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Patent GB-190013879-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Voting Machines.
Inventor: FARWELL ALFRED ABRAM
Filed: 1900-08-02
Granted: 1901-09-02
Abstract: 13,879. Farwell, A. A. Aug. 2. Voting-apparatus.-Relates to machines for recording single votes, or more than one vote for the same or different candidates. Fig. 8 shows a machine fitted with ordinary registers G, and set to record more than one vote. The names of the candidates are placed over push-bars H, which slide on pins i of supporting-bars I, and act on minor push-bars g' of the registers. The bars H pass through a slotted locking-bar K, and through a slotted bar L which carries a pawl or spring catch K<4>, which engages with a ratchet rack k<4> fixed to the bar K When a bar H is pushed in, an inclined notch or tooth h<6> moves the bar L sideways, and the catch K<4> carries the bar K along with it. The bar K is adjustable by a setscrew k<1>, and is fed sideways by the catch until the maximum number of votes has been recorded, when spring arms 2<1> of the bar K enter notches h<10>, h<11> of the bars H, thus preventing any further movement. Springs h<2> return the bars H to their original position, and a spring catch k' engages with a ratchet rack of the bar K in order to prevent any backward movement of the bar. The voter, in leaving the compartment, passes through a turnstile which acts on a lever n<4> connected by a cord n<2> to a releasing-plate N. Inclined surfaces of the plate force the catches K<4>, k<7> back, and the plates K, L are returned to their original position by springs. In order to prevent more than one push-bar from being operated at the same time, they are connected by a series of links 4<1>, 5<1>, and pivots 6<1>, which carry wedge-shaped blocks 9<1>, and slide but do not turn in slots of a connecting-link 7<1>. Fixed wedge-blocks 3<2> opposite to the blocks 9<1> prevent the action of more than one bar H at a time. Another machine is described for recording single votes, in which triangular pins of the pushbars pass between conveying sliding locking-plates, which are pressed together by springs, and prevent the return of the pin. The locking-plates are supported bv a pivoted bar mounted on inclined planes or ribs above a sliding cross-bar which is connected to the bar N by a cord passing round pulleys. When the voter opens the door on leaving the compartment, the bar N is pulled by a cord, and the bar carrying the locking-plates is lowered to release the pin of the push-bar. The push-bars H pass through a third slotted crossplate. which is provided with spring catches adapted to engage with inclined ratchet teeth of the push-bars. Partial, or return, movement of the push-bars is thus prevented. A cylindrical recorder is fitted in the front of the case to indicate the total number of votes polled, and is operated by pawls carried by the push-bars engaging with ratchet-wheels on a transverse spindle.
Patent GB-190014948-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Steam Generators.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1900-08-21
Granted: 1900-11-17
Abstract: 14,948. Boult, A. J., [White, R. H.]. Aug. 21. Instantaneous generators.-Water is delivered into the uppermost of a series of flat spiral or like coils of tubing 1 ... 5, and steam is withdrawn from the lowest. The coils are connected together by inverted siphon tubes, to prevent water from flowing by gravity to the most t highly heated coils ; orsome only of the coils may be so connected, the remainder being connecteddirectly. The lower coils thus serve as superheaters. The pipes of each coil are preferably opposite to the spaces of the next. A gas burner for heating the generator is shown at 6.
Patent GB-190017670-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Method of Combining a Telephone with a System of Electric Bells.
Inventor: ALEXANDER HERBERT
Filed: 1900-10-05
Granted: 1901-01-19
Abstract: 17,670. Alexander, H., and Hunter, A. D. Oct. 5. Electric bells, contact-makers for. The ordinary bell system of hotels &c. can be combined with telephones for calling in either one or both directions. The transmitter employed is of the kind described in Specification No. 6662, A.D. 1900, [Abridgment Class Electric telegraphs &c.], and is provided with a switch lever 20, Fig. 4, by which the home bell &c. telephone circuits are connected to line L. The switch lever 20 also connects the battery with the distant station bell when the lever is turned to the position shown in dotted lines. The receiver normally rests in a trough in front of the transmitter, and, when so placed, closes the bell circuit through contacts 18, 19. The receiver, Fig. 5, is provided with a push 23 by which the telephone circuit is closed when talking. When arranged for ringing from both ends, the bells are in branches from one line, each station having an independent battery
Patent GB-190017946-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ratchet Driving-gear.
