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Patent GB-190103235-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Liquid Cooling Apparatus for Explosion Engines or other Purposes.
Inventor: MAYBACH WILHELM
Filed: 1901-02-14
Granted: 1902-02-13
Abstract: 3235. Maybach, W. Feb. 14. Gas and like engines, cooling cylinders of. Water and other liquids for cooling explosion engines and other purposes are cooled in the apparatus shown, which comprises a drum a with sides of intermeshed straight wires m, which support and are soldered to short open-ended tubes. The water flows downwards between the tubes, and the air passes through them. The tubes may be triangular, or square, or elongated in section, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. They may be enlarged at their ends to form the joints, instead of using the wire network. The apparatus may be mounted in front of a motor car with the tubes open to the wind.
Patent GB-190111840-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Ointment for the Cure of Sores, Bedsores, Burns, Festerings and the like.
Inventor: PEASE MARTHA JANE
Filed: 1901-06-10
Granted: 1902-04-17
Abstract: 11,840. Pease, M. J. June 10. Ointments.-An ointment for the treatment of sores, sprains, bruises, burns, swellings, festerings, &c. is made by pouring the juice pressed from fresh dandelion leaves into hot lard. The ointment is applied cold, and may be taken internally.
Patent GB-190112887-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Gas Producers for the Production of Fuel and other Gases.
Inventor: HERRING WALTER RALPH
Filed: 1901-06-25
Granted: 1902-06-25
Abstract: 12,887. Herring, W. R. June 25. Gas-producers; steam generator &c. furnaces.- Gas is drawn off from a producer at one or more points below the surface of the fuel. The discharge passage may be bifurcated as shown at B and C in Fig. 1. Fig. 13 shows three separate discharge passages, each with its valve, so that gas of different qualities may be drawn off at different levels. Fig. 11 shows the application of such a producer to a water-tube boiler, and also illustrates an arrangement of air-heating passages with chequerwork in the walls of the producer. The passages F heat air for primary combustion in the producer, and those at E heat air to support the combustion of the gas as it issues at c<1>. Figs. 6 and 8 show an arrangement of gas and air supply passages g and j, for use in the furnace flue of a Lancashire or Cornish boiler. The application of such producers to gas-retort, glass, puddling, and general metallurgical furnaces is mentioned.
Patent GB-190114704-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Valve Mechanism for Discharging Liquids under Pressure into Siphon Bottles and other Receptacles.
Inventor: DAVIES GEORGE
Filed: 1901-07-19
Granted: 1901-11-02
Abstract: 14,704. Davies, G., [Green, R. M., Green, F. D., Green, R. M., and Green, L. G., (trading as Green & Sons, R. M.)]. July 19. AÙrated beverages, raising and drawing-off.-A duplex valve, specially adapted for use as a bar fitting, is shown in Fig. 2. The supply pipe 2 is connected to the valve-chest 1, which has two seats 8 against which the valves 4 are pressed by a coiled spring 9. The slidable casing 14 carries a doubleclawed handle 16 which engages with recesses in the valve-chest. The nozzle 22 of a siphon bottle or a discharge pipe 24 are inserted into the corresponding apertures in the compressible plugs 13 in the casing, and by moving the handle the casing slides in the same direction, and the compressed p l u g exerts its pressure through a plate 12 on to the tubular extension 5 of one valve, which is opened as shown. The air can be snifted from the siphon by inverting it and alternately opening and closing the valve. In a modification, fitted with a single valve 4<a>, Fig. 3, the handle 16<a> has a single claw 19<a>. A modified duplex valve has valves 4<b> opening downwards, and a rocking handle 16<b> engaging with pins 28. Another modification has a fixed casing and a sliding valve-chest.
Patent GB-190115431-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Holders, or Securing Devices, for Dresses.
Inventor: MCKENNEY DEBORAH PRATT
Filed: 1901-07-30
Granted: 1901-09-07
Abstract: 15,431. Lake, H. H., [McKenney, D. P.]. July 30. Hook fastenings.-An appliance for holding skirts in position, by attaching them to the lower end of the corset, comprises two spring plates 12, 13 provided with hooks 3, 4 at their ends to engage under the corset and over the skirt respectively. The plates are adjustably secured together, by collars 10, 11, the collar 10 being large and fitted with a spring 17, which normally presses a pin on one plate into one of a series of holes in the other plate, so as to secure the hooks at any desired distance apart. In a modification, the spring 12 is dispensed with, the collar 10 being small and loose. A lug may be formed on the collar 11 to attach the appliance to the corset. In a modification, the appliance consists of a single strip having a hook at each end.
