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Patent GB-190113045-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Automatic Fire Arms.
Inventor: HALLE CLIFFORD ROBERT STEPHEN
Filed: 1901-06-26
Granted: 1902-06-25
Abstract: 13,045. HallÚ, C. E. S. J., and Ribbentrop, M. E. June 26. Machine guns.-The barrel A and breech frame C recoil together when the gun is discharged, against the action of a spring. During the recoil the laterally-hinged supports for the breech-bolt are swung back, and at the same instant the breechbolt operating lever K, which is pivoted to the breech frame, engages with the part Y of the gun casing, and throws the breech-bolt back, thus opening the breech. A crank is provided to open the breech by hand, and a sliding hammer n, with an utomatically - released sear j and a band-released sear i are employed. (For Fig. 12 see next page.)
Patent GB-190114773-A (GB)
Title: Improved Shop Dummy
Inventor: LUND JOSEPH RUSHWORTH
Filed: 1901-07-20
Granted: 1902-05-29
Abstract: 14,773. Lund, J. R. July 20. Lay -figure and l i k e stands. - A s h o p dummy for displaying cloth in windows consists of a stand having a base b, top a, and curved plates at the sides extending from the top to the base, the stand being open at the front and rear. At the front of the top a are hinged &c. a number of rods or tubes d, which by means of racks or other means are adapted to be held in position when moved outwards from or inwards towards the stand. The fabric, which may be held to the top of the stand by a loop &c. q, can be displayed in folds around the rods or tubes d.
Patent GB-190120505-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carpet Sweepers.
Filed: 1901-10-14
Granted: 1902-07-17
Abstract: 20,505. Entwisle & Kenyon, Kenyon, R. W., and Kenyon, W. H. Oct. 14. Carpet - sweepers. -Relates to certain details of carpet - sweepers. The handle B, Fig. 3, is clamped in the socket A by means of a plate D, which is secured at one end by a screw E, and at the other end by a hook d passed through an opening a, by a hook passed over the end of the flange of the socket A, by a hinge, or by a second screw. The clamping-plate may also be secured by a bolt passed through a hole or slot in the handle, and may be provided with lugs to enter recesses in the socket. The end l, Fig. 15, of the buffer L is passed through an opening k in a bracket K, and secured by a spring k<1>, which may be formed by a turned-in edge of the casing. Fig. 20 shows the buffer L secured by means of a pin N and openings k, k<1>. Fig. 22 shows the buffer L provided with a hook O, and Fig. 24 shows it carrying spring clips P which engage the serrated edges of the end bracket K.
Patent GB-190206872-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction and use of Matrices for Casting Bars of Type.
Inventor: CLEGHORN THOMAS
Filed: 1902-03-20
Granted: 1903-03-19
Abstract: 6872. Cleghorn, T. March 20. Grant of Patent refused. Linotype ma- - chines.-Relates to the production of printed matter of a tabular character, such as railway time-tables. The matrices are engraved with characters placed at right-angles to the usual position, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8. The type-bar cast from the assembled line of matrices is, therefore, a column bar instead of a line. Fig. 10 shows a number of such bars assembled as a column. The matrices are all of the same thickness is order that proper align- - ment in column may be secured, and they may be engraved with horizontallines, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7, which will combine to produce a vertical rule in the column bar. The matrices may also be engraved with vertical lines, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, to produce horizontal rules when the column bars are set side by side. Matrices engraved in the ordinary way, as shown in Figs. 11 and 12, may have engraved on them, in addition to the characters, lines which will produce underlined characters in the linotype.
Patent GB-190210631-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Change-speed Gear.
Inventor: MARKS GEORGE CROYDON
Filed: 1902-05-08
Granted: 1903-04-16
Abstract: 10,631. Marks, G. C., [Latille, J.]. May 8. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to variable-speed gear of the type in which the wheels are engaged and disengaged by endways movement, and consists in interposing a clutch between the driven wheels of the speed gear and the road transmission gear, in order that the drivers, the driven wheels, or the whole of the change-speed gear may be isolated during the operation of changing the gear. Fig. 1 shows an arrangement in which the sliding-wheels are mounted on the driving-shaft a which is coupled to the motor shaft by a friction clutch ; the driven wheels are formed on a sleeve d which is normally coupled to the driven shaft b by a claw clutch e held up by a spring j, Fig. 2. Tn another arrangement, a friction clutch is used. Fig. 3 shows a modification in which the driven wheels are fixed on their shaft, and the clutch e is employed in conjunction with the bevel-wheel c' on the cross-shaft.
