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Patent GB-189906715-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Match Making and Printing Machines.
Inventor: MARKS GEORGE CROYDON
Filed: 1899-03-28
Granted: 1899-07-08
Abstract: 6715. M a r k s, G. C., [Mead, F. W.]. March 28. Rotary machines.-Relates to machinery for making and printing upon matches. The veneers from which the splints are cut are fed along guideways and over the saws S, from fixed hoppers B, by means of pushers B<2>, connected to reciprocating bars 5, which are actuated by eccentrics 4, on the main shaft 3. After leaving the saws, the splints pass along tubular guides 12, having recesses into which the printing-rollers 14, 14<a>, 14<b>, and 14<c> project, and twisted portions 16 between the two pairs of printing-rollers adapted for turning the splints through an angle of 90‹. The splints are printed upon opposite sides, by means of the rollers 14, 14<a>, and, after being turned in the guides 12, they have their remaining sides printed by rollers 14<b>, 14<c>. The rollers 14, 14<b> are mounted upon the main frame A<1>, and the lower rollers 14<a>, 14<c> upon a frame 41, fitted within the main frame and vertically adjustable by means of screws. The rollers are intermittently rotated by pawl and ratchet mechanisms actuated by racks on the bars 5, and toothed wheels mounted loosely on the printing-roller shafts. Ink is transferred from the duct-rollers 45 to the ink-distributing cylinders 43, whence the ink is transferred to the printing- rollers by inkers 48. The cylinders 43 are intermittently rotated by pawl and ratchet mechanisms actuated by racks on the bars 5, and the ductrollers 45 are driven by chain gearing from the shafts of the cylinders 43. The distributing-rollers 47 are reciprocated longitudinally by means of cams mounted upon their shafts.
Patent GB-189910084-A (GB)
Title: Improved Valve for Automatically Shutting Off the Supply of Steam from Boilers upon the Breaking of a Pipe.
Inventor: HUEBNER JOSEF
Filed: 1899-05-12
Granted: 1900-03-17
Abstract: 10,084. H³bner, J., and Mayer, I. May 12. Valves closing with rush of fluid.-A safetyvalve for preventing the escape of steam on the bursting of a steam pipe is shown in the Figures. The valve A, Fig. 1, rests on the spindle D, and has perforations E in its upper surface leading to the space surrounding the spindle. The suction effect produced by the current of steam passing through the pipe tending to close the valve is counterbalanced by the diminished pressure between the valve and its seat C produced by the suction effect acting through the holes E. When the pipe bursts, the reduction of pressure is so great as to close the valve. In the modification shown in Fig. 2, the seat C is larger than the base of the valve, and the suction effect is produced at the junction of the base and seat. In another modification, the valve A, Fig. 3, can be raised by the lever M, pivoted at N so as to adjust the valve. Valves adapted for steam pipes on board ship are fitted with springs or weights so as to be independent of gravity.
Patent GB-189910892-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electrical Warp Stop-motions for Looms.
Inventor: BAKER WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1899-05-24
Granted: 1899-07-22
Abstract: 10,892. Baker, W. H., and Kip, F. E. May 24. Loom stop-motions.-In looms for pile fabrics, both the ordinary warps wand the pile warps pare provided at D, A respectively (with forked droppers 3), which straddle bars 1, and, on failure of a warp thread, form electric contact with insulated strips 2 on the bars 1. This completes an electric circuit through a source of electricity G, and causes an electromagnet M on a supplementary knockoff lever k to attract its armature l into the path of a tappet t on the lay L and thus stop the loom. The ordinary knock-off lever K for the weft stop-motion operates a let-off lever N for disengaging the take-up motion and letting back the cloth beam, but, as this is not required in connection with the warp stop-motion, the lever N is not long enough to engage with the knockoff lever k. The droppers for the pile warps are arranged in connection with either one or two easing bars 5, which are mounted in end pieces 6 suspended by wires 9 from springs. The droppers have a thread aperture 3<a> near the top, opening into a slot or fork, which is nearly closed at the bottom by projections 3<b> or otherwise.
Patent GB-189911540-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Tubbing for Lining Mine Shafts, Tunnels, and the like.
Inventor: COULSON FRANCIS
Filed: 1899-06-02
Granted: 1900-04-07
Abstract: 11,540. Coulson, F. June 2. Tunnels; shafts.-Tubbing or lining segments for tunnels, mine shafts, and the like have tongues a, c and recesses b, d on their edges at the top, bottom, and sides, and the joint is made with the usual wood sheeting f with or without a wedge-shaped iron strip e.
