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Patent GB-190110586-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Valves and Valve Gear of "Direct-acting" Steam Engines.
Inventor: LOVE ROBERT TEMPLETON
Filed: 1901-05-22
Granted: 1902-05-22
Abstract: 10,586. Love, R. T. May 22. Drawings to Specification. Steam pumps.-Comprises forms of piston slide valves, and tappet gear actuating the same for direct-acting engines such as are used for pumps. Two pairs of valve heads are employed, the admission valves being smaller in diameter than the exhaust valves. All the valve beads are formed with flanges or faces, which, when the valves are closed, bear on suitable seatings. The guiding portion of each head is made with longitudinal openings for the passage of steam. The steam is admitted at the centre and exhausted at the ends. The valves are worked by spring tappets carried by a crosshead on the main piston-rod and acting on collars on the valve spindle. The flexure of the spring tappets, before the valve begins to open, ensures a rapid movement as soon as, owing to partial opening, the valve is put into equilibrium. The springs or buffers may also be carried on the valve spindle.
Patent GB-190112846-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Guards for Tramcars or other Vehicles.
Inventor: GERLOF GEORG WILHELM HEINRICH
Filed: 1901-06-24
Granted: 1902-05-29
Abstract: 12,846. Gerlof, G. W. H. June 24. Safety guards between vehicles.-Relates to means for closing the space between two vehicles. Fig. 4 shows a side elevation. Guides b, formed at the top and bottom and both sides of the plate a, receive sliding bars c in slots d to which are pinned plates g, which are pivoted to blocks i having eyes k for attachment to a tramcar or other vehicle.
Patent GB-190116434-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Toy.
Inventor: MARSHALL ALFRED
Filed: 1901-08-15
Granted: 1901-09-21
Abstract: 16,434. Marshall, A. Aug. 15. Rolling toys.-A drum a, b to be rolled on a table &c. is provided with counterweighted pointers e, and has questions marked on one side and answers on the other. When the drum comes to rest, the pointers indicate a question and an answer thereto respectively. The drum is preferably made in two parts a, b, movable relatively to one another so as to vary the answers. The questions &c. may be marked on the drum itself, or on separate discs for attachment thereto. Instead of questions and answers, names of persons and their characteristics may be marked on the discs. By marking the drum with useful information, it may be used as an educational toy.
Patent GB-190120543-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Brake Rigging for Railway Cars Wagons and the like.
Inventor: SMITH ALLISON DALRYMPLE
Filed: 1901-10-14
Granted: 1902-09-18
Abstract: 20,543. Smith, A. D. Oct. 14 Brakes.-The rigging of either-side wagon and like brakes is used in connection with automatic power brakes. The transverse shaft f, which has levers d connected to the usual push-rods, also has an arm e linked to the source of power by the lever l. The hand-brake levers b are loose on the shaft f, and have recesses a adapted to be engaged by projections g on the secondary light levers c keyed to the shaft f. When power is used, the levers b rest in the off position in the support j. The brakes are applied by hand by depressing one of the levers b, and are taken off by lifting the lever originally depressed, or one of the levers c which turn with the shaft f. The stops k of the supports j, Fig. 4, are arranged outside the vertical centre lines of the levers b, which have sufficient spring to return to their original positions when released. Each shoulder k<1> and the underside of each lever b are bevelled to allow the brake levers to pass readily on to or off the stop k.
Patent GB-190122801-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bicycles Convertible for use by Riders of Either Sex.
Inventor: SUTHREN JOSEPH DICKSON
Filed: 1901-11-12
Granted: 1902-10-02
Abstract: 22,801. Suthren, J. D., and Custance, A. Nov. 12. Convertible bicycles; guards, mud and dress.-A bicycle for use by either sex comprises, in addition to the usual permanent members 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, a member 6 connecting the upper head lug with the bottom bracket, and a member 8 connecting the lower head lug to the member 6 and pointing towards the top of the saddle post. When arranged for use by men, an additional member 9, Fig. 5, is secured by a lug 11 inserted in a socket 12 in the member 6 and a fork adapted to be engaged by the usual bolt 7 or by a special bolt. When arranged for use by ladies, the tube 9 is removed, the socket 12 is covered by a sliding clip 13, and dress guards are attached. The dress guards comprise cords 14 secured at one end to metal rims 18 formed with hooks to engage in holes in the mud guard, and at the other end to plates 15 formed with spring hooks to engage in eyes secured near the fork end. Each side of the guard consists of two parts, as shown.