Patent GB-190215159-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Playing Balls.
Inventor: RICHARDS FRANCIS HENRY
Filed: 1902-07-07
Granted: 1902-10-02
Abstract: 15,159. Richards, F. H. July 7. Balls. - A hollow sphere 1 of soft rubber, distended with guttapercha 2, has closely wound upon it in various directions wires or strips 3 of spring metal, so as to compress the sphere. The wire &c. is sometimes covered with thin sheet caoutchouc, applied layer on layer so as to build up a shell 4 of the required thickness. The core thus formed is enclosed in gutta-percha &c. segments 5, which are preferably welded upon it under heat and pressure. The wire &c. windings may be enclosed in envelopes 6 of fabric. An undistended sphere may be used as the centre-piece.
Patent GB-190216713-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Shuttles and Pirns for Looms.
Inventor: KERSHAW ALBERT
Filed: 1902-07-28
Granted: 1903-06-11
Abstract: 16,713. Kershaw, A. July 28. Loom shuttles; pirns.-The pirn b is formed with a reduced part m at its base end. The split rod, which carries the pirn, secured to or made integral with the block d, pivoted in the sides of the shuttle at e, and held either raised or lowered by the middle part of the spring f, supported by the transverse pin j. When the pirn is lowered, the bent-up end g of the spring enters a hole h bored through the base end of the pirn, and so locks it in position on the rod. Several such holes may be bored in the pirn, and used in case of damage. The transverse pin n acts as a stop for the block d, and limits its downward motion.
Patent GB-190224710-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Measuring Instruments.
Inventor: CAROLAN EDGAR ALFRED
Filed: 1902-11-11
Granted: 1903-10-08
Abstract: 24,710. Carolan, E. A., [General Electric Co.]. Nov. 11. Current meters.-In a movable coil instrument the directive torque is due to the poles of an electro magnet or permanent magnet acting on a saturated strip of iron. Two pairs of poles, energized by a single core, are used to make the meter astatic. Fig. 2 shows a section of the poles of the magnet and the armature. Two pairs of flat coils 17, 17<a> are mounted on aluminium discs 16 fixed to the vertical axle 8. On the same axle are bars 1, 2 coated with a thin layer of magnetic material, such as iron or nickel. There are two pairs of polepieces N, S and N', S<1>. The coils 17, 17<a> and the directive bars 1, 2 are thus influenced by similar magnetic fields. One pair of coils is connected to the terminals 10, 10<a> and the other to the terminals 11, 11<a>, by which arrangement the currents in two circuits may be compared. The pole-pieces N, N<1> and S, S<1> are connected to opposite ends of a straight core of an electro- or permanent magnet. The instrument may be used as a volt-meter resistance mounted in the case being switched into series with the armature coils.
Patent GB-190226549-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Sighting Apparatus for Ordnance.
Filed: 1902-12-02
Granted: 1903-10-01
Abstract: 26,549. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Sir W. G., and Murray, C. H. Dec. 2. Sights.-Ordnance sights, or an ordnance sighting- telescope, are mounted on a more or less horizontal segmental rack turning about a centre below and between the sights, and the angle of deflection is varied by turning the sights or telescope by means of a horizontal cam-plate. When a telescope is employed, the telescope carrier b, Figs. 1 and 3, is pivoted to a segmental rack c, Fig. 5, and is provided with lugs engaging under lugs c<2> on the rack c. The rack is caused to slide in guides on a bracket e, Fig. 1, fixed to the trunnion, by means of a pinion, a worm-wheel g', a worm h', and a handwheel h. A roller b<4>, Fig. 3, on the carrier b engages in a slot in a horizontal cam-plate d pivoted to the bracket e and adjusted by set-screws d<2>, so that, as the telescope is operated, its angle of deflection is changed.
Patent GB-190303624-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Gun Mountings
Inventor: DAWSON ARTHUR TREVOR
Filed: 1903-02-16
Granted: 1903-11-19
Abstract: 3624. Dawson, A. T., and Burton, W. Feb. 16. Mountings.-Relates, particularly, to the mounting and dismounting of Maxim machine guns. The trunnion bearings in the crosshead B have radial slots b<2> for inserting or removing the trunnion shaft C, which is provided with flats c<1> for this purpose. At the side of one of the bearings is attached a slotted plate b<3> with inclined curved surfaces b<5>, which engage with inclined projections c' on the trunnion C when that is turned by the handle c<3> into the locking position. The screwed end of the trunnion is engaged by a nut c<5>, which can be locked in the required position by a split pin passing through one of the radial grooves c', in the nut c<5>, Fig. 9, and a transverse hole in the end of the trunnion.
