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Patent GB-190112968-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spindle Plumbs, or Devices by which the Perpendicularity of Spinning Machine Spindles may be Determined
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1901-06-25
Granted: 1901-09-07
Abstract: 12,968. Thompson, W. P., [Kelly, H.]. June 25. Spindle apparatus. - Relates to means for facilitating the adjustment of the spindle to the vertical position while it is running. A box Q, having a transparent top and containing a pair of spirit levels S at right-angles to one another, is fixed upon a second box E, provided with a spring bottom F and containing a disc G which can run freely in ball bearings. To the disc G may be attached a suitable chuck or clamp M, by which it is attached to an ordinary bobbin tube X ; or the disc may be provided with a central tube P', Fig. 4, which is fitted with an adjustable socket T to receive the point of the spindle. The bobbin X, or the tube P' as the case may be, is applied to the rotating spindle as shown in Fig. 1, the upper part of the apparatus being prevented from rotating by an arm or extension R which engages with a suitable part of the frame. The levels indicate whether the spindle is in a vertical position, the adjustment being effected by means of packing- pieces placed between the rail A and the flange D of the spindle carrier.
Patent GB-190113458-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Instruments for Operating the Manual Keys of a Pianoforte or Organ.
Filed: 1901-07-02
Granted: 1901-11-09
Abstract: 13,458. Lake, H. H., [Aeolian Co.]. July 2. Automatic instruments.-The invention relates to devices for playing on keyboard instruments mechanically. Admission of air to primary pneumatics d<3> is controlled by a tune-sheet passing over a tracker-board. The primary pneumatics control secondary pneumatics d<14> in the ordinary way shown in Fig. 1, when the passages d<6> d<12> are open to the air and d<2>, d<8> are exhausted. For convenience the pneumatics d<14> are arranged in two groups, each group having its own air and exhaust passages, and the numbers of each group are arranged in two rows. The pneumatics d<14> operate levers B which strike the keys. For producing piano and forte effects, a device shown in detail in Fig. 2 is used. The pneumatics which operate the treble keys are exhausted from a chamber F, while those which operate the base keys are exhausted from a chamber F<1>. These chambers are situated in another one which is divided into two compartments F<5>, F<6> by a partition f<1>, and the compartment F<6> communicates with a chamber F<3> through the seat of a valve F<9>. Admission to the chambers F, F<1> is controlled by valves F<7>, F<8>, the spindles of which are oppositely actuated by a rocking bar pivoted at f<9>. The chamber F<3> communicates with a hightension exhaust bellows, while the compartment F<5> communicates with a low-tension bellows. A consideration of Fig. 2 will show that, by suitably operating the valves F<7>, F<8>, F<9>, either or both of the chambers F, F<1> can be opened to either the high or the low tension bellows, in which case the sound produced is low or soft. If they are opened to both bellows, a medium tone is produced. Three or more bellows of different tensions may be used.
Patent GB-190121712-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Gun-mountings
Inventor: HOLMSTROEM CARL
Filed: 1901-10-29
Granted: 1902-08-28
Abstract: 21,712. Holmstr÷m, C., and Bremberg, A. Oct. 29. Mountings.-To enable large training-movements to be rapidly made, the ring I, Figs. 1 and 2, carrying the training-rack, is arranged to be set free from the pedestal D by loosening the collar i<1>, which operation is effected by turning the screw i<2>. The hollow piston-rod e, Figs. 1 and 4<a> of the recoil apparatus has, in addition to the usual passage e<2>, one or more additional passages e<3>, which remain closed by the plunger e<1> until, in the recoil, a contracted portion e<4> of the plunger reaches them. The trunnions F, Figs. 1, 5, 6, 8, and 9, on the cradle B slide horizontally into the bearing-caps G in the pedestal C<1>, and the caps G are then rotated to bring the recesses b<2>, g<2> into line, whereupon a locking-pin b<x> is inserted. In the modification shown in Fig. 11, the trunnion bearings G carry loops g<4>, which are caused to engage over projections c<2> on the pedestal.
Patent GB-190125495-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Mouth-pieces and Lids of Gas Retorts also applicable to the Lids of other Receptacles.