Patent GB-190123139-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Heating Devices and Systems and the Process of Regulating the same.
Inventor: ARMSTRONG CHARLES GOOLD
Filed: 1901-11-15
Granted: 1902-09-04
Abstract: 23,139. Armstrong, C. G. Nov. 15. Heating buildings &c.-Relates to beating devices and systems, especially steam heating- systems, and to the process of regulating them. Fig. 1 shows a single-pipe steam heating-system embodying the invention, and Fig. 3 shows the construction and arrangement of the controlling valves and pipes. The heater or radiator has its effective radiating-area varied or governed by the insertion into the heater or radiator of a displacing- medium such as air, and the act of varying the radiating-area is checked independently of the temperature of the room to be heated, so as to prevent the too rapid insertion of the displacing- fluid. A valve F adapted to admit the beating- fluid to the radiator is located between the source of supply and the radiator, and the controlling- valve D with the valve C<1> governed by the thermostat C is placed so as to communicate with the radiator by the pipe E<6>, with the air supply or pump or reservoir D<2> by the pipe D<1>, and with the withdrawing-device or vacuum pump D<4> by the pipe D<3>. The air pipe D<5> is controlled by the thermostat, and the valves E<3>, E<2> open outwardly and inwardly respectively. The seating- spring E<4> is not so strong as the spring E<5>, so that the valve E<2> is more readily actuated than the valve E<3>.
Patent GB-190201229-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Telegraphs.
Inventor: KILROY WILLIE DICKSON
Filed: 1902-01-16
Granted: 1903-01-01
Abstract: 1229. Kilroy, W. D. Jan. 16. Telegraphs, mechanical, applicable for use on board ship. The receiver employed consists of a rotatable drum, Fig. 1, having upon its periphery any required number of rectangular order spaces, the said drum being enclosed in a cylindrical shield b, Fig. 2, capable of being rotated on the same axis, and having as many orifices b<1> as there are circumferential rows of orders on the drum ; these orifices are arranged en echelon or spirally so that, when the drum and shield are arranged in a casing having a longitudinal opening, only one order is exposed at a time. The necessary movements may be transmitted to the drum and shield by means of a transmitter similar in construction to the receiver. The drum and shield of the transmitter are operated by a pair of hardles so as to display the order, or a corresponding code number, and the movements are reproduced in the receiver through mechanical gearing.
Patent GB-190201953-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Washing-Machines.
Inventor: HENRY THOMAS
Filed: 1902-01-24
Granted: 1903-01-22
Abstract: 1953. Henry. T. Jan. 24. Washing machines. -Relates to the rotating drums of machines for washing and cleansing clothes and other articles, and consists in constructing the periphery of metal bent to form V-shaped corrugations a having flat or nearly flat sides with more or less rounded angles or corners. Perforations c are made through the sides. The ends of the drum are tied together by angle-irons g which lie in the corrugations on the outside of the cylinder. and serve to stiffen the latter. The cylinder may be strengthened by one or more partitions l.
Patent GB-190213092-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Composing and Distributing Type Matrices
Inventor: BARTLETT HENRY BAKER
Filed: 1902-06-09
Granted: 1902-11-27
Abstract: 13,092. Bartlett, E. B. June 9. Linotype machines.-Relates to matrix-composing and distributing apparatus in linotype machines. To increase the number of characters for which matrices are provided without modifying the distributing-rule, the matrices are formed with their distinguishing teeth or notches arranged unsymmetrically, as shown in Fig. 3. Matrices with identical teeth can thus be of two kinds (right or left handed), and are discharged accordingly either into the magazine 1 or the magazine 2. Fig. 4 shows the lower ends of the magazine channels. A stop-bar 9 extending the full width of the magazines can be moved so as to block the exits from all the channels either of the upper or the lower magazine. When a rod 42 is lifted by the depression of a key, the spring 37 effects the movement of a bar 34 to which both escapement detents 32, 33 are pivoted. Owing to the stop-bar 9, however, a matrix is only released from one channel. The plate 44 serves as a guide for matrices falling from the upper channels. The line of matrices is elevated after the cast has been taken, and is pushed endwise] towards the distributing-screws. Before reaching the reciprocating-pusher, which lifts each matrix in turn within reach of the screws, the matrix meets with a device shown in side elevation in Fig. 8 and in end view in Fig. 9. If the matrix is a left-handed one, the inclined and diverging projections 17, 18 will engage with the matrix teeth on the right-hand side of the V-shaped recess, and cause it to swing towards the right, suitable guides being provided to maintain it in the inclined position until it engages the distributing- rail. The projections 17', 18<1> act similarly on a right-handed matrix.