Inventor: FORBES WILSON HENERY
Filed: 1900-10-09
Granted: 1900-11-17
Abstract: 17,946. Forbes, W. H. Oct. 9. Braces, ratchet. On the shaft 1 are formed a ring of notches 8, each of which is deeper and wider at one end than the other. The loose wheel 2 is formed with a series of sockets, unequal in number to the notches, in which are placed balls 4 held up by springs. When the wheel moves in one direction, one of the balls engages the end of one of the notches and the shaft is driven ; when it moves in the opposite direction, no motion is transmitted.
Patent GB-190101473-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Incandescent Gas Burners.
Inventor: SUGG WILLIAM THOMAS
Filed: 1901-01-22
Granted: 1901-11-16
Abstract: 1473. Sugg, W. T. Jan. 22. Incandescent gas burners.-Relates to incandescent gas burners especially applicable for lighting billiard tables &c. and for burning high-pressure gas, and of tha type described in Specification Nos. 15,521 and 23,398, A.D. 1899. Gas from a nozzle A is injected into a tube B, the end of which is bent upwards to receive a burner C and mantle crutch D as shown.
Patent GB-190103436-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Engine Packing.
Inventor: WARD SAMUEL
Filed: 1901-02-18
Granted: 1901-05-18
Abstract: 3436. Ward S., Harris, T., and Newton, J. Feb. 18. Joint-making packing.-A mixture of whiting, blacklead, hemp, and tallow is made up in bags or the like.
Patent GB-190106516-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Nailless Horse Shoes.
Inventor: REYNOLDS GEORGE LAFAYETTE
Filed: 1901-03-28
Granted: 1901-07-27
Abstract: 6516. Reynolds, G. L. March 28. Fixing.-The shoe 1 is attached to the hoof by a sinuous band 15 and by hooks 9 which engage with the hoof, no nails being used. The hooks 9 are pivoted to the short arms 7 of levers 5, which are pivoted to lugs 3 at the heels and are held in place by hooks 13. These hooks are fixed to the shoe, and engage slots 11 in the levers 5. The band 15 is secured to the levers 5, and is connected to the toe clip 2 by a hooked plate 17.
Patent GB-190108280-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Accumulators or Secondary Batteries
Inventor: FORTUN RICARDO
Filed: 1901-04-22
Granted: 1902-04-22
Abstract: 8280. Fortun, R., and Semprun, E. April 22. Drawings to Specification. Parchment paper.-Separators for use in a galvanic battery are made of cardboard treated with a mixture of strong nitric and sulphuric acids, washed, neutralized with ammonia, dried, and coated with silicate paint or with gelatine, which is afterwards hardened with formaldehyde.
Patent GB-190109346-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Weighing Apparatus
Inventor: ALLISON CHARLES ARTHUR
Filed: 1901-05-06
Granted: 1901-07-13
Abstract: 9346. Allison, C. A., [De Vilbiss Computing Scale Co]. May 6. Pendulum-weight apparatus ; value-indicating apparatus.-In a weighing-apparatus, which computes or indicates the weight and price, a rotary cylinder 95, having price graduations and two series of weight graduations, is operated by the scale beam 1. The weight is read by the customer at an opening 131 and by the tradesman at an opening 132, the price being read at longitudinal slots graduated to prices per pound &c. The price indications may be visible to the seller or buyer, or the cylinder may be arranged parallel to the beam so that the indications are visible to both. The cylinder may be operated by pinions 93 engaging racks on a fork 91 carried by the beam, which is pivoted at 2, carries the pan 3, and is connected by a link 11, and an arm 10 to a disc 6 turning on centres 7 and carrying an adjustable counterweight 18 and a pendulum 9.