Inventor: HOLMES EDWARD DARTFORD
Filed: 1901-12-13
Granted: 1902-02-13
Abstract: 25,495. Holmes, E. D., [Guldlin, O. N.]. Dec. 13. Manhole and handhole doors.-The mouthpieces and lids of gas retorts, furnaces, gas producers, and other receptacles are securely attached by the following devices :-The mouthpiece A has a lug B on one side, through which passes the pintle E' formed in one with a lever E. The cross-bar D is secured as usual to the door C by means of lugs c and a pin d<11>, and is forked at one side, the ends of the fork having equal-sized eyes d, d', which pass over eccentrics e, e<1> on the pintle. The eccentric e is larger than, while e<1> is smaller than, the pintle, as is usual, but the lower eccentric is provided with a detachable and renewable wearing collar or washer f of the same diameter as the upper eccentric, and is secured by a nut g against a shoulder e<11>. The lever and pintle may be inverted without any alteration ir the cross-bar being necessary. At the opposite side of the mouthpiece there is a boss B<1>, having a rectangular socket in which is keyed the end h of a detachable nosepiece H. On an upward extension of the latter is pivoted the catch I having a bearing i<11> for the end of the cross-bar D. By this construction, when the lever E is operated, the end of the bar rises slightly, and with it the lid, thereby scraping away the dirt from the joint. The catch is provided with a stop i preventing the catch from rising to a vertical position, and with a downwardly projecting curved toe i<1>. When the catch is raised, the upper surface of this bar forces the cross-bar outwards. When the catch is released, it falls again into the position shown
Patent GB-190125688-A (GB)
Title: A Process and Apparatus for the Manufacture of Carbon Tetrachloride.
Inventor: COMBES CHARLES
Filed: 1901-12-16
Granted: 1902-10-30
Abstract: 25,688. Combes, C. Dec. 16. Carbon tetrachloride is produced by the following processes :-(1) By acting upon sulphur chloride with red-hot carbon. This method may be carried out by heating breeze, wood charcoal, coke, or the like in a vertical retort of refractory material not attacked by chlorine, and introducing sulphur chloride at the bottom. The vapours of carbon tetrachloride and carbon bisulphide, thus produced, together with.some sulphur chloride, are condensed, and the liquids are then separated by distillation. The carbon bisulphide may be converted into carbon tetrachloride and sulphur chloride by the known means. The sulphur chloride produced is re-used in the process. (2) The retort A charged with carbon and heated by a fire at C so that the temperature decreases from below upwards is supplied with sulphur chloride to commence the reaction, and then a current of chlorine is introduced at P. The vapours produced pass by the pipe V in a flue F to a dephlegmator, and the sulphur chloride is condensed therein and flows by a pipe back to the bottom of the retort, while the vapours of carbon tetrachloride pass on by a pipe T to a condenser. By this process a larger yield of carbon tetrachloride is obtained, the condensed liquid containing only a very small proportion of carbon bisulphide. The temperature of the dephlegmator is regulated by adjusting the dampers K or in flues D, F. Instead of gaseous chlorine, sulphur chlorides more rich in chlorine than sulphur chloride itself may be used. Further, the small quantity of sulphur chloride necessary for maintaining the reaction may be obtained by supplying the apparatus when it is started with a sufficient quantity of sulphur.
Patent GB-190204218-A (GB)
Title: Improved Seams for Waterproof Garments, Covers and like Goods.
Inventor: GOUDIE JOHN NICOLSON
Filed: 1902-02-19
Granted: 1902-03-20
Abstract: 4218. Goudie, J. N., and Nicolson, J. Feb. 19. Coated fabrics.-Relates to means for joining the seams of waterproof garments or covers or like goods as for example in attaching the collar to the neck or gorge, and the flaps to the body of the garment at the pocket mouths, so as to render them waterproof without requiring to use seam strapping or taping. Several modified arrangements are described in all of which the rubber proofing of one portion of the seam is cemented or solutioned to that of the other portion in order to cover and protect the stitching. The material from which these garments is usually made is of double texture. Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 an edge view of one arrangement, A, B being the two pieces to be joined together. The outer layer a, b of the cloth or fabric is stripped to the requisite width from the edge of each of the pieces A, B, where the seam is to be made. These two unproofed edges a, b are then joined together, as shown, and then one d of the proofed inside layers of cloth is stuck down upon the edges a, b so as to cover them, and the seam is completed by sticking down the other inner layer e of proofed cloth upon the piece d as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The edge of the piece e may have a binding h.
Patent GB-190206218-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Looms for Weaving Figured Double Pile Fabrics.
