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Patent GB-189921790-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Devices for Affixing Adhesive Stamps to Paper and Envelopes.
Inventor: KLEIN HENRY SANDOR
Filed: 1899-10-31
Granted: 1899-12-09
Abstract: 21,790. Klein, H. S., and Klein, B. r. Oct. 31. Damping and affixing stamps.-The stamps H are held by corner flanges b in the loose box B, and are pressed down by the spring-pressed follower I. The box is enclosed in a casing A. Pins f on the bail E project through slots in the casing A, box B, and arms J of the follower, and act on the latter to press a stamp on to the moistened paper or envelope when the handle F is pressed down over the guide-tube C on the casing A. A spring G in the guide returns the handle. A water receptacle L with absorbent pad M is held on the side of the casing A by a hook k and spring catch m, and the opening g for filling it is closed by an elastic gasket h on the casing.
Patent GB-189924559-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Valves for Air and like Compressors.
Filed: 1899-12-09
Granted: 1900-03-31
Abstract: 24,559. Lake, H. H., [Ingersoll Serjeant Drill Co.]. Dec. 9. Compressing.-The valves of compressors are closed by fluid pressure. Fig. 3 shows one end of a double-acting compressor a with its inlet valve v and discharge valve d. These valves open automatically, and are closed by pistons m operated on by compressed air supplied by pipes 12, 13 and controlled by a slide valve operated by the motor which drives the compressor. The pistons of the inlet valves at one end of the cylinder and of the outlet valves at the other are supplied by the same pipe. The small cylinders k, l and pistons m also serve as dash-pots.
Patent GB-189925580-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Automatic Sight Feed Lubricators.
Inventor: FREEMAN ALBERT ALLEN
Filed: 1899-12-27
Granted: 1900-02-17
Abstract: 25,580. Freeman, A. A., and Armstrong, O. Dec. 27. Lubricators.-The oil reservoir consists of a glass cylinder a<10> held between the base part a<3> and the cover a, the joints being formed by packing-rings a<6>, a<11>. The cover a is pressed down by screws d, d' through the cross - piece c<2> uniting the standards c, c', which spring from the base a<3>. The flow of oil to the sight-feed tube B, and thence to the part to be lubricated, is controlled by the ball valve g<1>, supported by the spring g. When the machine on which the lubricator is mounted is in motion, the vibration causes oil to pass round the ball g<1>, but when the motion ceases the spring cuts off the flow of oil. The spring is adjusted by turning the screw e attached to the tube h. This tube h also serves for filling the reservoir with oil, its upper end being closed by the valve h<3> held up by the spring h<2>. The feed of oil can be stopped at any time by raising the tube h and turning the sleeve j so that pins j<1> thereon cease to register with slots a' in the neck on the cover.
Patent GB-190004738-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Rim Brake Apparatus.
Filed: 1900-03-13
Granted: 1901-02-16
Abstract: 4738. Humber & Co. and Powell, E. March 13. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to rim brakes for cycles, motor cars, &c. Figs. 1 and 2 show the invention applied to a bicycle steering-wheel fork. The brake shoes E are mounted on arms B pivoted on clips C on the fork and connected to a horseshoe shaped frame A carried by the brake rod A<1>. In a modification, the arms B are pivoted at their ends, and the brake is applied by a pull-up action.
Patent GB-190009991-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Utilization of Pressed Yeast.
Inventor: VALENTINE GEORGE
Filed: 1900-05-31
Granted: 1901-05-25
Abstract: 9991. Valentine, G. May 31. Manures. - Relates to a process for the treatment of pressed yeast so as to obtain alcohol, food for animals, and a manure. The pressed yeast is placed in a closed still A provided with a stirrer R, an outlet Y, a removable feedhopper B, and a dome D connected by a cock E to a condenser F and by a cock P to an ordinary fractional condenser. The liquid condensed in the coil F is collected in the receiver I, while the gases pass through washers K, L of ordinary construction charged with sulphuric acid, then through a washer M with water, and finally through an absorption box N charged with lime, soda, and oxide of iron. The yeast is first treated in the above apparatus until all the alcohol has been removed and concentrated ready for sale. The liquefied yeast that then remains in the still A is treated in various ways according to the product desired. The liquefied yeast may be further concentrated and mixed with cereals and spices to form foods for animals of various kinds, or may be evaporated to dryness and ground into a meal for feeding animals. The liquefied yeast may be treated with sulphuric acid, supplied from a vessel S to fix the nitrogen present, and may then be evaporated to dryness and used as a manure. In the latter case, the sulphuric acid from the washers K and L, which contains volatile nitrogenous material given off during the concentration of the yeast, is used to treat a fresh quantity of yeast. If desired, other waste products, such as vat bottoms and finings containing nitrogen, may be mixed with the yeast before the addition of the sulphuric acid in the production of manures.