Patent GB-190116853-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Combination Knife
Inventor: MAITRE JOHN BRACHE LE
Filed: 1901-08-22
Granted: 1902-07-31
Abstract: 16,853. Le Maitre, J. B. Aug. 22. Pencil sharpeners.-In a combined pocket knife and pencil sharpener, the handle A, Fig. 1, carries a conical shield S having a fixed or an adjustable pencil cutting-blade s<2>. In the modification shown in Fig. 6, the shield S is central.
Patent GB-190118770-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Brackets for Supporting Cisterns or the like.
Inventor: INNES GEORGE DONALD
Filed: 1901-09-20
Granted: 1902-07-24
Abstract: 18,770. Innes, G. D. Sept. 20. Brackets. - Re- lates to brackets for supporting cisterns &c. The supporting - surface is made with two or more steps 3 for receiving cis- terns of different sizes.
Patent GB-190124388-A (GB)
Title: Hand Lever Device for Working the Lanyards of Ships' Steam Whistles
Inventor: COOKSON EDWARD
Filed: 1901-11-30
Granted: 1902-11-06
Abstract: 24,388. Cookson, E. Nov. 30. Signals, marine and ship.-To facilitate the manipulation of the lanyards of ships' steam whistles, the end of the lanyard g is attached to an eye-bolt h at the lower end of a grooved quadrant e, which is carried by a hand-lever a pivoted to a bracket b on the bridge rail d or other convenient place. The quadrant e is preferably fixed eccentri- cally to the pivot c of the lever a, so that, as the lever is pulled over, the distance between its fulcrum and the point where the lanyard leaves the quadrant is gradually increased, thus per- mitting long or short blasts to be readily given as needed.
Patent GB-190124409-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wagons, Carts, Vans and other similar Vehicles.
Filed: 1901-11-30
Granted: 1902-10-16
Abstract: 24,409. Bristol Wagon and Carriage Works Co., McDonald, J., and Hek, W, S. Nov. 30. Tip-carts and tip-wagons vans.-Relates to the tipping-mechanism of carts, vans, wagons, and other similar vehicles. One form is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 applied to a two-wheeled cart. A spindle a is carried in brackets b secured to the shafts c, and is connected by two chains e, f to the bottom and top respectively of a slightly bent bar g rigidly fixed to the body of the vehicle by struts j. The chains e, f are wound in opposite directions round the spindle a, so that turning the spindle tips the body of the vehicle about the pivot m. In a modification, there are two chains f placed one near each side, and the chain e extends round a pulley carried by an arm pivoted between the shafts. In four-wheeled vehicles, the mechanism is carried by the underframing.
Patent GB-190201697-A (GB)
Title: Stove or Furnace Pipe Dampers.
Inventor: VEINE EDWARD NAPOLEON LA
Filed: 1902-01-21
Granted: 1902-05-15
Abstract: 1697. La Veine, E. N. Jan. 21. Dampers.-Relatesto dampers for stove pipes by which the draught passage can be varied without deflecting the products of combustion from the axial line of the pipe. Two semiconical sections 6, 7 are hinged on a pivot 9 within the pipe 3 leading from the stove, and are made to occupy any position intermediate to those shown in full lines and in dotted lines respectively, by means of notched bars 10 which are pivoted to the sections and which project through openings 4 in the pipe. When in the closed position, the edge3 of one section overlap those of the other.
Patent GB-190204978-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Construction of Fender or Wheel Guard for Tram Cars Motor Cars or similar Vehicles.
Inventor: HANNARD FRANCIS
Filed: 1902-02-27
Granted: 1903-02-26
Abstract: 4978. Hannard, F. Feb. 27. Obstruction-re movers for tramcars, and the like. The pivoted fender E, which is controlled from the driver's platform by the levers shown, has four rollers A, A<1>, A', A<3> journalled in its front end. The roughened roller A is driven, in a direction opposite to that of the car, from the track-wheels J by spur-wheels I, H. In a modification, chain gearing is used, to drive the front roller.