Patent GB-190110368-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Baling Presses
Inventor: HOWARD JAMES HAROLD
Filed: 1901-05-18
Granted: 1902-04-24
Abstract: 10,368. Howard, J. H., Howard, G., and Gibbs, G. May 18. Baling-presses.-The press is for hay, straw, and the like, but is particularly designed to do up straw, as it comes from the threshing-machine, at full length in rectangular bales, and bind them automatically. The size of the bale can be adjusted. The straw is fed by a box d oscillating on links d<1> to a hopper b, and is pressed down in front of the ram i by a presser g. The ram forces it into the box c, which gradually decreases in height, and is adjusted by a screw c<3>. The bale is bound by an apparatus of the type described in Specifications No. 4093, A.D. 1882, and No. 10,060, A.D. 1885, [Abridgment Class Agricultural appliances for the treatment of land &c.]. The binding-mechanism is put into operation by the passage of the bale over a serrated wheel j, which rotates, through a set of change-wheels for altering the size of the bale, a cam for moving a lever j<10>. This lever, acting through a rod j<12>, sets in action the ratchet gear m<3>, which through linkwork m<3>, m<3>, o lifts a detent on the lever k<4> and puts the shaft k<2> driving the binding-mechanism into gear with the shaft d<12>. The rod j<12> also stops the feed by withdrawing a stop l<6> from behind a lever l<2>, and allowing the bars l<1> to fall in front of the trough d. The ratchet gear comprises a lever p operated by a tappet i<2> on the ram i. A pawl on the lever p is released by the lever j<13>, and operates step by step a toothed quadrant on the lever m<2>, which ultimately raises the bell crank o against the lever k<4>. The lever j<13> in raising the pawl on the lever p also releases the lever m<2>, and a rod k on the binder-mechanism raises again the bars l<1>. The knotter comprises a separate guide k<29> for the cord, and a knife k<28> carried on a lever k<25> and operated by a cam on the disc k'. The face of the ram is grooved for the passage of the needles k<12>.
Patent GB-190112462-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tubular or Hurricane Lanterns.
Filed: 1901-06-18
Granted: 1902-04-24
Abstract: 12,462. Hinks & Son, J., and Hinks, H. D. June 18. Lanterns. - The strength, durability, and illuminating power of hurricane or tubular lanterns are increased by the use of three or more air tubes c. The third or additional tube or tubes improve the air supply to the flame, and permits of the size of the wire globe guard being reduced.
Patent GB-190126305-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Furniture Casters
Inventor: LIVINGSTONE WILLIAM
Filed: 1901-12-24
Granted: 1902-03-06
Abstract: 26,305. Livingstone, W., and Porter, S. P. Dec. 24. Castors.-Relates to the pintles on which revolve the horns carrying the roller. A sheet-metal blank B, Fig. 2, is pressed in a pair of tools to the form shown in Fig. 3. The legs 10 are then pressed together, and the reduced part 11 is put through a hole in the cross-piece connecting the horns and expanded as shown in Fig. 1. In a modified form shown in Fig. 5, the blank is made with two steps 11, Fig. 2, forming two shouldered parts when the pintle is completed. Small balls bear between a ring 21 loose on the part 19<1> and a ring shrunk on the part 20<1> before the lower end of the pintle is expanded. Figs 9 and 12 show pintles which are for driving into a hole in the furniture leg instead of fitting with a socket, as the pintles shown in Figs. 1 and 5 are intended to do.
Patent GB-190206630-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Inventor: MAYER MAX
Filed: 1902-03-18
Granted: 1902-11-20
Abstract: 6630. Mayer, M. March 18. Type-writers.-Relates to differential spacing devices for type-writers, and to means for withdrawing the paper-holding or feed rollers from the platen. Fig. 1 is a sectional plan of the platen or carriage, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section. The platen a is held by a spring f against a screw e provided with an operating-handle h. When a wide character, such as M or W is to be written, the handle h is given a quarter turn in one direction, so as to increase the normal carriage feed by one half. When a narrow character, such as I or L, is to be written, the handle is given a quarter turn in the opposite direction, so as to halve the normal feed. Line-spacing is effected, as usual, by the knob or hand-wheel i.The feed rollers bare mounted on the arms l of a bar m, one end of which is bent up to form a collar, which embraces the part between the platen a and the screw e. The bar m slides on a cross-bar n of the carriage, the feed rollers thus sharing all the longitudinal movements of the platen. A sliding bar p, provided on its surface with wedges o, Fig. 1, is used to withdraw the feed rollers from the platen.
Patent GB-190210526-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Steam Generators.
Inventor: SCHIRMER FRIEDRICH WILHELM
Filed: 1902-05-07
Granted: 1903-05-07
Abstract: 10,526. Schirmer, F. W. May 7. Vertical boilers for motor cars &c. U-shaped water tubesproject radially inwards from an annular water and steam space, the ends of which are held together by bolts f. An upper steam chamber g is connected with the top of the annular space by nipples i.