Patent GB-189911990-A (GB)
Title: Improved Brick Kiln, with Arrangement for Drying the Unburnt Bricks.
Inventor: HERTRAMPF OTTO
Filed: 1899-06-08
Granted: 1899-08-26
Abstract: 11,990. Hertrampf, O. June 8. Kilns.-To enable the waste gases from a brick kiln to be utilized for drying the unburnt bricks in a drying-chamber above the kiln, a flue c is arranged beneath the floor of the kiln which communicates on the one hand by channels b with the smoke-collecting channels a, and on the other by channels d and shafts e with heating-pipes f, arranged beneath the drying-chambers, which in turn communicate through the channels g with the main smoke flue. Dampers, as shown, enable the smoke and gases to be allowed to escape directly to the main flue, or diverted through the heating- pipes f, at will.
Patent GB-189915579-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Means for Transmitting Fluid under Pressure.
Inventor: HALSEY WILLIAM SMILEY
Filed: 1899-07-29
Granted: 1899-10-28
Abstract: 15,579. Halsey, W. S. July 29. Cranes.-Relates to improvements in the fluidpressure transmission apparatus described in Specification No. 974, A.D. 1895. The apparatus is described in connection with a travelling-crane for foundry or other use. The working-fluid is supplied under pressure to a pipe 1, and the travelling-gear has a sleeve 2, which slides on the pipe 1, and is arranged to open valves in the pipe 1 when they come inside the sleeve 2, as described in the prior Specification. The travelling-gear 19 runs on a girder 9, hung by bolts 10 from roof beams 11. In order to protect the pipe 1 from grit &c., it is enclosed and supported by flexible steel plates 12, bolted to the girder 9 as shown in section in Figs. 2 and 4. The sleeve 2 is connected to the travelling-gear by pipes 16 and 17 for supply and exhaust respectively. Both the exhaust and the supply passage pass through a narrow oval connecting - piece 14, which slides between the meeting-edges of the plates 12. On each side of the neck 14 the plates 12 spring together. The motive fluid may be arranged to drive a three-cylinder engine for travelling and a lifting - cylinder 22. The exhaust is led by the passages 17 and 18 to the interior of the chamber formed by the casing 12 ; the lubricant carried over from the working cylinders is thus distributed over the pipe 1, and keeps it lubricated. When the apparatus is adapted for hydraulic working, the exhaust is not led into the casing.
Patent GB-189923715-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Apparatus for Making Boxes and Filling the same with Cigarettes or other Articles.
Inventor: BUTLER WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1899-11-28
Granted: 1900-02-03
Abstract: 23,715. Butler, W. H. Nov. 28. Packeting or parcelling cigarettes, cigarette holders, &c.-Boxes are formed from suitably-scored and cut blanks and filled with cigarettes or other articles and then inserted into shells or covers by the apparatus shown in side view in Fig. 1 and in part plan in Fig. 3. The blanks are stored in a magazine D, from which they are partially ejected into a channel E by means of pushers 19 on a plunger 18, being then carried along by projections 27 on an endless belt A. The blank consists of a bottom part 2, side flap 4, and flap 5, the other end flap 8, being integral with the cover 3 having flaps or flanges 7 which fall outside the sides 4. The sides 4 are turned up by means of inclines, as the blank is fed along, and, when under the magazine F containing the cigarettes &c., a definite quantity of these is filled into it. The magazine F is, in the present instance, partitioned to hold vertical rows of cigarettes and also an end row of cigarette holders of the kind which are adapted to be nested together, each set nested together being placed, as regards the direction in which they taper, in the reverse position to the next set, so that the top surface of each pair of sets will be horizontal. The cigarettes are fed into the magazine, in an ordinary manner, from the hopper 34. The nested holders are fed to the magazine along grooves in inclined tables 46 by means of rollers 48, 49. A gripper 57 on each end of a reciprocating carriage 58 takes off from the nested line of holders the desired number, in this instance five, to be fed in the nested position into the magazine, the vertical row being formed of several such sets which are fed into the magazine from the right and left, alternately. A clamp holds the next holder of the nest, to permit the removal of the first five from it. The cigarettes and holders being delivered into the box by means of a plunger, the end 8 and cover part 3 of the blank are folded over the contents, by means of a folder or finger mounted on the shaft 73 and operating vertically in the path of the box. The end 5 is turned up by means of folders I, which are pivoted to the belt A and are operated by a projection on the table, and the projecting portion is turned down on the cover 3 by means of toothed wheels J or swinging arms. The box, thus filled and formed, is next pushed into the shell. The shells are piled in a flat or collapsed condition in a magazine K, from which they are ejected by a plunger. The shell, on being ejected, is slightly opened by means of cams, to ensure its passage over a wedge-shaped device, through which the filled box is forced into the shell. The covered box then falls down a shoot from the machine.