Patent GB-190010609-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Door Checks.
Inventor: HILL SAMUEL
Filed: 1900-06-11
Granted: 1901-04-13
Abstract: 10,609. Hill, S. June 11. Door-closing apparatus; door checks.-Relates to an apparatus with a spring for closing the door and a pneumatic check to prevent slamming. In one form, Fig. 1, the air cylinder A is attached to the door, and a lever M is pivoted to the door frame. The piston is connected to a drum E by two chains K and K<1>, K being connected to the outer end of the piston-rod J, and K<1> to the inner or piston end. A lever L, fixed to the axis of the drum, is pivoted to the end of the lever M. When the door is opened into the position shown by dotted lines, air is drawn in by the piston through the valve G. The door is closed by the action of the spiral spring 0, but the movement is regulated by the escape of the air behind the piston through a small vent-hole under the screw F. Modifications in the arrangement of the cylinder and links are described ; in Fig. 3, a supporting-lever is pivoted to a bracket P on the door, to which the end of the cylinder is also pivoted ; in Fig. 4, the cylinder and the lever L are pivoted to the door frame, the link M, connected to either side of the end of the lever L, being pivoted to a bracket N on the door.
Patent GB-190014900-A (GB)
Title: A Folding Clothes Horse
Inventor: MACKENZIE JOSEPH
Filed: 1900-08-21
Granted: 1901-08-21
Abstract: 14,900. Mackenzie, J., and Wilkins, A.S. Aug. 21. Clothes-horses. - A folding clothes-horse is made of a central triangular post A, on each side of which horizontal bars E, F are secured by pivots D. The outer ends of the bars are connected by legs H, and the post is fitted with a stop B, so that the horse can only be folded up in one direction.
Patent GB-190015073-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electro-plating Apparatus.
Inventor: BOISSIER HERMANN ROBERT
Filed: 1900-08-23
Granted: 1900-12-08
Abstract: 15,073. Bossier, H. R. Aug. 23. Drawings to Specification. Moving-beater apparatus.-In an electro-plating- apparatus, a central fixe tube forms a guide for an overhead vertically-reciprocating frame from which are carried, by means of vertical rods, a central slotted disc for agitating the electrolyte, and four horizontal cylinders for causing gases to leave the surfaces of the electrodes.
Patent GB-190016699-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lightning Arresters.
Filed: 1900-09-19
Granted: 1900-11-24
Abstract: 16,699. British Thomson-Houston Co., [Bell, L.]. Sept. 19. Lightning-arresters for systems which may be affected by abnormal commercial disturbances as well as lightning discharges. The lightning- arrester consists of a cascade of discharge gaps 1, 1<a>, l<i>, connected in series with some thick resistances 2. Part of the series of discharge gaps is shunted by a sectional impedance coil 3 in series with a number of ohmic resistances 4 of higher value than the series 2.
Patent GB-190100409-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Wireless Telegraphy.
Filed: 1901-01-07
Granted: 1901-12-14
Abstract: 409. Marconi, G., and Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Jan. 7. Wireless telegraphy.- Relates to apparatus for wireless telegraphy, such as described in Specifications No. 12,326, A.D. 1898, and Nos. 6982 and 25,186, A.D. 1899, and consists in connecting the two transformer windings a in series through a condenser b including the coherer c in circuit. The battery aud relay are connected across the condenser, and the aÙrial conductor d is connected to earth through parts of the windings of the transformer and the condenser.
Patent GB-190100477-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Ships' Anchors.
Inventor: BALDT FREDERICK
Filed: 1901-01-08
Granted: 1901-04-27
Abstract: 477. Baldt, F. Jan. 8. Casting.-The shank of an anchor is provided with projections C on to which the bead and flukes are cast, some non-fusible material H being used to prevent the head from adhering to the shank. A hole E is cut in the shank to allow grit &c. to escape. In some cases bushings G, Fig. 3, may be placed on the projections before the head is cast on.