Patent GB-190305453-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Adjustable Sofa Ends, Chair Backs and the like.
Inventor: AYERS JOHN
Filed: 1903-03-09
Granted: 1904-01-21
Abstract: 5453. Ayers, J., and Ayers, A. T., [trading as Ayers & Son, J.]. March 9. Chairs, sofas, &c.- Relates to a device for adjusting the backs of sofas, chairs, settees, ottomans, and other suitable furniture. A rack-bar b is pivoted at c to a plate fixed to the sofa frame a. Against this rests a pivoted bare supported by a lug f on the bar b. A lug g attached to the bar e carries a pawl h, which is caused to engage with the ratchet teeth d by a spring q. This pawl can be raised by a wire l attached to a lever m, which is pivoted to a lug o attached to the sofa back. The whole fitting is enclosed in the wooden frame forming the end of the sofa, the end of the lever m alone projecting.
Patent GB-190307154-A (GB)
Title: Method of and Apparatus for Delivering Pulverulent or Granular Materials in Regulated Quantities.
Filed: 1903-03-27
Granted: 1904-02-11
Abstract: 7154. Clark, I. C., Davies, A. J., and Russell, W. L., [executors of Clark, A. M.], [Fellner & Ziegler]. March 27. Feeding - devices. - Relates to a machine for feeding cement, coal dust, and other granular materials, in uniformly regulated quantities to any given spot. The material flows in a constant stream through the hopper b, over the inclined shoot c, into the compartments h of a rotating wheel d. The excess of material falls down the shoot g to be conveyed again to the hopper b. The material, in regulated quantities, is discharged from the compartments h, down the shoot f. The amount of material delivered may be regulated by adjusting the speed of rotation of the wheel d, or by adjusting the space through which the material passes into the compartments h. The latter adjustment is effected by means of a segmental shield k pivoted on the shaft m and provided with an arm n connected by a link to the adjusting screw p.
Patent GB-190309204-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Boilers or Steam-generators.
Inventor: RICHARDSON JAMES
Filed: 1903-04-23
Granted: 1904-02-25
Abstract: 9204. Richardson, J. April 23. Steam - generator furnaces firebridges; baffles; flues, cleaning. - A fireclay arch and baffles are arranged beyond the firebridge of a Lancashireboiler furnace, to direct the flames and hot gases against the walls of the flues. Steam and air are forced into the bottom of the flue through a blast pipe, for clearing it of dust. The arch 8 is composed of sections, which are tongued and grooved to fit into each other. They are supported by rails 9, which rest upon the brackets 7. The space between the arch and the flue at the inner end is closed by bricks 10 forming a baffle, which causes the gases to pass down the sides of the arch to the main flue. Steam is supplied to the flue from the boiler by a flexible pipe 16, which may be connected to a pipe 13 within the pipe 11. The end of the pipe 11 is open, so that air passes in with the steam, and finally escapes through the jets 12.
Patent GB-190323638-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Phonograph Cylinders.
Inventor: LEEDS EDWARD FOWLER
Filed: 1903-10-31
Granted: 1904-04-14
Abstract: 23,638. Leeds, E. F. Oct. 31. Phonographs.- Moulds for casting phonograph records are made with a hollow core which can be readily removed from the mould. As shown in section in Fig. 1, the core B, which tapers both inside and outside towards the bottom, fits over an inner tube 0, and a projection M on the core slides into a spiral ledge L in the tube. The spiral groove F on the outside of the core has the same pitch as that of the ledge L so that, when the record is cast, the core can be unscrewed leaving the record in the mould.