Patent GB-189924816-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spirit Cooking Apparatus.
Inventor: FLOHR GUSTAV
Filed: 1899-12-13
Granted: 1900-01-20
Abstract: 24,816. Flohr, G. Dec. 13. Spirit cooking-stoves.-A circular spirit reservoir A rests on legs f, and is formed with its inner wall a undulated and set at an acute angle to the outer wall b, to allow the entry of air to the combustion gases through the space between the wall a and the side d of the cooking-vessel K resting on the edge of the wall a. Two semicircular dampers e serve to regulate the flame.
Patent GB-189924817-A (GB)
Title: A Ticket Holder or Protector, chiefly applicable for use by Bus Conductors, Tram Conductors, and the like.
Inventor: EDWARDS WILLIAM JOHN
Filed: 1899-12-13
Granted: 1900-02-10
Abstract: 24,817. Edwards, W. J. Dec. 13. Tickets, issuing.-A ticket holder or protector, chiefly applicable for use by bus conductors, tram conductors, and the like, comprises two plates a, b secured together at right-angles to each other and attached to two end plates c, d, one of which carries a ring k adapted for receiving a suspending-chain. The tickets are placed in the spaces between the plates a, b and end plates c, d, and are held in position by an elastic band or other suitable means.
Patent GB-190007631-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Moulds Employed in the Vulcanisation of Hollow Articles of Rubber or the like.
Inventor: DOUGHTY HENRY JAMES
Filed: 1900-04-25
Granted: 1901-03-02
Abstract: 7631. Doughty, H. J. April 25. Moulding indiarubber balls &c.- Moulds for receiving hollow rubber balls or articles are made in halves a, b, of thin metal, and are clamped about the articles during the vulcanizing process by tapered rings k, which are driven over inclined ribs e. A rib g of one half of the mould enters a recess h of the other half, and makes a tight joint. By making the moulds of thin shells of metal, they can be heated and cooled quickly.
Patent GB-190009605-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Signalling Apparatus and Destination Indicator for Tram Cars and other Vehicles.
Inventor: LOWE ERNEST ARTHUR
Filed: 1900-05-24
Granted: 1901-05-11
Abstract: 9605. Lowe, E. A. May 24. Signals or alarms for warning foot-passengers or vehicles.-Relates to signalling-apparatus for tramcars and other vehicles, for indicating to the front and rear when the vehicle is about to be stopped or started. At each end of the vehicle, a signal arm b is mounted in a support and is connected by the rod i, crank k, and rod o, or by other suitable means, to the brake-operating mechanism, so that, when the brake is applied, the arms are raised from the position shown to indicate that the vehicle is about to be stopped, the arms being lowered to the normal position when the brake is released. Each arm is provided with two glasses f, e, the glass f, which is normally in front of the lamp g, being of the same colour as the vehicle, so that it serves at night as a destination indicator to pointsmen or others. The arm b is also coloured, and a background h may be mounted behind it. The glass e is of red colour, and is brought in front of the lamp when the arm is raised. In a modified form of operating-mechanism, each arm is operated independently of the others, by the brake handle at the opposite end of the vehicle.
Patent GB-190010799-A (GB)
Title: New or Improved Combination Grinding Mill.
Inventor: EVEREST THOMAS
Filed: 1900-06-13
Granted: 1900-08-25
Abstract: 10,799. Everest, T., and Owen, W. H. June 13. Mills.- Consists of a combined disc mill a, b and conical mill g, i for crushing, splitting, and grinding corn, maize, beans, &c. The mill may be arranged so that the two parts may be used independently.
Patent GB-190013272-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Marking or Printing Devices for use in Schools and other Purposes.
Inventor: WILCOCK JOHN
Filed: 1900-07-23
Granted: 1901-05-25
Abstract: 13,272. Wilcock, J. July 23. Hand-stamps. - Relates to stamps or marking-devices for printing words or abbreviations such as "pass," "fail," &c. on papers. The required words &c. are formed in relief type c on a rubber band B, which is secured upon a disc or drum A or the like. The side of the drum is marked with an index indicating the word on each stamp.
Patent GB-190016629-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Stretcher for Artists' Canvases.