Patent GB-190206388-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Mouth-pieces for Cigarettes
Inventor: LESKE GUSTAV
Filed: 1902-03-15
Granted: 1902-04-24
Abstract: 6388. Leske, G. March 15. Embossing. - A paste - board blank b, Fig. 2, with radial arms c, is pressed into the cylindrical form shown in section in Fig. 6, passing through the intermediate stage shown in Fig. 4. The apparatus employed comprises a plunger d with a concave end, provided with holes h to receive the perforating-pins g on the convex end of the plunger e. The bore of the mould f is of the same diameter as the outside of the finished mouthpiece, the diameter of the plunger d is that of the inside.
Patent GB-190209489-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Glass Bottles and the like.
Inventor: SEVERIN HEINRICH
Filed: 1902-04-24
Granted: 1902-06-05
Abstract: 9489. Severin, H. April 24. Blowing and moulding bottles.-Relates to the machine described in Specification No. 1205, A.D. 1900, and consists in arrangements for reducing the chilling of the glass by the mould, and for cooling the mould &c. The glass is placed in the closed receiving-mould 6 whilst the neck mould 38 is in position under it, and the plunger 12 is raised by a hand-lever so as to form the neck. Whilst the mould 6 is closed, enough air &c. is supplied through the axle of the box carrying the neck mould to support the glass. The mould 6 is then opened, as shown, and the plunger retracted. Compressed air, carbonic acid, &c. is admitted by pipes 26 to the hollow walls of the mould, and by another pipe to the hollow end of the plunger, and escapes through small holes 16 &c., Fig. 4, so as to cool the mould and plunger. Air &c. under full pressure is admitted to the neck mould, so as to blow the bulb. The plate 7 carrying the neck mould &c. can be turned by a hand-wheel 10, and the neck mould and attached glass can be rotated by a crank-handle 22 and bevel gearing 20, 21, so as to form the bulb as described in the previous Specification. The divided finishing-mould 8 is mounted on hinged arms 4. The air or gas supply can be controlled by a foot-lever.
Patent GB-190209886-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mail Service Apparatus.
Inventor: OWEN GEORGE ALFRED
Filed: 1902-04-29
Granted: 1902-12-04
Abstract: 9886. Owen, G. A. April 29. Mail cases.-A box is provided into which pass all the letters of a building posted down a shoot. The box can be removed and emptied into an official letter-box without possibility of access to its contents ; when the box is removed, the bottom of the shoot is closed. The box G, which is hoppershaped and is provided with self-closing lid g and bottom h, slides into place under a plate 65 into the bottom of the shoot, and catches, springing up from it through slots in the plate, carry back a shutter f from the shoot. When it is home against the back-plate e, a spring bolt 90 pressing the same overpowers the closing spring 85. The hinge edges of both lid and bottom are provided with spring bolts 82 to enter holes 77 in the adjacent part of the box, but, when the box is in place, wards on the backplate acting through plungers 78 return the bolts of the lid, while, when the box is transferred to the official letter-box, wards on its closing-flap thrust back the bolts of the bottom.
Patent GB-190210868-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Treating Hides, Skins and Leather.
Inventor: PERKINS FRANKLIN JAY
Filed: 1902-05-12
Granted: 1902-08-28
Abstract: 10,868. Perkins, F. J. March 7, [date applied for under Patents Act, A.D. 1901]. Hides and skins, raw and tanned, treating.-Relates to machines for treating hides, skins, or leather by means of helically-bladed cylinders operating upon the two sides of a skin stretched over the upper edge of a vertical table. The operations may comprise unhairing, fleshing, putting-out, &c. The tables or supports c for the hides are carried by endless chains d, which pass over sprocket-wheels e, f, ,g The hide, folded over the upper edge of the table c, is drawn upwards between the main operating cylinders or rolls h, which are provided with helical blades i. The rolls h are driven by chains 24, 25 from the main shaft 22 or countershaft 23, and they are tensioned against the hide by springs j. The portion of the hide which lies over the edge of the table escapes treatment by the rolls h, but is acted upon by smaller auxiliary rolls m so mounted that they can be pushed aside by the advancing edge of the table. In Fig. 2, the lower roll m has thus been pushed aside. Each roll m is fast on a shaft 7, Figs. 3 and 4, journalled in cranks or arms 8 of hubs or sleeves 9 loosely mounted on a shaft 10. The rolls are driven from the shafts 10 by pinions 15, 13, 12 enclosed by a gear case 20. The shafts 10 are rotated by means of sprocket chains from the shafts of the main rolls h, and the auxiliary rolls m are thus caused to rotate. Springs 36 urge the rolls m towards the path of the table, and dash-pots 42 prevent their too sudden movement after the table has passed them.