Patent GB-190217174-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Multi-colour Printing Machines for Calico Printing or Printing Repetitions of Designs on Continuous Webs of Fabric or other Materials
Filed: 1902-08-02
Granted: 1903-06-11
Abstract: 17,174. Printing Arts Co., Black, W., and Nowbray, F. H. Aug. 2, Printing fabrics and paperhangings; printing in several colours.-Relates to machines for printing calico or other fabrics wall papers, and other webs in several colours. The several colours, instead of being printed separately by the part-design printing- rollers, are collected on one or more transfer cylinders, the colours on each transfer cylinder being printed simultaneously. Fig. 1 shows a machine for printing a web F in six colours at one impression. The part-design members A.' to A<6>, which are preferably metal cylinders having the design in relief, are inked in separate colours by inking-apparatus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. The colours from these are transferred by elastic cylinders B' to B<6>, to the transfer or printing-member proper C, which prints against an impression cylinder D. A set-off web E is provided on the cylinder D. There may be two or more printing-members 0, each receiving the colours from two or more partdesign members A', A', &c. In some cases, one transfer cylinder B' or B' &c. may transfer colours from two or more part-design members A, A', &c. to the cylinder C.
Patent GB-190219547-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Fixing Clothes Hanging Hooks
Inventor: RUMPFKEIL ADOLF
Filed: 1902-09-06
Granted: 1903-01-29
Abstract: 19,547. Rumpfkeil, A. Sept. 6. Clothes - hanging hooks.-Relates to means for fixing clothes-hanging hooks to trees &c., in places where it is inconvenient to knock in nails. The hooks bare bent t from wire, and have loops by which they may be strung on a strap a, which can be buckled to a tree &c.
Patent GB-190222827-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Incandescent Electric Lamps
Filed: 1902-10-20
Granted: 1903-09-03
Abstract: 22,827. Soc. Anon. La Lampe Hollub. Nov. 30, A.D. 1901, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Incandescent lamps.-The stems b of bulbs care fused to cylindrical glass heads a, which are formed with projecting parts d, Fig. 1, to engage bayonet slots in the holders, or with projecting screw threads d, Fig. 7, to engage in screw holders. Such a head may be attached to the two limbs of a divided bulb, for high electric pressure. The leading-in wires are passed through holes in contact plates h, recessed in the head, and are bent down and soldered thereon. In the screw head, Fig. 7, one contact-plate d<1> is extended to the side, to make a spring contact with the holder.
Patent GB-190225583-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Carriages of Spinning "Mules"
Inventor: KERSHAW JOHN
Filed: 1902-11-21
Granted: 1903-03-05
Abstract: 25,583. Kershaw, J. Nov. 21. Mules.-To prevent the spread of a fire along the carriage, the latter is divided into sections at the bearings of the tin rollers b by means of iron or other suitable fireproof partitions d. In each .partition there is an aperture d' to allow of the longitudinal adjustment of the tin roller, the bearing of which is formed in an adjustable bracket or plate e bolted to the partition. A corresponding plate or partition may be bolted to the underside of the carriage, if desired.
Patent GB-190228672-A (GB)
Title: Improved Vent for Beer Barrels
Inventor: JEX EDWARD
Filed: 1902-12-29
Granted: 1903-02-26
Abstract: 28,672. Jex, E., and Banyard, H. Dec. 29. Venting; overflow fittings. - A nipple or tube of rubber or other flexible material, which is open at the narrow end a and closed at the broad end b, has slits c in the end b so that, when the nipple is attached to a tube inserted i the cask, it will permit the passage of overflow workings from the cask, and also of air to vent the cask, but under normal conditions will serve as a seal.
Patent GB-190302783-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Method of Making Bricks and in Apparatus therefor.
Filed: 1903-02-05
Granted: 1903-12-10
Abstract: 2783. Sutcliffe, Speakman, & Co., and Sutcliffe, E. R. Feb. 5. Moulding bricks; pug-mills.-Relates to combined pug-mills and brick-moulding machines, special means being provided to subject the material in the mould to pressure during filling, to prevent lamination. Clay from a feeding-trough O, Fig. 1, passes to a pug-mill A, the lower part of which has internal spiral grooves, and is forced into a movable mould R, actuated by a lever g and cam-groove and having a plunger S, which, at the commencement of the filling- operation, is at the top of its stroke and is depressed slowly by the pressure of the clay, its motion being controlled by a lever Y, Fig. 3, link Z, and cam Q. The shaft C of the pug-mill is stayed by a crosshead 12 and driven by elliptical gearing D, F, Fig. 1, from an intermediate shaft E, the greater speed occurring as the mould is filling. Excess of clay passes by a passage 15 back to the trough O. As the filled mould is drawn sideways by the lever g, the clay is cut by triangular reversible bars m and the mouth of the mill is closed by the flat part d ; the plunger S is also drawn across the movable table T, and is then raised by the cam Q. The ejected clay is passed to a table 1, Fig. 3, of a consolidating-press, by a rake r operated by a cam y and lever v connected to a spring z. The plunger 3 is actuated by an eccentric 4, and the compressed brick is discharged by raising the lower plunger 5. In a modification, shown in Figs. 4 and 6, two presses are fed from the one pug-mill, the two moulds being formed in one sliding box d ; the elliptical gearing is omitted. The invention is applicable to horizontal pug-mills and to revolving or other moulds.