Patent GB-190400931-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Method of Weaving certain Pile Fabrics, and in Loom Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: BARKER ALDRED FARRER
Filed: 1904-01-14
Granted: 1905-01-12
Abstract: 931. Barker, A. F. Jan. 14. Looms, pile forming and cutting in; pile fabrics; carpets; rugs.-In looms for weaving warp-pile fabrics in which the pile loops are formed over longitudinal wires, the pile wires 7 are made to conform normally to the upper plane of the shed, and are supported at their front ends 19 by the fabric, and at their back ends by a reed or holder 9, having strong dents 10 between which the rear ends of the wires 7 are passed. The ends 12 of the wires are bent to prevent them from being drawn forward, but leaving them free to move backward within the limit allowed by a leather or other guard 13 fastened to the back of the reed 9. The pile warps 14 pass from a separate beam 15, over an easing-rod, and through doup mountings 18, 18<a>, 18<b>, by which they are depressed alternately on opposite sides of the wires 7 to form the pile loops. A gauze reed or any style of gauze mounting worked on the top doup system, with the wires on the face of the fabric, may be employed. - As the fabric is taken up, the loops pass off the ends of the pile wire, which may be provided with knife-edges to cut the loops, and the wires may have a slight longitudinal motion or jerk imparted to them to facilitate the passing off of the loops. Threads or cords may be used instead of the pile wires, these threads being of a different material from the body of the fabric, so that they may be destroyed chemically after the cloth is woven ; or a chemically-treated cord easily destroyed or disintegrated by heat may be used. The warps may be operated by a heald shedding- motion or by a jacquard. If a fabric is being woven in which no pick intervenes beneath each pile loop, as shown in Fig. 5, and if a double-lift shedding-motion is employed, the reed 9 is depressed by a tappet and series of levers to facilitate the passage of the pile warps over the pile wires. When cords are used instead of wires, they pass through the mails of a heald shaft which is depressed to facilitate the crossing of the pile warps. The invention is particularly applicable for weaving carpets, tapestries, plushes, velvets, pile ribbons, rugs, trimmings, dress fabrics, and certain styles of piped trouserings and fancy gauzes, and combinations of these. The invention may also be applied to the weaving of figured double plushes, in which case the wires 7 take the place of the ordinary thick wefts which are inserted during weaving and then extracted by hand.
Patent GB-190401699-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Railway Surfacing and Lining Devices.
Inventor: BAILEY JOHN MITCHELL
Filed: 1904-01-22
Granted: 1904-06-16
Abstract: 1699. Bailey, J. M. June 15, A.D. 1903, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Platelayers' tools. -Relates to sighting-devices for giving a true surface to railway tracks and for putting the same in perfect " line " both on straight and curved tracks. Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of a straight track to which the device has been attached. Fig. 3 shows an enlarged view of the centre block as attached to the rail. The device consists of three parts, each comprising an attaching-trame a and a selfbalancing flag-arm or cross-bar, with means for attaching the frame to the rail and for adjusting the height of, and levelling, the flag arms. The parts A, B, Fig. 1, are painted black, the arm of B being graduated, while part C is painted white with a black stripe and the flags placed above the arm. The flags are preferably made of sheet metal while the rest of the frame is made of bar iron. The arms are fixed at any desired height by screws g and levelled by the spirit levels c. On a straight track it is only necessary to sight along the three flags to determine whether the rails require to be raised, or moved laterally, into line. Both sets of rails are done at once by also using with this device the usual standard-width gauge and level-board. The degree of a curve is determined by placing the parts A, C thirty-one feet from the part B on the outer rail of the curve and looking along the end of the outer arms. The point where the line of sight between the parts A, C cuts the arm of part B is determined by the straddle d and gives the degree of the curve. If accidentally left on the rail, the parts are easily swept off by a cow-catcher.
Patent GB-190411797-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas or Air Compressors.
Inventor: MURRAY ANGUS
Filed: 1904-05-24
Granted: 1905-03-30
Abstract: 11,797. Murray, A. May 24. Check valves; seats; shocks, preventing.-Relates to the arrangement and regulation of the valves of an air or gas compressor. In the form shown, the seats J of suction valves K are formed in part with, or secured to, the seats J<1> of discharge valves K<1>. Each valve K is recessed to receive a controlling-spring which bears against the seat of the adjacent valve K<1>. Both valves may be loaded by light springs and the seats may be provided with air channels or grooves which form a cushion to prevent a jar when the valves return to their seats.
Patent GB-190416386-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Safety Guards for Wringing and Mangling Machines.