Patent GB-190104691-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Bicycle Supports.
Inventor: MILLER EBEN
Filed: 1901-03-05
Granted: 1901-04-06
Abstract: 4691. Miller, E., and Kitchen, W. March 5. Supports; guards, mud.-A support for bicycles is shown in part io Figs. 2 and 3. The angle-bar 1 is attached to the bottom of the tube 3 running from the crank bracket to the head, and is clamped above to the tube 3 by the flexible strap 4, which also embraces clamping-blocks 5, 6 and is tightened by wedges. The supporting-legs 29, 30 are carried by the wheels 13, 14, which gear with the racks 10, 11, mounted adjustably on the frame. When the legs are down, the springs 27, 28 bulge out and grip the tyre of the front wheel, so braking the wheel, and, when the spring grip 22 is released by the hand-lever 21, the springs cause the rack bar to move down and the legs to be taken up out of the way. The springs in the retracted position act as mud guards.
Patent GB-190109519-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Furnaces.
Inventor: WEZEL JULIUS
Filed: 1901-05-07
Granted: 1901-09-28
Abstract: 9519. Wezel, J. May 7. Auxiliary generators; feedwater, heating.-In steamboiler furnaces with inclined step grates as shown, the side walls are formed by water tanks k which support the arched downwardly-inclined roof, and which are provided with projections to support the bearers of the grate. These tanks may act as water heaters, or they may be connected to a water-tube or other steam boiler to serve as auxiliary steam generators, being in the latter case connected also to the feed pipe which supplies the main boiler, and to the steam space as shown in Fig. 6. The tanks may be wedge-shaped. The applications of the invention to an externally-fired boiler and to a Cornish boiler are illustrated in the Specification.
Patent GB-190114157-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method and Apparatus for Filling Cigarette Tubes with Tobacco.
Inventor: HANSEN-ELLEHAMMER JACOB CHRIST
Filed: 1901-07-11
Granted: 1902-01-09
Abstract: 14,157. Hansen - Ellebammer, J. C. Dec. 17, A.D. 1900, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Cigarette-making machines.-Relates to apparatus for filling cigarette tubes by means of a helical wire which is screwed into the formed tobacco. Fig. 1 shows a plan of the apparatus. A slide g, working in a slot f and actuated by a lever h, carrier standards l in which is mounted a screw m. The screw m carries a rod o, on which is fixed the helical wire p. A rod q is mounted so as to slide in the standards l, but is frictionally held by a spring z. A piece r fixed to the rod q engages the screw m, and has a projection which is acted upon by spring stops s, t. The tobacco is placed between the usual moulds b, c, and a tube e is mounted on the spout d. Movement of the lever h first closes the mould by the action of a pin 7 actuating a slotted lever 5, 6, and then moves the slide g, and with it the rod q &c., until the projection engages the stop t. The piece r is now held stationary, and causes the screw m, and with it the rod o and helix p, to rotate, thus screwing the helix into the tobacco in the mould. When the hook y reaches the stop t, it lifts it, and the rod q &c. is moved forward with the slide, and the screw m ceases to revolve as the tobacco is fed into the tube e. On the reverse movement, the stop s engages the projection, causing the rotation of the screw m &c. until the hook x lifts the stop.
Patent GB-190118891-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Removing Dust and the like from Blast Furnace and other Gases
Inventor: ELSNER JULIUS ALBERT
Filed: 1901-09-21
Granted: 1901-12-21
Abstract: 18,891. Elsner, J. A. Sept. 21. Smoke and fumes, treating.-Dust and the like is separated from blast-furnace and other gases in a chamber a containing curved, zig-zag, or rough laths d arranged with spaces between them in frames suspended by chains e. The laths in one frame are opposite to the spaces in the adjacent frames. The dust is caused to fall into a water tank b by scraping-off bands or a shaking-device consisting of bars h passing through the frames, carrying distance-pieces i, and operated by springs l and a rack m gearing with a toothed segment n actuated by hand or machinery. The apparatus may be used dry or wet, with or without an exhaust fan.
Patent GB-190118969-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Elastic Horse Shoes.