Inventor: TAIT ARTHUR FITZWILLIAM
Filed: 1900-09-18
Granted: 1901-06-22
Abstract: 16,629. Tait, A. F. Sept. 18. Stretching-appliances.-The framework of an artists' stretcher consists of bars 10, 11, 12, 13, mitered at the ends, and secured by dowel pins 15 and triangular strengthening-plates 16 fitting in slots, and a central cross-bar 14 retained by dowel pins 17. The corner keys A, Figs. 1 and 7, consist of a body 19 and a wedge shank 20 with staggered teeth 23 and a concave pointed forward end 21. The keys B, Figs. 1 and 5, for the cross-bar are similar to the keys A, except that one side 24" of the shank is straight. The canvas is stretched over a loose piece of cardboard &c.
Patent GB-190022086-A (GB)
Title: Instrument for Holding Together Collars, for Widening Button-holes, and for Smoothing the Edges and Corners of Collars.
Inventor: MONDOLFO GUIDO
Filed: 1900-12-05
Granted: 1901-02-01
Abstract: 22,086. Mondolfo, G. Dec. 5. Parcelling collars.-Consists of an appliance shown in Fig. 1, which can be used by salesmen, laundrywomen, and others, for clamping together collars. for rounding and smoothing their edges, for widening buttonholes, and for raising the folds of shirt fronts. It is made of bone, celluloid, or other material, and is provided with a spear-shaped head a and with a grooved base c. In the groove c is a central ridge f, and it is this part which serves for smoothing and rounding the edges of collars. Fig. 2 shows the appliance in use in combination with a rubber ring i for holding together a number of collars.
Patent GB-190022177-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wall and Ceiling Decorations in Hollow Relief.
Inventor: SUTHERLAND DANIEL MANSON
Filed: 1900-12-06
Granted: 1901-01-12
Abstract: 22,177. Sutherland, D. M. Dec. 6. Embossing.-A hot waterproof composition, consisting of a solidified or oxidized vegetable oil, such as linseed oil, cotton-seed oil, castor oil, or wood oil, mixed with whiting, wood flour, or other pigments, is applied to paper or asbestos sheets as they pass through calender rollers. The coated fabric is afterwards embossed or decorated in intaglio by embossing rollers or plates. The composition may be fed to the sheets as they pass through the embossing-rollers.
Patent GB-190022457-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Shedding Motion for Looms.
Inventor: SCHWABE GEORG
Filed: 1900-12-10
Granted: 1901-09-21
Abstract: 22,457. Schwabe, G. Dec. 10. L o o m shedding- motions.-In a loom for weaving twill fabrics, a shedding- motion which gives a period of rest to the shedding-levers during a half revolution of the loom, and a rapid motion during the other half, is employed. This comprises a disc crank a having its pin b connected, by a link c, to a lever e, w h i c h transmits motion to a shaft i, by means of a rod g and an arm h on the shaft. Levers k, k<1>, mounted on the shaft i, are connected by rods l, l<1> to slides m, m<1> respectively. These slides actuate shedding-levers n having lateral arms n' carrying pivoted arms o, which engage with the slides, except when these arms are raised by a roller on the pattern chain p.
Patent GB-190022747-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electro-magnetic Brakes for Railway and Tramway vehicles.
Inventor: CLARK FRANCIS LUDLOW
Filed: 1900-12-13
Granted: 1901-11-02
Abstract: 22,747. Clark, F. L. May 14. [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Brakes, electromagnetic. The application of the magnetic brake shoes 5 to the rails causes the brake shoes 24 to be automatically applied to the wheels. The shoes 5 are linked to the threearmed lever 9 supported on the pivots 15, 16 and connected to a similar lever on the other side of the vehicle by the bar 18, on which rests the roller 22 carried by the pivoted lever 20 jointed to the rod 23, which is connected to the rod 31 by the lever 33, Fig. 3. The wheel brake-shoe levers 28, 30 are connected by the link 32, while the top of the lever 30 is jointed to the rod 31. Assuming the vehicle to be travelling to the right and the rail brakes to be applied, the drag causes a thrust on the link 8, causing the lever 9 to turn on the pivot 16 and lift the roller 22 to apply the wheel brakes. Reversal of the direction of travel causes a pull on the link 8, and the lever 9 rocks on the pivot 15 and again lifts the roller with the same result. Fig. 3 shows the arrangement of levers or rigging applied to two trucks. The links may also be operated by band.
Patent GB-190102401-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction and Working of Hydrocarburetted-air Engines.