Patent GB-190211019-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Terminals for Lamps for Public Lighting.
Inventor: BRAY JOHN WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-05-14
Granted: 1903-04-23
Abstract: 11,019. Bray, J. W. May 14. Street and like lamps.-Terminals for lamps used in public lighting are formed in two metal cupshaped parts A, B, Figs. 1 and 2. A rod C, Fig. 2, is secured at its upper end C' to the part A, the lower extremity C<2> of the rod being screwed. The upper edge of the part B fits into a recess in the part A, and the end C' of the rod C screws into a hole in the part B, holding the parts together. A rod G, provided with a hook H for supporting incandescent mantles when they are used, screws into the part B. The terminal is placed on the roof L, Figs. 1 and 2, of the lamp, the rod G, Fig. 2, passing through a hole in the roof. A washer J on the rod bears under the roof, and holds the terminal in place.
Patent GB-190218859-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Generation and Distribution of Electrical Energy.
Inventor: STANLEY WILLIAM
Filed: 1902-08-27
Granted: 1902-10-23
Abstract: 18,859. Stanley, W., and Kelly, J. F. Aug. 27. Dynamos, regulating.-Relates to means for automatically regulating an alternating-current generator, supplying a distribution system, in such a manner that the potential is maintained constant whatever the nature of the load on the mains. The field magnet is provided with two windings c, c<1>, supplied with polyphase currents of low frequency from a small constant-potential exciter D, whereby a slowly-revolving magnetic fluid is obtained. To produce currents of the desired frequency in the armature circuit b, the field is at the same time revolved by mechanical means. The field circuits are made of high inductance, relatively to their resistance, so that the counterelectromotive forces set up therein will be substantially equal to the electromotive forces applied at the terminals. The mutual induction between the armature and field circuits must also be high. When the currents in the armature circuit lag or lead, they re-act upon the field circuits and control the flow of the low-frequency energizing-currents thereto, so as to maintain a substantially-constant inducing-field and consequent constant potential at the generator terminals.
Patent GB-190223770-A (GB)
Inventor: EKENBERG MARTIN
Filed: 1902-10-30
Granted: 1902-12-24
Abstract: 23,770. Ekenberg, M. Oct. 30. Evaporating milk, emulsions, etc.; liquids, spreading in thin layers; residues, removing; evaporators. -Relates to vacuum apparatus for the evaporation of large quantities of solutions and emulsions, and especially of milk. The liquid to be treated falls through pipes 18 on to the exterior of a rotary vessel 1 of hour-glass or other shape, to the interior of which a heating-agent is supplied. A fixed scraper continuously removes the residues of evaporation from the surface of the vessel 1. The heating-agent passes along the shaft 3, enters the vessel 1 through apertures 10, and passes round a cylindrical baffle-plate 7, and, entering tubes 11, passes to another part of the shaft 3 and thence away. The tubes 11 may be replaced by equivalent appliances. The vessel 1 is preferably made of a hardened nickel alloy, and may be constructed of a number of flanged rings bolted together.
Patent GB-190228408-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Process for Carburetting and in Apparatus therefor.
Inventor: LAITTE BENOIT DE
Filed: 1902-12-23
Granted: 1903-03-05
Abstract: 28,408. Laitte, B. de. Dec. 23. Gas holders.- For carburetting air, a blower a is mounted within a gas holder b, and is rotated, by any suitable means, so as to exhaust air through a carburetter to which light oil is delivered from a raised tank. The carburetted air enters the blower through the tube g, and thence passes to the holder b, from the bell c of which it is withdrawn for use through the tube h.
Patent GB-190300168-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tyres for Road Vehicles.
Inventor: SWINDIN GEORGE
Filed: 1903-01-03
Granted: 1903-11-05
Abstract: 168. Swindin, G. Jan. 3. Tyres, elastic other than pneumatic. - In elastic tyres in which a number of segments bare threaded upon wires, forming sections which are secured to the wheel rim by inwardly-turned flanges thereon, the wires or parts of a wire a are arranged above one another, and as far as possible from the tread. Washers d are provided at each end of a section, or a circular washer may be used at one end and a pin at the other. Wire loops e, or plates f formed with indents or projections, may be arranged round the wires between the segments so as to be forced into the material when the segments are pressed together.