Inventor: CROXON WALTER CHARLES
Filed: 1904-07-25
Granted: 1904-12-15
Abstract: 16,386. Croxon, W. C. July 25. Mangling and wring- ing machines.-A guard for mangling and wringing machines comprises a roller B rotatably mounted in bearings in metal frames A which are suspended from a metal rod G fixed to the standards of the machine. Normally, the roller B is held against the upper roller of the machine by light springs E, and assists in feeding the articles between the machine rollers. If the operator's fingers are caught between the upper and the guard rollers, the guard-roller and the frames may easily be pulled away from the machine against the pull of the springs. A bar holds the frames together by nuts H. According to the Provisional Specification, the metal spindles of the guardroller work in slots in metal frames, allowing a sliding movement against the action of the springs.
Patent GB-190421209-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Screen-holders for use in Photography.
Inventor: BRASSEUR CHARLES LOUIS ADRIEN
Filed: 1904-10-03
Granted: 1905-08-03
Abstract: 21,209. Brasseur, C. L. A. Oct. 3. Cameras; coloured screens.-To obviate irregularities in colour records taken through a ruled polychrome screen C, the latter is adapted in the camera to project beyond the usual focal plane, and is mounted o n i t s holder H so that the plate P may be pressed into close contact therewith by the springs S of the plate-holder. The screen.holder may form part of the plate-holder or be otherwise fitted in the camera.
Patent GB-190422124-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tyewriting Machines.
Inventor: FELL JOHN CORRY
Filed: 1904-10-14
Granted: 1904-11-17
Abstract: 22,124. Fell, J. C., [Union Typewriter Co.]. Oct. 14. Type-writers. - An erasing-table, comprising a bar, plate, or blade 13 and a rod or shaft portion 14, is mounted by shouldered screws 15 in standards or lugs 11, 12 provided on the side bars 6 of the platen frame. Marginal paper fingers 24 have tongue - and - groove connections on the part 14. The erasing - table may be graduated in correspondence with the front platen scale, in order to facilitate the positioning of the paper fingers. The part 14 is surrounded at the ends by springs 27 secured at one end to the lug 11, 12 and at the other end in a collar 28 fixed by a set-screw 29. In a modification, the paper fingers are spring- mounted on separate supports having tongue-andgroove connections on the erasing-table, instead of having both the erasing-table and the fingers spring-pressed.
Patent GB-190511751-A (GB)
Title: A Material or Composition for use in Manufacturing Air Gas.
Inventor: MOORES WALTER
Filed: 1905-06-05
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 11,751. Moores, W., and [Bryars, J. June 5. Carburetting.-In the preparation of air gas for heating, illuminating, and power purposes, air is passed over a chemically-prepared pulp, mixed with benzoline. The pulp may consist of wood, fibre, paper, or any other material, immersed in a solution of ¢ oz. alum, 2 oz. quicklime, and 2 dr. 90 per cent caustic soda in 2 gallons of water, and then dried. No special form of carburettor is employed.
Patent GB-190512081-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Drill Ratchet Braces
Inventor: FOX WILLIAM PARKER
Filed: 1905-06-09
Granted: 1905-09-07
Abstract: 12,081. Fox, W. P., and Fox, T. June 9. Braces, ratchet. The feed-screw is threaded only at the end A, Fig. 2, the rest of the screw A' having a diameter equal to that at the bottom of the thread. The feed-nut is threaded throughout its length. The purpose of the arrangement is to protect the thread of the screw from injury. Specification No. 22,809, A.D. 1901, is referred to.
Patent GB-190516168-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Portable Folding Seats and Tables
Inventor: PATMORE CHARLES
Filed: 1905-08-08
Granted: 1906-05-03
Abstract: 16,168. Patmore, C. Aug. 8. Stays.-Metal stays h, Fig. 4, for the pivoted legs d of a folding seat, stool, or table, are pivoted at l to the legs d and enter grooves j formed in a block k fitted between the centre pair of ribs a, being retained therein by a turn-button o. When there are an odd number of ribs a. the central rib is deepened at the middle to serve in place of the block k. In order that the stays h may lie flatly one upon the other when folded, the pivots l upon the outer pair of legs are formed by bent plates m, whereas, those upon the inner pair of legs are formed by grooves cut in the legs and covered by flat plates n The arrangement may be secured in the folded position by a turn-button t, and a carrying - handle p is provided. The invention may be applied to a seat or table with a solid top as shown by the dotted lines q, Fig. 1. The invention is shown in Fig. 6 as applied to a bedstead or couch fitted with a folding foot-end u and head-end r, the latter being attached by links s. A chair may be formed by fitting a back such as r to the seat shown in Fig. 1.