Inventor: PRIESTMAN WILLIAM DENT
Filed: 1901-02-04
Granted: 1901-12-07
Abstract: 2401. Priestman, W. D., and Richardson, H. Feb. 4. Gas or explosivevapour engines, carburetting and starting in, and cylinders for. The combustion chamber a is prolonged, as shown in plan in Fig. 5, towards the exhaust valve f<1>, and into it is drawn air and heavy oil through the valve b<1>. The oil is admitted to the chamber b above the valve b<1> by a valve h, and the air is drawn from a box in the engine bed through passages b<3> around the combustion chamber. At starting, a mixture of light and heavy oil is blown into the cylinder by air compressed by a hand-pump during the first stroke, and is afterwards drawn in by the motor piston until the combustion chamber becomes hot enough to vaporize the heavy oil. Water may be admitted to the cylinder by a three-way cock that controls the oil supply when the latter is turned off.
Patent GB-190103656-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Peat-fibre Pulp.
Inventor: KALMANN AUGUST
Filed: 1901-02-20
Granted: 1902-02-20
Abstract: 3656. Kalmann, A. Feb. 20. Cleaning rags and fibres ; materials, fibrous; rag-engines and other pulping- engines ; processes, compound. - P e a t fibres are passed at 5 into a tank 1 containing tearing- rollers 2 and washing-drums 4, arranged alternately and adjustable vertically. The rollers 2 are provided with pyramidal teeth, which act in conjunction with corresponding teeth on a bed-plate 3 to tear the material. The drums 4 are perforated, and have end outlets for the escape of the waste water. The tank is provided with a perforated false bottom 7, and below each washing- drum the bottom of the tank is depressed so as to form a settling-chamber for the coarser portions of the waste products, which are drawn off at 8. At the delivery end of the apparatus, the material is removed by an elevator 6, and deposited into settling-tanks, after which it is passed through a pulping-engine such as that shown in Fig. 3. The apparatus being closed, the pulp is continuously circulated by the pump S through the upper and lower channels shown and between the toothed grinding-roll 9 and bed-plate 11. After the material has been treated for about an hour, air is forced into the apparatus until the pressure therein is increased to from 2¢ to 3 atmospheres, and the operation is completed at this pressure.
Patent GB-190104666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Pit Props.
Inventor: FOWLER GEORGE
Filed: 1901-03-05
Granted: 1902-01-09
Abstract: 4666. Fowler, G. March 5. Shoring and strutting. - Pit props are made from iron or steel bars of I-section by cutting away the ends of the webs A, placing recessed saddles C on the cut-away ends between the flanges B, and bending the flanges down over the saddles. The ends of the flanges may overlap one another, or meet in the centre, and prevent the props from sinking into the wood or the like. The saddles prevent distortion of the bent flanges.
Patent GB-190107499-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Military, Sporting and other Accoutrrements
Inventor: KLIMA LEOPOLD
Filed: 1901-04-11
Granted: 1901-10-05
Abstract: 7499. Klima, L. April 11. Belts.-Military, sporting, and other rifles &c. are fastened on the back by the use of a waist-belt 1, provided with a strap 2, which is passed over the stock of the rifle &c. at the back on the right-hand side, and brought to the front and secured, by a part 3 of a double-clasp or other fastening, at its end to a corresponding part 6 on a strap 4 attached to a lateral ring 5 on the upper part of the stock. Either of the straps 2, 4 may be passed through a ring, hook, &c. 7 on the belt 1. The belt and the straps are adjustable for length by means of buckles and holes &c. The strap 4 may be attached to the neck of the stock, so that the gun is carried muzzle downwards.
Patent GB-190114084-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Friction Brakes.
Filed: 1901-07-10
Granted: 1901-08-17
Abstract: 14,084. Fraser & Chalmers, and Whitmore, F. L. July 10. Hoists; brakes of general or unspecified application ; overwinding, preventing.-Relates more particularly to brakes for heavy hauling and winding machinery, hoists, &c., such as brakes for preventing overwinding, but is generally applicable. Between the brake lever 5 and the weight 2 by which the brake is applied, is inserted a spring 4. Within the spring is a distance-piece 10, through which the weight is positively applied when the spring has been compressed to a certain extent. Instead of the spring, a dash-pot may be used. The invention also consists of means for automatically taking up the wear of the brake blocks. The rods 15, 16, by which the brake blocks are pulled together, are screwed at one end into ratchet nuts 25. Pawls engaging these ratchets can be actuated from a shaft 32 having an arm 35 through a hole in which passes a link 36 hanging from the lever 5. Stops 37 are adjusted on the link 36 so as to actuate the shaft 32 and turn the nuts 25 when the lever 5 is depressed beyond a predetermined amount. Compensating-gear on the same principle is also shown applied to a band brake.