Inventor: SMITH JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-03-13
Granted: 1902-06-25
Abstract: 6218. Smith, J. W. March 13. Jacquards.-A loom for weaving figured double-pile fabrics, and specially adapted for producing figured 3-shot velvet, is shown in sectional elevation in Fig. 5. The harness threads shown are those of the first or end row. The upper and lower ground warps are supplied from beams 2, 3, and the filling-warps from beams 4, 5 ; the pile threads for the first, third, and other odd rows of harness threads pass from a series of rollers 11, and those for the second, fourth, and other even rows pass from a second series of rollers. The pile threads and harness threads are arranged in groups, the pile threads of the groups numbered 12, 13, and 14, respectively, passing through the mails of the groups of harness threads numbered 15, 16, and 17. Two jacquard cylinders 20, 21, each two-thirds the usual length, are employed, one at the front and the other at the back of the jacquard; the larger cylinder 20 carries two sets of cards placed end to end and the smaller cylinder carries two sets of cards. This arrangement enables the harness threads to hang vertically. The groups of threads 15, 17 are attached to a lifting-board 23, and the groups 16 to a second board 27. Knots 34, 35 on the threads 15, 17 engage with notches 39 formed in a board 36, as shown in Fig. 7, and knots 33 on the threads 16 similarly engage with notches in a fourth board 30. The central groups of the threads of the second and other evennumbered rows are attached to the board 23, and the other groups to the board 27, and, in other respects the arrangements of the threads are correspondingly altered. The boards 23 and 30 are oscillated by links, actuated by means of a cam and arrangement of levers, and the board 27 is reciprocated vertically by links connected to the board 30. Adjustable springs support the board 36, which is depressed by the pull of the threads which engage with it by means of their knots.
Patent GB-190206730-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Locking Nuts.
Inventor: HUGHES ALBERT THOMAS
Filed: 1902-03-19
Granted: 1903-01-22
Abstract: 6730. Hughes, A. T., and Cook, W. H. March 19. Locking nuts.-The nut a of a rail joint &c. is locked by a washer l provided with flanges m for embracing the nut and with upturned lugs n for engaging with spring tongues p projecting from a . plate o. This plate is kept from turning by bearing against the flanges of the rail r ; or a single plate may fit over two adjacent bolts b.
Patent GB-190209043-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Processes for the Manufacture of Explosives of High Disruptive Force.
Inventor: ESCALES RICHARD
Filed: 1902-04-18
Granted: 1903-04-18
Abstract: 9043. Escales, R. April 18. Explosives.-Relates to improvements upon the invention described in Specification No. 24,377, A.D. 1899, and consists in the employment, as the combustible ingredient in the manufacture of explosives, of metals, the oxides of which are reduced with difficulty, such as boron, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, didymium, zirconium, and thorium. The metals need not be pure, and may be prepared from the residues of thoriumnitrate manufacture, or may be used in the form of carbides or phosphides of the metals. Aluminium or magnesium may be added to the mixture.
Patent GB-190211441-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Apparatus for Lowering Ships' Life Boats.
Inventor: ROBISON THOMAS
Filed: 1902-05-20
Granted: 1903-04-02
Abstract: 11,441. Robison, T. May 20. Winches.-For lowering ships' lifeboats, the gear shown in Figs. 2 and 3 is arranged within the boat and is secured to the bottom of the boat. The cords a, b, secured to the davits, pass through sheaves to the drums B, C, where they are passed through holes and wound upon the drums. The drum spindle G has fixed to it the wheel H, which gears with the wheel h on the spindle h<1>. Hand bevel gear L, K rotates the spindle j, wheels J, J<1>, spindle j<1>, wheels J<2>, H<1>, spindle h<1>, and wheel h. On the spindle h' is fixed the brake ring, the strap R of which is tightened or slackened by the hand-wheel e. When the lifeboat is lifted off the chocks and the boat is ready for lowering, a clutch is thrown out of gear. The speed of the drums is varied by the strap clutch or brake and finally the clutch h' is thrown out of gear
Patent GB-190213930-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Reversing and Variable Speed Gear.
Inventor: SEELEY FREDERICK GEORGE
Filed: 1902-06-19
Granted: 1903-02-26
Abstract: 13,930. Seeley, F. G. Dec. 28, A.D. 1901, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Driving-gear.-Relates to reversing gearing for screw-propeller shafts. The driving-shaft A and the driven shaft B carry wheels A<2>, B<2>; these gear, respectively, with pinions E, E<1> which are in mesh with each other and are supported in a drum fixed to the end of a sleeve C. The sleeve is provided with clutches by means of which it may be locked either to the driven shaft, or to the fixed framework of the machine, according as it is required to drive the shaft B in the same, or in the opposite direction to the shaft A.