Inventor: MCCLOUD SIDNEY
Filed: 1901-09-23
Granted: 1902-05-29
Abstract: 18,969. McCloud, S. Sept. 23. Upper and lower shoes; india-rubber. -The shoe consists of a metal plate A, flanged at a', and a lower shoe C of rubber &c. which bears on the plate A and is kept in place by a metal frame B provided with a vertical flange. The rubber is protected from excessive wear by the vertical flanges, and comes between the plate A and frame B so as to cushion the shoe. The frame B and plate A may be loosely united by the projection b fitting the slot a<4> and by the turned-up lugs a<6>. The projections b<1> pass through slots in the rubber. The plate A is preferably strengthened at the part for the nail-hole a<2> by folding over a piece a<3>. With the rubber there are preferably incorporated vertical strips of canvas.
Patent GB-190120434-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Means for Heating the Feed Water in Steam Boilers, said Means being further Adapted to Improve the Circulation.
Inventor: BROWN GEORGE HUDSON
Filed: 1901-10-12
Granted: 1902-08-14
Abstract: 20,434. Brown, G. H., and Parker, F. W. Oct. 12. Feedwater, heating; water-circulation, promoting. -A coil A, shown in plan in Fig. 2, is inserted in the firebox of a boiler of the locomotive type, just below the crown ; it is connected at one end to the feed supply pipe c and, by means of the branch f, to the steam space of the boiler, while the other end terminates in a downward extension d with a discharge outlet horizontally placed near the bottom of the water space. Valves e and g are provided on the pipes c and f so that the coil may serve either as a feed-heater or a water-circulation pipe. According to the Provisional Specification, the pipe f opens below the water level in the boiler. The applications to portable and traction engines are mentioned.
Patent GB-190123427-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Resilient Tyres for Vehicles.
Inventor: CLOUTH FRANZ
Filed: 1901-11-19
Granted: 1902-09-18
Abstract: 23,427. Clouth, F. Nov. 19. Tyres, pneumatic &c.-The canvas or like insertion b, embedded in a pneumatic or other elastic tyre, is omitted from that part a of the rubber which lies near the middle of the rim, in order to prevent the canvas from tearing away from the rubber. The tyre is attached preferably by means of screws d engaged into screw sockets c, which pass through the insertion near its edges.
Patent GB-190126332-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Devices for Perforating and Fastening Together Papers; Thin Sheets of Metal and the like.
Inventor: GREGORY FRED LEON
Filed: 1901-12-24
Granted: 1902-06-19
Abstract: 26,332. Gregory, F. L. Dec. 24. Punching. -Relates to an appliance for perforating sheets of metal &c. and turning back the punched portions to secure the sheets together, The plunger 12, supported in the casing 9 by the spring 14, carries a pyramidal piercing-die 15 surrounded by a movable stripper 18. The yielding platen 19 supported by the spring 21, is mounted around the female die 22. When the piercing-die 15 has passed through the sheets, the pressure of the lower end of the plunger 12 forces the platen 19 downwards till the portions of the sheets displaced by the die 15 are bent up against the sheets by the upper surface of the die 22. The appliance may be constructed to be operated in any suitable manner such as by a pair of levers pivoted together in the same manner as pliers.
Patent GB-190203137-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Disinfectors and Processes for Disinfection.
Inventor: DEFRIES WOLF
Filed: 1902-02-07
Granted: 1903-01-29
Abstract: 3137. Defries, W. Feb. 7. Disinfecting.-Articles which cannot stand steam at 100‹ C., are placed in a closed chamber A, Fig. 1, which is connected by a pipe c" with a steam generator and, sometimes, with an independent vessel for generating disinfectant vapour. The chamber also communicates with an exhaust chamber D and an ejector D<1>. The ejector is worked to lower the pressure, steam simultaneously passing to the chamber A by the pipe c<11> and perforated pipes a, Fig. 3, or a series of nozzles, and the area of the openings being graduated, so as to secure uniformity. The steam issues above a shield b also formed with a graduated series of openings b<1>, Fig. 3, preferably coned upwards. The air and steam are exhausted from the bottom of the apparatus by means of perforated pipes c &c., above which a perforated shield d similar to b may be arranged. Heating-pipes may also be provided in the bottom of the chamber. When the air has been removed, disinfectant vapour is supplied, the cock f being closed or left open, as preferred. After the steam and disinfectant have been cut off, the vessel is further exhausted ; this further exhaustion may be suddenly produced by opening the connection with the chamber D. The sudden rarefaction may be repeated as often as necessary.