Patent GB-190213377-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Measuring the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat.
Inventor: CALLENDAR HUGH LONGBOURNE
Filed: 1902-06-13
Granted: 1903-06-11
Abstract: 13,377. Callendar, H. L. June 13. Heat, mechanical equivalent of, determining.-A metal cylinder or calorimeter a is mounted on an axle free to rotate in bearings b<2> and screw-threaded at d to drive counting-apparatus. A belt, the halves of which have different co-efficients of irict on, may pass over the cylinder a and be kept in equilibrium by weights suspended from its ends ; or, as in the Figure shown, the belt m3y be passed completely round once, and have one half double and the other single.
Patent GB-190216229-A (GB)
Title: Stencilling Machines for Buttons
Inventor: HORMBY JOHN
Filed: 1902-07-21
Granted: 1902-11-27
Abstract: 16,229. Hormby, J. July 21. Stencilling - apparatus. - Relates to stencilling apparatus for painting or colouring buttons, particularly vegetable-ivory buttons such as those made by the machine described in Specification No. 20,903, A.D. 1898, [Abridgment Class Fastenings, Dress]. Fig. 1 represents a plan of apparatus with three series of stencils, the pigment &c. reservoirs being removed, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2, Fig. 1. The framing A carries fonr vertical shafts a, b, c, d geared in unison. The shaft a is provided with a ratchet-wheel D<4> actuated by a pawl D<3> on a lever D oscillated by a cam C on a horizontal main shaft B. The four vertical shafts carry notched discs a', b<2>, d<2> normally engaged by rollers a<4>, b<4>, d<4> on spring- retained levers a<3>, b<3>, d<3> pivoted on adjustable eccentric studs, the free ends of the levers being connected by the springs to a bar passing freely through a swivelled block on the lever b<3> and pivoted to the pawl lever D. A handle limited by a spring latch and pins is connected to a rod F', which passes loosely through a block F<5> swivelled on the pawl D<3> and disposed between springs on the rod. A friction strap G is secured to a bracket on the frame, and passed over a brake wheel G<1> on the shaft a. A button-carrier H is mounted on the shaft a, and comprises a disc with peripheral button seats or openings h disposed on a ring i and annular flange I, the ring and flange being discontinuous at a point such as h<2>, to allow the buttons to drop into a shoot &c. Stencilcarriers are mounted on the shafts b, c, d, and comprise pivoted arms J<2>, K<2>, L<2> with detachable stencil-holders J<3>, K', L<3>. The arms are supported by bars j, k, l shaped to allow the holders to drop into cleaning tanks j<1>, k<1>, l<1> and notched to allow the holders to drop over the seats in the button-carrier. The cleaned holders pass over jets supplied with hot air through pipes j<2>, k<2>, l<2>. A pigment-carrier M is loosely journalled on the shaft a above the button-carrier, and is oscillated by means of an arm P<1>, rock shaft P, and an arm provided with a spring latch p<1> engaging a catchblock on the pawl lever D and a trip pin p<4>, the return movement being governed by a piston in an air cylinder Q. The latch p<1> may be operated by a rod connected to the handle of the rod F<4>. The pigment &c. is sprayed on the return movement only, each reservoir being connected by a flexible pipe to an air chamber provided with a normally-closed escape valve operated by a cam-disc, which is mounted on the shaft c and provided with as many projections as there are seats in the button-carrier. Reference is made to Specifications Nos. 16,230 and 16,231 , A.D. 1902.
Patent GB-190219271-A (GB)
Title: Machines for Making Boxes or Wrappers from Paper and for Filling the same with Cigarettes or other Articles.
Inventor: POLLARD EDWARD THOMAS
Filed: 1902-09-02
Granted: 1903-08-27
Abstract: 19,271. Pollard, E. T., and Behrmann, E. L. Sept. 2. Drawings to Specification. Printing - apparatus combined with box-making apparatus, cutting-machines for paper &c., and packing-apparatus.-In forming boxes or wrappers, and in packing cigarettes, cigars, sweets, and other articles into them, the paper, cardboard, or other material from which the boxes or wrappers are formed, is fed through a known form of platen printing-apparatus which is combined with the apparatus that effects the operations of cutting the blanks, and forming and filling the boxes or wrappers.
Patent GB-190221199-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Recorders for Registering the time of Opening and Closing of Offices or Business Places and for Keeping other Records in connection therewith.