Patent GB-190306505-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Fireproof, Ceilings or the like.
Inventor: HOMAN ERNEST
Filed: 1903-03-20
Granted: 1903-12-31
Abstract: 6505. Homan, E. March 20. Floors and flooring; partitions; ceilings; girders and beams; tie-rods.-Figs. 1 and 2 show a plan and elevation, respectively, of one type of steel and concrete fireproof floor, the girders being joined by tie-rods 5, which pass loosely through holes in the webs of the girders, so that the concrete 2 can flow into the space between the tie-rod and the sides of the holes, and thus fix the former in position. In Fig. 6 the holes in the webs are shown just under the upper flanges of the girders, and concrete is filled in to the bottom of the flooring-boards. Fig. 11 shows a horizontal section of a partition made in a similar way ; the concrete 2 is filled in between temporary boards, and, after it sets, they are removed, and the concrete is covered with plaster 3.
Patent GB-190311152-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Testing the Speeds of Photographic Shutters
Inventor: WYNNE GEORGE FREDERICK
Filed: 1903-05-16
Granted: 1904-05-16
Abstract: 11,152. Wynne, G. F. May 16. Exposures, determining.-The speed of a shutter is found by using a camera to which the shutter is fitted in order to photograph a bright image moved by a pendulum over a scale graduated to represent times. Points D are attached to the bar A of the compound pendulum having a bob B at its lower end, and, at its upper, a convex mirror C, adjustable in position in order to regulate the time of swing. The points of support rest in small recesses F in a frame E with three legs. The instrument is placed centrally in front of a diagram, on which are vertical lines at distances apart representing the travel of the pendulum in equal intervals of time, and the whole is so situated that she sun illuminates both mirror and diagram. The mirror forms a bright image of the sun, the motion of which during the exposure is read off in seconds by means of the scale lines photographed on the negative.
Patent GB-190312762-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gates for Controlling the Entrance and Exit of Animals from one place to another, especially applicable to Nest Boxes for Poultry.
Inventor: FOULIS DAVID
Filed: 1903-06-06
Granted: 1904-04-07
Abstract: 12,762. Foulis, D. June 6. Gates.-A gate is constructed and mounted in such a manner that it allows the passage of an animal in one direction, but prevents its return, or the passage of another animal, until re - set by hand. Fig. 1 shows a poultry nest box 3, provided with a gate 6 hung in slotted bearings 4. The gate is formed of two bant rods 5, 6, preferably as shown in Fig. 3, and can be raised by the fowl inserting its head and neck between the rods. When the gate falls after the passage of the fowl, the lower bent end strikes against the floor of the nest box, the pivots of the gate are thereby raised, and the lower end engages in a recess, slot, or right-angled groove 9, thereby preventing egress or ingress. In order to return the gate to its normal position when the lid 13 of the box 3 is opened, the pivot, or a loop 18 thereon, is connected by a chain or cord 17 to the lid. The gate may be set in a partially open position by a pivoted hook 20. According to the Provisional Specification, the gate may be re-set by mechanically raising it, or by lowering and turning the floor.
Patent GB-190314174-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Systems of Electrical Distribution.
Inventor: TALL FREDERICK WILLIAM LE
Filed: 1903-06-25
Granted: 1904-04-21
Abstract: 14,174. Le Tall, F. W., [Cooper-Hewitt Electric Co.]. June 25. Field magnets.-To maintain the current through the field circuit 59 of a series or other electric motor when the current supply fails momentarily, a mercury vapour apparatus 62 is connected in shunt to the field winding in such a direction as to prevent the supply current from passing through and to act as a short-circuit for the current induced in the field circuit when the supply fails.
Patent GB-190320033-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Incubators.
Inventor: SHAW GODFREY BARNSLEY
Filed: 1903-09-17
Granted: 1904-01-07
Abstract: 20,033. Shaw, G. B. Sept. 17. Lamp stoves for incubators.-A double canopy or cover b is placed over the lamp so that the fumes pass through the annular space b<3> and openings b<4> and escape round the damper f, which closes the central flue b<2> except when lifted by the thermostat e. Air for ventilation and combustion is admitted round the lamp socket c and thus keeps the reservoir cool. A spring is placed beneath the lamp to press the globe against the cover b. Specification No. 2001, A.D. 1903, is referred to.