Patent GB-190203529-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Massage Apparatus
Inventor: PRETZSCHNER GUSTAV HERMANN
Filed: 1902-02-11
Granted: 1903-02-05
Abstract: 3529. Pretzschner, G. H. Feb. 11. Massage.-An appliance for massage is fitted with rollers g and resilient vibrators f, the latter being actuated by hammers d mounted on springs c. The hammers are reciprocated by opening and closing the handles a, b. The handle b carries a segmental rack h, which actuates a train of pinions i, j, k, the pinion k carrying pins l which work in slots m in the tail end of the frame carrying the hammers.
Patent GB-190204780-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Photographic Printing Machines.
Inventor: SPAULDING CHARLES
Filed: 1902-02-25
Granted: 1902-11-27
Abstract: 4780. Spaulding, C. Feb. 25. Copying drawings; printing.-Relates to a machine for printing from a flexible sheet negative, as in the process of making blue prints from tracings of drawings. A sheet of sensitized paper and the tracing or the like to be printed from are placed in the proper relation and fed between the transparent band b<1> and the cylinder A, which rotates and carries the tracing and its sensitive sheet in front of the electric printing-lamps S. After exposure, the prints and printing-sheets are dropped on the shelf V. The band b<1> is drawn from the roller B round the cylinder A by the positively-driven rollers E, F, and is finally wound up on the friction-driven roller Q. The feed is stopped, to return the band b<1>, by raising the roller F by means of the bell crank N. The rollers E, F are driven by gearing from a pulley shaft on which there is a speed controller to regulate the rate of feed.
Patent GB-190209866-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Recoil Brakes for Wheeled Ordnance with a Long Barrel Recoil.
Inventor: REICHWALD AUGUST
Filed: 1902-04-29
Granted: 1903-01-15
Abstract: 9866. Reichwald, A., [Krupp, F.]. April 29. Field carriages.-Relates to recoil springs and is an improvement upon the invention described in Specification No.16,048, A.D.1901. The recoil spring is built up from a number of sections F, which directly abut upon each other, overlapping during recoil being prevented either by oppositely-winding adjacent sections, as shown, or by bending into a closed ring one or both of the adjacent ends of the springs.
Patent GB-190212474-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wireless Telegraphic and Telephonic Systems.
Inventor: SHOEMAKER HARRY
Filed: 1902-05-31
Granted: 1902-10-02
Abstract: 12,474. Shoemaker, H. May 31. Wireless telegraphy and telephony.-Fig. 1 shows a transmitting-station with one or more condensers K, K' connected in the earth or aerial branches of the secondary or the transformer P, S, the transmitter and receiver being arranged in parallel circuits across the primary. Fig. 2 shows the receiver system, in which two juxtaposed plates E. E<1> are connected by a high-potential battery B<11>; one of them E is fixed, and the other is free to vibrate and is connected to a microphone C in a local receiving-circuit. Two microphones may be arranged in series or in parallel with two pairs of plates. In a modified form, the free plate may be connected through a tuned diaphragm with a contact-lever controlling the circuit of a relay operating a receiver.
Patent GB-190218505-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Playing Balls
Inventor: KEMPSHALL ELEAZER
Filed: 1902-08-22
Granted: 1902-10-23
Abstract: 18,505. Kempshall, E. Aug. 22. Balls for golf &c. are formed with an inflated centre-piece B, on which is wound rubber thread, tape, or ribbon under extreme tension, the windings a being enclosed in a shell A of gutta-percha &c., and the whole being submitted to pressure in a mould. In some cases, one or more shells c of celluloid &c. are embedded ia the windings. The centre-piece is provided with a hole or neck, to allow it to be inflated.
Patent GB-190222287-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Carding Engines.
Filed: 1902-10-14
Granted: 1903-07-23
Abstract: 22,287. Hetherington & Sons, J., and Ross, G. E. Oct. 14. Garding-engines.-Relates to means for driving the doffer cylinder. A pulley on a stud d is driven by a rope g from the main cylinder, and, by a pinion, drives a spur-wheel ! i on a stud j secured adjustably to the engine frame. From the wheel i, motion is imparted by change gearing to the doffer cylinder b. The rope g may be moved from the driving-pulley to the loose pulley f, by a fork m actuated by a rod n and a band-lever, the transference being assisted by projections f<1> on the pulley f and similar projections on the driving- pulley. Both pulleys have inner flanges only slightly above the bottoms of their grooves.