Inventor: NEUBAUER EDWARD ALBERT
Filed: 1902-09-29
Granted: 1903-03-26
Abstract: 21,199. Neubauer, E. A. May 24, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Time-checking apparatus.-The times at which a place of business is opened and closed, and the number of times, and the hours at which, the door of the establishment has been opened, are recorded upon a diagram disc 7 fixed upon a rotary dial 5, by mechanism actuated by the door 31. A number of concentric circular divisions on the disc 7 are marked " Monday." " Monday night," " Tuesday," " Tuesday night," &c., a number of thick radial lines are marked 1, 2, 3 ... to indicate the hours, and fine radial lines indicate subdivisions of the hour. When the door 31 is opened, a lever 30 operates the contact-pieces 28, 27 and completes the circuit of an electromagnet 22, thereby attracting an armature 23 on a pivoted lever 12, and causing the style or pencil at the upper end of the lever to make a perforation or mark on the rotating disc 7. At the end of 12 hours, when the dial has made one complete revolution, a tooth 13 turns the wheel 14 through the space of one tooth, whereupon he wheel 16 operates a rack 17 carrying the pivoted lever 12, moving the lever from opposite the circular division on the dial corresponding to, say, " Wednesday" to that corresponding to " Wednesday night." At the end of the week, the diagram disc 7 upon the dial is replaced by a new one, and the rod 18 is shifted back to its original position.
Patent GB-190300040-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Appliance for Use with Ladies' Blouses and the like.
Inventor: LAKE HENRY WILLIAM
Filed: 1903-01-01
Granted: 1903-11-05
Abstract: 40. Lake, H. W. Jan. 1. Blouses.-Relates to an appliance to produce a long - waisted effect. A strip of metal a is bent over at one end b to receive a safety-pin c, by which the appliance is fastened to the corset. The other end d is enlarged, and has two slots e, cnt as shown, through which the web or band passes on its way round the waist.
Patent GB-190302841-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and in the Manufacture of Gramophone Needles
Inventor: MORGAN JOHN
Filed: 1903-02-06
Granted: 1903-11-26
Abstract: 2841. Morgan, J. Feb. 6. Cutting by unclassified operations; making parts of phonographs.-Needles for gramophones are produced without burrs by nicking the wire before breaking off the pointed end. The nick is made by means of dies or a circular cutting-tool. Fig. 4 shows the nick, made by rotating and stamping several wires held between two dies a in a hand-press, the portion b, when broken off, having a nearly flat base without any burr.
Patent GB-190313763-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Regulation of Gas Producers.
Inventor: CROSSLEY WILLIAM JOHN
Filed: 1903-06-20
Granted: 1904-06-16
Abstract: 13,763. Crossley, W. J., and Rigby, T. June 20. Gas-producers.-In suction gas-producer plants, a varying proportion of steam to air is supplied, corresponding to variations in the load of the engine or demand for gas, by passing a portion of the air, the primary supply, through a fan g<2> directly to the firegrate a, and causing the remainder or secondary air supply to pass through a cock g<3> and a steam chamber, such as k, and thence through pipes c<2>, superheaters c, and pipes c<3> to the firegrate. The primary air supply will always be working, even on the minimum load, at the fullest rate permitted by the damper m<2>. As the demand for gas increases, the quantity of secondary air and steam drawn in will increase, reaching the maximum at full load, thereby ensuring in the mixture a larger proportion of steam to air at full load than at light load. The gas producer with steam generator and superheater, shown in Fig. 1, is that described in Specification No. 13,764, A.D. 1903, but an ordinary steam generator, independent of the gas producer, may be employed.
Patent GB-190315547-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Support for Motor and other Bicycles.
Inventor: WILKINSON ISAAC HARVEY
Filed: 1903-07-14
Granted: 1903-11-12
Abstract: 15,547. Wilkinson, I. H. July 14. Supports.-To support a cycle, a tube d, clipped to the tube c, is fitted with a sliding boss e, which carries two pivoted legs h<1> and can be clamped in position. The inclination of the legs can be varied by links k lugs f<1> limiting the motion. The legs can be folded up and secured by clips, or the lower ends may be placed in recesses fitted at the bottom of the tube.
Patent GB-190317410-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Propellers for Vessels.