Patent GB-190216908-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Compressing Air
Inventor: HUMPHREY ALBERT ALEXANDER
Filed: 1902-07-30
Granted: 1902-12-24
Abstract: 16,908. Humphrey, A. A. July 30. Compressing.-To enable air to be compressed by the fall of a column of liquid in places where the water supply is not abundant, an apparatus such as that shown is fitted with a pump d to raise the liquid so that it may be used continuously. A cup i prevents air from entering the liquid uptake b. A tank is placed at the head of the fall column a. The apparatus is designed to compress air for mines, being placed in the shaft. Other liquids than water may be used
Patent GB-190218576-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Loose Leaf Binders
Inventor: DYMOND GEORGE CECIL
Filed: 1902-08-23
Granted: 1902-12-24
Abstract: 18,576. Dymond, G. C., [McMillan, J. L.]. Aug. 23. Filing papers.-Fig. 1 shows a plan and Fig. 2 an end view of a loose-leaf binder in the open position. The covers A, B are flexibly united to the back members C, which are connected by a folded strip H and carry plates D, E, provided with lugs b perforated for the passage of the rod F. Two screw-threaded lugs c, attached to the plates D, E, engage the screw thread on the rod F, so that on turning it, by means of a key adapted to engage the end h, it advances, and the wedge-shaped lower portion of the block G forces apart the inclined edges of the recesses d, and causes the plates D. E to turn their upper parts d', e<1> inwards, closing the telescopic filing-wires f, g. The wires f, g may be dispensed with, and the papers clamped in place by the pressure of the parts d<1>, e<1>. The edges of the sheets may be perforated, as shown in Fig. 7, so that a single sheet may be readily detached by pulling.
Patent GB-190218684-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Thread or Fabric with Metallic or Metallically Glittering Coating and Method of Producing same.
Inventor: LEUSCHER ERNST
Filed: 1902-08-25
Granted: 1903-01-08
Abstract: 18,684. Leuscher, E., and Leuscher, W. Aug. 25. Bronzing and the like.-Threads, ribbons, or wide fabrics are produced with metallic coatings or coatings having a metallic lustre. The threads to be coated may be passed from reels b through a vessel d containing a bath of agar-agar and bronze, then through a hot-air chamber e and a vessel f containing a hardening-liquid, such as formaldehyde or solution of bichromate of potash. When the threads have passed through the hardening-liquid, they are again dried in the air, or in a hot-air chamber g, and are passed through a vessel h containing a solution of celluloid in acetone with amyl acetate, or a solution of collodion. The solution may contain some bronze, and the threads may pars after leaving the solution through a vessel i containing a pure celluloid solution. The threads are finally dried, and wound on reels m. Isinglass, gelatine, glue, caoutchouc, gutta-percha, resin, bassorin, &c. may be employed instead of agar-agar, and azo and azoxyaniline colours may be used instead of bronze.
Patent GB-190223146-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Tube for Children's Feeding Bottles, and an Appliance to Facilitate Cleansing the same.
Inventor: FOSTER WALTER
Filed: 1902-10-23
Granted: 1903-08-20
Abstract: 23,146. roster, W., and Ellis, M. R. Oct. 23. Feeding - bottles, cleaning. - Relates to a tube for a feeding-bottle, and to means for cleaning it. The tube A, Fig. 2, is wider at the bottom than at the top and terminates in one or more lips or a flange. By means of a wooden rod, shown in Fig. 3, the tube A can be turned inside out by the aid of the lips B, when it is desired to clean the inside of the tube. The rod may be formed with an enlargement G to prevent the tube from slipping off.
Patent GB-190223950-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Furnaces.
Inventor: HERRMANN RAIMUND
Filed: 1902-11-03
Granted: 1903-01-15
Abstract: 23,950. Herrmann, R. Nov. 3. Steam-generator &c. furnaces.-To enable inferior fuel to be used and to prevent smoke, the grate is formed of a stepped or inclined portion a, and a short horizontal portion b, to both of which air has free access. Fuel is supplied by a hopper c. The products of combustion pass through a constricted opening e to a flue f wherein they expand, and finally escape through a second constricted opening g. The arrangement is shown applied to a steam generator.
Patent GB-190300481-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Packing Rings of Pistons, Piston Valves, Pump Plungers & the like & the Adjustment & Locking of same.