Patent GB-190304327-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Process of Extracting Copper from Ore.
Inventor: ARSDALE GEORGE DAWES VAN
Filed: 1903-02-24
Granted: 1903-12-10
Abstract: 4327. Arsdale, G. D. van. Feb. 24 Copper is extracted from ores, roasted mattes, &c., in which it exists in an oxidized condition, by a solution containing cupric sulphate and free sulphuric acid, with or without ferrous sulphate, or other suitable sulphate, such as manganese sulphate. Part or the whole of the copper is precipitated from the solution as copper or copper compounds, and the solution is regenerated for re-use by sulphur dioxide, the impregnated solution being heated in an atmosphere free from oxygen and also under pressure if desired.
Patent GB-190304538-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of Indigo and of an Intermediate Product therefor.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1903-02-26
Granted: 1903-12-03
Abstract: 4538. Imray, O., [Farbwerke vorm. Meister, Lucius, & Br³ning]. Feb. 26. Glycollic-anilide-o-carboxylic acid; dyes, artificial.-The first step in the present method of manufacturing indigo is the heating for some hours of preferably equimolecular proportions of anthranilic acid and glycollide or glycollic acid at 180‹- 200‹ C. After re-crystallization of the resultant crude glycollic acid anilide-o-carboxylic acid, melting at 167‹ C., its potassium or sodium salt is heated with a suitable quantity of potassium or sodium hydroxide, or a mixture of these, at a temperature of 240‹-300‹ C., without excess to air, until a test portion of the mass assumes an orange-yellow colour, and yields indigo when dissolved in water and exposed to the air. On solution of the cooled mass in water, air being introduced as usual, indigo separates.
Patent GB-190315338-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Magneto-electric Igniting Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: ROOS WILLY
Filed: 1903-07-10
Granted: 1903-09-10
Abstract: 15,338. Roos, W. July 10. Magneto-electric machines.-In magneto-electric igniting-apparatus for internal-combustion engines, the usual trip-lever i, mounted on the pin h, is acted upon at one end by a crank-pin and at the other end enters a slot in a cylinder a, and is acted upon by pistons b pressed inwards by springs c, the tension of which can be adjusted by means of screw-heads d. The disc g, which carries the cylinder a, can be turned into various positions to suit vertical or horizontal motors.
Patent GB-190315550-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Machine for Making Perforated Music.
Inventor: MEAHL PHILIP JACOB
Filed: 1903-07-14
Granted: 1903-09-10
Abstract: 15,550. Meahl, P. J. July 14. Automatic instruments, tune-sheets for. A punching-machine for making perforated tune-sheets is shown. The punches 10 are held in their normally inert positions by the springs 11, and the paper 72 to be perforated is fed between the punches and the die 4. The punches and the die can be removed from, and replaced in, the machine as a unit part. A number of hammers 36 arranged above the punches are reciprocated vertically and are connected by the rods 41 with the selectors 37 associated with the tracker-board 14. The master-sheet or pattern 23 is fed over the trackerboard simultaneously with the paper 72, and its perforations are engaged by the fingers 40 of the selectors 37. The master-sheet has toothed edges meshing with idle wheels on the face of the tracker-board and is fed from the roll 27 at the front of the machine. The master-sheet and the paper are fed intermittently in unison, and the feeding movement occurs during the interval when the punch actuators 31 are up and the selectors 37 are pulled back from the trackerboard. The master-sheet is fed through the medium of a rotary drum, the cable 56, and the adjusting sliding-block 57. The intermittently actuated sliding bar 52 renders all the hammers 36 inoperative during the feeding of the pattern-sheet and the paper, and simultaneously pulls all the selectors 37 away from the pattern-sheet. The oscillation of the shaft 46 gives an up-and-down motion to the locking-bar 44for the selectors. The selectors are locked against movement during the operation of the punches. The feed-rolls 69 are rotated in unison with the intermittent feeding-shaft 71. The feed of the master-sheet is determined by adjusting the crank-pin 60.