Inventor: DUDLEY JOB
Filed: 1903-08-11
Granted: 1903-11-26
Abstract: 17,410. Dudley, J. Aug. 11. Propelling by water jets.-Relates to jet propellers consisting of tubes secured longitudinally in the vessel, having their open ends submerged. As shown in Fig. 3, one part of the tube 2 is enlarged to form an annular chamber 15, gradually tapering as shown, and having at its larger end a pipe 16 for the admission of water under pressure. To propel the vessel, water under pressure is admitted through the opening 13 from the chamber 15 to the tube 2, which, being entirely submerged, is full of water. The water contained in the tube is driven in the same direction as the water under pressure, and the vessel moves in the opposite direction. To propel the vessel in the reverse direction, the same means are used at the opposite end of the pipe, as shown. The tubes may be duplicated as shown at 5, 5 in Fig. 1, allowing greater facilities for manoeuvring.
Patent GB-190318832-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Indicating the Flow of Fluids through Pipes or Channels.
Inventor: THRELFALL RICHARD
Filed: 1903-09-01
Granted: 1904-07-14
Abstract: 18,832. Threlfall, R. Sept. 1. Liquid meters.-In an apparatus for metering or indicating the flow of fluid through a pipe on the principles described in Specification No. 21,312, A.D. 1902, the difference of pressure set up in two tubes inserted in the pipe actuates, through the medium of a floating bell B, an indicator H moving over graduations proportional to square roots. The indicator H is adjusted by means of a spring I, the pressure difference being reduced to zero during adjustment by means of a connection between the two tubes. The bell B is carried by springs E, and downward motion is directed by inclines K. For the purpose of transport, the bell B may be held down on its feet L by means of a cam M.
Patent GB-190325387-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanical Musical Instruments and Musical Instrument Players for Regulating the Expression of the Music.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1903-11-20
Granted: 1904-11-19
Abstract: 25,387. Imray, O., [Aeolian Co.]. Nov. 20. Automatic instruments.-Apparatus for regulating the expression of the music played by a mechanical instrument, or by a piano player or like instrument, is shown in Fig. 1, and in diagrammatic view in Fig. 8. The action box 6, tracker board, &c., are of usual construction. The chamber 13 common to all the motor pneumatics is within, and common to, the passages of the grid-like box 14 interposed in the operative circuit between the motor pneumatics and a series of selectively operable exhausters 17 and preferably the main exhauster 18. The supplemental exhausters 17 are normally cut out of circuit by the selecting-gate or valve 27 controlled or manipulated by an expression lever through crank and linkage gearing. In re-winding, the operation of all the exhausters is cut off by the gate 39 which, in playing, has its ports 40 in register with the passages 15, 15<a>, in the box 14. The re-winding gate 39 is manipulated by similar linkage mechanism to that for the selecting-gate 27. The valves 22 of the passages 23 by which the supplemental exhausters communicate with the wind or vacuum chest 19 are operated by the movement of the exhausters. The ports of the selecting-gate are so arranged that one exhauster alone is operative. The exhausters are of different tensions, the tensions being obtained by means of the springs 17<a>, 18<a>.
Patent GB-190401842-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Process for Treating Steel and Armour Plates
Inventor: ENGELS EWALD
Filed: 1904-01-25
Granted: 1904-02-25
Abstract: 1842. Engels, E. Jan. 25. Tempering.-Steel or armour plates are toughened by one of the following treatments :-(1) Cementation with carbides and a carbon-liberating reagent, as described in Specification No. 25,932, A.D. 1903, quenching in oil or other hardening- medium, and then annealing in a furnace or bath of molten metal at a lower temperature than that of cementation. The metal may finally be worked by rolling, pressing, drawing, hammering, &c. (2) Heating to incandescence in presence of oxygen or oxygen-yielding materials, such as manganese binoxide, cooling in molten lead, and then cementation, quenching in oil, and annealing, as described above. In this process, the mechanical working, if used, may follow the operation of cooling in lead, or the annealing, or both. After any of these processes, exceptional hardness may be given by finally quenching in water &c. by the usual douche or immersion methods.
Patent GB-190401919-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for the Prevention of Slipping or "Skidding" of Pneumatic and Rubber Tyres
Inventor: CLARKSON THOMAS JAMES RANDOLPH
Filed: 1904-01-26
Granted: 1905-01-12
Abstract: 1919. Clarkson, T. J. R. Jan. 26. Tyres, pneumatic &c.-A device for preventing slipping of rubber tyres and the outer covers of pneumatic tyres consists of a series of studs. The flat heads B with rounded edges are placed either on the inside of the outer cover or are moulded in the substance during manufacture. The necks extend through the outer cover, and heads A, sbaped to prevent slipping, are screwed or otherwise secured to the protruding ends.