Inventor: DEAM JOHN
Filed: 1903-01-08
Granted: 1903-12-10
Abstract: 481. Deam, J. Jan. 8. Pistons.-Relates to piston valves and to steamengine and pump &c. pistons, particularly those of the type described in Specification No. 17,888, A.D. 1901. A ring d, Fig. 1, turned with a conical face and having preferably a flange d<x> at its larger diameter, rests on a flange a on the piston body b. The split packing-ring e is conical internally, and is expanded by being forced along the conical ring d. The position of the ring e on the ring d is determined by washers f. A recess cut in one or both edges of the ring e has a face parallel with the face of the ring d. The recess in the ring e receives a ring g conical internally, which prevents the ring e from being expanded by any steam which may leak inside it. The packing is secured and compressed by the junk-ring c. In the modified piston shown in Fig. 2, the ring g is replaced by a ring h, which is secured to a flange on the ring d by stud bolts i. Fig. 3 shows a piston valve having a conical body j, on which the split packing-ring k, which is conical internally, is adjusted by means of washers i. A ring m has a projecting flange, which is conical internally, and rests against the conical interior face of a groove in the ring k. The ring m is secured to the valve by stud bolts n, and prevents the packing-ring k from being expanded by fluid which may leak to the back of it. The valve is secured to its spindle by a disc o and nut p.
Patent GB-190300658-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Means of Preserving Perishable Products.
Inventor: PONTIN GEORGE
Filed: 1903-01-10
Granted: 1904-03-10
Abstract: 658. Pontin, G. Jan. 10. Wrapping-materials ; packing-materials.-Articles such as butter, bulbs, cheese, eggs, fruit and vegetables, lard, &c. are enclosed in a thin wrapping of asbestos, placed in a suitable box, and a quantity of a powdered mixture of asbestos, shale, and lake flower, with small quantities of pumicestone and charcoal, pressed tightly about them. The powder may also be pressed so as to form side walls to the boxes, or linings for large storage chambers. For this purpose, it may be moulded, after the addition of water, into slabs, in which case a small amount of wood-ash may be added to facilitate the removal of the "forms" from the moulds.
Patent GB-190304166-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating the Depth of Liquid in Closed Vessels under any Degree of Pressure.
Inventor: MURPHY LEONARD
Filed: 1903-02-21
Granted: 1903-12-10
Abstract: 4166. Murphy, L. Feb. 21. Cask and like gauges.-Comprises an improvement on the apparatus described in Specification No. 15,275, A.D. 1897, for indicating the depth of liquids in closed vessels. The apparatus consists of an upper closed chamber 13 and a lower chamber C, partly filled with liquid, the two being connected by a tube D, extending from the bottom of the chamber B down into the liquid contained in chamber C, and by a tubular gauge glass E, extending from the top of the chamber B to the bottom of the chamber C. The chambers B, C are respectively connected by the pipes F, H to the top and bottom of the vessel, the depth of liquid contents in which is to be measured. Communicating with the tube H is a chamber I adapted to have its capacity alternately reduced and enlarged by the lever K. When air is forced out of the chamber I, it passes partly through the tube H, bubbling through the liquid in the vessel, and partly into the chamber C, forcing liquid up the tubes D, E until the height in the tube E is equal to depth of liquid in the vessel. The chamber B contains a protector L and reflector L' to prevent the liquid from entering the pipe F.
Patent GB-190309716-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to an Arc Lamp with Oxygen-pump.
Inventor: EMONDS HUBERT
Filed: 1903-04-29
Granted: 1903-06-11
Abstract: 9716. Emonds, H., Leymanns, W., and Keim, W. April 29. Arc lamps. - An electromagnetically-actuated pump is attached to a lamp, so as to remove oxygen from the globe, whenever the arc is formed. A softiron plunger k is fixed to a tube, in which slides the upper carbon g, and a clutch z is attached to the tube, and is hinged to an external tube b supporting the main solenoid a. A disc c, supported by the tube b, supports the lamp globe e, which is hermetically sealed into flanges at d. A pump cylinder n rests on the disc c and communicates with the globe at an opening u provided with the ball valve v. A piston o, fitting in the cylinder, is actuated by a sofc-iron rod q, which forms the core of an electromagnet r. The current passes from the electromagnet a to the electromagnet r, and thence by a connecting-wire at t to the tube b, from which it passes by a connecting-wire at y to the spiral spring m, and so to the upper carbon. On striking the arc, the rod q rises, and the piston o thus exhausts from the globe any oxygen which may have accumulated during disuse of the lamp. Any accidental explosion within the globe would open both ball valves v, x, and so shattering of the globe would be prevented.