is preferably provided with a clutch. In the space 4, the clockwork for driving the drum is located. The upper part r of the drum is detachable, and the spring 7 prevents the drum from jolting.
Patent GB-190314375-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Switches for use in connection with Selective Electric Signalling Apparatus.
Inventor: JACOBS CHARLES MARK
Filed: 1903-06-27
Granted: 1904-04-28
Abstract: 14,375. Jacobs, C. M., and Nicholson. A. H. June 27. Signals, electric.-Consists in a switch for use in connection with selective electric signalling apparatus, such as the installations described in Specifications No. 146, A.D. 1902, [Abridgment Class Electric telegraphs &c.], and No. 23,255, A.D. 1902, for facilitating the connection of the relay at a station with the main conductors, and to render possible a variation of the particular combinations of currents to which the relay will respond. In one form, Fig. 1, eight relay terminals g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, are arranged radially on an insulating base, which carries a spindle bearing three insulated and independently rotating arms a, b, c, connected respectively to the three main conductors. Three other independently rotating arms d, e, f, electrically connected with each other, are mounted on the same spindle, and by properly adjusting the six arms, any of the combinations of currents described in the above-mentioned Specifications may be obtained. In another form, the eight relay terminals and the three main conductor terminals are plug contacts, three flexible insulated conductors with a plug at each end serving to connect any of the main conductors with any of the relay terminals, while three other flexible conductors, each connected with both the others at one end and with the plug at the other, serve to interconnect any three of the relay terminals. Fig. 3 shows a preferred form of the switch, for use with a system similar to that described in Specification No. 23,255, A.D. 1902, but differing therefrom in that the polarized part of the relay has two bobbins, so wound that when one core attracts the armature the other repels it. The ends of the four relay windings are connected respectively to 1, 4 ; 2, 3 ; 8, 9 ; and 10, 11 ; and the main conductors with the springs 5, 6, 7, all these being carried by an insulated bar. A drum 15, made up of twelve strips 16 of insulating material, each carrying eleven contact studs 17, which are differently interconnected in the different strips, is rotated by means of a milled nut 18, so that any particular strip of studs 17, indicated by the appearance of a letter A, say, on the periphery of the drum, may be brought into contact with the springs 1-11 and maintained there by a detent 19, thus giving the desired combination of currents through the relay.
Patent GB-190316657-A (GB)
Title: An Improvement in Razor-strops
Inventor: BOND WILLIAM EBENEZER
Filed: 1903-07-29
Granted: 1904-06-09
Abstract: 16,657. Bond, W. E. July 29. Strops.-Razor strops composed of an endless band A half the length of which consists of leather and the other half of canvas are provided with a spring connection at one or both ends. The upper loop is fitted with a suspension hook or hooks, and the lower loop C is formed with a stem C<1> on which is mounted a plug E, fitting into a handle D, and a spring F. The stem terminates in a square piece J, which is capable of sliding in a bush H and prevents rotation of the strop independently o f the handle. In a modification, rubber connections are inserted between the band and loops.